On Thursday 29th March Haringey Independent Cinema will be showing the classic and rarely seen 1970's film ONE FLEW OVER THE COOKOO'S NEST (18)

This film is as relevant today as it was in 1975 when it was first made. It is still an immensely powerful film about how we, as a society, look after prisoners and those amongst us with mental health problems.

Its a film you will really want to see if you have never seen it, and if you saw it back in the 70's, it's really is a film you should watch again.

Doors open at 7pm and the film will start at 7.15pm.

After the film there is a chance for a drink and a chat at KK McCools across the road.

The film is 18 rated and will be screened with English sub titles for those of our audience who have hearing difficulties.

Admission £3 (and £2 for those with less money)

West Green Learning Centre, - the glass fronted building where West Green Road meets Philip Lane. Buses that stop near by are: 41, 67, 230, 341. For all other details check out the Haringey Independent Cinema website

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Adapted from the best-selling 1962 novel by Ken Kesey (who worked the night-shift on a psychiatric ward in the late 1950s), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is an impassioned, angry and bitingly funny critique of the oppressive nature of 'the system' and how it treats those who fail (or refuse) to conform.

In one of the stand-out performances of his career, Jack Nicholson plays Randle 'Mac' McMurphy; a man who, in his own words, 'fights and fucks too much'. Convicted of statutory rape but incapable of knuckling down on the prison work farm, he's transferred to a mental institution for 'evaluation' and finds himself on a ward run with steely authority by Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher). An intense battle of wills ensues that profoundly affects the lives of the other patients, but ultimately, of McMurphy himself.
Director Milos Forman, true to his Cinéma vérité  roots. not only filmed in an actual, functioning mental institution in Oregon but also cast the hospital's administrator as the doctor and used real patients as extras. An exiled Czech whose parents were murdered in Nazi concentration camps, you could say Forman knew a thing or two about oppressive authority.