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Welcome to the 2011-12 Season
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Nov 012011
Great animation and music! I’ve always loved animation in all its forms and it’s good to see it being used to tell the kind of story that isn’t typically associated with the medium.
Oct 182011
Ladies and gentlemen, your thoughts please…
Oct 182011
In 2009, Ten Days at the Laundry was a major artistic event, bringing together hundreds of local creatives into a colossal showcase of creative Winchester. Now in 2011, Ten Days Across the City will draw on the heritage of the Laundry project to once again display, promote, and develop the quality and variety of the creative practice being undertaken in the city.
Map Plot Plunder Possession at the Theatre Royal is the centrepiece of the festival: a unique happening, designed specifically for the Theatre Royal building, it brings together a huge range of local talent, with the aim of mapping local creative achievement.
The show will take its visitors on a multi-sensory voyage through the Theatre Royal, from the public areas that audiences see regularly, to a once‑in‑a‑lifetime chance to explore the secret spaces backstage and stand on the stage itself. On the way visitors will encounter experimental dance, film, sound and light installations, music, live writing, and a couple of Halloween surprises, woven into an orchestra of sounds, words, lines, connections, and conversations. And visitors themselves can become part of the conversation, changing installations and dances by their presence, interacting directly with writers to influence the work they produce on the night.
MAP PLOT PLUNDER POSSESSION
Theatre Royal Winchester | 31 October | 6pm-midnight
Tickets £10 from Theatre Royal box office 01962 840440
Theatre Royal’s website
More information about the other events happening during the 10 days can be found on the 10 Days web page
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Oct 072011
Out today…..the blistering directorial debut of Paddy Considine the long time collaborator of Shane Meadows and drawing on outstanding British film talent forged at the hands of master craftsmen such as Ken Loach and Mike Leigh.
Looks unmissable to me……
Have a look at the imdb link below. It already has a score of 8.1.
It may not get a significant theatrical release but it’s sure to be a film society staple.
Oct 062011
We are delighted to announce that the director Matt Harlock will be attending our screening of American: The Bill Hicks Story on Tuesday 29 November 2011.
Matt will introduce the film and hold a Q&A afterwards. Put the date in your diary and spread the word!
Oct 062011
View poster giving details of the rare event due to take place at Southampton Guildhall on Saturday 15th October.
As part of Southampton’s Film Week we shall be showing the 1922 classic ‘Nosferatu’ – an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ in all but the name. Recalling the days before films appeared with sound this silent films will be accompanied live by Donald MacKenzie on the Compton theatre organ.
Critically acclaimed by every generation since it was produced this film still has what it takes to thrill, entertain and to horrify!
The show starts at 7.30pm with tickets costing £9.50 (£7 concessions)
Box Office 02380 632601
For further details please see the following links:
Southampton Film Week
Southampton Guildhall’s Compton Theatre Organ
Oct 042011
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Guest Review | The Skin I Live In
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Sep 302011
The Skin I Live In (2011)
Dir: Pedro Almodóvar
The Skin I Live In is Pedro Almodóvar’s nineteenth feature length film in a career that has encompassed everything from cheap melodrama to more incisive commentaries on personal identity and sexuality. Kitsch references to classical American cinema have given way to altogether more mature work, such as All About My Mother and Broken Embraces. Fans of Almodóvar’s previous films will be pleased to know that the director has not lost touch with his Movida past. His latest film strongly evokes themes from his previous works such as claustrophobic imprisonment in Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, and absent fathers/tragic mothers in High Heels and All About My Mother. It is also worth noting that Almodóvar has once again chosen actors from his previous films as the central characters in his latest creation. Antionio Banderas (Law of Desire, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!) Marisa Paredas (High Heels, The Flower of My Secret, All About My Mother) and Elena Anaya (Talk To Her) all deliver impressive performances.
The Skin I Live In is a Horror/Thriller set in Toledo, Spain, and tells the story of Robet Ledgard (Banderas), a well respected plastic surgeon who, ever since his wife’s death after a tragic car accident, has devoted his life to creating the formulation for a new, more resilient skin. Ledgard has cut himself off from the world in his luxurious countryside house, with little human contact except for his maid Marilia (Paredas), in order to concentrate on his patient, Vera (Anaya), whom he has totally transformed using his newly developed skin. However, all is not as it seems, and a chance visit from Marilia’s son, Zeca, sparks a chain of events that threaten to upset Ledgard’s carefully calculated plans.
Viewers will have to be on their toes to follow this delightfully twisted narrative as Almodóvar keeps us in the dark. He teasingly reveals the truth behind Ledgard’s motives through a succession of flashbacks and alternate angles, ensuring that the audience is left guessing to the very end.
By Robert Greene
New season, new Chair
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Sep 012011
It is a very exciting year here at Winchester Film Society. Not only do we have an excellent new season that we can’t wait to share with you, we also have a new Chair of the committee.
Megan has taken over from Jacqui as the new Chair. Our thanks to Jacqui for leading us so successfully through some challenging times. We are now stronger than ever and raring to go with Megan at the helm!
Read her introduction letter to the new season here
What do you recommend?
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Sep 012011
We’ve know of some keen film writers out there eager to spread the word on great world cinema.
Soon enough we’ll have some reviews appearing here of films we are screening and of some we are not, but you should go and see anyway.