The Cube
Independent cinema which also hosts regular gigs and music.
The Cube is a real asset to Bristol, an independent cinema run by volunteers with original programming. In addition to films and live music the 105 seat cinema is also used for workshops and discussions.
In essence The Cube shows the films you actually want to see, avoiding pure 'arthouse' programming. Expect to find Hollywood's (occasional) decent offerings listed alongside quality foreign and independent films as well as a few cult classics. Wednesday mornings (11am) is BabyCinema where babies are welcome while Wednesday evenings is BlueScreen - a sort of open mic night but for short films.
While often folk or indie based, gig listings for The Cube can really vary. The level of crowd interaction at the Cube can make it a great venue to catch one off shows from electronica producers to experimental artists.
For film times check www.cubecinema.com
In essence The Cube shows the films you actually want to see, avoiding pure 'arthouse' programming. Expect to find Hollywood's (occasional) decent offerings listed alongside quality foreign and independent films as well as a few cult classics. Wednesday mornings (11am) is BabyCinema where babies are welcome while Wednesday evenings is BlueScreen - a sort of open mic night but for short films.
While often folk or indie based, gig listings for The Cube can really vary. The level of crowd interaction at the Cube can make it a great venue to catch one off shows from electronica producers to experimental artists.
For film times check www.cubecinema.com
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Our recent recommendations for The Cube
The concert film to end all concert films! Before there was Woodstock, there was 68’s Monterey Pop, immortalised in D. A. Pennebaker's euphoric countercultural snapshot. Some of the best live performances in history, not to mention Mama Cass’ rapturous gawping while Janis Joplin howls the sky down, the multiple counts of guitar destruction/fornication/arson, the priceless cutaways to a sea of blissed-out hippies…
HIPPY TRIPPY SUMMER PRESENTS: MONTEREY POP at The Cube.
‘We are black f*ggots with a political agenda!’ – The Cube’s queer sleazefest keeps on rolling with the best 90s flick you’ve never heard of. Stephen Winter’s criminally underrated debut follows a ragtag young activist group in their radical campaign against the deadly toll of state inaction during the AIDS crisis. It’s a dazzling celebration of the wit and wrath of queer people of colour.
90'S QUEER SLEAZE: Chocolate Babies 8pm at The Cube.
Supernormal withdrawal? QWAK’s got a cure for what ails ye. Their grab-bag of cross-country experimental sonics brings together freeform dub-drone collapses from Erosion Control, Wind In The Willows-gone-wrong avant-folk-noise from The Sprig, and post-computer concrète mangling from Thomas Carroll. Wash that down with Cube fave RRS + some late-night bar/garden mischief…
Erosion Control + The Sprigs + Thomas Carroll + RRS at The Cube.
They are the gods of cinephile hellfire, and they’ll die (again) if they want to! Bowing out after 150 offerings of B-movie obscurity, HFC does the DIY sci-fi double: Sun Ra’s astral emigration jazz odyssey Space is the Place + the rare-screened UFO cult, public-access, past-life improv madness of The Arrival. Come drown your obscure tears in the bar after, with original press giallo soundtracks played on very dirty needles. RIP!
Double bill of Sun Ra's SPACE IS THE PLACE (1974) and THE ARRIVAL (1980)
Weeks before Salo’s release, Pasolini was beaten, set on fire, and run over with a car several times. What unfolds on screen is barely any less harrowing. Salò is among cinema’s most stomach-turning simulations of cruelty and degradation: excrement is consumed, tongues are severed, eyes are gouged, flesh is scorched… this is an anti-Eurosleaze landmark reserved for the iron-gutted.
Four fascists round up a group of teenagers and subject them to physical and sexual torture in Pier Paolo Pasolini's notorious final film.