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This is for people who are into new bands and old films, particularly cult and alternative stuff that's relatively affordable. C'mon, do you really want to join two different groups? We also show social online films: we watch something good (and preferably free) online and hang out via WhatsApp while it's on.
We're an open and friendly group, so if you have interesting taste and a willingness to organise people, collar me at an event because I'm looking to build up a group of hosts who are into a diverse range of stuff. In the meantime, if there's something you want to go to, say so in the Discussions and I'll see what I can do.
Three other points: 1) If you want to go to something it's best to book early, these events often sell out (yes, even the movies), 2) If you come to an event and can't find anyone, post on the event page and we'll look for you, and 3) If you can't make it, make sure to change your RSVP to No beforehand because we have a three strikes policy for no shows - as in three strikes and you're out.
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
The Nickel Cinema, 117-119 Clerkenwell Road, London, GBBring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia flopped on release, just like Sam Peckinpah's previous movie, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, but has picked up a sizeable cult following since, with people drawn both to its atmosphere of strange, desperate outcasts and nihlistic violence, and to its title, which has been ripped off and parodied here, there and everywhere.
So, what's it about? Warren Oates plays a retired American army officer, down on his luck, who gets drawn into a macarbe plot after a Mexican crime boss puts a million-dollar bounty on the man who impregnated his daughter. Or his head, anyway. Man, was there anyone better at playing desperate, middle-aged outcast losers than Oates?
Look, why don't you let the trailer explain it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYfP4Y940Ew
Tickets are here and it's an early one. I have an all-night Twin Peaks marathon to go to that night (as you can see in the listings) and I wouldn't mind getting some sleep in between. So, why don't we meet for a coffee round the corner (venue TBC) at 2.45pm and head in afterwards?
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Twin Peaks (1990) Series 1 Marathon All-Nighter
Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Pl, London, GBThere are few greater seasons of television than the first year of Twin Peaks, and the PCC is showing it in its entirety over a couple of weekend nights in August (which I think are sold out?) but also in November, which is much more amenable to sitting in a cinema all night.
What, you haven't seen it? You want a summation? FBI agent Dale Cooper heads to the Northwestern logging town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of local teenager Laura Palmer, and comes into contact with a local collection of disaffected teenagers, elders with shady morals and small town weirdos - or not, depending how you feel about logs. But who exactly is the mysterious, evil Bob, who only appears in visions?
This is arguably David Lynch's definitive work, which is especially impressive given a career that includes The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, and influenced a huge swathe of 90's TV, from The X-Files to Northern Exposure to Eerie Indiana. It also looks and sounds marvellous, which makes it ideal for the big screen.
A trailer of sorts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFuKtJjhBCQ
Tickets here, I'm in C5. If you haven't been to a PCC all-nighter, it's fun - just make sure to bring packed lunch and a non-alcoholic drink with you. We can meet at the pub for an alcoholic one beforehand.
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