(For Norwegian, go here.)
Time: October 25th-26th
Place: Cinemateket in Oslo, Dronningens gate 16
Topic: Cult film
Tickets: NOK 750 (regular) / NOK 650 (student/film club member)
The ticket includes four films (in english and/or with english subtitles) and four talks, all in english, from internationally acclaimed film experts. The price of the ticket also includes lunch both days, and tea/coffee (yes, the whole thing is very reasonably priced).
If you can’t make the whole weekend, you can buy tickets for just a film+the talk at Cinematekets website. Please note: Even if you get several of those tickets, lunch is NOT included. So in order to eat – buy a ticket for the whole weekend.
This year’s film seminar is all about cult films! Which cult films are worth watching? Has it become too easy to label something a cult film? The Norwegian Federation of Film Societies and Z Film Quarterly are hosting a film seminar where we invite international film experts to give lectures and screen films.
Program
Saturday, October 25
10:00 Registration and coffee
10:30–11:30 Steve Rawle: “The Ultimate Super-Happy-Zombie-Romance-Murder-Mystery-Family-Comedy-Karaoke-Disaster-Movie-Part-Animated-Remake-All-Singing-All-Dancing-Musical-Spectacular-Extravaganza: The Happiness of the Katakuris as a model cult film”
11:30–12:00 Break
12:00–14:00 FILM: The Happiness of the Katakuris (Takashi Miike, 2001) 1h 53m
14:00–14:45 Lunch
14:45–15:45 Iain Robert Smith: “Global Cult Cinema Through a Decolonial Lens”
15:45–16:10 Break
16:10–17:25 FILM: Who Killed Captain Alex? (Isaac G.G. Nabwana, 2010) 1h 11m
Sunday, October 26
10:00 Registration and coffee
10:30–11:30 Becky Bartlett: “The Best of the Worst: Plan 9 and the Cult of the Bad Movie”
11:30–12:00 Break
12:00–13:25 FILM: Plan 9 From Outer Space (Ed Wood, 1959) 1h 19m
13:30–14:15 Lunch
14:15–15:15 Kate Egan: “Holy Grails and Withnails: Certain Tendencies of British Cult Cinema”
15:15–15:45 Break
15:45–17:35 FILM: Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson, 1987) 1h 47m
Lecturers
Professor Steve Rawle, School of the Arts, York St. John University. He will talk about Takashi Miike as a cult film director, with a focus on The Happiness of the Katakuris (Miike, 2001).
Iain Robert Smith, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at King’s College London. He will address cult cinema from a global perspective, with Who Killed Captain Alex? (Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey Nabwana, 2010) as an example.
Dr. Becky Bartlett, Lecturer in Film Exhibition and Curation at the University of Edinburgh. She will discuss “badfilm,” movies so bad they’re good, accompanied by a screening of Plan 9 From Outer Space (Ed Wood, 1959).
Dr. Kate Egan, Assistant Professor at Northumbria School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries, Northumbria University. She will speak on British cult cinema and introduce Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson, 1987).