Joven y Alocada - film premiere

UK premier of the Chilean film “Joven y Alocada” (“Young and Wild”) in London. The film received the award for the best script at the Sundance Festival.

The event is free and includes a conversation with the director Marialy Rivas.

It will take place on the 31 of May, at 18:00, in Goldsmiths College, University of London, room LG02 in the New Academic Building (NAB).


View the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdXszeyZWIM

films with eggs in them

One of my biggest ambitions is to curate (I use the term loosely) a film series on the theme of eggs.

Only 3 raw eggs? Will have to wait until Rocky 2 for the chicken-chasing scene, though

A work in progress and open to further suggestions. The current list includes:

  • Airplane!
  • Earth Girls are Easy
  • Ai no corrida
  • Cool Hand Luke
  • Withnail and I
  • Rocky
  • Ghostbusters
  • Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
  • Godzilla (the Hollywood remake)
  • 9 1/2 weeks
  • Jurassic Park
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
  • Angelheart

(There is also an endearing egg chair scene in Sleepless in Seattle but that might be a little off-topic.)

I also feel it is imperative to include a Mork and Mindy retrospective at some point.

NB. films that WILL NOT be included:

  • Chicken Run
  • Runaway Bride

Inevitably the Guardian has already ripped off my idea: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/mar/31/clip-joint-eggs

Monday Night Film - New Season

Monday night films at the Centre for Cultural Studies will start up again from 16 January 2012. 

Films have been selected in relation to the ‘Text and Image’ and ‘Cultural Studies and Capitalism’ MA courses. Both courses have their lectures open to the public.

Visit http://www.gold.ac.uk/cultural-studies/ for more info.

16 January - The Skin I Live In (dir. Pedro Almodóvar, 2011)

23 January - Some Like it Hot (dir. Billy Wilder, 1959)

30 January - Bladerunner (dir. Ridley Scott, 1982)

6 February - Lost Highway (dir. David Lynch, 1997)

13 February – Reading Week Double Bill : La Haine (dir. Mathieu Kassowitz, 1995) followed by Injustice (dir. Ken Fero and Tariq Mehmood, 2002)

20 February - Perfect Sense (dir. David Mackenzie, 2011)

27 February - Sammie and Rosie Get Laid (dir. Stephen Frears, 1987)

5 March - 200 Motels (dir. Tony Palmer and Frank Zappa, 1971)

12 March - Avatar (dir. James Cameron, 2009)

19 March - tbc

Films start at 7.15 pm and will be shown in the Council Room, Laurie Grove Baths, Laurie Grove, New Cross.

All Welcome.

Education on film - Die Welle (2008)

Monday’s film will be The Wave (Die Welle), directed by Dennis Gansel and starring Jürgen Vogel as the anarchic schoolteacher forced to give a class on totalitarianism.

Film begins at 6.30pm (note the slightly earlier time), Monday 5 December 2011 in the Council Room, Laurie Grove Baths, Laurie Grove, New Cross.

All Welcome. 

Education on film - The Class (2008) and Pump up the Volume (1990). Occupation Double Bill

The Education on Film series run by the Centre for Cultural Studies continues tomorrow Monday 28 November 2011 with a special double bill. This will be taking place in the Ian Guilland Lecture Theatre as part of a series of events organised by the Occupiers of the Whitehead Building at Goldsmiths.

First, up is The Class (2008) based on the novel Entre les murs - literally ‘between the walls’ by François Bégaudeau about teaching in a Parisian secondary school. 

This will be followed by Pump up the Volume (1990) which arguably has the best soundtrack of any high school movie, ever made - Leonard Cohen, Pixies, Above the Law, Nirvana, The Beastie Boys…as well as Richard Hell and the Voidoids’ ‘Love comes in spurts.’ 

Are you being screwed over by the education system, too? Tell Hard Harry all about it.

First film starts at 7pm, Monday 28 November 2011. Ian Guilland Lecture Theatre, Whitehead Building, Goldsmiths, New Cross. All Welcome.

Talk hard. Steal the Air.

Education on film - School Daze (1988)

Back from mid-term break - the ‘Education on film’ series at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths will continue on Monday 21 November with Spike Lee’s School Daze (1988).

7-9pm in the Council Room, Laurie Grove Baths, Laurie Grove, New Cross.

The rest of the season looks something like this:

28 November - Entre les murs [The Class] (2008)

5 December - Die Welle [The Wave] (2008)

12 December - The Breakfast Club (1985)

All Welcome.

Education on film - The Graduate (1967)

Would you like me to seduce you? Is that what you’re trying to tell me?

The Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths continues its film series on education next Monday, 31 October, with a screening of the 1967 classic, The Graduate, starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft.

Life after graduation isn’t just about student debt and futile job applications…

7-9 pm. Council Room, Laurie Grove Baths, Laurie Grove, New Cross.

All welcome.

Education on film - Animal House (1978)

The ‘Education on film’ series continues in the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths this coming Monday, 24 October, with a screening of Animal House (1978), directed by John Landis and starring John Belushi, this is frequently dubbed the original frat house movie.

7-9 pm, The Council Room, Laurie Grove Baths, Laurie Grove, New Cross.

All Welcome.

the classroom on screen

The Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths begins its autumn film series next Monday, 10 October. This term we’ll be focusing on the theme of Education.

First up is ‘If…’ (1968) Directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Malcolm McDowell.

The rest of the season is as follows:

17 October - Educating Rita (1983)

24 October - Animal House (1978)

31 October - The Graduate (1967)

READING WEEK

14 November - Pump up the Volume (1990)

21 November - School Daze (1988)

28 November - The Class [Entre les murs] (2008)

5 December - The Wave [Die Welle] (2008)

12 December - The Breakfast Club (1985)

Films to be shown in the Council Room, Laurie Grove Baths, Laurie Grove, New Cross.

Screening times: Monday evenings, 7-9pm

All welcome. Bring an apple.