Event type: Film

FACT invited exhibiting artist R.I.P. Germain to guest curate a season of films that have influenced his creative practice. R.I.P. Germain’s second selection is the 1982 cult sci-fi horror film, The Thing.

Directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster, the film combines Kurt Russell’s outstanding performance with incredible visuals to create a chilling adaptation. Based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There?, the film tells the story of a group of researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous “Thing,” an extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates and then imitates other organisms.

The group is overcome by paranoia and conflict as they learn that they can no longer trust each other, knowing that any one of them could be the Thing.

R.I.P. Germain’s immersive exhibition “After GOD, Dudus Comes Next!” (2024) is on display at FACT from Friday 5 July to Sunday 13 October 20204.

FACT invited exhibiting artist R.I.P. Germain to guest curate a season of films that have influenced his creative practice.

To kick off the season, R.I.P. Germain selects one of the most influential gangster epics of all time, Brian De Palma’s 1983 classic Scarface.

The film tells the story of Cuban refugee Tony Montana, who arrives penniless in Miami during the Mariel boatlift and becomes a powerful drug lord. Lead actor Al Pacino gives an unforgettable performance as one of the most ruthless gangsters ever depicted on screen, alongside the dazzling Michelle Pfeiffer in what is widely regarded as her breakthrough role.

R.I.P. Germain’s immersive exhibition “After GOD, Dudus Comes Next!” (2024) is on display at FACT from Friday 5 July to Sunday 13 October 20204.

Discover the full Artist’s Choice film season

Mystery Theatre Club in collaboration with Anfield People’s Cinema present – Occupy!

Kitty’s Laundrette 77 Grasmere St, Liverpool L5 6RH
Doors and food from 7pm
Film starts at 7:30pm
Pay What You Can
Free Hot Meal! – Discussion after the Screening!

Join the Mystery Theatre Club for a monthly archived screening of unique, world-class theatre shows. Embrace experimental and contemporary works from exciting theatre makers.

This time they are collaborating with Anfield People’s Cinema and will be presenting Occupy! (1976 ) Pete Postlethwaite, Bill Nighy and Julie Walters, make some of their earliest performances on film in the story of a four-year struggle to set up a worker’s cooperative at a Fisher-Bendix factory in Kirkby. GaelDohany’s polemical and formally radical documentary recounts the passage of industrial dispute through a mixture of interviews, news reports and scenes from a play about the occupation performed by the Liverpool Everyman Theatre.

Also intercut are ‘eye-witness’ reports from similar events in Turin in 1919 and Detroit in 1936. With the use of such fictionalised interviews and its intercutting of material, the film has stylistic echoes of the work of Peter Watkins and Jean-Luc Godard, but rather than making broader political commentary Dohany is focused on the intrigue of this localised struggle. Occupy! was funded by the BFI Production Board during a brief period of mid-1970s political radicalism when the Board also funded films by London Women’s Film Group, Cinema Action and the Berwick Street Collective.

Join Liverpool Arab Arts Festival and At The Library for a special summer evening of Arab film at the Plaza Community Cinema in Waterloo.

Chosen films, selected in collaboration with actress, writer, presenter and founder of The Arab Film Club, Sarah Agha, and women from “The Colour of Pomegranates”, will be announced in June.

Children’s activities will be available at Crosby Library, opposite to the cinema, during the screenings for those who need child care.