JULY 2008

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CLOSE-UP & SPOOLPOOL PRESENT: AN EVENING IN THE COMPANY OF JONAS MEKAS

We are thrilled to welcome the godfather of American avant-garde cinema, Jonas Mekas for two special screenings of his films at the Café 1001 and Curzon Soho. America’s leading voice of Avant-Garde filmmaking, founder of the Anthology Film Archive (the world’s leading repository of Avant-Garde film) and filmmaker extraordinaire Jonas Mekas will be in London on the 17th and 19th of July introducing films at Café 1001 and Curzon Soho respectively!

Thursday 17th July

7.30pm:
AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL
USA | 1963 | 16mm | BW | 12 min

7.45pm:
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
USA | 1999 | 16mm | Colour & BW | 35 min

8.35pm:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JOHN
USA | 1971-95 | 16mm | Colour | 18 min

9.00pm:
ZEFIRO TORNA
USA | 1992 | 16mm | Colour | 34 min

Followed by a Q & A with Jonas Mekas


Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members (No booking available. Please bring your membership card with you)
Doors open at 7pm

Saturday 19th July 4.00pm:
BIRTH OF A NATION
USA | 1997 | 16mm | Colour | 80 min

Followed by a Q & A with Jonas Mekas

Venue: Curzon Soho, 99 Shaftesbury Avenue London W1

Ticket Price: £12 / £9 members (Please bring your membership card)
Box Office: 0871 7033 988

ABOUT THE FILMS

AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL

Dec. 7, 1964: Andy Warhol receives the independent filmmakers' award. The award, from Film Culture magazine, was for Sleep, Haircut, Eat, Kiss and Empire. The event took place at the New Yorker Theatre on 89th Street and Broadway. The original idea was to show some of Warhol's films, and then present him with the award onstage. However, Warhol did not want a public presentation so Jonas Mekas filmed him at the Factory and then showed the film at the New Yorker Theatre ceremony.


THIS SIDE OF PARADISE

“Unpredictably, as most of my life’s key events have been, for a period of several years of late sixties and early seventies, I had the fortune to spend some time, mostly during the summers, with Jackie Kennedy’s and her sister Lee Radziwill’s families and children. Cinema was an integral, inseparable, as a matter of fact, a key part of our friendship. The time was still very close to the untimely, tragic death of John F. Kennedy. Jackie wanted to give something to her children to do, to help to ease the transition, life without a father. One of her thoughts was that a movie camera would be fun for children. Peter Beard, who was at that time tutoring John Jr. and Caroline in art history, suggested to Jackie that I was the man to introduce the children to cinema. Jackie said yes. And that’s how it all began.

The images in this film, with a few exceptions, all come from the summers Caroline and John Jr. spent in Montauk, with their cousins Anthony and Tina Radziwill, in an old house Lee had rented from Andy Warhol, for a few summers. Andy himself spent many of his weekends there, in one of the cottages, as did Peter Beard, whom the children had adopted almost like their older brother or a father they missed. These were summers of happiness, joy and continuous celebrations of life and friendships. These were days of Little Fragments of Paradise.” - Jonas Mekas


HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JOHN

“On October 9th, 1972, half of the music world gathered in Syracuse, N.Y., to celebrate the opening of John Lennon/Yoko Ono Fluxus show, designed by George Maciunas. Same day, a smaller group gathered in a local hotel room to celebrate John's birthday. This film is a record of that occasion. The soundtrack consists of the birthday party singing by John, Yoko, Ringo Starr, Allen Ginsberg, Phil Oaks, and many others. The film includes footage of John Lennon/Yoko Ono concert at Madison Square Garden, August 30, 1972, the Vigil in Central Park on Dec. 8th, 1980, and some other rare footage.” - Jonas Mekas


ZEFIRO TORNA

“Images from the life of George Maciunas. Includes footage I took of George in 1952, at his parents’ house, with his father and mother and sister Nijole. Bits of Fluxus events and performances, and picnics with friends (Almus, Andy Warhol, John Lenon, Yoko Ono, etc.); George’s wedding and footage I took of him in Boston Hospital three days before he died.” - Jonas Mekas


BIRTH OF A NATION

"One hundred and sixty portraits or rather appearances, sketches and glimpses of avant-garde, independent filmmakers and film activists between 1955 and 1996. Why Birth Of A Nation? Because the film independents IS a nation in itself. We are surrounded by commercial cinema Nations, the same way as the indigenous people of the United States or of any other country are surrounded by the Ruling Powers. We are the invisible, but essential nation of cinema. We are the cinema." - Jonas Mekas

Monday 5th May 9.15pm:
BREATHLESS (À bout de souffle)
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
1960 | France | 90 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. Jean-Luc Godard's debut fashioned a simultaneous homage to and critique of the American film genres that influenced and rocked him as a film writer for Cahiers du cinema. Jazzy, free-form, and sexy, Breathless helped launch the French new wave and ensured cinema would never be the same.

Monday 12th May 9.15pm:
ANDREI RUBLEV (Andrey Rublyov)
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
1962 | Russia | 96 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

Widely regarded as Tarkovsky's finest film, ANDREI RUBLEV charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history, which was marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and Tatar invasions. Made on an epic scale, it does not flinch from portraying the savagery of the time, from which, almost inexplicably, the serenity of Rublev's art arose.

Monday 19th May 9.15pm::
RED BEARD (Akahige)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
1965 | Japan | 172 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

A testament to the goodness of humankind, Akira Kurosawa's RED BEARD chronicles the tumultuous relationship between an arrogant young doctor and a compassionate clinic director. Toshiro Mifune, in his last role for Kurosawa, gives a powerhouse performance as the dignified yet empathic director who guides his pupil to maturity, teaching the embittered intern to appreciate the lives of his destitute patients. Perfectly capturing the look and feel of 19th-century Japan, Kurosawa weaves a fascinating tapestry of time, place, and emotion.

Monday 26th May 9.15pm:
A MAN ESCAPED (Un condamné à mort s'est échappé)
Directed by Robert Bresson
1956 | France | 1956

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

Robert Bresson's 1956 masterpiece, A MAN ESCAPED, is based on a book by André Devigny, a Catholic French Resistance fighter in WWII. The book recounts Devigny's true-life laborious escape attempt from the Gestapo's Fort Montluc prison in occupied Lyon in 1943. A MAN ESCAPED was the filmmaker's first film with an entirely non-professional cast and it crystallized his mature aesthetic: automatic and barely-emotive performances, a heavy dependence on sound effects, isolated instances of music, brief dialogue, and elliptical editing that omits narrative detail in order to provoke mystery or avoid sensationalism.

Monday 31st March 9.15pm:
ACCATTONE
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
1961 | Italy | 120 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

ACCATTONE follows the tragic life of a young pimp in the slums of 1960s Rome. Accattone (Franco Citti) works very hard at never working. When he loses his prize prostitute, he despairs not for her but for his lost income. Pasolini's brutally realistic first feature, assistant-directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, introduces his preoccupation with the marginalized segments of Italian bourgeois society that would characterize subsequent films like Mamma Roma and Teorema.

Monday 7th April: Luis Buñuel Double Bill:
9.15pm: UN CHIEN ANDALOU

1929 | France | 16 mins

Luis Buñuel's legendary first film, UN CHIEN ANDALOU written with Salvador Dali, created a scandal at its premiere and its startling eye-slicing opening sequence has continued to shock viewers ever since. Despite Buñuel and Dali's energetic rejections of any rational meaning in the film, UN CHIEN ANDALOU is an exploration of desire and the obstacles in the path of instinctual passion, equally indebted to Surrealism and Freud.

9.45pm: L’ÂGE D’OR
1930 | France | 60 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

L’ÂGE D’OR is a uniquely savage blend of visual poetry and social criticism. A sinister and strangely poignant chronicle of a couple's struggles to consummate their frenzied desire in the face of a stream of obstacles from bourgeois society and the Church, the film was banned and vilified for many years, becoming justly legendary for its subversive eroticism and its furious dissection of 'civilised' values.

Monday 14th April 9.15pm:
LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD (L'Année dernière à Marienbad)
Directed by Alain Resnais
1961 | France | 94 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD is an astounding collaboration between director Alain Resnais (Night and Fog) and leading French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet. In a vast and opulent hotel, an unnamed man (Giorgio Albertazzi) attempts to persuade a similarly unnamed married woman (Delphine Seyrig) that they have not only met before, but that they were also romantically involved and had planned to elope together. The woman recalls no such encounter. Strikingly composed and beautifully shot, LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD represents a key moment in the development of cinematic modernism.

Monday 21st April 9.15pm:
WILD STRAWBERRIES (Smultronstället)
Directed by Igmar Bergman
1957 | Sweden | 91 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

The film that catapulted Bergman to the forefront of world cinema is the director’s richest, most humane movie. Traveling to receive an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg (played by the veteran Swedish director Victor Sjöström), is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and accept the inevitability of his approaching death. Through flashbacks and fantasies, dreams and nightmares, WILD STRAWBERRIES captures a startling voyage of self-discovery and renewed belief in mankind.

Monday 28th April 9.15pm:
THE THIRD MAN
Directed by Carol Reed
1949 | UK | 104 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime --and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder. Thanks to brilliant performances by Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles; Anton Karas's evocative zither score; Graham Greene’s razor-sharp dialogue; and Robert Krasker’s dramatic use of light and shadow, THE THIRD MAN, directed by the inimitable Carol Reed, only grows in stature as the years pass.

Monday 3rd March 9.15pm:
ARMY IN THE SHADOWS (L’Armée des ombres)
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
1969 | France | 145 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

Jean-Pierre Melville's gripping adaptation of Joseph Kessel's novel has been praised as one of the greatest and the most authentic film portrayals of the French Resistance.Set between the Autumn of 1942 and February 1943, the film follows the story of a band of Resistance fighters living under German-controlled France. As the war continues, the grip of the occupying force tightens and friendships, trust and loyalty give way to secrecy, suspicion and loss. A tense, atmospheric tour de force featuring powerful performances from Simone Signoret, Lino Ventura and Jean-Pierre Cassel.

Tuesday 4th March: Andrei Tarkovsky Double Bill:
6.15pm: IVAN’S CHILDHOOD (Ivanovo detsotvo)

1962 | Russia | 96 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

Andrei Tarkovsky's debut feature IVAN'S CHILDHOOD is an extraordinarily moving view of war and revenge. 12-year old Ivan is determined to avenge his family's death at the hands of the Nazis, and he joins a Russian partisan regiment as a scout. The wonderful monochrome photography depicts Ivan's war in a series of memorable sequences: from the opening shots of him creeping through a dead and submerged forest; the flashback to happier days by the seashore; his devastated home village, to the final sequences in the paper-strewn ruins of Berlin in 1945.

8.15pm: ANDREI RUBLEV (Andrey Rublyov)
1966 | Russia | 185 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

Widely regarded as Tarkovsky's finest film, ANDREI RUBLEV charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history, which was marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and Tatar invasions. Made on an epic scale, it does not flinch from portraying the savagery of the time, from which, almost inexplicably, the serenity of Rublev's art arose.

Monday 10th March 9.15pm:
THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES (Zire darakhatan zeyton)
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
1994 | Iran | 103 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

Director Abbas Kiarostami is celebrated internationally as one of the most important film makers at work today. Deeply humanistic and capturing the great beauty of the Iranian landscape, THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES is a simple story of forbidden love. When a film crew arrives in an earth- quake-devastated village to shoot a film, Hossein, a young, homeless and illiterate bricklayer, is given a small role and is amazed to find himself cast as the newlywed husband of the girl he adores, the sulky Tehereh.

Monday 17th March 9.15pm:
THE LOVES OF A BLONDE (Lásky jedné plavovlásky)
Directed by Milos Forman
1965 | Czechoslovakia | 85 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

With sixteen women to each man, the odds are against Andula in her desperate search for love—that is, until a rakish piano player visits her small factory town and temporarily eases her longings. A tender and humorous look at Andula’s journey, from the first pangs of romance to its inevitable disappointments, Loves of a Blonde immediately became a classic of the Czech New Wave and earned Milos Forman the first of his Academy Award nominations.

Monday 24th March 9.15pm:
BREATHLESS (À bout de souffle)
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
1960 | France | 90 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. Jean-Luc Godard's debut fashioned a simultaneous homage to and critique of the American film genres that influenced and rocked him as a film writer for Cahiers du cinema. Jazzy, free-form, and sexy, Breathless helped launch the French new wave and ensured cinema would never be the same.

Monday 4th February 9pm:
FACES
Directed by John Cassavetes
1968 | USA | 130 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

The disintegration of a marriage is dissected in John Cassavetes’ searing FACES. Shot in high-contrast 16mm black and white, the film follows the futile attempts of captain of industry Richard (John Marley) and his wife, Maria (Lynn Carlin), to escape the anguish of their empty marriage in the arms of others. Featuring astonishingly powerful, nervy performances from Marley, Carlin, and Cassavetes regulars Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel, Faces confronts suburban alienation and the battle of the sexes with a brutal honesty and compassion rarely matched in cinema.

Tuesday 5th February 8pm:
HOTEL DU NORD
Directed by Marcel Carné
1938 | France | 95 mins

Venue: The Flea-Pit
Ticket Price: FREE

In the Carné canon, HOTEL DU NORD is usually eclipsed by films such as Le Quai des brumes, Le Jour se lève and Les Enfants du paradis, largely because of Prévert's absence. Jeanson's dialogue is indeed broader, the film more comic. In this respect, Hôtel du Nord is 'theatrical realism' rather than 'poetic realism'. But in the interaction of set, camerawork and Maurice Jaubert's restrained, moody music, HOTEL DU NORD is typical of poetic realism. It is in the casting that the film really takes shape, with great actors like Arletty as the prostitute Raymonde and Louis Jouvert’s pimp and gangster Edmond greatly playing up secondary roles that would overshadow the romantic leads of Annabella’s Renée and Jean-Pierre Aumont’s Pierre.

Monday 11th February 9pm:
THE CHESS PLAYERS (Shatranj Ke Khilari)
Directed by Satyajit Ray
1977 | India | 129 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

Set in the kingdom of Oudh during the last days of the Moghul Empire, THE CHESS PLAYERS marked the first time that the legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray worked outside of his native Bengal. The story follows two Indian noblemen (Saeed Jaffrey and Sanjeev Kumar) whose obsession with the game renders them oblivious to the treacherous and historic events happening around them. One of Ray’s most ambitious and expensive productions, The CHESS PLAYERS is a masterful and visually stunning historical drama.

Monday 18th February 9pm:
M
Directed by Fritz Lang
1931 | Germany | 110 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

A simple, haunting phrase whistled off-screen tells us that a young girl will be killed. "Who is the murderer?" pleads a nearby placard as serial killer Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre) closes in on little Elsie Beckmann. In his harrowing masterwork M, Fritz Lang merges trenchant social commentary with chilling suspense, creating a panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thriller.

Monday 25th February 9pm:
LE FEU FOLLET
Directed by Louis Malle
1963 | France | 108 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

Probably the finest of Malle's early films, this is a calmly objective but profoundly compassionate account of the last 24 hours in the life of a suicide. Ronet gives a remarkable, quietly assured performance as the alcoholic who, upon leaving a clinic, visits old friends in the hope that they will provide him with a reason to live. They don't, and Malle's achievement lies not only in his subtle but clear delineation of his protagonist's emotions but in his grasp of life's compromises. A small gem, polished to perfection by an unassuming professional.

Monday 7th January 9pm:
THE WOMAN OF THE DUNES (Suna no onna)
Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara
1964 | Japan | 141 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

Hiroshi Teshigahara's fable WOMAN OF THE DUNES (based on the novel by existentialist writer Kobo Abe), remains as mystifying, serene and provoking as when it was first released. Winner of a Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1964 the film combines an extremely erotic drama with a terrifically gripping thriller. It is also a work of great visual inventiveness and beauty featuring startling high-contrast black and white photography from Hiroshi Segawa and a minimalist score by Toru Takemitsu.

Monday 14th January 9pm:
LES VACANCES DE Mr. HULOT
Directed by Jacques Tati
1953 | France | 84 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

The film that brought Tati international acclaim also launched his on-screen alter ego: the courteous, well-meaning, eternally accident-prone and much loved Monsieur Hulot. LES VANCANCES DE Mr. HULOT is set in a sleepy French coastal resort which is seasonally disrupted by fun-loving holidaymakers. At the centre of the chaos is the eccentric Hulot, struggling at all times to maintain appearances, but somehow entirely divorced from his immediate surroundings. There is virtually no plot - the film is a series of incidents, a seamless succession of gently mocking studies of human absurdity.

Monday 21 January 9pm:
THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER
Directed by Tony Richardson
1962 | UK | 104 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

Tom Courtenay, in his debut role, plays Colin Smith, a juvenile delinquent sentenced to a Borstal for burglary. Sullen and antisocial, he finds freedom in the solitude of cross-country running. When his sporting prowess catches the eye of the smug governor (Michael Redgrave) he is coached to compete in a race against a local public school. The governor dreams of sporting glory, but Colin dreams of revenge. Out of the screenplay by Alan Sillitoe, based on his own story, director Tony Richardson created one of the most powerful dramas of the 1960s.

Monday 28th January 9pm:
8½ (Otto e mezzo)
Directed by Federico Fellini
1963 | Italy | 138 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

Federico Fellini's 8½ turns one man's artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) is a director whose film-and life-is collapsing around him. As Guido struggles half-heartedly to work on the film, a series of flashbacks and dreams delve into his memories and fantasies; they are frequently interwoven and confused with reality. 1963 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign-Language Film-8½ is one of the greatest films about film ever made and one of the most written about, talked about and imitated movies of all time.

Monday 3rd December 9pm:
THEOREM (Teorema)
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
1968 | Italy | 94 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

A handsome, enigmatic stranger arrives at a bourgeois household in Milan and successively seduces the son, the mother, the daughter and the father, as well as the maid. Then, as abruptly and mysteriously as he arrived, he departs. Unable to endure the void left in their lives after his departure, the father hands over his factory to the workers, the son abandons his vocation as a painter, the mother abandons herself to random sexual encounters, and the daughter sinks into catatonia. The maid, however, becomes a saint.

Tuesday 4th December 8pm:
CLOSE-UP (Nema-ye Nazdik)
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
1990 | Iran | 94 mins

Venue: The Flea-Pit
Ticket Price: FREE

CLOSE-UP reconstructs the true story of a cinephile's attempt to become a filmmaker he admires. Hossein Sabzian introduces himself as celebrated Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf and, under the pretext of working on a film project, enters the private life of a well-to-do Teheran family and eventually faces fraud charges. The film blends documentary and drama by featuring the actual people involved and has a final scene that is described by Geoff Andrew as "one of the sharpest, funniest deconstructions of film form ever shot"

Monday 10th December 9pm:
THRONE OF BLOOD (Kumonosu jô)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
1957 | Japan | 105 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

Kurosawa's transposition of Shakespeare's Macbeth to sixteenth-century Japan is immensely successful in capturing the spirit of the original. A truly remarkable film combining beauty and terror to produce a mood of haunting power, THRONE OF BLOOD also shows Kurosawa's familiar mastery of atmosphere, action, and the savagery of war. "...possibly the finest Shakespearean adaptation ever committed to the screen." The Guardian

Monday 17th December 9pm:
THE SILENCE (Tystnaden)
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
1963 | Sweden | 94 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

United since childhood in apparent incest, two sisters struggle and part as the younger seeks her freedom in a heterosexual affair. Bergman´s sombre view of modern man´s condition - wherein human relations are grotesquely egocentric and perversely sexual - is a truly shattering vision of despair. The third film in Bergman´s religious trilogy, THE SILENCE was awarded 'Best Film of the Year' by the Swedish Academy in 1963.

Monday 5th November 9pm:
OPENING NIGHT
Directed by John Cassavetes
1977 | USA | 144 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

Broadway actress Myrtle Gordon (Gena Rowlands) rehearses for her latest play, about a woman unable to admit that she is aging. When she witnesses the accidental death of an adoring young fan, she begins to confront the personal and professional turmoil she faces in her own life. Featuring a moving performance by Rowlands (and with some scenes shot on stages with live audiences reacting freely to the writing and performing), John Cassavetes' OPENING NIGHT exposes the drama of an actress who at great personal cost makes a part her own.

Tuesday 6th November 8pm:
FILM IS 1-12 (Film ist 1-12)
Directed by Gustav Deutsch 2004 | Austria | 77 mins

Venue: The Flea-Pit
Ticket Price: FREE

"A girl from long ago took a handful of embers and threw them up in the air; and the sparks became stars." (Bushman myth). Film archives are not simply repositories of the world's masterpieces of Cinematic Art, but also Aladdin caves of treasures unnamed and unnumbered. These films (especially the instructional and scientific films Deutsch pillages in the chapters 1 through 6) are not great work of art, but rather mines containing moments of unbelievable beauty and grace, unnameable terror and uncanny revelations.

Monday 12th November 9pm:
MIRROR (Zerkalo)
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
1974 | Russia | 102 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

MIRROR is Tarkovsky's most autobiographical work in which he reflects upon his own childhood and the destiny of the Russian people. The film's many layers intertwine real life and family relationships with memories of childhood, dreams and nightmares. From the opening sequence of a boy being cured of a stammer by hypnotism, to a scene in a printing works which encapsulates the Stalinist era, MIRROR has an extraordinary resonance and repays countless viewings.

Monday 19th November 9pm:
THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH
Directed by Hal Hartley
1989 | USA | 90 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

Writer-director Hal Hartley's first feature -- shot in less than 12 days in his backyard for a mere $200,000 -- is a dry and dark comedy about the dangerous undercurrents that exist below the surface of normal middle class existence. An ex-con (Robert Burke) who could be a thief, a mechanic, a priest or a mass murderer (depending on who you listen to) arrives back in his hometown. His arrival has an impact on dysfunctional, bright teenager Audrey (Adrienne Shelly) who finds herself inexplicably drawn to this interesting and possibly dangerous man.

Monday 26th November 9pm:
LOST & FOUND
Directed by Joseph Bull & Luke Seomore | 2005 | UK | 15 mins

GREY GARDENS
Directed by Albert & David Maysles | 1976 | USA | 94 mins

Venue: Café 1001
Ticket Price: £3 / £2 members

LOST & FOUND: Jim lee was born in a field in Kent on November 1st 1936. Abandoned from birth, his childhood memories were a blur. The visual background of Lost & Found is formed by a collage of discarded footage collected from charity shops, boot sales and private collectors around the country, creating a visual representation of his life.

GREY GARDENS: Meet Big and Little Edie Beale---high-society dropouts, mother and daughter, reclusive cousins of Jackie O.---thriving together amid the decay and disorder of their ramshackle East Hampton mansion. Five years after Gimme Shelter, the Maysles unveiled this impossibly intimate portrait of the unexpected which as established Little Eddie as fashion icon and philosopher queen.

LOST & FOUND will be introduced by the directors