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This autumn, Scala Beyond, the nationwide film season that celebrates all forms of cinema, will launch Film Crawl, a new series of walking tours that will explore cinema cultures in specific areas of interest, across the country.

Supported by Film London, the Film Crawl is an on-going project that will draw out the rich connections that places have with exhibition and filmmaking. Accessible both as an audio tour and a printed map, the first Crawl will also operate as a group walking tour, guided by cinema experts over the launch weekend of 22 – 23 September, in conjunction with Open House London 2012. Using a portable projector to reveal archive footage, film clips and stills, the Crawl will bring to life an area’s cinematic history through film itself.

The initiative launches with Film Crawl #1: The Central South London Peninsula, encompassing Southwark and Lambeth’s connection to cinematic culture past and present. Composed and guided by Sam Cuthbert, a cinema scholar and programmer, there will be one crawl per day, each lasting just over 3.5 miles with an estimated running length of 4 and a half hours. Starting at the Roxy Bar and Screen in Borough, highlights of the Crawl include the Tate Modern Tanks’ Jeff Keen exhibition, BFI Southbank, IMAX at Waterloo, Imperial War Museum, the Heygate Estate and Siobhan Davies Dance Studio. At Elephant and Castle, Richard Norman, a local cinema historian, will deliver a lecture on the rich history of the site, before the Crawl finishes at the Cinema Museum for a guided tour. Stops will include illustrated talks tying together history, topography and geography to form a portrait of London on screen.

The crawl incorporates clips from films such as Naked (1993), Howards End (1992), It! (1967), Joanna (1968), The File of the Golden Goose (1969), Snatch (2000), Bridget Jones’ Diary (2001) plus archive footage and much more.

A specially commissioned map of the Crawl, designed by London illustrator Maggie Li, will be produced and available to purchase at the Roxy Bar and Screen (included in ticket price of the Crawl). Maggie has worked on a variety of illustration projects spanning editorial to publishing and is inspired by mid-century graphics and bold colourful prints. The Crawl will also be available to download as a free audio version, produced by sound designer Tom Fisher and including interviews with Stuart Comer (Curator Film at Tate), Richard Norman (Cinema Theatre Association) and Martin Humphries (Cinema Museum).

The tour is part of Open House London 2012 and has been funded by Scala Beyond which is supported by Film London through National Lottery Funding on behalf of the BFI.

Eureka Entertainment has announced for release as part of its world-renowned and award-winning Masters of Cinema Series a glorious presentation of Stanley Kubrick’s rarely-seen first feature film, Fear And Desire, in a new restoration carried out by The Library of Congress in conjunction with Kino Lorber, Inc. This is the first time the film will officially appear on home video in the United Kingdom, and will be released in Blu-ray and DVD editions in late January 2013.

This edition will mark the first wide-release of the only other Stanley Kubrick film which has remained nearly impossible to see in the United Kingdom — since the 1999 re-release of the notorious, following the director’s death.

The film tells the story of a war waged (in the present? in the future?) between two forces… In the midst of the conflict, a plane carrying four soldiers has crashed behind enemy lines. From here out, it is kill or be killed: a female hostage is taken on account of being a potential informer; an enemy general and his aide are discovered during a scouting mission… What lies in store for this ragtag group of killers, between their perilous landing in the forest, and the final raft-float downstream… this is the tale of Kubrick’s extraordinary picture.

Ron Benson, Managing Director of Eureka Entertainment stated “It is an unbelievable privilege to be able to make this thrilling film available in such an extraordinary restoration as carried out by Kino Lorber and the Library of Congress, and to present it in a form which will ‘do right’ by Kubrick — that director whose exacting standards, more than any other, warrant a conscientious and superb presentation.”

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Eureka Entertainment have announced that in support of the release on home video of Stanley Kubrick’s FEAR AND DESIRE, the film will be screening across venues in the Picturehouse Chain from 4th January 2013.

Full Details are as follows:

Duke’s at Komedia, Brighton – Jan 4-5 2013 (2 days)
Harbour Lights Picturehouse – Jan 6 2013, Jan 10 2013 (2 days)
Stratford Picturehouse, East London – Jan 10 2013 (1 day)
Greenwich Picturehouse – Jan 10 2013 (1 day)
Ritzy Picturehouse, Brixton – Jan 14 2013 (1 day)
Phoenix Picturehouse, Oxford – Jan 14 2013 (1 day)
Hyde Park Picturehouse, Leeds – Jan 17 2013 (1 day)
Clapham Picturehouse – Jan 20 2013 (1 day)
Picturehouse at FACT, Liverpool – Jan 21 2013 (1 day)
Cameo Picturehouse, Edinburgh – Jan 24 2013 (1 day)
Exeter Picturehouse – Jan 28 2013 (1 day)
City Screen Picturehouse, York – Jan 28 2013 (1 day)
Cinema City, Norwich – Jan 28 2013 (1 day)
The Belmont Picturehouse, Aberdeen – Jan 30 2013 (1 day)
Hackney Picturehouse – Jan 31 2013 (1 day)

For further details of the screenings http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/

Mother’s Milk is a powerful, moving, and often funny, drama, based on the award-winning novel by Edward St. Aubyn about an English family forced to come to terms with the imminent loss of their beloved holiday house in Provence. This bittersweet tale of family discord set over a long, hot summer was adapted for the screen by Edward St. Aubyn and Gerry Fox and directed by Gerry Fox.

More info here.