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Cathi Unsworth introduces BEAT GIRL at the Barbican
23 January 2008
The Hammett Story Agency presents a literary take on seduction in the movies: British crime and underground writer Cathi Unsworth reads her original short story Johnny, Remember Me, based on the milieu of the 1960 cult British film Beat Girl.
The Hammett Story Agency presents a literary take on seduction in the movies:
Serpent's Tail author Cathi Unsworth reads her original short story Johnny, Remember Me, based on the milieu of the 1960 cult British film Beat Girl.
Followed by:
Beat Girl (12A)
British film's first teen rebel Jenny (the pouting, young-Bardot-esque Gillian Hills) has discovered the beatnik pleasures of coffee shops and underground clubs.
When her self-absorbed father brings home new Parisian wife Nichole, Jenny and her gang are horrified, until they begin to suspect Nichole of an impressively shady past as a stripper.
Also starring Shirley Anne Field, a singing Adam Faith, Christopher Lee as the lecherous stripclub owner and Oliver Reed in the background as a tripping teddy boy, this early gem of 1960s cinema is an edgy and low-budget cocktail of teenage alienation, the allure of a new philosophy, and the rumbling energy of rock and roll.
UK 1960 Dir. Edmond T. Gréville 85 min.
Venue : Barbican Centre, London
Event website : http://www.barbican.org.uk/film/event-detail.asp?ID=6914