Mayhem announces The Devil's Doorway, Mandy, What Keeps You Alive, One Cut of the Dead and Nightmare Cinema

As its 14^th edition creeps ever closer, Mayhem Film Festival is proud to announce the next set of titles from this year’s programme.

Mayhem is to present a screening of Aislinn Clarke’s found-footage chiller The Devil’s Doorway. In rural Ireland in 1960, two Catholic priests are sent from the Vatican to investigate reports of miraculous activity in a remote home for ‘fallen women’, only to discover that altogether darker forces may be at work. Mayhem is pleased to welcome director Aislinn Clarke to take part in a post-screening Q&A.

Showing in the festival’s coveted Friday late-night slot, Nicolas Cage goes full… well, Nicolas Cage with a fantastically high-octane performance in Panos Cosmatos’ cosmic revenge thriller Mandy. Pacific Northwest, 1983 AD. Outsiders Red Miller and Mandy Bloom lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed by a cult led by the sadistic Jeremiah Sand, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.

Next up in this year’s programme is Colin Minihan’s grueling survival thriller What Keeps You Alive. On the eve of their first wedding anniversary, Jules and Jackie become embroiled in a merciless fight for their lives against the most unexpected of adversaries - each other. As violence rains down upon their idyllic forest getaway, the women engage in a frenzied physical - and psychological - battle that tests the very limits of their instinct to survive.

Also screening at this year’s festival is Shin'inchiro Ueda’s unmissable micro-budget zombie movie, and Japanese box-office sensation, One Cut of The Dead. Playing to sell-out audiences since its release, the film has made more than 250 times its budget, and counting. During the making of a small-scale zombie flick, all hell breaks loose when a real zombie outbreak erupts on set - a gleeful horror-comedy packed with seriously entertaining monster mayhem and an epic 37-minute single-take opening.

Wrapping up this second wave of announcements, Mayhem presents Nightmare Cinema, a new horror anthology uniting masters of genre cinema - including Mick Garris (Sleepwalkers, Masters of Horror) and Joe Dante (Gremlins) - for five gruesome tales of terror featuring sinister surgeons, brain-spiders and killer nuns.

Mayhem’s full line-up will be announced early September. Discounted Early Bird Passes are still available to purchase.

Mayhem Film Festival will take place at Broadway, Nottingham on 11 – 14 October 2018.

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Customer notice: reduced Cafébar menu w/c Monday 20 August

Our Cafébar kitchen will be undergoing maintenance from Monday 20 August, and so we will be serving a reduced menu - offering a selection of sandwiches and salads - during this time.

Sandwiches

·      Smoked Bacon, Vine tomato, Rocket, Mayo - £3.90

·       Pastrami, Emmental, gherkins, mustard, rocket - £3.90

·       Sun Dried tomato Tapenade, French brie and wild Rocket (v) - £3.90

·       French Brie, Cranberry sauce, rocket (v) - £3.90

·       Hummus, Carrot, Beetroot, Spinach (vg) - £3.50

·       Onion Bhaji, mango chutney, hummus, spinach (vg) - £3.50

Salad

·       Nicoise – Tuna, Egg, Olives, Green beans, New Potatoes, Dressed leaves - £6.50

·       Caesar – Chicken fillet, cherry tomatoes, Red Onion, Croutons, Caesar dressing - £6.50

·       Cous Cous – Roasted Butternut squash, Goats cheese, Rocket, Beetroot (v) - £5.90

·       Pesto Pasta – Kale and Walnut Pesto, Penne Pasta, rocket (vg) - £5.90

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Many thanks,

The team at Broadway

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Win a copy of Ron Stallworth's book BLACKKKLANSMAN courtesy of Universal Pictures

Spike Lee is back this month with a hugely relevant, angry, entertaining and timely film, BLACKKKLANSMAN, based on the incredible true story of Colorado police officer Ron Stallworth, and we’ve got a copy of his memoir to give away.

In 1970s Colorado Springs, Ron Stallworth has just become the first African-American detective in the police department. Spotting a KKK recruitment advert in the local paper, Stallworth calls them up on a whim, and arranges a meeting. Unable to meet the group himself, he enlists his colleague Flip Zimmerman and the two soon embarks on the undercover investigation of a lifetime: infiltrating the KKK.

For your chance to win a copy of Ron Stallworth’s book BLACKKKLANSMAN, send your answer to the following question – along with your name and address – to competition@broadway.org.uk:

Q: What is the name of Spike Lee’s iconic 1989 film about racial tensions in Brooklyn?

The closing date for entries is Friday 7 September. Best of luck!

Be one of the first to see the film and join us for a Special Screening of BLACKKKLANSMAN + live satellite Q&A with Spike Lee on Monday 20 August at 6.30pm.

BLACKKKLANSMAN will be on general release from Friday 24 August – to see our full list of screening times and to book your tickets, please click here.

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Win a copy of Smithereens and Sex, Lies and Videotape from the Criterion Collection

Two new titles from the Criterion Collection are launching this month and we have a copy of each – Smithereens and Sex, Lies and Videotape – to give away to one lucky winner.

For your chance to win, please send your full name and address to competiton@broadway.org.uk.

SMITHEREENS

Susan Seidelman’s electrifying debut, a vivid dispatch from eighties New York and a benchmark for independent film. 

Susan Seidelman established her distinctive vision of 1980s New York with this debut feature, the lo-fi original for her vibrant portraits of women reinventing themselves. After escaping New Jersey, the quintessentially punk Wren (Susan Berman)—a sparkplug in fishnets who lives dangerously downtown—moves to the city with the mission of becoming famous. When not pasting up flyers for herself or hanging at the Peppermint Lounge, she’s getting involved with Paul (Brad Rijn), the nicest guy to ever live in a van next to the highway, and Eric (Richard Hell), an aloof rocker. Shot on 16 mm film that captures the grit and glam of the setting, with an alternately moody and frenetic soundtrack by the Feelies and others, Smithereens—the first independent American film to compete for the Palme d’Or—is an unfaded snapshot of a bygone era.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

·       New 2K digital restoration, approved by director Susan Seidelman, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray Audio commentary from 2004 featuring Seidelman

• New interviews with Seidelman and actor Susan Berman
• And You Act Like One Too (1976) and Yours Truly, Andrea G. Stern (1979), two early shorts by Seidelman, with new introductions by the director

PLUS: An essay by critic Rebecca Bengal.

SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE

Steven Soderbergh’s remarkably assured, disarmingly frank debut, a game-changer for American independent film.

With his provocative feature debut, twenty-six-year-old Steven Soderbergh trained his focus on the complexities of human intimacy and deception in the modern age. Housewife Ann (Andie MacDowell) feels distant from her lawyer husband, John (Peter Gallagher), who is sleeping with her sister (Pretty Woman’s Laura San Giacomo). When John’s old friend Graham (a magnetic, Cannes-award-winning James Spader) comes to town, Ann is drawn to the soft-spoken outsider, eventually uncovering his startling private obsession: videotaping women as they confess their deepest desires. A piercingly intelligent and flawlessly performed chamber piece, in which the video camera becomes a charged metaphor for the characters’ isolation, the Palme d’Or–winning sex, lies, and videotape changed the landscape of American film, helping pave the way for the thriving independent scene of the 1990s.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by director Steven Soderbergh, with 5.1 surround DTS‑HD Master Audio soundtrack
• Audio commentary from 1998 featuring director Steven Soderbergh in conversation with filmmaker Neil LaBute
• New programme by Soderbergh, featuring responses to questions sent in by fans
• Interviews with Soderbergh from 1990 and 1992
• New documentary about the making of the film featuring actors Peter Gallagher, Andie MacDowell, and Laura San Giacomo
• New conversation with composer Cliff Martinez and supervising sound editor Larry Blake
• Deleted scene with commentary by Soderbergh
• Trailers

PLUS: An essay by critic Amy Taubin and excerpts from Soderbergh’s diaries written at the time of the film’s production.

Smithereens is released on Monday 27 August, and Sex, Lies and Videotape is out now – both are available to purchase from Fopp Stores.

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