Dan Carrier’s movies news: Secret Cinema; Dartmouth Park Film Club
Friday, 16th February 2018 — By Dan Carrier

Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner, 1982
• Secret Cinema’s USP is their ability to blend what is on screen with an immersive experience. So it is with no little amount of hullabaloo that they announced their season for 2018 – and the fact it is focused on the director’s cut of the original Blade Runner, pictured, sets the mind whizzing as to what they will come up with. The location, as ever, remains a secret for now – but no doubt their set designers have some super-funky ideas in mind to take us to the dystopian cityscape for Ridley Scott’s first, original take on the Philip K Dick novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? See www.tickets.secretcinema.org
• The Dartmouth Park Film Club, which has an enviable contacts list that brings in superb films and wonderful people to present them, has a lovely entry fee system in place: namely, pay whatever you think the night is worth, or what you can afford. Considering they throw in a glass of good wine and a tasty slice of home-made cake, it’s a film-going bargain. Next week they present the documentary Tokyo Girls. Screened at the Sundance Festival, it is part of the BBC’s renowned Storyville stable. It considers the world of Japanese pop stars, who are packaged in a manga-cartoon style and considers who they are aimed at. It was edited by Dartmouth Park resident Anna Price, who has worked on Louis Theroux’s documentaries, and she will be there to discuss the film. The screening is on Thursday, February 22, at 7pm at the Highgate Library Civic Centre, Croftdown Road, N19.