Film Club 26 April: Affliction

The next film club will be this coming Friday (26 May), watching Affliction (cert 15). The movie may be of interest to people who have been to the Taxi Driver and Raging Bull events, as it was written (or at least adapted from a novel) and directed by Paul Schrader, who wrote the two Scorsese films. Affliction features Nick Nolte as a downtrodden small-town cop with a point to prove, who takes it upon himself to investigate a suspicious death. It also stars James Coburn, Sissy Spacek and Willem Dafoe.

I've not actually seen the film, but I trust Dan's taste in movies. If you want, you can read reviews here and here.

We'll be showing Affliction at the Yong/ Sayer/ Barnes house on 41 Balls Pond Road, Dalston. Here's how to get there. Buses from Shoreditch include 149 and 242. Buses from Bow: 277. A whole heap of buses from Highbury and Islington.

If you're coming, bring pizza and something to drink. Come round from 7pm. We'll start showing to movie at 8pm.

Update: Affliction will be preceded by a screening of the short film Taxi Cat, by Dermot Gunn, inspired by Taxi Driver and shot in Hackney.