Film Night: Waydowntown

It’s that time of the year when the lights of the Arts Tower seem to stay on right round the clock. If you’ve not been going home much lately, then you’ll appreciate our last film night of 2006, a sharp piece of indie-cinema from Canada. Four office employees have all staked one month’s salary on a bet to see who can stay indoors the longest. They all live in the hermetically sealed and air conditioned towers of downtown Calgary, where enclosed glass bridges connect virtually every building in the city’s core. It’s lunchtime on day 28, and things are starting to unravel…

WAYDOWNTOWN
dir. Gary Burns, 2000
17h30, Thursday 14 December
Basement lecture theatre two
SUAS / Landmark members free
SUAS Membership on sale

Join us for festive drinks after the film to celebrate our first full series of film nights and to help us choose what to show next term. We’ll be in the Bath Hotel on Victoria Street (click here for map) after the film. Prove to us that you’ve been working hard enough and we might even buy a drink. See you Thursday…

Film Night: Threads

It seems fitting that in the week that Tony Blair indicates his commitment to replacing Britain’s Trident nuclear defense system, SUAS Film Night heads the archives to find one of the strangest yet most powerful films ever made in Sheffield. Following from an earlier studio showing put on by M.Arch studios 6 and 9, SUAS proudly presents our penultimate show of the year:

THREADS
dir. Mick Jackson, 1984
17h30, Thursday 7 December
Basement lecture theatre one
Running time: 112 minutes
SUAS / Landmark members free
SUAS Membership on sale

Written by Barry Hines and filmed in a carefully researched and theoretically accurate documentary style, ‘Threads’ was made by the BBC for television broadcast in 1984, and has been shown on television only a few times since then. With original broadcast copies hard to come by, the recent re-release is happily free of the usual DVD enhancements… it’s as gritty and direct as it would have been when first seen over twenty years ago.

This film is a once-a-lifetime must see and a horrific reminder of why so many people continue to campaign against the trust placed in a nuclear deterent Don’t miss this opportunity to see a very different future of Sheffield, as seen during the Cold War.