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June sees the launch of HOME’s Albert Finney season. Entitled Son of Salford, this nine-film series allows local audiences to explore the rich and varied career of one of the regions most famous exports. With films ranging from family musical Annie, to out-there cop thriller Wolfen, there should be something for everybody.
Over in Liverpool, FACT have got a retrospective of their own, with a month-long celebration of acclaimed auteur Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick made classics in just about every genre going and you can’t go wrong with any of FACT’s selections.
Further ahead, look for Stockport Plaza‘s double bill of Alfred Hitchcock deep cuts, while RAD Screenings give Scott Pilgrim vs. the World the special treatment at Gorilla.
Here are our picks
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1. Albert Finney: Son of Salford at HOME
Saturday Night Sunday Morning 1960 Albert Finney: Son of Salford at HOME Manchester, Manchester, 3–27 June 2018, from £5.50 - Visit now
HOME look back at the career of local lad, Albert Finney with a retrospective that encompasses everything from the kitchen sink dramas where he made his name to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood.
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2. Stanley Kubrick Season at FACT, Liverpool
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3. No More Room In Hell: A Tribute to George Romero at Stockport Plaza
No More Room In Hell: A Tribute to George Romero at Stockport Plaza Cinema, Stockport, 24 June 2018, from £7.50 - Find Out More
Grimm Up North pay tribute to the father of the modern zombie movie at Stockport Plaza this Sunday.
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4. The Ciambra at HOME
The Ciambra at HOME Manchester, Manchester, 15–21 June 2018, from £5.50 - Visit now
Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, The Ciambra is a coming of age film set amidst a small Romani community in Calabria.
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5. Alfred Hitchcock Double Bill/ The Lodger & Blackmail at Stockport Plaza
Alfred Hitchcock Double Bill/ The Lodger & Blackmail at Stockport Plaza Cinema, Stockport, 29 June 2018, from £7.75 - Find Out More
Stockport Plaza go back to the beginnings of Alfred Hitchcock’s career for a double-bill of early works. Despite lesser-known status, these films nevertheless feature all of the sex, murder and dark intrigue you’d expect from the master of suspense.
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6. Call Me By Your Name at Waterside Arts Centre
Call Me By Your Name at Waterside Arts Centre, Manchester, 27 June 2018, from £5.00 - Find Out More
Sun, sex and the Italian countryside. Luca Guadagnino’s laid back romance is a seductive travelogue and spellbinding showcase for its two leads.
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7. LIFF@HOME
LIFF@HOME at HOME Manchester, Manchester, 30 June–1 July 2018, from £5.50 - Find Out More
Selected from the ninth edition of London Indian Film Festival, HOME host a weekend of independent and alternative South Asian Cinema.
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8. Picnic Cinema, Cumbria
Image courtesy of Eden Arts Picnic Cinema at Muncaster Castle, Cumbria, 3–12 August 2018, from £15.00 - Book now
Picnic Cinema are back with a series of cult and classic films screened in extraordinary locations. Think werewolves in Hamsterly Forest or The Dude in the grounds of Muncaster Castle. Book while you can as tickets for Picnic Cinema’s blockbuster events always go quickly.
More in Cinema
Something for Everyone: Celebrating 70 Years of the NHS at HOME
To mark the establishment of a national health service in the UK, HOME present a season of films that champion, poke fun at and critique various aspects of and attitudes to the much loved, and defended institution.
The Citadel at HOME
Based on a 1937 novel by A. J. Cronin, The Citadel was widely seen as a call for the creation of a national health service in the UK.
White Corridors at HOME
Made four years after the establishment of the NHS, White Corridors centres on the quietly heroic daily lives of those working in a cottage hospital brought to life by an impressive ensemble cast.
Mandy at HOME
Alexander Mackendrick’s Ealing drama Mandy is a film whose sentiments remain as pertinent today as they did in the 1950s.
Carry On Double Bill + Intro at HOME
By the late 1960s the institutions of the NHS had become so much a part of British life that they provided the perfect backdrop for the Carry On team’s comedy antics.
Britannia Hospital at HOME
Britannia Hospital is another of Lindsay Anderson’s barbed critiques of British social institutions, here he targets the organisation within the NHS, particularly in light of an encroaching culture of privatisation.
Refugee Week Festival at HOME
Gain a deeper understanding of the ‘refugee experience’ both in Manchester and beyond and celebrate their contribution to the UK with HOME’s inaugural Refugee Week Festival, featuring art, film, theatre, live music, dance and more.
Phil Collins: Can’t Do Right For Doing Wrong at HOME
‘Can’t Do Right For Doing Wrong’ at HOME brings together three politically charged works by the Turner-Prize nominated artist Phil Collins who returned Engels to Manchester in 2017.
Erin Brockovich + Introduction at HOME
Most of the plaudits for Steven Soderbergh’s legal drama justifiably went to Julia Roberts for her gutsy performance in the title role of a working class woman who takes on the Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
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Exhibitions
Proto-feminism, the secret lives of birds, and the darkly satirical images of one of Britain’s leading political artists – we look forward to some of the top exhibition highlights coming up this month.
Literature
There’s plenty of poetry and a fantastic flash fiction workshop and showcase to catch, book launches and new collections coming out of our ears, and experimental wordage a-go-go from writers of both prose and pomes. And if you don’t like sitting still, there’s even a literature trail or two on their way…
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