How We Used to Live + BFI title tbc & DJ
Soundtracked by Saint Etienne’s Pete Wiggs and scripted by the band’s Bob Stanley with Travis Elborough, How We Used To Live is for anyone who has ever tried to understand their city. Alluringly impressionistic, poetic and political, this is the most joyful and entertaining offering yet from a unique filmmaking collective.
Paul Kelly returns with his latest collaboration with Saint Etienne, following the loose trilogy of London films Finisterre, What Have You Done Today, Mervyn Day and This Is Tomorrow. In the decade since Finisterre, Kelly has built a reputation as a distinctive voice in British cinema, developing a lyrical style that draws on the psychogeography and people of the city and its culture. How We Used To Live is effectively a prequel to Finisterre, a meditation on London life today and a glance back at a receding Britain. Using colour footage from the 1950s to the 1980s, taken from the BFI National Archive, the film covers the ‘New Elizabethan’ age from the optimism of the post-war era to the dawn of Thatcherism.
Cube Microplex Cinema, Dove Street South, Bristol BS2 8JD
Sun 14th Sep | 8 p.m.
Tickets: £5 / £4
Rich threatens to join DJ Gareth [Lipstick On Your Collar] spinning poptastically cinematic tunes in the bar too pre and inbetween films.