Preview of Franklyn, London
Awesome ! I having been waiting to see "Franklyn" for a while - ever since I read an interesting 
article in Empire magazine about a year ago about a set visit.
The article evoked imagery of V for Vendetta/Equilibrium/Watchmen/Bladerunner/The Matrix mixed with regular every day London. I missed the screening at the LFF (London Film Festival) but was fortunate to get a ticket to a preview screening this weekend at the BFI. I was a little surprised that despite positive reviews Franklyn still does not have an official release date.
After watching the trailer my expectations are high.
You are cordially invited to a Preview screening of Franklyn and question and answer session with Producer Jeremy Thomas and Writer/Director Gerald McMorrow.
A magical realist exploration of the intersection of love, fantasy and faith in four disparate lives, the film moves deftly between contemporary London and the futurist Meanwhile City. Notable for its bold, original use of metropolitan locations."Franklyn is basically about four intertwining stories, three of which are based in contemporary London and one of which is based in a kind of parallel fantasy environment called Meanwhile City. Ou
r hero in that strand is this sort-of masked vigilante detective who's the only atheist in Meanwhile City, played by Ryan Phillippe, who basically runs around trying to extract people from cults, has a big cynicism about the whole thing and hates The Ministry with a vengeance."What is Meanwhile City? "It's this place which is sort-of run by a shadowy, religious uber-power called The Ministry who has decided, over the centuries, that as long as they can get their population to believe in something - anything - they can control them. People have faiths and religions based on strange things like The 
Seventh Day Manicurists and Washing Machine Street Preachers. Their doctrines and dogmas are all based on things like washing machine instructions."Franklyn stars:
Sam Riley
Eva Green
Ryan Phillippe
Susannah York
Jeremy Thomas and Gerald McMorrow will take part in a post-screening Q&A.
Secret Cinema London in November
Secret Cinema Folk
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Secret Cinema in association with NOKIA brings you the following newsflash.
The next Secret Cinema will take place on the evening of Friday November 28th at an undisclosed location in Central London and, for the very first time in the lovely seaside resort of Brighton.
Good Luck.
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PS: Remember, tell no-one
Secret Cinema is proud to be working with NOKIA on connecting people to another way of seeing film. To for
LWLies 20th birthday party, London
From the invite: LWLies will be celebrating our 20th birthday on November 27, and we really hope you can join us. We can't offer you any free booze, but we can offer you a great (fully refurbished) venue, a solid group of people, and awesome music.
PLUS! Everyone who comes gets a free limited edition screenprint of the cover of LWLies 21 (the Che issue, released end of December) hand-made, signed and numbered by our creative team.
PLUS! Your chance to illustrate the iconic Che Guevara on your own LWLies Che issue cover. Your printed invite will be blank one side, and all you need to do is get creative.
The Legion
Advance screening of new Brit horror film: The Children with production team in attendance at a secret location in London
A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.
LONDON:- 6.30 p.m. on the 27th of November in a secret London location with Hannah Tointon, Jeremy Sheffield, Eva Birthlistle, Rachel Shelley and Tom Shankland in attendance.
FRIGHTFEST HITS THE ROAD. The biggest success at FrightFest’s Halloween ICA all-nighter was director Tom Shankland's fantastically scary The Children. Deafening applause greeted our surprise world premiere that literally raised the roof. FrightFesters clearly know their stuff because further glowing praise has been heaped on The Children ever since. UK critics and attendees at the recent American Film Market love it just as much too.
As a result of the amazing FrightFest reaction Vertigo Films and FrightFest have got together and are bringing The Children to a cinema near you. Tom Shankland and members of the cast, along with our very own Alan Jones, are packing their suitcases and heading out of London to share one of the best horror films of the year with you all.
An interview with Tom at FrightFest’s Halloween ICA all-nighter done while his film was screening, and also the Q & A after the screening can be seen on Frightfest TV over on the FrightFest web site. (BTW excuse the dodgy colour in the Q & A bit. The lighting in the ICA was not the greatest.) Also, visit the films great looking web site here.
Screenings will take place in Dublin, Glasgow, Newcastle, Birmingham and London. And the great news is the tickets are free. All screenings start at 6.30 p.m. and tickets will be available from the various cinema box offices from 5 p.m. on the evening of the screening on a first come first served basses.
SCREENINGS AND LOCATIONS
DUBLIN:- 6.30 p.m. on the 23rd November at the Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin with Hannah Tointon, Eva Birthlistle and Tom Shankland in attendance.
GLASGOW:- 6.30p.m. On the 24th November at The Grosvenor Cinema, Glasgow with Hannah Tointon, Eva Birthlistle and Tom Shankland in attendance.
NEWCASTLE:- 6.30p.m. On the 25th of November at The Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle with Hannah Tointon and tom Shankland in attendance
BIRMINGHAM:- 6.30p.m. on the 26th of November at The Electric Cinema, Birmingham with Rachel Shelley, Hannah Tointon and Tom Shankland in attendance
