URBAN SCREEN’s busy & successful week continued with a screening of THE FIRM, by the much admired Nick Love, at The Albany in Deptford .

This was to coincide with the DVD release, and we had wanted Warner Brothers to help us do a really big screening seeing as we are located in THE FIRM territory, and also NICK LOVE territory.  But they just ignored us.

So we did it anyway, and we were able to get some of the fabulous cast to come down to take part in a Q&A. Calum Macnab was brilliant to come, as was Eddie Webber, DOP Matt Gray.

THE FIRM is a brilliant film, and you could feel the enjoyment of the audience.

Being URBAN SCREEN, we have found that we spend a lot of time showing films with graphic violence, drugs, council estates, swearing and much more and THE FIRM did definitely contain all of these attributes as well.

But the lighthearted 80’s soulful soundtrack is an absolute winner - worth watching the movie just for this! However, one also has to applaud the relationship between Dom and Bex.  This really was a coming of age story and it was actually touching how Bex took Dom under his wing, and Dom looked up to Bex.  Despite Bex’s violent tendencies, one had to admire how he flitted between football hooliganism, father and husband, role model for Dom, all whilst holding down a good office job.

We also showed two shorts, one was BE ME, by Farhan Qureshi, about football racism.  And also LITTLE PRINCE by David Anderson, presently studying film at LFS.  LITTLE PRINCE offered some profound surprises as what started as a stereotypical geezer in a nightclub story turned out to be a slice of social reportage on the cruelties going on in Zimbabwe. This must be seen!

The Q&A was equally colourful with Calum and Eddie, offering anecdotal stories on Nick Love’s obsession with 80s detail and their own experiences growing up in South East London.

It was a great night had by all.