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Films are shown in English without subtitles, unless otherwise indicated.
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20:00 03/02/2012
(Fri 3rd Feb / 8pm / £5)
For the first Hellfire video Club of 2012 we'll be smuggling in a double-agent double-bill of far-out espionage, featuring swinging sixties spies, groovy intrigue, and covert comedy, starring old ‘long teeth’ himself - James Coburn.
Our main feature is “The President’s Analyst” (1967), a criminally overlooked groovy satire starring Coburn as Sidney Schaefer, a psychiatrist who is hired to be the titular President’s analyst. The problems surface when Schaefer begins to crack under the stress of holding all this highly top-secret information, and a brilliant mess of screwball comedy and political satire ensues. This is classic stuff, with themes of privacy invasion that remain just as pertinent 44 years on!
This will be followed by a psychedelic pop-art heist movie, starring JC as a tanned hipster planning a multi-million pound robbery while partying the nights away in swinging Tangiers.
As always, the Hellfire DJs will be in the bar providing some musical
accompaniment. This time, expect to hear sixties soundtracks, swinging grooves, crime-jazz and fuzz!
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20:00 04/02/2012
(Sat 4th Feb / 8pm / £5 on the door)
Inspired by the classic surf films of the 60s and 90s, the Endless Summer Tiki Surf Party will be the raddest party of the summer, in the depths of winter.
Featuring two of the best surf bands from Wales and the South West -- Hangmen and Mustard Allegro -- hula-girl burlesque performances by Tabitha Tease and gnarly party tunes from DJ Nadoone and Dollsnatch.
Also expect killer tiki cocktails, vintage surf projections and lots more surprises. Bring your dancing shoes, surf-inspired costumes and get ready to party.
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12:00 05/02/2012
(Sun 5th Feb / 12-5pm / £2)
Come on down this fine Sunday all you green fingered types for the Cube's first ever seed swapping event. Save yourself a packet, discover interesting and rare heritage varieties of fruit, veg and flowers that simply aren't available from commercial seed companies and exchange gardening tips and tales too. There will be homemade cakes and refreshments on hand and screenings of relevant
documentaries throughout the afternoon.
Keep an eye out too for further announcements on possible guest speakers. Please note if you are planning to bring seeds to swap please have them bagged and labelled if you can. Entry is £2.00 and the event runs from 12 - 5pm.
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19:00 05/02/2012
(Sunday 5 Feb / 7pm / £4/3 with proof of NZ-ness)
Yeah bro, we're celebrating Waitangi Day again this year, with a super special double bill of classic Kiwi flicks from back in the day. But what will they be? A classic road movie? A tacky B-grade horror? A post-apocalyptic fantasy? Come along to find out - we might even let YOU choose! All accompanied by some tasty NZ snacks and some choice southern tunes in the bar. Sweet as.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waitangi_Day
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20:00 06/02/2012
(Mon 2nd Feb / 8pm / £4/3 but nobody refused for lack of funds)
The selection between different models of mobile phone, and our dependence on them in everyday life is great, and big business...but their production has a dark, bloody side.
The minerals used to produce cell phones come from the mines in Eastern Congo, home to a civil war that human rights organisations claim, is the bloodiest conflict since World War II. By buying these so-called conflict minerals and phones we therefore contribute to finance this war, which for the last 15 years has claimed the lives of more than 5 million people, and during which 300,000 women have been raped.
Blood in the Mobile shows the connection between our phones and the civil war in the Congo. The film exposes the extent to which contemporary technologies are needlessly perpetuating slavery and child labour in the world today. Director Frank Poulson will be introducing his film and taking a Q&A after.
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11:00 08/02/2012
(Weds 8th / 11 am / £3, babies free)
The watching-with-baby screenings are for parents/carers with young babies (up to 1 year) to enjoy a movie in the company of other parents and their offspring.
The Cube provides an area for prams, baby changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium. Our licensed bar sells hot drinks and lovely home made cakes.
There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand to help.
A regular free rehearsal, we are an improvisational group based at The Cube. Musicians and non-musicians of all standards and backgrounds are welcome. If that sounds scary then come anyway. If you haven't played your instrument for years or you don't think you're very good, rummage it out and come anyway. If you think this isn't for you, you're wrong, come anyway. Bring your instrument, your voice, your noise machines, pots and pans and any ideas you have for Orchestra Cube. It's GREAT skate!
Orchestra cube is a melting pot of musical styles, abilities and ideas. Come along and add your own to the ever-changing mix. The only requirement is a willingness to experiment.
To take part please email orchestra@orchestra.cubecinema.com
Listen to Cube Orchestra Internet Radio at
http://orchestra.cubecinema.com:8000/orchestraCubeRadio.mp3
http://orchestra.cubecinema.com
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20:00 08/02/2012
(Wed 8th to Thurs 9th Feb / 8pm / £5/4)
(Lynne Ramsay / UK/USA / 2011 / 112 minutes / Certificate 15)
A striking, sensual, assault of colour, texture and shallow, shallow depth of field, Ramsay’s long-awaited third feature poses the question of what happens when you can’t like your own child - telling the story through beautifully crafted vignettes picked out from the huge time-frame of the picture, according to the highly personal chronology of memory and forgetting.
Fantastically played by its lead actors, this is a last chance to catch a truly visceral experience on the big, red, screen.
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20:00 10/02/2012
(Fri 10 Feb / 8pm / £8 advance)
Since his 1980s début, the legendary Momus has strayed from
Gainsbourg-influenced chanson to melancholy sci-fi techno-pop, playfully inauthentic glitchy folk, lush sound art and a novel, The Book of Jokes. His literate songs can lacerate with satire or beguile with tenderness, and have influenced everyone from Pulp to Belle & Sebastian.
With acoustic alt-folk from Joyce the Librarian, and mr_hopkinson's computer™, the sentient singing machine with a love for 90s indie tunes.
Plus DJ Karlsson on the Roof and Comely DJs in the bar.
http://imomus.com/
http://www.myspace.com/joycethelibrarian
http://www.computersings.com/
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20:00 11/02/2012
(Sat 11th Feb / 8pm / £6.50 advance, £8 on the door)
Mary Hampton fetches out old songs from the silent archives of the traditional canon and winches up new songs from her imagination. Then she sets them both to work alongside each other, creating lyrical tensions between the past and the present, the natural and the civilised, the extraordinary and the familiar, the abstract and the real.
Her style has its roots in mauve, turn-of-the-century European chamber music, with frequent nods to the hairiness of older forms. This evening she will be playing with Mary Hampton Cotillion, featuring Seth Bennett on double bass, Alice Eldridge on cello, Jo Burke on fiddle and vocals and Alistair Strachan on horns and percussion.
With support from Dogface Sockets and Motes, this will be a night to savour.
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20:00 13/02/2012
(Mon 13th / 8PM / FREE - Suggested £3 donation on the door to
www.occupybristoluk.org)
The global occupy movement exploded onto the international stage last year. In the first part of the evening we will screen a number of beautiful and inspiring shorts have been produced about the movement both locally and internationally.
The main feature will be: Paths through Utopias – 109mins. As the global financial crisis surfaced in 2007 activists and academics John Jordan & Isabelle Fremeaux journeyed for 7 months across Europe to investigate and experience examples of post-capitalist living – from a direct action Climate Camp set up illegally on the edges of Heathrow airport, to a hamlet squatted by French punks, to occupied self-managed Serbian factories. They shared different ways of loving and eating, producing and sharing things, deciding together and rebelling.
The film is a magicorealist road movie set in an imagined post-crash
future. http://lessentiersdelutopie.wordpress.com/
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19:30 14/02/2012
Tues 14th/ 8pm/ £5/£4
20th Century Cube presents: After Hours
Martin Scorsese/ 1985/ 98mins/ cert:15
Sure, you could go out to a restaurant and awkwardly compare your romantic life to those at the tables around you. But why not join 20th Century Cube for a Valentines screening of Martin Scorcese's Kafkaesque comedy 'After Hours' instead! Let's all revel in Paul Hackett's catastrophic date which kickstarts a nightmarish evening of urban paranoia and emotional
peril! Then look into your loved one's eyes and thank them for not being a demented sociopath. Singles are welcome too, and are guaranteed to get laid*
*The Cube will not be liable for those failing to get laid.
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20:00 15/02/2012
Snowtown Wednesday 15th- Thursday 16th/ 8pm/ £5/ £4
Dir. Justin Kurzel/ Australia/ 2011/ 119 mins/ Cert. 18
Based on the career of Australia's most notorious serial killer; John Bunting - Snowtown is at points so monstrous it is hard to watch. Made all the more chilling by the close interaction the murderer plays with his victims. Following a sexual assault in a young child’s life, this story tells of how young vulnerable adolescents can be lead astray by an unfortunate father figure. In a tale of revenge, bigotry and deep hatred, drawing in unaware and vulnerable assailants with the desire to impress lies deeply ingrained throughout. Having been championed at Cannes as a real contender, Director Justin Kurzel’s latest release follows the gritty Australian realism genre, becoming ever more prevalent in contemporary Australian film exports and being championed the world over.
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20:00 17/02/2012
Friday 17 February / 8pm / £7 advance/£9 on the door
Brooklyn's High Places craft organic, glitchy avant-pop from shakers and rattles, bells, kalimbas and found sounds. There's a distinctly exotic tinge to their electronica, with African rhythms rubbing up against dreamlike underwater beats. They have released two albums on Thrill Jockey -- their self-titled debut in 2008, and 2011's Original Colors -- and have won acclaim from bands like Yeasayer and Dirty Projectors.
The Hysterical Injury are a brother-sister combo who use bass, drums and voice. Think Lightning Bolt, Sleater-Kinney, Sonic Youth. They're the noise rock Carpenters, and they're touring their debut album Dead Wolf Situation, out on Crystal Fuzz in February.
Hesomagari are the Bristol duo of Yoshino Shigihara (Zun Zun Egui) and SJ Esau. They make blissful experimental psychedelic music with keyboards, electronics and their voices.
Cube DJs playing boy-girl duos in the bar all night.
http://www.myspace.com/hellohighplaces
http://www.myspace.com/thehystericalinjury
http://www.myspace.com/hesomagarimusic
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20:00 18/02/2012
(Sat 18th Feb / 8pm / £8 advance, £10 on the door)
Acclaimed solo artist and founder member of the legendary Siouxsie and the Banshees, Steve Severin presents a mesmerising synthesis of sound and image, heightening our appreciation of the surreal nature of Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr. This early Gothic chiller finds its aural counterpart in Severin's suitably textured score, a synthesised, highly atmospheric soundscape drawing the viewer rhythmically into the imagery on screen.
Since 2008, Severin has been performing live electronic accompaniment to silent films, startling audiences across the globe who have now come to expect the unexpected from the man who has crossed paths with such diverse luminaries as John Cale, Alan Moore, Lydia Lunch, Marc Almond, Merc Cunningham, Robert Smith and the Tiger Lillies. Vampyr is the third in his ongoing film accompaniment series - Music For Silents.
Loosely based on Sheridan Le Fanu's genre-defining, 1872 vampire tale, Carmilla (which preceded Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years), Vampyr follows the fortunes of Allan Gray, a young student of the occult, who takes rooms at a village inn, little realising that the region is cursed by vampires. In the dead of night, Gray receives a mysterious nocturnal visitor, who leaves behind a package labelled 'To be opened after my death' - and from that moment on, events take ever darker, weirder turns.
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19:30 19/02/2012
Beyond Anime: The Outer Limits
Sun 19th/ 7.30pm/ £5/4 or combined ticket price for both Zipangu fest films £8/7
Ryu Furusawa, Cinema Iloobia (Tim Grabham), Ryo Hirano, Hanamushi (Akira Noyama), Naska Saito, Sayaka Oku, Mana Fujii, KTOOONZ (Keiko Nakamura), Yoshihiro Haku + Sachiko Hiraoka, Masahiro Osuka/ Japan/ 2002-2011/ 90min
The world of Japanese animation is vast and fascinating, but beyond the images of doe-eyed schoolgirls with magic powers or giant mecha-humanoids battling it out amongst the stars familiar to us all from the output of the commercial mainstream anime industry lies an even more alien and exotic realm. From the very introduction of the medium to Japan back in 1917, legions of visionaries and artists have laboured away independently to create works that challenge our very notions of the word 'animation'. The Beyond Anime: The Outer Limits programme presents just a sample of some of the most interesting Japanese indie animations from recent years, revealing the outer limits of this powerful and expressive form of filmmaking in which anything is possible.
Syasou (Shasō) (車窓)
Dir. Ryu Furusawa 2008 2min
Ichigwankoku (一目国)
Dir. Ryo Hirano 2009 6min
Fantasy Girl (Kūsō shōjo) (空想少女) Dir. Hanamushi (Akira Noyama) 2009 6min
Death of Phonebook
Dir. Cinema Iloobia (Tim Grabham) 2011 2min
Stinky Winky
Dir. KTOOONZ (Keiko Nakamura) 2002 2min
Requiem For Pioneer (Rekuiemu fo paionia) (レクイエム・フォー・パイオニア) Dir. Yoshihiro Haku + Sachiko Hiraoka 2008 3min
Future Man (Ari-ningen monogatari) (蟻人間物語) Dir. Ryo Hirano 2008 7min
Doroningen (ドロニンゲン)
Dir. Masahiro Osuka 2007 4min
Mizutamamoyo
Dir. Ryu Furusawa 2006 5min
Enchanted Forest (Mayoi no mori) (まよいの森) Dir. KTOOONZ (Keiko Nakamura) 1994 9min
A Labyrinth of Residence (Kyojū meikyū) (居住迷宮) Dir. Naska Saito 2008 5min
TA-TA TOSY TiT
Dir. Yoshihiro Haku + Sachiko Hiraoka 2009 5min
The Straw Girl and the Strange House (Mugiwara shōjo to henna ie) (麦わら少女と へんな家)
Dir. Hanamushi (Akira Noyama) 2009 1min
Holiday (Horidei) (ホリデイ)
Dir. Ryo Hirano 2011 14min
Melting Medama
Dir. Sayaka Oku 2011 5min
The Last Train (Saishū ressha no yoru) (最終列車の夜) Dir. Mana Fujii 2008 3min
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21:30 19/02/2012
Sun 19th/ 9.30pm/ £5/4 or combined ticket price for both Zipangu fest films £8/7 Kiyohiko Ushihara/ 1938/ Japan/ 74 mins
This incredible horror film from 1938, never before seen in the UK, and specially subtitled for Zipangufest, is one of Japan's few surviving prewar horrors, a genre that was to be suppressed by the increasing state censorship of the next few years.
A quintessential example-of-the-period "ghost cat" (bakeneko or kaibyō) movie, a substantial supernatural subgenre based in folklore that stretches back at least as far as 1914, and featuring Japan's first scream queen, Sumiko Suzuki. Here she plays Mitsue, the possessive onna-kabuki actress betrothed to apprentice shamisen player Seijiro. When one day Okiyo, a beautiful young girl of samurai class, is led to Seijiro's house by his lost cat Kuro, she becomes besotted with him. Dark jealous passions are invoked in Mitsue, which are intensified when Seijiro gifts Okiyo his precious shamisen. The cat is the first to suffer at the end of Mitsue's hairpin, but returns from the grave to assist Okiyo's younger sister Onui avenge her sister's murder. Director Kiyohiko Ushihara employs an arsenal of dark double exposures, slow motion sequences and specially-developed lenses to convey this dark, uncanny tale.
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20:00 20/02/2012
Mon 20th - Wed 22nd/ 8pm/ £5/£4/£3
Take Shelter
Jeff Nichols/ 2011/ USA/ 120mins/ cert:15
It's tornado season in a small town in middle America, but for one man there are storms inside his head which seem to predict something far more sinister. Michael Shannon gives a heart-breaking performance as a man who is plagued by apocalyptic visions. His family and work colleagues think he is losing his mind. He questions his own sanity. But his sense of impending doom leads him to become obsessed with building an underground shelter in his back yard. Jeff Nichols mixes reality with fantasy to keep us unsure of our hero's state of mind until the very end.
Babycinema presents Take Shelter
(Weds 22nd / 11 am / £3, babies free)
The watching-with-baby screenings are for parents/carers with young babies (up to 1 year) to enjoy a movie in the company of other parents and their offspring.
The Cube provides an area for prams, baby changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium. Our licensed bar sells hot drinks and lovely home made cakes.
There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand to help.
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20:00 23/02/2012
Dreams of a Life Thursday 23rd February 2012 8pm £5/4 concessions
Dir: Carol Morley/ UK/ 2011/ 95 mins/ Cert. 12A
How can a young attractive woman in her late thirties, with friends and family, die alone in her bedsit in Wood Green...and not be discovered for 3 whole years? How did she drop off the radar, and why did no-one care?
Carol Morley's documentary takes a look at the intriguing and sad case of Joyce Carol Vincent after the Director read a small article in the papers reporting her inquest and set out to find out more by putting up her own adverts for information and photos...the resulting documentary asks who she was, and how this very situation could happened when Joyce died in 2003 and was discovered by baliffs in 2006.
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20:00 24/02/2012
Friday 24th February 8pm till late £5/£4 concs
So unfortunately as you are no doubt aware due to rights issues we had to cancel the planned screening of "The Killing Of Sister George".However do not fear as we have another classic slice of sixties queer tinged cinema to present in its place.Audrey Hepburn and Shirley Maclaine star as teachers at an all girls school who are accused of having an affair by a troublemaking student.What follows is a melodramatic tale of prejudice,scandal and repressed sexuality that ultimately ends in tragedy.The screening will be introduced by Mr Tom Marshman in his own inimitable style and there'll be girly dj action in the bar after till late.
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20:00 25/02/2012
Saturday 25 February / 8.00pm / £6 advance/£8 on the door
Tonight we bring you Birmingham's finest experimental tuba trio, ORE, fresh from their triumphant performance at the recent Supersonic festival. The Sound of ORE is the sound of drones that are colossal walls of static bass, nail-hard riffs that move at a glacial pace, and a brass sound like nothing else on earth. Support comes from local favourites Anta, performing their own unique take on monothlic, progressive, psychedelic space-rock. Also playing tonight, the artist formerly known as Team Brick (in his Fairhorns guise) and the haunting, captivating electroacoustic soundscapes of Skjolbrot. An evening of experimental sounds definitely not to be missed.
http://www.soundofore.com/
http://music.anta.me.uk/
http://www.skjolbrot.org/
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14:00 26/02/2012
Sunday 26th/ 2pm/£3 (adult free with child)
Nanoplex presents: The Dark Crystal
Jim Henson and Frank Oz/ 1982/ USA/ UK/ 93mins/ Cert: PG
It's been 30 years since Muppet masters Jim Henson and Frank Oz weaved their magic in this wonderful fantasy tale for children and adults alike (younger children may find some scenes scary).
On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal, and so restore order to his world. 1000 years ago the mysterious Dark Crystal was damaged and an age of chaos has began! The evil race of birdlike lizards, the Skeksis, rule the planet with an iron claw. Orphan Jen, raised by a race of the peace-loving wizards called the Mystics, embarks on the quest to find the missing shard of the Dark Crystal which gives the Skesis their power and restore the balance of the universe.
Sunday 26th/ 8pm/£4/ £5
The Dark Crystal
Jim Henson and Frank Oz/ 1982/ USA/ UK/ 93mins/ Cert: PG
It's been 30 years since Muppet masters Jim Henson and Frank Oz weaved their magic in this wonderful fantasy tale for children and adults alike.
On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal, and so restore order to his world. 1000 years ago the mysterious Dark Crystal was damaged and an age of chaos has began! The evil race of birdlike lizards, the Skeksis, rule the planet with an iron claw. Orphan Jen, raised by a race of the peace-loving wizards called the Mystics, embarks on the quest to find the missing shard of the Dark Crystal which gives the Skesis their power and restore the balance of the universe.
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20:00 27/02/2012
Mon 27th - Thu 1st / 8pm / £5/£4/£3(ttt)
Shame
Steve McQueen / 2011 / UK / 101mins / cert: 18
Hunger director Steve McQueen and its star Michael Fassbender reunite in this raw and explicit character study of Brandon, a New York yuppie who fills the empty gaps after hours from his successful career with sexual kicks, one-night stands and porn. His lonely existence and reliance on fantasy are in danger of being exposed when his sister (Carey Mulligan) arrives in town needing somewhere to stay. McQueen asks a lot of Fassbender and he gives an exposed, painfully honest portrayal of a man whose life is spiralling out of control.
Babycinema presents Shame
(Weds 29th / 11 am / £3, babies free)
The watching-with-baby screenings are for parents/carers with young babies (up to 1 year) to enjoy a movie in the company of other parents and their offspring.
The Cube provides an area for prams, baby changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium. Our licensed bar sells hot drinks and lovely home made cakes.
There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand to help.
Fri 2nd - Sun 4th/ various times and prices
The Bristol Radical Film Festival screens some of the most socially and politically engaged documentary films from around the world. Taking place over the course of a week, the festival hosts screenings in a variety of
community-based venues, culminating in a weekend of screenings, talks, workshops and debates at the entirely volunteer-run and not-for-profit cinema, The Cube. The variety of venues reflects the festival's aim to bring this kind of cinema out from the shadows and in the community.
Despite being used since its inception as a tool to educate, agitate and inspire action on some of the most important social, political and economic issues facing society, the vast majority of audio-visual media today is dominated almost entirely by the profit motive. Consequently, the majority of our screens are filled with a cinema which, when not entirely reactionary, gleefully reproduces the status quo and the social, political and economic values that go with it.
The Bristol Radical Film Festival showcases a radically different kind of cinema. In the wake of the recession and the unnecessary and unjust attempts to make ordinary people pay for it, recent months and years have seen an explosion of protest, resistance and solidarity. The fight back is on. Come and see what cinema can do to help
Weekend highlights include some of the best contemporary radical documentaries currently on cinema release, such as Paths Through Utopia and You've Been Trumped, as well as rare classics from the past, including John MacKenzie's hard-hitting The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil. As well as screenings, we also have video training workshop by acclaimed media activists VisionOntv, and talks, presentations and debates with key figures in Britain's radical film culture, from Undercurrents and Reel News through to Dogwoof distribution and SchNEWs movies. As if that wasn’t enough, we’ve also got DJs playing the best in political funk, soul, country and blues on Saturday night!
For more information, visit http://www.bristolradicalfilm.org.uk/index.html, or see our Facebook pages here: https://www.facebook.com/events/141597512623564/ here: http://www.facebook.com/RadicalFilmFestival?sk=app_106878476015645 here: https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/260720467326820/ and here
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