26th 28th May 2011 CINE-EXCESS - Covent Garden Odeon - London

[BioZombie]

CINE-EXCESS



Date: 26/05/2011 - 28/05/2011
Location: Odeon Covent Garden - London

Cine-Excess is an annual international film conference and festival which attracts global filmmakers, scholars, distributors and exhibitors to an event which features filmmaker discussions, a themed three day conference and 5-7 UK theatrical premieres.

This year special guest include Franco Nero and Ruggero Deodato.

If I get any info on what's being screened I'll stick it up here straight away.

Find tonnes more information on Cine-Excess at: www.cine-excess.co.uk

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Remeber you can use this thread to discuss Cine Excess. Have you been before? Do you want to go? Do you have any more info? Do you have any questions for people who've been?

[Kyle]

damn! on my birthday think the place should be changed to stoke on trent

[Jonny]

Cine-Excess V - The Politics and Aesthetics of Excess


Italian acting legend Franco Nero (Django, Keoma, Die Hard II) and controversial cult director Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust, House on the Edge of the Park) headline this year’s Cine-Excess V International Cult Film Conference and Festival, which returns the Odeon Covent Garden between the 26th and 28th May 2011.

Cine-Excess V features filmmaker discussions, exclusive UK theatrical premieres and a 3 day conference with over 30 separate talks on cult controversies from around the world.
The theme of this year’s Cine-Excess is ‘Subverting the Senses: The Politics and Aesthetics of Excess’, which examines the theme of the controversial cult image in its political, historical and aesthetic contexts. With the resurgence of critical interest in the 1980s ‘video nasties’, as well as a whole new generation of films being subject to state control, the cult image is now a crucial index between the censor and the censored. The event features a wide range of discussions from the topics of realist footage in Cannibal Holocaust and gender politics in 1970s sexploitation, to considerations of Franco Nero’s cult roles and the crime cinema of Enzo G. Castellari. Other topics covered in the event include the social politics of Rob Zombie’s cinema and the cult of controversy surrounding A Serbian Film.

Both Franco Nero and Ruggero Deodato will be discussing their prolific careers at separate events at the festival, which are open to the public. Cine-Excess V also features a screening of Deodato’s controversial classic Cannibal Holocaust on Thursday 26th May at 8.30pm.

Deodato’s controversial cult catalogue will also be discussed by Professor Martin Barker (Aberystwyth University) at Cine-Excess V. Professor Barker will be delivering a keynote address on audience responses to controversial cult material such as Deodato’s House on the Edge of the Park at a historic debate session between Ruggero Deodato and Senior BBFC Examiner Craig Lapper. This panel discussion will take place on Thursday 26th May at 6.30pm.

Italian screen legend will also be addressing the Cine-Excess V audience on Saturday 28th May at 4pm, in a special career retrospective that includes an exclusive screening of Sergio Corbucci’s spaghetti western classic Django (1966).

Cult Film Fans can book for Cine-Excess V through two separate forms of delegate pass:

Screening Delegate Pass – this gives delegates access to individual films and associated talks by Franco Nero, Ruggero Deodato and the Martin Barker discussion of House on the Edge of the Park). These tickets are priced at £12 each (£7.50 concessions).

Full Delegate Pass – this gives delegates access to the Cine-Excess conference, screenings and talks by filmmaking guests, with lunch and refreshments also being included on the days of attendance. These tickets are priced at:

3 Day Full Pass £150
3 Day Full Pass (Student/Unwaged) £75
1 Day Full Pass £85
1 Day Full Pass (Student/Unwaged) £50

This event is only open to delegates aged 18 and over.

Contact the Odeon booking line on 0871 22 44 007 to book passes.

Censorship on the Edge of the Park - Ruggero Deodato Meets the BBFC

26 May · 18:30 - 19:30

Cine-Excess V is proud to present a historic debate between film policy makers, academics and one of cinema’s most influential and controversial figures: Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust, House on the Edge of the Park, Cut and Run).

In this special debate session, Ruggero Deodato discusses some of his most contentious titles with very the policy makers responsible for their legal classification, as well as the leading academics who have analysed their imagery and themes.

Censorship on the Edge of the Park: Ruggero Deodato Meets the BBFC features a keynote address by Professor Martin Barker (Aberystwyth University) on his recent BBFC funded audience study on House on the Edge of the Park. Other panellists include Craig Lapper (Senior BBFC Examiner) and Ruggero Deodato himself. Censorship on the Edge of the Park: Ruggero Deodato Meets the BBFC is chaired by Professor Julian Petley (Brunel University).

Censorship on the Edge of the Park: Ruggero Deodato Meets the BBFC is open to cinema goers over the age of 18, and tickets are priced at £12 each, (£7.50 concessions). This panel discussion is also free to all Cine-Excess V delegates holding a full or day rate pass.

The Worldwide Theatrical Premiere of the New Edit of Cannibal Holocaust

26 May · 20:30 - 23:00

Cine-Excess V is proud to present the Worldwide theatrical premiere of one of this year’s most hotly discussed horror classics: Cannibal Holocaust. This new edit has been exclusively prepared for Shameless Films in the UK by director Ruggero Deodato, and addresses some of the controversial issues raised in the film’s original 1979 release.

Ruggero Deodato’s influential and infamous tale centres on four intrepid explorers who go missing in the Amazonian wilderness, leading to fears that they have been butchered by local ‘savages.’ However, when the noted NYU anthropologist Harold Monroe discovers the group’s final filmed diary, a far more shocking tale emerges…

With its complex narrative composition and innovative use of documentary style techniques, Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust initiated a trailblazing trend of ‘found footage horror’ that continued through to The Blair Witch Project (1999) and beyond. However, the film’s stylishness was overshadowed by it savage imagery, which lead to the movie being banned and heavily censored in many European countries.

In this new 2011 cut, Ruggero Deodato revisits his most controversial film to date, offering a contemporary re-reading of its subversive and shocking imagery for a new generation of fear seekers. The Worldwide premiere of the new cut of Cannibal Holocaust will be presented by director Ruggero Deodato himself, in a special on-stage discussion to be held before the screening of the film.

Cannibal Holocaust Screening courtesy of Shameless Films, who will release the film on Blu-ray and DVD on 26th of September 2011.

This screening is open to cinema goers over the age of 18, and tickets are priced at £12 each, (£7.50 concessions). The screening is also free to all Cine-Excess V delegates holding a full or day rate pass.

Warning, Cannibal Holocaust contains scenes of violence and suffering that some viewers may find distressing. Patrons are advised not to attend this screening if they are easily offended.

Art house Atrocities - Franco Nero Introduces A Quiet Place in the Country

Time
27 May · 20:30 - 23:00
Location
The Italian Cultural Institute, London

Cine-Excess are proud to be working with our partners at the Italian Cultural Institute to programme a series of additional screenings and talks for our fifth annual event.

On the evening of Friday 27th May at 8.30pm, the Italian Cultural Institute will be presenting an exclusive screening of Elio Petri’s rarely seen and disturbing avant-garde horror movie A Quiet Place in the Country. In this innovative but illusive classic, Franco Nero plays Leonardo Ferri, a tortured painter haunted by disturbing and sadomasochistic memories, which he attempts to evade by isolating himself in a remote country retreat at the behest of his seductive female companion (played superbly by Vanessa Redgrave).

Here, Ferri’s unsound mind is pushed beyond its limits when it appears that this ideal rural local and his female have become the target of a female spectre murdered during the fascist era.
Boasting an incredible psychedelic collage of imagery that perfectly reflects the male character’s fractured psyche, Petri’s stunning visual palette is complimented by a deliriously thumping soundtrack by Ennio Morricone, which adds to this unique cinematic experience. Part arthouse intrigue, part giallo precursor, A Quiet Place in the Country is pure Cine-Excess! We are delighted that Cine-Excess V Guest Franco Nero, who provides such a powerful performance in the movie, will be introducing this very special screening of Elio Petri’s lost classic.

A Quiet Place in the Country Screening is Courtesy of Park Circus

This screening is open to cinema goers over the age of 18, and tickets are priced at £7.

[Jonny]

Django Never Dies - Italian Screen Legend Franco Nero Onstage

28 May · 16:00 - 18:30

Cine-Excess V is honoured to host a special onstage interview and career retrospective with Italian acting legend Franco Nero. This acclaimed actor has made over 150 films films including Keoma (1976), Hitch Hike (1977), Enter the Ninja (1981) and Die Hard 2 (1990). Nero has worked with a wide range of international award-winning film-makers that have included directors such John Huston, Luis Bunũel, Elio Petri, Claude Chabrol, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and actors such as Catherine Deneuve, Peter O'Toole, Harrison Ford, Burt Lancaster and Bruce Willis.

For cult film fans, Franco Nero is best known for his iconic screen role as the amoral but deadly gunslinger in Corbucci’s landmark western, which was itself the subject of notoriety for its excessive scenes of violence and torture. In this exclusive onstage interview, Franco Nero will be discussing his career, the importance of Italian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s and why the cult of Django never dies. The interview will be followed by an exclusive screening of Corbucci’s influential spaghetti splatter movie Django.

Screening of Django courtesy of Argent Films.

Django Never Dies: Italian Screen Legend Franco Nero Onstage is open to cinema goers over the age of 18, and tickets are priced at £12 each, (£7.50 concessions). This panel discussion is also free to all Cine-Excess V delegates holding a full or day rate pass.

Live Like an Italian, Die Like a Filmmaker - Ruggero Deodato

28 May · 21:00 - 23:30

Location
The Italian Cultural Institute, London

Cine-Excess is delighted to be working with the Italian Cultural Institute to present a very special panel discussion by one of Italy’s most prolific and confrontational directors: Ruggero Deodato. Although best known for his landmark controversial movie Cannibal Holocaust (1979), Deodato also directed a series of prolific thrillers, which often represented stark snapshots of a changing 1970s Italian cultural and political landscape. As well as discussing these films and Italian society of the 1970s, Ruggero Deodato will also be considering the extent to which wider Italian fears about terrorism and urban crime impacted on the cycle of rogue cop thrillers that proliferated during this decade.

The evening concludes with a rare screening of Ruggero Deodato’s 1976 high octane thriller Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man, which features Marc Porel and Ray Lovelock as two amoral undercover officers whose quest for justice and vengeance pushes the boundaries of permissible policing to the limits. Featuring jaw dropping chase scenes (that includes an incredible extended opening motorcycle heist scene trailed around the streets of Rome), as well jaw busting scenes of gangland brutality, Deodato’s film also benefits from a taut script from crime fiction king Fernando Di Leo. Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man was selected by Ruggero Deodato as one of his own personal favourites to accompany his visit to Cine-Excess V, and we are delighted to host it as this year’s closing film.

Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man, screening courtesy of Ruggero Deodato.

This screening is open to cinema goers over the age of 18, and tickets are priced at £7.

[necroluciferia]

I just had an event invite on Facebook for some of these. The discussion with Deodato should be very interesting, I would love to go to but not made my mind up yet.

[BioZombie]

That all looks fantastic! I am going to see if I can come down to london and go to it. If I'm lucky I might be able to talk my GF into letting me stay at her parents

[robertzombie]

I'll definitely be at a few of them

[BioZombie]

I just tried to book a 3 day (student) pass with odeon, they said there are no three day passes just one day passes. It cost me a fortune phoning the line as well.

[masdawg]

Originally Posted by BioZombie

I just tried to book a 3 day (student) pass with odeon, they said there are no three day passes just one day passes. It cost me a fortune phoning the line as well.

Hmmm...that's a bit strange, Bio. Maybe you could try contacting the Cine-Excess guys? Might be something as simple as a communication error...at least worth a try

[BioZombie]

Originally Posted by masdawg

Hmmm...that's a bit strange, Bio. Maybe you could try contacting the Cine-Excess guys? Might be something as simple as a communication error...at least worth a try

I had the same idea masdawg, one of the people fomr Cine-Excess mailed me back saying he's talked to odeon and it should be sorted. Gonna order my ticket tomorrow!!!