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Josephine Foster & The Victor Herrero Band @ Star & Shadow Cinema, 6/10/2010, 8pm

Something really special for your live music programme, a show with a difference, from Josephine Foster (http://www.myspace.com/jfostervherreroband), whose new album is coming out this month on Fire Records (Giant Sand, Jackie-O Motherfucker, ESG, Jad Fair).

For lovers of music, poetry, dance and heady romance this show is bound to get the hearts racing. One of the most enigmatic, luminous and enlightening American singers of her time sings Federico Garcia Lorca’s popular folk song collection “Las Canciones Populares Espanolas” with guitarist Victor Herroro and live band.

EVENT: Free Movement for All

At the Star and Shadow Cinema, Friday 10/09/2010
If you believe in Free Movement for all, please come and dance for it with us!
7.30pm film screening – Outside of Europe 28 mins
A revealing exposé of the human consequences of UK and European border
controls, with inspiring footage from campaigns for freedom of movement.
ONSIND
http://www.myspace.com/onenightstandinnorthdakota
VERBAL TERRORISTS
http://www.myspace.com/verbalterrorists
MILKY WIMPSHAKE
http://www.normanrecords.com/cd/118110-milky-wimpshake-my-funny-social-crime
Djs Joan Aka [...]

This week at the Star and Shadow Cinema!

Autumn is here, and after a bit of a spruce up the Star and Shadow Cinema is open for business again!
This week we have some pretty damn special gigs for your listening pleasure. On Wednesday, Kath Bloom will be joining us with her transluscent, emotive bluesy folk. With Richard Dawson and Kath’s backing band The [...]

JASON URICK / Hapsburg Braganza / Adam Parkinson

Jason Urick (of WZT Hearts) is yet another product of Baltimore’s unstoppable and multifarious experimental scene that produced musicians like Entrance, Ecstatic Sunshine, Dan Deacon, Beach House and Cass McCombs. Signed to Thrill Jockey (the label that brought you Tortoise, David Byrne, Boredoms, Oval and many more), Urick [...]

FILM – Fame (1980)

7:30pm – Sunday 5th September 2010 at the Star and Shadow Cinema
Directed by Alan Parker – Part of the Decades of Musicals season
Indulge in an 80’s guilt-free pleasure! American, cheesy, heart-warming, feel good, psychologically simplistic 80’s film to tell us how to realise our dreams.
We sashay into the questionable world of 80s musicals with this tale [...]

Film: GUMMO (Harmony Korine, 1997)

7:30pm – Thursday 16th September 2010 at the Star and Shadow Cinema
Korine’s directorial debut and a cult film following the success of his writing in Larry Clark’s controversial KIDS. Also starring Chloe Sevigny (and Rosario Dawon), GUMMO is a series of seemingly unrelated vignettes depicting the hopeless, nihilistic lives of the residents of a small [...]

Film: JULIEN DONKY-BOY (Harmony Korine, 1999)

Sunday, 12th September 2010 at the Star and Shadow Cinema
The third installment in our HARMONY KORINE RETROSPECTIVE on 35mm print.
JULIEN DONKEY-BOY concentrates on the schizophrenic Julien, played by Scottish actor Ewen Bremner, and his dysfunctional family. The film also stars Chloë Sevigny as Julien’s sister, Pearl, and Werner Herzog as his father. Julien Donkey-Boy is [...]

Film: MISTER LONELY (Harmony Korine, 2008)

7:30pm – Thursday, 9th September 2010 at the Star and Shadow Cinema
The second screening in our HARMONY KORINE RETROSPECTIVE:http://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/season/75
Written by Korine in collaboration with his brother Avi, MISTER LONELY follows a young American (Diego Luna) living in Paris and working as a Michael Jackson lookalike. He meets Marilyn Monroe (Samantha Morton), who invites him to [...]

GIG – Kath Bloom / Richard Dawson / This Frontier Needs Heroes

8pm – Wednesday, 8th September at the Star and Shadow Cinema
£5 advance / £6 on the door. Advance tickets available here: http://kathbloom.eventbrite.com/
Kath Bloom (http://www.myspace.com/kathbloomchapter) is some kind of legend, she comes from a special place where country, blues and folk are made beautifully translucent and emotive. Highly regarded but a bit of a mystery. The Connecticut [...]

Film: TRASH HUMPERS (Harmony Korine, 2010)

7:30pm – Thursday,  2nd September 2010 at the Star and Shadow Cinema
Star & Shadow has the Newcastle premier of provoc/auteur Harmony Korine’s TRASH HUMPERS. His latest feature is an excoriating attack on the American Dream that kicks off our Korine retrospective season from September 2nd~16th.
A lo-fi production of white-heat intensity, Korine calls it, “a new type [...]