大象传媒 Radio Northampton and Lings Forum Cinema have joined forces to show films at Lings Forum Cinema and at the University of Northampton.
**Forum Cinema, Lings Forum, Weston Favell Centre, Wellinborough Road, Northampton, NN3 8JR.
**Telephone: 01604 837007.
**The University of Northampton, Avenue Campus, St Georges Avenue, Northampton.
**Telephone: 01604 735500.
During October and November, we are supporting the following films:
*Film: 12:08 East of Bucharest.
*Dates: Wednesday 10th & Thursday 11th October.
*Time: 20:00 (both days).
*Location: Lings Forum Cinema.
Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu, this is a political comedy that looks at life in post-Communist Romania questioning where the 1989 down fall of tyrant Ceaucescu took place.听
12:08 East of Bucharest
The three people in hot debate are history teacher Jderescu (Teo Corban), loner Piscoci (Mircea Andreescu) and TV presenter Manescu (Ion Sapdaru). Their anecdotes are hilarious and so is Porumboiu's eye for detail. Very highly recommended.
*Film: I For India.
*Date: Tuesday, 16th October 2007.
*Time: 20:00.
*Location: Lings Forum Cinema.
For many kids growing up, their dad getting out the home-movie camera is up there with his earnest disco dancing on the embarrassment scale. For Sandhya Suri, a near 40-year archive of Super 8 footage, shot by her father Yash since his 1965 arrival in the UK from India, provides the backbone for her thought-provoking, intensely moving documentary.
I For India
Suri's material also comprised candid audio reels documenting her family's new life in a strange land - Darlington.听"The audio reels contained a lot of the darker, more painful commentaries that my father had recorded," relates Suri, "which gave me a lot of understanding and empathy for my parents' struggle. It's like having a 40-year observational documentary, so I absolutely knew I had to make it into something."
*Film: Handsworth Songs
*Dates: Monday, 29th October 2007.
*Time: 19:30.
*Location: The University of Northampton.
A cinematically fascinating document of 1980s Britain, created by John Akomfrah and the London-based Black Audio Film Collective.
Handsworth Songs
Detailing the decline in race relations paralleling the economic situation of Thatcher's Britain, the documentary portrays the riots that took place in the Handsworth area of Birmingham in 1985, as well as events including the death and funeral of Cynthia Jarrett. Experimental in form, the film utilises a rich mix of archive material and interviews to create a stimulating song-like essay.
*Film: Last Resort.
*Date: Wednesday, 28th November 2007.
*Time: 18:15.
*Location: The University of Northampton.
Tanya, (Dina Korzun) is a single mother who arrives at Gatwick from Russia with her 10-year-old son, expecting to settle with her English fianc茅. He is not at the airport and has in fact dumped her. In desperate confusion she applies for asylum. Locked in the dead embrace of bureaucracy, she is shunted to a grim seaside tower block, where she is expected to wait out for many months while her application is considered.
Last Resort
Escapees are swiftly caught on surveillance cameras and threatened with relocation to a regular jail. Then, prodded by her son, she makes friends with an amusement arcade worker (Paddy Considine) who is attracted to her and does his best to make her bleak life more palatable. He is dismayed when she attempts to earn money posing for an Internet pornographer.
*Film: Transylvania
*Date: Wednesday, 28th November 2007.
*Time: 20:00.
*Location: Lings Forum Cinema.
A young Italian woman travels to Transylvania in search of her lost gypsy lover in Tony Gatlif's Romany road movie.听Transylvania is a film about identity and persecution in the hinterlands of Eastern Europe, where the raw business of life and death is inextricably bound up with music, superstition and love.听
Transylvania
Zingarina's search takes her deep into the Roma's elemental heart, and then to the brink of madness. It is travelling trader Tchangalo (脺nel, the brooding star of Fatih Akin's German-Turkish drama Head-On) who eventually drags her back, and the pair achieve a strange bond born of their outsider status, and the shared beat of their damaged hearts.
