Black Pearl Cinema: My Bloody Valentine (1981)
Wednesday 25 February7:00pm to 8:30pm
Valentines. You survived Halloween and dodged a Black Christmas but has your lucky streak run out? Will you lose your heart to....My Bloody Valentine?Cult classics washing up every fortnight: an £11 ticket provides one free drink, illustrated introductions and a rare chance to see a lost pearl on the big screen. Black Pearl’s curators take a regular theme and dim the lights...
Mark Banville
Mark has been a cult movie freak for way too long and has scars to prove it! He runs the Cave of Cult socials and blog, reviewing Horror and Exploitation movies. He is the author of Theme '70 (Headpress) and is currently working on The Bad Bunch: Exploitation Cinema's Heavy-Hitters.
Michael O’Connell
Co-producer of a forthcoming Steve Marriott biopic and editor of numerous film books, the Art Decades talks have allowed Michael to show some favourite clips - now The Horsebridge lets him loose behind a projector.
Wednesdays fortnightly. Doors and bar open at 6.30pm, with the programme starting at 7pm.
Tickets are £11 or £10 for Friends.
Valentines Movies
11 February
Henry and June (1990)
Running time: 2hr 10m
Certificate: 18
Director: Philip Kaufman
Starring: Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Maria de Medeiros, Richard E. Grant, Kevin Spacey and Gary Oldman.
Four years before Pulp Fiction, Uma Thurman and Maria De Madeiros lit up the screen as the sirens in Philip Kaufman's erotically-charged drama, describing the romance of Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin in Thirties Paris. Starring Fred Ward as Henry Miller and also featuring Richard E. Grant, Gary Oldman and Kevin Spacey, Henry and June is one of the few films to successfully capture the essence of legendary literary lives.
All Black Pearl Cinema Screenings
Black Pearl Cinema: Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Wednesday 11 March7:00pm to 8:45pm
A landmark movie in the New Hollywood genre with a landmark performance from Jack Nicholson, as a well-born piano prodigy scratching a living in blue-collar work
Black Pearl Cinema: Race With The Devil
Wednesday 25 March7:00pm to 8:30pm
Wedged between The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ('74) and The Hills Have Eyes ('82), this Satanic-Redneck-Occult-Biker-Road Movie is dripping with Southern Fried action and creeping dread.