Lancaster University Film Society

27/06/2022

If you think you're missing the final film soc screening of the year, you must be dreaming.

10/05/2022

Thank you to all those who came to see Nosferatu tonight, here is the complete soundtrack used, in order of appearance for your convenience.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHjjcvvHvR9whmEnxgNcB-sGLTAnphp2W

Congratulations to the new exec!

10/05/2022

Cut off point for people wishing to run for exec elections tonight is 7:12pm. If you want to run and think you'll be a little later DM the page here or on Insta and we'll sort you out. Good luck!

09/05/2022

Tomorrow, 7pm, see Nosferatu like no one has ever seen it before.

02/05/2022

"Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to."

You are invited. Based on William S. Burroughs' breakthrough literary experiment, David Cronenberg (Videodrome, Scanners, The Fly) brings the story of William Lee, a bug exterminator hooked on a centipede derived drug to life. A sweltering hallucinogenic trip that is not to be missed.

"While I admired it in an abstract way, I felt repelled by the material on a visceral level." - Roger Ebert

"One of Cronenberg's most difficult but deliriously clever and emotionally insinuating films." - Nick Davis

"A twisted, brilliant masterpiece. One of Cronenberg's best." - Jeffrey M. Anderson

"It's a Kafka high, you feel like a bug."

26/04/2022

Tonight. 7pm. Margaret Fell.
Inferno (Argento, 1980)

A new era of kino begins...

17/02/2022

DELAYED until 25/2/22
Sad news for kinologists everywhere, we’re delaying our Worst Movies Ever double-bill by 1 week.
Mostly so we can get some more promotion and put a bit more effort in for this one. Besides I don’t think you freshers are ready for Neil Breen just yet.

See The Room (2003) and Fateful Findings (2013) next Friday instead, they will blow your mind. They will change your life. You will believe in a better future.

15/02/2022

Feel like s**t, just want Freddie Prinz Jr to get his Uncut Gems moment.

Uhm also we’re screening Punch-Drunk Love today at 7pm in the Margaret Fell LT. See you there.
Event: Week 15: Punch-Drunk Love

31/01/2022

Setting up for Refreshers. Spreading the love of Kino, see you guys there 4pm-7pm ###

31/01/2022

When you miss your once in a lifetime chance to watch Face/Off on a screen in the Margaret Fell LT.

Film Soc Week 13: FACE/OFF
Tomorrow, 7pm.

25/01/2022

Just to reiterate, due to audio issues (and our incompetence) we are back in the Margaret Fell LT for tonight’s Film Soc Week 12: Princess Mononoke.

20/01/2022

Film Soc Term 2 Schedule- join us next week for whichever animated film wins our members’ poll.

17/01/2022

Film Soc Week 11: Zardoz
A reminder for all curious about the Film Society. Our first screening of the term is tomorrow: John Boorman’s sci-fi cult classic Zardoz. We’ve relocated to the Faraday LT this term but the routine remains the same:

Every Tuesday 7pm, all are welcome.

15/01/2022

"You'll find nothing but sincerity here. None of your big budget sci-fi epics could ever feel half as alien as a single minute of Zardoz" - Daisoujou, Letterboxd

"I Went into Zardoz expecting some silly 70s trash and instead found one of the most formally and narratively inventive mainstream films I've seen in a long time" - merritt k, Letterboxd

"I can honestly say that I've never seen a movie like this and I probably never will. It's bizarre, it's ambitious, and it's extremely committed to its vision.' - Simone, Letterboxd

"A world where Zardoz exists is a world worth cherishing." - Colin the dude, Letterboxd

Come see the movie everybody's talking about this Tuesday when Zardoz comes to Lancaster!

03/12/2021

Attention all film buffs, Whovians, and Who-curious. In an unprecedented collaboration between Film Society and Doctor Who Society we shall be screening the lampooned Paul McGann TV movie tomorrow (December 4th) at 7pm in the Margaret Fell Lecture Theatre.

Beforehand we’ll be diving into some of the sillier aspects of franchise history (ever heard of Doctor in Distress or Dimensions in Time?) before the main event.

Come see Sylvester McCoy’s final appearance as the 7th Doctor!

Witness see Eric Roberts as The Master, after transforming into a cgi cm snake!

Absorb the dated 1990s TV special effects!

Experience the lore revisions that were swiftly ignored by all Who-media that followed.

(For you real fans out there, Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor was too long, okay. And apparently too obscure. One day we shall screen that masterpiece, one day.)

22/11/2021

LUFS: Week 7: The Act of Killing+ Mystery Film Quiz
Fancy choosing what we screen at next week’s Tuesday meeting? Now is your opportunity... if you can win our devilishly difficult film quiz. Tomorrow at 7pm in the Margaret Fell LT.
Afterwards we’ll be screening Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing, perhaps the finest documentary of the last decade. See you all there!

15/11/2021

Just a reminder (and an opportunity to show off our wonderful poster by JAMES O'DONNELL), all are welcome at our WEEK 6: Korean Cinema- ‘Train to Busan’ Screening. See you guys at 7pm tomorrow in the Margaret Fell LT for some zombie thrills.

23/10/2021

Thanks to everyone who attended our Animated Rat Double Bill last night. It was great to see so many recurring faces, and get to know our members even better. Hopefully all that cheese before bedtime didn’t cause anyone nightmares!

19/10/2021

Thanks to everyone who came to tonight's screening of Space is the Place. What a wonderful 7pm midnight movie.

07/10/2021

Thanks for the high attendance at our Blade Runner screening this evening, it was great to meet so many enthusiastic people.
If you like what we do and, in particular, wish to vote on what we screen next, then be sure to join our private members page.

All you need to do is join for £5 through the Student Union website and request access (that is if we can’t track you down ourselves once you’ve signed up).

If you can’t pay just yet- don’t worry you’re still welcome at our screening this coming Tuesday- though you will not have access to the vote itself.

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07/10/2021

REMINDER
Our Blade Runner screening is tonight at the Margaret Fell LT- 7PM.

If you wish to vote for every subsequent Tuesday Screening and dive deeper into our community be sure to join the society through our Student Union page and request to join our private members group.

https://lancastersu.co.uk/groups/film-society-af76

06/10/2021

WELCOME WEEK SCREENING Free Freshers Screening: Blade Runner
7/10/21
Hey everybody, thanks for all of your interest at today’s Freshers’ Festival stall, it was great meeting so many people interested in our society. Before the term fully begins we would like to invite anybody to a free screening of Blade Runner’s Final Cut. You don’t have to pay for membership yet, or even intend on coming regularly; this is just an event for you to meet our exec, and us to gauge interest (as well as us to figure out how our screenings are to function).

So come and see one or the most beloved films of all time in our good company, kick back and relax for you are in good hands.
- Jon, Meg, Joe, Aidan

(P.s. Yes, I did make the image in a cheap “Meme Creator” app, I am thoroughly ashamed)

06/10/2021

Lancaster University Film Society is in the building, more specifically the Special Interests section of the Sports building.
We hope you all have a great Freshers Festival this year!

05/10/2021

Putting up garish posters around campus.
To clear up any confusion, regular screenings start NEXT Tuesday (12th October), our first event of the year will be this Thursday’s Free Freshers Screening: Blade Runner

20/10/2020

~ Film Soc Stop Motion Animation Recommendations ~

Hey everyone, we hope you are doing well in these troubling times without Lancaster University Film Society. The global pandemic, student union and governmental regulations may have hampered any screening or membership opportunities for the foreseeable future but we hope you are still enjoying the silver screen in your own accommodations.

As per the previous post around the theme of remakes, this week we shall be structuring the recommendation list around the topic of: Stop Motion Animation.

While this type of animation has never proven as viable at the box office as traditional 2D or CG, the artistry behind them arguably dwarfs the other styles of animation. As a Brit, the Bristol-based Aardman comes first to my mind when stop motion is up for discussion; few can deny their charm, inventiveness, and wit. To this day the chase sequence in The Wrong Trousers (1993) remains unsurpassed in any medium (fight me).

Or perhaps you thought of the works of Laika across the pond who made their name with the horror homages Coraline (2009) and Paranorman (2012). Two excellent features that deftly provided family audiences with emotional maturity and challenging subject rarely seen in their contemporaries.

Every now and then Tim Burton will poke his head into the arena and convinces another of the studios to dip their toes into the stop motion arena, think The Co**se Bride (2005) or Frankenweenie (2012). These films certainly have their cult audiences and prove this avenue for artistic expression to be a veritable goldmine, though they certainly harbour his gothic chauvinism to somewhat parodic extremes.

I could ramble on for an eternity to a deaf audience about Wes Anderson or Charlie Kaufman’s bouts in the medium, or travel back in time to the works of Ray Harryhausen , like Abe Simpson yelling at a cloud in that one episode of The Simpsons but skipping to the 3 recommendations for you this week would actually prove productive. So here we go:



-Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)-

The recent output of Laika, under Travis Knight, has veered into entertaining but rather feckless entertainment, think last year’s Missing Link which seems about as far from the horror fables of their early output as possible . The appeal of Kubo and the Two Strings therefore is how it marries Laika’s two eras into one sometimes spooky, always exciting quest film. Its eastern-inspired aesthetic differentiates it from any other in the medium, but ultimately, it’s the film’s poignant exploration of redemption and the legacy our relatives leave for us that makes Kubo stick with you long after viewing.

-The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985)-

Will Vinton was the self-proclaimed father, and patentholder, of ‘Claymation’. After dabbling in short films, he commissioned his studio to make the first feature length film to be made entirely out of clay. Over the course of four years Vinton and roughly seventeen animators painstakingly animated this homage to the works of Mark Twain in the back of a renovated barbershop. Detailing a dying Mark Twain’s odyssey to reach Halley’s Comet before his passing, this film illustrates the writer’s stories in accessible ways and explores the dichotomy of such a witty yet harrowed man in an incredibly visual way.

-Fantastic Planet (1973)-

Rene Laloux’s Fantastic Planet uses cut-outs instead of plastic figures, plasticine, or clay – once again demonstrating how versatile the stop motion animation umbrella is. The animation style and character designs will burn themselves in your retinas, a testament to the trippy experimentalism of vintage French cinema, but this science fiction epic about the sapient blue Draags’ domestication of our human descendants Oms is resonant for more than just its graphic design.



Thank you all for reading today’s recommendations. Hopefully, it will have inspired you to check out some of the films listed above, or at least provided some escapism in the 2020 hellscape.

We may not be functioning as we hoped we would but hearing from you guys is still something we love to make time for. If you have any suggestions or requests as to how the society should function when we reopen in person, or as we function digitally then we would love to hear from you.

Keep watching movies my friends and remember to stay safe,

Joe Hopewell, on behalf of the Film Soc exec

Sam Biddulph- President

Jon Robb- Treasurer

Joe Hopewell- Screening Secretary



Next week: Spooky Halloween Horror Movies