MANCHESTER SCREENING ‘POSITIVE FORCE: MORE THAN A WITNESS: 30 YEARS OF PUNK POLITICS IN ACTION’ WITH DIRECTOR Q&A

After a complete sell out of their recent Sleaford Mods Invisible Britain film screening, Twisted Reel, the Northern Quarter’s irregular film night, are to show ‘Positive Force: More than a Witness (30 Years of Punk Politics in Action)’. As well as the screening, there’ll be a post film Q&A with the film maker Robin Bell. “When Operation Desert […]
Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain isn’t just a documentary about the Nottingham duo, it’s also looks at the current state of the nation. The film makers took to the road to follow Sleaford Mods as they embarked on a tour that would take them to the smaller, ignored, less toured and boarded up parts of the […]

SLEAFORD MODS: INVISIBLE BRITAIN – MANCHESTER SCREENING

MANCHESTER SCREENING OF SALAD DAYS: A DECADE OF PUNK IN WASHINGTON, DC

Twisted Reel, the Northern Quarter’s regular film night, is to screen Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90), the documentary film that examines the early DIY punk scene in the US Capital. It was a decade when seminal bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Scream, Void, Faith, Rites of Spring, […]
Twisted Reel is proud to have the Manchester premiere of this new film. In 2001, after years of playing in various bands and living together while peers abandoned rock n’ roll to follow more traditional career paths, Jesse Keeler (bass) and Sebastien Grainger (drums), started a band out of boredom and necessity. They hammered out […]

TWISTED REEL TO SCREEN LIFE AFTER DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979

THE FALL ‘IT’S NOT REPETITION, IT’S DISCIPLINE’

Twisted Reel have announced the Manchester premier screening of a brand new unofficial documentary about Mark E Smith and The Fall. Featuring extensive exclusive interviews with Mark E Smith and John Peel as well as many many more including Thurston Moore, John Cooper Clarke, Henry Rollins, Stephen Malkmus, Grant Showbiz, Dee Dee Ramone. A tribute […]
Twisted Reel, the Northern Quarter’s regular film night, is screening ‘Dig!’ Compiled from seven years of footage, Ondi Timoner’s ‘Dig!’ contrasts the developing careers and love-hate relationship of the bands ‘The Dandy Warhols’ and ‘The Brian Jonestown Massacre’ and the bands’ respective front men Courtney Taylor-Taylor and Anton Newcombe. Dig! Is a study in delusion, […]

TWISTED REEL TO SCREEN DIG! A FILM ABOUT THE DANDY WARHOLS AND THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE

NEWS: SCOTT WALKER 30 CENTURY MAN FILM SCREENING

From 1960s pop icon to 21st century avant-garde musician, Scott Walker’s musical metamorphosis and increasingly uncompromising attitude to his work makes him revered by many in the business yet largely ignored by the public…30 Century Man charts this enigmatic figures life and music and explores the darkness that imbues both… As part of the Manchester […]
In an era where bands like Green Day sounded Punk, Nirvana were Punk. Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon on guitar showed thousands of girls they didn’t just have to follow the band, they could BE the band…They came, they pissed about, they made great music… Sonic Youth and Nirvana shaped a generation.  Twisted Reel, the new […]

FILM SCREENING: TWISTED REEL PRESENTS ‘1991 THE YEAR PUNK BROKE’

NEWS: TWISTED REEL – INTIMATE SCREENING OF CULT CLASSIC ‘WILD STYLE’

Before Hip-Hop became synonymous with guns, bitches and bling, it was all about good music, breakdancing and graffiti… Twisted Reel, the new music based film night to hit Manchester kicks off with a bang with a special screening of ‘Wild Style’ the 8o’s Hip Hop film classic. Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of this seminal film’s […]