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DOWN TERRACE + BEN WHEATLEY Q&A + FREE SIGNED FANZINE
(2009, United Kingdom, Ben Wheatley)
F&TT&N 5 Launch screening! We celebrate the launch of Ben Wheatley's latest fanzine - film & television Thoughts & notes 5 - the Low Budget issue: with a special screening and Q&A with ben of his debut feature DOWN TERRACE - made for less than £10K in 2009 Ben's latest fanzine unpacks some of the thoughts, processes and mistakes in making the film. It also features an interview with Charlotte regan about making her debut feature Scrapper. Every ticket to this event comes with a copy of the fanzine. Be the first to get one - only at The Nickel.
In Down Terrace, father and son Bill and Karl return from prison to their Brighton home convinced that somebody inside their small criminal operation betrayed them. As suspicion closes around the family kitchen, domestic sniping, old resentments and sudden violence make every cup of tea feel like an interrogation.
Ben Wheatley’s debut turns the British gangster film inside out, replacing swagger with cramped rooms, black comedy and the queasy intimacy of a family destroying itself. Shot with collaborators who would become central to his career, it is a remarkably assured statement of the mordant humour and eruptive menace to come.
Ben Wheatley joins us on stage to discuss the film, and all ticketholders will receive a highly limited edition autographed fanzine.
In Down Terrace, father and son Bill and Karl return from prison to their Brighton home convinced that somebody inside their small criminal operation betrayed them. As suspicion closes around the family kitchen, domestic sniping, old resentments and sudden violence make every cup of tea feel like an interrogation.
Ben Wheatley’s debut turns the British gangster film inside out, replacing swagger with cramped rooms, black comedy and the queasy intimacy of a family destroying itself. Shot with collaborators who would become central to his career, it is a remarkably assured statement of the mordant humour and eruptive menace to come.
Ben Wheatley joins us on stage to discuss the film, and all ticketholders will receive a highly limited edition autographed fanzine.
Runtime: 93 mins
Certificate: 15
Monday 2/11
Bar 5:30pm
Film 6:00pm
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52 PICK-UP (16MM)
(1986, United States, John Frankenheimer)
Three blackmailers think a married businessman is an easy payday. Harry Mitchell has other ideas. As their demands turn murderous, he starts learning what frightens each of them—and how to turn one predator against another.
Roy Scheider and Ann-Margret give this filthy Los Angeles thriller its battered heart. John Frankenheimer brings muscular precision to Elmore Leonard’s world of sleaze, crooked bargains and professional criminals making very amateur mistakes, with John Glover a wonderfully poisonous adversary.
Presented on 16mm with a reel intermission.
Presented by Julien Allen.
Roy Scheider and Ann-Margret give this filthy Los Angeles thriller its battered heart. John Frankenheimer brings muscular precision to Elmore Leonard’s world of sleaze, crooked bargains and professional criminals making very amateur mistakes, with John Glover a wonderfully poisonous adversary.
Presented on 16mm with a reel intermission.
Presented by Julien Allen.
Runtime: 110 mins
Certificate: 18
ANOTHER WOMAN (16MM)
(1988, USA, Woody Allen)
A rented room, a ventilation grille, a stranger’s therapy session: Marion’s carefully ordered life begins to unravel through something she was never meant to hear. Listening to another woman’s unhappiness, the philosophy professor starts recognising the silences and compromises in her own.
Gena Rowlands makes this reckoning quietly shattering, finding tiny fractures beneath Marion’s formidable composure. Woody Allen’s intimate chamber drama, with Mia Farrow, Ian Holm and Gene Hackman, turns overheard words and unreliable memories into a devastating question: what if the life you have explained so well is the one you have failed to understand?
Presented by Agnė Qami of discreet.cine.
Presented on 16mm with a reel intermission.
Gena Rowlands makes this reckoning quietly shattering, finding tiny fractures beneath Marion’s formidable composure. Woody Allen’s intimate chamber drama, with Mia Farrow, Ian Holm and Gene Hackman, turns overheard words and unreliable memories into a devastating question: what if the life you have explained so well is the one you have failed to understand?
Presented by Agnė Qami of discreet.cine.
Presented on 16mm with a reel intermission.
Runtime: 83 mins
Certificate: PG
AFTER HOURS
(1985, United States, Martin Scorsese)
One flirtation, one taxi ride, one lost banknote: office worker Paul Hackett’s night in SoHo is already going badly. Getting home proves harder than surviving the artists, burglars, bartenders and furious strangers who keep dragging him further downtown.
Martin Scorsese turns New York into a beautifully rigged practical joke, with Griffin Dunne its increasingly desperate punchline. Michael Ballhaus’s prowling camera and Thelma Schoonmaker’s razor-sharp cutting make every coincidence feel like a conspiracy. A black comedy with the pulse of a thriller and the logic of your worst anxiety dream.
The ultimate bad luck movie for Friday 13th.
Martin Scorsese turns New York into a beautifully rigged practical joke, with Griffin Dunne its increasingly desperate punchline. Michael Ballhaus’s prowling camera and Thelma Schoonmaker’s razor-sharp cutting make every coincidence feel like a conspiracy. A black comedy with the pulse of a thriller and the logic of your worst anxiety dream.
The ultimate bad luck movie for Friday 13th.
Runtime: 97 mins
Certificate: 15
BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA
(1974, United States, Mexico, Sam Peckinpah)
A bounty, a dead man and one last chance to get out. Warren Oates’s down-at-heel piano player Bennie takes to the Mexican roads with his lover Elita, chasing a payday that becomes a filthy, heartbreaking personal crusade.
Sam Peckinpah strips the adventure film of glamour and finds something rawer: bruised tenderness, bitter comedy and a man arguing with a severed head. Oates is magnificent, his battered face carrying every bad bargain. Sun-blasted, disreputable and stubbornly alive, this is Peckinpah at his most defiantly personal.
Sam Peckinpah strips the adventure film of glamour and finds something rawer: bruised tenderness, bitter comedy and a man arguing with a severed head. Oates is magnificent, his battered face carrying every bad bargain. Sun-blasted, disreputable and stubbornly alive, this is Peckinpah at his most defiantly personal.
Runtime: 112 mins
Certificate: 18
SCREAMPLAY + DIRECTOR/STAR RUFUS BUTLER SEDER Q&A
(1984, USA, Rufus Butler Seder)
Aspiring screenwriter Edgar Allan arrives in Hollywood and lands a janitor’s job in a fleabag apartment building. His neighbours become characters in his script. Then the murders he writes start happening for real.
Rufus Butler Seder turns a tiny budget into an entire expressionist world: painted sets, silent-cinema tricks and stark monochrome give this Hollywood nightmare a handmade magic. Underground legend George Kuchar is unforgettable as the landlord. A funny, macabre love letter to movie obsession, where the dream factory looks like something assembled in a very gifted man’s bedroom.
Director and star Rufus Butler Seder joins us for a Q&A.
Rufus Butler Seder turns a tiny budget into an entire expressionist world: painted sets, silent-cinema tricks and stark monochrome give this Hollywood nightmare a handmade magic. Underground legend George Kuchar is unforgettable as the landlord. A funny, macabre love letter to movie obsession, where the dream factory looks like something assembled in a very gifted man’s bedroom.
Director and star Rufus Butler Seder joins us for a Q&A.
Runtime: 91 mins
Certificate: 18
