Valpuri Karinen designed the poster for our upcoming screening of Forbidden Zone (Richard Elfman, 1980). Valpuri also made Matchbox’s Spaceballs poster, and you can check out more of her work at her website, here, or at her Tumblr, here.
Our Forbidden Zone screening is by arrangement with Arrow Video. Seating is limited, tickets are on sale now. Keep up-to-date at the Facebook event page here.
Matchbox Cineclub‘s May screening will be COMIN’ AT YA! (Ferdinando Baldi, 1981) on Thursday 19/05/16 at the Old Hairdressers, Glasgow.
COMIN’ AT YA! (Ferdinando Baldi, 1981) is the film that launched the 1980s 3Dsploitation boom, with flying spears, vampire bats and even babies, all jumping off the screen towards you. Matchbox Cineclub are celebrating its 35th anniversary with a special screening in 3D (we’re providing the glasses) and an explosive sound set-up. You can’t miss it, cos it’s COMIN’ AT YA!
Synopsis: HH Hart (Tony Anthony), a bank robber, loses his wife (Victoria Abril) to kidnappers on their wedding day. Subsequently, she is traded as a prostitute by villain Pike Thompson (Gene Quintana). HH Hart races against time to find his wife, with the help of a Scottish preacher.
Tickets are available from Brown Paper Tickets right here. This screening is by arrangement with The Little Film Company.
This month, Matchbox Cineclub is taking part in The Old Hairdressers’ FANTOM CINEMA programme, which runs from Friday 8th April to Sunday 24th April. We’re presenting a very special MYSTERY MOVIE. For the next few weeks, we’ll be offering up some clues, but the specially selected film – which you will not see screened anywhere else – will only be revealed to attendees on the evening of Thursday 21/04.
The Fantom Cinema programme sees the Old Hairdressers’ gallery space turned into a temporary cinema. The expansive programme has been selected and developed through an interest in hauntology, the fringes of sci-fi and a curiosity about the potency of the lucid space of cinema in relation to action beyond the edges of the screen. It draws on the connections that can be made between artists’ lives, the complexities of labour and the stories that surround individual practices.
It hopes to conjure up the ghosts that haunt previous manifestations of this exhibition space and explores how changing the format that frames activity can enable new readings of ongoing practices.
Entry is FREE, with an optional donation.
Keep up-to-date at the Facebook event page here. Check out the full Fantom Cinema programme here.
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