Portsmouth Film Society Presents ‘The Skin I Live In’

Tomorrow night (Wednesday 7:30pm) Portsmouth Film Society presents ‘The Skin I Live In’ by Pedro Almodóvar. Almodóvar’s latest film is a bizarre and stylish thriller and will be shown at Boathouse No 6 Cinema at the Royal Naval Dockyard.

Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, (Antonio Banderas) an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault. In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed three more things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig.

“The Skin I Live In feels unlike any other Almodovar film – a quasi-horror exercise that’s improbably august and elegant. Yet it’s also uncannily familiar – an Almodovar film to the hilt.” (Jonathon Romney, The Independent 28. Aug. 2011)

With an opening talk by Dr Deborah Shaw, Film Studies lecturer at the University of Portsmouth.

Kindly supported by the School of Creative Arts Film and Media, Portsmouth University. Entry is free for SCAFM students.

Cave of Forgotten Dreams at No. 6 Cinema

Portsmouth’s No. 6 Cinema continues in it’s fundraising with a screening of Werner Herzog’s ‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’ tomorrow evening. The screening at the No. 6 Cinema in the Naval Dockyard begins with drinks from 6.30 and the film begins at 7.00. It is £10.00 a ticket which includes a glass of wine, soft drink or coffee.

No.6 Cinema fund raiser

No.6 Cinema is planning to re-launch in early 2012 with an exciting new programme of quality films. However, until then the cinema are looking to do some fundraising. The next event is a showing of Romantics Anonymous.

Tickets are £10, this includes a glass of wine and a chocolate making demonstration. Dawn Shrives from Le Salon Du Chocolat will be on hand before the film to guide you through the best ways to get to know chocolate, how to taste it, and what to look out for when purchasing it. She will be offering insider knowledge and tasting tips for those who would like to develop their appreciation of chocolate.

Event starts at 19.00 and the film starts at 20.00. For more information click here.

What The Fuzz

Making Cinema, a young cultural leaders initiative developed by PCC Arts & Cultural Development Service in partnership with Highbury College Media students, will be hosting What The Fuzz at No.6 Cinema on Thursday 5th May. Every Monday for the past three months the students have been taking master classes in audience research, programming, marketing, using a 35mm film projector, box office operations and all other aspects of running a cinema night – now they are ready to launch their first ever event for the public! Pop along to show your support, to be honest, nobody needs an excuse to watch Hot Fuzz, let alone in a cinema on the big screen…

Doors open: 6.30pm
All tickets £2.00
Tickets available on the door, or Central Library or at Highbury College.

No.6 Cinema Public Forum

Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust would like to invite you to a Public Forum to discuss the future of the No.6 Cinema on Monday 18 April 2011 at 6.30pm (doors open at 6pm). The forum will take place at the No.6 Cinema in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard hosted by Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust, with guest speakers from Portsmouth Film Society, Portsmouth City Council and Maxwell Communications who are all offering their full support to the reopening of the cinema free of charge.

If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions on how No.6 could improve the cinema and increase awareness, they would be happy to listen to you and seriously consider your suggestions so they are included in the new business model. In September, they will reopen the cinema and hopefully secure its future on a more financially robust basis.

Please do confirm your attendance by emailing jamesd@pnbpt.co.uk so they can gauge how many they are likely to expect. Alternatively, please write to Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust, 19 College Road, HM Naval Base, Portsmouth, PO1 3LJ. Light refreshments will be available to purchase, admission is free. Contact and intel over at Facebook and No.6.

Inception at No. 6 Cinema

No. 6 Cinema will be showing Christopher Nolan’s incredible Inception today and tomorrow at 6:15pm, a must see film in the cinema. Tickets are £6, concessions $4.50 and students £3.

Exit Through The Gift Shop at No.6 Cinema

Starting this Friday 7th May for 5 nights only you can check out the new Banksy film, Exit Through The Gift Shop at The No.6 Cinema. I’m not even going to get into Banksy whilst writing this post, but I will definitely be seeing this movie, hopefully this weekend.

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.

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.

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.

PRIMARY – Extended & Improved

We have some great news about our PRIMARY phonography exhibition (find out all the details here) that we can now announce:

- The deadline for submissions has now been extended to Sunday 4th March. We have had some incredible submissions but want to set aside more time to make the exhibition something really special.

- The competition is now open to up to 10 submissions from each individual. With the ability to capture many photos on your phone over the next two months we we want you to not feel restricted to just three. The same rules apply about the photos conforming to compositions using the primary colours though. If you have already submitted feel free to send more photos over as and when you please.

- The exhibition will be hosted by Albert Road’s own Bonzo Studio who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space. More news on this soon!

- Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but got to say, these will be the best prize haul we have ever offered.

- We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.

Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY in the next couple of months so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.

It’s going to be a Strong Movember – Closed at £725

Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.

You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.

Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.

The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.

Poster: Tristan Savage