Eraserhead
David Lynch’s 1977 dystopian debut Eraserhead tells the story of a young factory worker who discovers unexpectedly that he is to become a father.
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Werner Herzog’s Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) follows the story of the doomed conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro.
WALK THE LINE
Walk The Line, directed by James Mangold, explores the rise and fall of country music legend Johnny Cash
The Wind
The Wind (1928), was the final silent film to be released by MGM. Its director, Victor Sjöström, and star, Lillian Gish, are considered to be amongst the greats of the genre.
HAROLD AND MAUDE
Harold and Maude is a 1971 cult classic black comedy accompanied by a Cat Stevens soundtrack.
LA STRADA
An Italian drama following the story of Gelsomina, a gentle young woman sold by her mother to a brutish strongman, Zampanò.
Pina
Pina (2011) explores the life and work of the legendary German choreographer Pina Bausch.
SHADOWS IN PARADISE
Shadows in Paradise is the first film in Kaurismäki’s ‘Proletariat Trilogy’, which follows the lives of three working-class people
TOMBOY
Tomboy (2011) is a tender and honest exploration of gender identity and childhood made by the award-winning writer and film director Céline Sciamma. The film follows a gender non-conforming child, Laure, as they move to a new neighbourhood and adopt the identity of Mickäel amongst their new friends. Sciamma is best known for her films…
PERFORMANCE
Performance (1970), directed by Donald Camell and Nicholas Roeg, follows a violent London gangster on the run
Wild Tales
Wild Tales is a Spanish-language black comedy anthology, made in 2014 by the Argentine filmmaker Damián Szifron.
BLACK ORPHEUS
The multi-award-winning film Black Orpheus (1959) retells the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice amidst the music, costume and dance of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.
A CELEBRATION OF CORNISH MAY DAY TRADITION
Three archival films exploring different customs from around the region will be shown alongside a recent documentary
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
In the early 1980s fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto shocked and revolutionized the fashion world with his oversized, androgynous, sculptural designs. Interviewing Yamamoto and watching him at work, director Wim Wenders considers the influence of Paris and Tokyo, the designer’s favourite places, his relationships with the models he works with and the students and apprentices drawing…
Au Hasard Balthazar
Sarah Dobai will introduce the acclaimed Robert Bresson film Au Hasard Balthazar (1966).
The Way We Live
Director, scriptwriter and feminist Jill Craigie was one of Britain’s earliest women documentary filmmakers.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
An inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people
The Ladykillers
This Ealing Studios classic is a subversive and macabre slow-burn comedy
Dig!
Artist, musician and music promoter Liam Jolly has selected this unflinching cult documentary, which follows the journeys of two bands, the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols, and the friendship and rivalry between their respective founders, Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor. Filming over a seven year period, director Ondi Timoner captured the musicians’ love and obsession, gigs and recording sessions,…
Daisies
Věra Chytilová’s 1966 surrealist and anarchic farce follows the misadventures of two bored and rebellious young Czech women.
RED RIVER: LISTENING TO A POLLUTED RIVER
This weekend CAST is hosting a cluster of events organised and presented by Field Notes
Stalker
The protagonist of Andrei Tarkovsky’s classic film is an illegal guide known as ‘Stalker’.
ARTIST'S CHOICE | Koyaanisqatsi | INTRODUCED BY GRAHAM FITKIN
Koyaanisqatsi means ‘life out of balance’, in the Hopi language. Godfrey Reggio and Ron Fricke’s experimental film
Artist's Choice | In the Mood for Love | Introduced by Nina Royle
Wong Kar Wai’s classic film In the Mood for Love is colour-saturated and languorous.