Three Orange Whips present

THE BLUES BROTHERS (15) 11.15pm

(US 1980) dir. John Landis 133m.
John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Carrie Fisher, John Candy, Aretha Franklin.

Just released from prison, Jake Blues (Belushi) and Elwood Blues (Aykroyd) discover that the orphanage where they were raised is due to shut unless it can pay a $5000 tax bill. They promptly decide to go on tour with their old blues band to raise the money, and are determined to overcome any obstacle on their way. The film’s comic energy, a cast that includes James Brown, Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles, and a hilarious performance by Belushi lifts THE BLUES BROTHERS to the cult status it justly deserves.

£6

Eight extraordinary days of films and fun, overflowing with a host of international features, shorts, workshops, special events and parties: featuring fashion, music, visual arts, performance, comedy and heritage. Rio screenings start on Fri 20 Apr and highlights include: a sneak preview of Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten, The Pied Piper of Hutzovina featuring ‘Gogol Bordello's’ Eugene Hutz, Almost Adult by Yousaf Ali Khan, feature funding advice and more.

The East End Film Festival aims to showcase a high quality range of new and contemporary films that explore the potential of cinema to cross cultural, political and artistic boundaries and that visualise the experience of living and working in the East End of London.

At venues across East London: Rich Mix, Bethnal Green; Rio Cinema, Dalston; Genesis, Mile End; Cineworld, West India Quay.

Everything you love about East London... on the big screen!

www.eastendfilmfestival.com
www.myspace.com/theeastendfilmfestival

TRANSYLVANIA (15) 6.00

(France 2006) dir. Tony Gatlif 105m. Subtitles
Asia Argento, Birol Ünel.

Abandonded by a passionate Romanian musician who has left her pregnant, Zingarina (Argento) ventures into the forbidding foreignness of Transylvania to track him down. She soon finds that although Roma life is rootless and unsettling it is also full of compassion and humanity. When events take an unexpected turn, Zingarina discovers that to be free she must cast off her past life and embrace the possibilities that come her way, the most enticing of which is Tchango (Ünel), an enigmatic traveller free of borders and home. Transylvania is a haunting love-story, set in the hallucinatory landscapes of post-communist Romania. Directed by Tony Gatlif, Best Director Award-winner Cannes 2004, this is a mysterious and compelling piece of filmmaking.

£6/£5 Concs

Feature Funding Seminar 1.00

This panel will look at the current strategies for financing feature films of budgets between £1 million and £3 million. The panel will discuss the usual components that could make up a finance plan, including the new UK Tax Credit, issues around international co-production, and the role of sales and distribution companies in financing a film. The panel will include feature film producers and professionals from the film finance sector.

£6/£5 Concs

ALMOST ADULT (15) 3.00

(UK/Germany 2006) dir.Yousaf Ali Khan 89m.

After losing a sister and having no knowledge of where her parents are Mamie (Victoire Milandu) 17, travels to Britain from the Democratic Republic of Congo in the hope of finding a safer life. Immigration authorities send her to Birmingham, where she meets the fragile Shiku (Ann Warungu) 13, and, while they don't share a language, Mamie vows to look after the younger girl and treat her like a sister. When it is discovered they are not genuine siblings the authorities split them up. Threatened with deportation, Mamie disappears, working in exploitative conditions within the immigrant community and Shiku is put with foster parents who forbid her from having friends.

Cast from non-actors within the refugee community, this is a film about what life is like for unaccompanied child asylum seekers entering the UK. This is the first feature from award-winning short film director Yousaf Ali Khan who has earned an international reputation as a director to watch.

+ Q&A with director Yousaf Ali Kahn

£6/£5 Concs

GUCA (15) 5.30

(Serbia 2006) dir. Milivoj Ilic 71m. Subtitles.

It’s August: Guca, a quiet Serbian village becomes a Balkan Woodstock when 200,000 people invade for a weekend of music, dancing and utter madness, all to the sound of Serbian and Gypsy brass music. The film takes in the sights and sounds of Serbia’s breathtaking scenery and we get to meet locals and visitors who are all equally as passionate about the Guca music festival. The film introduces the audience to two young guns competing in this year’s festival and follows their attempts to win the coveted gold trumpet at the 45th Trumpet Festival in Guca. They educate us in the ways of the Balkan trumpet as we follow them through rehearsals performing at the midnight concert and finally in competition at the finals.

Screening to be introduced By Milivoj Ilic

+ THE PIED PIPER OF HUTZOVINA (15)

(Czechoslovakia 2006) dir. Pavla Fleischer 65m.

In the summer of 2004 Pavla Fleischer met and fell in Love with Eugene Hutz, lead singer of New York based gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello. Captivated by his energy and musical verve she decided to make a film about him. The Pied Piper of Hutzovina follows Eugene and Pavla on their subsequent road trip through Eugene’s home country, Ukraine. Her aim is to rediscover a forgotten romance; his is to rediscover his roots and find musical inspiration from the gypsy culture he is determined to preserve. This is an intimate portrait of a filmmaker with a passion for her subject, and a musician with a longing to revisit his past.

£6/£5 Concs

CHAOS (15) 11.15pm

(Poland 2006) dir. Xawery Zulawski 124m. Subtitles. Digital.
Maria Strzelecka, Marcin Brzozowski, Slawoj Jedrzejewski, Bolec, Helena Sztyber, Anna Gryszkowna, Borys Szyc.

The European Economic Forum is starting in Warsaw. Anti-globalists, including Niki, Blondas, Slawek and Mania, Blondas' half-sister, announce plans to protest. Niki, who is an anarchist, wants to change the world. He is in love with Mania. Blonde would like to become a gangster. He likes Marta, who is trying to change her life. Slawek is a young lawyer who gets married but at the same time, has a lover. Is he going to be a blackmailer? Generally speaking, there's a lot of chaos... Exhilaratingly filmed and an impressive debut from Xawery Zulawski.

£6

Sun 22 Apr • East End Film Festival

The East End On Film (15) 1.00

A selection of films by local artist filmmakers, curated by Carol Morley and introduced by Bev Zalcock.

“The following films are all set in the East End of London. I’ve lived in Whitechapel for seven years now, and was a student at Tower Hamlets College fifteen years ago. It was there I became really interested in the area historically, socially and visually. I am always excited to see the East End on film and this selection of artist film and video offers diverse filmmaking approaches to representing such a fascinating area.” (Carol Morley)

BLACK TOWER
(UK 1987) dir. John Smith 24m.
Enter the world of a man haunted by a tower which, he believes, is following him around Leytonstone.

EAST END UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT
(UK 1985) dir. Bev Zalcock 5m.
A woman daydreams on the underground train to East Ham.

STALIN MY NEIGHBOUR
(UK 2004) dir. Carol Morely 15m.
Annie walks the streets of the East End of London, in the footsteps of Josef Stalin and Mahatma Ghandi.

A13
(UK 1994) dir. William Raban 12m.
A13 investigates the social and architectural structures of London's East End.

FISTICUFFS
(UK 2004) dir. Miranda Pennell 11m.
Six actors punch, kick and wrestle their way through an East London working men's club.

Carol Morley is an award winning filmmaker whose films include The Alcohol Years which was BAFTA nominated. Her films have screened worldwide and have been broadcast internationally including screenings on the Sundance Channel. Three of her films were released on DVD in 2005 to critical acclaim. She is currently in development with Warp X with her first feature film Dreams of a Life.

£6/£5 Concs

BATAVILLE (15) 3.00

(UK 2005) dirs. Karen Guthrie & Nina Pope 93m.

BATA-VILLE is a bittersweet record of an English coach trip to the origins of the Bata shoe empire – the Moravian town of Zlin. Against the backdrop of economic regeneration in their communities, former employees of two, now closed, UK Bata factories are led by artist / directors Pope & Guthrie on a unique journey through Bata’s legacy and across a changing Europe. What begins as a free holiday soon becomes an opportunity for a collective imagining of what Tomas Bata’s inspirational maxim, “We are not afraid of the future” can mean in 21st Century Britain.

+ Q&A

£6/£5 Concs

(Philippines/2005) dir. Aureaus Solito 98m.

Multi-award winning The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros traces the story of twelve-year old Maxi as he faces an enormous moral dilemma. Homosexual and effeminate, motherless Maxi cleans, cooks, and cares for his brothers and father, who are all petty thieves. Happily providing an alibi for them from time to time, it is not long before Maxi has to confront the magnitude of his family’s actions. Under the watchful gaze of Victor, a respected, principled policeman, Maxi’s dreams of a better life are awakened. However, the path to a life on the straight and narrow is beset with obstacles. Winner of the Grand Prix, Glass Bear and Teddy Awards at Berlin 2006.

+ Q&A with Tom Abel from Pecadillo Pictures

£6/£5 Concs

Tue 24 April • East End Film Festival

Shorts docs (15) 6.00

HUMAN CAVIAR
UK dir. Tony Johnson 3m.
In 1998 Paul Senior began a daily ritual of photographing himself. This film documents his changes over the following years.

CIRCUS AMOK
UK dir. Shehani Fernando 10m.
A small New York-based circus company and their politically motivated theatre.

HOLOCAUST TOURIST
UK dir. Jes Benstock 10m.
A wry documentary about Holocaust tourism in post-Schindler's List Poland.

FAMILY VILAKATI
Swaziland/UK dir. Xanthe Hamilton 10m.
A day in the life of four orphans living alone in the Northern Swaziland Mountains.

LEN
UK dir. Andrew Burgess 7m.
Ventriloquist Len Belmont looks back on his career and despairs for the future of entertainment.

THE HUMAN CORAL
UK dir. Michelle Coomber 4m.
Queens Market – Newham. Work and shop in the market, fight Tescopoly and the developers.

SHOREDITCH – END OF THE LINE
UK dir. Jenni Borg 11m.
A memoir of Shoreditch station which shut its doors for the last time in 2006.

SOLD FEELINGS
UK dir. Annis Joslin 13m.
A documentary on sex trafficking.

WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT
UK dir. Lovejit K Dhaliwal 4m.
Six women from different backgrounds aged between 18 and 61 try wearing the veil.

BLACK OR WHITE?
UK dir. Debbie Howard 4m.
A list of neutral either/or questions answered by a huge cross section of society.

A SONG FOR LONDON
UK dir. Ben Roy 23m.
They say you can find someone from every country in the world living in London. Musician Ben Roy has a week to find them all and get them to sing him a song.

£6/£5 Concs

(UK 2006) dir. Paul Kelly 45m.

Named after a 1970s West Ham goalkeeper, this is a dreamy snapshot of the Lower Lea Valley and is an oral history of a part of London that is being developed to house the 2012 Olympic Games. This eastern fringe, the capital's last remaining wilderness, represents an unruly kind of beauty. The overgrown, tumbledown roughscape of pylons, dirty canals and industrial warehouses that it offers is the antithesis of the gentrified, boom-time city of London. Accompanied by a haunting Saint Etienne soundtrack, this is Paul Kelly's follow up to Finisterre (2003) and documents the changes past and present that the Lea Valley has seen and looks forward to it's future.
Featuring the voices of David Essex and Linda Robson.

£6/£5 Concs

Closing Night Gala

Drinks reception 7.00

JOE STRUMMER: THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN (15) 7.30

(UK 2007) dir. Julien Temple 123m.

As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people’s lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before. In The Future Is Unwritten, from British director Julien Temple (The Filth and the Fury, Glastonbury), Joe Strummer is revealed not just as a legend or musician, but as a true communicator of our times. The Clash endure as icons, not just for their music but also as a band who stood for something above and beyond commercial success. In a world increasingly lacking in inspirational cultural figures, their story is an epic adventure, with Joe Strummer’s explosive personal force at the epicentre. With unique, authorized access to Joe’s personal archives and astonishing unseen footage, Temple digs deep beneath the myths which surround the Clash and punk in general to place Joe in the broader cultural context of the world during the last half century. The Future is Unwritten is a ripped, raw, cut-up, hand-spliced patchwork of iconic images and found footage, news clips, films, TV ads and unseen home movies, purely evocative of time, place and of the individual that was Joe Strummer. The Future Is Unwritten is a film to celebrate Joe’s life in the same style he lived it, and portrays him fully, not only as lead singer of ‘The Clash’ but also as actor, filmmaker, thinker, poet, artist, philosopher and icon.

£6/£5 Concs

Future Shorts (15) 11.15pm

Future Shorts brings you a comic and eclectic programme of films this month including the very beautiful documentary Silence from Poland, the recent Cannes selection Graceland, the deliciously dark Who I am and What I Want from Chris Shepherd and David Shrigley and the simply wonderful Dreams and Desires from Joanna Quinn. This is different cinema – www.futureshorts.com.

SILENCE (Cisza)
(Poland 1997) dir. Malgorzata Szumowska
A poetic portrait of a family living in the country. From the Lodz film school.

GRACELAND
(Thailand 2006) dir. Anocha Suwichakornpong
One night in Bangkok, Jon meets a mysterious woman. Together, they embark on a journey to a foreign land – the human heart.

WALKING
(France 2005 dir. Alexandre Bayle
Following someone’s footsteps through a sound-journey in the heart of a city where sounds are light.

THIS IS ME
(UK 2006) dir. Sam Arthur
The rise and fall of a couple living under the Heathrow airport flight path.

BOB LOG III’S ELECTRIC FENCE STORY
(Germany 2004) dirs. Sebastien Wolf & Tinka Stock
Bob Log III, a musician from Tucson, Arizona (USA), encounters problems while trying to knock over sleeping cows in the Black Forest, Germany.

WHO I AM AND WHAT I WANT
(UK 2005) dirs. David Shrigley & Chris Shepherd
This film is about who I am and what I want. It's NOT about who YOU are and what YOU want. You always think everything I make is about you but it's not. It's all about me…
Limited edition DVD single available at onedotzero.com

OEDIPUS
(UK 2004) dir. Rong
A man, a poem, and a family destroyed. History has never taught us so much.

DREAMS AND DESIRES – FAMILY TIES
(UK/Wales 2006) dir. Joanna Quinn
Beryl acquires a digi video camera and becomes obsessed with filmmaking, using it to keep a video diary of her friend Mandy’s wedding with disastrous and hilarious consequences.

+ a free beer with ticket

Adm £6/£5 Concessions

Sat 28 Apr • Hackney Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods present

SINCE YOU LEFT (15) 4.00

(Israel 2005) dir. Mohammed Bakri 58m. Subtitles. Digital.

In this autobiographical essay, Palestinian-Israeli actor Bakri returns to the grave of his former mentor, the writer and communist Emile Habibi, and attempts – using archive footage, personal films, and documentary materials – to account for the personal and political transformations that have occurred in Israel/Palestine as well as within his own thinking since the author’s death. This is a powerful work by one of the most prominent Palestinian citizens of Israel, whose turbulent relationship with the state and zionist culture as artist and individual is inescapably linked to his political thinking. A powerful piece of work by one of the most prominent Palestinian citizens of Israel.

+ Q&A with Mohammed Bakri chaired by film-maker Jenny Morgan

£6/£4 Concs

Sat 28 Apr • Late Night Viva! Spanish & Latin American Film Festival on tour

HABANA BLUES (15) 11.15pm

(Spain/Cuba/France 2005) Benito Zambrano 115m. Subtitles.
Alberto Yoel, Roberto Sanmartín, Yailene Sierra, Tomás Cao, Zenia Marabal.

An enjoyably anarchic love letter to the never-say-die spirit of Cuba and to music as a way of life, this is a vibrant portrayal of a group of musicians struggling for success. Ruy and Tito are the key members of ‘Habana Blues’, an underground rock band. They are introduced to talent-spotting producers, who make them an offer to leave Cuba for Spain. Will the boys abandon family and friends for a shot at the big time? The faithful documenting of dingy, dilapidated interiors – including the magnificent abandoned theatre where Habana Blues is planning to play – is stunning. With its classy soundtrack this film is infectiously upbeat.

£6

DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE (PG) 11.30pm

(US 1920) dir. John S Robertson 73m. Digital.
John Barrymore, Charles Lane, Martha Mansfield, Nita Naldi.

DJ Nacho Martin (NOSFERATU, THE UNKNOWN) is back at the Rio, with a new electronic score for the most macabre Jekyll ever filmed. John Barrymore transforms himself bodily into the spider-like Hyde, leaving a trail of human wreckage across the East End. A free drink on arrival for every spectator, amongst other surprises – sponsored by the Stone Cave.

www.kinosound.co.uk

£7/£5 Concs

(Mexico 1970) dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky 119m. Re-release. Digital.
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, José Legarreta, Alfonso Arau, José Luis Fernández, Alf Junco, Jacqueline Luis, Mara Lorenzio, David Silva.

A black-clad gunslinger's journey toward enlightenment involves killing four holy masters and liberating a strange subterranean community, in Alejandro Jodorowsky's mystical western that transformed him into a countercultural icon and kick-started the 'midnight movie' boom. Poignant, visceral and occasionally baffling it stands as a gloriously strange remnant from a long since passed era and a landmark work in subversive cinema.

£6

EAST OF LIBERTY (Chapter One: A Story of Good Intentions) (15) 1.00
(USA 2006) Dir: Chris Ivey, 90m.

A hard-hitting documentary about rampant gentrification and bad planning in Pittsburgh, USA.

In May 2005 Chris Ivey was hired to document the knocking down of the infamous East Mall tower block in the East Liberty neighbourhood or Pittsburgh. Notorious for drugs and crime, it seemed that nobody would mourn its demise. But while there he heard the voices of the residents themselves as they expressed anger and anxiousness absent from the talk of business and the regeneration company. Ivey kept on filming – over eighty hours in all, with the final ninety minute cut pitching the excluded against planners, reality against gloss.

The subject of this documentary is just as applicable in Hackney as it is in every major city in the US. In the fight for space in the urban world, is it inevitable that wealth triumphs?

Chris Ivey will attending the premiere and answering questions afterwards. On the prospect of showing his film here he said: "I'm really looking to forward to coming to Hackney to show my film. Gentrification isn't just happening here in the States, it's also happening all over the world too. Sometimes it's race, and sometimes it's class, but it always comes down to the money – who has it and who doesn't, and if you don't have it you'll get screwed."

+ q & a with Chris Ivey

£4

Tue 22 May • Early Evening Special

THE NAMESAKE (12A) 6.00

(US/India 2007) dir. Mira Nair 122m.
Kal Penn, Tabu, Irfran Khan, Jacinda Barrett, Zuleikha Robinson.

Following their arranged marriage, Ashoke and Ashima jet off from steamy Calcutta to wintry New York to begin their life together. They soon have a son and name him Gogol, after the famous Russian author. It's a name with a link to a hidden past and, Ashoke hopes, a better future. But life isn't as easy for Gogol as his parents might wish. As a first generation American, he must learn to tread a line between his Bengali heritage and his American birthright in the search for his own identity. A sweeping, warm, heartfelt adaptation of the book by Jhumpa Lahiri.

£5.50/£4.50 Concs

(Mexico 1975) dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky 114m. Subtitles. Re-release. Digital.
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horácio Salinas, Zamira Saunders, Juan Ferrara, Adriana Page, Burt Kleiner.

A limbless man laughs as a gang of naked boys stone a Christlike figure. An old man gazes longingly at a juvenile prostitute, before taking out his glass eye and placing it in her hand. A thief becomes caught up with a group who set out on a mission to find immortality. They are led by a dubious guru, played by the director himself. Welcome to the overactive imagination of Jodorowsky. This follow-up to EL TOPO is a barrage of images often playful, occasionally horrible, frequently beautiful, and always fascinating.

£6

Future Shorts (15) 11.15pm

Future Shorts swings into May with another tour de force of cinematic acrobatics. Highlights this month include the multi-award-winning I AM NOT VAN GOGH by David Russo, as well as Daniel Elliott’s Venice winner THE MAKING OF PARTS, plus much, much more. This is different cinema – www.futureshorts.com

1234 [FEIST]
(US 2005) dir. Patrick Daughters
A one-take-wonder featuring choreographed dancing, bright colours and the music of Leslie Feist.

THE MAKING OF PARTS
(UK 2006) dir. Daniel Elliott
A man’s love and tenderness, which he once shared with his wife, is now slipping away from him. As one sexual existence ends, another is just beginning.

BEFORE THE LIGHT GOES OFF…
(Poland 2002) dir. Daniel Swiatly
The relationship between a young father and his six year-old son. The father uses fable form to interpret many important problems and adult problems during the nightly conversations with his son.

MANDERLAY
(UK 2006) dir. Paul Barritt
A weird dream of goatmen and brownies.
www.19-27.co.uk

TELL IT TO THE FISHES
(UK 2006) dir. Wiliam Sinclair
The tide is coming in and Finn, a worthless low-rent hood, has been dropped on an isolated beach, his feet set in concrete.
www.laikapictures.com

THE AGREEMENT
(Australia 2006) dir. Russell Edwards
When Dad comes home for dinner fear rules supreme. Years of fatherly abuse have his family living on the psychological edge, but a small rebellion leads them to a sinister idea.

QUIETSCH
(Germany 2005) dir. Baran bo Odar
A musical of sorts, one with noises, creaking beds, and three unruly kids.

LIBRE INDIRECTO
(Spain 1997) dir. Juanjo Giminez
During a regional soccer game, a goalkeeper is sent off from the game. A very special supporter will cheer up the substitute for the rest of the match.

TALES OF MERE EXISTENCE
(US 2007) dir. Lev Yilmaz
Another installment from the hilarious Tales of Mere Existence.
www.ingredientx.com

I AM NOT VAN GOGH
(US 2005) dir. David Russo
A misfit artist proposes a film production to a confused public arts festival panel. A true story, many times over, originally created as a site-specific art installation for Seattle’s Bumbershoot festival.

+ a free beer with ticket

Adm £5.50/£4.50 Concessions

Mind-bending, fascinating epic from the godfather of surrealism David Lynch.

An attractive blonde actress falls down rabbit holes inside rabbit holes in this stunning new feature from the maker of BLUE VELVET, TWIN PEAKS and MULHOLLAND DRIVE (which this film resembles like an evil twin). Nikki Grace (Laura Dern) has just landed the role of Susan Blue in a new film called “On High in Blue Tomorrows”, a romantic melodrama alongside womanising co-star Devon Berk (Justin Theroux). At first delighted with her big role, shadows start to fall when it’s revealed the film is based on a Polish gypsy folktale, and it’s a remake – the first shoot collapsed when the two main actors were murdered. Soon the film-within-a-film casts an enveloping spell over Nikki, as her real life and that of her character begin to merge. So begins a mesmerising, perplexing journey through dark hallways, grand mansions, sleazy LA boulevards and the snowy streets of 1930s Poland, populated by a mysterious weeping woman, a troupe of young prostitutes and three giant rabbits who are starring in their own chilling ‘sitcom’. Despite a different visual quality to his previous films (this was made on consumer digicam), the content is pure Lynch. With shocking changes of pace, terrifying soundscapes and a host of bewildering characters, you are left trying to put the myriad pieces of this huge jigsaw together days later. Alternately beautiful and ugly, funny and horrifying, this may be Lynch’s most incomprehensible film yet. But don’t let that put you off. Sit back and let the cracked Lynchian brilliance wash over you; in this multiplex world films like INLAND EMPIRE are gold dust.

£6