Monday 14 September
Event: Appropriate Behaviour #directedbywomen screening
Synopsis: For Shirin (Desiree Akhavan), being part of a perfect family isn’t easy. Acceptance eludes her from all sides: her family doesn’t know she’s bisexual, and her ex-girlfriend, Maxine (Rebecca Henderson), can’t understand why she doesn’t tell them. From writer/director/actress Desiree Akhavan (the unfathomable love-child of Woody Allen, Lena Dunham and Tina Fey) comes an ironic, Iranian, hipster date movie; Appropriate Behaviour is an achingly cool, post-feminist comedy about what happens when a girl comes out and discovers that extraordinary is the new ordinary.
Host: Screen 22
Location: Screen 22
Price: £8
Time: 7:30pm
Tuesday 15 September
Event: Beeston Invade Screen 22!
Synopsis: This event was organised cross-country (UK and Greece) an hour ahead of the print deadline and so at the time of print there was no real plan. However we are assured that tickets will be available from www.screen22.co.uk and films will be picked.
Host: Screen 22 and Beeston Film Club
Location: Screen 22
Price: TBC
Time: 7:30pm
Wednesday 16 September
Event: LaserDisc: A Resurrection
Synopsis: The Monster Company and The Kneel Before Zod Video Club of Nottingham, bring you a night dedicated to the lost video format LaserDisc with a (horror) film screening to be determined on the night. Based in the intimate Broadway Cinema Lounge, there will be giveaways, an audience vote and a well-timed intermission while they flip the disc.
Host: The Monster Company and Kneel Before Zod
Location: The Lounge, Broadway
Price: Free
Time: 7:30pm
Event: The Decline Of Western Civilization Part III screening
Synopsis: Following the screening of Parts One and Two, the third and final documentary by Penelope Spheeris about the Los Angeles heavy metal scene will be shown this week.
Host: Rough Trade
Location: Rough Trade
Price: Free
Time: 7pm
Thursday 17 September
Event: Marketa Lazarová screening
Synopsis: Hailed as the “greatest historical film ever made,” Marketa Lazarová is the epic tale of a feud between two rival medieval clans” in thriteenth century Czechoslovakia. František Vláčil’s masterpiece is “a fierce, epic, and meticulously designed evocation of the clashes between Christianity and paganism, humankind and nature, love and violence.” Where else would be better as a venue than the equally historic Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem? Screening includes a specially recorded introduction from lead actress, Magda Vášáryová.
Host: LeftLion and These City Lights Media
Location: Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem
Price: Free
Time: 7pm
Event: Withnail & I screening
Synopsis: The Fortune & Glory Film Club present the stone cold classic Withnail & I. Come in your scruffiest tweed and carrier bag shoes, and you are invited to quote along, and (if you’re brave enough), drink along. There’ll be stupid games, things to chuck, and a prize for the best costume.
Host: Fortune and Glory Film Club (launch night)
Location: Screen 22
Price: £10 (includes popcorn and treats!) www.screen22.co.uk
Time: 7:30pm
Friday 18 September
Event: Dance of Reality screening
Synopsis: A beautiful, magical and truly bonkers autobiographical piece that looks at Jodorowsky’s childhood and touches on themes that runs through all of his work. IMDB Plot Keywords – male frontal nudity | male nudity | male full frontal nudity | written by director | cock and ball torture. BE WARNED.
Host: Kino Klubb
Location: Screen 22
Price: £8
Time: 7:30pm
Saturday 19 September
Event: Brief Encounters
Synopsis: A LBGT short film night, screening everything from kooky, Cannes-selected animations to films with cock-shaped religious visions in them. And mixed with these short films will be speed-dating for the first time ever at this wonderful New Forester shindig. We are told that everyone is welcome, and almost anything goes. Plus, you never know, you might even find somebody who loves all the same films you do…
Host: Nottingham Alternative Film Network
Location: The New Foresters
Price: £8 – tickets available at http://nottinghamalternativefilmnetwork.com
Time: 6:30pm
Sunday 20 September
Event: Bad Boy Bubby screening
Synopsis: He's been in his room for 35 years. It’s time to let him out. Rolf de Heer's 1993 feature, Bad Boy Bubby is essentially a bizarre sort of coming of age tale which sees the titular ‘mad bastard’ man-child Bubby let loose in the world on a journey of self-discovery after living what has amounted to a life sentence inside the confines of the family home. On release it won the Grand Special Jury Prize at Venice and Wikipedia advises it was the second highest grossing film in Norway in 1995, beaten only by Batman Forever. Production-wise it’s notable for using 32 directors of photography (each handling an individual scene during the latter parts of the film) and for featuring a binaural soundtrack achieved by recording through a set of microphones stitched into the hairpiece of the main character played by Nicholas Hope.
Host: Porlock Press
Location: The Savoy
Price: £6 – tickets available athttp://www.savoyonline.co.uk/SavoyNottingham.dll/NowShowing?Programme=15930635
Time: 8:15pm
Event: Translucence
Synopsis: Following on from their short film evening last night, the Nottingham Alternative Film Network offer an evening on LBGT-themed short documentaries. These films will be all about giving a voice to the passions, problems and even some of the pornographers of the LGBT community. So if you’re big on queer theory, intrigued by gender transcendence or just fascinated by the documentary form, make sure to join us.
Host: Nottingham Alternative Film Network
Location: The Lord Roberts
Price: £5.00 (+50p if booking online) available at: http://nottinghamalternativefilmnetwork.com
Time: 8:00pm
Scalarama will be taking place all over Nottingham throughout September. Keep your eye out for subsequent weekly rundowns.
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