Evening performances of classic films
Classic films like Breakfast at Tiffany's are ever-popular. But please take the chance to see Kavi - it's a short work of great sincerity, and not on general release, so don't miss the opportunity.
| Mon 27th 19.30 - 21.30 Gregg Helvey : 'Kavi' Film Viewing - Driver Lecture Room |
| Tue 28th 19.00 - 20.30 Catfish - Driver Lecture Room |
| Tue 28th 21.00 - 23.00 Social Network - Driver Lecture Room |
| Wed 29th 19.00 - 21.00 Breakfast at Tiffany's - Driver Lecture Room |
| Wed 29th 21.15 - 23.00 Coco before Chanel - Driver Lecture Room |
| Thu 30th 20.00 - 22.00 Rocky Horror Show: Film - Driver Lecture Room |
MONDAY 27th JUNE
7pm: Kavi
An Oscar-nominated short about a boy in India who wants to play cricket and go to school—but instead is forced to work in a brick kiln as a modern-day slave. Unsatisfied with his lot, Kavi must choose to either accept what he's always been told—or fight for a different life.
TUESDAY 28th JUNE
7pm: Catfish 83 min
Billed as a “reality thriller”, this documentary follows the misadventures of New York photographer Nev Schulman. He begins an online correspondence with a Michigan family, whose eight-year-old daughter has been sending him her paintings based on his pictures of dancers. After a flurry of parcels, texts, emails and Facebook contacts, Nev finds himself very much involved with this household halfway across America, even becoming romantically involved with the junior artist's 19-year-old sister. Surprises are in store however, when Nev and the film-makers (his brother Ariel, plus co-director Henry Joost) decide to drop by for a visit. The unfolding events prove unsettling, creepy and, ultimately, quite poignant, as all concerned discover that real-world human interaction and Facebook friendship are rather different things. The film's freewheeling strangeness leaves the viewer unable to decide if it is truthful or exploitative, genuine or faked. Tantalising indeed, and it shows that communications technology designed to bring people together may be doing so in ways none of us expect.
9pm: Social Network 115 min
The foundation of online phenomenon Facebook comes in for scrutiny in this fact-based drama, which turns the site's formative years into a morality tale for our times. Computer-science student Mark Zuckerberg is an unloved outsider at Harvard in 2003, but finds a way of circumventing the university's traditional elite by creating the networking technology that eventually makes him one of the world's youngest billionaires. Along the way, there's camaraderie, betrayal, class tension and much litigation: both his one-time best pal Eduardo Saverin and super-snooty rivals the Winklevoss twins sue for their slice of an increasingly large pie; it's riveting stuff. This brilliant cautionary tale gets straight to the heart of the human needs and failings underpinning technological advancement, creating one of the truly defining films of its era.
WEDNESDAY 29th JUNE
7pm: Breakfast at Tiffany's 110min
A film that has passed into cinematic folklore, Breakfast at Tiffany’s is universally recognised as the perfect hymn to New York high style and living. Originally a creation of writer Truman Capote, Holly is played by the enchanting Audrey Hepburn and the whole picture has barely dated since its original release in 1961. Don’t miss this thoroughly entertaining and wonderfully escapist movie.
9.15pm: Coco before Chanel 105 min
An icon of French cinema meets an icon of French fashion as Audrey Tautou stars in this arresting chronicle of Coco Chanel. It's a surprise to learn that the woman whose name became a byword for beauty and simplicity actually grew up in an orphanage. The core of this story exposes the personal sacrifices Coco made along the road to success, a lady determined to remain her own woman in a world shaped by wealthy men. An engrossing and totally elegant film.
THURSDAY 30th JUNE
8pm: Rocky Horror Picture Show 95mins
A campy, vampy, kinky musical send-up of old horror flicks this is the Queen Mother of all cult movies. Strait-laced Brad and Janet get stranded at the weird castle of Frank N Furter and land themselves in a satire of Frankenstein, haunted-house mysteries, science-fiction clichés and Carry On sexual identity confusion. The soundtrack is a knockout too. Get dressed up - let's do The Time Warp!