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amongst the first audiences in the UK to experience Dave Payne's highly acclaimed Reeker which is sure to delight horror fans with it unique mix of slick gore and high suspense. Craig Strachan's debut feature Wild Country updates the werewolf tale with teenagers lost on a moor and stalked by a very savage beast. We showcase two of the finest and overlooked examples of Japanese horror, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse and Hideo Nakata's Chaos, see the originals on the big screen before the US remakes turn up later in the year. We also examine two archive films from the 1980's, Michael Mann's extraordinary and rarely seen debut feature The Keep and Tony Scott's The Hunger will give horror fans the unique opportunity to see these two classic films together on the big screen. Prepare to experience blood, gore and nerve jangling terror – Fanomenon is back!
THE FILMS Chaos, The Hunger, The Keep, Pulse, Reeker, Wild Country
Jean Renoir is regarded by many as the greatest of all filmmakers, including influential figures like Orson Welles, probably the only director who tops critics' all time great lists more often, and many of the iconoclasts of the French New Wave, who saw in Renoir a kindred spirit, ahead of his time. The son of Impressionist painter Auguste, Renoir began his career in the silent era, but it was the emergence of sound that enabled him to come into his own. He directed a cycle of masterpieces in the thirties which have endured to earn him the reputation as the great humanist director for his warm and complex characterisation and his inventive and naturalistic style.
THE FILMS Boudu Saved from Drowning, La Grande Illusion, La Marsellaise, La Regle du Jeu
LFQ at FuseFuseleeds returns in May 2006, the biennial international music festival presenting an eclectic programme of jazz, contemporary, rock, folk and classical music. Leeds Film Quarter contributes a series of inspiring music films to the rogramme. Innovative documentaries profile a range of eccentrics from one of the progenitors of psychedelic music, Thirteenth Floor Elevators frontman Roky Erikson to new wave operatic tenor Klaus Nomi and octogenarian utsider musician Gordon Thomas. Tresor Berlin documents the legendary underground club and Niger is the new folk cinema project from the Sublime Frequencies label that brought us last year's Folk Music of the Sahara. Leading Indie labels Bella Union and Fat Cat both get video nights at the Hi Fi. Hyde Park hosts a screening of the classic Koyaanisqatsi with the influential Philip Glass score and Nottingham's Curt Collective provide a live soundtrack to silent classics Finis Terrae and St Kilda.
Krzysztof KieslowskiThe death of Polish writer-director Krzysztof Kieslowski 1996 left the film world devoid of one its most important and talented practitioners. As a director, he tackled many contemporary issues and questions and did so with sensitivity and passion. The Three Colours Trilogy is inspired by the ideals represented in the colours of the French flag (liberty, equality and fraternity) whilst The Double Life of Veronique deal with themes of spirituality and identity. Linking all of Kieslowski's work is an almost painfully accurate understanding of humanity and an astonishing appreciation of the beauty that cinema can convey.
THE FILMS The Double Life of Veronique, Three Colours: Blue, Three Colours: Red, Three Colours: White
Refugee Week is a UK-wide programme of arts, cultural and educational events that celebrate the contribution of refugees to the UK, and promote understanding about the reasons why people seek sanctuary. Leeds Film Quarter presents a short series of films in collaboration with the School of Social Sciences at the Metropolitan University. Jerzy Skolimowski's Moonlighting provides an interesting insight into the conditions for migrant workers in Britain 20 years ago. Turtles Can Fly is a moving tale of Kurdish refugees on the Iraqi-Turkish border. The extraordinary documentaries Art of Flight and The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan, examine the impact human displacement during political conflict, set in Egypt and Afghanistan respectively.
Sperm banks and world politics make two very diverse yet equally fascinating documentaries from the Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival that form part of our assortment of exciting films in the LFQ Specials. Add in the wildly entertaining heavy metal tale Metal: A Headbanger's Journey and these slices of life prove that - even as the amount of documentaries on our screens have multiplied over the past few years - they have still to lose their quality. The BFI's Experimenta Programme provides us with Ten Skies and two films from Vladimir Tyulkin which both show the limitless possibilities of the medium of cinema.
Some choice films showing in Leeds Young People's Film Festival, 6th- 16th April. To see the full programme, visit the LYPFF site.