February 2011
www.cornerhouse.org Cornerhouse presents a major new This exhibition, reconfigured This show, a collaboration exhibition by artist Carey Young. for Cornerhouse, surveys the between Cornerhouse, Eastside HIGHLIGHTS ART Young, who grew up in Manchester artist’s investigations of language, Projects and mima, also includes and also studied here, is best rhetoric and performance. UK premieres of several further In Feb Carey Young known for her witty explorations Specially commissioned film works including Product Recall of corporate and legal culture. Memento Park (2010) extends (2007), a video in which the artist Memento Park Using a variety of media including and reframes Young’s interests undergoes a psychoanalyst Love is in the air this month, video, photography, text and in performance, politics and leftist session relating to contemporary so make a date with your telephonic systems, Young ideas. Filmed in a statue park advertising. A new publication Valentine to enjoy classic examines these worlds, altering in Budapest, which contains a also accompanies the exhibition, their language and tools to create large collection of monumental, featuring texts by Berlin-based bittersweet romance Now, Sat 5 Feb – Sun 20 Mar fictional and absurd scenarios, Soviet-era statues in poses of writer Jennifer Allen, writer and Voyager. And we are celebrating which operate midway between ‘suspended animation’, the piece curator Raimundas Malasauskas Chinese New Year with a Galleries 2 & 3 performance and installation. relates these icons of propaganda and an interview with Young to their newly suburban, but by American artist Jill Magid. screening of Feng Xiaogang’s strangely idyllic setting. Aftershock as well as a talk exploring the phenomenon FREE of the Chinese New Year Blockbuster. Carey Young’s major solo exhibition Memento Park opens in Galleries 2 & 3, presenting a new video commission alongside a survey of a decade of her work. And our innovative show The People You’re Not continues to intrigue visitors in Gallery 1, with a satirical examination of the different faces of fame. CONTENTS Artist’s Tour For Students: Art in Talk /Rhetorical Devices Listings information Sat 5 Feb Focus/Carey Young Tue 15 Feb 14:00 – 15:00 Mon 7 Feb 18:30 – 19:30 Art/Exhibitions & Events 02 FREE, Booking required 10:00 – 12:00 FREE, Booking required Carey Young will lead a tour FREE, Booking required Rhetorical Devices will explore Books 06 around Memento Park discussing This special session for students a number of themes in relation Film/New Releases 07 the relationships between of Art & Design (aged 16+) will to the exhibition Carey Young: economics, legal language, include a discussion by Carey Memento Park. The basic task Film/Events 10 political engagement and Young of her experiences of of communication is rather simple, contemporary culture that growing up in Manchester and yet as soon as we try to include Information 14 form the central themes to her foundation art degree here, meaning and understanding a Food/Drink 15 her major solo exhibition. a tour of Memento Park and series of pitfalls open up before the opportunity for students us. Led by Dr Steven Gartside to ask the artist their own (MMU), the talk will consider the questions. Led by Carey connections and disconnections Young and Sarah Perks, that occur as soon as one thing Programme and Engagement attempts to become another Exhibition and Memento Park Image: Video still from Director, Cornerhouse. and question ideas on language, co-commissioned by Cornerhouse, Memento Park, Carey Young, rhetoric and the image. Cover image: Video still from Memento Park Eastside Projects, Birmingham 2010. HD video, 10 minutes Please note this event is only (detail), Carey Young, 2010. and mima, Middlesbrough. 24 seconds, looped. open to students. All information correct at time of press. 03 Last year an acclaimed exhibition Preview Events Gallery Discussions: at Cornerhouse, Unrealised ART Potential, featured over 60 artists’ Fri 28 Jan The People You’re Not ART proposals, all of which were - Join us to celebrate the opening Sun 30 Jan The People You’re Not until now - unrealised. This year, of The People You’re Not between 14:00 –15:00 Coming Soon three of those unfulfilled ideas 18:00 – 20:00 and experience FREE, booking required have been selected for realisation. some very special performances: Until Sun 27 Feb The resulting group exhibition, Wed 23 Feb The People You’re Not presents Live performance 16:00 -17:00 Gallery 1 the projects of TV entertainer FREE, booking required and popular satirical comedian by Norman Clayture These discussions will give Harry Hill, Manchester legend 18:30 you a unique insight into the Edward Barton, and infamous Back from his ongoing tour of the production process behind the Free wooden-pants-wearing balladeer world, from Norway to New York, work on display in The People Norman Clayture. a very special performance from You’re Not and unravel some Join us on a satirical trip through the wooden-pants-wearing god of the themes of the exhibition. the private and public faces of of acoustic rock Norman Clayture. Led by Jason Minsky, who fame, taking in rock and roll alter With special guests Imogen facilitated the production egos, the absurd, the humdrum Powder and Les Merde. workshops for The People of popular culture and the darker You’re Not, with contributions side of celebrity. Live performance from some of the creators by Edward Barton of the show. 19:30 An Evening With Witness a very rare kind of music - simultaneously beautiful and Edward Barton funny – as Manchester treasure Sat 12 Feb Oscar Muñoz Edward Barton performs the 18:00 – 19:30 Sat 5 – Sun 27 Mar classic I've Got No Chicken but FREE, Booking required Gallery 1 I've Got Five Wooden Chairs. The Annexe FREE Manchester’s legendary artist, Programmed alongside the poet and musician Edward Barton 17th edition of ¡Viva! Spanish will offer an insight into his work and Latin American Film with a film screening, interview Festival, this solo show from and exclusive performance leading Colombian artist Oscar by the Baby Men - featuring Muñoz features floor-mounted himself and three boys on bass, video installation Biografias keyboards and drums. (2002) and projection Línea del destino (Line of Destiny) (2006). Muñoz’ work explores themes of memory and loss within the challenging socio- political situation in his native Colombia and his evocative pieces are heavily influenced by his nation’s history. With thanks to galerie mor .charpentier, www.mor-charpentier.com
Image: Oscar Muñoz, Biografias, For details and to book tickets for art events visit 2002. Image courtesy galerie mor .charpentier. www.cornerhouse.org/art 05 Manchester-based artist collective Animal Kingdom (15) Archipelago presents an exhibition ART that takes place both in the non- FILM/ From Fri 25 Feb gallery spaces of Cornerhouse Micro Commission and in a retail space at the Triangle New Releases Screening for at least 2 weeks Shopping Centre. They will set Dir David Michôd/AU 2010/ up a ‘Consulate of Cornerhouse’ Consulate of Cornerhouse - acting as our official off-site 113 mins A project by Archipelago gallery “on foreign soil”. Exploring James Frecheville, Guy Pearce, Fri 18 Feb – Sun 6 Mar participation in artistic practice Ben Mendelsohn, Jacki Weaver Triangle Shopping Centre, and its emancipatory potential, Orphaned and detached teenager Exchange Square they will create a fabrication of FREE the Director’s office, complete Josh is taken in by his grandma with programming plans for future and fast becomes embroiled in Thu 24 Feb – Wed 9 Mar projects Cornerhouse could or Cornerhouse Café & Bar should be working on. Archipelago the crime-fuelled lives of his uncles. FREE will work to realise one of these Josh’s family repeatedly humiliate plans; that of memorialising the the Australian authorities and soon current Cornerhouse staff with face casts, which will then be displayed find themselves targeted by a police in the “real” Cornerhouse from vigilante death squad. Reminiscent Thu 24 February. Also watch out of gritty Australian dramas The for the approaches of the self driven official / unofficial market Boys and Chopper, this sobering researcher, as well as the chance and thrilling tale is supported by to be editor of a screen based web outstanding acting from the entire link visible from the street outside. cast – including Australia’s biggest export, Guy Pearce. Winner of the World Cinema Jury Prize A Cornerhouse Micro Commission, supported at Sundance Film Festival 2010. by Paul Hamlyn Foundation. www.cornerhouse.org/mico With support from Manchester City Council and the Triangle Shopping Centre.
Art/Mark Morrisroe Film/100 Animated Books £35.00 (JRP|Ringier) Feature Films by Recommended this month The extraordinarily diverse work Andrew Osmond of the American photographer £20 (BFI/Palgrave Macmillan) Mark Morrisroe has until now mostly been exhibited and An entertaining and illuminating discussed in connection with guide to the endlessly diverse his famous Boston colleagues world of animated films – this book Nan Goldin and David Armstrong. selects 100 of the most interesting Like them, Morrisroe documented and important examples from his circle of friends, whose around the world, from the 1920’s lifestyles were inspired by punk to the present day. and bohemia. In the 1980s he Available in our bookshop captured his friends in painterly portraits and nude photographs; the Polaroid camera became a mirror of his own body, Image credits: reflecting its illness and decay. This page: Top: Archipelago, Available online at: 2011. Bottom: Mark Morrisroe. For the latest film dates and times visit www.cornerhouse.org/books Opposite page: Animal Kingdom. www.cornerhouse.org / 0161 200 1500 07 Biutiful (15) Rabbit Hole (12A) Coming Soon FILM/ Continuing From Fri 4 Feb (15) Dir Alejandro González Iñárritu/ Screening for at least 2 weeks Black Swan New Releases / / / / ES MX 2010 148 mins Dir John Cameron Mitchell/ Dir Darren Aronofsky US 2010 Spanish wEng ST US 2010/91 mins 108 mins Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Eduard Fernández, Hanaa Dianne Wiest, Sandra Oh Barbara Hershey, Vincent Cassel, Bouchaib When Becca and Howie Corbett’s Winona Ryder The Wrestler, Anchored by a stunning young son is knocked over and Following his 2008 hit central performance from killed, their world spirals out of Darren Aronofsky returns with Javier Bardem, the new film from control. The couple struggle to a foray into the dark side of the Amores perros 21 Grams and cope and Becca’s burgeoning New York ballet and dance scene. director Alejandro González friendship with the teenage driver This striking psychological thriller, Iñárritu tells the compelling story of the car responsible for their follows Nina, whose dreams of of one man’s struggle to find son’s death adds to the couple’s taking the lead in Swan Lake spiritual redemption in morally problems. Based on David threaten to overpower her fragile bankrupt Barcelona. Lindsay-Abaire’s Broadway state of mind. play, this is a powerful, emotional NEDS (18) film imbued with hope. Never Let Me Go (12A) Inside Job (12A) Two in the Wave (CTBA) Continuing From Fri 11 Feb From Fri 18 Feb Dir Emmanuel Laurent/FR 2010/ Dir Peter Mullan/GB FR IT 2010/ True Grit (15) Screening for at least 2 weeks Screening for at least 2 weeks 93 mins/French wEng ST 124 mins A compelling documentary From Fri 11 Feb Dir Mark Romanek/GB 2010/ Dir Charles Ferguson/US 2010/ Conor McCarron, Marcus Nash, about the friendship and rivalries Screening for at least 2 weeks 104 mins 109 mins Joe Szula, Gary Milligan between two of the great nouvelle Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Inside Job is a hard-hitting Set in 1970s Glasgow on a Dirs Ethan Coen, Joel Coen/ vague directors: François Truffaut Andrew Garfield, Sally Hawkins investigative documentary troubled housing estate, NEDS US 2010/110 mins and Jean-Luc Godard. Using A poignant and thoughtful drama, into the US financial crisis and follows intelligent schoolboy John Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, archive footage, film clips and based on the novel by Kazuo its worldwide repercussions. McGill whose promising future is Matt Damon, Josh Brolin dramatisation, Two in the Wave Ishiguro, which follows the fated With interviews from high-ranking slowly eroded by his challenging Filmmakers extraordinaire Ethan takes the audience back to lives of school friends Kathy, Ruth international financial officials, environment. From award-winning and Joel Coen make a welcome a decade that revolutionised and Tommy as they come to terms the film blows the lid on Scottish director Peter Mullan return, adding their unique and the world of cinema. with their dark, predetermined widespread corporate and (The Magdalene Sisters). characteristically well-crafted existence. This heart-rending political corruption and greed. stamp to this reworking of Howl (15) Hathaway’s 1969 Western. With a story is adapted for the screen by stellar cast, including Jeff Bridges Alex Garland (The Beach and 28 Dirs Robert Epstein, Jeffrey / / who takes up the reins to reprise Days Later) and balances science Friedman US 2010 84 mins John Wayne’s character Rooster fiction with tales of love and deceit James Franco, Jon Hamm, Cogburn, this is a stylish tale of whilst avoiding emotional cliché. Jeff Daniels, Mary-Louise Parker murder, revenge and a daughter’s Man of the moment James devotion to her father. A must see Franco, star of last month’s 127 Hours, for all Coen brothers fans. takes the lead in Howl as iconic Beat poet Allen Ginsberg. Focusing on the obscenity charges held against his most famous poem, Howl uses black and white imagery, animation and impressive reconstructions to provide insight into a fascinating man, his creative process and the legal proceedings that made his work infamous.
Image credits: This page: Top: Rabbit Hole. Bottom: True Grit. Opposite page: Top: Never Let Me Go. Bottom left: Further new releases will be confirmed for Feb, Black Swan. Bottom right: Howl. check www.cornerhouse.org for regular updates 09 Event/A City in Shot Course Screening/ FILM/ Wed 16 Feb The Lost Honour of 18:00 Katharina Blum (12) Events £7.50 full/£5.50 concs (Die verlorene Ehre To celebrate 80 years of the Manchester & Salford Film Society der Katharina Blum) CP Lee (lecturer in Film Studies at Tue 22 Feb the University of Salford) presents 18:30 an evening devoted to the history Dirs Volker Schlöndorff, of filmmaking in Manchester. Margarethe von Trotta/ From 1896 and the first film show DE 1975/106 mins/German in the St James Theatre on Oxford wEng ST Street to the present day activities Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, of gallant independents, this Dieter Laser, Heinz Bennent illustrated ninety minute talk will Based on the well-known book tell you all you need to know about by Heinrich Böll the film is a critical the city’s rich relationship with film. portrayal of the right-wing media whipping up public hysteria at Loose Cannons (15) Chinese Film Forum UK Talk/Feng Xiaogang Soviet Shakespeare/ the height of left-wing terrorism Course Screening/ (Mine vaganti) Presents/Aftershock (15) and the Chinese New Hamlet (U) in West Germany in the 1970s. I Am Love (15) Screening in association with Tue 1 – Thu 3 Feb Tue 8 Feb Year Blockbuster (Gamlet) German Political Cinema course. (Io sono l’amore) 18:10 Dir Ferzan Ozpetek/IT 2010/ Tue 8 Feb Sun 20 Feb Wed 23 Feb 113 mins/Italian wEng ST Dir Feng Xiaogang/CN 2010/ 17:00 13:30 18:20 £4 full/£3 concs Riccardo Scamarcio, Alessandro 130 mins/Mandarin wEngST Dir Grigori Kozintsev/RU 1964/ Dir Luca Guadagnino/IT 2009/ Preziosi, Nicole Grimaudo, Jingchu Zhang, Daoming Chen, Although the tradition of the 140 mins/Russian wEng ST 119 mins/Italian wEng ST Ennio Fantastichini Chen Li Chinese New Year film began Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Tilda Swinton gives an excellent A family dinner brings surprises Feng Xiaogang’s latest Chinese in Hong Kong, in recent years, Mikhail Nazvanov, Elze Radzinya, performance as Emma, a wealthy for the Cantone family in this New Year film has been a Box mainland Chinese director Feng Anastasiya Vertinskaya member of Milan’s repressive coming out comedy from Office smash hit across Asia. Xiaogang has made a string of A rare chance to see the Soviet upper classes. A chance Italian-Turkish director Ferzan Aftershock is a visually stunning successful Chinese New Year Hamlet. With its stirring score encounter leads Emma to cast Ozpetek. Screening in association and ambitious drama following blockbusters. Feng’s films are by Dmitri Shostakovich, this off her high-society matriarchal with Contemporary Italian Film the tale of seven year-old Fang enormously popular in China but is considered by many to be persona and embrace a new- Directors course. Deng whose family is torn apart relatively unknown to Western the finest screen adaptation found sexual freedom. Screening The screening on Wed 2 in the 1976 earthquake that audiences. This introduction of the play. in association with Contemporary Image credits: February at 18:20 will have struck Tangshan. Decades later, will explore the political and Italian Film Directors course. Presented in association with the This page: Top: I Am Love. limited availability, early a second earthquake strikes cultural implications of the BBC Philharmonic, as part of their Bottom left: The Lost Honor of booking recommended. and provides an opportunity blatant commercialism of 2010 -11 Bridgewater Hall Season. Katharina Blum. Bottom right: Festival/Coming Soon for the family to reunite. Feng’s films, assessing how More Soviet Shakespeare to Arrancame la vida (¡Viva!). Presented by the Chinese Film far they might be seen as a ¡Viva! 17th Spanish follow in April. For details of events Opposite page: Top: Aftershock. Forum UK with support from new form of intervention in the & Latin American visit www.bbc.co.uk/philharmonic Bottom: Loose Cannons. Confucius Institute at The politics of Chinese filmmaking. Film Festival University of Manchester Led by Dr Felicia Chan, RCUK Sat 5 – Sun 27 Mar Fellow in Film, Media and Transnational Cultures, Throughout March we’ll be Research Institute for celebrating all things Spanish Cosmopolitan Cultures and and Latin American as ¡Viva! the Centre for Screen Studies, Spanish and Latin American Film the University of Manchester. Festival returns for its 17th year. With an exciting programme of events and screenings, that include Mexican epic Arrancame la vida, and surrealist film noir La Pantera negra, the festival promises to tickle any fancy!
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The Fallen Idol (PG) Regular Events FILM/ Sun 6 & Wed 9 Feb BOOK NOW Dir Carol Reed/GB 1948/95 mins Matinee Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Classics Sonia Dresdel, Bobby Henrey The first of director Carol Reed’s Film Quiz in association three collaborations with Graham Greene, is the author’s favourite with Fopp adaptation from his work. A thriller Tue 8 Feb, 20:00 from a child’s point of view, this Ground Floor Bar, £12 per team Oscar-nominated and BAFTA of four winning film follows the young son of the French ambassador So you think you’re a movie who discovers a terrible secret buff? Join us for our monthly about his idol. film quiz, where your movie knowledge will be tested to Event/Post-screening discussion the limits. And there’s more! on Wed 9 February with Freelance Top scorers can also win a host Film Educator, Maggie Hoffgen. of fantastic prizes from DVDs, books, CDs, film memorabilia Now, Voyager (U) and much much more! Sat 12, Sun 13, Limited availability, early booking Mon 14 & Wed 16 Feb recommended. Dir Irving Rapper/US 1942/ 117 mins The Reel Deal Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Every Mon & Tue Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper Evening This tender yet bittersweet romance, stars Bette Davis in her career National Theatre Live February brings the Donmar Kick-start your week and treat milestone performance as Charlotte Warehouse’s production of King yourself to a film, a homemade Vale – a frustrated spinster who From Thu 3 Feb Lear, starring Derek Jacobi to our pizza and a glass of wine or pint £15 full/£13.50 Cornerhouse defies her domineering mother screens. Book your tickets now of Becks Vier for just £12.50. Members to be brought out of her shell, for Danny Boyle’s electrifying Mondays and Tuesdays don’t only to embark on a doomed “We loved the experience, will Frankenstein in March, featuring get any better than this! love affair. A rare opportunity to definitely come to more shows Benedict Cumberbatch and Limited availability, early booking see this classic film, which makes like this in the new year and can Jonny Lee Miller, and Chekhov’s recommended. for perfect Valentine Day viewing, wholeheartedly recommend visionary The Cherry Orchard, on the big screen. it as a way to broaden access starring Zoë Wanamaker, which to popular stage shows based concludes the season in June. Monday Night Quiz Event/Post-screening discussion in London” Hamlet Attendee on Wed 16 February. Thu 3 Feb – King Lear Every Mon, 20:30 Our season of National Theatre Thu 17 Mar – Frankenstein FREE, Ground Floor Bar Valentine’s Café Deal/Show your Live continues with the best Thu 30 Jun – The Cherry Orchard ticket for Now, Voyager at our first Test your knowledge of random of British theatre filmed live in floor Café and receive a discount bobbins with Chris at the weekly high definition and broadcast Booking/ on glasses or bottles of Prosecco. quiz. Every team wins a prize. via satellite to Cornerhouse. For further information Bringing you two cinema classics Or, buy your ticket as part of our and to book tickets visit Reel Deal offer on Mon 14 February. on the big screen every month, www.cornerhouse.org/ntlive with post-screening discussions Details on page 13. to discover more about these must see films.
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