'It's funny how the colours of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.'
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Introducing the latest SHADY venture, a bi-weekly film screening in the Berrick Saul Treehouse, founded by yours truly. Kicking off with Derek Jarman's Caravaggio (1986) on November 3 at 6pm, films will be chosen on the basis of cinematographic panache and acting excellence (sadly excluding The Naked Gun 33⅓).
Candidates for future film screenings include:
- Basquiat - starring David Bowie as Andy Warhol. 'War-hol. As in holes'
- Rear Window - Hitchcock's voyeuristic, misanthropic masterpiece
- Manhattan - Woody Allen's neurotic philandering tour de force, of 'marvellous negative capability', co-starring Diane Keaton (well la-di-dah!) and Meryl Streep
We hope to provide wine receptions and the odd introductory lecture by academic staff. So come along next week for a nice relaxed evening of free entertainment and homoerotic stimulation courtesy of Derek Jarman! All welcome, so bring your friends/loved ones/pet fish.
Another candidate for a screening: 'Midnight in Paris'? And 'Pollock'?
ReplyDeleteYeah Pollock definitely. I thought Midnight in Paris was a bit cheesy, but it's a nice film all the same and features Salvador Dali.
DeleteAndre Rublev!
ReplyDeleteGreenaway's The Nightwatch and the 70s BBC film Schalken the Painter are family favourites (we're an odd family). Both 'look' amazing.
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