Open Film Screening - B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin

Canterbury Film Society would like to invite everyone, over 16, to come along for our free screening of B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 (Jörg A. Hoppe, Klaus Maeck & Heiko Lange • 2015 • 92 mins • Germany • R16)

“This archive-heavy documentary revisits the vibrant music and art scene of West Berlin during the divided city’s punky, druggy, trashy 1980s heyday… As filtered through the personal story of British-born Berliner Mark Reeder. It mixes staged reenactments featuring a Reeder lookalike (Marius Weber) with archive clips, home movies and scratchy super 8 footage … [with] befriended local heroes and fellow exiles including Nick Cave, Gudrun Gut, techno music pioneer Westbam and Blixa Bargeld of noise-rock extremists Einsturzende Neubauten, all of whom feature in this movie in vintage footage and fragmentary voiceover. Other famous names who appear fleetingly include Tilda Swinton, Keith Haring, New Order, David Hasselhoff” — Stephen Dalton, Hollywood Reporter

Presented in co-operation with the Goethe-Institut and open to the public: non-members are welcome by donation/koha, but please note that this film is rated R16.

The Canterbury Film Society offers weekly screenings of top-quality films – arthouse, classic, cult, documentary, world cinema and more – on the big screen. We screen on Monday night at 7.30pm, doors open 7.00pm with drinks and home-baked food for purchase.

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