Cinema
Film Review: Utøya: July 22 Dir Erik Poppe (Norway, 2018)
Two premieres were held at HOME in Manchester recently showcasing films about massacres.
“A factory worker with a cultural dream.” Director Sean McAllister talks about his new documentary
Brian W. Lavery talks to director Sean McAllister, the man behind a documentary revealing the flip side of his home town’s UK City of Culture year. A Northern Soul follows a factory worker’s struggle to pursue what seems like an impossible cultural dream.
Apostasy: Film Director Dan Kokotajlo and cast talk to Northern Soul
The startling, powerful and often bleak Oldham-set debut film by Dan Kokotajlo, a Tameside-born director, explores the fall-out of renouncing a family religion and motherhood.
Review: L7: Pretend We’re Dead, Doc’n Roll Film Fest, HOME, Manchester
In recent years, the music documentary seems to have come into its own, germinating out between the paving stone formula of talking head hindsight and nostalgia, proliferating like weeds of unexpected empathy and wasteland beauty.
Review: Jaws in Concert, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
There’s trouble in the water for the residents of Amity Island as swimmers are picked apart by a great white shark.
Film Review: Ghost Stories
An interesting thing can happen when a genre has been around long enough to acquire fans.
Review: Suffragette, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Manchester was the birthplace of the women’s suffrage movement so it was fitting that, on International Women’s Day, in the centenary of the first women to be given the vote (but only those over 30, mind, and if they owned property), the Pankhurst Trust held a special showing of the 2015 film Suffragette.
Review: NOW – A dialogue on female Chinese contemporary artists, CFCCA and HOME, Manchester
There’s an old saying in China that ‘women hold up half the sky’.
The Northern Soul Awards 2018
Are you an individual or an organisation based in the North of England? Why don’t you come to this year’s Northern Soul Awards? It’ll be a brilliant evening – 15th November at Manchester Cathedral. Tickets available here: https://awards.northernsoul.me.uk/buy-tickets/
The Northern Soul Poll
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