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Inspired by Billy Wilder’s classic film noir of the same name, our exhibition Double Indemnity (p.4) explores questions of desire, power and complicity. The show features work by 12 international artists, including new commissions from Ming Wong and Anicka Yi. Curated with Double Indemnity ’s ill-fated insurance salesman Walter Neff in mind as the ideal audience, the exhibition uses contemporary art to explore the ways desire is structured by society. Double Indemnity is accompanied by My Noir (p.20-22), a season of the classiest, sexiest film noirs selected by artists, curators, filmmakers and musicians. My Noir continues into to December with films including Touch of Evil , Shock Corridor and Kiss Me Deadly . To coincide with Double Indemnity and My Noir , we’ve guest-edited a noir edition of Film International . This special issue brings together diverse responses to a wide range film noirs, from The Big Sleep and Insomnia to Hell is a City and Alphaville . This issue will be available from the bookshop in October, priced £6. The Manchester Weekender returns from 10 -13 October with four days of art, music, fashion, food, film, books, talks and walks. Events take place across the city, and include That Dame Upstairs (p.8), our life drawing and photography drop-in, with underground performance collective The Sisters Gorgeous. On Fri 29 November we present the international premiere of Rough Cut (p .1 6), a new feature film from conceptual artist Jamie Shovlin. This film-within-a-film explores the making of Hiker Meat , an imagined 1970s exploitation movie by fictitious Italian director Jesus Rinzoli. Artist/director Jamie Shovlin and writer Mike Harte, composter Euan Rodger and actress Agnes Aspen join us for a Q&A after this screening. Rough Cut shows on full release from Fri 6 December, and the genesis and delivery of the project will be captured in our January exhibition, Jamie Shovlin: Hiker Meat (p.5). This Christmas we present an alternative selection of films that have an eerie Christmas ambience (p.29). Selected by Cornerhouse Chief Projectionist Garry Watson, the season includes Curse of the Cat People , Dead of Night and The Queen of Spades . Of course, it wouldn’t be a Cornerhouse Christmas without It’s A Wonderful Life , so George Bailey and his celestial messenger Clarence also return to our screens in Frank Capra’s Oscar-winning classic.

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04 l Double Indemnity 05 l Jamie Shovlin: Hiker Meat 06 l Cornerhouse Projects 07 l Article/ Within These Walls 08 l Art Events For more information 09 l Creative Industries about The Manchester 11 Young People Weekender visit l creativetourist.com/ 12 l Books weekender 13 l Food & Drink 14 l At A Glance 16 l New Releases 20 l My Noir 23 l Article/ The Enduring Appeal of Film Noir 24 l The French Connection? 24 l UK Jewish Film Festival 25 l Film Events 29 l The Other Side of Yuletide… An Alternative Christmas 30 l Courses 31 l Information ART Y T I

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U Chinatown (2 013), a video work With thanks to Takasago and Ulrich inspired by Barbara Stanwyck in Lang New York Fragrances for their Double Indemnity , but also by support in producing Anicka Yi’s O versions of her character that fragrance. seemingly reappeared in later films including Roman Polanski’s Exhibition supported by D Chinatown (Evelyn Mulwray, played by Faye Dunaway) and Wong Kar- Image Ming Wong, After Chinatown wai’s Chungking Express (woman in (2 013) blonde wig, played by Brigitte Lin). 04/05

to the early 1980s as their makers, The exhibition will capture the intent on financial success, exploited genesis and delivery of the Hiker popular trends and lurid subject Meat project, with a straight-faced matter including sex, sensational presentation of the film alongside violence, gore, ‘freaks’ and drug use. costumes and background materials FROM in Gallery 1. Galleries 2 & 3 will reveal Set in an American summer camp the film’s imagined and in the 1970s, Hiker Meat is both an reconstructed nature and will 5 JAN affectionate homage to and an critically reconsider the wider genre, academic deconstruction of the presenting maquettes of the 2 013 exploitation genre. It includes a full set and the remains of the real thing. complement of horror and slasher film standards; from a hitchhiking Out of Hiker Meat also comes a heroine with a troubled past to a feature film Rough Cut , a ‘meta- Jamie Shovlin: Hiker Meat charismatic commune leader, and a mentary’ combining the filmed Galleries 1, 2 & 3 group of teens who disappear one sections of Hiker Meat with the Sat 18 Jan – Mon 21 Apr 2014 by one. equivalent of modern DVD extras, FREE including fly-on-the-wall production Based on a full screenplay created footage and interviews with cast and An exploitation film that never with writer Mike Harte, Shovlin crew. Rough Cut premieres at actually existed is at the heart of our created a prototype for the film in Cornerhouse on Fri 29 November. next exhibition – the biggest to date 2009 by collaging over 1500 found See p .1 6 for details. from conceptual artist Jamie Shovlin. clips. The beginning and end sections of this prototype, along Curated by Sarah Perks, The movie Hiker Meat and its 1970s with a Hiker Meat trailer, were Cornerhouse Artistic Director. Italian director Jesus Rinzoli have recreated shot-by-shot in June 2 013 been imagined by Shovlin to represent in an intensive shoot that Rough Cut is a co-commission an archetype of the exploitation incorporated pyrotechnics, a fleet of between Cornerhouse Artist Film genre. Low budget exploitation vintage vehicles, gallons of latex and and TIFF: Toronto International Film movies boomed from the late 1960s live action and voice-over casts. Festival.

Production shot from Rough Cut . Image by Simon Webb David Chadwick We Were All Here, Once will be the We Were All Here, Once first time Chadwick’s unique Thu 3 Oct – Tue 5 Nov photographs have been displayed Café & Bar together in public. FREE CORNERHOUSE David Chadwick studied photography PROJECTS Manchester-based photographer at Manchester School of Art from David Chadwick will present a 1972 -75 while simultaneously working selection of rarely seen images of as an assistant to fashion photographer Manchester’s night scene from the Roger Alexander. He then worked as late 1970s and early 1980s. These an artistic photographer for eight mostly candid shots were taken in years, while also lecturing at Blackburn now legendary clubs and reveal College. In the 1980s Chadwick what Chadwick summarises simply became a staff photographer on the This quarter we renew as “young people looking for love.” magazine Manchester Flash , and Cornerhouse Projects, our made a living from photography for ongoing exhibition strand These raw and immediate images almost 20 years while also playing and coaching tennis. that prioritises affordable offer an insight into the punk, New Romantic and rag-doll scenes. One artwork, north west-based of the images, Girl in a Discotheque , Prices start from £180. A limited artists and emerging was included in Cornerhouse’s edition of 100 signed and numbered curators. opening exhibition Human Interest in prints are also available, priced at 1985, and featured in the first £40. Please speak to Box Office staff Each exhibition will now Cornerhouse brochure. for information. open on a Thursday night, with an opportunity to meet the artist and toast the new exhibition. The new season begins with the opening of David Chadwick’s exhibition We Were All Here, Once . Join us in the bar from 17:30 on Thu 3 October as we celebrate the opening of this show. To find out how to make a submission to Cornerhouse Projects visit cornerhouse.org/ cornerhouse-projects Urgent Copy Thu 7 Nov 2013 – Tue 7 Jan 2014 Café & Bar FREE

Anthony Burgess was a novelist, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic, but is perhaps best known for his challenging and hugely influential novel A Clockwork Orange . Born in Manchester, he grew up in Harpurhey and Moss Side, went to school in Rusholme, and studied at The University of Manchester. Burgess is one of Manchester’s greatest cultural exports: his work is read and admired all over the world, but it is only recently that his work has started to receive critical acclaim from the country, and city, of his birth.

Urgent Copy is an exhibition of book cover art which reflects the variety of Burgess’s writing and the different ways in which it has been interpreted by artists. Drawing on rare and unusual material from the International Anthony Burgess Foundation collections, these screenprints demonstrate the range and scope of Burgess’s work with striking and attractive images.

Join us for an informal launch in the bar from 18:00 on Thu 7 November. Image David Chadwick, Punk Band All work is for sale. Please speak to Box Office staff for information. 06/07 WITHIN THESE WALLS

Cornerhouse Projects, our Café Bar exhibition strand which prioritises affordable art, north west artists and emerging curators, is about to relaunch with a renewed programme from October. The new season will start with Manchester photographer David Chadwick’s fascinating series of photographs captured in regional nightclubs and bars in the late 1970s and early 1980s, We Were All Here, Once .

Presented as soft, black-and-white exhibition, Human Interest, as well stills, complete with naturalistic film as our first ever brochure back in grain from extended exposure in 1985. The image within the original dark environments, eye-glare, brochure is framed alongside the jewellery-flash and enough photographs in We Were All Here, knitwear to equip a polar expedition, Once , and, even more excitingly, we the effect is similar to roe deer were successful in tracking its captured in car headlights. Or, subject down some 30 years later bearing in mind those determined (see cornerhouse.org for the not to go home without a snog, interview). perhaps in a sniper’s target-sight… “When Cornerhouse opened it was “I was drawn to photographing in an important change for the arts clubs because, at that time, that was and surrounding suburbs thronged community in Manchester,” says where young people went to find in their thousands to meet the David of that period, “it filled a huge themselves and their identity: to similarly hormone-stung. cultural gap by representing the find companionship and love, to here and now. I was thrilled to have escape,” David says. “They might be “Revisiting these pictures after so my work included in its first at school or college, work or not, but long brings something else into exhibition and it seems absolutely outside these clubs their world was play,” says David. “I’ve always fitting to revisit these images here; dominated by adults. This was long maintained that photos mature and it’s wonderful that we’ve also before computers and mobile with age. Even rubbish pictures gain re-connected the young people phones, so going to a place, which a value, even if it’s just that all the captured – now in their 50s – with was known to have people who were men are wearing hats. their images from the past.” like-minded, was the way to connect. “Some of these pictures I rejected at By Bren O’Callaghan “Also, when you’re young, things are the time. They didn’t seem to have so much more vivid. It all matters so much content. But now… some of the We Were All Here, Once will be the – before your life gets clogged up outfits are amazing! Was this the first time David Chadwick’s unique with emptying the dishwasher and last time that fashion came from the photographs have been displayed paying council tax. So where these street up? Now bands have stylists, together in public, and all the images young men and women are is so who connect with high street will be available to buy clear: happy, sad, lost and lonely, in brands – it’s a marketing strategy. (approximate A3 print, framed with love, on the pull – it’s all so obvious.” Back then they were making it up, mount, £180). 100 copies of a signed, and later a tamer version appeared numbered print of Girl in a The names of the clubs themselves, in a high street chain.” Discotheque will also be available, almost all long gone except The Ritz, priced £40 (approximate A4 print, reveal the aspirational, other- Earlier this year we released three framed with mount). worldly promise of temporary advance images from David’s series respite from the mundane, grizzle- via Cornerhouse’s online networks There will be an informal launch to and-grey of Manchester’s working and social media channels, in the toast the exhibition in the Bar from week: Rotters, Saturdays, Fagin’s, The hope of tracking the people depicted 17:30 on Thu3 October. If you’re No.1 Club, Brahms & Lizt, Cellar Vie, down. One of these images, Girl in a interested in purchasing any of the Cloud Nine, Legend, Oscar’s, The Discotheque , featuring a sylvan prints, including the special edition, Millionaires’ Club, Tropicana, The young woman gazing into the please speak to our Box Office staff. Playpen. Every generation has its middle distance in the airline seats stomping grounds, and it was here, at Fallowfield’s Sandpiper Club, is pre-SMS, pre-email, pre-online from David’s Looking for Love series, Image David Chadwick, forums, that the youth of the city and was included in our opening Girl in a Discotheque The Sisters Gorgeous and D Lucille display, culminating in a staged Campbell of glam electro-goth outfit performance in Gallery 3 at 18:00. Die Hexen will host a life drawing and photography session in the galleries, Exhibition Tour and Talk where they will be painted, styled Double Indemnity ART and clad in a fully monochrome Sat 14 Dec palate inspired by film noir icons. 13:00 – 14:00 EVENTS Free, booking recommended Throughout the evening Vintage 78 DJs will play a 1940s and 1950s Share your personal responses and soundtrack. Manchester’s storytelling discuss the work on display in this collective, Tales of Whatever, will exhibition tour and talk led by the also deliver live, first-person stories Cornerhouse Visual Arts team. Workshop: Love in the Age inspired by the themes in Double BSL interpreted. of Silicone Indemnity . Tue 24 Sep 18:30 – 20:30 Derek Gores: Fierce Beauty CALL OUT FOR PARTICIPANTS £6 full / £5 concs Collage and mixed media workshop Clifford Owens In this discussion we will explore the Sat 2 Nov Photographs with an phenomenon of the RealDoll, using 11:00 – 17:00 Audience (Manchester, the work of Japanese photographer £25 full / £20 concs. Booking 2013) Azusa Itagaki and Craig Gillespie’s recommended. Tue 15 – Wed 16 Oct film Lars and the Real Girl . Often 18:30 – 20:30 referred to as love dolls, these high- In his collage portraits, Florida-based end, life-sized silicone sex toys artist Derek Gores recycles magazines, In May 2 014 we will be presenting an appeared in America in the 1990s. labels, data and found materials to exhibition by New York-based artist This session will consider how ideas create works on canvas. Gores’ work Clifford Owens. Working across the of female beauty are distilled into the showcases his interests in the female media of performance and body of a doll. Beyond their erotic form and the design aesthetics of photography, Owens’ practice is function, we will consider the fashion, and a fearless sense of play. rooted in participation and audience qualities that locate these dolls on engagement. the border of inanimate object and In this hands-on workshop led by idealised woman. Gores, you will create your own rip- One of the new works will be and-paste collage of a female subject Photographs with an Audience Workshop: Killing Me Softly using collage materials. Materials (Manchester, 2 013) – and we are Tue 1 Oct will be provided but you are also looking for participants to take part 18:30 – 20:30 encouraged to bring a selection for in this project. People from across £6 full / £5 concs your own use. the city are invited to join the artist in a large room. There they will respond Looking at the symbiotic dialogue Suitable for beginners. You must be to improvised situations, with Owens between fashion model and aged 19 or over to take part. This acting as ringleader and provocateur. photographer, this session will offer workshop will be repeated at 11:00 – The resulting photographic an analysis of Black Duck Feathers, 16:00 on Sun 3 November for young documentation will be displayed in a dress created by fashion designer people aged 14 -18. If you are within the exhibition. Lee Alexander McQueen which this age group and would like to emblematically served to turn an book a free ticket email No skills or training are required and indistinct female body into a romantic, [email protected] there will not be any preliminary melancholic bird of prey. The workshop sessions. This is an opportunity to will also include a reading of Helmut RNCM Audio Weave: take part in a completely improvised Newton’s photography, which playfully Manchester Creative Viola and unpredictable environment, questions sexual differences. Studio where the level of individual Throughout the discussion, the focus Sat 7 Dec engagement can be small or great. will be on the equation between 15:00 – 18:00, short impromptu The event is likely to test boundaries violence and death in fashion. performances and levels of risk, so please bear this 18:00 – 18:45, concluding in mind. Please note, not everyone Vogue Fashion’s Night Out performance photographed will end up in the That Dame Upstairs: Life Free, drop in exhibition. drawing and photography drop-in Musicians from the Manchester The performance will take place Thu 10 Oct Creative Viola Studio at the Royal across two evenings on Tue 15 – 18:00 – 21:00 Northern College of Music will be Wed 16 October 2 013. If you are Free, drop in. Queuing possible making sporadic interventions in the interested in taking part email once capacity has been reached galleries throughout the afternoon, [email protected] giving real-time musical reactions to Underground performance collective the themes raised by the work on 08/09

Noise + Signal Sat 23 Nov 13:00 - 17:00 Free, drop in

CREATIVE Would you like to see your body rhythms as part of an artwork? INDUST RIES Come down to the Annexe, where artist Daksha Patel will respond to live data from biosensors including Youth Arts Project skin galvanometers, pulse monitors Management Course and electroencephalography (EEG). A six-day course taking place on Participants will be invited to wear Wed 25 & Thu 26 September Our Creative Industries sensors while they wander around Wed 23 & Thu 24 October Cornerhouse, and the data will be sent programme offers a range Wed 20 & Thu 21 November via wifi to Daksha as she works in of regular workshops, 10:00 – 16:15 daily the Annexe. The signals will be From £355 talks, opportunities and projected onto a large easel which events for people working Daksha will draw upon. The drawings This informative, accredited course will ‘map’ people’s responses to the in the industry and those covers the strategies, skills and spaces around them, visualising the hoping to do so. These issues involved in devising and data as a combination of noise and planning an arts project with, for and events, which are signals. Everyone is welcome to by young people. From initial ideas programmed in response participate, either by wearing a through to the nuts and bolts of to audience feedback, aim sensor and meandering around delivery – funding, working with Cornerhouse or by watching Daksha to help you develop your practicing artists, press, publicity and at work and asking questions about skills, widen your network evaluation – this course will leave the process. and encourage innovative you feeling fully confident, qualified thinking. Filmed Up and inspired to successfully deliver your own youth arts project. Fri 6 Dec 18:30 - 20:30 The course is run by Artswork as £4.50 full / £3 concs part of the Artsplan professional development programme, in From grass roots guerrilla partnership with Cornerhouse. It is filmmakers to start up production accredited by Buckinghamshire companies, the film community is New University (20 credits, level 5). thriving in the north west. Join us for an evening screening in the Annexe For more information visit where you can discover the wonders artswork.org.uk/open-courses, or to that are being produced on your make a booking contact Artswork’s doorstep. The entire programme is Learning and Skills Team on Show & Tell selected by a panel of Cornerhouse 0238 033 24 91 or Sat 26 Oct audience members. 16:00 - 18:00 [email protected] Free, booking recommended If you’d like your film to be considered for the December event, submit it by Come and get a taste of what’s 17:00 on Mon 14 October. Find out happening in the minds of some of Images Left: Gemma Parker, Miss ‘How how to submit your film at Can I Help You?’ (2007). the city’s leftfield innovators, as we cornerhouse.org/filmedup Bottom: Humboldt (Filmed Up, June 2 013) bring Manchester’s visual arts community and thriving digital design sector together in a playful and informal setting. Artists, designers and creatives will make lightning-quick presentations about a current project, experiment or source of inspiration – the ideal way to spend a Saturday afternoon.

Speakers for October include artists Hannah Gibson, Gemma Parker and Annie Harrison, CodeComputerlove lead creative Colin Preston and cardboard craftsman Mark O’Brien, with more to be confirmed. DIGITAL SKILLS WORKSHOPS

Work in the creative sector? Photoshop for Beginners talk is suitable for people with a Want to fine-tune your Sat 2 Nov, 10:00 - 16:00 basic knowledge of setting up a digital skills? We continue Sun 3 Nov, 11:00 – 17:00 WordPress site. £60 full / £45 concs our series of sessions to Tools and Trends on the help you engage with Back by popular demand! Learn the Horizon audiences and develop basics of editing digital images to Tue 26 Nov your online activity. These maximum effect with this two-day 18:00 - 20:00 workshops always prove introductory course to Photoshop. £5 full / £4 concs Digital Creative Sally Olding will popular so we recommend guide you through what you need to Do you need to be aware of the booking early to avoid know, from finding your way around latest technology trends and tools? disappointment. You can Photoshop to using the basic In this session The Next Web ’s keep up to date with our drawing, selection and adjustment Editor in Chief Martin Bryant will talk tools. This workshop is suitable for through what the next generation of latest digital skills events at people with little or no experience of apps and devices has to offer, and cornerhouse.org/digiskills Photoshop, but who know their way how they could improve your around a computer. professional life. The session will look at both fun and Pimp my WordPress serious tech, from the latest cloud- Tue 12 Nov based productivity tools to whole 18:00 - 20:00 new ways of finding work via apps £5 full / £4 concs that help you make the most of the world around you. Martin will also You’ve set up your basic WordPess talk you through what’s available site and post content regularly, so now and what to look out for this what’s next? In this talk, WordPress year, helping you to stay ahead of founder Mike Little will give you hints the curve. and tips on improving your site. This

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Collage Workshop with Beautiful Blogs for 12 -18 Library Theatre’s Young Derek Gores for 14 -18 year year olds Company (LTYC) olds Mon 28 Oct Sun 3 Nov 13:30 – 15:30 LTYC is the Library Theatre’s 11:00 – 16:00 Free, booking required performance company for young Free, booking required people. It offers the opportunity for Do you have a Tumblr, Blogger or performers aged 15 – 18 to develop Derek Gores is a Florida-based artist other web page? Do you spend time their skills within a professional who recycles magazines, labels, messing with the settings, changing environment. Participants take part data and found materials to create the fonts and colours and adding in weekly skills workshops at Capitol striking collages on canvas. Gores’ cool pictures and animations? Theatre on Oxford Road and can collage series showcases his Would you like to learn how to make perform in two productions each interests in the beauty of the figure it look even better? We’ll be running year. We are always keen to hear and a fearless sense of play. In this a workshop on the basics of editing from young people who would like hands-on workshop, Gores will websites using HTML – the to get involved. guide you through the techniques language websites are written in – so and process he uses to create that you can learn how to include To join or find out more about collages, giving you some fantastic clever stuff in your blog posts, LTYC contact Rosie Stuart on new skills to use in your own match colours perfectly, and make 0161 200 1533, or email artwork. everything look great! If you don’t [email protected] already have a blog we can also help For more information visit you to start one. No experience is cornerhouse.org/livewire , or email needed – we’ll teach you everything [email protected] to book from the basics up, and there’ll be a place tea and cake. Bring your own laptop or tell us if you need to borrow one.

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Our Café & Bar are the The Reel Deal Cornerhouse has a number of perfect place to meet for Every Mon & Tue evening spaces available for hire, providing drinks with friends, hold £14.50 full / £13.50 members an ideal location for meetings, social your meeting or have a events and private screenings in the Kick-start your week and treat heart of Manchester. Our spaces quick bite to eat before yourself to a film, homemade pizza include three cinemas, the Annexe catching a film or checking and glass of wine or pint of event space – a fully-accessible out our latest exhibitions. Dortmunder Vier for only £14.50, or space with its own private balcony £13.50 if you’re a Cornerhouse area ideal for meetings, We pride ourselves on offering quality Member. presentations or social events – and homemade food inspired by cuisines a smaller room suitable for meetings from all over the world. Grab your Limited availability, early booking or more intimate presentations. morning coffee from the downstairs recommended Bar, or visit our first floor Café for a For more details visit fabulous daily changing menu of Monday Night Quiz cornerhouse.org/venuehire pastries, quiches and salads in addition Every Mon, 20:30 to classic café bar fare like our ever Free, Ground Floor Bar For costs and availability contact popular pizzas and lamb burgers. Pat Raikes at Our dedicated patisserie chefs also Test your knowledge of random bits [email protected] ensure that we have a beautiful and bobs with Mark at the weekly or 0161 200 1511 selection of cakes baked freshly quiz. Every team wins a prize. throughout the day for you to enjoy. Tie the knot at Cornerhouse Monthly Film Quiz Double Indemnity Menu Tue 1 Oct, Tue 5 Nov, Tue 3 Dec, If you had your first date here and 20:00 – 22:30, £10 per team of want to relive the romance for your Throughout the duration of our four, booking required. wedding, or simply fancy getting exhibition Double Indemnity we will hitched somewhere different, we are be serving a noir-themed pizza, cake The Film Quiz is back, with new now able to offer marriage and civil & cocktail menu in the café. For more quizmaster Dave Murphy! Join us on partnership ceremonies in our information visit cornerhouse.org/ the first Tuesday of each month and cinemas and galleries as well as our double-indemnity-menu test your movie knowledge to the Annexe function space. In addition limit. Expect questions on anything to the ceremony we can provide a from The Bicycle Thieves to Short complete reception package. Circuit 2 , plus the Genius and Turn to p.29 for Quotes rounds. details of our For more details contact Keziah at Christmas Café deal [email protected] or Friday Nights in the Bar 0161 200 1508

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Double Indemnity Here’s your overview of what’s on at Until Sun 5 January Cornerhouse in October, November and December. For more information, updates and David Chadwick: additions please visit cornerhouse.org We Were All Here, Once To book tickets for events and screenings call Until Tue 5 November Box Office on 0161 200 1500 or book online at cornerhouse.org (no booking fee). Urgent Copy Until Tue 7 January

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Hannah Arendt (12A) Dir Margarethe von Trotta/DE LU FR 2012/113 mins/German, Mister John (15) English, Hebrew and French Dirs Joe Lawlor, Christine with partial EngST The new releases listed in Molloy/IE SG GB 2013/95 mins Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, this guide are the high lights Aidan Gillen, Claire Keelan, Zoe Tay Janet McTeer, Julia Jensch of our film programme over Consumed by his wife’s infidelity, the next three months. Hannah Arendt looks at the life of the Gerry Devine (Aiden Gillen, Game Of influential German-Jewish philosopher Where we know we are Thrones ) finds himself a fish out of and political theorist. In 1961, Arendt showing films on date (i.e. as water in the intense heat and reported for the New Yorker on the soon as they are released humidity of Singapore as he is war crimes trial of Nazi SS lieutenant nationally) we have obliged to deal with the aftermath of colonel Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. his brother John’s recent death. Her articles, which introduced the now- included dates. These films Mister John is the long-anticipated famous concept of the banality of evi l, will be screening for at second feature from directors Joe triggered unprecedented controversy least one week, or longer if Lawlor and Christine Molloy ( Helen , with Jewish public figures and even they prove popular. All 2008). some of Hannah’s friends, who other films are listed by the accused her of rationalising Nazi barbarism. Using footage from the month of their release, but Eichmann trial and weaving a without dates. Dates and narrative that spans three countries, times for these films will be Margarethe von Trotta has created an confirmed on our website engaging and highly dramatic film. and in our e-newsletters nearer the time. RELEASED IN OCTOBER

We’ll also be adding more Blue Jasmine ( 12A) The Pervert’s Guide to films to the programme Dir Woody Allen/US 2013/98 mins Ideology (15) during the quarter, so check Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Fri 4 Oct the website, sign up to our Sally Hawkins 18:45 Dir Sophie Fiennes/GB IE 2012/ weekly e-newsletters, or Cate Blanchett is mesmerising as 136 mins phone Box Office on 0161 the self-centred New York socialite 200 1500 for the latest Jasmine in Woody Allen’s latest Director Sophie Fiennes and programme information. comedy. When everything in her life philosopher Slavoj Žižek continue falls to pieces, including her Film times are also their collaboration with their latest marriage to wealthy businessman feature documentary The Pervert’s published in a weekly Hal, Jasmine loses every last vestige Guide to Ideology . The film explores calendar on Tuesdays at of her former life. Penniless and in what psychoanalysis can tell us 14:00, which you can pick need of a job, she moves into her about ideology, by using their up from our building or sister Ginger’s modest apartment in inventive interpretation of cinema to San Francisco to try to pull herself examine the mechanisms that download from our website. back together again. shape our beliefs and practices. Event A satellite Q&A with Slavoj Žižek will be broadcast live from the Ritzy in Brixton after the screening on Fri 4 October. The film will screen on full release later this month. Check cornerhouse.org for the latest information. Le Week-End (15) The Broken Circle Prince Avalanche (15) From Fri 11 Oct Breakdown (15) Dir David Gordon Green/US Dir Roger Michell/GB 2013/93 mins Dir Felix Van Groeningen/BE 2013/94 mins Jeff Goldblum, Jim Broadbent, 2012/112 mins/English and Flemish Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch Lindsay Duncan with partial EngST Veerle Baetens, Johan David Gordon Green’s Prince Le Week-End is the fourth Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse Avalanche tells the tale of two polar collaboration between director opposites, Alvin and Lance, and Roger Michell and writer Hanif Adapted from the stage play of the their unlikely partnership painting Kureshi, following The Buddha of same name, The Broken Circle Texan country roads during the Suburbia , The Mother and Venus . Breakdown is a multi-award-winning summer of 1988. At odds with each Meg and Nick are a middle-aged film with an impressive bluegrass other and the women they’ve left couple who travel to Paris for a soundtrack. Elise and Didier have behind in the city, Rudd and Hirsch weekend break, in the hope of been together for seven passionate give masterclass performances in escaping their humdrum lives in years. But when their daughter is this poignant, freewheeling comedy. Birmingham and reviving their diagnosed with a serious illness they flagging marriage. Over the course each deal with the difficult news in of the weekend the couple enjoy very different ways, putting their love Parisian life, and occasionally each to the test. other’s company, but their attempts to get back to the carefree days of their youth are not without difficulty.

The Selfish Giant (15) Dir Clio Barnard/GB 2013/91 mins Conner Chapman, Shaun Thomas, Sean Gilder Like Father, Like Son (CTBA) (Soshite chichi ni naru) Clio Barnard’s powerful follow-up to Dir Hirokazu Kore-eda/JP The Arbor is an intense social realist Captain Phillips ( 12A) 2013/ 120 mins/Japanese wEngST film about 13-year-old Arbor and his Dir Paul Greengrass/US 2013/ Masaharu Fukuyama, Machiko Ono, best mate Swifty. Excluded from 134 mins Yôko Maki, Lily Franky school and outsiders in their own Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, neighbourhood, the two boys Barkhad Abdi Acclaimed Japanese director Kore- progress from bunking-off school to eda ( Nobody Knows, I Wish ) continues stealing copper, when influenced by A re-telling of the headline-grabbing to explore the complexities of local scrap merchant Kitten. events that occurred on the high contemporary family life with this tale seas in April 2009, when cargo ship of a couple thrown into torment after captain Richard Phillips surrendered receiving some unexpected news. himself to a group of four Somali Ryota’s hard work has earned him pirates to protect the crew onboard everything he has, and he believes the Maersk Alabama . The film that nothing can stop him from focuses on the relationship between pursuing the perfect life. Then one Captain Phillips and his Somali day, he and his wife Midori get an counterpart, Muse. Both men will unexpected phone call from the find themselves paying the human hospital. Their six-year-old son, Keita, toll for economic forces outside their is not their biological son after all; he Gloria (15) control. Captain Phillips is was swapped at birth. Following Dir Sebastián Lelio/CL ES simultaneously a pulse-pounding official recommendations Ryota and 2012/110 mins/English and Spanish thriller and a complex portrait of the Midori swap sons with the family with partial EngST myriad effects of globalisation. who have been caring for their Paulina García, Sergio Hernández, biological son for the past six years. Diego Fontecilla 18/19

Gloria is 58 years old and still feels young. Making a party out of her loneliness, she fills her nights seeking love in ballrooms for single adults. This fragile happiness changes the day she meets Rodolfo. Their intense passion, to which Gloria gives everything, leaves her dancing between hope and despair. Gloria will have to pull herself together and Blue is the Warmest Colour Jeune & Jolie (CTBA) find a new strength to realise that, in (CTBA) (Young & Beautiful) the last act of her life, she could burn (La vie d’Adèle) Dir François Ozon/FR 20 13/95 mins/ more brightly than ever. Dir Abdellatif Kechiche/FR French wEng ST 2013/179 mins/French wEngST Marine Vacth, Géraldine Pailhas, Event Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Frédéric Pierrot, Fantin Ravat We are pleased to welcome lead Salim Kechiouche actress Paulina García for a special In François Ozon’s latest coming-of- preview with a post-screening Q&A This Palme d’Or-winning love story age drama, model-turned-actress at 20:00 on Wed 23 October. from Franco-Tunisian filmmaker Marine Vacth gives a confident Abdellatif Kechiche is an enchanting performance as a middle class 17- RELEASED IN NOVEMBER film focusing on the life of Adele, as year-old student whose sexual she navigates her late adolescence experiments have serious and grows into a young woman. implications. After losing her virginity The story begins with 15-year old following a brief fling on a family Adele and follows her from her first holiday, Isabelle returns to her daily taste of sex with a boy from school college life and embarks on a secret to her relationship with Emma, a double life of high-class prostitution. mysterious blue-haired girl who she Ozon’s non-judgmental presentation first encounters in the street. Blue is of Isabelle’s clandestine the Warmest Colour is an erotic, transactions invites the audience to passionate and emotional film, and contemplate the difficulties of Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa modern family life. Philomena ( 12A) Seydoux give excellent Dir Stephen Frears/ GB FR US/ performances as the young lovers. RELEASED IN DECEMBER 2013/98 mins Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Charlie Murphy, Sophie Kennedy Clark

Philomena is the true story of a mother’s search for her lost son. Having fallen pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, as a so-called fallen woman Philomena was sent to a convent – and her baby was sent to America for adoption. Heartbroken, Don Jon (18) Philomena spent the next 50 years Dir Joseph Gordon-Levitt/ US Nebraska (15) searching for him in vain. A meeting 2013/90 mins Dir Alexander Payne/US 2013/ with a journalist gave Philomena the Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett 115 mins opportunity to continue her search. Johanssen, Julianne Moore, Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb Together they set off for America on Tony Danza a journey that would not only reveal Woody Grant is a prickly, aging the extraordinary story of Philomena’s Young, handsome and extremely father of two with advancing son, but also create an unexpectedly popular with women, it is no surprise dementia. When he receives a letter close bond between them. that Jon Martello’s friends nickname notifying him of a massive Philomena is a compelling narrative him Don Juan; his ability to take a sweepstake win he insists on of human love and loss, which different woman home each making the journey to Nebraska to ultimately celebrates life. It is both weekend is legendary. But Jon’s real claim his prize. Woody’s son David funny and sad and concerns two pleasure comes when he’s alone reluctantly agrees to the road trip very different people, at different with his computer watching porn, and the drive takes them through stages of their lives, who help each and his addiction to online eroticism Woody’s old hometown, where word other; showing that there is laughter controls his life. That is until he of his windfall spreads through like even in the darkest places. meets his ideal woman, whose wildfire. Alexander Payne’s Nebraska influence on him is life-changing. perfectly balances comedy, drama Writer/director Gordon-Levitt has and pathos, and features an created a modern comedy with excellent performance from Bruce more than a touch of satire. Dern as the irascible Woody Grant. MY NOIR UNTIL SUN 29 DEC 2013

A season of the classiest, sexiest film noirs, selected by artists, curators, filmmakers and musicians. cornerhouse.org/my-noir #MyNoir Supported by

Laura (U) The Third Man (PG) Touch of Evil (12A) Sun 29 Sep, 12:00; Sun 6 Oct, 12:00; Wed 9 Oct, Sun 20 Oct, 12:00; Wed 23 Oct, Wed 2 Oct, 13:30 13:30; Thu 10 Oct, 18:00 13:30 Dir Otto Preminger/US 1944/ Dir Carol Reed/GB 1949/104 mins Dir Orson Welles/US 1958/106 mins 88 mins Orson Welles, Alida Valli, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Joseph Cotton Orson Welles, Marlene Dietrich Clifton Webb Pulp novelist Holly Martins has come Self-righteous Mexican cop Mike Otto Preminger’s film noir to post-WWII Vienna on the promise Vargas tangles with grubby old-time masterpiece about erotic obsession, of work from his friend, Harry Lime. detective Quinlan (played by a cigar- jealousy and deadly betrayal follows When he finds that Lime has just been chomping Orson Welles) who resorts police detective Mark McPherson as killed in a car accident, Holly decides to illegal tactics in pursuit of justice. he investigates the recent murder of to remain in the city to investigate Marlene Dietrich plays Quinlan’s lady beautiful advertising executive, his friend’s mysterious death. of questionable history. With some of Laura. Through the testimonies of Chosen by playwright Simon Stephens. the finest black and white Laura’s nearest and dearest, Mark photography ever, including a soon becomes infatuated. Can his legendary tracking shot. final judgement be trusted when he Chosen by Jamie Graham, editor at has fallen for a dead woman? Laura Total Film. is a brilliantly witty and taut social satire, and a superb example of the subtlety and sophistication of Hollywood crime movies. Chosen by Terence Davies, director of The Deep Blue Sea and Distant Voices, Still Lives. 20/21

Shock Corridor (15) Sunset Boulevard (PG) The Killing (PG) Tue 29 Oct Wed 13 Nov Sun 24 Nov, 12:00; Wed 27 Nov, 20:30 18:15 13:30 Dir Sam Fuller/US 1963/96 mins Dir Billy Wilder/US 1950/110 mins Dir Stanley Kubrick/US 1956/ Peter Breck, Constance Towers, William Holden, Gloria Swanson, 80 mins Gene Evans Erich von Stroheim Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards Ruthless journalist Johnny Barrett One of Billy Wilder’s finest, this acid- fakes his way into a psychiatric etched portrait of Tinseltown When ex-con Johnny Clay says he hospital to uncover the facts behind remains one of the darkest movies has a plan to steal $2 million, an unsolved murder. But as he on moviemaking. Broke screenwriter everybody wants in on the action. closes in on the killer, madness Joe Gillis hides out in a seemingly But, despite their careful plotting, closes in on him. deserted mansion while on the run Clay and his men have overlooked Chosen by Andrew Kotting, director, from the repossession men. There one thing: Sherry Peatty, a money- writer and artist. he meets the property’s owner, hungry, double-crossing dame faded screen star Norma Desmond. who’s planning to make a financial She’s planning her comeback in a killing of her own. self-penned screenplay and wants Chosen by Mike Todd, filmmaker, Joe to help her with her script. Joe journalist and consultant at moves in, becoming a kept man and Riverhorse. the object of Norma’s obsessive affection. Chosen by artists and filmmakers Al & Al and film producer Michael Knowles.

Kiss Me Deadly (12A) Sun 3 Nov, 12:00; Wed 6 Nov, 13:30 Dir Robert Aldrich/US 1955/106 mins/English, Italian and Spanish with partial EngST The Hitch-Hiker (12) Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Tue 3 Dec Paul Stewart 18:50 Dir Ida Lupino/US 1953/70 mins/ A classic pulp noir of the fifties and a English and Spanish with partial savage critique of Cold War Mulholland Drive (15) EngST paranoia, Kiss Me Deadly is adapted Tue 19 Nov Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, from the novel by Mickey Spillane. 17:45 William Talman Detective Mike Hammer picks up a Dir David Lynch/FR US 2001/ female hitch-hiker, only to be run off 141 mins Two men on a fishing trip pick up a the road by a pursuing car. When Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, hitch-hiker; he turns out to be a Hammer comes to the girl is dead, Ann Miller psychotic escaped convict intent on and his investigation leads him to a murdering the men when the ride is mysterious briefcase and a deadly David Lynch dispenses with over. web of conspiracy. conventional narrative in this neo- Chosen by M.J. Hyland lecturer, Chosen by Steve Balshaw, film noir trip through Hollywood’s dark novelist and editor. programmer at Grimmfest. underbelly. After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a naïve Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles. Chosen by curator Ying Kwok. Chinatown (15) Mildred Pierce (PG) Sun 8 Dec, 12:00; Sun 22 Dec Wed 11 Dec, 13:30 16:00 Dir Roman Polanski/US 1974/ Dir Michael Curtiz/US 1945/ 131 mins 111 mins Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, John Huston Zachary Scott

Roman Polanski’s brilliant 1930s-set Michael Curtiz blends film noir and thriller is American cinema at its melodrama in this passionate story finest. Private detective Jake Gittes of a self-sacrificing mother who is hired to follow a local official who would do anything to provide a good then turns up dead. Implicated in the life for her ungrateful daughter, Veda. murder and keen to clear his name, Chosen by Helen Palmer, director of Gittes uncovers a wider conspiracy Palmer Squared and Creative Tourist. that reaches the very top of Los TRY OUR Angeles’s wealthy establishment. Near-perfect in execution, Polanski’s masterful direction and Robert Towne’s script are complemented NOIR-THEMED by John Alonzo’s cinematography and riveting performances. Chosen by poet Michael Symmons Roberts and Mike Barnett, MENU Communications and Media Manager at The Library Theatre Company. Sweet Smell of Success (PG) Sun 29 Dec To celebrate our film season My Noir 16:00 and exhibition Double Indemnity , a Dir Alexander Mackendrick/US menu of noir-inspired cocktails, 1957/96 mins pizzas and deserts is available in the Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Café and Bar until Sun 5 January. Susan Harrison Find out more at cornerhouse.org/double-indemnity- British director Alexander menu Mackendrick left behind Ealing comedies for this classic American Hell is a City (PG) noir. Tony Curtis plays Sidney Falco, Mon 9 Dec a young hustler who gleans gossip 18:10 and lights matches for his boss, Dir Val Guest/GB 1959/92 mins monstrous newspaper columnist J. Stanley Baker, John Crawford, J. Hunsecker. Hunsecker enlists Donald Pleasance, Maxine Audley Falco’s aid in ruining the reputation of jazz guitarist Steve Dallas, who Detective Inspector Martineau is has had the temerity to court his tough, hardworking and one of sister Susan. His evil towers over Manchester’s top policemen. So proceedings as the corruption when he hears of a jailbreak mounts and the story darkens. involving ruthless jewel thief Don Chosen by Henriette Huldisch, curator Starling – a man he helped put away at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. – Martineau is convinced that Starling will come back to Manchester for one last heist. Need more noir? Turn Chosen by photographer Kevin to p.24 and p.26 for information about Cummins. the films In The Shadow and Devil in a Blue Dress plus Q&A . 22/23

number of filmgoers, critics and theorists to argue that film noir can speak as much to the present as it THE ENDURING APPEAL does to the past. Maybe part of the enduring appeal is the fact that we can endlessly debate what film noir actually is. OF FILM NOIR Usually starting with the evergreen ‘is it a genre?’, these discussions often call in at ‘where does it begin Andy Willis , Reader in Film Studies at the University of and end?’, before an ‘is it in or is it Salford, considers the enduring appeal of film noir. out’ trip around individual films. In the comfort of these negotiations, even the most outlandish claims for a film’s ‘noir’ credentials seem Image Hell is a City worthwhile.

Which brings us to My Noir , the film season programmed to accompany the exhibition Double Indemnity , which is itself inspired by Billy Wilder’s 1944 film of the same name. The list of film choices provided by scholars, filmmakers, artists and curators to screen alongside the exhibition reflects such discussions. These films certainly provide a great starting point for the sort of over- excited debates you can overhear or join in with while sitting at the bar.

So, where do you stand in relation to the films chosen for My Noir ? Laura (1944), Out of the Past (1947) or Kiss Me Deadly (1955) – classics creating little debate? The Third Man (1949) – With its tough, spiky women, often and political concerns of their own lots of shadows, but is it noir? flawed male heroes, distinctive era through its form and style. The Mildred Pierce (1945) – is it more cinematic style and highly ambiguous elasticity of the film noir style is also unhinged family melodrama than moral tone, the idea of film noir has, likely to be one of the reasons why it full-on film noir? And what about in its many manifestations, had an has found keen enthusiasts in all the ultra-cynical Sweet Smell of enduring appeal for filmmakers, parts of the globe. From Europe to Success (1957), Sam Fuller’s brilliantly scholars and fans alike. This is Asia and Latin America, directors unnerving Shock Corridor (1963) and reflected by the fact that whether from have created international versions the Manchester-set Hell is a City the classic early era of production of of film noir which contain strikingly (1960)? Where do they fit? How do the 1940s, the playful pastiches of local interpretations of its codes and neo-noir classics such as Chinatown the 1990s and 2000s or the nostalgic conventions. Film noir has proved as (1974) or Night Moves (1975) compare neo-noirs of the 1970s, noir-tinged profitable for filmmakers’ creativity with the original noirs? And where do films have been ever-present on as it is appealing to international more contemporary interpretations many people’s favourite all-time audiences. of film noir and the crime film, such movie lists. Film noir, it seems, has a as Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), special place within the psyche of The ideas and style of film noir are also Mulholland Drive (2001) or Brick filmgoers of all generations. things that can be continually (2005) fit into the noir canon? There filtered and re-focused through seem to be as many questions about Part of the continued appeal of film contemporary eyes, in the process film noir as there are films which noir is perhaps the way in which the crossing historical boundaries and someone will argue for including in visual and narrative codes and geographical borders. With its moral its various cycles of production. conventions associated with the style ambiguity, often cynical view of the What is certain is that the selections are very well established, but at the world and characters driven by for My Noir , not to mention the same time have proved incredibly blatant self-interest and paranoia, it justifications for inclusion offered flexible. This makes film noir is perhaps not surprising that by their champions, will provoke something that is open to continual contemporary audiences have discussion, debate and even re-invention and re-working by continually found something in the argument in a manner that perhaps different generations of filmmakers, murky world of film noir that directly only film noir can. as they seek to explore the social connects with them, causing a THE FRENCH CONNECTION?

The French Connection? Black Girl (CTBA) Bambi (CTBA) returns with a diverse (La Noire de...) Wed 4 Dec selection of drama and Sun 1 Dec 18:20 16:00 £5.50 full / £4 concs documentary filmmaking Dir Ousmane Sembène/ FR SN Dir Sébastien Lifshitz /FR from the French-speaking 1966/65 mins/French wEng ST 2013/58 mins/French wEng ST world. Screenings and Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie events will take place at Jelinek, Robert Fontaine The extraordinary life of the French music hall star Bambi has been one both Cornerhouse and the The debut feature from celebrated of perpetual reinvention, from her Alliance française de veteran Senegalese filmmaker childhood in Algeria as a boy named Manchester. Further films Ousmane Sembène tells the story of Jean-Pierre to her Parisian cabaret and events will be added a young girl from Dakar who is duped career and her 25 years as a public to the programme, check into working as a domestic in France . school French teacher. Hers is an The film’s French title directly refers inspirational life of determination, cornerhouse.org/french- to her, ‘la noire’, being ‘owned’ by illustrated by archive footage connection-2 013 for her employer, and Black Girl features gathered from a super-8 diary Bambi programme updates. many of the political themes affecting kept for some 30 years, personal African society which Ousmane photographs and current footage. A Supported by the Alliance Sembène explored throughout his touching biographical portrait from française de Manchester. lengthy career. This screening will the director of Les Invisibles and be accompanied by Ousmane Going South (Plein Sud ). Sembène’s short film Borom Saret . Event This screening is introduced by freelance film educator, Roy Stafford.

Orchestra of Exiles (CTBA) Regina (CTBA) Tue 5 Nov Thu 14 Nov UK JEWISH 20:30 18:30 Dir Josh Aronson/US IL 2012/ Dir Diana Groó/HU GB DE 2013/ 85 mins 63 mins/Hungarian and English with Zubin Mehta, Itzhak Perlman, partial EngSt FILM FESTIVAL Pinkhas Zuckerman, Joshua Bell This sensitively realised documentary This dramatic story follows Polish uncovers the life and times of The 17th UK Jewish Film violinist Bronislow Hubermann, who pioneering spiritual leader Regina Festival returns to rescued some of the world’s greatest Jonas, who was the first woman to musicians from Nazi Germany, be ordained as a rabbi. Cornerhouse with an culminating in the founding of the exciting line-up of hotly Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. In The Shadow (CTBA) anticipated international Sun 17 Nov Broadway Musicals: 16:00 films. From poignant A Jewish Legacy (CTBA) Dir David Ondrícek/CZ SK PL 2012/ accounts of bravery Sun 10 Nov 106 mins/Czech, Polish and German and a toe-tapping musical 16:00 wEng ST documentary to a Dir Michael Kantor/US 2012/ Ivan Trojan, Sebastian Koch, stunning film noir, this 90 mins Sona Norisová year’s programme offers a This documentary offers a dazzling After investigating a jewellery store unique line-up of insight into the Jewish composers robbery, police captain Jarda Hakl acclaimed new cinema. and lyricists who created The Great uncovers a plot by state security For more information visit American Songbook – a canon of agents to detain and eliminate Jewish the most important and influential citizens. He then embarks on a one- ukjewishfilm.org American popular songs of the 20th man war against the ruthless regime. century. 24/25

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CAN: Cinema Arts Network in association with Click Films present Evidently… John Cooper Clarke LIVE! (15) Thu 3 Oct Doors: 18:00 / Screening: 18:15 NEW BRITISH Tickets £10.50 full / £8.50 concs A National Poetry Day event that you won’t want to miss! The incomparable and irreverent John Cooper Clarke takes part in a one-off live broadcast from Newcastle’s Tyneside Cinema. This special broadcast event includes a CINEMA screening of John Ross’s Evidently… John Cooper Clarke , a film which features contributions from Bill Bailey, Steve Coogan and the Arctic Monkeys QUARTERLY and a post-screening Q&A with John Cooper Clarke. CHINESE FILM FORUM UK

Conference: Golden Gate Girls (CTBA) Chinese Cinema in and Fri 11 Oct outside China 18:30 Fri 11 – Sun 13 Oct Dir Louisa Wei/HK 2013/88 mins/ £40 full / £20 concs Cantonese and English with partial EngST For Those In Peril (18) This three-day conference hosted by Mon 7 Oct the Chinese Film Forum UK brings This highly personal documentary 18:20 together international scholars working chronicles director Louisa Wei’s efforts Dir Paul Wright/GB 2013/92 mins on various aspects of Chinese cinema. to reconstruct the life and career of George MacKay, Kate Dickie, The conference will consider the rapid Esther Eng, a Chinese-American Michael Smiley development of the commercial film director born in San Francisco in the industry in China today and its early 1900s. Today, Eng has been Aaron is the lone survivor of a fishing subsequent impact on filmmaking in virtually forgotten. Wei’s documentary trip that claimed the lives of five men Hong Kong and Taiwan, and paints a fascinating picture of how her including his older brother, Michael. independent production within career in filmmaking broke through Unable to remember the details of China itself. gender and racial boundaries in their trip, and feeling the weight of the Keynote speakers include Professor Hollywood and Hong Kong, at a community’s collective grief, Aaron’s Rey Chow (Duke University, US) time when opportunities for Chinese sense of helplessness escalates into and Dr Song Hwee Lim (University women in the industry were few and the belief that Michael and the other of Exeter). far between. men somehow survived. Conference tickets include entry to Event Event Golden Gate Girls with a director’s We are pleased to welcome We are pleased to welcome director Q&A on Fri 11 Oct, and the keynote writer/director Louisa Wei for a Paul Wright for a post-screening talk Woman, Repression, and the post-screening Q&A. Q&A. Classic Spring in a Small Town on Fri 11 Oct. For more information about New British Cinema Quarterly, visit For more details visit nbcq.co.uk cornerhouse.org/chinese-film- forum-uk MANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL PRESENTS:

UFO In Her Eyes (CTBA) Devil in a Blue Dress (15) Sun 13 Oct, 16:00 Wed 16 Oct, 20:00 Dir Xiaolu Guo/DE 2011/110 Dir Carl Franklin/US 1995/97 mins mins/Mandarin, English with Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, partial EngST Jennifer Beals Shi Ke, Udo Kier, Mandy Zhang, Y. Peng Liu Denzel Washington stars in this adaptation of Walter Mosley’s Written and directed by Xiaolu influential crime novel. After losing Guo, UFO in Her Eyes is an Walter Mosley: Little Green his job, Easy Rawlins accepts a adaptation of her critically Wed 16 Oct, 18:00 – 19:00 payment of $100 to find missing acclaimed 2 010 novel of the same £8 full / £6 concs woman Daphne Monet. Daphne is name. Partially inspired by Kafka’s the girlfriend of a former candidate in The Metamorphosis and Legendary crime writer Walter the Los Angeles mayoral race, and Kurosawa’s Rashomon , the film is Mosley will be making a rare visit to soon Easy is drawn into a web of a compelling and funny satire on Manchester Literature Festival to blackmail, dirty cops and even contemporary Chinese society and talk about his new thriller Little Green . dirtier politicians. new consumerism. A new installment in his excellent Event Kwok Yun’s life is changed forever Easy Rawlins series, it finds his We are pleased to welcome writer when she thinks she sees a UFO protagonist wandering the streets, Walter Mosley for a post-screening hovering over Three-Headed Bird clubs and LSD dens of Los Angeles Q&A Village. She alerts the authorities in search of a missing boy. A hard- who immediately send a team to boiled crime tale, Little Green is also This screening and event is included investigate, while the village’s a stunning exposure of a divided city in the course Lone Wolves and ambitious mayor spots a tourist and the dark underbelly of 1960s Dangerous Dames: An exploration of opportunity. As money and visitors culture. film noir. pour in, the village is transformed, and Kwok Yun has to adjust to a Walter is the author of 37 books Programmed in association with very different life. Guo’s previous including Black Betty, Devil in a Blue Manchester Literature Festival. For films and documentaries include Dress, Blonde Faith and All I Did more information visit She, a Chinese, The Concrete Was Shoot My Man . He is the manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk Revolution, We Went To recipient of a PEN America Lifetime Wonderland and Once Upon a Achievement Award. Walter will be Time Proletarian. reading and discussing his writing with Jerome de Groot of The Event University of Manchester. We are pleased to welcome writer/director Xiaolu Guo for a A £2 discount is available when also post-screening Q&A. booking for our screening of Devil in a Blue Dress . The discount can only Supported by the Confucius be made when booking by phone Institute, in association with the on 0161 200 1500, or in person at Chinese Film Forum UK and Box Office. Manchester Literature Festival

Lebanese Rocket Society launch rockets into space for study reconstitutions and art installations, (CTBA) and exploration, and the group artists and directors Khalil Joreige Mon 21 Oct produced the first rocket of the Arab and Joana Hadjithomas question 18:20 World. Considering current world this story and the ideas of Dirs Khalil Joreige, Joana divisions, it would be inconceivable, reenactment, reconstitution and Hadjithomas/LB FR 2012/95 these days, for a small team of restaging in the present time. mins/Arabic wEngST dreamers to launch rockets into the skies above the Middle East. This Event In the early 1960s, during the cold adventure now plays out as We are pleased to welcome directors war and at the apex of Pan Arabism, anecdote in the course of history, a Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas a group of students and researchers story kept secret. for a post-screening Q&A entered the race to space and created the Lebanese Rocket Through their work with documents, Supported by the British Academy Society. Their aim was to create and archives and animation as well as International Partnerships Scheme 26/27 BRITISH GOTHIC DOUBLE BILL SAT 26 OC T, 20:30 ‘It’s in the trees! It’s coming!’ Gothic Manchester pays homage to the great tradition of double-bill horror by bringing you two of the finest British gothic horrors of the 1950s: the beautifully restored Dracula from Hammer and the Dracula (15) Night of the Demon (CTBA) classic and rarely shown Dir Terence Fisher/GB 1958/ Dir Jacques Tourneur/GB 1957/ Night of the Demon . Join 82 mins 82 mins us for an evening of classic Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, scares selected from the Michael Gough Nial MacGinnis BFI season Gothic: The Maligned and misunderstood by Jacques Tourneur’s gripping, Dark Heart of Film. critics on first release, Hammer’s intelligent and eerily entertaining This event will be preceded bloodily beautiful reworking of classic tale of witchcraft follows Dr Dracula has grown in reputation over John Holden, an American psychologist by an introduction. the decades and is widely regarded who travels to London to investigate Tickets for the double bill as the definitive film adaptation of a satanic cult suspected of murder. are £ 10.50 full / £8.50 concs. Stoker’s novel. A new digitally remastered version, including newly This event is in partnership with the Tickets cannot be rediscovered footage which was lottery funded BFI Film Audience purchased for individual originally banned by the British Network, and part of Manchester films. Board of Film Classification in 1958. Metropolitan University's Gothic Manchester Festival.

Film London Jarman Award retirement home, Rose, a nurse from 2013: Artists in Profile (CTBA) Philippines who has just arrived in Wed 30 Oct the country, and Maribel, a prostitute 18:10 with ever-diminishing clients.

We are delighted to present a Event special event profiling work by the We are pleased to welcome ten artists shortlisted for the 2 013 producer Pau Subirós for a Film London Jarman Award: Ed post-screening Q&A. Atkins, Beatrice Gibson, Emma Hart, Rachel Maclean, Uriel Orlow, La Plaga (CTBA) This special screening forms part of Charlotte Prodger, Hannah Sawtell, (The Plague) the Annual Conference of the Anglo Grace Schwindt, John Smith and Sat 2 Nov Catalan Society held at The Jessica Warboys. 16:00 University of Manchester from 1-3 Dir Neus Ballús/ES FR DE 2013/ November 2 013. The programme brings together 85 mins/Catalan, Spanish and single screen works by each of the Russian wEng ST With the support of the Federació shortlisted artists, celebrating a rich Rosemarie Abella, Maribel Martí, Internacional d’Associacions de and eclectic array of work and Raül Molist Catalanística, in association with El offering a comprehensive survey of Kinògraf Film Productions, and the work and practice of UK-based Telling the intertwining stories of five facilitated by the School of Arts, film and video artists. local characters, La Plaga offers a Languages and Cultures, The moving portrait of life in the outskirts University of Manchester. Event of Barcelona. Raül is a farmer trying We are pleased to welcome artist to produce organic food. Lurie is a Rachel Maclean for a post-screening Moldavian wrestler, scraping a living Q&A. helping Raül on the farm. Slowly, their personal histories entwine with For more information visit those of three solitary women: flamin.filmlondon.org.uk/jarman_ Maria, an elder who has to leave her award_ 13 life-long country house to live in a The Habit of Art (Encore) Thu 7 Nov Doors: 18:45 NT LIVE Performance: 19:00 Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind National Theatre Live with his new opera, Death in Venice , brings the best of British seeks advice from his former theatre to Cinema 1, collaborator and friend, W.H. Auden. live in high-definition. During this imagined meeting, their first for 25 years, they are observed To commemorate the 50th and interrupted by, among others, anniversary of the National their future biographer and a young Frankenstein (Encores) (15) man from the local bus station. Theatre, this season NT Frankenstein enjoyed a sell-out run Live is broadcasting a at the National Theatre, and went on Starring Richard Griffiths, Alex selection of encore to win awards including the 2 012 Jennings and Frances de la Tour. Olivier Award for Best Actor for screenings from some of First broadcast in 2 010. Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny its most celebrated recent Recommended certificate 15 (TBC). productions. Lee Miller. Oscar-winner Danny Boyle £10.50 full / £8.50 concs (Trainspotting , Slumdog Millionaire ) £9.50 Cornerhouse Members directs a sensational production £8.50 children (under 16) and with Benedict Cumberbatch and LiveWire Members Jonny Lee Miller alternating roles as RSC LIVE Victor Frankenstein and his creation. Childlike in his innocence but Richard II (Live) grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s Wed 13 Nov bewildered creature is cast out into a Doors: 18:45 hostile universe by his horror-struck Performance: 19:00 maker. Meeting with cruelty Dir Gregory Doran wherever he goes, the friendless David Tennant, Michael Pennington, Creature, increasingly desperate Oliver Ford Davies and vengeful, determines to track £15 full / £13.50 members / down his creator and strike a £10 children terrifying deal. This first-ever live cinema broadcast Urgent concerns of scientific from the stage of the Royal responsibility, parental neglect, Shakespeare Company stars David cognitive development and the Tennant in the title role and is nature of good and evil are Hamlet (Encore) directed by RSC Artistic Director embedded within this thrilling and Tue 22 Oct Gregory Doran. Doors: 18:45 deeply disturbing classic gothic tale. First broadcast in 2 011. Performance: 19:00 Richard is King, ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man Thu 31 Oct Following his celebrated of very human weakness. A man Doors: 19:45 performances at the National whose vanity threatens to divide the Performance: 20:00 Theatre in The Last of the great houses of England and drag Benedict Cumberbatch plays the Haussmans , Burnt by the Sun , The his people into a dynastic civil war Creature, Jonny Lee Miller plays Revenger’sTragedy , Philistines and that will last 100 years. The Man of Mode , Rory Kinnear Frankenstein. plays Hamlet in a dynamic production of Shakespeare’s Sat 7 Dec complex and profound play about Doors: 13:00 the human condition, directed by Performance: 13:15 Nicholas Hytner. Jonny Lee Miller plays the Creature, Benedict Cumberbatch plays He is joined by Clare Higgins Frankenstein. (Gertrude), Patrick Malahide (Claudius), David Calder (Polonius), James Laurenson (Ghost/Player King) and Ruth Negga (Ophelia). First broadcast in 2 010. Recommended certificate 12A (TBC). 28/29

Matinee Classic The Queen of Spades (PG) THE OTHER SIDE OF YULETIDE... Sun 15 Dec, 12:00 Wed 18 Dec, 13:30 Dir Thorold Dickinson/GB 1949/ AN ALTERNATIVE CHRISTMAS 96 mins Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Christmas time. We all love it. Roasting chestnuts on an Yvonne Mitchell open fire, sleigh bells in the snow. But Christmas can Thorold Dickinson’s tantalisingly also be a backdrop to slightly more troubling things, as macabre tale tells the story of an these films show. ancient countess and her dealings with the devil in order to secure Selected by Garry Watson, Cornerhouse Chief Projectionist. success at the gambling table. This is a rare opportunity to see a forgotten classic of British cinema, produced by the great Val Lewton. don’t miss out! The Christmas sequences are magical. A poetic masterpiece.

A Midnight Clear (15) Thu 19 Dec 18:10 Dir Keith Gordon/US 1992/104 mins Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon, Arye Lady In The Lake (CTBA) Gross, Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinise, Sat 14 Dec Frank Whaley 16:00 It’s A Wonderful Life (U) Dir Robert Montgomery/US 1947/ December 1944. As the end of the Fri 20 Dec – Mon 23 Dec 102 mins Second World War approaches, Dir Frank Capra/US 1948/131 mins Robert Montgomery, Audrey American and German soldiers come James Stewart, Donna Reed, Totter, Lloyd Nolan together in a snowbound forest Lionel Barrymore somewhere near the French/German While few would make a case for border. In an effort to save at least It wouldn’t be a Cornerhouse Lady In The Lake being classic film some lives, the Germans surrender Christmas without It’s a Wonderful noir, its subjective camera technique themselves and spend Christmas Life . This ultimate festive favourite and eerie Christmas ambience sets with their captors. This haunting and from Oscar-winning director Frank it apart from the rest. Adapted from moving anti-war film features a great Capra stars James Stewart as the novel by Raymond Chandler, in cast of young, up and coming actors, despairing businessmen George this film you are Philip Marlowe and including Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinise, Bailey. One fateful Christmas Eve everything is seen throughout from Peter Berg and Kevin Dillon. An George receives a visit from his point of view. Starring and ethereal score by Mark Isham adds Clarence, a celestial messenger who directed by Robert Montgomery, this to the atmosphere. prevents him from jumping into a may one of the strangest noirs to freezing river. The pair travel come out of the 1940s studio system. Dead of Night (PG) together through moments in Sat 21 Dec George’s life to show him what the Curse Of The Cat People (U) 15:30 world would be like if he had never Mon 16 Dec Dir Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil existed. A genuinely tender and 18:20 Dearden, Charles Crichton, enduring piece of yuletide cinema. Dir Gunther von Fritsch, Robert Robert Hamer/GB 1945/100 Wise/US 1944/70 mins mins/French and English with Christmas Café Deal Simone Simon, Kent Smith, partial EngST. Treat yourself in our Café after Jane Randolph Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, watching one of our Christmas films. Mary Merrall, Sally Ann Howes, Present your ticket for any of the A sequel to 1942’s The Cat People Googie Withers films on this page and you can enjoy but tenuously connected in terms of a glass of mulled wine and a slice of plot and characters, Curse Of The A visitor to a manor house can’t shake traditional Italian Christmas dessert Cat People serves up an even more off déjà vu when the guests begin to Panforte di Siena for just £3.95. dreamlike, fairytale mood. A study in recount sinister experiences… childhood loneliness and the power Ealing Studios made a detour from New Year’s Eve of the imagination, this is a beautiful comedy with this striking Bring in the New Year with a three- and charming fantasy rather than portmanteau blend of traditional course meal, entertainment and the horror film the title suggests. Co- ghost stories, a whimsical haunted prosecco at our party. For those not directed by Robert Wise (who later golf course and, most memorably, a eating, join us from 22:00 to start made the terrifying The Haunting , deeply disturbed ventriloquist. your celebrations. Tickets go on sale and The Sound Of Music !) and in October. Our courses offer you the chance to explore the ideas and issues at the heart of our film and visual art COURSES programme in a relaxed and sociable setting. Cornerhouse Members receive a £5 discount on all prices.

Projecting the World Where Ideas Come From Starts Wed 15 Jan Starts from Thu 16 Jan 18:30 – 20:30, 8 weeks 18:30 – 20:30, 6 weeks £70 full / £50 concs £50 full / £35 concs

Audiences all over the world love films, Have you ever had a good idea, and around 7000 titles are produced followed by the feeling that it came worldwide every year. However, only from nowhere? It happens all the a small proportion of these are time. Socrates believed that we are exported and traded internationally. empty shells and that creativity Commedia all’Italiana: Hollywood dominates that trade with comes from daemons swooping Comedy, Italian-style around 150 studio films but there have, inside us, delivering an idea, then Starts Mon 13 Jan been periods when other industries leaving just as quickly. It’s easy to 18:30 – 20:30, 8 weeks were also successful in selling their understand this when we have £70 full / £50 concs films widely. On this course we will flashes of insight. Sometimes ideas discuss the 1960s, when European have to be dragged out of us and we This beginners’ level course will films – and those from Italy in get the feeling we’ll never get the focus on the distinctively Italian genre, particular – were popular in many answer we’re after. the Commedia all’Italiana. These markets. We will then consider the comedies became increasingly current situation in which China, India In this six-week course we’re going popular in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s and South Korea are starting to to look at how ideas happen, why and most of the Commedia all’Italiana ’s develop the export potential of their the most creative people have success was due to skilled directors film industries to engage more magpie tendencies, the importance like Pietro Germi and actors directly with Hollywood, Europe and of location when generating ideas, including Marcello Mastroianni and the rest of the world. and dispell the myth that you are Stefania Sandrelli, whose perfect either ‘creative’ or ‘not creative’. chemistry helped create unique films. Over 500 films are released in UK Using clips and group discussion we cinemas every year. Who decides Beginners’ level, no prior knowledge will analyse the economic, social which titles we get to see and what required and cinematic features that shaped criteria do they use? Why are we the genre, and will explore whether more likely to see foreign language Led by the definition of Commedia all’Italiana art films in our cinemas, but not Hugh Garry, specialist in innovation, still applies to some examples of popular entertainment films from the social media and creativity in digital contemporary Italian comedy. same countries? There are many spaces. myths about the global trade in films Beginners’ level, no prior knowledge which this evening class will aim to Course screenings required debunk, while reveal something of TBC what we could be watching. Led by Adalgisa Serio, Italian Associate Beginners’ level, no prior knowledge Lecturer at CDLCI and Manchester required Metropolitan University and author of Collana Cinema Italia published Led by by Edilingua. Roy Stafford, freelance film educator Course screenings Course screenings Mon 3 Feb, 18:30, Wed 22 Jan, 18:30, The Witches (CTBA) Viva Maria! (CTBA) Mon 24 Feb ,18:30, Wed 19 Feb , 18:30, film TBC Loose Cannons (12A) 30/31

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