Shut Up and Watch It

25/01/2013

Due to deadlines, dissertations and other things starting 'd', were gonna miss January out entirely and start again on the 5th February.

If you've got ideas for the first screening, suggest away. We might do a vote, we might not - either way, normal service resumes the Tuesday after next.

06/12/2012

Ho ho ho and all that. Come to our Christmas film next week.

Rare Exports is an unexpectedly delightful crossbreed of deadpan comedy and Christmas horror.

03/12/2012

Shawshank Redemption tomorrow!

In 1946, a banker named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of a double murder, even though he stubbornly proclaims his innocence. He's sentenced to a life term at the Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where another lifer, Ellis

29/11/2012

Our first 10 films:

23/11/2012

You can vote on the film we'll be showing on the 11th of December here - http://shutupandwatch.it/vote

MMU breaks up on the 14th so this is as close to Christmas as we're gonna get. Choose from Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, It's a Wonderful Life, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Brazil. Nice one!

Manchester School of Art Cinema Club - Tuesdays 5-8pm in Geoffrey Manton 2

21/11/2012

Thanks to everyone who came down today! This is next week, one of David Lynch's finest:

David Lynch's relatively straight second feature finds an admirable synthesis of compassion and restraint in treating its subject, and features outstanding performances by John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins.

13/11/2012

Next week -

While to most outsiders Paris seems the very picture of beauty and civility, France has had a long and unfortunate history of intolerance toward outsiders, and this powerful drama from filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz takes an unblinking look at a racially

11/11/2012

Full Metal Jacket, this Tuesday, 5(ish)pm, Geoffrey Manton 2

Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin. A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 in Hue, Vietnam.

30/10/2012

Thanks to everyone who came down tonight. Remember, it was just a film..! Next is (near enough) bonfire night, so it's only right that we show this. Same time same place -

Visually stunning and thought-provoking, 's political pronouncements may rile some, but its story and impressive set pieces will nevertheless entertain.

30/10/2012

Thanks to Manchester Wire for featuring us on their site. Tonight's screening of Funny Games is starting in about half an hour!

Manchester Wire is a guide of things to do in Manchester - music, nightlife, art & culture, food & drink, theatre, film, travel, literature in the rainy city.

23/10/2012

Next week - Tuesday 30th October - is our Halloween special. Call it what you want, so long as it's not 'spooktacular'.

Directed by Michael Haneke. With Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering. Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

22/10/2012

Come down at 5 tomorrow for this epic piece of ass.

Directed by Ridley Scott. With Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos. Deckard, a blade runner, has to track down and terminate 4 replicants who hijacked a ship in space and have returned to earth seeking their maker.