Category Archives: Matchbox Cineclub

Matchbox Cineclub #11: The World’s Greatest Sinner

Posted on October 22, 2015 by SMW

Matchbox Cineclub‘s November screening will be the original punk rock movie – Timothy Carey’s The World’s Greatest Sinner (1962), a masterpiece of outsider art, DIY cinema and maverick midnight madness – and a sizzling tincture of sex-death-rocknroll, politics, religion and ssSIN! Timothy Carey … Continue reading →

Posted in Glasgow, Matchbox Cineclub, Preview | Tagged 1962, Absolute Films, Cinema, cult film, DIY Cinema, Film, Glasgow, Matchbox Cineclub, Midnight Movie, Movies, Outsider Art, The Old Hairdressers, The World's Greatest Sinner, Timothy Carey | Leave a comment

Matchbox Cineclub #10: NIGHTBREED The Director’s Cut

Posted on September 19, 2015 by SMW

Matchbox Cineclub‘s October screening is the director’s cut of Cliver Barker’s Nightbreed (1990). Nightbreed was intended to be the Star Wars of horror movies. Directed by Barker (Hellraiser) from his novel Cabal, it’s a creature feature where the many, many … Continue reading →

Posted in Glasgow, Matchbox Cineclub, Preview | Tagged 1990, 2015, Clive Barker, Danny Elfman, David Cronenberg, Erin McGrath, Halloween, Horror, Matchbox Cineclub, Nightbreed, NIghtbreed: The Director's Cut, October, The Old Hairdressers | Leave a comment

Disreputable Trash

Posted on September 19, 2015 by SMW

Matchbox Cineclub‘s September screening was Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s House (1977). It was part of the annual UK-wide Scalarama film festival which aims to celebrate independent cinema and DIY, pop-up cinema culture, often with a focus on what The Skinny called “the kind of disreputable … Continue reading →

Posted in Glasgow, Matchbox Cineclub | Tagged 1977, 2015, Cinema, Disreputable Trash, Glasgow, Hausu, House, Matchbox Cineclub, Movie, Movies, Nobuhiko Obayashi, Pop-Up Cinema, Scalarama, Scalarama2015, Scaledonia, The Old Hairdressers | 1 Comment

Matchbox Cineclub #9: House (Scalarama 2015)

Posted on September 10, 2015 by SMW

Matchbox Cineclub’s September screening, part of Scalarama 2015, will be Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House (1977). House is a Japanese film about a group of schoolgirls terrorised by a haunted house, which is also the very least of it. It was a struggling Japanese film industry’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Glasgow, Matchbox Cineclub, Preview | Tagged 2015, Cinema, Film, Glasgow, Hausu, House, illustration, Matchbox Cineclub, Movies, Nobuhiko Obayashi, Poster, Preview, Scalarama, Scalarama 2015, Scaledonia, Trailer | Leave a comment

La Disparation d’Adèle Bedeau (Claude Chabrol, 1989)

Posted on August 27, 2015 by SMW

Matchbox Cineclub recently presented Claude Chabrol’s Les Noce Rouges (1973), at a special screening introduced by Graeme Macrae Burnet. For the screening I was able to source a trailer for Chabrol’s rarely-seen (indeed, barely made) adaptation of La Disparation d’Adèle Bedeau (see above). An … Continue reading →

Posted in Glasgow, Matchbox Cineclub | Tagged 1989, Claude Chabrol, France, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Isabelle Adjani, La Disparation d'Adèle Bedeau, Saraband Books | 1 Comment