When: Monday 13th May, 19:30 onwards
Where: The Spotted Dog, Warwick Street, Digbeth

Stuck for something to do on Monday night? Never fear, Filum Night is here!

As ever, your host and landlord John will be on hand with free ‘tay n buns’ (that’s tea and cream cakes to the uninitiated!) and his wicked sense of humour.

Next week’s filum is:

The Informer (1935)
Dublin, 1922. Gypo Nolan, strong but none too bright, has been ousted from the rebel organization and is starving. When he finds that his equally destitute sweetheart Katie has been reduced to prostitution, he succumbs to temptation and betrays his former comrade Frankie to the British authorities for a 20 pound reward. In the course of one gloomy, foggy night, guilt and retribution inexorably close in.

Because Liam O’Flaherty’s novel had previously been filmed in 1929, RKO gave Ford a very modest budget. The director and his associates, particularly cinematographer Joseph H. August, turned this to their advantage in creating a claustrophobic masterpiece about a man at war with himself. In addition to McLaglen’s Oscar ‘The Informer’ also won John Ford his first along with wins for Best Screenplay and Best Score.

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When: Saturday 4th May, 19:30 onwards
Where: The Spotted Dog, 104 Warwick St, Digbeth, B12 0NH

This Saturday, the Spotted Dog will be hosting an evening of live music, a mix of ambient, instrumental, dub, and hip hop, as part of Artist, Reveal Yourself!.

Organised in collaboration with Digbeth-based Polish Expats Association (PEA), Artist, Reveal Yourself! launches tomorrow at A.E.Harris. The three-day festival will encompass visual art exhibitions, theatre performances and slam poetry sessions, exploring connected to cultural identity, migration and communication.

With over twenty international artists involved in the festival, there are a number of art-related workshops on offer this weekend around the city, on a drop-in basis. For more information about the festival schedule and event prices, please visit the PEA website here.

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When: Monday 15th April, 19:30 onwards
Where: The Spotted Dog, Warwick Street, Digbeth

Stuck for something to do on Monday night? Never fear, Filum Night is here!

As ever, your host and landlord John will be on hand with free ‘tay n buns’ (that’s tea and cream cakes to the uninitiated!) and his wicked sense of humour.

Next week’s filum is:

My Left Foot (1989)
Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large, poor Irish family. His mother, Mrs Brown, recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually, Christy matures into a cantankerous writer who uses his only functional limb, his left foot, to write.

Daniel Day-Lewis’ almost impossible performance as a man with cerebral palsy earned him a well-deserved Oscar in 1989 for Best Actor. Brenda Fricker won the Oscar as Best Supporting Actress as Brown’s mother.

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When: Monday 18th March, 19:30 onwards
Where: The Spotted Dog, Warwick Street, Digbeth

Stuck for something to do on Monday night? Never fear, Filum Night is here!

As ever, your host and landlord John will be on hand with free ‘tay n buns’ (that’s tea and cream cakes to the uninitiated!) and his wicked sense of humour.

Next week’s filum is:

Rocky Road to Dublin (1968)
Rocky Road to Dublin was the last film shown at the 1968 Cannes festival which was shutdown in solidarity with the student revolts in Paris. The students adopted Rocky Road and screened it in the vast amphitheatres of the Sorbonne, which was still besieged by riot police.

Lennon’s theme was what do you do with a revolution once you’ve won. Lennon found that you give it straight back to the Bourgeoisie. At the centre of the film is the iron grip the Catholic Church held on Ireland after British occupation.

We see the young and hip Fr. Michael Cleary singing Chatanooga Shoeshine Boy to a maternity ward. We then see him extolling the virtues of celibacy and sex within marriage, this long before it was known that he had fathered 2 children by his housekeeper.

The film couldn’t be banned in Ireland (the censors comment to the director was: “Since there is no sex in the film, Peter, there is nothing I can do against you.”) It was only picked up by one Dublin cinema for a short run. The church’s iron grip on the country was thus shown when no other cinema dared show the film.

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When: Monday 4th March, 19:30 onwards
Where: The Spotted Dog, Warwick Street, Digbeth

Stuck for something to do on Monday night? Never fear, Filum Night is here!

As ever, your host and landlord John will be on hand with free ‘tay n buns’ (that’s tea and cream cakes to the uninitiated!) and his wicked sense of humour.

Next week’s filum is:

The Violent Enemy (1967)
An IRA plot to blow up a power station. Sean Rogan (Tom Bell) tries to stop the destruction. An intelligent thriller with powerful performances, adapted from “A Candle For The Dead” by Jack Higgins.

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