Cinema is all around - sometimes up, sometimes down, but always around.

On Saturday a day out to Eastbourne ended pleasantly at the old Curzon Picturehouse, row E. The projectionist had serious eclectic taste in pre-curtain opening music: doom death metal before Pearl & Dean. 

Some classic Lynch-red curtains and surround lights going to.

 And spotted down the road from Kino Club HQ: 

Charlies Cinema

now showing

The Empire Strikes Back

SUNDAY 27TH KINO CLUB PRESENTS - SPRINGTIME!

Kino Club finishes up our inaugural opening weekender on the theme of Spring with films looking at communities interacting with the land through work, leisure and discovery, exploring ideas of freedom, fragility and hardiness.
 
A rare screening of the BFI critically acclaimed feature film Winstanley (1974), directed by Kevin Brownlow (It Couldn’t Happen Here). Brownlow goes to extraordinary lengths to give a historically accurate account of the trials and tribulations of 17th century social reformer Gerrard Winstanley and his Diggers, as they try to build their homes on common land in post civil war England. A righteous piece, yet beguiling calm with a gentle humour, this film sparkles and agitates, striking modern parallels and concerns about the land, politics and community. You end up feeling charmed that such a film exists.
 
Live music comes from local composer and multi-instrumentalist Robert Stillman, who, along with performing a set, will also accompany a rare screening of the mesmerising early cinema 7 minute documentary Birth of a Flower (1910) with music specially commissioned for tonight. Stillman’s self-titled ‘archaic futures’ of instrumentals is a treat for fans of popular and folk-forms, pre-Jazz, Ghost Box, Will Oldman, Brian Harnetty.
 
Also included: Dee Meaden’s 7 minute short Tom & Esther Learn Lessons (2010) – six-year-old Esther is delighted when she finds a huddle of newborn mice in a field. She can't resist picking one up even though her brother warns her against it.

Finally, fresh from Screen South’s Archivia exhibition artist we're screening Adam Chodzko’s 17 minute documentary The Pickers (2009) shows a group of Romanian migrant workers at a UK strawberry farm who alternate their intensive strawberry picking with the editing and mediation of a 20th century film archive of British migrant hop pickers. The Picker’s has the dreamlike quality of a true time-travel.  


Doors: 18.00. Ends: 22.30
 
Tickets: £6 from Resident & Rounders Record Shops & from wegottickets.com  
£6 on the door

WEST HILL KINO CLUB OPENING NIGHT: RIOT GRRL CELEBRATION

     we are very excited to announce our first ever event,   

West Hill Hall Film Club Celebrates Riot Grrl

on Saturday 26th March 2011

 

The night will feature live music from Trash Kit and WOOLF playing alongside the worldwide premiere of a brand new documentary film about pre-eminant and hugely influential UK riot grrl outfit Huggy Bear and an extremely rare UK showing of the riot grrl celluloid holy grail, Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains (to our knowledge only the 3rd ever public screening of the film in this country)

tickets will be £6 in advance from Resident Records and online at We Got Tickets

The event will finish promptly at 2230, allowing plenty of time for london folk to catch the last train back home at 2337

We will also be running a zine stall selling reprints of original Huggy Bear zines and lots more, to contribute email Toby

LastFM page

Any further questions should be emailed to the kinoclub