Hack to School: if....

Saturday, 24 March

Hack to School: if....

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High school is tough enough as it is. But locker room bullies and playground politics can make learning a living hell for some. Hack to School explores what can happen when teens (and teachers) try to fight back against these high school hierarchies with lethal results. These films follow the killer cliques and dangerous delinquents that dominate the locker rooms and lunch halls of the modern high school. The next film in our program is Lindsay Anderson's counterculture classic if... (1968), about a student uprising at a British boarding school. 

Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) enters his senior year at College House, a strict British boarding school ruled by The Whips, a sadistic group of upperclassmen. Mick and his pals Johnny (David Wood) and Wallace (Richard Warwick) refuse to conform to the school's social order, so the Whips set out to make an example of them, leading to a violent confrontation. Made during the May 68 protests in France, Lindsay Anderson's darkly comic drama exposes the rot of conformist British society while capturing the vital fury of teen rebellion. In his screen debut McDowell, is magnetic as the proto-punk protagonist, a heroic precursor to his nihilistic turn as Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange. Anderson playfully mixes harsh social realism with surrealist fantasy, freely switching between color and B&W. The film's climax, which notoriously earned the film an X rating, still packs a punch. Watch the trailer. 

Directed by Lindsay Anderson, UK, 1968, 111 mins. In English w/ English subtitles. 

Bar opens @ 18:30.
Admission is free, but donations are welcome.

Date & Time: 

Saturday, 24 March, 2018 - 19:00

Category: 

  • bar/cafe
  • film

Price: 

  • free

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Cinema of the Dam'd at OT301
Overtoom 301
2nd Floor
1054HW Amsterdam
Netherlands

Directions: 

Inside the OT301 arts building, on the 2nd floor. Directly across from the Jan Pieter Heijestraat stop for tram #1.

Squat: 

Former squat, now legalised

Cinema of the Dam’d is a bar, cinema & gathering place, located on the 2nd floor of the OT301 arts collective which is the site of the former film academy.

categories: 

  • bar/cafe / film

opening times: 

See event listings for opening times.