Culture Diary w/c 23-06-2014
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK… Tuesday – Both Sides Now — Film And Video From Hong Kong And China 6.30pm @...
Inspired by Cornerhouse’s latest exhibition, Toby Hood investigates the greatest collection of talent from Hollywood’s golden age… Crooked cops, twisted fates, a plethora of timely one-liners and clouds of mystifying cigarette smoke: these are the...
Tuesday - Happy, Happy 6pm @ FACT Directed by Anne Sewitsky, this 2010 Norwegian film, while dressed as (an at times surreal) farce, takes a good look at the lies we tell ourselves to...
DW Mault on new film Room 237, and the continuing enigma of, and fascination with, Stanley Kubrick… Cinema from its birth has welcomed mystery; what Freud called the sense of the other, the...
Tuesday – The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner 7.30pm @ Liverpool Playhouse £12/£21 Based on the short story of the same name by author Alan Sillitoe (Saturday and Night Sunday Morning), The...
Tuesday – The Horse Loom 7.30pm @ Bold Street Coffee £donation The Horse Loom is the solo project of Northumbrian guitarist and singer Steve Malley. Described as “the most unique marriage between British...
Adam Scovell previews The Birds, one of Hitchcock’s most enigmatic offerings… Alfred Hitchcock’s later films tipped the pendulum more into the genre of horror than the rest of his works. The likes of...
Adam Scovell on Rebecca, and the dark symmetry between Alfred Hitchcock and Daphne Du Maurier… The novels of Daphne Du Maurier share a natural cohesion to the cinematic virtues of Alfred Hitchcock. Both...
Monday – Edward Scissorhands 8.30pm @ FACT If one film stands above all others as the archetypal Tim Burton movie, perhaps it is Edward Scissorhands. Starring Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder (Burton’s ideal...