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UPCOMING EVENTS
7.50PM FRIDAY MARCH 28TH​
IT IS STILL 1985 MOVIE CLUB
RETURN
TO OZ
40TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING
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An event we are really holding space with and feeling power in....celebrating 17 years of Brighton's favourite 80s party and the city's longest running weekly club night (Every Saturday at Green Door Store) 'It Is Still 1985' is marking both their own longevity and the fact that the year they are named after (1985) is now exactly 40 years ago by teaming up with us at White Wall Cinema to create a new movie club for 2025 that screens a selection of movies celebrating their 40th anniversary on a limited number of select dates across this year. We begin with this wonderfully creepy kids classic that still lives rent free in the minds of all who saw it in their youth. Forget Ariana Grande, this is the ONLY truly WICKED adaptation of L. Frank Baum's Oz novels.
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The only directorial effort of legendary sound designer and editor Walter Murch (responsible for the likes of THX-1138, The Godfather 1, 2 & 3, American Graffiti, The Conversation, Ghost, The Talented Mr Ripley, and Cold Mountain, as well as winning Oscars for his work on Apocalypse Now and The English Patient) it is a decidedly darker and more fascinating ride into Oz than one might expect from a Disney movie, but then, it was the 80s...
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When the mother (Piper Laurie of Twin Peaks fame) of the young Dorothy Gale (played by the one and only Fairuza Balk from The Craft) fears her daughter is too disturbed by her memories/visions of the imaginary world of Oz, she takes her for psychological experimentation. Dorothy manages to escape to Oz, only find a vain witch and evil king have turned the yellow brick road to rubble, and left the Emerald City a pile of ruins. Determined to save the day she, with the help of some new friends like Billina, Tik-Tok, Jack Pumkinhead and The Gump, heads off to rescue her old friends the scarecrow, the tin man and the lion.
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Given the awesome reputation of the original Wizard Of Oz film, spin-off adaptations were inevitable, but from The Wiz to Wicked no other Oz movie will ever quite achieve the cult status of this bizarre, brilliant and often dazzling creation that all adds up to the most wonderfully unexpected sequel to the 1939 MGM classic. Ingenious production design and irresistible nightmarish special effects combine to create a fantastic voyage that is burned into the psyche of every 80s kid and still stands today as a joyously creative and stylish take on the world over the rainbow.
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For more info It Is Still 1985's weekly Saturday events visit itisstill1985.com
7.10PM SUNDAY APRIL 6TH​
DOGFIGHT
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Nancy Savoca's criminally underseen 1991 coming of age film is an ineffably bittersweet portrait of youth in the 1960s, starring two of cinema's brightest and most underserved talents in the late great River Phoenix (Stand By Me, My Own Private Idaho) and the wonderful Lili Taylor (Mystic Pizza, Six Feet Under). ​
When hotheaded, Vietnam-bound marine Eddie Birdlace (River Phoenix), brings aspiring San Francisco folk singer Rose (Lili Taylor) as his date to a pre-shipping out to war 'Dogfight' party (a cruelly misogynistic party where men compete to bring the most unattractive dates they can find), things seem destined for disaster. But what begins as a night to forget unexpectedly develops into something far more meaningful.
Featuring music by folk legends Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Pete Seeger, Dogfight captures the miracle of human connection whilst gently prodding at notions of societal roles and the assumptions we make about others, all played out between two vividly drawn and beautifully acted characters (critics have argued Taylor more than deserved an Oscar nomination here). The film also gracefully subverts ideas surrounding machismo, patriotic duty, and the very meaning of America itself.
Finally seeing a renaissance in recent years Nancy Savoca's Dogfight is a forgotten gem that deserves its new status as an undiscovered classic, that, whilst imbued with a light touch by its director, will non the less stay with you long after the credits roll.
8.05PM FRIDAY APRIL 18TH
G​OOD FRIDAY SPECIAL EVENT
30TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING
EMPIRE RECORDS
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Easily THE Most 90s movie ever made, the definitive cult classic and enduring fan favourite coming of age comedy-drama Empire Records comes to White Wall Cinema for a special Good Friday event.
A joyous depiction of 90s teen culture Empire Records follows a group of misfit employees at a Delaware record store (the shop itself is enough to inspire waves of 90s nostalgia) who find they have to band together to save their indie record store from a corporate takeover. Filled with teenage life problems, romances and laughs, Empire Records features a brilliant ensemble cast of fresh faced young stars including Liv Tyler (Lord of The Rings), Renée Zellweger (Bridget Jones), Robin Tunney (The Craft), Rory Cochrane (Dazed & Confused / Argo), Debi Mazar (Goodfellas / Entourage) plus a legendary and unforgettable turn from Maxwell Caulfield as washed up pop-star Rex Manning (Say No More Mon Amour)!
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The film is chock full of classic 90s tunes, as such we will be spinning some of our own on the night ahead of screening time (including some pre-film big screen music videos of the era), so come early and grab a drink. On that note we will be serving a special cocktail inspired by the legend Rex Manning himself and we will be opening up our beer garden for the first time this year. Plus if you fancy dressing up in your best 90s Empire Records inspired garb we might well give out a best dressed award. That plus much more at this special Good Friday special screening event. You are off work so no excuses, but either way, 'Damn the man, save the Empire'!
9.30PM BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND EASTER SUNDAY APRIL 20TH (NO WORK MONDAY!)
MICHAEL MANN'S
THE KEEP+
JOHN CARPENTER'S
THE FOG
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White Wall Cinema's first ever late night screening we have twinned two supernatural horror classics, one hard to find long lost gem by one of cinema's coolest directors and one much loved favourite by a horror master which we will sync up the time and date of the story with the actual time and date of the screening for extra spookiness!
The night begins with a super special screening of the long lost recently unearthed 1983 Michael Mann (Miami Vice, Heat, Collateral, Manhunter) film The Keep. Hard to find and rarely screened, this fabled holy grail of cinema follows a group of Nazi soldiers who occupy a small village in the Carpathian Mountains during World War II, only to find the fortress they are so keen on setting up camp in wasn't built to keep them out, but was actually constructed to keep something evil in!
Scott Glenn (The Right Stuff, Silence Of The Lambs), Jürgen Prochnow (Das Boot), Robert Prosky (Christine, Broadcast News), Ian McKellen (The Lord Of The Rings, X-Men), Gabriel Byrne (Miller's Crossing, The Usual Suspects), make up the all star cast of a film that features Michael Mann's famed signature visual style as well as a corking score from 80s synth-masters Tangerine Dream.
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This will be followed by an all time classic from legendary horror director John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing, They Live, Escape From New York). The Fog is the spooky tale of a small Californian coastal town celebrating it's centenary which marks not only the 100th anniversary of the town, but also of a supernatural fog that descended following a mysterious ship wreck in the area. This unearthly fog now returns bringing with it dangerous spectres hell-bent on seeking retribution.
The Fog also features another stellar cast including Adrienne Barbeau (Escape From New York, Creepshow), Hal Holbrook (All The President's Men, Into The Wild), as well as undisputed 'Scream Queens', Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween, Trading Place, True Lies, Everything Everywhere All At Once) and her real life mother, star of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Janet Leigh. ​
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This very special screening will coincide exactly in terms of both date and time with the films storytelling. As our narrator exclaims
'In five minutes, it will be the 21st of April' so it will be in real life too. Don't miss out on this very special double bill that can only be held on this special date and time.
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Please Note: There will be a short interval between the films but patrons will only be able to enter prior to the start of the first film.
8PM THURSDAY APRIL 24TH​
DIDI
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The trick of Sean Wang's brilliant debut film Didi is that it is both a coming of age movie for anyone who's ever been a teenager as well as being a deeply accurate portrait of what it was like for the first generation that grew up online. In what feels like a spiritual sequel to Jonah Hill's 'Mid90s' and a prequel to Bo Burnham's 'Eighth Grade', 2008 is depicted with heartfelt and deadly accuracy as young Didi grows up in a world of Facebook & MySpace whilst still facing the timeless agonies of being a teenager.
Sublimely written and performed, Didi boasts a brilliant lead in the shape of its young lead Izaac Wang, who must learn to navigate the tricky teenage questions of understanding your cultural identity, how to flirt with girls, how to skateboard, and how to get along with your mother, (played here beautifully by the marvellous Joan Chen of Twin Peaks fame).
Living with his sister, mother and (the director's own real-life) grandmother, Didi's life reflects both a highly personal statement from director Sean Wang, but also an extraordinarily moving and universal portrait of the joy and chaos of being 13 whilst trying to be cool. Tender, funny, and painful Wang's film is a triumphant and definitive portrait of a very recent bygone era that gives us a wonderfully salient insight into the past, the present and the future of teenage life.
“INTERESTING, FUN, UNUSUAL, OVERLOOKED CINEMA, CLASSIC AND NEW, SCREENING
ALL YEAR ROUND.”
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