Chorlton Film Institute wiki - Please edit this wiki

Chorlton Film Institute is a version of a Guerilla Cinema group aimed at making arthouse film accessible in and around Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester.

Spring 2008 Films

Thursday 15th May - Factory Girl, starts at 8.30pm

SAT 17th May 11am - Saturday Morning Children's Cinema (in association with the Chorlton Arts Festival)

Five Children and IT

SAT 24th May 11am - Saturday Morning Children's Cinema (in association with the Chorlton Arts Festival)

Magic Sword:Quest for Camelot

Thursday 19th June - This is England

The CFI has no membership criteria - just turn up and pay on the night. This is not a profit-making venture. We are aiming simply to cover the cost of the film hire (via Film Distributors FILMBANK), the hire of the Audio Visual equipment (from Chorlton-based company Hollowsphere), the rental of the Church & the cost of the flyers, designed and printed by Holden and Friends and UK Print.

We have a fabulous new BIG screen now and a new subwoofer for increased viewing pleasure.

This wiki works like any other - you can edit pages and add new ones. It is principally designed to allow anyone to contribute their previews and reviews of films we are showing or have shown.

We also welcome pages on film related matters as well as your thoughts about CFI itself. Learn how to do it here

We've thoughtfully put all of the Film dates for your diaries which you can sync with your iCal and gCal and also link to the RSS feeds.

Now there will be no excuse for fogetting!

Factory Girl - Thursday 15th May, 8.30pm

FACTORY GIRL imaginatively unfolds the comet-like rise and fall of 60s “It Girl” Edie Sedgwick, the blazing superstar who came to define both the glamour and the tragedy of our celebrity-obsessed culture. Sedgwick appeared to be the quintessential American princess, with her blue blood, her trust fund and her Harvard education, not to mention her ethereal beauty and vivacious charisma. But she was also a lost and fragile little girl; and when she met up with counter-culture anti-hero Andy Warhol, everything changed. Suddenly, Edie found herself at the center of a Pop Art universe bursting with sex, drugs, style and rock ‘n’ roll -- and a mad rush for fame and fabulousness that was destined to spin out of control.

Arriving into the chaos of mid-60s New York, Edie (Sienna Miller) is taken under the wing of the famously deadpan artist Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce) who sees in her untamed vulnerability the makings of an irresistible muse. Warhol invites Edie into the wild world of The Factory, a former downtown hat factory he has transformed into a bohemian paradise. Here, a rag-tag mix of musicians, poets, artists, actors and misfits gather to create avant-garde movies during the day and throw glam parties all night long. Edie quickly ascends to become the star of Warhol’s movies, an idol at The Factory and a media darling. She is on top of the world when she falls in love with a larger-than-life rock star (Hayden Christensen). But when Edie becomes caught between Warhol’s world of sexy surfaces and her new love, she winds up rejected by both – and once again, set adrift in the modern world.