Dead Good Film Club takes a fresh approach to death and dying, using big screen entertainment as a starting point.
Inspired by initiatives including Death Positive Libraries and Death Cafés this new series of events launches on 8th November with a screening of the acclaimed feature film Living starring Bill Nighy in Tyneside Cinema’s Classic screen, followed by a pop-up event in the Tyneside Coffee Rooms.
The launch also includes a free event at Newcastle City Library with a reading from Leo Tolstoy’s classic 1886 novella, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, which inspired Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru, re-cast by Living in England in 1953. This reading takes place at 4.30pm and tickets are available here.
Dead Good Film Club is hosted by Newcastle based independent producer and funeral celebrant Andy Jones.
“People often consider death as a taboo subject, but events exploring what happens towards the end of our lives are very popular. Dead Good Film Club brings audiences together with people working in the funeral and health care sectors to create a space for conversations not just about how we die – but also how we live.”
In Living, Bill Nighy is Mr. Williams, a reserved and stiflingly sensible bureaucrat who, on approaching retirement, receives a terminal diagnosis and begins to question his life and what it might mean to really live. Find out more about the film here.
DGFC events are suitable for all mortal souls*
*film admission is subject to BBFC regulations
LIVING is rated 12A
