Cinema

Dr. Who and the Daleks
Sat 4 May, 16:00
With titles such as Dr. Terror's House of Horrors and The
Skull, British film company Amicus Productions were
synonymous with horror. They decided a change of pace
was in order so they adapted the popular BBC series Doctor
Who for the family market. “Now on the big screen in
COLOUR!” the posters proclaimed for the first of two films,
which was based on the 1963 serial The Daleks. Eccentric
inventor Dr. Who (played by British cinema legend Peter
Cushing) accidentally activates his new project, the Tardis,
and the Doctor, his two grand-daughters Barbara and
Susan, and Barbara's boyfriend (Roy Castle), are transported
through time and space to Skaro. They arrive to find a planet
ravished by nuclear war, with the peaceful race of Thals
battling against the robotic mutant Daleks who are hell-bent
on world domination.
Dir: Gordon Flemyng
UK 1965 / 1h23m / Digital / English / U
The Lords of Salem
Sat 4 May, 20:30
The fifth feature from Rob Zombie (House Of 1000 Corpses)
is the director's most ambitious film yet. In the city of Salem,
Massachusetts (where the notorious 17th century witch trials
took place), strange events occur when a wooden box
containing a vinyl record arrives at a radio station. It is
addressed to Heidi (Sheri Moon Zombie), a DJ who hosts
a late-night show, with a note saying it is “a gift from the
Lords”. After Heidi plays the music on air, she begins to
experience bizarre and traumatic visions. A deeply unsettling
audio-visual experience, The Lords of Salem must be been
on the cinema screen to be truly appreciated. This screening
will be preceded by a chance to see Out There (Ireland 2012,
15m), directed by Randal Plunkett.
Dir: Rob Zombie
USA 2012 / 1h37m / Digital / English / 18
The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari
Sat 4 May, 18:15
We’re delighted to welcome back Steven Severin for this rare
opportunity to hear his electronic score for The Cabinet of Dr.
Caligari, the fourth in his ongoing film accompaniment series
Music For Silents. Live in person, the acclaimed solo artist
and founder member of the legendary Siouxsie and the
Banshees will present a mesmerising synthesis of sound and
image, heightening appreciation of the surreal and enigmatic
nature of the original work. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is
Robert Weine’s unsettling tale of fear and obsession and
finds its aural counterpart in Severin’s suitably textured
score. The film remains to this day an important part of the
history of German cinema as one of the very first horror films,
and its expressionist style was essential to the development
of film noir.
Dir: Robert Wiene
Germany 1922 / 55m / Digital / English / U
Blow Out
Sat 4 May, 22:45
With the box office success of Dressed To Kill behind him,
De Palma's next film was a more personal project: a political
thriller very much in the shadow of the Watergate scandal
and the death of Bobby Kennedy. Movie sound effects man
Jack Terry (John Travolta) is out at night recording location
audio when a car spirals out of control and crashes into a
river. He rescues a young woman, Sally (Nancy Allen), from
the wreckage and later discovers that the driver, who died on
impact, was a presidential hopeful. When Jack plays back
the recording he made during the crash he hears the sound
of a gunshot, while an unscrupulous hitman (John Lithgow)
sets out to eliminate any “loose ends”. Visually enthralling yet
cynical and suspenseful, Blow Out has become rightly
regarded as the director's masterpiece.
Dir: Brian De Palma
USA 1980 / 1h40m / Digital / English / 18
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