June 15, 2004
Mental Hospital
Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th June 2004
Jack Stevenson and kinoKULTURE present
MENTAL HOSPITAL
A Weekend of Twisted Film Noir Dedicated to Insanity
SCREENING ( both days )
Tickets £7 / £5 members / concessions
7.30 - SHOCK CORRIDOR + MENTAL HOSPITAL + ESTRANGED by Todd Downing
10.00 - BRAINSTORM
"Far-out Psycho twisted Film Noir Tour"- three bizarro takes on INSANITY.
BRAINSTORM ( 1965 )*
Directed by
William Conrad
(105 mins)
A young scientist saves an attractive married woman from a suicide attempt, becomes romantically involved with her, plots to kill her husband, and then fakes insanity to escape the murder charge.
*not be confused with the big-budget 1981 Natalie Wood film.
SHOCK CORRIDOR (1963) (96mins)
Directed by Samuel Fuller
Newspaper reporter Barrett is so obsessed with winning the Pulitzer Prize
that he plans to get himself committed to the state hospital as a sexual
pervert. Once there he plans to solve a murder by gaining the trust of three
inmates who witnessed the murder, and finding out the truth that eluded the
police. Strongly independent film auteur Samuel Fuller filmed this mostly
in black and white--with a few bizarre colour sequences shot in different
film stock to represent dream sequences.
+ MENTAL HOSPITAL (20mins)
This 1953 film, sponsored by the University of Oklahoma, tries to make you
feel OK about "modern" treatment (institutionalisation, insulin shock and
electro shock) of mental illness and reduce the stigma, yet begins and ends
with a full screen disclaimer: "Recognizable personages appearing in this
film are not patients in a mental institution". A gem of a retro-oddity from
the Stevenson camp.
+ ( London only )
ESTRANGED by Todd Downing
Estranged won the best short film award at the New York Underground Film Festival last year, portraying a harrowing picture of a not-quite woman who is trying to attract her ex-partner's attention through a series of ever more desperate measures.
BRIGHTON CINEMATHEQUE
Sunday 30th May
8pm........BRAINSTORM + MENTAL HOSPITAL + NOIR LESBIAN SHORTS
(£3.50/3)
NEWCASTLE SIDE CINEMA
Sunday 6 June
7.30 - SHOCK CORRIDOR + MENTAL HOSPITAL
9.45 - BRAINSTORM
(£7/6 for both - £3.50/3 for each)
BRISTOL CUBE MICROPLEX
Friday 11th June
11pm.......BRAINSTORM + SHOCK CORRIDOR + MENTAL HOSPITAL
(£6)
Sunday 13th
7pm........ SHOCK CORRIDOR + MENTAL HOSPITAL
9pm........ BRAINSTORM
(£4/3 each)
Monday 14th
7pm........ SHOCK CORRIDOR + MENTAL HOSPITAL
9pm........ BRAINSTORM
(£4/3 each)
posted by James on June 15, 2004 03:36 PM