Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one another eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances. A salaryman wins tickets to the latest stage sensation, the hypnosis show VIVA FRIENDS! In the middle of the act an assassin shows up and kills the hypnotist, leaving the salaryman stranded and convinced he is a bird! A gang of burglars roam the suburbs while simulta...

In the seaside town of Rochefort, twin sisters Delphine and Solange dream of love and artistic fulfilment beyond their tranquil daily lives. Over the course of a weekend fair, sailors, artists, musicians, and chance visitors drift through town, creating a series of near-misses and romantic longings that bring ideal partners tantalisingly close. With its jazzy score by Michel Legrand, pastel-hued ...

As disturbingly funny as it is audaciously empathetic, auteur of unease Todd Solondz’s portrait of damaged souls reaching out for connection reveals the existential void underneath middle-class suburban “normalcy.” An extraordinary ensemble cast—including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jane Adams, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ben Gazzara, and Dylan Baker—embodies an array of loosely connected New Jersey deviants, ...

Part of Cinema Rediscovered on Tour: a Watershed project in association with Wiper & True and collaboration with principal sponsors Park Circus and StudioCanal. With support from BFI Audience Projects Fund awarding National Lottery funding. The films in this season, far from the liberal consensus often associated with Hollywood of the period, are darkly difficult in terms of subject matter and pr...

Part of Cinema Rediscovered on Tour: a Watershed project in association with Wiper & True and collaboration with principal sponsors Park Circus and StudioCanal. With support from BFI Audience Projects Fund awarding National Lottery funding. The films in this season, far from the liberal consensus often associated with Hollywood of the period, are darkly difficult in terms of subject matter and pr...

A special screening of John Carpenter's 1994 masterpiece In the Mouth of Madness, held as a tribute to Sam Neill who we sadly lost in July. In the Mouth of Madness sees Carpenter go full meta, in a gloriously fun romp about a horror author named Sutter Cane, whose creations have the habit of coming to life. Sam Neill plays the jaded insurance investigator sent to get to the bottom of Cane’s myst...

?? LIBERATE TUTEMET EX INFERIS ?? A special screening of Event Horizon, held as a tribute to Sam Neill who we sadly lost in July. Lovecraftian horror, deep-space isolation and visions of Hell run through Event Horizon, a brutal sci-fi nightmare that takes the familiar idea of a lost spaceship and pushes it somewhere far stranger. In 2047, a distress signal is received from the Event Horizon, a sta...

Welcome back to CULT SCHOOL at CULTPLEX, where the syllabus is the world of cult film! New Hollywood, also known as the Hollywood Renaissance, or American New Wave, was a film movement spanning the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. Central to this movement were a new generation of filmmakers who made films reflecting the tensions of their time. This talk will explore some of these tensions in films f...

Join Slump Cinema for a screening of The Heroic Trio at CULTPLEX, with an introduction by Shu-ling Li, a British born Chinese illustrator. The Heroic Trio is a silly, goofy, beautiful, action packed explosion starring the three holy mothers of Asian cinema: Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung and Anita Mui. They star as superheroes who fight against an evil master who is abducting newborn babies. The o...

Spit in the Lock is a Manchester based film club that screens films that depict the exquisite ache of unrequited yearning. Catch us across the city showing movies that explore the melancholic, romantic longing of forbidden love. Set in the height of the 1970s glam rock era, Velvet Goldmine follows the rise and fall of the rock star Brian Slade, as seen through the eyes of former fan and journalis...

This charming, campy musical may be about a brothel, but as Dolly assures us in her opening number, “there ain’t nothin’ dirty goin’ on!” Parton stars as Miss Mona, the no-nonsense madam of the famous Chicken Ranch brothel, while Reynolds plays the local sheriff—and Parton’s lover—who turns a blind eye to the Ranch’s activities. Their arrangement is threatened when a moralistic TV reporter launch...

Part of Cinema Rediscovered on Tour: a Watershed project in association with Wiper & True and collaboration with principal sponsors Park Circus and StudioCanal. With support from BFI Audience Projects Fund awarding National Lottery funding. The films in this season, far from the liberal consensus often associated with Hollywood of the period, are darkly difficult in terms of subject matter and pr...

Ali Plumb – that movie bloke off the internet with the interviews and the specs and the beard – is taking his delightfully nerdy film quiz on the road again… and you should definitely come. Taking place at FAIRFIELD SOCIAL CLUB with an ACTUAL CINEMA SCREEN (fancy!), he'll be taking his suitcase full of prizes and brain full of silly film-related questions to your local picture house. What should ...

Scottish writer-director Ben Sharrock’s ( Pikadero ) sublime, melancholic comedy-drama Limbo has won festival awards and rave reviews following its Toronto premiere. On Scotland’s remote Uist Islands, surrounded by gale-force winds and stormy seas, gifted musician Omar (Amir El-Masry) and his fellow Syrian asylum seekers endure puzzling cultural-awareness lessons from an oddball pair of locals. A...

Part of Cinema Rediscovered on Tour: a Watershed project in association with Wiper & True and collaboration with principal sponsors Park Circus and StudioCanal. With support from BFI Audience Projects Fund awarding National Lottery funding. The films in this season, far from the liberal consensus often associated with Hollywood of the period, are darkly difficult in terms of subject matter and pr...

BUTTON MASHER RETURNS TO MANCHESTER Lower the lights, and turn every night into Halloween with MONSTERS CRASH THE PAJAMA PARTY. After months away, crawling the internet for more weird and wonderful cinema gimmicks, the wild cats at Button Masher have stumbled across the often overlooked gem MONSTERS CRASH THE PAJAMA PARTY, a staple of the now defunct touring spook show circuit. A group of teena...

No painter electrified the 1980s art scene like Jean-Michel Basquiat, a New York street kid whose visionary blending of expressionism, pop art, and the radical new aesthetics of hip-hop and graffiti propelled him to international fame before a tragic early demise. Julian Schnabel’s stunning debut charts Basquiat’s dizzying rise and fall with an insider’s eye for authentic details of the downtown a...

Part of Cinema Rediscovered on Tour: a Watershed project in association with Wiper & True and collaboration with principal sponsors Park Circus and StudioCanal. With support from BFI Audience Projects Fund awarding National Lottery funding. The films in this season, far from the liberal consensus often associated with Hollywood of the period, are darkly difficult in terms of subject matter and pr...

From the dazzling imagination that brought you It Follows comes a feverish neo-noir starring Andrew Garfield! An epic, code-cracking, acid-spiked amateur sleuth story that tips its hat to Hitchcock, Lynch, Carpenter, and everything in between. Directed by David Robert Mitchell, this film is a mesmerizing blend of noir, mystery, and dark comedy that invites you into a labyrinthine journey through ...

'Chronically Online: A Personal History of the UK Internet' is coming to Cultplex in Manchester on September 24th! The Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend's (CNFW) one-night-only touring programme of digital delights on the big screen showcases the stories Britain tells about itself through the internet. Touring Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lewes, this programme of vlogs, memes, and...