23 May: Videodrome


David Cronenberg’s sci-fi starring James Woods and Debbie Harry follows the boss of a sleazy cable station who stumbles upon a broadcast signal featuring extreme violence and torture. Uncovering the signal’s source he loses touch with reality in a series of increasingly bizarre and violent organic hallucinations. A creepy and chic slice of 80s body horror, perfect for our end-of-season at the Amersham Arms.
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4 May: Coming to America

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If a wealthy African prince wishes to find a bride in the West, where better to start than in the down-at-heel neighbourhood of Queens, New York? Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall and James Earl Jones star in Coming to America (USA 1988), a hilarious fish-out-of-water romantic comedy from the director of The Blues Brothers and Michael Jackson’s Thriller.

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2 May: Gospel According to St. Matthew

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Deptford Film Club pops up in St Nicholas Church for Pier Paolo Pasolini’s astonishing, gritty and thoroughly human take on Jesus’ life. Using luminous black and white images of non-professional actors, and with music from Bach, blues and Congolese hymns, The Gospel According to St Matthew offers a stunning, fiercely political retelling of the story of Jesus.

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18 April: Wings of Desire

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In the second part of our Wim Wenders season, two angels roam a divided Berlin, observing and listening to the thoughts of its citizens. When one of the angels falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he must choose whether to remain an angel or become human and experience love and sensory pleasure. With a wonderful cameo by Peter Falk, playing himself.

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4 April: Paris, Texas

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Part 1 of our Wim Wenders season is Paris, Texas, winner of the Cannes Palme D’Or for best film in 1984. Harry Dean Stanton plays Travis, a man presumed dead for four years, who reappears from the Mojave Desert, world-weary and amnesiac. Reunited with his 8-year-old son Travis, he goes in search of his beautiful ex-wife Jane (Natassja Kinski).

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