Scalarama screenings in Leeds.

Scalarama are presenting some cult classics throughout September at the legendary Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds. This not just only in Leeds so if you can’t make the screenings, your local art house cinema may being showing these film along with many others as a part of the month long Scalarama across the UK.

Daisies – Tuesday the 16^th

Věra Chytilová made one of the most unique, entertaining, psychedelic and experimental films of the Czech new wave with Daisies. Is it defiant feminist statement? Nihilistic, avant-garde comedy or a riotous, punk-rock poem? It’s uncompromising in it’s style but yet is still hilarious and utterly entertaining unlike so many other experimental films. Since it’s recent re-discovery due to the Second Run DVD release it’s stature as a key piece of classic European art-cinema has only grown.

“Extremely funny, witty and expertly-fashioned film… displays a remarkable control of filmic language, special effects, rhythm and sight gags” Variety

“My favourite Czech film and one of the most exhilarating stylistic and psychedelic eruptions of the 60s…” Jonathan Rosenbaum.

“Freshly humorous and accessible… a key film in the Czech New Wave movement. A surrealist comedy way ahead of its time” All Movie Guide

“The film is as timeless as it is beautiful” About World Film

Tickets – http://www.hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk/index.php?showing=6496#now-showing

The Visitor – Saturday the 20^th

The Visitor has been recently restored and will play as a part of the extremely popular cult movie strand “Creatures of the Night”. It’s been recently restored to it’s baffling uncut glory. It’s a increasingly bizarre tale of aliens from outer space fighting demons who are fighting over the soul of a young girl. It also has some of the most insane cast’s of any cult film ever assembled including Shelley Winter (who was in more great cult films then you can name), Lance Henrikson, Glenn Ford, Sam Peckinpah, John Huston and the original Django himself Franco Nero as Jesus Christ. It was directed by Italian maestro Guilio Paradisi, is it a lost art film disguised as exploitation? Is it a failed art film? Or is it just perhaps the more mind-altering film of the 1970s? Find out for yourself

Tickets – http://www.hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk/index.php?showing=6484#now-showing

For more information check out the http://www.hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk/

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I'm the guy who normally covers stuff released by Masters of Cinema and Arrow Video along with a sprinkling of other stuff. I love a wide range of films from European art house films to silly action films. My top 10 films are Brazil, Blue Velvet, Donnie Darko, Fight Club, Jackie Brown, Seconds, Pan's Labyrinth, Badlands, Blade Runner, The Night of the Hunter.

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