Ahead or our December newsletter welcome to this special mid month edition from kinokulture cinema bringing you news on our new BFI Thriller and States of Danger And Deceit touring programme of films from the BFI and HOME in Manchester.
Other news updates this month include an exiting new initiative taking place in The Willow Community Garden (next door to the cinema). Flowers For The Bees The Oswestry Branch of Shropshire Wildlife Trust has launched a project called Flowers for bees to make the town more wildlife-friendly by planting nectar-rich plants and shrubs - it will look lovely, smell gorgeous and help our bees.
Many wild bees are in serious decline because of a massive loss of wildflower habitats. The project involves improving two sites in Oswestry town centre: the sensory garden in Cae Glas Park and the Willow Garden, opposite Oswestry Library. We are working with the Town Council in the park and with Christ Church, owners of the Willow Garden, with support from Kinokulture, who lease the building next to it. We will plant a wide range of bee-friendly, bulbs, herbaceous perennials, shrubs and climbers.
The project has been made possible by a Tesco's Bags of Help grant. Customer voting in the Ellesmere store resulted in Flowers for bees being awarded £4,000.
On Saturday 25 November, the project will begin by planting crocus, narcissus, tulip and scilla bulbs in the Willow Community Garden, 10am – 12 noon. Anyone wishing to help will be welcome, whether you want to drop in and plant a handful of bulbs or stay for an hour or two. Doc Of The Month: Unrest (15) + VR Experience We are also very pleased to welcome the Unrest Virtual Reality Experience team to our cinema next week to accompany our screening of Unrest which is our November Doc Of The Month. An immersive journey into creator and director Jennifer Brea's experience of an invisible illness, myalgic encephalomyelitis, Unrest VR contrasts the painful solitary confinement of a bedroom world with the kinetic freedom of an inner dreamscape. When you're too sick to leave your bed, where do you go?
The Unrest Virtual Reality Experience will be in our downstairs front room and is open to the public between 11:30am - 3:00pm Tuesday 21st - Thursday 23rd November and for an hour before the screening of Unrest on Thursday evening. Find out more about Unrest & book online here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/397866
WHO CAN YOU TRUST?
This winter we are pleased to present a nail-biting and suspense-filled UK-wide season in partnership with the BFI and HOME, Manchester. BFI THRILLER and States Of Danger And Deceit brings the best of this edge of the seat genre with films from around the world and hidden gems ripe for rediscovery.
Thrillers get our minds racing as well as our pulses, bringing the twists and turns of psychological and political intrigue together with edge-of-the seat action. We love to be in the grip of uncertainty, and to see our suspicions played out to their perilous conclusions. As well as offering the chance to revel in the work of masters of suspense like Alfred Hitchcock and enjoy the sheer thrill of danger and deception writ large on the big screen, this season is an opportunity to reflect on the way the thriller has evolved to reflect our personal fears in times of political uncertainty and social change.
Please scroll down for full information and booking links for this thrilling season of films.
All screenings take place at kinokulture cinema, 9 Arthur Street, Oswestry, SY11 1JN.
Doors open 30 minutes before the screening time.
To find out what else is coming up in December & January please visit our website:
http://www.kinokulture.org.uk/# | |  | BFI Thriller: Blood Simple The Director's Cut (15) Thursday 30th November 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/204837
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Joel and Ethan Coen's thrilling debut feature – a stylish, imaginative and hard-boiled neo noir – marked their arrival as important and distinctive new cinematic voices on its release three decades ago, and we're delighted to screen it in a luminous new 4K DCP restoration, approved by the Coens and the film's cinematographer, Barry Sonnenfeld. Immediately pulpy and cultish in feel, Blood Simple possesses all the characteristics that propelled the Coens to later success – razor sharp dialogue; a predilection for lethal and futile violence; ironic, fatalistic humour; and an inventive focus on the tragicomic lives of idiosyncratic misfits. M. Emmett Walsh is sleazy Texas private eye Visser, hired by bar owner Marty (Dan Hedaya) to kill his unfaithful wife (Frances McDormand) and her lover (John Getz). Given a plan to work from, he decides to modify it without warning; and matters quickly spiral out of control. Beautifully shot and performed and with a haunting score by the Coens' longtime collaborator Carter Burwell, it's a landmark film, a trailblazing, near virtuosic debut which reinvented the noir for a new generation and marked the arrival of two filmmakers who would go on to revolutionise the American indie cinema scene. Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen USA 1984 (4K digital restoration 2017) Cast: Frances McDormand, John Getz, Dan Hedaya, M Emmet Walsh Run time: 96 mins The BFI Thriller season takes place in cinemas across the UK, on BFI Player and BFI DVD, on broadcast television, and with education partners INTO FILM, and is accompanied by a lavishly illustrated new BFI book. With the support of the BFI, awarding funds from The National Lottery. | |  | States Of Danger And Deceit: Z (15) Wednesday 6th December 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/419107
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 STATES OF DANGER AND DECEIT: EUROPEAN POLITICAL THRILLERS IN THE 1970s is a touring season of films curated by Andy Willis, Reader in Film Studies at the University of Salford and Senior Visiting Curator: Film at HOME, Manchester, presented as part of BFI THRILLER with the support of the BFI, awarding funds from The National Lottery. The ideological turmoil that marked the late 1960s and led to events such as May '68 in Paris gave way in the 1970s to a more strident politics that involved stark contrasts between left and right. During this period those within the establishment and those without seemed willing to act with violence to force the changes they sought for society. In response to this political moment a number of European filmmakers turned to the format of the thriller - sometimes seriously, sometimes with humour - offering as it did the opportunity to explore conspiracies, authoritarian regimes, and political violence. Z A pulse-pounding political thriller, Greek expatriate director Costa-Gavras's Z was one of the cinematic sensations of the late sixties, and remains among the most vital dispatches from that hallowed era of filmmaking. This Academy Award winner—loosely based on the 1963 assassination of Greek left-wing activist Gregoris Lambrakis—stars Yves Montand as a prominent politician and doctor whose public murder amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials; Jean-Louis Trintignant is the tenacious magistrate who's determined not to let them get away with it. Featuring kinetic, rhythmic editing, Raoul Coutard's expressive vérité photography, and Mikis Theodorakis's unforgettable, propulsive score, Z is a technically audacious and emotionally gripping masterpiece. Director: Costa-Gravas France/Greece 1969 Cast: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant French with English subtitles Run time: 127 mins Part of States of Danger and Deceit: European Political Thrillers in the 1970s, a touring season presented by HOME, Manchester. Programme curated by Andy Willis, Reader in Film Studies at the University of Salford and Senior Visiting Curator: Film at HOME, produced by Rachel Hayward, HOME's Film Programme Manager, and coordinated by Jessie Gibbs, HOME Film Team. Presented with the support of the BFI, awarding funds from The National Lottery. | |  | BFI Thriller: The Wages Of Fear (PG)
Thursday 14th December 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/419123
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Henri-Georges Clouzot more than earns his title as the 'French Hitchcock' in The Wages of Fear. Based on Georges Arnaud's 1950 Le salaire de la peur, and serving as the basis for William Friedkin's 1977 The Sorcerer, this adaptation brought Clouzot the international fame necessary to make Les Diaboliques, and marked him out as a master filmmaker. In an unnamed South American country, four shady characters find themselves thrust together on a dangerous job. They are each offered $2,000 to drive two trucks of highly volatile nitroglycerine to a remote oil field. One truck is manned by the happy-go-lucky Luigi (Fulco Lulli) and calculating Bimba (Peter Van Eyck), the other by aging hood Jo (Charles Vanel) and the young Corsican Mario (Yves Montand in one of his first roles). Tension builds between the men as they inch their way over the treacherous mountain roads, in the knowledge that the slightest jolt could have explosive consequences. 'The Wages of Fear has no superior in the field of action-suspense' The Guardian Director: : Henri-Georges Clouzot France/Italy 1953 Cast: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli, Véra Clouzot, William Tubbs Run time: 131 mins The BFI Thriller season takes place in cinemas across the UK, on BFI Player and BFI DVD, on broadcast television, and with education partners INTO FILM, and is accompanied by a lavishly illustrated new BFI book. With the support of the BFI, awarding funds from The National Lottery. | |  | States Of Danger And Deceit: The Day Of The Jackal (15)
Thursday 21st December 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/419858
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 In 1971, Frederick Forsythe shot to bestseller status with his debut novel, The Day of the Jackal – taut, utterly plausible, almost documentarian in its realism and attention to detail. Two years later, director Fred Zinnemann (High Noon) turned a gripping novel into a nail-biting cinematic experience. August 1962: the latest attempt on the life of French President Charles de Gaulle by the far right paramilitary organisation, the OAS, ends in chaos, with its architect-in-chief dead at the hands of a firing squad. Demoralised and on the verge of bankruptcy, the OAS leaders meet in secret to plan their next move. In a last desperate attempt to eliminate de Gaulle, they opt to employ the services of a hired assassin from outside the fold. Enter the Jackal (Edward Fox, Gandhi): charismatic, calculating, cold as ice. As the Jackal closes in on his target, a race against the clock ensues to identify and put a stop to a killer whose identity, whereabouts and modus operandi are completely unknown. Co-starring a plethora of talent from both sides of the Channel, including Michael Lonsdale (Munich), Derek Jacobi (The Odessa File) and Cyril Cusack (1984) and featuring striking cinematography by Jean Tournier (Moonraker), The Day of the Jackal remains one of the greatest political thrillers of all time. Director: Fred Zinnemann GB/France 1973 Cast: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair Run time: 140 mins Part of States of Danger and Deceit: European Political Thrillers in the 1970s, a touring season presented by HOME, Manchester. Programme curated by Andy Willis, Reader in Film Studies at the University of Salford and Senior Visiting Curator: Film at HOME, produced by Rachel Hayward, HOME's Film Programme Manager, and coordinated by Jessie Gibbs, HOME Film Team. Presented with the support of the BFI, awarding funds from The National Lottery. | |  | BFI Thriller: The Last Seduction (18)
Thursday 4th January 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/427733
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 'A tortuous, well-acted, crisply photographed and immensely enjoyable thriller.'
Time Out John Dahl's neo-noir has one of the all time great femme fatale performances from Linda Fiorentiono as Bridget Gregory. Self-interested and willing to achieve her ends by any means, we are quickly caught in her web. Having made off with the ill-gotten gains of a drug deal, Bridget washes up in Beston, a tiny town in New York State. There she pulls Mike (Peter Berg) into her web and starts living a suburban life. Needless to say, her hardboiled past catches up with her, with her robbed husband (Bill Pullman) hot on her trail. Before long she is manipulating everyone in town to deadly effect. Originally sent straight to VHS in the United States, its success in cinemas in the UK made it a box office hit in America. This erotic thriller has all of the classic film noir tropes, and none of the tempered morality. Smouldering with vice and passion, The Last Seduction is a pretty poison that will slip down all too easily. Director: John Dahl USA 1994 Cast: Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman Run time: 110 mins The BFI Thriller season takes place in cinemas across the UK, on BFI Player and BFI DVD, on broadcast television, and with education partners INTO FILM, and is accompanied by a lavishly illustrated new BFI book. With the support of the BFI, awarding funds from The National Lottery. | |  | BFI Thriller: The Conversation (12A)
Thursday 18th January 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/212312
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Our final film in the BFI Thriller Season is Francis Ford Coppola's tour de force in editing and sound design and the ultimate paranoia thriller. Gene Hackman plays Harry Caul in Francis Ford Coppola's classic paranoid thriller, made in between the first two parts of The Godfather trilogy. Caul is a surveillance expert, tasked with recording a couple with cold professional distance by an unknown client. But what he captures raises unsettling, deadly questions. Wrestling with the echoes of the past, Caul is tormented by past mistakes and forced to engage with his work's moral implications. Released within years of the Watergate scandal, Coppola's film is both a telling document of the paranoid '70s and also a chilling reminder for an age in which surveillance is the norm. A triumph of editing by Walter Murch, Caul's obsessive replaying of the couple's conversation turns the screw for an unforgettable conclusion. Featuring an incredible cast of supporting actors – especially Harrison Ford, Robert Duvall and John Cazale – this is a haunting film about technology, alienation and guilt. "A masterful study in psychology that touches on issues accutely prevelant today." ***** Empire Online Director: Francis Ford Coppola USA 1974 Cast: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield Run time: 113 mins The BFI Thriller season takes place in cinemas across the UK, on BFI Player and BFI DVD, on broadcast television, and with education partners INTO FILM, and is accompanied by a lavishly illustrated new BFI book. With the support of the BFI, awarding funds from The National Lottery. | | | |
