Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Tonight is your last chance to catch the wonderful Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll staring Andy Serkis, who was nominated for the 2010 BAFTA Leading Actor award for his portrayal of Ian Dury. The film is on at No. 6 Cinema at 8:30pm and is a 15 classification.

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Love You Too Premiere @ No.6 Cinema

“Love You Too” is a film about infatuation, desolation and a young boy’s struggle through false hope. Ostracized from the school cliques he falls into a downward spiral triggered by his obsession over a suicide video. His father provides no help; entangled in his own web of sex, lies and addiction. The characters descend further into moral ambiguity and self-deprecation before reaching a harrowing denouement.

The film stars local young actors as well as Nick Thomas Webster (Harry Potter,Sweeney Todd.) and Fiona Ryan (Tv the tudors.) and other professional actors, it was shot all over Portsmouth during last summer and had a budget of just under a grand

The premiere its self is FREE, but we do ask for donations on the door to cover the security. There will be refreshments sold just before the premiere… including alcohol. After the premiere we will be doing a Q+A session with the cast and crew so feel free to ask any question. If you wish to attend just put your name below and how many guests you would like to bring. Hope to see you all there.

The premier screening of Love You Too will be at 18.30 at the NO.6 Cinema, in case your unaware of where that is its in the dockyards where the action stations are (look for boat house number 6).

To see more details and RSVP head over to Facebook.

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Poetry, Wine, Music and Keats

The No.6 Cinema on Saturday 23 January at 7pm wish for you to join them for wine, music and poetry readings followed by their first screening of the stunning Keats biopic ‘Bright Star’. Bright Star is set in Hampstead, 1818 where tubercular poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) falls in love with Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish); who becomes the muse of some of the English language’s most perfect love letters.

There will be live music from The House Band who play a range of music from Irish jigs, reels and hornpipes to polkas, modern folk music and popular music and well-known songs from the 50s onward. Nineveh Books of Havant, who have a strong connection to Keats who spent his last night in England at the Mill in Bedhampton, will be on hand with Keats related books and to read from his work.

Join No. 6 for a glass of wine and salmon nibbles for only £3.50.

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Journeys in the Metropolis

One of Southsea’s friendliest faces, awesome photographer and part of the COR crew Mark Persaud just uploaded ‘Journeys in the Metropolis’, a series of timelapses showing people’s travels within Southsea and Portsmouth. For more information about the edit see the YouTube page.

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Hitler’s reaction to The Registry closing down.

This is just classic. I’ve seen a few others before. I think I saw one about accidentally using Arial instead of Helvetica, funny stuff. This one however is just hilarious, if you know the Portsmouth pub scene. More so if you’ve ever ben a student.

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Gil & Natalie Dekel

Ex Southsea resident Gil Dekel recently graduated with a PhD in Art, Design & Media at Portsmouth University and together with Natalie they create short films, conduct art workshops and interview other artists on their website www.poeticmind.co.uk, all with a thoughtful or spiritual theme.

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Short Film Festival Finalists

Readers of The News have voted and the finalists for The News Guide short film award from the summer’s Shorts::Cut Film Festival are:

Me Plus One – directed by Russell Oastler. (Documentary) 21 year-old single mum Vicki Parks faces the harsh realities and frustrations of choosing to have a child at a young age. 9 minutes

Mark – directed by James Harrison. (Documentary) Professional BMX rider and local resident Mark Webb ignores medical advice after breaking his back, and travels to China to compete in the international X-Games 10 minutes.

Ballet School for Over 50s – directed by Stuart McKears. (Documentary) Open day performances and interviews with the members of the Balandis Lilley Ballet school in Bognor Regis – 4 minutes.

The Club – directed by Guy Murray-Brown. (Documentary). An enigmatic and humorous look at the people who work at the Elegance strip club in Portsmouth – 9 minutes.

The Girl Of My Dreams – directed by Russell Oastler. (Documentary) Adam Pacitti is searching for his true love, a girl he met in a dream. (4 minutes)

Less Than Romantic – Directed by Simon Hatt. (Comedy) Alex has two days to find a girlfriend, recover his brothers half of the inheritance, and polish the trophies! No pressure – 10 Minutes

The winner will be announced at the Guide Awards ceremony on Sunday 16th November at the Kings Theatre.

The Club:

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DVMission 48 Hour Film Challenge

A quick reminder that the network of independent, professional and amateur film makers, Mission Network are premiering The DVMission 48 Hour Film Challenge at The New Theatre Royal Portsmouth, Sunday 1st November 2009 from 8pm till Midnight.

The culmination of 48-hours of guerrilla filmmaking from professional, independent and amateur teams. This glizty nominations / award ceremony is the showcase for all the films entered this year. Your ticket will also give you ‘exclusive’ access to the DVMISSION 2009 after party.

For more information and updates check out dvmission.ning.com

Dress to Impress: Posh Frocks / Black Tie.
Tickets available from the New Theatre Royal – Portsmouth.
Circle £4.00 advanced tickets / £5.00 on the door.
Upper Circle £3.00 advanced tickets / £4.00 on the door.

Pink Floyd’s Echoes collides with Stanley Kubrick’s 2001

Continuing our coverage of the Portsmouth Film Festival, tonight sees local tribute band Echoes of Floyd perform a live version of the track ‘Echoes’ alongside the final 25 minutes of Kubrick’s epic cult classic 2001. The track was not included in the final cut, however it has been long rumoured that when the two are synchronised, they result in an audio-visual feast greater than the sum of it’s parts.

Additionally the band will perform a half hour selection of space themed tracks from albums such as Dark Side of the Moon. These songs will be married with live imagery supplied by local VJ, Si Bridgen (Narcosis/ Coalition Festival) who will also present a specially edited 30 minute video montage of ‘Space Odyssey’.

The show begins at 6:30pm in The Loft, above The Kings, opposite the Kings Theatre. Tickets are £5, concessions £3.50.

For more information, Dave, see the Facebook event.

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Antichrist

Continuing the Portsmouth Film Festival sees No. 6 Cinema showing the controversial film Antichrist, directed by Lars Von Trier and starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe. The film will be shown at 6:30pm and if you can’t make it today it’ll be re-shown on the 8th at 8:30pm. For full details see www.no6cinema.co.uk and Portsmouth Film Festival.

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Mountain Patrol: Kekexili and In the City of Sylvia

The Portsmouth Film Festival continues today with a showing of Mountain Patrol: Kekexili (15) at the No.3 Cinema in Portsmouth’s central library in Guildhall Square. A film inspired by a people’s remarkable mission surrounding the illegal Tibetan antelope poaching in the region of Kekexili, the largest animal reserve in China. The story is brought to the screen with great detail by director Lu Chuan. Set against the exquisite backdrop of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Chuan tells the tale of brave local Tibetans who face death and starvation to save the endangered antelope herds from a band of ruthless hunter. The film starts at 6:30pm.

Mountain Patrol: Kekexili is then followed at 8:30pm by In the City of Sylvia (PG). This film, by the Spanish director and cinema academic José Luis Guerín, is outstanding, a superbly shot and hauntingly enigmatic interior drama of longing, which has acquired cult status on the festival circuit and now has a very welcome UK release.

Tickets: £5, Concs:£3.50 or both films: £8, Concs:£6.

Check out the festivals’ website for full details.

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DVMission 48 Hour Film Challenge

A date for your diary from the network of independent, professional and amateur film makers, Mission Network. The DVMission 48 Hour Film Challenge Premier Night at The New Theatre Royal Portsmouth, Sunday 1st November 2009 from 8pm till Midnight.

The culmination of 48-hours of guerrilla filmmaking from professional, independent and amateur teams. This glizty nominations / award ceremony is the showcase for all the films entered this year. Your ticket will also give you ‘exclusive’ access to the DVMISSION 2009 after party.

For more information and updates check out dvmission.ning.com

Dress to Impress: Posh Frocks / Black Tie.
Tickets available from the New Theatre Royal – Portsmouth.
Circle £4.00 advanced tickets / £5.00 on the door.
Upper Circle £3.00 advanced tickets / £4.00 on the door.

Film Festival Submissions Screening

The Portsmouth Film Festival submissions competition shortlist will be screened in The Fat Fox this evening from 7:30pm and is free entry. For more information check www.portsmouthfilmfestival.org.uk/submissions.

Last year’s winner was Jack Says:

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Drive In Movie – Cancelled

Sad news, due to high winds tonight’s drive in movie down on Southsea common has had to be cancelled:

“Dear everyone,

It is with great sadness that we have had to cancel this evenings drive in movie on Southsea Common. Due to the adverse weather conditions and with health & safety in mind we have had no choice but to pull the plug.

Thank you to all those who bought a ticket. For all online bookings made through paypal your ticket will be refunded within 28 days later.

We at PFF are absolutely gutted, as we have been working hard to make this a really special evening.

Please keep an eye out for all the other events throughout the week.

Much love from PFF!”

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End of the Line

The Portsmouth Film Festival 2009 kicks of this evening with a showing of ‘End of the Line’ at the No. 6 Cinema, sponsored by Portsmouth University. Following the film will be a Q&A session with the film’s producer Claire Lewis.

7pm Show – Tickets: adults are £5, concessions £3.50 and students are FREE. For more information visit endoftheline.com.

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Drive-In Movie on the Common this Saturday – Mamma Mia

Just a reminder that as part of the Portsmouth Film Festival, this Saturday 3rd October there will be a drive-in movie style open air screening of a film down on Southsea common with the largest drive-in screen in Europe. Tickets are £10 and are on sale from www.portsmouthfilmfestival.org.uk CLICK HERE.

Well the poll count is in and the winner is Mamma Mia. JAWS next year hey!

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Drive-In Movie on the Common

As part of the Portsmouth Film Festival, on Saturday 3rd October there will be a drive-in movie style open air screening of a film down on Southsea common with the largest drive-in screen in Europe. Tickets are £10 and will be on sale from www.portsmouthfilmfestival.org.uk from today or available from Space Gallery on Love Albert Road Day.

For now, you can vote for the film you want to watch fro the following shortlist:

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Mamma Mia
Jaws
Finding Nemo
On the Waterfront
Pirates of the Caribbean

Voting can be done online at www.wave105.com or by text or post, full details are over at The News.

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Portsmouth Film Festival

The details of the Portsmouth Film Festival 2009 have just been announced. The event will run from 3rd to the 11th of October and include features, shorts, local premiers, projections and world cinema showing across a diverse range of venues in Portsmouth including No6 & No3 Cinema’s, New Theatre Royal, Southsea Common, The Big Screen, Gunwharf Quays, Fat Fox, Little Johnny Russels and Space Gallery.

Confirmed highlights of the 4th Portsmouth Film Festival include a drive-in movie on Southsea Common with Europe’s largest screen, a look at the issue of sustainability with award winning documentaries The Age of Stupid and End of the Line; Question and Answer Sessions with Directors of presented Films ,world cinema screenings covering the subject of life and death, finals of the Submissions Competition, The Italian Job and the premier of Salomé with its new live musical accompaniment. Plus outdoor projections, film and art installations, including early Indian Film in Movieplex, Portsmouth based pop/music videos and sing-along-musical on The Big Screen. Plus you can submit your own films too!

Find out all you need to know check www.portsmouthfilmfestival.org.uk and keep up to speed by joining the Facebook group and follow the Twitter.

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Sing-A-Long-A Hairspray

On Saturday 5th The Kings Theatre will be showing the film Hairspray and actively encouraging the audience to sing along. The evening begins with a live show in which your host will lead you through a vocal warm-up, judge the audience fancy dress competition and award the prizes. Costumes are not compulsory but they are highly recommended and you will be amazed at the inventiveness on display. The host will then show you how to use your free goody bag throughout the film and suggest some appropriate heckles and accompanying actions (such as hissing Michelle Pfeiffer, yelling “Cheese” at Corny Collins and, of course, cheering on Tracy).

Tickets are £14.50 Adult £11 Children and a special family ticket of £20 for four seats.

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Let The Right One In

Portsmouth’s independent cinema No. 6 will be showing the critically acclaimed Swedish vampire horror Let The Right One In tonight at 6:30pm and tomorrow at 8:30pm. The film is a 15 certificate classification. Tickets are £6 and £4.50 for concessions. For more information see www.no6cinema.co.uk.

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