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音樂
Changes all the time, depending on who's monopolising the stereo....here's a sample...
Sufjan Stevens, Lyrics Born, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Adam and the Ants, CocoRosie, The Knife, Diamanda Galas, Nina Simone, Looptroop, World Inferno, New Order, Dead Prez, The Pixies, Paul Baribeau, Isis, Nick Cave, Morrisey, Blind Melon, Chili's, Blondie, The Carter Family, Cash, Lamb, and lots lots more. Send us a mix CD or a CD of your band if you want. xx Pogo Cafe/76 Clarence Rd./Hackney/London/E5 8HB/
電影
Mon 16th Feb
The Wobblies
“Solidarity! All for One and One for All!” With that slogan, the Industrial Workers of the World, aka the Wobblies, took to organizing unskilled workers into one big union and changing the course of history. Along the way to winning an eight-hour workday and fair wages in the early 20th century, the Wobblies were one of the few unions to be racially and sexually integrated and often met with imprisonment, violence, and the privations of prolonged strikes. This award-winning film airs a provocative look at the forgotten American history of this most radical of unions, screening the unforgettable and still-fiery voices of Wobbly members–lumberjacks, migratory workers, and silk weavers–in their 70s, 80s, and 90s. Eerily echoing current times, THE WOBBLIES boldly investigates a nation torn by naked corporate greed and the red-hot rift between the industrial masters and the rabble-rousing workers in the field and factory. Replete with gorgeous archival footage, the film pays tribute to American workers who took the ideals of equality and free speech seriously enough to die for them. Directed by Stewart Bird and Deborah Shaffer, THE WOBBLIES is a rare and challenging invitation to rethink both past and present through the eyes of an organization largely omitted from memory.
Mon 23rd Feb
GOOD MORNING, NIGHT (BOUNGIORNO, NOTTE)
Chiara leads a quiet life. She works as a librarian, is recently married and has moved into a new apartment with her husband. At that that’s how Chiara wants to be seen. What nobody knows, is that she is a member of one of the world’s most feared terrorist groups who have kidnapped the President of their country and are holding him hostage in their basement.
Such is the ingenious premise of Mario Bellocchio’s new film Good Morning, Night, which has its UK premiere at the 2003 London Film Festival. Already hailed in Italy, where it won a number of prizes at the Venice Film Festival, the film depicts real-life events in Italy in 1978 when the Red Brigade kidnapped and eventually murdered the then Prime Minister. Aldo Moro’s death may not have resulted in a change - Italy’s post-war electoral instability lasted well into the 1990s - but it was a defining moment for Italians that lived through it.
Monday 2nd March
XXY
XXY is a 2007 Argentine film written and directed by Lucía Puenzo. The film stars Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli, Inés Efron and Martín Piroyansky. It tells the story of a 15-year-old intersex person, the way they and their family copes with the situation of impending adulthood and the possibility of making the choice to have surgery, while dealing with prejudice from the local community. The film’s title is a reference to Klinefelter’s Syndrome, also known as XXY Syndrome, a condition defined as being when ‘males’ have an extra X chromosome.
Monday March 9th
COLOMBIA: PROMISES AND BULLETS (200 8) and is by us (GCM Productions), in association with MAT Media, Yagé Productions.
Here’s a summary about it:
Colombia is a country embroiled in a violent and bloody civil war, but what are the roots of this conflict and who should be held accountable? This new documentary ‘Colombia: Promises and Bullets’ charts the history of Colombia ’s war, from its humble origins to one of the most protracted and violent conflicts Latin America has ever seen. By exposing the role of the guerrilla, paramilitary groups, the army and the Colombian government, the film illustrates the full magnitude and complexity of Colombia’s war. The film gets a first hand account of the FARC’s objectives, structure and ideology through exclusive interviews with its leaders who explain why the guerrilla refuses to give up its armed struggle. The film contains extensive and exclusive interviews with the FARC’s key negotiator, Raúl Reyes, assassinated by the Colombian government in a bombing raid in Ecuador last year.
Monday March 16th
Lonely are the Brave
Lonely are the Brave is something rare, and almost unique: a leftist American western. It’s based on a novel by Edward Abbey, celebrator of the desert and promoter of “eco-terrorism” in the never-filmed 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. It was written by Dalton Trumbo, a witch-hunted screenwriter who clearly loved and understood the genre, and directed by David Miller, whose career seems otherwise undistinguished, with the exception of Executive Action, another leftist feature written by Yordan. Executive Action is an interesting, serious picture, but it’s stilted in comparison with Lonely are the Brave.
Its hero, flawlessly portrayed by Kirk Douglas (this was his favourite film), is John W. Burns, a cowboy anarchist who carries no ID, respects no authority, and pays attention only to his friends and his horse. Breaking into jail to see a friend, he attracts the attention of dogged cops, a vindictive sheriff, a one-armed Okinawa veteran, and a hot-shot military helicopter pilot, all of whom instinctively want to take him down.
They don’t. Always polite, always fair, always a “fuck you” to those above him, the brave cowboy eludes his pursuers and almost makes it to Mexico and freedom. What happens to him and to Whiskey, his magnificent, proud horse, is as tragic, as it is stupid, as it is inevitable.
The cast is surprising—and perfect. Gena Rowlands plays the woman who loves the cowboy, Walter Matthau the bored sheriff who methodically tracks him, George Kennedy the prison guard who fails to break him, and Carroll O’Connor the deus ex machina who succeeds.
Lonely are the Brave was released in 1962, yet it still seems totally modern—probably because it deals with so many issues that matter now: individual freedom versus authoritarian clampdowns, the criminalization of sanctuary for “illegal aliens,” ID cards, military helicopters in border manhunts, and an increasingly militarized and regimented America.
Abbey loved the desert, and hated unnecessary machines. Miller communicates this, contrasting magnificent, monochrome, cinemascope images of landscape and wildlife with the screeching, rattling grinding of trucks, cars, and crashing helicopters. The cinematographer was Philip Lathrop; the score, mostly excellent, was Jerry Goldsmith’s first.
Lonely are the Brave is a pessimistic tale of the triumph of “stuff” over all that is best in the bond of humans, animals, and the land. It is both a classic western, and a great film.
“I don’t need id cards to figure out who I am, I already know.”
Monday March 23rd
The Internationale
The Internationale chronicles the fascinating history of the legendary song written in 1871, after the brutal suppression of the Paris Commune (which started this week 138 years ago!) This rallying cry for all the oppressed and exploited people of the world to rise up and overthrow their masters was soon to be translated and sung in over a hundred languages throughout the world. Featuring rare archival footage and performances and interviews with the likes of Billy Bragg and Pete Seeger, The Internationale explores the importance of ideals, the fate of the left, and the power of music as a force for change.
Monday March 30th
AFTER STONEWALL:
FROM THE RIOTS TO THE MILLENNIUM
Thirty years ago, America’s lesbians and gays — a largely closeted, fragmented and shunned community — experienced a profound turning point. On June 27, 1969, in what is considered the birth of the modern gay civil rights movement, the homosexual, bisexual and transgendered patrons of the Stonewall Bar in New York City spontaneously united and fought back against chronic police harassment, jeers and arrests. AFTER STONEWALL, a 90-minute special airing on PBS Wednesday, June 23, 1999, 9:00 p.m. ET (check local listings), chronicles the gay and lesbian experience since the Stonewall riots.
From the emergence of the 70’s Gay Liberation Movement and Womyn’s music festivals to the onslaught of AIDS, the vibrant Gay Games movement and Ellen DeGeneres’ highly publicized coming out performance, AFTER STONEWALL presents a story as compelling, rewarding and provocative as the individual lesbians and gays who defined the era.
Narrated by celebrated musical artist Melissa Etheridge, AFTER STONEWALL captures the struggles, defeats and triumphs of a proud, though still stigmatized, community. The film records the personal accounts of gays and lesbians who have transformed not only their own lives, but also American society and the world community. According to program producer John Scagliotti, “These are the stories that prompted the public to question its own fundamental values with regard to family, work, religion and relationships…. Through this film, viewers will be educated about the profound influence gays and lesbians have had on the shaping of the 20th century.”
Archival and never-before-released footage from the gay and lesbian community, including personal videos and 8mm home movies, provides the centerpiece of AFTER STONEWALL. Filmmakers interviewed more than 200 people for the film, including author Armistead Maupin; early activists Frank Kameny, Jewelle Gomez and Barbara Gittings; Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass.); novelist Dorothy Allison; presidential advisor David Mixner; drag entertainer Charles Ching; best-selling author Rita Mae Brown; gay community leader Elizabeth Birch; and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered individuals from all walks of life.
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Hello, Comrades... Join us at One Party State @ Barfly on SAT 14 NOV for LIFE IN FILM live, Club NME's MIKEY FOUR, Durrr/Bugged Out's THE LOVELY JONJO, DJ OLIO from Artkitchen (Talinn, Estonia), CAMPARI SAFARI DJs and more...
Hello, Comrades... Join us at One Party State @ Barfly on SAT 14 NOV for LIFE IN FILM live, Club NME's MIKEY FOUR, Durrr/Bugged Out's THE LOVELY JONJO, DJ OLIO from Artkitchen (Talinn, Estonia), CAMPARI SAFARI DJs and more...
Hello, Comrades... Join us at One Party State @ Barfly on SAT 14 NOV for LIFE IN FILM live, Club NME's MIKEY FOUR, Durrr/Bugged Out's THE LOVELY JONJO, DJ OLIO from Artkitchen (Talinn, Estonia), CAMPARI SAFARI DJs and more...
Hello, Comrades... Join us at One Party State @ Barfly on SAT 14 NOV for LIFE IN FILM live, Club NME's MIKEY FOUR, Durrr/Bugged Out's THE LOVELY JONJO, DJ OLIO from Artkitchen (Talinn, Estonia), CAMPARI SAFARI DJs and more...
Hello, Comrades... Join us at One Party State @ Barfly on SAT 14 NOV for LIFE IN FILM live, Club NME's MIKEY FOUR, Durrr/Bugged Out's THE LOVELY JONJO, DJ OLIO from Artkitchen (Talinn, Estonia), CAMPARI SAFARI DJs and more...
Hello, Comrades... Join us at One Party State @ Barfly on SAT 14 NOV for LIFE IN FILM live, Club NME's MIKEY FOUR, Durrr/Bugged Out's THE LOVELY JONJO, DJ OLIO from Artkitchen (Talinn, Estonia), CAMPARI SAFARI DJs and more...
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Peace Sunday, June 5, 1982, Rose Bowl, no nukes - nuclear disarmament - stop nuclear madness concert - NYC - Central Park - June 12, 1982, 1,000,000 person march and rally for Nuclear Freeze. Photography and presentation by Curtis Rainbow. 'Give Peace a Chance' music by Achim Schultz. Inspiration by Yoko Ono. Dedicated to John Lennon.
Thursday 29th October @ 7.30pm - (Roshi feat. Pars Radio album launch) @ The Flea Pit, 49 Columbia Road, London, E2 7RG. Cost: £4 launch night for the ’The Sky And The Caspian Sea’, the debut album from Roshi feat. Pars Records, on GEO Records (myspace.com/roshisongs / myspace.com/georecordsuk). Support comes from Rothko man Mark Beazley’s Signals, Gideon Coe favourites Hong In The 60s, and Orchestra Pit/Scaledown impresario Mark Braby’s new project Damp Matchbox.
Friday 30th October @ 7pm SCALEDOWN co-presents a SARTORIAL RECORDS special, upstairs @ The King & Queen, 1 Foley Street, London, W1W 6DL. Cost: £0 (donations welcome(d)) okay, so it’s Scaledown Friday as we actually all dress up in our best whistles for a night of music featuring Terry Edwards alongwith artists from his Sartorial roster + our own guests. Full bill: Terry Edwards & Simon Charterton, Micko Westmoreland, Ian R. Watson, Pete Marsh & Pete May, Bob Constant & The Goodbye Horses, Iris Garrelfs and Damp Matchbox. Further details can be found @ http:www.theorchestrapit.com/scaledown.
SATURDAY 26 December- International Pizza Punk Day 2009! @ the Dewdrop, 58 Stewarts Road SW8 5DE, London. Entry: Bring raw ingrediants for the making of vegan pizzas... Pizza bases and sauce provided, just bring toppings (onions, garlic, fake cheeses, peppers etc etc) This is a vegan event. Bar & Disco. A benefit for PUNKAGE, the unholy love-child of ERODING EMPIRE and LONDON PUNK GIGS. eroding.org.uk/pizzapunx.htm
