Due to the sudden & unexpected closure of The Star we are currently on (*another*) hiatus.
Hopefully back with some good news soon...
Wayne & Nigel
07.07.2025 15:48
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Due to the sudden & unexpected closure of The Star we are currently on (*another*) hiatus.
Hopefully back with some good news soon...
Wayne & Nigel
Next up:
Robert Benton tribute screening of Nobody's Fool
Tuesday 1 July @ The Star 8.00pm
www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...
Tonight: Refugee Week screening of…
Life is Beautiful: A Letter to Gaza (Mohamed Jabaly, Norway/Palestine/Qatar, 2023)
8pm @ The Star
www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...
Mustang film poster
Glengarry Glen Ross film poster
Looking forward to Life Is Beautiful tonight @tpfilmclub.bsky.social These were the last two I saw there, and I’m probably risking a lifetime ban by saying I preferred Mustang, but I must speak my truth. Released in 2015, directed by Deniz Gamze Erguven, shot in the Black Sea port Inebolu.
Next up!
Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Kore-eda , Japan, 2015)
Tues 10 June @ The Star, 8pm
www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...
Next up:
James Foley tribute screening of Glengarry Glen Ross
Tues 3 June @ The Star, 8pm
www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...
Night Tide film poster
Very belated mention of this, shown @tpfilmclub.bsky.social a few weeks ago. Dennis Hopper’s first starring role, from 1960, directed by Curtis Harrington, and rescued from obscurity by Nicholas Winding Rhen. Shot in Venice Beach, it was marketed as a horror film, but it really isn’t #NightTide
Followed by Sisters!-themed vote...
www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/coming-soon
Next up:
Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven, France/Germany/Turkey, 2015)
Tues 27 May @ The Star, 8pm
www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...
With the protagonist staggering from one unsettling, sometimes bizarre, scene to the next, drawn into the violent extremes of Aussie 'mateship'. The highlight is Donald Pleasence's astonishing performance as a Ballardian renegade doctor, a channel for deviant energies... 2/2
Saw Wake In Fright (finally!) last night @tpfilmclub.bsky.social. A hellish account of one man's descent into lager-fuelled depravity in the outback, it's recently acquired a near legendary rep as a precursor of the Australian new wave. For all that, it's quite a strange film... 1/2
Next up:
Ted Kotcheff tribute screening of his 1971 masterpiece, Wake in Fright.
Tues 20 May @ The Star, 8pm.
www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...
Next up!
Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, USA, 1951)
Tuesday 13 May @ The Star, 8pm
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Val Kilmer is undoubtedly impressive as the Lizard King, but Stone's idea of the hero's journey is to depict Morrison as a holy idiot, who basically goes on to become a total idiot. Still, great music, even if The Doors remain peculiarly maligned in the rock canon... 2/2
Saw Oliver Stone's, err, biopic of The Doors last night @tpfilmclub.bsky.social, first time since I originally saw it in 1991. There's some fantastic scenes ie. the recreations of the shows, and some fantastically ludicrous scenes ie. much of the rest of it. Oh, and not much plot 1/2
Have a look at the rest of our May highlights
www.repcinema.com/so/a4PQ8SG62...
This month our featured venue is the @tpfilmclub.bsky.social - read all about them here and pay them a visit!
www.repcinema.com/post/repcine...
Next up:
Val Kilmer tribute screening of The Doors (Oliver Stone, USA, 1991)
Tues 6 May @ The Star, 8pm
www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...
Next up!
Following on from Pool of London and the winner of the Hello, Sailor!-themed vote...
Dennis Hopper in Night Tide (Curtis Harrington, USA, 1961)
Tues 29 April @ The Star, 8pm
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Have written about Richard Thompson's GREAT 1985 album, Across a Crowded Room* for @thequietus.com
* also: the arguably-even-GREATER live album, Across a Crowded Room Live at Barrymore's 1985.
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Tonight!
Also *also*…
Ted Kotcheff tribute screening of Wake in Fright.
Tues 20 May @ The Star
www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...
Also… Coming soon:
Night Tide (Curtis Harrington, USA, 1961)
Tues 29 April @ The Star, 8pm
www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...
Next up: David Johansen tribute screening of…
New York Dolls: All Dolled Up (Bob Gruen, USA, 2005)
Tues 22 April @ The Star, 8pm
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Published April 10 1925, Happy 100th B'day to The Great Gatsby: one of the most nearasdammit perfect novs ever written.
Here's a v old piece I wrote about how from start to fin, Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's is pretty much a re-write of/homage to Gatsby:
www.theguardian.com/books/booksb...
Re-watched The Conversation last night @tpfilmclub.bsky.social, the epitome of a '70s paranoid conspiracy thriller. It's a slow, almost dream-like film, but its twist ending is still terrific, and that final image of Gene Hackman playing sax in his wrecked apartment is one for the ages...
Next up!
Pool of London (Basil Dearden, UK, 1951)
Tues 15 April @ The Star, 8pm
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Next up:
Gene Hackman tribute screening of The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, USA, 1974)
Tues 8 April @ The Star, 8pm
www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...
