Friday, 24 July 2009
Wednesday, 22 July 2009
22-July
Tonight we're showing Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo at 8pm, about the drug scene in Berlin in the 70's.
At midnight we'll be digging in for Apocalypse! Now, perhaps the greatest film made on war and madness, set during the Vietnam War.
Tomorrow is our pre-court mini festival, so Law and Order, The Prisoner, and other court related movies and shows throughout the day.
As usual, open dinner at 6.30pm, so bring something to eat and join us in the "executive dining room" with "panaromic views of London" and a view that stretches "from the foot of the BT tower to the shores of France".
At midnight we'll be digging in for Apocalypse! Now, perhaps the greatest film made on war and madness, set during the Vietnam War.
Tomorrow is our pre-court mini festival, so Law and Order, The Prisoner, and other court related movies and shows throughout the day.
As usual, open dinner at 6.30pm, so bring something to eat and join us in the "executive dining room" with "panaromic views of London" and a view that stretches "from the foot of the BT tower to the shores of France".
Friday, 17 July 2009
Article in Timeout
http://www.timeout.com/london/big-smoke/blog/8234/Inside_the_cheapest_cinema_in_London.html
Thursday, 16 July 2009
The next few days
We’ve got some big plans for this weekend.
Continued we have an open dinner every night at 6.30pm, so bring some food and come meet us in our “executive suite” and help us plan some further events.
Friday night we’re having a Jungle Book dance and jam-a-long movie party. We’ve got someone on the ukulele already, but bring along any instruments you have and learn some of the chords or the songs and come jam with us. If you don’t play any instruments then come along for the dance. We’re going to start around 8 after our open dinner, and after the movie we’ll keep dancing.
Saturday we’re having a BBQ on our roof, so bring some food and come hang out with us. Afterwards at midnight we’ll be screening the Grindhouse double bill in the basement.
This weekend until Monday there is also the DIY cinema festival, where we’ll be watching first movies of directors, or movies that were made with little funding, movies that broke the mold, and then discussing them afterwards. Friday has Mean Streets at 12am, Martin Scorsese’s first film, and then Burden of Dreams at 4pm, a documentary about Werner Herzog’s struggle to make Fitzcarraldo, a film about a man pulling a boat across a mountain.
Saturday has Julien Donkey Boy at 12am, Harmony Korine’s Dogme ’95 film, (“Writer-director Harmony Korine attempts to show the world through Julien’s eyes: a schizophrenic kaleidoscope of images — some hauntingly beautiful, some disturbing and violent.”) it’s funny and strange and beautiful, and at 4pm we’re playing Pi, Darren Aranofsky’s first film, a gritty dark film about a number theorist who gradually goes insane looking for the answer. It’s beautifully shot and was made for dirt cheap, and it drags you along just as strongly as Requiem for a Dream, his second film, did.
Tied in with this, on Sunday we’re having a frame by frame movie workshop. We’ll be watching a film and whenever anyone wants to stop it they just say stop and we discuss it from there. This film will be chosen from one of the other four we watched on either Friday or Saturday We’ll gradually work our way through the movie and see what we can discover. Roger Ebert calls it Cinema Interruptus, and he talks about it here - http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/08/how_to_read_a_movie.html
On Monday at 2pm we’ll be watching The Brown Bunny, Vincent Gallo’s second film which Roger Ebert notoriously called the worst film to show at Cannes ever, but after it was recut he ended up loving it. It’s about a motorcycle racer who drives cross country haunted by memories of his former lover. After the movie we’ll be running a workshop to see if we can build our own steadicam, so if you want to sit in on that and help us brainstorm and work it out, that’ll be at 4pm.
Rohan, our resident stunt man, is also running a physical theatre workshop on Saturday at 2pm and Sunday at 12am. If you want to do some things with your body, learn how to fall down stairs, breakdance a bit and learn about physical theatre itself, come along.
Monday night we’re having a 16mm film party, and also using the projector to make some shadow puppets. Osita is also coming around to read some poetry, and there will be readings and music to accompany the silent films. At midnight we’re showing They Shoot Horses Don’t They?, a movie about an endless dance marathon.
Tuesday night is our big Open Projector Night, so if you’ve made a film bring it along on a DVD or 16mm reel and we’ll show it. Right after you’re screening it would be great if you’re up for a Q&A so we can learn how you got the film made. We’ll be showing some other short films in between as well to mix it all up.
There’s a chance that there will be another workshop in the Gallery on Sunday, but more about that to follow.
Continued we have an open dinner every night at 6.30pm, so bring some food and come meet us in our “executive suite” and help us plan some further events.
Friday night we’re having a Jungle Book dance and jam-a-long movie party. We’ve got someone on the ukulele already, but bring along any instruments you have and learn some of the chords or the songs and come jam with us. If you don’t play any instruments then come along for the dance. We’re going to start around 8 after our open dinner, and after the movie we’ll keep dancing.
Saturday we’re having a BBQ on our roof, so bring some food and come hang out with us. Afterwards at midnight we’ll be screening the Grindhouse double bill in the basement.
This weekend until Monday there is also the DIY cinema festival, where we’ll be watching first movies of directors, or movies that were made with little funding, movies that broke the mold, and then discussing them afterwards. Friday has Mean Streets at 12am, Martin Scorsese’s first film, and then Burden of Dreams at 4pm, a documentary about Werner Herzog’s struggle to make Fitzcarraldo, a film about a man pulling a boat across a mountain.
Saturday has Julien Donkey Boy at 12am, Harmony Korine’s Dogme ’95 film, (“Writer-director Harmony Korine attempts to show the world through Julien’s eyes: a schizophrenic kaleidoscope of images — some hauntingly beautiful, some disturbing and violent.”) it’s funny and strange and beautiful, and at 4pm we’re playing Pi, Darren Aranofsky’s first film, a gritty dark film about a number theorist who gradually goes insane looking for the answer. It’s beautifully shot and was made for dirt cheap, and it drags you along just as strongly as Requiem for a Dream, his second film, did.
Tied in with this, on Sunday we’re having a frame by frame movie workshop. We’ll be watching a film and whenever anyone wants to stop it they just say stop and we discuss it from there. This film will be chosen from one of the other four we watched on either Friday or Saturday We’ll gradually work our way through the movie and see what we can discover. Roger Ebert calls it Cinema Interruptus, and he talks about it here - http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/08/how_to_read_a_movie.html
On Monday at 2pm we’ll be watching The Brown Bunny, Vincent Gallo’s second film which Roger Ebert notoriously called the worst film to show at Cannes ever, but after it was recut he ended up loving it. It’s about a motorcycle racer who drives cross country haunted by memories of his former lover. After the movie we’ll be running a workshop to see if we can build our own steadicam, so if you want to sit in on that and help us brainstorm and work it out, that’ll be at 4pm.
Rohan, our resident stunt man, is also running a physical theatre workshop on Saturday at 2pm and Sunday at 12am. If you want to do some things with your body, learn how to fall down stairs, breakdance a bit and learn about physical theatre itself, come along.
Monday night we’re having a 16mm film party, and also using the projector to make some shadow puppets. Osita is also coming around to read some poetry, and there will be readings and music to accompany the silent films. At midnight we’re showing They Shoot Horses Don’t They?, a movie about an endless dance marathon.
Tuesday night is our big Open Projector Night, so if you’ve made a film bring it along on a DVD or 16mm reel and we’ll show it. Right after you’re screening it would be great if you’re up for a Q&A so we can learn how you got the film made. We’ll be showing some other short films in between as well to mix it all up.
There’s a chance that there will be another workshop in the Gallery on Sunday, but more about that to follow.
Monday, 13 July 2009
2 week film festival
VHS Video Basement and Picture House presents
A two week free film festival
14-24/07/2009
9 Great Chapel St,
Soho
Ring the buzzer
Festival including:
Famous first movies/
Frame by frame movie class/
Midnight movies/
House favourites/
New film makers/
Director Q/A
If you have a film you would like to show or want to get involved please contact greatchapelcollegeclass09@gmail.com or call 07962483750
www.ohninesoho.blogspot.com
Thursday, 9 July 2009
If you would like to show a film or play music
we have a performance space in the basement
Please email
greatchapelcollegeclass09@googlemail.com with film and music in the subject
Please email
greatchapelcollegeclass09@
Wednesday, 8 July 2009
Class Of '09 has arrived.
We are located at Great Chapel College,
9 Great Chapel St
SoHo
We have a gallery space,
dark room,
cinema with 16mm projection,
rooms and space for workshops...
Class of '09 is also host to The SoHo Dectective Agency
9 Great Chapel St
SoHo
We have a gallery space,
dark room,
cinema with 16mm projection,
rooms and space for workshops...
Class of '09 is also host to The SoHo Dectective Agency
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