http://www.7inch.org.uk/news 7 Inch Cinema - News Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:37:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a quick heads-up - by way of warm-up for Flatpack 6 we're doing a series of Colour Box family screenings at mac on the first Saturday of every month. Tomorrow we kick off with My Neighbour Totoro, Hayao Miyazaki's spell-binding fable about two sisters in the countryside. Screenings are ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2012/01/totoro-tomorrow/ In a break with protocol, I'm pasting below our listings email for this month. If you'd like to receive these in your inbox, sign up for the email list on the lefthand side. ______ hello, During a rare breathing space we have found time to compile a list of interesting things happening around ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2011/09/7inch-october-listings/ We'll be over the Black Country like a rash over the next four days, presenting a banquet of heavy metal cinema in all sorts of venues. The 'heavy metal' theme has been treated quite loosely, and as well as live footage, music docs and the obligatory Spinal Tap you can ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2011/09/latenight-treats/ If you haven't been visiting the events section of this site you'd be forgiven for thinking there's nothing going on in 7inchland. Far from it. Tomorrow we hit the road for the Green Man festival once again, supplying kids matinees to the bleary-eyed masses and teaming up with Ghost Box ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2011/08/summer-update/ Robert Morgan slips between animation and live action, and is well known for creepy short films like The Cat With Hands and The Separation. It's been a while since his last 'proper' short, but judging from the trailer for his new 23-minute stop-frame opus his work is still pretty creepy: It's ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2011/06/bobby-yeah/ Just sifting through photos from our film-tent at this weekend's marvellous Book Bash. There are many things to love about this event: it's free; it encourages kids to get excited about reading; it's at Aston Hall, one of Birmingham's underrated treasures; and it's run by librarians! Their joy at being ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2011/06/kids-watching-films/ Just had a marvellous day showing films at Aston Hall as part of this year's Book Bash, along with special guest and old friend Paul Shallcross who went down a storm accompanying the joyous mayhem of Laurel and Hardy. We'll be back there tomorrow, without Paul but with a oneoff ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2011/05/book-bash-1-day-left/ There was a disappointing lack of Rapture today, but to get you in the 'end of days' mood here are some snaps from last week's Post-Apocalyptic Walk-In Movie. http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2011/05/postapocalypticpics/ The other night my daughter gave me back a sliver of the edge I thought I'd lost, by stomping downstairs and demanding that I turn this down: ...From back in the day when shooting a music video meant daft dancing, graffiti and lots of crash zooms. Tonight I'm showing a little ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2011/05/on-a-ragga-tip/ Just been sent the link to this amazing helmet-cam view of a downhill bike race in Valparaiso, Chile. Listen to your heart-rate going up as you watch it... Reminds me of the sports-car view of early morning Paris in C'etait un Rendezvous, but with a stronger sense of imminent death. The ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2011/05/chilean-downhill-bike-race/