The Bigger Picture film club ? ?Whiplash? (2014) at East Dulwich Tavern on 19 November 2015

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The Bigger Picture film club will be showing ? ?Whiplash? (2014) at 8pm on Thursday, 19 November 2015, Upstairs at East Dulwich Tavern.

Andrew (Miles Teller) is a talented, dedicated 19-year-old drummer at the fictional Schaffer Conservatory of Music in New York City. Fletcher, his ruthless teacher, uses any means possible to push students to achieve more than is expected of them.

Andrew is desperate to win the approval of Fletcher. He yearns to be one of the ?greats? but regards his teacher as the only arbiter whose opinion he can trust. Fletcher is endlessly cruel and sarcastic - and has a tremendous knack for vicious, expletive-filled put-downs. The more time Andrew spends with Fletcher, the more he takes on his affectations. He is even prepared to ditch his long-suffering girlfriend (Melissa Benoist), because she will get in the way of his career. As in all such Oedipal tales, the only way the student can emerge as a musician in his own right is by destroying the father figure.

Directed by Damien Chazelle with Miles Teller, JK Simmons, Melissa Benoist

107 minutes. Cert 15. All tickets ?7.

Alex Cooper, drummer of Katrina and the Waves (?Walking on Sunshine?, ?Love Shine a Light? winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1997) will be giving a Q&A after the film.

Bar opens from 7pm. Film at 8pm.

Tickets ?7 from WeGotTickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/329927

The Bigger Picture website: http://www.thebiggerpic.co.uk/

The Bigger Picture Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/thebiggerpic?ref=tn_tnmn

Location:

Upstairs at East Dulwich Tavern

1 Lordship Lane

London SE22 8EW

Rail: East Dulwich;

Buses: P13, 37, 185, 176, 40, 484

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Here's a trailer for 'Whiplash':

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Alex Cooper, drummer of Katrina and the Waves (?Walking on Sunshine?, ?Love Shine a Light? winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1997) will be giving a Q&A after the film, 'Whiplash', on 19 November 2015. Here's 'Walking on Sunshine':