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Sep
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 [...]
Sep
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 [...]
Aug
Police seek witnesses to street robbery
Police are appealing for witnesses after a 22-year-old woman was robbed in Newcastle.
It happened at around 12.30am on Saturday, August 7, when the woman was walking along Warwick Street, Sandyford, Heaton, when she was grabbed by a man who has forced her to the ground.
The man has then stolen numerous items of property from the [...]
Aug
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 [...]
Aug
Hyem: Owner appalled by poorly investigated Chronicle article
The following is a statement from Steven Moore, one of the owners of Hyem:
For those who have or haven’t read the Chronicle article in yesterday’s edition, this is in response. After several phone calls, the Chronicle have admitted that printing the article was unfair. This is due to the zero rating being done prior to [...]
Aug
Midem and SXSW at Northern Stage
For anyone involved in the local music scene, September sees a fantastic opportunity to get information on attending Midem and SXSW, as part of an event hosted by music development agency, Generator.
Damian Baetens, Business Development Director, said: “This event is a great opportunity for bands and businesses from the North East to find out about the world’s largest [...]
Aug
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 [...]
Aug
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 [...]
Aug
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 [...]
Aug
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 [...]