Flatpack 3 / 11th March - 15th March 2009

The Electric Cinema

47 Station Street
Birmingham

B5 4DY

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Electric screen 1
Friday 13th 21:00pm
£6   Book tickets

Dir. Christopher Petit / Jacques Tourneur

UK 1999, 39 mins / USA 1947, 97 mins

Feat. Manny Farber; Robert Mitchum

 

The film critic and painter Manny Farber wrote jazzy, freestyle appreciations of cinema, more concerned with moments and gestures than stories or directors. A lover of slapstick, B-movies and Chuck Jones cartoons, his best-known legacy is a...

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Electric screen 1
Saturday 14th 19:00pm
£6   Book tickets

Dir. Various

80 mins total

 

A series of short film postcards, with the filmmaker using their camera to get under the skin of a place and explore their own response to it. Green Path Ahead of You Me Him Her Us Them and All (dir: NaoKo Takahashi) has a mouthful of a...

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Saturday 14th 21:00pm
£6   Book tickets

Dir. Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor

UK 2008, 74 mins

Feat. Annie Townsend; Sandie Malia; Dennis Jobling; Sonia Saville

 

Joy was last seen a few days ago, walking across the park towards the woods in a yellow coat. One of her class-mates at college, Helen, is asked to play the role of Joy in a police reconstruction. As time goes on she develops a strong...

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Sunday 15th 06:30am
£6   Book tickets

Dir. Gondry/Carax/Joon-Ho

France/Japan/South Korea/Germany 2008, 112 mins

Feat. Ayako Fujitani; Ryo Kase; Denis Lavant; Jean-Francois Balmer; Teruyuki Kagawa

 

Three very different half-hour films combine to create an enjoyably skewed portrait of contemporary Tokyo, more satisfying than many anthology films. Gondry’s piece is based on a comic-strip by his partner Gabrielle Bell, and concerns...

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Sunday 15th 18:00pm
£6   Book tickets

Dir. Gideon Koppel

UK 2008, 94 mins

Feat. Small farming community

 

A flock of sheep are slowly herded along a hillside. A bale of hay gets wrapped in black plastic. A dog watches a tractor disappear in the distance. A choir practice. A mobile library. This documentary portrait of a Welsh farming community...

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Sunday 15th 20:00pm
£6   Book tickets

Dir. Various

 

In 1949 John Andrews was given a second-hand Pathe 9.5mm cine camera for his 15th birthday. He and a few other boys in the neighbourhood decided to start up a youth-club, using John’s garage as a studio and filming around the area in...

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Monday 16th 04:30am
£6   Book tickets

Dir. Tomas Alfredson

Sweden 2008,  114 mins

Feat. Kåre Hedebrant; Lina Leandersson; Per Ragnar

 

Pale 12-year old Oskar (Hedebrant) lives in the suburbs of Stockholm with his mother, and dreams of taking revenge on the bullies at school.  Eli (Leandersson), a girl of the same age, arrives in the neighbourhood with a mysterious...

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