Described as ‘the Citizen Kane of British pop movies’ by critic Mark Kermode, Slade in Flame both confounded and delighted audiences when it was released in 1975, at the height of the legendary glam-rock band’s success, starring the band themselves, this was a music film like no other.
Charting the rise and fall of a pop group at the end of the 1960s, this darkly cynical, warts-and-all portrait of a band in freefall amidst the music-industry suits who want a piece of the pie was not what anybody was expecting. Slade in Flame has been newly remastered by the BFI from the best available 35mm materials.
Credits
UK 1975
90min
Dir Richard Loncraine
With Slade, Tom Conti, Alan Lake, Johnny Shannon
Venues
May
2 May
Abbeygate Cinema, Bury St Edmunds
The Atrium Cinema, East Grinstead
BEAM Hertford
Duke of York’s Picturehouse, Brighton
Ritzy Picturehouse, London
Broadway Letchworth
Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge
Picturehouse Central
Chester Picturehouse
Clapham Picturehouse, London
Corn Exhange Newbury
Crouch End Picturehouse, London
Ealing Picturehouse, London
East Dulwich Picturehouse, London
The Cameo, Edinburgh
Epsom Picturehouse
Exeter Picturehouse
Picturehouse at FACT, Liverpool
Finsbury Park Picturehouse, London
Forum Cinema, Hexham
Gala Theatre, Durham
Greenwich Picturehouse
Hackney Picturehouse, London
Regal Picturehouse, Henley-on-Thames
Little Theatre Cinema, Bath
Cinema City, Norwich (Picturehouse)
Olympic Studios, Barnes
Phoenix Picturehouse, Oxford
Phoenix Cinema East Finchley, London
The Picture House Cinema, Uckfield
Savoy Cinema, Grantham
Showcase Dudley
Harbour Lights, Southampton
The Station Cinema, Richmond
City Screen, York
ActOne Cinema, London
Kings Cinema Newmarket
Warwick Arts Centre
5 May
Penistone Paramont
6 May
Light Cinema Addlestone
Light Cinema Banbury
Light Cinema Bolton
Light Cinema Bradford
Light Cinema Cambridge
Light Cinema Huddersfield
Light Cinema New Brighton
Light Cinema Redhill
Light Cinema Sheffield
Light Cinema Sittingbourne
Light Cinema Stockport
Light Cinema Thetford
Light Cinema Walsall
Light Cinema Wisbech
Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre
Triskel Arts Centre
9 May
Glasgow Film Theatre
Pictureville Cinema (National Science and Media Museum), Bradford
Sherborne Cinema, Gloucester
15 May
An Lanntair, Stornoway
17 May
MAC Birmingham
June
2 June
Electric Palace, Harwich
13 June
New Park Chichester
August
2 August
Number 8 Pershore