Free Classic Jazz Films
Venue: The Nerve Centre, 7 – 8 Magazine Street
Tel: (028) 7126 0562
Website: www.nerve-centre.org.uk
Wednesday 2th May Time: 8.00pm
Venus
Maurice (O'Toole) and Ian (Phillips) are once-great English actors now
spending their twilight years playing corpses on television hospital
dramas. They reminisce and compare ailments, while O'Toole periodically
visits his ever-patient ex-wife (Vanessa Redgrave). Change arrives in
the Lolita-esque form of Jessie, Ian's slightly chavvy, northern niece.
Ian is both confused and repulsed by her, but Maurice is instantly drawn
to the woman he nicknames "Venus". O Toole gives an Oscar
nominated performance and the movie is ultimately assisted by songs
from Corinne Bailey Ray.
Director: Roger Mitchell
Certificate: 15 years and over
Duration: 1 hour and 38 minutes
Thursday 3rd May Time: 8.00pm
The Police: Everyone Stares - The Police Inside Out
This fantastic film features a never before seen documentary capturing
the Police from their inception in 1978 through to their peak in 1982
and their split in 1984. All the footage was culled from Stewart Copeland's
Super 8 archives and the man himself edited, directed and narrated.
Features classic performances, archive footage and interviews with the
key players.
Director: Stewart Copeland
Certificate: Exempt from Classification
Duration: 1 hour and 14 minutes (approx)
Friday 4th May Time:8.00pm
The Firm
Dave Crusin's blistering Jazz piano score drives the drama in Sydney
Pollack excellent thriller from 1993. Tom Cruise plays Mitch McDeere,
a brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad. Driven by a fierce desire
to bury his working class past, Mitch joins a small, prosperous Memphis
firm that affords Mitch and his wife (Jeanne Tripplehorn) an affluent
lifestyle beyond their wildest dreams. But when FBI agents confront
him with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm, Mitch sets
out to find the truth in a deadly crossfire between the FBI, the Mob,
and a force that will stop at nothing to protect its interests - The
Firm.
Director: Sydney Pollack
Certificate: 15 years and over
Duration: 2 hours and 28 minutes
Saturday 5th May Time: 2.00pm
Devil in a Blue Dress
It is 1948 in LA and Ezikeal "Easy" Rawlins, an African-American
World War II veteran, is looking for work. At his friend's bar, he is
introduced to a white man, DeWitt Albright, who is looking for someone
to help him find a missing white woman assumed to be hiding somewhere
in LA's Black community. This woman, Daphane Monet, happens to be the
fiancée of a wealthy "blue blood," Todd Carter, who
is currently the favorite in the city's mayoralty race. Daphane Monet
is known to frequent the Black jazz clubs in LA. Easy, innocently, accepts
Albright's offer; however, he quickly finds himself amidst murder, crooked
cops, ruthless politicians, and brutalizing hoodlums.
Director: Carl Franklin
Certificate: 15 years and over
Duration: 2 hours and 28 minutes
Saturday 5th May Time:2.00pm
Bullitt
Detective
Frank Bullitt's new assignment seems routine: Protecting a star witness
for an important trial. But before the night is out, the witness lies
dying and the cool, no-nonsense Bullitt (Steve McQueen) won't rest until
the shooters - and the kingpin pulling their strings - are nailed. The
cinema classic features one of the most the most successful jazz soundtracks
from Lalo Schifrin which is why we have featured it in this year's jazz
festival programme.
Director: Peter Yates
Certificate: 15 years and over
Duration: 1 hour and 49 minutes