Reel Islington, Rowan Arts and HNG Presents
FIRST FRIDAY FILM CLUB
This monthly event will take place on the first Friday evening of every month, in partnership with Holloway Neighbourhood Group and Rowan Arts. The programme will combine a series of short films with a feature film. Join the First Friday Film Club mailing list to find out which films are showing and to receive early information on events.
EMAIL: firstfridayfilmclub@gmail.com.
LOCATION: The Old Fire Station, 84 Mayton Street, London, N7 6QT
DATE: First Friday of every month. Doors open at 7pm, film starts at 7.30.
COST: £5. / £2.50 unwaged or low wage concession. Refreshments available
2nd March 2012 – Le Quattro Volte
An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water everyday. A new goat kid is born. We follow its first few tentative steps, its first games, until it gains strength and goes to pasture. Nearby, a majestic fir tree stirs in the mountain breeze and slowly changes through the seasons. The tree now lies on the ground. It has been reduced to its own skeleton, and is transformed into wood coal through the ancestral work of the local coal makers. Our sight gets lost in the ashes’ smoke.
Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino
PREVIOUS SCREENINGS:
6th May 2011 – Exit Through the Gift Shop
Directed by Banksy. The story of how an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner.
3rd June 2011 – I’m All Right Jack
Directed by John Boulting and starring Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers. A naive aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labour union.
1st July 2011 – The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
A 1964 French musical film directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo.
5th August 2011 – Wings of Desire.
Directed by Wim Wenders. Starring Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin and Peter Falk (Detective Lieutenant Columbo). An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human when he falls in love with a mortal.
2nd September 2011 – Microcosmos.
Directed by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou. Insects become gigantic beasts, blades of grass turn into towering monuments, and raindrops form puddles that resemble vast oceans.
7th October 2011 – I Am Cuba
Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. Shot in 1964, “I Am Cuba” charts the Cuban revolution with a rousing script by poet Yevtushenko.
4th November 2011 – Clockwise
Directed by Christopher Morahan. Starring John Cleese who finds himself beset by one thing going wrong after another in attempting to reach the Headmaster’s Conference .
2nd December 2011- Gasland
An Oscar-nominated film about the controversial practice of removing natural gas from shale deposits (fracking). The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. Directed by Josh Fox.
6th January 2012- The Green Wave
Directed by Ali Samadi Ahadi. A documentary-collage illustrating the dramatic events and feelings of the people behind the Iran revolution.
3rd February 2012- Waltz with Bashir
Directed by Ari Folman. An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
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