On 22 October, a weeklong film festival, ‘CINESIDE
ALIVE’, will begin at the SIDE
CINEMA, Dean Street, in partnership
with Tyneside Cinema Productions, to inaugurate
a new membership based cine-club called CINESIDE.
"It’ s an answer to the dearth of
independent film in the city’s video shops
and multiplexes," says
Christo Wallers, the new club’s secretary.
"With the help of TCP, we intend to bring
an amazing range of local and international
films to Newcastle, films that are beautiful,
inspiring, shocking, mind-bending, alarming….in
fact movies that you just can’t find anywhere
else in the region….all will be now be
available on the Big Screen".
Ciniside filmclub is designed to be affordable
and radical, unusual and lo-fi, both fun and
very serious, inclusive and diverse. What the
club will also do is to reveal the little jewel
of the Quayside, namely the Side Cinema. This
long forgotten venue, owned by Amber Films,
has lain dormant for too long. With Ciniside,
its film hungry belly is beginning to rumble
again, ready to erupt in October in a weeklong
extravaganza.
‘CINESIDE ALIVE’ runs
from Monday 22nd October to
Sunday 29th Admission is completely
free, and is on a first come first served basis,
so early arrival is strongly advised.
The festival is born with Launch,
a stunning short from Amber about the North
Shields Dockyards, followed by Vigo’s sensuously
surreal masterpiece L’Atalante.
Thereafter the programme is as follows:
- Dreams that Money can Buy
(H. Richter) + Sleep (I. Cottage)
- Peeping Tom (M. Powell) +
Closer (T. Gharavi)
- Le Samourai (J-P. Melville)
+ Psyche Out (S. Svaassand)
- The Harder They Come (P. Henzell)
+ Rob of the Rovers (A. Horner)
- Alice (j. Svankmajer) + And
the Winner Is… (3 Bears)
- Songs from the Second Floor
(Roy Andersson) + TBC (D. Hopkins)
Following the festival, weekly screenings will
take place on Sundays at the Side Cinema. Programmes
to be announced.
Membership can be bought at the Tyneside Cinema,
the Side bookshop on Dean Street, or before
any Cineside screening at the Side Cinema. Membership
is £12 (£10 Conc.), and is valid for 10 films
at the Side Cinema. Membership benefits are:
free entry to Cineside films at the Side Cinema;
a personal programme of the season’s events;
discount entry to any other Cineside-related
events; discount tickets to the Tyneside Cinema;
plus a little pack of goodies.
This project is only possible through the generosity
of Northern Arts, Tyneside Cinema Productions
and Amber Films.
For further information:
CHRISTO WALLERS
Secretary
Tel: 0191 233 0405
Email: cineside@hotmail.com
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