Cine-Excess V: The Politics and Aesthetics of Excess

Italian acting legend Franco Nero (Django, Keoma, Die Hard II) and controversial cult director Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust, House on the Edge of the Park) headline this year’s Cine-Excess V International Cult Film Conference and Festival, which returns the Odeon Covent Garden between the 26th and 28th May 2011.

Cine-Excess V features filmmaker discussions, exclusive UK theatrical premieres and a 3 day conference with over 30 separate talks on cult controversies from around the world.

Find out more about Cine-Excess V.

• Censorship on the Edge of the Park: Ruggero Deodato Meets the BBFC
  Thursday 26th May 2011 6.30pm-7.30pm, Odeon Covent Garden
  
• The Worldwide Theatrical Premiere of the New Edit of Cannibal Holocaust
  Thursday 26th May 8.30pm-11pm, Odeon Covent Garden
  
• Arthouse Atrocities: Franco Nero Introduces A Quiet Place in the Country (Elio Petri 1969)
  Friday 27th May 8.30pm-11pm, The Italian Cultural Institute
• Django Never Dies: Italian Screen Legend Franco Nero Onstage
  Saturday 28th May 4pm-6.30pm, Odeon Covent Garden
  
• Live Like an Italian, Die Like a Filmmaker: Ruggero Deodato Discusses Police, Politics and Seventies Italian Society
  Saturday 28th May 9pm-11.30pm, The Italian Cultural Institute
  

Cine-Excess V Presents: The Worldwide Theatrical Premiere of the New Edit of Cannibal Holocaust

Cannibal Holocaust (Ruggero Deodato, 1979)
Still Courtesy of Shameless Films 

Cine-Excess V is proud to present the Worldwide theatrical premiere of one of this year’s most hotly discussed horror classics: Cannibal Holocaust. This new edit has been exclusively prepared for Shameless Films in the UK by director Ruggero Deodato, and addresses some of the controversial issues raised in the film’s original 1979 release.

Ruggero Deodato’s influential and infamous tale centres on four intrepid explorers who go missing in the Amazonian wilderness, leading to fears that they have been butchered by local ‘savages.’  However, when the noted NYU anthropologist Harold Monroe discovers the group’s final filmed diary, a far more shocking tale emerges…