2005 | ||||
SEPTEMBER | ||||
| fri 02 | ||||
| SAT 03 | 20:00 | ........ | MI AND L'AU + ALEXANDER TUCKER | |
| SUN 04 | ||||
| mon 05 | 19:30 | ........ | BRISTOL INDYMEDIA FILM NIGHT | |
| tue 06 | 20:00 | ........ | THE EDUKATORS | |
| wed 07 | 16:30 | ........ | Closed for private event. | |
| 19:30 | ........ | STORYTELLING | ||
| thu 08 | 19:30 | ........ | THE LIGHT FANTASTIC #1 | |
| fri 09 | 19:30 | ........ | BEETLEJUICE | |
| 21:30 | ........ | BRAZIL | ||
| SAT 10 | 20:00 | ........ | MINOTAUR SHOCK | |
| SUN 11 | 02:00 | ........ | NANOPLEX PRESENTS TELLING TALES! A WALKING STORY EXPLORATION. | |
| 19:00 | ........ | 911 TRUTH MOVEMENT | ||
| mon 12 | 20:00 | ........ | PALINDROMES | |
| tue 13 | 18:30 | ........ | AUTUMNAL CYCLE TOUR | |
| 20:00 | ........ | PALINDROMES | ||
| wed 14 | 17:00 | ........ | Closed for private event. | |
| 20:00 | ........ | PALINDROMES | ||
| thu 15 | 20:00 | ........ | VIALKA | |
| fri 16 | 20:00 | ........ | PLUG58 | |
| SAT 17 | 19:30 | ........ | SONIC ARTS NETWORK PRESENTS THE CONNECTORS | |
| SUN 18 | 20:00 | ........ | STEVE TURNER (MUDHONEY) | |
| mon 19 | 19:30 | ........ | Closed for private event. | |
| tue 20 | 19:30 | ........ | BLUESCREEN PRESENTS.. | |
| wed 21 | 17:00 | ........ | Closed for private event. | |
| 20:00 | ........ | GAME AND WATCH - A NIGHT BY THE OCEAN | ||
| thu 22 | 20:00 | ........ | LAWRENCE ENGLISH + VI + BUGBRAND | |
| fri 23 | 20:00 | ........ | GREATNESS OF THE MAGNIFICENCE: A SINISTER NIGHT FOR LEFT HANDERS | |
| SAT 24 | 20:00 | ........ | JOHN PARISH | |
| SUN 25 | 20:00 | ........ | SAMUEL FULLER'S THE BIG RED ONE | |
| mon 26 | 20:00 | ........ | HEAVY HEADS: KYUSS | |
| tue 27 | 19:30 | ........ | GREENSCREEN | |
| wed 28 | 17:00 | ........ | Closed for private event. | |
| 20:00 | ........ | DEAR WENDY | ||
| thu 29 | 20:00 | ........ | ORCHESTRA CUBE MYSTERY FILM RESCORE | |
| fri 30 | 20:00 | ........ | BLURT | |
OCTOBER | ||||
| SAT 01 | 20:00 | ........ | CUBE 7TH BIRTHDAY | |
| SUN 02 | 17:00 | ........ | CLOSED | |
| mon 03 | 19:30 | ........ | BRISTOL INDYMEDIA FILM NIGHT: WAR | |
| tue 04 | 19:00 | ........ | APPLESEED | |
| 21:00 | ........ | THE DEVIL'S REJECTS | ||
| wed 05 | 19:00 | ........ | APPLESEED | |
| 21:00 | ........ | THE DEVIL'S REJECTS | ||
| thu 06 | 19:00 | ........ | APPLESEED | |
| 21:00 | ........ | THE DEVIL'S REJECTS | ||
TTT = Ticket Tout Tuesday
with Mole Harness (Sat 3rd / 8pm / £5) A Qu Junktion Another magical find from the man who discovered Devendra Banhart, Michael Gira (Swans, Young God Records). Mi and L'au are Finnish/French couple who live deep in the woods in Finland, where they devote themselves to writing music together. Their music is bare and austere with voice, acoustic guitars, and very moving orchestrations. It has the naked quality of early Nico or even Chet Baker recordings - soulful and elegant, without being touchy-feely or confessional. Haunting and pure, like a soundtrack to a glacial landscape, they come to the Cube after stealing the show at Green Man Festival. New boy wonder Alexander Tucker, star of Venn 2005, vocalises a southern free folk sprit with extreme outsider notions of space and time. He takes the raw, mysterious stuff of English folk song and detours it through a hyper antique- modern mindset. Having recently toured with Jackie O'Motherfucker, his new album OLD FOG is out on ATP and a collaboration with Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), Khanate) is underway. One of Bristol's melancholic treasures, Mole Harness has been steadily amassing new material and formed his own label, Stay Dog Army Records. Time for his first live show in ages demonstrating an evolving sound palette that bears the influences of Fennesz and Terry Riley.
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(Mon 5th Sept / 7.30pm / £2/3 though nobody turned away for lack of funds) Bristol Indymedia is pleased to be screening "Rebels Without a Cause", an independent film by Daniel Simpson and Matthew Green which highlights the nightmare facing northern Ugandans caught up in one of Africa's longest and most neglected conflicts. After nearly two decades of bloodshed, why do Ugandans seem to have been forgotten by the world? Introduced by filmmaker Daniel Simpson. We will also be showing more exclusive footage from the recent G8 protests - footage from the other side of the fence at a summit that was billed by the attending leaders as making poverty history...
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Hans Weingartner / Germany / 2004 / 127 mins / 35mm / Cert 15 (Tue 6th / 8pm / £2) Evicted from her flat, Berlin student Jule moves in with her boyfrend Peter and soon learns that Peter and his flatmate, Jan, are breaking into the homes of middle class suburbans at night. Instead of stealing or vandalizing, though, they carefully and ornately rearrange furniture and valulables and leave messages such as 'Your Days of Plenty Are Numbered' (the original German title of the film) as a mark of their naive political intent. Their idealistic activities are shattered however when their meticulously planned civil disturbances yield unforseen reprecussions, and they are forced to take desperate, even illegal measures. A perceptive political tale of our times, the film features another superb performance from hot German actor Daniel Brühl (Goodbye Lenin!).
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(Wed 7th / 7.30pm / £2) Trapeze into the auditorium and tell us a tale of strangeness. Sit and listen with the other intelligent chimps. Wax your moustache, ladies and iron your leopard skin leotard, gents, we want to hear about nights that have changed your life, things you've done that made the fat lady sing, mischief you made that cured the lion's halitosis. Bring a story and your pristine ears. If you require any tech just email the invisible woman (details below) and she'll get the strong man to lend a hand. hannahg@sparror.cubecinema.com
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Tonight sees the launch of THE LIGHT FANTASTIC: the new monthly event bringing together live and screen-based dance and performance with a microplex slant. Each month, some of Bristol's finest dancers, choreographers, performers, directors, filmmakers and musicians will be making for the Cube to present their work, from early-stage work in progress through to polished 'pointy end'. To start us off in style tonight is a party night, featuring work from Brenda Waite, Evan Marcos & Yoshino Shigihara, Ruth Douglas & Chris Barnett, Kyra Norman & others tbc... Come early to see everything. Stay late to catch up, make plans, meet future collaborators and party. With Fantastic DJs and decor, discounts for those dressed Fantastically... 8pm onward £4 fullprice £3 Fantastically dressed people FFI: email kyra@compactdance.org.uk or call 07779 726 370
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(Tim Burton / 1988 / USA / 91 Mins / Cert 15) (Fri 9th / 7.30pm / £2) With Charlie under his belt, and the Corpse Bride just around the corner, this is looking to be year of the Burton. So what better way to celebrate this momentous occasion in the history of film than to dust off one of the old classics for another look. And they don't come more classic than Beetlejuice. Featuring a host of Burton regulars (Jeffrey Jones, Winona Ryder) the film was originally planned as a supernatural drama entitled "The Maitlands", about a deceased couple dealing with the troubles of the afterlife. Only when Michael Keaton began filming his scenes and asked for creative freedom did Tim Burton realize the potential of a dark comedy. His Beetlejuice becomes the dark, comic centre of the film and has provided hundreds, if not thousands, of party- goers the ideal Halloween costume for almost 20 years.
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(Terry Gilliam / 1985 / UK / 142 mins / Cert 15) (Fri 9th / 9.30pm / £2) With images such as the one shown beginning to appear on public transport in America as a reaction to the rise in homeland terrorism, the time seems ripe to re-visit Terry Gilliam's satirical vision of the spectre of totalitarianism and evil in modern democracy. Sam Lowry is a harried ministry worker in an all-too familiar society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from echnology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets Jill Layton - a truck driver who he believes to be the girl he has seen in his dreams... Jonathan Pryce plays Lowry as a sympathetic anti-hero whose sense of personal responsibility has been undermined by the systems of government and family which surround him, whose naive attempts to challenge the system vause more harm than good, and whose friends smile with impunity whilst torturing innocent suspects. Gilliam returns to cinemas this year after an eight year absence - well worth reminding yourself of what he is capable of at his very best.
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with Freeze Puppy + The Computer Sings (Sat 10th / 8pm / £5) Jesus H Christ a night brimming with smiles and lush devilishly homecrafted songs. Three wilfully wayward West Country eccentrics join forces for the home leg of their UK tour. You can't keep a good man down so Minotaur Shock got signed up to 4AD and is back with second album 'Maritime', the most tuneful and downright enchanting electronic offering you care to imagine. Against all the odds, Philip Glass, dreamy FM rock, Prince influences joyously combine in distinctly English flights of fanciful moodpieces. The live audiovisual show features, lush animations, comic turns... and the obligatory dream sequence! Comes with two more oddbods in tow: the unbelievable mixture of African guitar, Fantomas studio boffinary and Ray Davis song craft that is FREEZE PUPPY; plus Mr_Hopkinson, whose mischievous harddrive takes centre stage in THE COMPUTER SINGS, a medley of vocoder-led indie classics put on repeat by Radio 1's Rob da Bank. Think cabaret, see video trickery and hear pop god music. Wunderful home entertainment for the beautiful odd bod. Come in. Presented by Qu Tours
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Nanoplex presents: Telling tales! A walking story exploration. ( Sunday 11th September / 2pm / meet at The Cube Cinema Car Park / free ) Join Artist Harry Palmer with musicians and urban climbers on an alternative guided storytelling exploration of the Cube Cinemas neighbourhood area, specifically Dove St Estate, as part of the Dove St Arts festival running from the 9th - 11th of September. A friendly One hour tour for Children and Adults alike. We have been making several explorations of Dove St Estate via climbing routes. Artist Harry Palmer known for spontaneously transforming a otherwise over looked aspect of our urban environment and turning it into a thing of magical and humorous fantasy! He will conduct the exploration. Guaranteed to be a unique look into the area! Meet us in the Cube Cinema car park at 2pm. Nanoplex is a branch of the Cubes programme specifically for young people www.nanoplex.cubecinema.com/
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911 TRUTH MOVEMENT (Sun 11th / 7pm-10pm / free) An evening of CONSPIRACY FACTS NOT THEORIES. An enquiry and analysis into the official 911 story. This event will show well documented visual evidence with an opportunity for Q&A open debate, plus a chance to win £1000 CASH in the HUNT THE BOEING competition (see flyer for details). The truth will set you free. Supported by the 911 truth movement. www.whatreallyhappened.com, www.hugequestions.com, www.cooperativeresearch.org, www.gnn.tv, www.fromthewilderness.com, www.911truth.org, www.911forthetruth.com
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(Todd Solondz / 2004 / USA / 100 Mins / Cert 15) (Wed 14th / £2 / 8pm) Thirteen-year-old Aviva Victor wants to be a 'mom'. She does all she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding, but in the end her plan is thwarted by her sensible parents. So she runs away, still determined to get pregnant one way or another, but instead finds herself lost in another world. She takes a road trip from the suburbs of New Jersey, through Ohio to the plains of Kansas and back. Like so many trips, this one is round-trip, and it's hard to say in the end if she can ever be quite the same again, or if she can ever be anything but the same again. Todd Solondz has carved out a career depicting the nihilistic underbelly of the American dream, taking perverse pleasure in revealing a side to life rarely shown in mainstream cinema. Once again, with Palindromes, he lifts the stone of a hot topic and scrutinises with a curious objectivity the lives underneath. For the role of Aviva he takes the bold, Brechtian move of casting a different actress to play her at every stage of her journey. As well as creating a distance between the character and the audience, he also implies the variety of different lives the one character represents and lends the story a timeless, fable like quality absent from his other films.
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This month cycle direct from work to the cube for some alternative cycle touring. Autonomous cycle tours are open events for the sharing of urban knowledge via the brilliant bicycle. Meet in the Cube carpark at 6:30pm and we will map our way around the city via each cyclists' chosen destinations, routes and sites. Come along for a 10mph conversation with a stranger while sharing your urban idyll. Check out www.sparror.cubecinema.com/yahoi/cycletours
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with A Lion + The Fuck Buttons (Thu 15th / 8pm / £5) Kavalier Klub returns with gypsy turbo-folk-punk from modern day nomads Eric Boros and Marylise Frecheville. The Canadian/French duo devour shreds of ancient Chinese folk songs, eccentric stand-up cabaret, and surrealistic verse in a whirlwind of dervish energy right up there with Lightning Bolt or Ruins. The pair are pretty much permanently on tour, singing for their supper in whatever café, bar, or squat will have them, worldwide. Noisy comedy to move your body and twist your mind. Support comes from two Bristol based acts with a penchant for sonic detritous: mechanisised industrial post punkers A Lion, plus throbbing, technicolour noise from the Fuck Buttons.
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PLUG58 presents Double Trouble Dual launch party from 58 records Debut releases from Song Demonesses EMILY BREEZE & RASHA SHAHEEN produced by STEW JACKSON (Fri 16th / 8pm / £5) RASHA SHAHEEN unveils her solo album HATSHEPSUT. From Egyptian dunes to inner city blues. Rasha plays your heart strings then rips your head clean off with the serrated beauty of a women scorned. A soft breath with a sting in its tail. EMILY BREEZE and the DOBERMEN take you deep in to the red light district of sound with songs that restlessly pace the room recounting tales of tragic romance , desire and revenge. Tonight they unleash their first ever release. A mighty 5 Track E.P. Be seduced by shimmering lipgloss and scraping metal, Watch the gig and then take it home and listen to it! The shit has hit the fan!! Dress to kill for an after show party courtesy of Butcher spinning Sleaze Rock to Doo Wop www.rasha.co.uk www.emilybreeze.co.uk www.58records.co.uk
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(Sat 17th / 7.30pm / £6/4) A festival of electronic audio-visual performances, artist led software courses, masterclasses, specially curated screenings and cutting edge sound/image processing taking place at The Watershed Media Centre and The Cube. The Connectors concert SAN proudly presents a rare opportunity to witness a line up of today’s leading international audio-visual pioneers in performance at The Cube. Not to be missed! Rechenzentrum Kurt Ralske Brian O’Reilly and Andreas Schlegel Jo Hyde Yasser Rashid See www.sonicartsnetwork.org for more information about specially curated films screenings, masterclasses and artist led courses in Jitter and Processing software taking place at the Watershed Media Centre during The Connectors festival, 12 – 18 September.
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STEVE TURNER (Mudhoney) + S J Esau (Sun 18th Sept / 7.30pm / £6) In the country to play two sold out shows with MUDHONEY in London, the Microplex is mad to welcome Steve Turner, lead guitarist with the superfuzzin' band, to do his solo acoustic show. From his punk rock roots with Green River to the seminal proto grunge noise pop of Mudhoney and the gloriously wasted garage of Monkeywrench he has now hushed down to write fine songs with elements of folk, country, blues, and rock. His debut 'Searching for Melody' quickly established Turner as another pivotal Northwest singer-songwriter. It is moving, as emotional as it is tender, and as simplistic as it is engaging. His high-lonesome, salt-of-the-earth singing and surprisingly understated guitar playing hints at elements of Lee Hazelwood, Townes Van Zandt and Dave Van Ronk. Spellbinding Sunday evening comin’ down music. "For me punk and folk... they’re the same thing to me, one’s just louder than the other." – Steve Turner
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Bluescreen Presents.. Bristol Premieres (Tues 20th Sept/ 7.30pm/ £4/3) Tonight bluescreen catches up with High Definition Production in Bristol. We take a look at a number of local, recent indie productions that have been produced on video, but have a film aesthetic. Plus discussions with all the key players - directors, producers and technicians, who are using HD. We welcome, Director/Filmmaker, Terry Flaxton, who will be moderating the evening and also screening some of his own films. Ffi: bluescreen@sparror.cubecinema.com
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(Steven Soderbergh / 2001&2004 / USA / 116&125 Mins / Cert 12) (£3) Dust off your tux, zip up your cocktail dress, pop a wad of bills in your pocketbook and head down to the Cube for a night with Dannny and the boys. Game and Watch proudly present Steven Soderbergh's post-modern take on 60s glamour and the caper film as the most stylish double-bill of the autumn season. Onscreen: Eleven and Twelve. In the bar: classy cocktails, drop-dead DJs and Kate's Casino. On your back: fashion fresh from the pages of Harper's & Queen, 1961.
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A Float Records Night with Lawrence English + VI + Bugbrand (Thu 22nd / 8pm / £5) Prepare your mind for an evening of deep listening, fragile beauty and spectral electronics. Lawrence English is a writer, musician and media artist based in Brisbane, Australia who has worked with the likes of DJ Olive, Janek Schaefer and Scanner. Like Whitman, he applies live digital processing to acoustic sounds in his subtle ambient meditations. Hypnotic head music to clear your ears. With support from V.I. - raw analogue undulations for the ears and eyes using a bank of archaic step modulator synthesisers: the sonic output is fed through an oscilliscope and projected onto the big screen. Also tonight, Bugbrand presents a reworking of Alvin Lucier's "Vespers", a piece in which a number of performers, using ultrasonic devices, explore a darkened room like bats to create an image in sound of the space's contours. ***regretably Keith Fullerton Whitman has been forced to cancel this event***
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(Fri 23rd / 8pm / £6/5) A sinister night for left-handers featuring the finest of the regions backward musicians and sinister personalities. Please get in touch if that means you and you'd like to take part: jessemorning@blueyonder.co.uk
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plus MEN DIAMLER (Sat 24th / 7.30pm / £7) An inspirational guitar player, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer John Parish now sings. Supporting the release of his second solo album on THRILL JOCKEY “Once Upon A Little Time” John and his band will play a special show at the microplex. This is a intimate, intense, sometimes serious, sometimes frivolous, sometimes beautiful affair with a Eurocentric line up of musicians supporting his foray into organic singer-songwriter territory. Parish began his career as singer with cult band Automatic But by the beginning of the 90s he’d grown uncomfortable with the role of front-man & opted instead to play side-kick/collaborator with amongst others Eels, Giant Sand & most famously, PJ Harvey.Live it promises to be a epic and moving affair of songs, craft and widescreen dynamics. Prepared to be blown away by the lungs of MEN DIAMLER for he is a pulsating performer. A man with split personalities in possession of a huge, operatic voice for the good of singing chants, lullabyes, blues, spirituals in a jaw dropping style. Naked soul giving and strange stories from a gifted singer. Presented by Qu Junktions
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(Samuel Fuller / 1980 / USA / 160 mins / Cert 15) (Sun 25th / 8pm / £2) By the time cinema's foremost pulp-poet came to make his magnum opus, he was considered by many to be all washed up. He hadn't made a film in almost ten years, and was seen as belonging to an earlier era of B-movie crime pictures that no longer had a place in the post-Jaws world of spectacle and horror. Fuller's films were primarily about character, about people. Often comic, always political he made films which, as a result of their modest budgets, could tackle ideas and themes considered too contraversial by the mainstream. The Big Red One was planned as a comeback, though after advance previews signalled that audiences didn't respond well to the largely character based approach to telling a war story (largely based on his own experiences in North Africa), much of the film was cut, and the result was a box-office failure. Despite a successful period during the 1980s being championed by younger filmmakers such as Wim Wenders, Tim Robbins and Jim Jarmusch, the glory days of Fuller's filmmaking were to be lost forever. In 2004, film critic Richard Schickel restored this film to a new director's cut length of approximately 160 minutes. Using Samuel Fuller's production notes and the full-length, unexpurgated script, Schickel restored the footage that was forced to be cut by the studio upon its original 1980 release. Whilst still not a patch on the hard-bitten dynamite if films such as "The Steel Helmet" and "Shock Corridor", the film still managed to present the humanist side of war far more than a dozen "Saving Private Ryan"s could ever manage.
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(Mon 26th / 8pm / £2) So what happened to the spirit of the blues in the 80's when Zeppelin split up and Sabbath started using keyboards? Gordon Gekko reckoned that Greed is Good but there ain't no soul in cocaine and champagne, so the blues walked away from the city and out into the desert where it danced with dust devils and drank mezcal. A decade later it exploded back on the scene with the force of tectonic shift in the form of ... Kyuss.
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GREENSCREEN (Tues 27th / 7.30pm/ £3/2) This month BLUESCREEN goes green! Our usual open door policy is still in effect, only this time focusing on local short films (20 mins or less) with an ECOLOGICAL angle. As a pre-cursor to the Public Conference – 'Towards an Eco-Cinema' – at the Watershed (weds 28th and thurs 29th) – you can bring along your Eco films and we will screen them! FFI: bluescreen@sparror.cubecinema.com FFI the Conference and RSA initiative with Arts Council England: art@rsa.org.uk www.artsandecology.org
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Thomas Vinterberg / 2005 / Denmark-UK / 105 mins / Cert 15 (Wed 28th / 8pm / £2) A story about Dick, a young loner who lives in the poor mining town of Estherslope. When he happens upon a small handgun one day, he finds himself strangely drawn to it, despite his fervent pacifist views. Together with his newfound partner he soon convinces the other young outcasts in the town to join him in a secret club he calls The Dandies, a club based on the principals of pacifism and guns. Despite their firm belief in the most important Dandy rule of all - never draw your weapons - they soon find themselves in a predicament where they realise that rules are made to be broken. A product of the original signatories of the Dogme 95 manifesto (von Trier scripting, Vinterberg directing) the film is a bold parable of gun culture and modern American life, much in the same vein as Von Trier's 'Dogville' and 'Dancer in the Dark', given a more polished sheen by Vinterberg's direction and a star turn from Billy Elliot himself, Jamie Bell.
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(Thu 29th / 8pm / £2) The Cube's in house Orchestra perform a live score to a mystery film. An unpredictable journey courtesy of Bristol's most anarchic musical body. All we can tell you is that the performance will commence at 8.30pm. Fasten your seat belt! Cube Orchestra is a regular open rehearsal held every Wednesday at the Cube. Musicians of all standards are welcome and can expect to improvise towards composition. If you would like to attend please contact Belinda: brassybel@yahoo.com.au
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(Fri 30th / 8pm / £5) Wild, deviant sax led cacophony from Ted Milton and friends to rival the galvanising non conformism of Mark Stewart or Mark E Smith. Active since 1979 and one of the first to release on Factory Records, the quietly legendary Blurt may well have been listening to Captain Beefheart and Charlie Parker - but it 's equally possible that they've never heard any music at all. A comparison could be drawn to New York No Wave act The Contortions, and though they share the same vitriolic rawness and tight dance grooves, there's something of the Magic Band lurch to Blurt that separates them. That there are grooves at all is impressive, given the lack of bass, which places all the emphasis on piston-like drums which slug it out with the jagged, untutored sax playing. Math-rock local heroes Ivory Springer plus Papa Molasses & the Dane County Paragons complete this unholy bill.
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bands: The Chap + The Hard Returns entertainment: Max Blackout's Movieoke DJs: Got Giddy + Campari Safari Celebrate seven years of Cubic delights with Got Giddy. Two bands are on hand to put our heads in funny places. Two bands are on hand to put our heads in funny places. Leading the charge are The Chap (Lo Recordings), a North London band who are destined for great things. Unlike the current crop of retro No Wave deadenders, these guys undercut the obligatory disco punk influence in a hundred ways, not least through a distinctively English eccentricity. Lyrical absurdities and sonic non sequitars make for a cerebral hotch potch that simultaneously pokes fun at pop culture and has a hell of a laugh in the process. Plus a rare appearance from The Hard Returns (beanpole boffin Jem Noble and Plug58's Rasha Shaheen), who serve up a medley of well known pop covers with a hint of post modern detachment, a taste for performance art, and above all a flavour for fun. Hang around after the bands to join a special edition of Max Blackout's Movieoke - act out your favourite scenes on the big screen with an impromptu cast of stars.
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featuring "Old Enough to Know Better"
(Mon 3rd / 7.30pm / £2/3 though nobody turned away for lack of funds.)
Screening of multi-award winning film "Old Enough to Know Better", which
documents the mass school walkouts staged by thousands of school pupils in
protest against the Iraq war. It shows the dramatic political awakening of young
people and their facing up to an establishment reluctant to let them express
their views,
culminating in the storming of Edinburgh castle by youth gone wild. The film was
named best documentary at the UK's First Light Film Awards for short films made
by young people. The film will be accompanied by other choice selections by
BIM's programmers on the theme of war.
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(Shinji Aramaki/ 2004 / Japan / 106mins / 12a) (Tues 4th-Thurs 6th / 7pm / £2) Old and new worlds collide in this action-packed sci-fi animation. Beautiful female soldier Deunan Knute, a guerrilla fighter in a brilliantly realised ruined city, is recruited to protect a utopian society built on a populous of human and "bioroid" citizens. It is an admittedly convoluted plot with echoes of BLADE RUNNER, pitching man against clone. Fans of the genre will have their appetites more than satisfied by the usual serving of lemon-headed, almond-eyed girl heroes with peachy behinds, plus muscular wall-smashing robot soldiers. Some of the action sequences are as refreshing as those early viewings of THE MATRIX, which itself owed much to Appleseed creator Masamune Shirow and his comicbook GHOST IN THE SHELL. Use of advanced technology to create a visually stunning new style of animation. The film features a groundbreaking style known as “3D Live Anime” a blend of motion-capture technology and 3D computer animation. The film is a huge leap forward in technical and visual terms, far exceeding the previous benchmark for computer animation from Japan, set by FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRIT WITHIN. In the West Anime hasn't yet received in any way the recognision it enjoys in it's native Japan, possible due to its alternative plot and storytelling devises along with the obvious threat it poses to the likes of Disney and other industry heavyweights.
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Rob Zombie / USA-Germany / 2005 / 109 min / 35mm / Cert 18 (Tue 4th - Thu 6th / 9pm / £2) In the wake of the new, much anticipated 'Dead' release from George A. Romero comes this second feature by heavy metal singer turned living dead obsessive Rob Zombie, his follow up to HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES. This time round we follow the exploits of an oddball, morally destitute Southern family as they blaze a trail of depraved murder and carnage across the desert whilst being persued by the law. Fans of NATURAL BORN KILLERS and TRUE ROMANCE should lap this up for having punchy, highly quotable dialogue counterbalanced by the graphic depiction of darkerside activities. Well scripted with ample dark humour that will leave you largely desensitised to swearing, lude behavior and the sight of blood this is NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH.
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