Category: London

polyester (1981)

16/12/2021

"It is the opinion of the entire staff that Dexter is criminally insane..."

S C R E E N I N G D E T A I L S
Venue: Genesis Cinema, 93-95 Mile End Rd, Bethnal Green, London E1 4U
Date: Thursday 16th December, 6.30pm
Tickets: £7.50
Screened in Odorama!
Preceded by an Introduction & followed by a post-film discussion

T I C K E T S
Cost: £7.50
Purchase via Genesis Website or the box office on the night

F I L M D E T A I L S
Film Duration: 86 minutes
Certificate: 15
Year: 1981
Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey, Mink Stole, Stiv Baters, Mary Vivian Pearce
Synopsis: A suburban housewife's world falls apart when she finds that her pornographer husband is serially unfaithful to her, her daughter is pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's feet.

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

25/11/2021

"Homage to the rear temple is often more fervent than the other"

S C R E E N I N G D E T A I L S
Venue: Genesis Cinema, 93-95 Mile End Rd, Bethnal Green, London E1 4U
Date: Thursday 25th November, 6.30pm
Tickets: £7.50
Preceded by an Introduction & followed by a post-film discussion

T I C K E T S
Cost: £7.50
Purchase via Genesis Website or the box office on the night

F I L M D E T A I L S
Film Duration: 117 minutes
Certificate: 18
Year: 1975
Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto Paolo Quintavelle, Aldo Valletti, Elsa De Giorgi, Caterina Boratto, Helene Surgere
Synopsis: In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.

BLUE VELVET (1986)

21/10/2021

"Don't you look at me, fuck!"

S C R E E N I N G D E T A I L S
Venue: Genesis Cinema, 93-95 Mile End Rd, Bethnal Green, London E1 4U
Date: Thursday 21st October, 6.30pm
Tickets: £7.50
Preceded by an Introduction & followed by a post-film discussion

T I C K E T S
Cost: £7.50
Purchase via Genesis Website or the box office on the night

F I L M D E T A I L S
Film Duration: 120 minutes
Certificate: 18
Year: 1986
Director David Lynch
Cast: Isabella Rossellini, KyleMacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura dern, Dean Stockwell
Synopsis: The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.