WHAT'S ON THE WEEK AFTER / MAY 9TH - 15TH

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CLOSE UP FILM SCREENING

Time: 8pm. Doors open at 7.45pm /Tickets: £5/FREE to Close-Up members

3 May – 28 June : Close-Up On Jean-Luc Godard

One of the most influential directors in the cinema history, Jean-Luc Godard has played a fundamental role in shaping the art form. His early films established the language of the French Nouvelle Vague and through his long career he has consistently produced stylistically radical, politically uncompromising work, culminating in his epic, dense exploration of cinema’s enactment with twentieth-century history, Histoire(s) Du Cinema.

This eight-week long season spans Godard’s career from his 1959 debut feature Breathless to last year’s Film Socialisme (tbc), which Godard has claimed will be his final film and has only been screened once before in the UK.

Godard began his career as a writer for the French film journal Cahiers Du Cinéma and this season compliments and coincides with Close-Up’s re-launch of the influential film magazine Vertigo, with an issue dedicated to the cinema of Godard due on 1 June at www.vertigomagazine.co.uk

VIVRE SA VIE
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
1962 | France | 80 mins | B&W

Vivre Sa Vie is one of the seminal movies of the French New Wave. Godard directs his then wife, Anna Karina, who plays Nana S., a Parisian working as a shop assistant who, after separating from her husband, decides to become an actress. While watching The Passion Of Joan Of Arc by Dreyer, she abandons her ambition and drifts into a life of prostitution. The film is comprised of a series of 12 ‘tableaux’, scenes which are unconnected episodes, each presented with a worded introduction. The film gives us an insight into the social conditions and mores of the time, but is also daring and experimental both in its use of sound recording, filming and editing.

Tuesday 10 May – VIVRE SA VIE

Tuesday 17 May –LE MEPRIS

Tuesday 24 May –PIERROT LE FOU

Tuesday 31 May – TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER…

Tuesday 7 June – MADE IN USA

Tuesday 14 June – FOUR SHORTS

Tuesday 21 June – NOTRE MUSIQUE

Tuesday 28 June – FILM SOCIALISM (tbc)

CHECK HERE FOR DETAILS

MINISTRY OF STORIES: Something for the Volunteers

7pm Ticket: £5 / VOLUNTEER DISCOUNT

A tip-top night of performances, games, readings, socialising, and maybe some music put together by splendid writer, MoS founder and all-round good guy Joe Dunthorne and his notable friends.

This is a special evening for Ministry of Stories volunteers - yet we warmly embrace those of their partners, colleagues and mates who'd like to join us for the evening too.

www.ministryofstories.org/#about-the-mos

MORE DETAILS TO COME SOON

HOT BREATH

FOREIGN TONGUES: Eurovision Spectacular

BONJOUR! HOLA! WILKOMMEN!

The House of Hot Breath's biggest and most popular show is making its triumphant return to The Bethnal Green Working Men's Club return on Friday, May 13th for one night only!

7 COUNTRIES!
7 LIVE ACTS!
1 WINNER!
YOU DECIDE!

It can only be the legendary Eurovision spectacular, Hot Breath Foreign Tongues!!

We are recreating everyone's favourite cultural car crash by presenting 7 different acts representing 7 different European nations and

letting YOU decide who go home with Eurovision glory.

The 7 live acts will perform for the mercy of the public vote and the results will be counted and relayed via satellite link up from each corresponding nation! Who shall claim Eurovision song supremacy this year? Only YOU know the answer!

Watch this space for updates on this years entries!!

GRIND A GO-GO

9pm - 2am / Entry: £8

Oh My God! I Miss You presents...Grind A Go Go!

A evening of wild Go Go Club action

EVERY 2ND SATURDAY OF THE MONTH!

SEE!

Girls sleaze & tease!

PLUS LIVE SLEAZY SOUNDS ON OUR MIRRORED REVOLVING STAGE!

With...PUBLIC GO GO PODIUMS! & TRAILER TRASH on our GIANT TV SCREEN!

DJS spin Girl Groups, Freakbeat, Tittyshakers, 60s Soul & Dance Craze Novelties!

Dress Code: authentic 60s buxotics, bouffants, suits & boots!

THE COMEDY BIN PRESENTS:

FEMME FATALE

7PM - MIDNIGHT £5 adv HERE, £7 on the door

Femme Fatale! Showcasing some of the funniest female comedians in London.

A night full of fun and fantasy hosted by the fiery

MC Marilyn Muruako

and headlined by the fantastically funny

Miss London

Half of the profits from Femme Fatale will go to the charity Women's Aid.

Ironically, it's at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club!

Featuring:

Miss London, Sarah Archer, Hannah Ballou, Fliss Russell, Madge Hooks and hot new band 'Illegal Immigrants'.