• Posts Tagged ‘movies’

    Film: When You’re Strange

    by  • August 17, 2010 • film • 0 Comments

    The Belmont Picturehouse | Various times & prices | See website for details After some problems with the initial run of the film, The Belmont is showing Tom DiCillo’s Doors documentary When You’re Strange every day this week. Narrated by some guy called Johnny Depp, it’s packed with rare archive footage including plenty of...

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    Film: Breathless (À Bout de Souffle)

    by  • June 24, 2010 • film • 0 Comments

    Friday 25 June-Thursday 1 July | The Belmont Picturehouse | Various times/prices see Belmont Website A welcome 50th anniversary big screen re-release for Jean Luc Godard’s new-wave classic.  All together now, “New York Herald Tribune.”  Superb(e).

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    Film: American: The Bill Hicks Story

    by  • June 14, 2010 • film • 0 Comments

    Tuesday 15-Thursday 17 June | The Belmont Picturehouse | Various Times & Prices It’s about time there was a proper documentary on maverick comedian Bill Hicks and, going by the reviews, British film-makers Matt Hurlock and Paul Thomas (aided by Hicks’ friends and family) have come up with something that does him justice.  Check...

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    Film: Erasing David

    by  • April 27, 2010 • film • 0 Comments

    Thursday 29 April | The Belmont Picturehouse | 8.30pm | £7.50 Tickets This looks great (and slightly frightening), read on, then check the trailer below… Just how much of our personal information is floating around in government and corporate databases? Filmmaker David Bond decides to find out, by disappearing for a month and setting...

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    Film: Director’s Cut: Alex Cox

    by  • March 26, 2010 • film • 0 Comments

    At time of writing, there are still places available to see Alex Cox (director of Repo Man and Sid & Nancy,  former presenter of the BBC’s Moviedrome series etc.) in conversation with Janice Forsyth as part of the University of Aberdeen’s Director’s Cut programme this Monday 29 March at 6pm.  More details and booking...

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    Film: A-Deen Skate Premiere

    by  • February 23, 2010 • film • 0 Comments

    Thursday 25 February | The Belmont Picturehouse | 8pm | £3 There’s always been a healthy Skateboard culture in Aberdeen and the scene up here is hugely respected across the UK and beyond.  It’s a wee bit more visible nowadays with the addition of the amazing Transition Extreme but skaters tend not to rest...

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