High Arctic Film Weekend, London
The nights are drawing in, Frozen Planet is on the box, the ice caps are melting ? perfect timing for this Arctic-themed event. Today focuses on Inuit culture, with screenings of 1920s "documentary" Nanook Of The North (which was notoriously staged) and Zacharias Kunuk's thrilling fable Atanarjuat ? The Fast Runner, plus Kunuk's latest doc, Qapirangajuq, an Inuit response to climate change. Sunday's highlights include vintage Arctic footage and a special preview of the final episode of Frozen Planet.
National Maritime Museum, SE10, Sat & Sun, nmm.ac.uk/visit/events
Shame - Special Previews, Manchester, Bristol
With acclaim for his risky, confrontational debut Hunger, artist-turned-film-maker Steve McQueen has opted for another risky subject for his follow-up. Shame gives us a frank, modern, almost empathic study of a New York sex addict ? again played by Hunger star Michael Fassbender ? and although it's more conventional than its predecessor, nobody could accuse McQueen of playing it safe. The movie is already gaining acclaim ahead of its release here in January, including a Best Actor prize for Fassbender this September at the Venice Film Festival. How has McQueen succeeded where our "proper" film-makers have failed? He'll doubtless reveal some, but not all, at this special Bafta event. Meanwhile, producer Iain Canning and writer Abi Morgan (also responsible for TV's The Hour and The Iron Lady) are at a preview screening in Bristol.
Cornerhouse, Manchester & Bristol Watershed, Fri
Nick Broomfield, London, Manchester
The US Republican presidential candidate race is proving to be entertaining enough without Palin's hat in the ring, but could her no-show, and her more muted public profile these days, be down to Broomfield's new documentary? Finding dirt on Palin might be like shooting a moose in a barrel, but gaining an interview with the Alaskan politician proves to be trickier for film-maker Broomfield in Sarah Palin ? You Betcha! Still, in his usual, amiably shambolic fashion, he visits her insular home town, investigates her chequered history and pieces together a typically personal and singular profile of the Tea Party figurehead and her origins. What happened off camera, he'll doubtless reveal at these special screenings.
Curzon Soho, W1, Fri; Curzon Wimbledon, SW19, 11 Dec; Hackney Picturehouse, E8, 13 Dec; Manchester Cornerhouse, 14 Dec
Secret Cinema, London
Time again to tell you about the event no one can tell you about, although this time, the mystery cinema extravaganza is running for six weeks, due to popular demand. Surely no one can keep a secret that long? This picture clue is hardly a giveaway (find more clues on Twitter), but whatever the classic movie is this time round, you can expect it to be augmented by "participatory theatre and cultural exploration", which means actors, performances, and an appropriately atmospheric setting, just as previous SC events have been. If it carries on like this, Secret Cinema will just be one continuous never-ending event ? then again, how do you know it isn't already?
A secret venue, Tue to 22 Jan, visit secretcinema.org
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/dec/03/high-arctic-film-weekend-shame
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