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Cinecity – Brighton Film Festival, 10-19th November

Oct 10, 2023
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Posted by Steve Clements

The 21st Cinecity Festival takes place in 10 venues over 10 days from Friday 10th to Sunday 19th November. The organisers promise the very best in international cinema with a diverse programme of premieres and previews and a quick scan of the programme bears that out.

The festival opens at the Duke of York’s with Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos’ much-anticipated follow-up to The Favourite and closes at the same venue with All Of Us Strangers, starring leading Irish actors Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal in a haunting story of love and loss.

If we were to choose our favourites, the stand out films would be the latest bittersweet comedy from Finland’s finest Aki Kaurismaki, Fallen Leaves – he can do no wrong in our eyes – and the new documentary celebrating London’s legendary and most infamous cinema, Scala!!! (Or, the incredibly strange rise and fall of the world’s wildest cinema and how it influenced a mixed-up generation of weirdos and misfits). For those not in the know this King’s Cross den of inequity was where you could spend a day (or all-nighter) watching the best vintage and contemporary mondo, trashy, horror and porn films from the leading lights of underground cinema. There’s a Q&A with former Scala programmer and director, Jane Giles, after the screening on Monday 13th November.

For the cineastes out there, Powell & Pressburger are celebrated with a multisensory screening of Black Narcissus at Fabrica on Sunday 12th, the still-shocking Peeping Tom, which is followed by a (probably needed) discussion with a forensic psychiatrist and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and their ravishing masterpiece The Red Shoes, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary.

There are a number of festival events and screenings celebrating the life and work of legendary Brighton-based artist film-maker Jeff Keen (the “Peckinpah of the South Downs”). He was a pioneer of experimental film whose rapid-fire animations, multiple screen projections and raucous performances redefined multimedia art in Britain. Current local film-making talent features in a showcase of short dramas and docs selected from open submissions to the festival in Cinecity Open and the New Voices programme for young film-makers aged 25 and under.

ACCA presents films with live scores including Dorothy Towers, the story of a social housing development, built in 1971 and located adjacent to Birmingham’s Gay Village. This screening will be accompanied by a live score, composed and performed by Sean Burns and Lai Power and will be followed by a conversation with film-maker Sean Burns.

There are many interactive screenings and events, taking place across Brighton & Hove and at Depot, Lewes, with a wide-ranging programme to suit all tastes.

For full details and to book tickets click here.

Cinecity
Oct 10, 2023
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