Film critic and skiffle aficionado Mark Kermode is one of the most prolific movie reviewers of his generation, but his views on film rarely follow the general consensus.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing, though, as his outspoken onscreen exploits have led to some fine drama, including being handbagged by Helen Mirren at the BAFTAs; being thrown out of the Cannes Film Festival for heckling in very bad French; getting shot while interviewing Werner Herzog in Hollywood and, our personal favourite, forcing Alastair Campbell to sit through Armando Iannucci’s spin-satire, In The Loop.
On 4 November, Kermode will be talking about his life and career at Northern Stage followed by a book signing session. Tickets cost £12/£10 and are available from the Northern Stage box office.
Married with a kid, and now residing in his native Nashville, cinematic provocateur Harmony Korine shows no signs of settling down. Hailed as “the future of American cinema” by Werner Herzog, writer/director Harmony Korine has blazed a trail with his consistently idiosyncratic output.
Between 2-16 September, Newcastle’s Star & Shadow screening of four of his films as well as the regional premier of latest work, Trash Humpers. Here’s our pick of the highlights and a video interview with the the director himself…
Thursday 2nd September
7:30 p.m. – Film: TRASH HUMPERS (18) (2010)
Korine’s latest and an excoriating attack on the American Dream. ‘It’s a fearless soul that makes a film like Trash Humpers’- Little White Lies.
Thursday 9th September
8:00 p.m. – Film: MISTER LONELY (2008)
Written by Korine in collaboration with his brother Avi, Mister Lonely follows a young American living in Paris and working as a Michael Jackson lookalike. [view more…]
Well the Winner for our Scott Pilgrim Competition was a Karen Potter, the lucky sod. There’ll be another chance to win tickets for the Tyneside soon through our weekly newsletter, so don’t fret if you didn’t win. You’ll be a winner someday.
Original announcement from Aug 20
That’s right another competition involving two tickets for The Tyneside Cinema for gratis, free, nada and why not one more – nothing.
The question will be in the Newsletter next week, so make sure you’ve subscribed to our weekly email full of the best kyeo.tv content of the week and we’ll be drawing a name randomly from the correct answers, and the Chosen One will get two tickets to see Scott Pilgrim Vs The World.
The five day programme for the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival has been unveiled, showing an international collection to look at how the screen has become a stage.
Opening on the 15 September with a live performance, The Keystone Cut Ups has been created specifically for the festival by artists People Like Us and Ergo Phizmiz, demonstrating the relationships between early silent comedy and early experimental cinema.
Fans of QI, Blackadder and Apple rejoice, for Stephen Fry will be making a live appearance at Newcastle’s Tyneside Cinema… via satellite. Taking place on Monday 13 September, the venue will be screening a live satellite broadcast of Stephen Fry’s autobiographical – and long sold out – performance at London’s Royal Festival Hall.
Fry, also known for his appearance as the Cheshire cat in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, will be offering an exclusive preview of the new volume of his autobiography, The Fry Chronicles. [view more…]
The very second an anti-Semetic Nazi poster comes to life and chases the young Serge Gainsbourg down Parisian cobbles, with giant comical egg face gurning through fog, it becomes apparent that we’re not dealing with any old straightlaced biopic. There’s Joann Sfar to thank for that, adapting his graphic novel to the big screen without compromising the original medium’s heavy stylisation; as such, walking caricatures, moving photographs and talking cats are par for the course. [view more…]
Taking place between 24 September – 3 October 2010 across Newcastle, Press Play is a new festival celebrating film through a whimiscal programme by presenting cinematic experiences in an array of unexpected spaces across the city. Press Play will show a mixture of new films from the international festival circuit that otherwise would not be shown in the region as well as a range of classic films and special events.
Highlights include the Half-Murraython in which Press Play pays homage to the comic actor by screening 13.1 hours of continuous Bill Murray films featuring seven feature length classics; Ride in Movie, where the public will be able to get aboard a bicycle and head to Hoult’s Yard for an all day event featuring an array of stalls and entertainment, workshops for children, pedal powered popcorn machines and a delectable serving of films; Sing-a-long Bugsy Malone – a fancy dress event held at St Vincent De Paul in which you’re asked to come prepared and dress as characters from the classic movie. [view more…]
Film critic and skiffle aficionado Mark Kermode is one of the most prolific movie reviewers of his generation, but his views on film rarely follow the general consensus.
