11am screening at the Renoir Cinema, London map
HIDDEN (CACHÉ)
Michael Haneke, Italy/Germany/France 2005
English subtitles, 118 mins
The complacency of a middle class couple in Paris is shattered by a long-suppressed revelation. The static opening shot, which lasts for several minutes, is of the exterior of a house in a quiet Parisian neighbourhood. The credits are gradually typed across the screen, passers-by come and go in the frame, and we hear voices on the soundtrack. The image is then fast forwarded: we’ve actually been watching a surveillance tape, and Haneke is quickly warning us to treat with suspicion the ‘reality’ of what we are being shown.
The screening will be followed with a discussion led by Catherine Wheatley, author of Michael Haneke’s Cinema: The Ethic of the Image and Jon Cruddas MP for Dagenham
If you would like to view our full 2009/2010 programme please click here
2009/10 Season: Sunday 11 October 2009
11am screening at the Renoir Cinema, London map
Folk America - This Land is Your Land
Jill Nicholls, UK 2008, 60mins
Only a Bookseller
Chris Reeves, UK 2009, 60mins
The first event of our new season is dedicated to the memory of British Socialist and Labour activist Jack Firestein (1917 – 2004).
Tickets must be obtained as usual but they will be issued free. We appreciate donations to cover expenses and to contribute to the cost of completing the making of Only a Bookseller. We are grateful to Jill Nicholls and the BBC to screen This Land is Your Land.
Folk America – This Land is Your Land
Jill Nichols, UK 2008, 60mins
In the depression of the 1930s, convicted murderer Leadbelly set a new agenda for folk music, redefining it as the voice of protest, the voice of the outsider and the oppressed. Dustbowl drifter Woody Guthrie fitted the mould perfectly and the two of them teamed up with friends who believed they could make a better world if they all got together and just sang about it.
Only a Bookseller
Chris Reeves, UK 2009, 60mins
Jack Firestein ran a book stall, rain or shine, every Saturday morning outside the old Labour Party rooms in Bayham Street, NW1. He was a feisty campaigner for all the good causes. He fought at Anzio, was one of Lady Astor’s ‘D-Day Dodgers’, was wounded and imprisoned by the Germans. He was one of the first members of the Unity Theatre Society from the 1930s and an active founder member and convenor in 1990 of the London Socialist Film Co-op. But Jack was best known for his lifetime contribution to the labour movement – first in the Communist Party, then the Camden Labour Party and in his union.
The screening will be followed by a discussion led by Jill Nicholls and Chris Reeves.
If you would like to view our full 2009/2010 programme please click here
Folk America - This Land is Your Land
Jill Nicholls, UK 2008, 60mins
Only a Bookseller
Chris Reeves, UK 2009, 60mins
The first event of our new season is dedicated to the memory of British Socialist and Labour activist Jack Firestein (1917 – 2004).
Tickets must be obtained as usual but they will be issued free. We appreciate donations to cover expenses and to contribute to the cost of completing the making of Only a Bookseller. We are grateful to Jill Nicholls and the BBC to screen This Land is Your Land.
Folk America – This Land is Your Land
Jill Nichols, UK 2008, 60mins
In the depression of the 1930s, convicted murderer Leadbelly set a new agenda for folk music, redefining it as the voice of protest, the voice of the outsider and the oppressed. Dustbowl drifter Woody Guthrie fitted the mould perfectly and the two of them teamed up with friends who believed they could make a better world if they all got together and just sang about it.
Only a Bookseller
Chris Reeves, UK 2009, 60mins
Jack Firestein ran a book stall, rain or shine, every Saturday morning outside the old Labour Party rooms in Bayham Street, NW1. He was a feisty campaigner for all the good causes. He fought at Anzio, was one of Lady Astor’s ‘D-Day Dodgers’, was wounded and imprisoned by the Germans. He was one of the first members of the Unity Theatre Society from the 1930s and an active founder member and convenor in 1990 of the London Socialist Film Co-op. But Jack was best known for his lifetime contribution to the labour movement – first in the Communist Party, then the Camden Labour Party and in his union.
The screening will be followed by a discussion led by Jill Nicholls and Chris Reeves.
If you would like to view our full 2009/2010 programme please click here
2008/09 Season
14 June 2009 THOSE WHO DANCE
Mayyasa al-Malazi and Camilla Cancantata UK 2006, 49 mins
Those Who Dance tells the story of members of a small community in Rossport, Co. Mayo, Ireland, who have resisted Shell’s attempts to construct a high pressure gas pipeline and refinery across their land, which would have potentially devastating environmental and social consequences. The film compares their situation to that of the Ogoni people of the Niger Delta, where Ken Saro-Wiwa and nine others were murdered in 1996 because of their non-violent opposition to Shell’s oil extraction operations and gas flaring. The film offers a powerful critique of corporate practice and philosophy, and challenges viewers to consider the impacts of the oil industry throughout the world, now that the reality of climate change is widely accepted.
THE POWER OF COMMUNITY:HOW CUBA SURVIVED PEAK OIL
Faith Morgan, US 2006, 53 mins, EST, [tbc]
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba’s economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate. Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanised, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens.
Discussion led by Mayyasa al-Malazi, Camilla Cancantata and Cuba Solidarity Campaign
We are also including a 7-minute film at the start, made by Anna Bowman. It is SELF BUILD: FROM NORTH LONDON TO THE FIELDS OF CHESHAM, made last year and incorporating footage shot by ex-servicemen and their families as they built their new homes and moved from Willesden to Chesham in the 1950s.
Booking information:All three films have been classified by Camden's licensing department as educational and informative, [E] for exempt. This means there is no age barrier for our audience; all are welcome.
Discussion led by Mayyasa al-Malazi, Camilla Cancantata and Cuba Solidarity Campaign
With Derek Wall Green Party & Green Left
Mayyasa al-Malazi and Camilla Cancantata UK 2006, 49 mins
Those Who Dance tells the story of members of a small community in Rossport, Co. Mayo, Ireland, who have resisted Shell’s attempts to construct a high pressure gas pipeline and refinery across their land, which would have potentially devastating environmental and social consequences. The film compares their situation to that of the Ogoni people of the Niger Delta, where Ken Saro-Wiwa and nine others were murdered in 1996 because of their non-violent opposition to Shell’s oil extraction operations and gas flaring. The film offers a powerful critique of corporate practice and philosophy, and challenges viewers to consider the impacts of the oil industry throughout the world, now that the reality of climate change is widely accepted.
THE POWER OF COMMUNITY:HOW CUBA SURVIVED PEAK OIL
Faith Morgan, US 2006, 53 mins, EST, [tbc]
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba’s economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate. Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanised, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens.
Discussion led by Mayyasa al-Malazi, Camilla Cancantata and Cuba Solidarity Campaign
We are also including a 7-minute film at the start, made by Anna Bowman. It is SELF BUILD: FROM NORTH LONDON TO THE FIELDS OF CHESHAM, made last year and incorporating footage shot by ex-servicemen and their families as they built their new homes and moved from Willesden to Chesham in the 1950s.
Booking information:All three films have been classified by Camden's licensing department as educational and informative, [E] for exempt. This means there is no age barrier for our audience; all are welcome.
Discussion led by Mayyasa al-Malazi, Camilla Cancantata and Cuba Solidarity Campaign
With Derek Wall Green Party & Green Left
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General public transport & parking links
If you are looking for maps and transport links that point out the Renoir Cinema click here.
Useful TFL links
Tube maps.
Bus maps.
TFL journey planner.
Travel news in real time.
Rail maps (pdf).
List of NCP car parks.
Congestion Charge website. NB: Congestion charges are not in operation on weekends.
Useful TFL links
Tube maps.
Bus maps.
TFL journey planner.
Travel news in real time.
Rail maps (pdf).
List of NCP car parks.
Congestion Charge website. NB: Congestion charges are not in operation on weekends.
Cinema Information
The Renoir cinema is situated within the Brunswick centre. The easiest way to gain access to the Renoir is via the Hunter Street entrance. The venue is wheelchair accessible and wheelchair accessible toilets. The centre has an underground NCP car park.
List of nearest buses, tube and rail stations are below map.
Address:-
The Renior is owned by Curzon Cinemas. More here.
Maps pointing to the Renoir: streetmap, multimap, googlemap.
Nearest buses:
Buses: 7, 17, 45, 46, 59, 68, 91, 168, 188
Nearest tube station:
Russell Square (Piccadilly line).
Other tube stations within walking distance:
Holborn (Piccadilly & Central)
King's Cross/StPancras (Northern, Piccadilly, Metropolitian, Hammersmith & City, East London)
Euston Square (Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith & City).
Euston (Northern, Victoria)
Train stations within walking distance:
King's Cross
Euston
Useful TFL links
Tube maps.
Bus maps.
TFL journey planner.
Travel news in real time.
Rail maps (pdf).
Travelling by car?
List of other nearby NCP car parks. Congestion charges are not in operation on weekends. More details on the congestion charge website.
The Brunswick centre is a listed building:-
Article with a lovely photo of the centre.
Wikipedia on the Brunswick centre.
Observer article from 2003.
List of nearest buses, tube and rail stations are below map.
Address:-
RENOIR CINEMA,
Brunswick Centre,
London WC1N 1AW
BOX OFFICE 020 7837 8402
The Renior is owned by Curzon Cinemas. More here.
Maps pointing to the Renoir: streetmap, multimap, googlemap.
Nearest buses:
Buses: 7, 17, 45, 46, 59, 68, 91, 168, 188
Nearest tube station:
Russell Square (Piccadilly line).
Other tube stations within walking distance:
Holborn (Piccadilly & Central)
King's Cross/StPancras (Northern, Piccadilly, Metropolitian, Hammersmith & City, East London)
Euston Square (Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith & City).
Euston (Northern, Victoria)
Train stations within walking distance:
King's Cross
Euston
Useful TFL links
Tube maps.
Bus maps.
TFL journey planner.
Travel news in real time.
Rail maps (pdf).
Travelling by car?
List of other nearby NCP car parks. Congestion charges are not in operation on weekends. More details on the congestion charge website.
The Brunswick centre is a listed building:-
Article with a lovely photo of the centre.
Wikipedia on the Brunswick centre.
Observer article from 2003.
Want to run a film show? Organise a video event?
The London Socialist Film Co-op is able to assist community groups and organisations with projection equipment for film/video shows in the London area.
Contact Chris on 020-7278-8394
Contact us
Our contact details:-
If you have a film/video you'd like to screen or suggestions for future showings and discussions click here.
Want to run a film show? Organise a video event?
The London Socialist Film Co-op is able to assist community groups and organisations with projection equipment for film/video shows in the London area.
Contact Chris on 020-7278-5764.
Membership Secretary
LSFC
13 Foundling Court
Brunswick Centre
London WC1N 1QE
Telephone: 020-7278-5764mail to nseyd@hotmail.com
If you have a film/video you'd like to screen or suggestions for future showings and discussions click here.
Want to run a film show? Organise a video event?
The London Socialist Film Co-op is able to assist community groups and organisations with projection equipment for film/video shows in the London area.
Contact Chris on 020-7278-5764.
Admission, & tickets. ,
The Renior Cinema doors open at 10.30am, screenings start at 11.00am.
Tickets for each event are £9. Concessions £7.
Discount to annual members £3.
Tickets are on sale from 10.30 am on the day of the showing.
Thinking about becoming a member of the LSFC? As well as the £1 discount on each of our screenings you will also receive postal updates about the LSFC and our activities.
Here's our membership details and membership application form.
Tickets for each event are £9. Concessions £7.
Discount to annual members £3.
Tickets are on sale from 10.30 am on the day of the showing.
Thinking about becoming a member of the LSFC? As well as the £1 discount on each of our screenings you will also receive postal updates about the LSFC and our activities.
Here's our membership details and membership application form.
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