SPEED AND STRIKE VOL 7
Who Built The World?
Our 2nd season of the year is an attempt to chart the modern world, its political horror, monopolies of violence and most importantly, who created it.
Our journey will begin with the creation of the 'post-fascist' world post-ww2, a society built in collaboration with the fascist ruling classes.
We'll see a psychological grounding for the new society in 2 examinations of Richard Nixon; the founding personality of the modern world.
And finally we'll see a film about one of the many fascist paramilitary groups of history and the ways in which they pathologise their actions.
April 22nd
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Pasolini's legendary and infamous final film. An adaptation of Marquis De Sade's similarly infamous novel the film follows a group of fascists as they enact 120 days of mental, physical and sexual torture on a group of teenagers. Inspired by Pasolini's own beliefs about post-fascist Italy the film is as politically incisive and important as it is harrowing (if not more). In collaboration with @ad_england to celebrate the recent acquisition of LPs of the film. More info to be released about this screening soon
May 27th
Secret Honor (1984, Robert Altman) + Everyone is Richard Nixon (Adam Curtis)
Secret Honor is a masterful one man play directed elegantly and beautifully by one of America's greatest directors. Showing the psychological deterioration of Richard Nixon the night before he resigns from office the film gets into all the nitty gritties of his life; his mummy issue, Kennedy, Dallas, Watergate, Bohemian Grove. It's all there. Accompanied by an Adam Curtis Newswipe segment about how we are all paranoid weirdos like Richard Nixon
June 17th
The Act of Killing (2012, Joshua Oppenheimer)
Joshua Oppenheimer's bleak and devastating documentary about the anti-communist death squads of the Suharto fascist government in Indonesia follows the people who did these killings as they reenact them for Oppenheimer and his film crew. A stunning portrait of the minds of some of history's most reprehensible but also unremarkable people.
Poster by @bigtuffman
Coming soon.
A series about the present through the lens of the past.
Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom
Secret Honor
The Act of Killing
Logo at the start by @bigtuffman
Music: The Electrician - Scott Walker
IMPORTANT ANNOUCEMENT
Due to an unforseen scheduling error NOWHERE has been moved one day into the future and is now playing on SATURDAY THE 23RD OF MAY. All tickets still valid
Ticket holders should have been/are in the process of being contacted. Massive apologies from both myself and everyone at Cultplex toward anyone whose plans this changes or who can't make it. We are so deeply sorry about this!
For some slight good news, @cpxmcr have put together an unofficial triple bill of Bad Gays on the 23rd meaning your Saturday could be going to see ROPE (1948, Alfred Hitchcock) and Funny Games (1997, Michael Haneke) before sitting down for Gregg Araki's NOWHERE.
Ticket link in bio
TONIGHT AT THE CARLTON CLUB. TONIGHT AT THE CARLTON CLUB. SCOOPS OF GLORY UK PREMIERE. SCOOPS OF GLORY UK PREMIERE. TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE OR AT THE DOOR. LIMITED SPACES BUT WE WILL TRY AND MAKE IT WORK.
GLORY ! GUTS ! GORE ! GELATO ! GOOD TIMES ! TOMORROW WE WILL INDULGE IN ALL OF THE ABOVE ! THE FILM WILL START AT 7PM BUT COME DOWN FROM 6PM AND HANG OUT ! 🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️
SPEED AND STRIKE SPECIAL TRANSMISSION, THE TEENAGE APOCALYPSE TRILOGY 2.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW
Join us at Cultplex on the 22nd of May where we're DELIGHTED to be screening another of Gregg Araki's Teenage Apocalyse Trilogy, this time the angsty, sexual and truly weird "NOWHERE".
Following the life of an ensemble of alienated, queer, horny and dejected teenagers led by the great James Duvall, in true Gregg Araki fashion. Featuring polyamorous bisexual girlfriends, the end of the world, the end of history, confused queer desire and transgressive sexuality. Once again also featuring a similarly STACKED soundtrack featuring Slowdive, Hole, Massive Attack, Jesus and Mary Chain, Cocteau Twins.
If you enjoyed THE DOOM GENERATION then you'll love NOWHERE. A real keystone of American independent cinema and an influence for decades after the fact.
If you got this far, sorry for the bad poster xoxo
NEW WORLD MOVIE NEWS - APRIL 22ND EDITION
HEADLINE: NEW WORLD + SPEED AND STRIKE JOIN HANDS AND HEAD TO THE CARLTON CLUB ON APRIL 30TH FOR A MOVIE PREMIERE.
STORY: NEW WORLD + SPEED AND STRIKE are proud to present the Manchester premiere of SCOOPS OF GLORY; the latest LIVE WOODCUT MOVIE from Santé Loisirs Pictures. @santeloisirs
Directed by BOB NICHOLS and featuring over 500 WOODCUT PRINTS BROUGHT TO LIFE BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES! SCOOPS OF GLORY is a crime thriller like no other.
The story to be told? A performance artist turned mayor sparks a war among ice-cream shops after the passing of a controversial bill. Need we say more? Maybe, but we're not going to, instead you should get yourselves down to THE CARLTON CLUB on APRIL 30TH to see that which many have never seen before, and those who have will want to see again.
SPACES ARE LIMITED, so make sure you get yourself a ticket as soon as you can because you will not want to miss this.
THE BOOK OF FRANZ
TICKETS ON SALE LATER TODAY.
'Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.'
Join us on the 25th of March for the final screening in the "Book of _____" series; Ken Russell's "LISZTOMANIA".
Loosely a biopic examining Liszt's self-destructive and homoerotic friendship with Robert Wagner the film grapples more with another kind of -mania, that of Beatlesmania. Not content to just be a post-modern biography of Franz Liszt the film takes the more daring position of being a film analysing the post-war cultural rupturing as something that has happened before.
The film is full of musicians, Liszt himself played by The Who frontman Roger Daltry, Ringo Starr appears as The Pope, Rich Wakeman the keyboardist of Yes plays a role. It's a phantasmagoric and deeply provocative film in the way that all of Russell's films are but this one especially rings something deep inside with its explorations of fascism and pop culture.
So please join us for one Ken Russell's underseen gems!!
🎟️ALMOST SOLD OUT🎟️
David Cronenberg’s perverted, erotic, grotesque and nihilistic masterpiece CRASH. Banned in Westminster upon release, dragged through the mud in rags up and down the country and now coming to Cultplex for all of the freaks of Manchester for its 30th anniversary.
Following director James Ballard (James Spader) as he finds himself entwined in the sexual lives of a group of people turned on by crash crashes following a crash of his own and the waning fires of his own married sex life. Adapted from J.G Ballard’s novel of the same name this is one of the 90s most daring and transgressive works. With a stacked supporting cast including Holly Hunter (Broadcast News, The Piano, Raising Arizona) Rosanna Arquette (After Hours, Buffalo 66, Pulp Fiction) and Elias Koteas (Gattaca, The Thin Red Line, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and some of the sexiest imagery put onto celluloid. Come for the car crashes, stay for the psychosexual modern nightmares.
We let @moorefrombeth source the images for this one we can only apologise for the Spader heavy content!
#Crash #Cronenberg #Film #Movie #Cinema
1 WEEK TILL OUR SCREENING OF CRASH @cpxmcr
DO YOU LIKE SICK FILTH? CAN YOU THINK OF NOWHERE MORE EROTIC THAN A LAYBY ON THE M62? DO YOU HAVE LATENT GAY THOUGHTS?
THEN COME DOWN TO CULTPLEX FOR A SPECIAL SCREENING OF THE HOTTEST FILM OF THE 1990s DAVID CRONENBERG'S CRASH.
IF YOU KNOW IT, YOU LOVE IT, IF YOU DON'T KNOW IT, YOU'LL LOVE IT.
TICKETS IN BIO
THE BOOK OF YUKIO
TICKETS ON SALE LATER TODAY.
‘Isn’t there anyone among you fellows who will follow me?’ - Yukio Mishima, November 25th, 1970.
Paul Schrader's enigmatic biopic of Yukio Mishima doesn't just dramatise his last day alive in the build up to the coup atrempt that would ultimately fail forcing Mishima to commit ritual suicide, it adapts his work as a portal into his mind. Every story a reflection of some inner truth that Mishima wrote into every page, a reflection of his own fascism and nihilism, a reflection of his own struggle to accept even the smallest part of himself.
With a dynamite performance by Ken Ogata as Mishima as well as Phillip Glass' best work not only in film but in his whole career AND sets designed by the great Eiko Ishioka (costume designer for Bram Stoker's Dracula, director of the Cocoon video by Bjork AND Tarsem Singh collaborator). It's a feast visually, mentally and emotionally as Schrader tries to grapple with the self loathing and literalised fascist death drive of Japan's greatest author.
