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'That's a Wrap' as Cornerhouse punters select favourite films

Rob Martin
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Rob Martin
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The final season of films at Cornerhouse before it closes to transfer to HOME includes selections made by the audience, bringing back some favourites seen on the screens of Manchester's beloved arthouse cinema over the years. 

In all, 21 films have been chosen from those nominated, and will be screened from Friday 13 March to Thursday 2 April.

Here are just five of our favourites from a great collection.

Badlands: Fri Mar 13 at 8.40pm
Terence Malick's still perfect debut, with a startlingly young Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as the teen lovers who go on a murderous rampage, finding fame and each other. So influential, so powerful and still brilliant, it's a tremendous start to this season.



Reds: Mon Mar 16 at 6.20pm
You would never ever have imagined that a film made in Hollywood in 1981, co-written, produced, directed by and starring Warren Beatty about John Reed, the only American buried inside the Kremlin, would have even got off the ground. Sympathetic views of Communism were not exactly mainstream at the time. And yet this epic manages to be personal, sweeping, intelligent, romantic and quite the closest thing to a David Lean film that Lean never made. Superb acting too from Beatty, Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson, this should be at the top of plenty of 'best' lists. See if you can spot the parts of Manchester some of it was filmed in.



Wings of Desire: Thu Mar 19 at 6.20pm
Back in the days when Wim Wenders was brilliant, he made this glorious love letter to Berlin and humanity, in which angels watch over us. As they come to understand what makes us tick, one decides he'd rather be one of us, and learns what being human is really about. Transcendent.



Vampyr: Sat Mar 21 at 6.30pm
For sheer technique this film is an amazing achievement, Carl Theodor Dreyer's camera and lighting doing things no other had in 1932. From here you can't grasp what it must have been like to see such things, we take them so much for granted now. But beyond that incredible innovation comes a terrifying, unsettling experience which creeps into your dreams long after you're been wowed by Dreyer's boldness, one which stays with you and truly haunts.



Blue Velvet: Thu Apr 2 at 8.30pm
Is it a comedy? A thriller? A horror film? A satire? Well, yes it is and that's part of the genius of David Lynch's breakthrough movie. As terrifying as it is funny, as deeply unsettling as it is deadpan, it remains one of the auteur's finest achievements. And Dennis Hopper gives us one of cinema's great performances.



Find out what else is on at Cornerhouse in That's a Wrap.

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