Screening of “5 Broken Cameras” – May 1st 2013

Posted on 24/04/2013 by Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema

Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema is proud to present the following screening:

5 Broken Cameras (15)
Dir: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi. (2011) Palestine, Israel, France, Netherlands; 94 min.

  • Winner of the World Cinema Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012.
  • Nominated for Best Documentary Feature in the 85th Academy Awards.

The film will be preceded by a short documentary made in Gaza by Rayna Nadeem & Stuart Shahid Bamforth.

Summary:

“An extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism, 5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the footage was later given to Israeli co-director Guy Davidi to edit. Structured around the violent destruction of each one of Burnat’s cameras, the filmmakers’ collaboration follows one family’s evolution over five years of village turmoil. Burnat watches from behind the lens as olive trees are bulldozed, protests intensify, and lives are lost. ‘I feel like the camera protects me,’ he says, ‘but it’s an illusion’.” – Kino Lorber

Comments:

“An essential work both on filmmaking and political activism, 5 Broken Cameras provides a birdsong of perseverance in the face of irrational violence, immense historical anger, and grim, seemingly insurmountable realities.” – Chris Cabin, Slant Magazine (*)

You can watch a clip of the film here.

Screening on 1st May 2013, Wednesday

Starting time 7:45pm at Leytonstone Library
Church Lane, E11 1HG, London. See map
Entrance £5 (£4 all concessions)
Check disabled access options availabe here.

** NOTE: Due to new access policy at the library, if the main gates are closed (usually after 8pm) then entrance to the library will be through the disabled access door, which is located a few metres away on the left of the main gates

Source:
(*) Wikipedia

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Screening of “Alice” – April 3rd 2013

Posted on 20/02/2013 by Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema

Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema is proud to present the following screening:

Alice (15)
Dir: Marco Martins. (2005) Portugal; 102 min.

Please notice that this is a re-scheduled screening of “Alice”, which was originally intended for showing on November 2012 but had to be substituted for an alternative title at the last minute. This film will be now screened in April 2013.

Summary:

“Shot in a dark, depressive undertone, Alice unveils a Lisbon whose mists, colours, alleys and moods are strangers, despite the familiarity of the locations. All seems odd, silently cruel, as cruel is the disappearance of a child from the path she’d travelled every day in (apparent) safety. The anguish is masterfully conveyed, and so is the loneliness of both parents.”

Comments:

“The influential critic Andrew Sarris thought it measured up to the best of Godard, Truffaut and Polanski. The New Yorker’s Penelope Gilliatt called it “a work of peculiar, cock-a-hoop giftsEverything in this movie is really well done. From the breathtaking performances from the leading actors, the amazing photography, the fantastic soundtrack(which is repetitive, but it relates to the sense of routine the main character has come to terms with) to the way that Lisbon is shot, it is a must-see for anyone who enjoys great dramatic movies. It is great to see a Portuguese movie that IS NOT a Manoel de Oliveira wannabe. It is also kind of minimalistic and slow, but it has it’s own way of telling a story. This movie came as a surprise to me because I have never seen a Portuguese movie so well done. It is the supreme evidence that less is more. I can’t wait to see Marco Martins’ next project.” (*)

You can watch a clip of the film here.

Screening on 3rd April 2013, Wednesday

Starting time 7:45pm at Leytonstone Library
Church Lane, E11 1HG, London. See map
Entrance £5 (£4 all concessions)
Check disabled access options availabe here.

** NOTE: Due to new access policy at the library, if the main gates are closed (usually after 8pm) then entrance to the library will be through the disabled access door, which is located a few metres away on the left of the main gates

Source:
(*) Internet Movie Database

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Screening of “The Return” – March 6th 2013

Posted on 20/02/2013 by Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema

Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema is proud to present the following screening:

The Return (12)
Dir: Andrei Zvyagintsev (2003) Russia; 105 min.

‘A quiet and disquieting masterpiece which gets under your skin and stays there long after you leave the cinema’ David Hughes, Empire

‘A quiet and disquieting masterpiece which gets under your skin and stays there long after you leave the cinema’ David Hughes, Empire

Summary

Two teenage Russian boys have their father return home suddenly after being absent for 12 years. The father takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake in the north of Russia that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions. *

Comment

Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, The Return is an absorbing and enigmatic coming-of-age drama that propelled first-time director Andrei Zvyagintsev to the forefront of Russia’s contemporary arthouse scene.

‘Forty years after Andrei Tarkovsky became the first Soviet director to win the top prize at the Venice Film Festival (for Ivan’s Childhood), his compatriot Zvyagintsev repeated his success with this astonishingly accomplished debut. 

The Return contains note-perfect elements – unfussy acting, unhurried direction, sublime cinematography and low-key music – which conspire to draw the audience into a deceptively simple story with numerous hidden depths. .’**

You can watch a clip of the film here.

Screening on March 6th, 2013 – Wednesday

Starting time 7:45pm at Leytonstone Library
Church Lane, E11 1HG, London. See map
Entrance £5 (£4 all concessions)
Check disabled access options available here.

** NOTE: Due to new access policy at the library, if the main gates are closed (usually after 8pm) then entrance to the library will be through the disabled access door, which is located a few metres away on the left of the main gates

Sources:
(*) Internet Movie Database
(**) Empire online

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Correction on article about “36 Quai des Orfèvres”

Posted on 29/01/2013 by Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema

Correction on article about “36 Quai des Orfèvres”

We have just updated the original article to update the film’s classification to its correct value, which is (15) – suitable only for 15 years and over - and not (U) – suitable for all – as originally stated and sent out on our regular newsletter. We would like to apologize for this mistake, which has now been corrected.

Thank you and best regards.

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Screening of “36 Quai des Orfèvres” – February 6th 2013

Posted on 19/01/2013 by Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema

Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema is proud to present the following screening:

36 Quai des Orfèvres (15)
Dir: Olivier Marchal. (2004) France; 111 min.

’36 Quai des Orfèvres’ is a 2004 French film starring Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu. The film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of chief of the Direction Régionale de Police Judiciaire de Paris while involved in a search for a gang of violent thieves. The film is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years in the French police before creating this story, which in part is taken from real events which occurred during the 1980s in France. The film was nominated for eight César Awards. (*)

Summary:

In the underbelly of the Parisian criminal world, the Police are frustrated by a gang committing a series of violent robberies. Leo Vrinks and Denis Klein are two cops seeking promotion, and the imminent departure of the Chief sets the scene for them to compete for the vacant throne. The competition between them becomes increasingly ruthless and blurs the usual lines of morality, until there seems no difference between the police and the criminals they chase. Vrinks, meeting with a source, becomes involved with a murder. Klein seizes the opportunity to up the ante and arranges for the arrest of Vrinks, but when he goes further and viciously involves Vrinks’ wife, Camille, revenge is inevitable. (**)

Comments:

“A couple of days ago I saw the trailer of “36 Quai des Orfèvres” and I decided to buy the DVD. What a powerful movie it is, probably the best police story that I have recently seen. The dramatic and amoral story is a contemporary film-noir, with action, betrayal, shootings and hooks the attention from the beginning to the end. There is a great duel between two titans: Gérard Depardieu, in the role of a scum detective, and Daniel Auteuil, playing a detective with non-conventional procedures, and they both deserved nomination to the Oscar for such brilliant performances. The music score, with the song “Don’t Bring me Down”, is also wonderful. The grandiosity of “36 Quai des Orfèvres” recalled me 1995 “Heat”, one of the best police stories of the 90′s.” (**)

You can watch a clip of the film here.

Screening on February 6th, 2013 – Wednesday

Starting time 7:45pm at Leytonstone Library
Church Lane, E11 1HG, London. See map
Entrance £5 (£4 all concessions)
Check disabled access options available here.

** NOTE: Due to new access policy at the library, if the main gates are closed (usually after 8pm) then entrance to the library will be through the disabled access door, which is located a few metres away on the left of the main gates

Sources:
(*) Wikipedia
(**) Internet Movie Database

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Happy New Year from Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema

Posted on 02/01/2013 by Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema

Happy New Year from Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema!

A new year has arrived and with it the promise of a new and exciting programme of film screenings at your local pop-up cinema.

We’re currently enjoying our usual January break, but we will be back in February on our usual slot (first Wednesday of every month) with plenty of amazing films to be enjoyed and talked about.

Please keep an eye on this space for our incoming new programme of films starting February 2013 and all the way until the annual Leytonstone Festival to be held in July.

Best regards and Happy New Year from all of us at Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema!

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Screening of “Séance on a Wet Afternoon” – December 5th 2012

Posted on 19/11/2012 by Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema

Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema is proud to present the following screening:

Séance on a Wet Afternoon (PG)
Dir: Bryan Forbes. (1964) UK; 115 min.

Directed by local Forest Gate boy Bryan Forbes (also known for ‘The L-shaped Room’, ‘Whistle Down The Wind and the original ‘Stepford Wives’) we celebrate the East End born director at his best.

Summary:

Myra Savage (Kim Stanley) is a medium who holds séances in her home. Her husband Billy (Richard Attenborough), unable to work because of asthma and cowed by Myra’s domineering personality, assists in her séances. Myra’s life and psychic work are dominated by her relationship with the spirit of her son Arthur, who died at birth.
Myra’s concocts a plan to kidnap a child of a wealthy couple, but her plan goes awry as her unsteady mental health begins to fray.

Comments:

The film stars Richard Attenborough (who was also the film’s co-producer), Oscar nominated Kim Stanley, Nanette Newman, Mark Eden and Patrick Magee. Music by John Barry

Kim Stanley can hardly be known to most of today’s cinema audiences: she appears in only four films, and her fame rests on her stage work (even that is pretty sparse). She plays degenerating women, yet her technique is not the Mad Medusa writ large, such as Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard or Bette Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? She’s creepier than that, and more believable. In the movie, she is married to a meek and mild Attenborough – a childless marriage in a gloomy Victorian house. She concocts a scheme to kidnap a child, and then gain notoriety by discovering the child’s whereabouts through psychomancy. Her Oscar nominated performance is utterly superb, and so too is Attenborough’s.

You can watch a clip of the film here.

Screening on December 5th, 2012 – Wednesday

Starting time 7:45pm at Leytonstone Library
Church Lane, E11 1HG, London. See map
Entrance £5 (£4 all concessions)
Check disabled access options available here.

** NOTE: Due to new access policy at the library, if the main gates are closed (usually after 8pm) then entrance to the library will be through the disabled access door, which is located a few metres away on the left of the main gates

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Update on film “Alice”

Posted on 19/11/2012 by Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema

Hi all,

This is just a quick notice to inform that due to a last minute glitch on the day, we did not manage to show the film “Alice” on November 7th 2012 and we were forced to show an alternative choice of film. However, we are still planning to screen the film “Alice” on a future date in the coming months, so you will have another chance to watch it soon.

Please, accept our apologies for that problem and stay tuned for our programme of events for the forthcoming months with all the details, which we will be publishing here in due course.

Best regards.

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Screening of “Alice” – November 7th 2012

Posted on 27/10/2012 by Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema

Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema is proud to present the following screening:

Alice (15)
Dir: Marco Martins. (2005) Portugal; 102 min.

Summary:

“Shot in a dark, depressive undertone, Alice unveils a Lisbon whose mists, colours, alleys and moods are strangers, despite the familiarity of the locations. All seems odd, silently cruel, as cruel is the disappearance of a child from the path she’d travelled every day in (apparent) safety. The anguish is masterfully conveyed, and so is the loneliness of both parents.”

Comments:

“The influential critic Andrew Sarris thought it measured up to the best of Godard, Truffaut and Polanski. The New Yorker’s Penelope Gilliatt called it “a work of peculiar, cock-a-hoop giftsEverything in this movie is really well done. From the breathtaking performances from the leading actors, the amazing photography, the fantastic soundtrack(which is repetitive, but it relates to the sense of routine the main character has come to terms with) to the way that Lisbon is shot, it is a must-see for anyone who enjoys great dramatic movies. It is great to see a Portuguese movie that IS NOT a Manoel de Oliveira wannabe. It is also kind of minimalistic and slow, but it has it’s own way of telling a story. This movie came as a surprise to me because I have never seen a Portuguese movie so well done. It is the supreme evidence that less is more. I can’t wait to see Marco Martins’ next project.” (*)

You can watch a clip of the film here.

Screening on 7th November 2012, Wednesday

Starting time 7:45pm at Leytonstone Library
Church Lane, E11 1HG, London. See map
Entrance £5 (£4 all concessions)
Check disabled access options availabe here.

** NOTE: Due to new access policy at the library, if the main gates are closed (usually after 8pm) then entrance to the library will be through the disabled access door, which is located a few metres away on the left of the main gates

(*) Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459072/

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Screening of “Deep End” – October 3rd 2012

Posted on 29/09/2012 by Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema

Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema is proud to present the following screening:

Deep End (15)
Dir: Jerzy Skolimowski. (1970) West Germany, UK; 90 min.

Summary:

“15-year-old Mike takes a job at the local swimming baths, where he becomes obsessed with an attractive young woman, Susan, who works there as an attendant. Although Susan has a fiancé, Mike does his best to sabotage the relationship, to the extent of stalking both her and her fiancé. Mike becomes increasingly desperate to have Susan for himself, with tragic results.“ (*)

Comments:

Lost classic British film shot in Leytonstone’s Cathall Swiming Pool.

“The influential critic Andrew Sarris thought it measured up to the best of Godard, Truffaut and Polanski. The New Yorker’s Penelope Gilliatt called it “a work of peculiar, cock-a-hoop gifts.” (**)

Screening on 3rd October 2012, Wednesday

Starting time 7:45pm at Leytonstone Library
Church Lane, E11 1HG, London. See map
Entrance £5 (£4 all concessions)
* Check disabled access options availabe here.

You can watch a clip of the film here.

(*) Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066122/
(**) Source: The Guardian

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