Cine-Excess: Taking Trash Seriously...

 
 

In what is believed to be the UK's first ever cross commercial-academic film venture, Brunel University's School of Arts Cult Film Archive, via its Cine-Excess project, has been given the rights to the archive of some of the 300 movies owned by the legendary B-movie producer and film director, Roger Corman. The university's intention to "take trash seriously" in an academic respect and to release the films from the Corman archive on DVD has led to the university's lecturer in Film and TV Studies and director of Cine-Excess, Xavier Mendik, seeking out the services of the prestigious London-based art film outlet, Nouveaux Pictures, as a joint distributor of its forthcoming titles...


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The International Conference on Cult Film Traditions

Since 2007, The Cult Film Archive at Brunel University has developed the successful Cine-Excess Cult Film Conference and Festival as a high profile annual event which brings together leading international scholars and critics with global cult filmmakers. Cine-Excess comprises of a 3 day 10-15 parallel strand conference alongside plenary talks, filmmaker interviews and UK theatrical premieres of up and coming cult releases...


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Suspiria DVD and Blu-Ray Release

Following the success of Cine-Excess III we are currently in the stages of planning next year’s conference. Due to take place between 29 April and 1 May 2010 guests of honour, details of screenings and other exciting news will be posted shortly. In the meantime we welcome individual paper submissions, panels and roundtable proposals. Find out more...

Cine-Excess IV: Back By Popular Demand

Following on from this year’s Cine-Excess conference featuring guests of honour Dario Argento and Claudio Simonetti, we are proud to announce that Argento’s masterpiece will be released in an all new transfer on DVD by the Nouveaux Pictures / Cine-Excess label. The new disc will also feature a brand new documentary and audio commentary featuring Alan Jones and Kim Newman. Find out more...