Cinema in the North
Tom Grieve, Cinema EditorIt’s busy month across the cinemas of the north as Halloween programming leads into two of the region’s biggest film festivals. Audiences are spoilt for choice this spooky season as HOME go all 1970s with their annual FilmFear programme and the newly revamped and expanded CULTPLEX presents their massive STAB season of horror movies. In Leeds, there’s special big screen outings for Ridley Scott’s original Alien, plus newly minted cult vampire film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.
Beyond the scary stuff, Manchester Animation Festival continues to be one of the most thoughtfully curated festivals around. We’re also big fans of the programme at Leeds International Film Festival, who bring together a brilliant selection of new titles with some unmissable picks from the archive — we highlight some of the best of the fest in our preview.
Those are two of the biggest events of the year, but the North’s DIY promoters and film clubs deserve a bit of attention too. UrbanArtistry continue their stellar presentations of street art docs with a trip to Brazil, Paraphysis Cinema have a season of Queer British Gems, while Kino have scheduled a documentary about pioneering Black, transgender soul singer, Jackie Shane.
