Side Cinema
Calendar - Amber at 40 Season
29th May 2008 ( 7:00PM – 9:00PM )
All You Need Is Dynamite + Maybe + Mai
All You Need Is Dynamite (1968, 40 mins) and Maybe (1969, 10 mins) were the two films made at Regents Street Polytechnic by some of the students who formed Amber. The former has the distinction of being the only film from the group to have been banned (we tried to put it on the IMDB website the other day and there's still something about the title that creates problems... Maybe is a beautiful portrait of the Shields Ferry. Mai (1974, 30 mins) wasn't finished until the group had been on Tyneside for a few years, but it was started as a student film and is a portrait of Murray and Sirkka's eccentric landlady, Mai Finglass.