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18-28 SEP <strong>2008</strong><br />
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Welcome to the 28th <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
<strong>2008</strong> has signalled two<br />
major developments<br />
for the <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong>. Firstly, owing<br />
to changes in the UK<br />
festival calendar, we’ve<br />
moved from our usual<br />
July slot to September.<br />
We look forward to<br />
presenting a series of exciting and innovative<br />
outdoor screenings throughout <strong>Cambridge</strong> to<br />
celebrate these new dates (see pages 10 and 13 for<br />
more details on these special events).<br />
Secondly, this is the first full year that the <strong>Festival</strong> has<br />
been run by a registered charity, the <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong><br />
Trust, which now delivers a year-round programme of<br />
film-related events. The Trust has been highly active,<br />
hosting special screenings such as the Tangiers to<br />
Tehran season in February at the Arts Picturehouse,<br />
bringing artists’ moving image work to Addenbrooke’s<br />
Hospital in April and helping students at Sawston<br />
Village College install their own cinema during the<br />
summer holidays in July.<br />
In addition to these outreach activities, the Trust has,<br />
of course, been busily preparing another wide-ranging<br />
programme for the 28th edition of the <strong>Festival</strong>. This<br />
year’s highlights include homages to Austria’s Ulrich<br />
Seidl and to one of the UK’s most experimental<br />
filmmakers, Derek Jarman. We are also honoured<br />
to welcome Tilda Swinton to the <strong>Festival</strong>. Another<br />
leading figure in British independent cinema, she will<br />
talk about her experiences working with Jarman and<br />
present one of her latest films, JULIA.<br />
There will be a tribute to horror actor, Boris Karloff,<br />
and a selection of Warner Bros. classics to mark the<br />
renowned studio’s 85th anniversary. What’s more,<br />
we’ll be hosting <strong>Cambridge</strong>’s first ever Machinima<br />
season with screenings and interactive workshops,<br />
and also showcasing several new Polish titles,<br />
including Andrzej Wajda’s KATYN alongside his early<br />
masterpiece CANAL.<br />
As ever, we’re delighted to present you with the latest<br />
features, documentaries and shorts from the UK<br />
and around the world. We’ve had another wealth of<br />
submissions, many of which have made their way into<br />
the <strong>Festival</strong> programme and which thoroughly deserve<br />
your support. With the current crisis in independent<br />
distribution and exhibition in the UK, the <strong>Festival</strong><br />
screenings may well be the only opportunity to see<br />
these new titles by young international filmmakers.<br />
We hope you’ll enjoy the <strong>Festival</strong> and continue to<br />
support the Trust throughout the year as it strives to<br />
offer <strong>Cambridge</strong> and the Eastern region a wide range<br />
of challenging and provocative independent cinema.<br />
Tony Jones, Director, <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> Trust &<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
CONTENTS<br />
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL 5-7<br />
SPECIAL EVENTS 8-13<br />
STOP PRESS 15-17<br />
OPENING AND CLOSING NIGHT FILMS 19<br />
NEW FEATURES 20-35<br />
DOCUMENTARIES 36-39<br />
FESTIVAL TIMETABLE 41-43<br />
POLISH CINEMA 44-45<br />
GAME, SET AND MACHINIMA 47-49<br />
MUSIC AT THE MOVIES 50-52<br />
REVIVALS 54-55<br />
DEREK JARMAN: REMEMBERED 56-60<br />
THE FILMS OF ULRICH SEIDL 62-63<br />
CELEBRATING WARNER BROS. 64-66<br />
BORIS KARLOFF: THE UNIVERSAL 68-69<br />
FACE OF HORROR<br />
SHORTFUSION 70-75<br />
EDUCATION EVENTS 76-77<br />
VENUE INFORMATION & BOOKING 78-79<br />
FESTIVAL STAFF 80<br />
CREDITS 81<br />
A-Z FILM INDEX 82<br />
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FESTIVAL ONLINE –<br />
AND INTERACTIVE!<br />
Our superb website offers fast and easy access to<br />
information about every aspect of the <strong>Festival</strong> with<br />
a new and improved search, easy online booking<br />
and space for all of your reviews and comments.<br />
We’re also offering regular updates through an<br />
RSS feed so you can keep track of changes to the<br />
programme and announcements of special events.<br />
The <strong>Festival</strong> Top Ten is there as always but now<br />
it is updated as you vote. The site also includes<br />
everything from the <strong>Festival</strong> Daily so you can stay on<br />
top of the <strong>Festival</strong> news even if you don’t manage to<br />
pick up a printed copy.<br />
We’ll be recording many of the highly-regarded<br />
Q&A sessions with visiting directors, producers and<br />
performers, so if you miss anything you’ll be able to<br />
watch it online, and we’ll be streaming some of them<br />
live for those who can’t make it to <strong>Cambridge</strong>. We’ve<br />
even set up a separate site, CFFlive, to make it easy<br />
for you to find them.<br />
As well as the main <strong>Festival</strong> site we’re spreading<br />
<strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> goodness all over the web, with daily<br />
podcasts on iTunes and video reports on YouTube<br />
and blip.tv. You can add cff<strong>2008</strong> as a contact on<br />
Twitter, join <strong>Festival</strong> Director Tony Jones over on the<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> page on Facebook or look<br />
at our photos on Flickr. And if you’re really keen then<br />
look for anything tagged ‘cff<strong>2008</strong>’ on del.icio.us,<br />
Technorati and Google Blogsearch.<br />
We’d love to hear from you too. If you tag your own<br />
photos, blog postings or other material with ‘cff<strong>2008</strong>’<br />
we’ll be able to find it and feature it on our site.<br />
www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
www.cfflive.org.uk<br />
FESTIVAL<br />
PRACTICALITIES:<br />
Tickets go on sale on Monday 1 September<br />
for Arts Picturehouse Members and Thursday 4<br />
September for the general public We don’t offer<br />
a multi-purchase ticket offer or pass apart from<br />
membership, which saves you money on every ticket<br />
you buy (see page 80 for details) Although it’s a<br />
<strong>Festival</strong>, our tickets are priced at standard cinema<br />
rates All advance ticketing is done through the Arts<br />
Picturehouse. To buy a ticket on the day of screening,<br />
please contact the relevant venue directly We make<br />
every effort to bring you the films we have promised<br />
when we have promised them, but sometimes last<br />
minute changes occur. Please bear with us on these<br />
occasions – we will do everything we can to ensure<br />
your <strong>Festival</strong> experience is as enjoyable as possible<br />
No ads or trailers are shown with <strong>Festival</strong> films, so<br />
please don’t be late! Box Office: 08717 042050<br />
www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
THE VENUES<br />
To mark our new September dates, we’ve been<br />
scouting out locations across the city so that you can<br />
experience our films in unique and creative ways.<br />
So in <strong>2008</strong> the <strong>Festival</strong> is taking place not only at<br />
the Arts Picturehouse and The Junction but also at<br />
Wesley Methodist Church and Wysing Arts Centre,<br />
as well as in the more unconventional settings of<br />
Magdalene Street and along the banks of the river<br />
Cam! See page 78 for further venue details.<br />
Most screenings and events are held in the <strong>Festival</strong>’s<br />
original home at the Arts Picturehouse. However,<br />
please double check before setting out where your<br />
chosen events are taking place. Do also make sure<br />
you leave sufficient transit time between screenings<br />
if attending more than one venue on the same day.<br />
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL<br />
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ABOUT THE FESTIVAL<br />
WE LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK!<br />
And we’re not the only ones... Your views on <strong>Festival</strong> films are<br />
reported to the filmmakers and film distribution companies, eager<br />
to hear what the <strong>Cambridge</strong> audience made of their work – and<br />
it does make a difference. In 2002 Norwegian comedy ELLING<br />
received a nationwide release on the strength of its warm<br />
reception here, and the following year NOWHERE IN AFRICA was<br />
picked up after an enthusiastic <strong>Cambridge</strong> response. Other films<br />
that have been helped on their way by <strong>Festival</strong> audiences include:<br />
ANNA M, TENGERS, UNDER THE MUD, DRAWING RESTRAINT 9<br />
and ROCK, PAPER SCISSORS. Our sponsors, whose support is so<br />
crucial to the <strong>Festival</strong>’s development, are always keen to know<br />
who attended and the information you provide will be used to<br />
attract new supporters for future years. And, most importantly, we<br />
want to know what you thought, what you enjoyed and what we<br />
can do better next time.<br />
Contact information: 28th <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>,<br />
Arts Picturehouse, 38-39 St Andrew’s Street,<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>, CB2 3AR<br />
email: info@cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
Over its 28 year history, the <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> has presented<br />
an incredible range of screenings and welcomed hundreds of<br />
filmmakers from around the world. The <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> Trust is now<br />
developing an online archive to showcase this work and some of the<br />
thousands of posters, photographs and recordings which have been<br />
accumulated over the years. But we also need your help!<br />
We want to show what the <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> means to you, its audiences – would<br />
you be willing to share your memories of previous <strong>Festival</strong>s with us? If so, please email us<br />
at archive@cambridgefilmtrust.org.uk<br />
To find out more about our plans, please visit our website:<br />
www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
Members of the project team will also be around after the screening of THE NEW TEN<br />
COMMANDMENTS, showing on Wednesday 24 September at 5.10pm (see page 37).<br />
BE AHEAD OF THE CURVE WITH THE<br />
FESTIVAL DAILY NEWSPAPER<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> news and reviews of every film being shown<br />
Interviews with celebrity guests Comment and<br />
features about <strong>Festival</strong> happenings Updates on The<br />
People’s Favourite <strong>Film</strong> Award Published every day<br />
from midday throughout the <strong>Festival</strong> – look out for the<br />
Daily in the Arts Picturehouse and at other venues<br />
across <strong>Cambridge</strong>.<br />
The extended <strong>Festival</strong> Daily is also available on the <strong>Festival</strong><br />
website. Issue one will be out on Monday 15 September.<br />
The <strong>Festival</strong> Daily is sponsored by <strong>Cambridge</strong> University Press.<br />
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CINEMA RETURNING<br />
TO SAWSTON<br />
Over the past months the <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> Trust<br />
has been working with Sawston Village College on<br />
a project to return cinema to Sawston. The original<br />
cinema in Sawston, Spicer’s Theatre, was built on<br />
Contact Lesley Morgan<br />
Tel: 01223 712825 or<br />
email: lmorgan@sawstonvc.org<br />
a site adjacent to the village college and operated from 1932 until 1968. Since its<br />
closure, the school has managed the building as a Youth and Community Centre.<br />
However, that use is now just about to be extended with the arrival and installation<br />
in recent weeks of a new sound system, screen and both 35mm and digital<br />
projection. This has all been made possible through funding from the UK <strong>Film</strong><br />
Council and South <strong>Cambridge</strong>shire District Council. The re-established cinema will<br />
be run by students from the college and a young peoples’ Cinema Group is already<br />
in existence and about to undergo training, to be conducted by the <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong><br />
Trust, in the skills necessary for cinema operation. <strong>Film</strong> screenings will be taking<br />
place there shortly so look out for more information.<br />
THE PEOPLE’S<br />
FAVOURITE FILM AWARD<br />
Every year the <strong>Festival</strong> encourages each and<br />
every one of you to register your reactions<br />
to everything you see by visiting the <strong>Festival</strong><br />
website – www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk –<br />
and rating the films online.<br />
You can express your feelings on a scale of<br />
1 to 5, loathed it to loved it, and we’ll keep a daily<br />
tally of audience responses so you can check out the<br />
charts on display in the Arts Picturehouse, in the <strong>Festival</strong> Daily and online at<br />
Our illustrious previous winners:<br />
ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS:<br />
THE WAY OF THE TOSSER (2007)<br />
VOLVER (2006) BROKEN<br />
FLOWERS (2005) STAGE<br />
BEAUTY (2004) SPIRITED<br />
AWAY (2003) ELLING (2002)<br />
www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk. Competition gets fierce as early winners are outpaced by<br />
new discoveries and the list is eagerly studied by film industry experts across the land.<br />
Last year Canadian spoof documentary ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS: THE WAY OF THE TOSSER<br />
took the gold, thanks in part to a vigorous campaign of audience participation. But who will be<br />
wearing the tutus and braces this year…?<br />
Join in the fun of the <strong>Festival</strong> – something truly worth voting for!<br />
Just log on to www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk and click on “Rate a <strong>Film</strong>”.<br />
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL<br />
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SPECIAL EVENTS<br />
16-18 SEPTEMBER <strong>2008</strong>: EMMANUEL COLLEGE,<br />
CAMBRIDGE ARTS PICTUREHOUSE, CRASSH<br />
This conference explores the history and future of<br />
the relationship between cinema and psychoanalysis.<br />
Speakers include Kaja Silverman (Berkeley) and Mieke<br />
Bal (Amsterdam). The event is a collaboration between<br />
the <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> and the Centre for Research<br />
in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH),<br />
University of <strong>Cambridge</strong>. It features a mixture of<br />
screenings and talks, and all are welcome to participate.<br />
TRANSMISSION: CINEMA/PSYCHOANALYSIS<br />
Wednesday 17 September 4.15pm Arts Picturehouse<br />
LAID DOWN (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Emily Cooper. UK 2007. 15 mins.<br />
DOUBLE<br />
BILL<br />
Shot in 16mm film, LAID DOWN is a short<br />
film exploring the world through the eyes of a<br />
newborn baby. Rooted in psychoanalytic understanding, the<br />
film raises questions about our earliest formative experiences.<br />
The film will be introduced by director Emily Cooper.<br />
Thursday 18 September 11.15am Arts Picturehouse<br />
BECOMING VERA (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Mieke Bal. The Netherlands <strong>2008</strong>. 52 mins.<br />
This is an exceptional opportunity to see a powerful film by<br />
renowned cultural theorist, Mieke Bal. Born of a Cameroonian<br />
father and French-born mother of Russian descent, three<br />
year-old Vera is growing up in Paris. This documentary shows<br />
how, although seemingly unaware of her cultural inheritance,<br />
Vera is constantly responding to its transmission.<br />
The screening will be accompanied by a talk by Mieke Bal.<br />
FREE<br />
EVENT<br />
Tuesday 16 September 4.45pm CRASSH,<br />
17 Mill Lane, <strong>Cambridge</strong> CB2 1RX<br />
ECOLOGY (PG)<br />
Director: Sarah Turner. UK 2007. 97 mins.<br />
FREE<br />
EVENT<br />
Through internal monologues and scenes of daily life infused<br />
with underlying violence, the themes of the environment,<br />
family psychic structures and technology are intertwined, in an<br />
original take on psychoanalytical questions. The film asks us to<br />
reconsider “waste”, “need” and “survival”, suggesting that family<br />
existence is as precarious an ecology as the environment.<br />
The screening will be presented by director Sarah Turner and<br />
Professor Elizabeth Cowie.<br />
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LA VIE NOUVELLE (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Philippe Grandrieux. France 2002.<br />
102 mins. French and English with English subtitles.<br />
Grandrieux is one of the most innovative francophone<br />
filmmakers to emerge in recent years. LA VIE NOUVELLE,<br />
his second feature, generated a storm of critical acclaim<br />
on its release. A terrifyingly intense vision of a world where<br />
human bodies are commodities, the film tells of an American<br />
soldier’s engulfment within the eastern European sex trade.<br />
Grandrieux’s unique cinematography evokes an inhuman<br />
underworld even in the sombre light of day.<br />
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Philippe Grandrieux.<br />
There will be another screening of LA VIE NOUVELLE on<br />
Friday 19 September at 12.45.<br />
Print source: Wild Bunch<br />
More information and registration forms are<br />
available at: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk<br />
The film screenings listed here are also<br />
open to non-delegates.
SPECIAL EVENTS<br />
KUBRICK<br />
UNDER THE<br />
STARS<br />
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Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 September 8.00pm<br />
Institute of Astronomy<br />
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (U)<br />
Director: Stanley Kubrick. Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood,<br />
William Sylvester, Robert Beatty. UK/USA 1968. 141 mins.<br />
The <strong>Festival</strong> is proud to present a spectacular screening of<br />
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY at the Institute<br />
of Astronomy on 13 and 14 September <strong>2008</strong> after dusk. For<br />
the first time in the UK, Kubrick’s sublime journey into space<br />
will be shown outdoors in 70mm to highlight its stunning<br />
cinematography and renowned soundtrack. Don’t miss this<br />
unique opportunity to watch Kubrick under the stars!<br />
Held in collaboration with The Junction and the Institute<br />
of Astronomy, the evenings will be complemented<br />
by a brief presentation on the Institute by Dr Carolin<br />
Crawford, and a screening of Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon’s<br />
THE COLOURS OF INFINITY, narrated by Sir Arthur<br />
C. Clarke (limited availability for 2001 ticketholders<br />
only, on a first-come, first-served basis).<br />
The presentation and screening of<br />
THE COLOURS OF INFINITY<br />
will begin at 6.00pm,<br />
prior to the screening of<br />
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.<br />
Print source: Warner Bros.<br />
With thanks to the Hauser-Raspe Foundation for its support<br />
Patrons are advised to bring suitable clothing.<br />
Tickets: Full price £12.50, Conc. and Members £10<br />
Institute of Astronomy, University of <strong>Cambridge</strong>,<br />
Madingley Road, <strong>Cambridge</strong> CB3 0HA<br />
The Institute of Astronomy holds open evenings every Wednesday<br />
throughout the winter season. A public talk on Astronomy given<br />
by a scientist from the department is followed by a chance to<br />
observe through both modern and historical telescopes if the<br />
weather is clear. For more details of this, and the rest of the IoA’s<br />
outreach programme, please visit www.ast.cam.ac.uk/public<br />
Sunday 21 September 8.00pm Magdalene Street<br />
MAGDALENE STREET SCREENING (CFF U)<br />
On 21 September, the <strong>Festival</strong> will be making its way to<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>’s oldest shopping street and setting up three<br />
screens to present a unique and diverse programme of<br />
entertainment that’s completely free of charge.<br />
Wander around a traffic-free, pedestrianised area between<br />
Bridge Street and Magdalene Street and discover the moving<br />
image in an entirely new way. Head to Magdalene Street for<br />
archive footage showing how <strong>Cambridge</strong> has changed over<br />
the years. Or stroll along Quayside to view beautiful timelapse<br />
photography and hilarious silent comedy, projected from screens<br />
on Magdalene College’s immaculate lawns. The screenings<br />
begin at 8.00pm but come any time until 10.00pm. There’ll<br />
be a running programme (approx. 20 mins) so if you miss the<br />
beginning, you can stay until you’re back to where you started.<br />
As with all open air screenings, ensure that you are appropriately<br />
appropriately dressed for the day – screenings will only be<br />
cancelled in the event of very extreme weather!<br />
Organised in collaboration with Cafe Jello, the East Anglian <strong>Film</strong><br />
Archive, Magdalene College and Sygma Safety Ltd. With thanks to<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> City and <strong>Cambridge</strong>shire County Councils for their support.<br />
The <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> has put together an<br />
excellent and entertaining programme with creative new<br />
approaches. We are very happy to give our support.<br />
FREE<br />
EVENT
Photo courtesy of Explorer Magazine<br />
FESTIVAL<br />
DISCOUNT AT<br />
DE LUCA!<br />
Just a short walk up St Andrew’s Street (past Parker’s<br />
Piece), Restaurant De Luca Cucina & Bar – the Official<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Restaurant – offers all <strong>Festival</strong> ticketholders a<br />
generous 10% off their total bill. They guarantee to serve<br />
you freshly-prepared, locally-sourced modern Italian food in<br />
time for you to see your movie – and what’s more, they’re<br />
open for late drinks until 1.00am Sunday to Thursday and<br />
until 2.00am Friday and Saturday. The perfect venue for<br />
you to discuss what you’ve seen over a cocktail – or two!<br />
There’ll be a special <strong>Festival</strong> menu in addition to their<br />
regular menu, as well as <strong>Festival</strong> presentations on plasma<br />
screens – and we’ll be using the restaurant as our official<br />
venue for entertaining <strong>Festival</strong> guests, too, so you could be<br />
mixing with directors and stars of next year’s hit movies...<br />
To receive your discount, present a <strong>Festival</strong> ticket to your waiter or<br />
waitress as you are seated. Offer valid 18-28 September, and you<br />
can claim your discount on as many meals as you have room for!<br />
De Luca Cucina & Bar, 83 Regent Street, <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
Tel: 01223 356666 www.delucacucina.co.uk<br />
MASTERCLASS WITH CARL DAVIS<br />
Saturday 20 September 3.15pm Arts Picturehouse<br />
The <strong>Festival</strong> is proud to present a masterclass with<br />
Carl Davis, one of the UK’s leading personalities from<br />
the world of music who has composed extensively for<br />
films, television, ballet and the concert hall, garnering<br />
him recognition on a global stage. A passion of Carl’s<br />
is composing music for restored silent movies.<br />
During this masterclass, Carl will be comparing<br />
and contrasting the musical style that he used for<br />
underscoring the “three comic geniuses”, Lloyd,<br />
Chaplin and Keaton, by presenting excerpts from their<br />
films, including Buster Keaton’s THE GENERAL and<br />
OUR HOSPITALITY and Harold Lloyd’s SAFETY LAST.<br />
The session will end with a complete presentation<br />
of BEHIND THE SCREEN, one of the Charlie Chaplin<br />
“Mutuals” (12 short films) for which Carl has<br />
composed some of his most highly regarded works.<br />
Born in New York, Carl has been living in the UK since 1960 and has<br />
conducted with most of the major British orchestras and a host of<br />
international ones. In 2005 Carl was awarded the CBE (Hon) by Her Majesty<br />
The Queen for the significant contribution he had made to the world of music<br />
as both a composer and a conductor. He was nominated once again by<br />
BAFTA this year for the BBC’s CRANFORD series and won Best Score from the<br />
UCMF (Composers Union of France) for THE UNDERSTUDY (see page 33).<br />
SPECIAL EVENTS<br />
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SPECIAL EVENTS<br />
Friday 26 September 5.00 – 7.00pm<br />
BIG PITCH,<br />
MICROBUDGET<br />
Co-presented by BAFTA and Screen East<br />
Fancy testing your microbudget feature film idea with a panel<br />
of producers, filmmakers and funders who might be able to help<br />
you go from pitch to feature? This event will give you the chance<br />
to do just that.<br />
Six filmmakers will pitch their idea for a feature of under £150,000 to a<br />
panel of experts who’ll give their feedback on the idea, and how feasible<br />
a “micro” budget production it is. The filmmaker of the best pitch will<br />
win a one-to-one feature film development session with The Script<br />
Factory (worth £300). Results will be announced in the BAFTA and<br />
Screen East newsletters. To enter, send a one page filmography or CV<br />
and a synopsis of no more than 300 words for your Microbudget idea<br />
of any genre to regions@bafta.org with “CAMBRIDGE PITCH” in the<br />
title. For more details, go to www.bafta.org/whats-on/.<br />
Deadline: 10 September. We will contact finalists by 15 September.<br />
NOTE: Finalists must pitch<br />
their ideas before a<br />
live audience on<br />
26 September.<br />
FREE<br />
PITCHING<br />
SESSION<br />
Tuesday 23 September 6.00 – 8.00pm Wysing Arts Centre<br />
STOP. WATCH.<br />
As part of its INSIDE OUT season of events,<br />
Wysing Arts Centre presents new films by<br />
artists that address ecological emergencies.<br />
Animate Projects and RSA Arts & Ecology, in partnership<br />
with Arts Council England, have commissioned seven artists<br />
to make short films for the internet that explore ecological<br />
themes. Artists Jordan Baseman, Phil Coy, Manu Luksch,<br />
Christine Ödlund, Elodie Pong, Simon Woolham, and<br />
Young-Hae Chang take diverse approaches that consistently<br />
and powerfully challenge common perceptions and clichés<br />
of current debates about environmental crises and their<br />
human impact.<br />
FREE<br />
EVENT<br />
Tuesday 30 September 6.00 – 8.00pm Wysing Arts Centre<br />
www.screeneast.co.uk<br />
www.bafta.org<br />
Special thanks to The Script Factory<br />
www.scriptfactory.co.uk<br />
A selection of films screened in AMPHIS – Wysing’s new communal structure made entirely from recycled<br />
and reclaimed materials – made by international artists Folke Kobberling and Martin Kaltwasser with a host<br />
of community volunteers. Curated by Sarah Wood and Lotte Juul Petersen.<br />
INSIDE OUT 19 SEPTEMBER – 5 OCTOBER<br />
Wysing has given its entire site over to the 24 artists who work from it and invited<br />
them to turn the place literally INSIDE OUT. Expect installations in unseen locations<br />
from greenhouses, offices and kitchens to more formal spaces such as the Wysing<br />
Gallery. For details, visit: www.wysingartscentre.org<br />
12 Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk
RIVERSIDE SCREENINGS<br />
The <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> has always been keen on<br />
taking cinema into the great outdoors and this year is no<br />
different. So, on four nights before and during the <strong>Festival</strong><br />
we invite you to enjoy two great <strong>Cambridge</strong> traditions:<br />
watching innovative and compelling film presented by the<br />
<strong>Festival</strong>, and punting on the Cam at dusk.<br />
The meeting point will be at the Red Lion in Grantchester<br />
where you can take advantage of promotional offers for<br />
ticketholders or even enjoy a pre-punt supper. Then, as the<br />
sun sets, a flotilla of punts, kindly provided by Scudamores,<br />
will set off from Grantchester Meadows, stopping at regular<br />
intervals in front of screens along the riverbank.<br />
Tuesday 16 September 7.30pm<br />
GREENSCAPE (CFF U)<br />
To get in the outdoor mood, a selection of short films<br />
looking at parks and open spaces, including Christine<br />
Molloy’s WHO KILLED BROWN OWL and Bruce Weber’s<br />
WINE AND CUPCAKES.<br />
Wednesday 17 September 7.30pm<br />
BATTLEFIELD (CFF U)<br />
To contrast with the serenity of the Cam, BATTLEFIELD<br />
reflects on images of conflict and heroism, both in<br />
the form of archival shorts and documentary extracts.<br />
These include clips from FINEST HOUR – a BFI archival<br />
collection of Second World War public information<br />
films – directed by the great Humphrey Jennings.<br />
Tuesday 23 September 7.30pm<br />
RIVERRUN (CFF U)<br />
For the all-encompassing downriver experience,<br />
the films shown in Riverrun will focus on artists’<br />
engagement with water. What does water mean in the<br />
modern world: territory, non-territory, a vital resource,<br />
a commodity to be taken for granted? The artists<br />
represented in Riverrun examine these ideas in work<br />
that is sensual, playful and compelling. What better<br />
place than a riverside screening to re-connect with the<br />
natural world?<br />
Thursday 25 September 7.30pm<br />
DREAM SCREEN (CFF U)<br />
As the sun sets and dusk settles over the landscape,<br />
Dream Screen lulls us downstream and delves into our<br />
collective unconscious. Take a journey into the twilight<br />
world of dreams, sleep and phantasy. This specially curated<br />
programme will include films from Surrealism to the present<br />
day, from artists unafraid to dream a new kind of cinema.<br />
SPECIAL EVENTS<br />
Tickets: Full price £25, Conc. and Members £20<br />
Includes chauffered punt ride from Grantchester Meadows to<br />
Dead Man’s Corner, complimentary champagne and refreshments.<br />
For an additional £5, you can begin the evening early by being punted<br />
to the meeting point (departure times to be confirmed).<br />
TRUMPINGTON FARM COMPANY<br />
Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
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Sunday 28 September 5.30pm<br />
SURPRISE MOVIE (CERT TBC)<br />
A <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> is a wonderfully moveable feast, full of<br />
late entries, last minute guests and surprise premieres –<br />
all of which not only makes the <strong>Festival</strong> fantastic fun,<br />
but also ensures you have the very latest, up-to-theminute<br />
films both large and small, often before they are<br />
seen anywhere else. Naturally, we’ll keep you posted<br />
with all the latest developments via the <strong>Festival</strong> Daily<br />
and our website – in all cases but one. One of our<br />
favourite <strong>Festival</strong> traditions – the Surprise Movie – is<br />
the one thing we hold back on right up until you’re sat<br />
in your seat. What will it be this year? Only the <strong>Festival</strong><br />
Director knows for certain, and nothing will prise the<br />
information from him (we’ve tried everything over the<br />
years). Past Surprise Movies have included everything<br />
from PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN to the first UK<br />
screening of A COCK AND BULL STORY (last year’s<br />
was Herzog’s RESCUE DAWN), so with no hype and no<br />
reviews to distract you, simply take your seat, let the<br />
lights dim and see what delights are in store!<br />
Thank you to the providers of the Surprise Movie – you know<br />
who you are...<br />
STOP PRESS –<br />
IMPORTANT NEWS!<br />
Smaller on the page but by no means no less important,<br />
here are some films, confirmed at the very last minute,<br />
which we couldn’t bear to leave out of the programme.<br />
Friday 19 September, 8.15pm<br />
LIFE FOR SALE (LUFTBUSINESS) (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Dominique de<br />
Rivaz. Starring: Tomas<br />
Lemarquis, Dominique Jann,<br />
Joel Basman. Switzerland/<br />
Luxembourg <strong>2008</strong>. 89 mins.<br />
German with English subtitles.<br />
Looking for easy money,<br />
three young dropouts<br />
auction themselves on the<br />
Internet. One sells his future,<br />
one sells his past. The third sells his soul. What starts off as<br />
an unlikely trick turns into a nightmare when they discover<br />
they’ve sold their very existences. And there are no refunds…<br />
Print source: Media Luna Entertainment<br />
Sat 27 Sep, 3.15pm Sun 28 Sep, 3.30pm<br />
THE GROCER’S SON (CFF 12A)<br />
(LE FILS DE L’ÉPICIER)<br />
Director: Eric Guirado. Starring: Nicolas Cazalé, Clotilde Hesme,<br />
Daniel Duval. France 2007. 96 mins. French with English subtitles.<br />
Having left his village ten years ago, Antoine finds himself<br />
thrust back into rural life when his estranged father is taken<br />
ill and he is enlisted to drive the local grocery van. His<br />
real motivation is to be able to lend money to his flatmate<br />
but family tensions soon mount and Antoine is forced to<br />
reconsider what he really wants out of life.<br />
Contains moderate sex references.<br />
Print source: Les <strong>Film</strong>s du Losange/ICA <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
UK<br />
PREMIERE<br />
Tue 23 Sep, 10.30pm Wed 24 Sep, 10.30am (Big Scream! only)<br />
SAVAGE<br />
GRACE (15)<br />
Director: Tom Kalin.<br />
Starring: Julianne Moore,<br />
Stephen Dillane, Eddie<br />
Redmayne. Spain/USA/<br />
France 2007. 97 mins.<br />
Based on a true story,<br />
SAVAGE GRACE traces the<br />
dramatic rise and fall of<br />
the charismatic Barbara<br />
Daly, who married Brooks<br />
Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Their only<br />
child is a failure in his father’s eyes, and as he matures and<br />
becomes increasingly close to his lonely mother, the seeds for<br />
tragedy are sown. Print source: Revolver<br />
Monday 22 September, 11.15pm<br />
THE BROKEN (CFF 18)<br />
Director: Sean Ellis. Starring: Lena Headey, Richard Jenkins,<br />
Asier Newman, Michelle Duncan. France/UK <strong>2008</strong>. 88 mins.<br />
In the sprawling metropolis of a grey London, Gina sees<br />
herself drive past in her own car. Stunned, she follows the<br />
woman up to her apartment and an eerie series of events<br />
ensue as Gina soon discovers a secret that will confirm her<br />
worst fears and change the boundaries of her reality forever.<br />
Print source: The Works<br />
LATE NIGHT<br />
HORROR<br />
STOP PRESS STOP PRESS STOP PRESS STOP PRESS STO<br />
Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
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Wednesday 24 September, 6.00pm The Junction<br />
DR STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I<br />
LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING<br />
AND LOVE THE BOMB (PG)<br />
Director: Stanley Kubrick. Starring: Peter Sellers,<br />
George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden. UK 1964. 93 mins.<br />
President Merklin Muffley and Group Captain Lionel<br />
Mandrake are embroiled in a race against time after<br />
General Jack D. Ripper launches an unauthorised<br />
nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, little knowing<br />
that any attack will trigger the “Doomsday device”<br />
designed by ex-Nazi scientist Dr Strangelove and causing global Armageddon. Print source: Sony<br />
Thursday 25 September, 6.00pm The Junction<br />
RESTORED<br />
PRINT<br />
STANLEY KUBRICK: A LIFE IN PICTURES (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Jan Harlan. Narrator: Tom Cruise. USA 2001. 142 mins.<br />
An exploration of the life and work of the man acknowledged as one of the greatest auteur<br />
filmmakers of all time, this documentary by Jan Harlan draws on a huge store of interviews<br />
and reminiscences by those who knew and worked with the great man, ranging from Jack<br />
Nicholson to Woody Allen. As Nicholson himself says: Everyone pretty much acknowledges<br />
he’s the man, and I still think<br />
that underrates him...”<br />
Print source: Warner Bros.<br />
16 Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk
STOP PRESS –<br />
DOCUMENTARIES<br />
Thursday 25 September, 9.00pm The Junction<br />
WILD COMBINATION: A PORTRAIT OF<br />
ARTHUR RUSSELL (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Matt Wolf. USA <strong>2008</strong>. 71 mins.<br />
Active in the New York art scene of the 70s and 80s, Arthur<br />
Russell was a prolific musician as adept at composing avantgarde<br />
orchestral music as he was creating disco records.<br />
Matt Wolf’s ambitious debut constructs a portrait of this<br />
extraordinary artist from rare archival footage and interviews<br />
with Russell’s closest friends including Philip Glass and Allan<br />
Ginsberg. Print source: Plexi <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Thursday 25 September, 10.45pm<br />
BI THE WAY (CFF 18)<br />
Directors: Brittany Blockman, Josephine Decker. USA <strong>2008</strong>. 93 mins.<br />
Following the personal stories of five young people, BI THE<br />
WAY explores the changing sexual landscape of America.<br />
In a road trip across the States, this documentary attempts<br />
to uncover the reality of the bisexual fad (or should that be<br />
revolution?), taking viewers on every adventure from sex<br />
parks to swingers’ parties along the way.<br />
Print source: By The Way Productions<br />
UK<br />
PREMIERE<br />
Saturday 27 September, 3.30pm<br />
BURMA ALL INCLUSIVE (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Roland Wehap. Austria 2007. 96 mins.<br />
Burma, once isolated from the outside world, is now slowly<br />
opening up to tourism and, in turn, corruption. The country<br />
has been taken hostage by those in power: this documentary<br />
goes behind the beautiful façade created by the tourist<br />
trade, inviting you to book your 16-day, “all-inclusive” trip to<br />
discover the truth.<br />
Print source: Rowe Productions<br />
Saturday 27 September, 12.30pm<br />
WHERE THE WATER MEETS<br />
THE SKY (CFF PG)<br />
Director: David Ebert. UK <strong>2008</strong>. 60 mins.<br />
Narrated by Academy Award winning actor, Morgan Freeman,<br />
this documentary tells the inspiring story of a group of women<br />
from northern Zambia. In a place where women rarely have<br />
the chance to speak out, they have made a film that tackles<br />
the taboo subject of AIDS head on, challenging opinions and<br />
becoming a force for change.<br />
Print source: Camfed UK<br />
UK<br />
PREMIERE<br />
Thursday 25 September, 1.00pm<br />
SHE SHOULD HAVE GONE TO THE<br />
MOON (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Ulrike Kubatta. UK/USA 2007. 58 mins.<br />
A unique blend of interviews, archive material and stylised<br />
dramatic sequences, this documentary tells the remarkable<br />
story of Jerri Truhill who, in 1961, became one of the first<br />
women secretly trained by NASA to go into space. An initial<br />
phone conversation between Truhill and the filmmaker<br />
inspires a journey to meet the heroine in Texas.<br />
This film will be screened in conjunction with FACELESS (see page<br />
37 for more details).<br />
Print source: Courtesy of Ulrike Kubatta<br />
Wednesday 24 September, 11.15pm<br />
BLOOD CAR (CFF 18)<br />
Director: Alex Orr. Starring: Mike Brune, Anna Chlumsky,<br />
Katie Rowlett. USA 2007. 76 mins.<br />
As petrol prices become astronomically high, vegan<br />
primary school teacher Archie finds an alternative source<br />
of energy: blood. The only guy in town with a set of wheels,<br />
he soon attracts a girlfriend in the guise of the sex-crazed<br />
Denise. But in order to keep the car and therefore the girl,<br />
he must continue to find a never-ending supply of blood.<br />
Print source: Fake Wood Wallpaper<br />
LATE NIGHT<br />
HORROR<br />
STOP PRESS STOP PRESS STOP PRESS STOP PRESS STO<br />
Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
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Thursday 18 September, 9.00pm<br />
LINHA DE PASSE (15)<br />
Directors: Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas. Starring:<br />
João Baldasserini, Sandra Corveloni, Kaique<br />
Jesus Santos, Vinícius de Oliveira. Brazil <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
113 mins. Portuguese with English subtitles.<br />
Sao Paulo. 20 million inhabitants, 200<br />
kilometres of traffic, 300,000 messengers<br />
on motorcycles. At the heart of one of the<br />
toughest, most chaotic cities in the world,<br />
four brothers try to reinvent themselves in<br />
different ways. With the backdrop of Brazil in<br />
a state of emergency, each one is looking for<br />
a way out… This effort from Walter Salles<br />
(THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES) and his frequent<br />
collaborator Daniela Thomas (MIDNIGHT) is<br />
a characteristically humane and intelligent<br />
work. Steadfast in its refusal to glamourise<br />
violence and the extremity of the environment<br />
which the film’s characters are forced to<br />
inhabit, LINHA DE PASSE exudes compassion,<br />
drama and insight.<br />
Print source: Pathé<br />
PREVIEW<br />
SCREENING<br />
OPENING<br />
NIGHT<br />
FEATURE<br />
“Hats off to the fine<br />
ensemble acting, which<br />
is never over-stated and renders<br />
each family member intensely<br />
individual.” THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER<br />
Sunday 28 September, 8.30pm<br />
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END<br />
OF THE WORLD (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Werner Herzog. USA 2007. 99 mins.<br />
There is a hidden society at the end of<br />
the world. One thousand men and women<br />
live together under unbelievably close<br />
quarters in Antarctica, risking their lives and<br />
sanity in search of cutting-edge science.<br />
Now, for the first time, an outsider has<br />
been admitted. <strong>Film</strong>maker Werner Herzog,<br />
accompanied only by his cameraman, travels<br />
to the Antarctic community of McMurdo<br />
Station, the hub of the US Antarctic<br />
programme, and into the heart of one of<br />
the most remote<br />
places on earth.<br />
Over the course of<br />
his journey, Herzog<br />
examines human<br />
nature and Mother Nature, juxtaposing<br />
breathtaking locations with the profound,<br />
surreal and often absurd experiences of<br />
the marine biologists, physicists, plumbers,<br />
and truck drivers who form this unique<br />
community. ENCOUNTERS AT THE END<br />
OF THE WORLD is a visually stunning<br />
exploration of the raw beauty of a land of<br />
fire, ice and corrosive solitude.<br />
Print source: Revolver<br />
CLOSING<br />
NIGHT<br />
FEATURE<br />
“Few filmmakers make the end of days seem as hauntingly<br />
beautiful as Werner Herzog does, or as inexorable.” NEW YORK TIMES<br />
Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
OPENING & CLOSING NIGHT FILMS<br />
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UK<br />
PREMIERE<br />
UK<br />
PREMIERE<br />
Tuesday 23 September, 8.30pm Thursday 25 September, 7.45pm Friday 26 September, 7.15pm<br />
ALEXANDRA (ALEKSANDRA) (PG)<br />
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov. Starring: Galina Vishnevskaya,<br />
Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa Gichaeva. Russia/France 2007. 95 mins.<br />
Russian/Chechen with English subtitles.<br />
Perhaps most famous for his stunning feature RUSSIAN ARK,<br />
which was made up entirely of a 90-minute, continuous<br />
tracking shot, director Aleksandr Sokurov further strengthens<br />
his reputation as probably Russia’s greatest living filmmaker,<br />
offering a piece that is as intelligent and thought-provoking as<br />
it is beautiful. Russian opera legend Galina Vishnevskya takes<br />
to the screen (for the first time as an actor, at the age of 81) as<br />
the eponymous central character who is travelling from Russia<br />
to Chechnya to visit her grandson, a soldier. The film unfolds<br />
as a powerful yet incredibly delicate anti-war film. Aleksandra<br />
explores her grandson’s military camp, extends the hand of<br />
friendship to the Chechen women she meets, and re-awakens<br />
in her grandson’s fellow soldiers a long-buried remembrance of<br />
love, of longing for home and family, and of a time before they<br />
lived to fight.<br />
Print source: Artificial Eye<br />
ALGERIA, UNSPOKEN STORIES (CFF 15)<br />
(HISTOIRES À NE PAS DIRE)<br />
Director: Jean-Pierre Lledo. France/Algeria 2007. 160 mins.<br />
French and Arabic with English subtitles.<br />
In 1962 Algeria gained its independence after 132 years of<br />
French colonisation ended in a bitterly violent war. Thus began<br />
one of the largest migrations in human history, as a million<br />
great-grandchildren of 19th century immigrants from Jewish<br />
and European minority communities were forced to leave Algeria,<br />
their birthplace. In this extraordinary, unflinching documentary,<br />
the stories of four Algerians of Muslim origin take us back to<br />
the war years. Searching for the truth reveals the entanglement<br />
of hatred and fraternity in the hidden memories of their<br />
relationships with Jewish and Christian neighbours. Such stories<br />
are unspoken because to speak them is to risk censorship or<br />
worse: more than a powerful piece of cinema, the film is an act<br />
of resistance.<br />
We are delighted to welcome director Jean-Pieree Lledo for a Q&A<br />
following the screening.<br />
Print source: Colifilms<br />
AÑO UÑA (CFF 15)<br />
(THE YEAR OF THE NAIL)<br />
Director: Jonás Cuarón. Starring: Diego Cataño, Eireann Harper.<br />
Mexico 2007. 78 mins. English and Spanish with English subtitles.<br />
AÑO UÑA marks an auspicious and remarkably assured debut for<br />
Alfonso Cuarón’s son, Jonás. Jonás began taking photographs over<br />
one year; spontaneous images of people in their everyday lives, with<br />
neither posing nor staging. Whilst he knew the characters and their<br />
stories would be used to create a film, there was no way a plot could<br />
be pre-defined. At the end of the year, Jonás and Eireann Harper<br />
mounted the thousands of photographic images in one room, ordered<br />
in scenes composed of shots. Consistencies began to emerge. The<br />
film’s narrative - an impossible romance between Molly, a 21-yearold<br />
American, and Diego, a Mexican in the throes of puberty – is<br />
completely fictional. A beautiful mediation on impermanence and<br />
the passage of time, AÑO UÑA has been invariably compared to LA<br />
JETÉE and yet it possesses a daring and originality of its own.<br />
We are delighted to welcome producer Mia Bays for a Q&A following<br />
the screening.<br />
Print source: Halcyon Releasing Ltd.<br />
20 Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk
Thursday 18 September, 5.30pm<br />
BELLE TOUJOURS (CFF 15)<br />
DOUBLE<br />
BILL<br />
Director: Manoel de Oliveira. Starring: Michel Piccolli, Bulle Ogier.<br />
Portugal/France 2006. 68 mins. French with English subtitles.<br />
Saturday 27 September, 8.00pm<br />
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (12A)<br />
PREVIEW<br />
SCREENING<br />
Director: Julian Jarrold. Starring: Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw,<br />
Hayley Atwell, Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon. UK <strong>2008</strong>. 133 mins.<br />
Thursday 18 September, 3.30pm Saturday 20 September, 10.30am<br />
CAUGHT IN THE ACT (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Matt Lipsey. Starring: Steve Speirs, Freddie Jones,<br />
Maureen Lipman, Mark Lewis Jones, Ralph Brown. UK <strong>2008</strong>. 92 mins.<br />
Based on two of the key characters from Buñuel’s exquisite<br />
1967 classic BELLE DE JOUR, veteran director Oliveira creates<br />
a scenario 40 years on whereby the meeting of a man, Henri<br />
and a woman, Severine may or may not present the truth about<br />
a secret only he can reveal. Severine, now a widow, awaits the<br />
expected revelation but Henri holds back and enjoys his sadistic<br />
power over a woman who never allowed him to possess her...<br />
Print source: ICA<br />
BELLE DE JOUR (18)<br />
Director: Luis Buñuel. Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel,<br />
Michel Piccoli, Genevieve Page. France 1967. 101 mins. French and<br />
Spanish with English subtitles.<br />
Re-issued in a new print, Buñuel’s most successful film stars a<br />
24-year-old Catherine Deneuve as Severine, a beautiful middleclass<br />
Parisian wife who indulges her masochastic fantasies by<br />
working afternoons in a high-class brothel.<br />
Print source: Optimum<br />
A provocative and suspenseful drama, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED<br />
tells a story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in the<br />
pre-WWII era. Charles Ryder becomes entranced with the noble<br />
Marchmain family, first through the charming Sebastian Flyte,<br />
and then through his sophisticated sister, Julia. The rise and fall<br />
of Charles’s infatuations reflect the decline of the decadent era<br />
of the inter-war years. A sensitive adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s<br />
novel by multiple BAFTA award-winner Andrew Davies and<br />
Jeremy Brock, the film also features a terrific supporting turn<br />
from Emma Thompson as the duplicitous Lady Marchmain.<br />
Contains one moderate sex scene.<br />
We hope to welcome members of the cast for a Q&A following the<br />
screening.<br />
Print source: BVI<br />
CAUGHT IN THE ACT is a heart-warming comedy about deceit<br />
and integrity, friendship and folly and the triumph of humanity<br />
over greed. Set in the beautiful Welsh valleys, it tells the story<br />
of a corrupt parish council embezzling European Union (EU)<br />
money to pay for their decadent lifestyles instead of funding the<br />
cultural development of their town. They soon find themselves<br />
having to perform the unimaginable task of producing one of<br />
the great Shakespearean plays for the most important festival<br />
in the EU cultural calendar. Amidst the hilarious scenes of<br />
their performance, their personal dramas are played out. The<br />
characters discover what is truly important to them and what<br />
they must do to achieve their hopes.<br />
Print source: Courtesy of Matt Lipsey<br />
Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
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UK<br />
PREMIERE<br />
Saturday 27 September, 6.00pm<br />
CONVERSATIONS WITH MY<br />
GARDENER (CFF 15)<br />
(DIALOGUE AVEC MON JARDINIER)<br />
Director: Jean Becker. Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin,<br />
Fanny Cottençon. France 2007. 110 mins. French with English subtitles.<br />
This finely observed film depicts a poignant friendship between<br />
two men from different walks of life. When a respected Parisian<br />
painter on the brink of divorce (Auteuil) returns to his childhood<br />
home and places an advert for a gardener to tame the vegetable<br />
plot, he realises that the retired railway worker is a former<br />
schoolmate. As the garden is nurtured and the painter struggles<br />
with his relationships and his work, a warm friendship flourishes<br />
between the two. Sharing a love of the place where they grew<br />
up, they try to understand each other’s passions and attitudes<br />
to life. Ultimately however, it is the painter who has the most to<br />
learn. The 78 year-old Becker perfectly captures the intimacy of<br />
the tale, yet avoids sentimentality. The film positively glows with<br />
life, even as it paints a tender portrait of men coping, in different<br />
ways, with the process of growing old.<br />
Print source: StudioCanal<br />
Saturday 27 September, 5.45pm Sunday 28 September, 10.00am<br />
CYCLES (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Cyril Gelblat. Starring: Miou-Miou, Charles Berling,<br />
Shulamit Adar. France <strong>2008</strong>. 92 mins. French with English subtitles.<br />
In this brilliantly accomplished debut feature, Gelblat weaves<br />
together the lives of three different generations of a Jewish<br />
family in Paris, each contending with family relationships at<br />
a critical time in their lives. Judith (a touching performance<br />
by Miou-Miou) is a divorced housewife and, as she enters<br />
middleage, she feels she is losing both her mother, a Holocaust<br />
survivor who is slipping into dementia, and her son, who is flying<br />
the nest. Her brother Simon (Berling) is a successful political<br />
journalist known for incisive observation but his mother’s<br />
increasing confusion and his daughter’s budding sexuality both<br />
escape his grasp. Through deft glimpses of lives that feel very<br />
real, the film explores how cultural heritage is transmitted,<br />
but also shifts and changes as older generations die out. A<br />
searching film of many layers, it nevertheless keeps a light touch<br />
and manages to be both complex and heart-warming.<br />
Print source: Media Luna Entertainment<br />
Friday 19 September, 8.30pm<br />
DRESSING GRANITE (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Bill Scott. Starring David Shaw, Darren Hawkes,<br />
Mary Woodvine. UK 2007. 93 mins.<br />
Ben and Matthew are stonemasons, living and working in a<br />
remote Cornish quarry. It’s a typical father and son relationship:<br />
love never shown, son’s work never good enough, father set<br />
in his ways. The more Matthew tries to embrace modernity,<br />
the more fractious and emotional Ben becomes, until Matthew<br />
realises his father has dementia and needs to go into a home.<br />
But this act of filial concern is to have tragic consequences<br />
as Matthew struggles with breaking free from tradition at the<br />
same time as trying to keep it alive, and facing up to some<br />
very harsh realities. A film about loss and renewal: the loss of<br />
long-established ways of living, the loss of a parent and the loss<br />
of memory; the need to understand the past and to take what is<br />
useful from it in order to make some meaning of the future.<br />
Print source: Wild West <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
22 Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk
Friday 19 Sep, 5.00pm Wednesday 24 Sep, 10.30am (Big<br />
Scream! only) Saturday 27 Sep, 12.45pm<br />
EDEN (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Declan Recks. Starring: Aidan Kelly, Eileen Walsh,<br />
Padraic Delaney, Karl Shields, Lesley Conroy, Kate O’Toole,<br />
Enda Oates, Sarah Green. Ireland <strong>2008</strong>. 83 mins.<br />
Set in a thriving town in the midlands of Ireland, EDEN tells<br />
the story of a week in the lives of Billy and Breda Farrell<br />
as they approach their 10th wedding anniversary. Breda is<br />
determined that the milestone will re-ignite the passion in<br />
their marriage. Billy’s got other plans. He’s become infatuated<br />
with the unobtainable Imelda Egan and has convinced himself<br />
that they will be lovers by the weekend. As the date draws<br />
closer, Billy’s behaviour becomes more and more chaotic, while<br />
Breda’s frustrations crystalise and find more mature, high-risk<br />
expression. EDEN is the screen adaptation of Eugene O’Brien’s<br />
critically acclaimed, award-winning play, marking the second<br />
collaboration by director Declan Recks, Eugene O’Brien and<br />
RTÉ Television.<br />
We are delighted to welcome director Declan Recks and members of<br />
the cast to this screening.<br />
Print source: Samson <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Saturday 20 September, 8.00pm<br />
FAINTHEART (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Vito Rocco. Starring: Eddie Marsan, Ewen Bremner, Jessica<br />
Hynes, Bronagh Gallagher, Tim Healy, Anne Reid. UK <strong>2008</strong>. 90 mins.<br />
User generated content charges forward with FAINTHEART,<br />
the new UK comedy for our socially networked times. Mildmannered<br />
Richard enjoys dressing up as a Viking at the<br />
weekend for battle re-enactments. His wife Cath doesn’t. Tiring<br />
of all this cosplay she wants a divorce. Soon she’s seeing, horror<br />
of horrors, a PE teacher! What will it take to win her back?<br />
Watch out too for Ewen Bremner as Richard’s best friend, a<br />
Trekkie caught between Valhalla and Vulcan. Developed from the<br />
My Movie Mashup project on MySpace, users were involved in<br />
selecting which project was made, adding to the script and they<br />
were even cast in it too.<br />
We are delighted to welcome the director, Vito Rocco, and<br />
James Fabricant from MySpace to discuss the making of this film.<br />
Print source: Vertigo<br />
Wednesday 24 September, 11.00pm<br />
FEAR(S) OF THE DARK (CFF 15)<br />
(PEUR(S) DU NOIR)<br />
Directors: Blutch, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Jerry Kramski,<br />
Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard McGuire, Michel Pirus, Romaine Slocombe.<br />
France 2007. 85 mins. French with English subtitles.<br />
Spiders’ legs brushing against naked skin… Unexplained<br />
noises heard at night in a dark bedroom… A big, empty house<br />
where you feel a definite presence… A hypodermic needle<br />
getting closer and closer… A dead thing trapped in a bottle<br />
of formaldehyde… A huge growling dog, baring its teeth and<br />
staring… FEAR(S) OF THE DARK features some of the hottest,<br />
hippest graphic artists in the world – including Marie Caillou,<br />
Romaine Slocombe and Blutch – brought together for the first<br />
time on celluloid to delve into the depths of what really sends<br />
shivers down your spine. Rendered in stark, uncompromising<br />
black and white, this is a truly creepy, disgusting, disturbing and<br />
occasionally funny ride into what keeps us all awake at night.<br />
Don’t see it alone...<br />
Print source: Metrodome<br />
Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
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UK<br />
PREMIERE<br />
FREE<br />
SCREENING<br />
Sunday 21 September, 12.00pm<br />
FEATURE (CFF 12A)<br />
Director: Shezad Dawood. Starring: Shezad Dawood, Jimmie Durham,<br />
David Medalla, Doug Fishbone, Hetna Regitze Bruun. UK <strong>2008</strong>. 55 mins.<br />
What do Chief Crazy Horse, Krishna, a Valkyrie, a bunch of<br />
Zombies and some fetish cowboys have in common with a<br />
donkey and an albino snake? The directorial debut by artist<br />
Shezad Dawood seems to play havoc with the unwritten rules<br />
that determine the boundaries between cultures and peoples,<br />
and distinctions between fact and fiction. FEATURE clearly<br />
isn’t a conventional film based on the format of traditional<br />
westerns – David Medalla labels it a ‘zombie western’ and<br />
credits artist, director and actor Shezad Dawood with creating<br />
an entirely new genre. What distinguishes FEATURE is precisely<br />
this quality; mixing and mingling, linking entirely different<br />
historical moments with mythology and intertwining generally<br />
shared with intimately personal histories.<br />
Contains moderate violence.<br />
We are delighted to welcome director, Shezad Dawood, for a Q&A<br />
following the screening.<br />
Commissioned by Wysing Arts Centre, <strong>Cambridge</strong>shire.<br />
Sunday 28 September, 3.00pm<br />
FERMAT’S ROOM (CFF 15)<br />
(LA HABITACION DE FERMAT)<br />
Directors: Luis Piedrahita, Rodrigo Sopeña. Starring: Lluís Homar,<br />
Alejo Sauras, Elena Ballesteros, Santi Millán, Federico Luppi,<br />
Helena Carrión. Spain 2007. 88 mins. Spanish with English subtitles.<br />
SAW for the mathematically minded, with less blood and more<br />
brains. Spanish film FERMAT’S ROOM brings together four<br />
mathematicians, locks them in a room and lets the walls crush<br />
them. The enigmatic Fermat invites four experts in their field to<br />
solve a puzzle. Asked to abandon their phones the trail leads<br />
to a remote warehouse. At which point it all seems like a bad<br />
joke. Until, that is, the first proper challenge arrives backed by<br />
some serious motivation – a shrinking space being compacted<br />
by hydraulic presses. Entering similar territory to CUBE the only<br />
way out of this deathtrap is for the foursome to solve the riddles.<br />
But the bigger question they must ponder is who would actually<br />
want to kill them? This engrossing debut by writer-directors<br />
Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopeña will keep you in its grip<br />
until the very end.<br />
Print source: Revolver<br />
Thursdy 18 September, 6.00pm Friday 19 September, 2.30pm<br />
GOMORRAH (15)<br />
Director: Matteo Garrone. Starring: Salvatore Abruzzese,<br />
Simone Sacchettino, Salvatore Ruocco, Toni Servillo. Italy <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
137 mins. Italian with English subtitles.<br />
A powerful depiction of the destructive and pervasive impact of<br />
organised crime on ordinary people, GOMORRAH focuses on<br />
five inter-linked stories in the working-class suburbs of Naples.<br />
Winner of the Cannes Grand Prix this summer for its groundbreaking<br />
adaptation of Robert Saviano’s best-selling book – a<br />
literary phenomenon in Italy last year – the film journeys into a<br />
nightmarish landscape of crumbling concrete housing blocks<br />
and polluted wastelands to show us everyday lives corrupted by<br />
crime: the young boy who betrays a family; the Scarface obsessed<br />
adolescents firing machine guns across a lake; the tailor trapped by<br />
the mob; and the kids employed to dump toxic waste. A remarkable<br />
indictment of the consequences of the mafia’s power and wealth.<br />
Print source: Optimum<br />
“Probably the most authentic and<br />
unsentimental mafia movie ever<br />
to come out of Italy” SCREEN INTERNATIONAL<br />
24 Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk
UK<br />
PREMIERE<br />
Friday 26 September, 5.30pm Tuesday 23 September, 6.00pm Friday 26 September, 8.00pm Saturday 27 September, 11.00pm<br />
GOOD DICK (15)<br />
Director: Marianna Palka. Starring: Marianna Palka, Jason Ritter.<br />
USA <strong>2008</strong>. 86 mins.<br />
An unpredictable and darkly funny slice of Americana, where the<br />
usual tropes of small-town life – frustrated video store clerk in<br />
love with a shy, awkward yet strangely attractive young girl –<br />
do not quite add up to what you’d expect. For one, she has a<br />
porn addiction and meets our hero when checking similarly<br />
themed videos out of his store. Eventually she agrees to try his<br />
recommendations and invites him home to share them with her<br />
but, as the tone of what has already gone before may suggest,<br />
things do not go as smoothly as he hopes. A love story for<br />
the dysfunctional, for our times and for those who want their<br />
romance movies to come with something other than lashings of<br />
Meg Ryan looking perplexed in a pair of pyjamas.<br />
Print source: The Works<br />
“moments of such genuine<br />
thoughtfulness and surprises that<br />
wouldn’t be out-of-place in a script by Cameron<br />
Crowe or Richard Curtis” efilmcritic.com<br />
GOODNIGHT IRENE (OLHO NEGRO) (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Paolo Marinou-Blanco. Starring: Robert Pugh, Nuno Lopes,<br />
Rita Loureiro. Portugal <strong>2008</strong>. 98 mins. Portuguese and English with<br />
English subtitles.<br />
In Lisbon, an ageing English actor and a young Portuguese<br />
locksmith live finding ways to fight off the tedium of solitude. But<br />
their paths cross when Irene, an attractive Portuguese painter,<br />
moves into the apartment next to Alex’s and her joy for life<br />
distract them from their plight. When Irene suddenly disappears,<br />
however, a deeply meaningful friendship slowly starts to develop<br />
between the two previous rivals as they move into her apartment,<br />
searching for clues. When they discover Irene might be in Spain,<br />
and in danger, these two unlikely heroes decide to embark<br />
on a mission to rescue her. Featuring an outstanding central<br />
performance by Robert Pugh (MASTER AND COMMANDER), this<br />
tale of loss and recovery is beautifully realised, subtly reflecting<br />
the humour, drama and poignancy of life.<br />
We look forward to welcoming director Paolo Marinou-Blanco to<br />
this screening.<br />
Print source: Fils de Tejo<br />
HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND<br />
ALIENATE PEOPLE (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Robert B. Weide. Starring: Simon Pegg, Gillian Anderson,<br />
Jeff Bridges, Kirsten Dunst. UK <strong>2008</strong>. 110 mins.<br />
Frequent Curb Your Enthusiasm director Robert B. Weide makes<br />
his feature directorial debut with this screen adaptation of<br />
British writer Toby Young’s painful but comedic memoir of the<br />
same name. When self-promoting scribe Young (Pegg, HOT<br />
FUZZ) accepts a position as a contributing editor for iconic<br />
fashion magazine Sharps, his subsequent attempts to ingratiate<br />
himself with both his egotistical boss, Clayton Harding, and the<br />
superficial celebrities who populate the pages of the magazine<br />
prove disastrously hilarious. A fish-out-of-water comedy at which<br />
Pegg is becoming such an expert, HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS… is<br />
not only frequently funny but also offers an uncomfortable look<br />
at the pitfalls of arrogance and pomposity.<br />
We are delighted to welcome writer and co-producer Toby Young and<br />
producer Stephen Woolley to this screening.<br />
Print source: Number 9 <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
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The Alliance Française is<br />
proud to be a part of the<br />
28th <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
and to present the best of<br />
the <strong>2008</strong> Clermont Ferrand<br />
Short <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
15 Norfolk Street, <strong>Cambridge</strong> CB1 2LD<br />
Tel: 01223 561854 Fax: 01223 560230<br />
www.france-in-cambridge.co.uk
UK<br />
PREMIERE<br />
Tuesday 23 September, 5.30pm Wednesday 24 September, 12.30pm<br />
IN MEMORY OF US (CFF 15)<br />
(EN SOUVENIR DE NOUS)<br />
Director: Michel Léviant. Starring: Hélène Lapiower, Marie Vinoy,<br />
Liliana Lolitch. France 2007. 92 mins. French with English subtitles.<br />
When Michel Léviant made THE FAIRY WALL in 1994, a light but<br />
beautifully shot TV film deemed too artistic for television, he could<br />
hardly have imagined its future incarnation. Years later, having<br />
captured producer Henri Magalon’s imagination, the film took on<br />
a new dimension. Revisiting the same actors and locations, IN<br />
MEMORY OF US depicts the original group meeting again at their<br />
friend’s funeral, returning to her childhood home where they spent<br />
an intense summer a decade before. Using the earlier footage<br />
as flashbacks with all the dreamlike luminosity of memories, the<br />
film moves between past and present in a fascinating exploration<br />
of friendship, guilt and the passing of time. The poignancy of the<br />
group’s struggle to deal with their friend’s suicide is rendered<br />
acute by the fact that actress Hélène Lapiower died of cancer<br />
before the film’s new life. The film’s reality haunts its fictional tale,<br />
making its evocation of memory all the more compelling.<br />
Print source: Maybe Movies<br />
Saturday 27 September, 5.30pm<br />
IN THE CITY OF SYLIVA (CFF PG)<br />
(EN LA CIUDAD DE SYLVIA)<br />
Director: José Luis Guerín. Starring: Pilar López de Ayala, Xavier<br />
Lafitte. Spain 2007. 84 mins. Spanish/French with English subtitles.<br />
A young man arrives in Strasbourg and spends his days sitting at<br />
an outdoor café, sketching the figures of the women around him,<br />
patiently waiting for Sylvia, the woman that he fell in love with four<br />
years earlier, to appear. He finally thinks he sees her and gives<br />
chase, but it turns out to be someone else. He resumes his quest<br />
for his lost love and the innocence he longs to regain. Sylvia’s<br />
presence lingers but it is impossible to return to the past. The<br />
latest film by José Luis Guerín is a homage to cinema, painting,<br />
love and women, and imparts a nostalgia for days when it was<br />
possible to search for love, wander streets aimlessly and immerse<br />
oneself in a foreign place: the freedom to do as one pleases.<br />
Print source: Axiom<br />
“Filled with small eye-pleasing images, it’s a<br />
picture that audiences may wish to see more<br />
than once in order to relish it all.” hollywoodreporter.com<br />
Sunday 21 September, 8.45pm<br />
I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG (CFF 15)<br />
(IL Y A LONGTEMPS QUE JE T’AIME)<br />
Director: Philippe Claudel. Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas,<br />
Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius. France <strong>2008</strong>. 115 mins.<br />
French with English subtitles.<br />
In this gentle yet suspenseful drama, two sisters attempt to<br />
reconstruct their relationship after a long separation, as haunting<br />
family secrets slowly emerge. Juliette (Scott Thomas) has been<br />
abroad for fifteen years for mysterious reasons and is outcast<br />
by her family. On her return, only her sister Léa is willing to take<br />
her in. But Juliette’s presence disturbs the household, as Léa’s<br />
husband is deeply suspicious of her sudden reappearance in their<br />
lives. The director describes it as “a film about women’s strength,<br />
their capacity to shine, to rebuild their lives” and this is certainly<br />
borne out in striking performances from both female leads. Scott<br />
Thomas portrays a Juliette striving for acceptance while learning<br />
to love life again, with flashes of mordant wit giving the character<br />
an edge. While it deals with the dark subjects of isolation and<br />
secrecy, this is ultimately an uplifting film about enduring love.<br />
Print source: Lionsgate<br />
Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
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UK<br />
PREMIERE<br />
UK<br />
PREMIERE<br />
Saturday 27 September, 8.30pm<br />
JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY (CFF 15)<br />
(KÆRLIGHED PÅ FILM)<br />
Director: Ole Bornedal. Starring: Anders W. Berthelsen,<br />
Rebecka Hemse, Nikolaj Lie Kaas. Denmark 2007. 100 mins.<br />
Danish with English subtitles.<br />
In some of our darkest, most conflicted moments lie the blackest<br />
instances of farce – a fact acknowledged here by Ole Bornedal<br />
in this compelling drama. Jonas is a married man with a family<br />
and a good job as a police photographer but he feels something<br />
is lacking in his life. Then, one day, he witnesses a girl become<br />
involved in a serious accident and finds himself compelled to<br />
visit her. When her family assumes he is her lover who they have<br />
never met, he gamely, politely plays along, not wanting, in some<br />
inexplicable way, to add to their worries. Before long the girl<br />
wakes from her coma and Jonas’s pretence becomes a reality; it<br />
is then that things really take a turn for the worse…<br />
Print source: Revolver<br />
Sunday 28 September, 6.00pm<br />
KING OF THE HILL (CFF 15)<br />
(EL REY DE LA MONTAÑA)<br />
Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego: Starring: Leonardo Sbaraglia,<br />
María Valverde, Thomas Riordan, Andrés Juste. Spain 2007.<br />
Spanish with English subtitles. 90 mins.<br />
This is a film that promises to have everyone talking. It takes<br />
the “rural menace in the woods” genre as epitomised by<br />
DELIVERANCE (and cheekily parodied by SEVERANCE) and turns<br />
it absolutely and uncompromisingly on its head. The result is a<br />
disturbing, nail-biting thriller that will have you alternately on the<br />
edge of your seat and slack-jawed with horror. Quim and Bea,<br />
having met accidentally at a roadside garage some hours earlier,<br />
become the quarry of an unseen gunman in a forest in which<br />
they have become lost. Just as you feel sure you know what<br />
must surely come next, all rules change and all bets are off; let’s<br />
put it this way – you’ll probably never feel the same way the next<br />
time someone suggests a pleasant stroll in the woods.<br />
Print source: Optimum<br />
Saturday 27 September, 8.15pm<br />
LAS MENINAS (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Ihor Podolchak. Starring: Mykola Veresen, Liubov Tymoshevska,<br />
Hanna Yarovenko, Dmytro Cherniavsky. Ukraine <strong>2008</strong>. 99 mins.<br />
French and Ukrainian with English subtitles.<br />
In a strange suburban villa which resembles more an art installation<br />
than a house, live a family of four; parents, daughter and son. The<br />
family’s existence is terrorized, not by any external party but by the<br />
son who has suffered from asthma and eczema since childhood<br />
and uses his “health crises” to manipulate and command. Their life<br />
is characterised by the endless ritual of unsuccessfully attempting<br />
to satisfy his whims. Resembling the scattered pieces of a puzzle,<br />
LAS MENINAS invites the viewer to see what he wants in this<br />
investigation of daily routine and its effect on the human mind and<br />
psyche. Life is full of decisions and choices but when we set about<br />
seeing what choice we have, it turns out to be very little.<br />
Print source: MF <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
“a daring, modern avant-garde<br />
experiment, a cross between film and<br />
visual arts.” INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM<br />
28 Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk
UK<br />
PREMIERE<br />
UK<br />
PREMIERE<br />
Monday 22 September, 10.30pm<br />
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (CFF 18)<br />
(LÅT DEN RÄTTE KOMMA IN)<br />
Director: Tomas Alfredson. Starring: Kåre Hedebrant,<br />
Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl. Sweden <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
114 mins. Swedish with English subtitles.<br />
A fragile, anxious boy, 12-year-old Oskar is regularly bullied<br />
by his stronger classmates but never strikes back. His wish for<br />
a friend seems to come true when he meets Eli, also 12, who<br />
moves in next door with her father. Coinciding with the girl’s<br />
arrival is a series of inexplicable disappearances and murders.<br />
For an introverted boy like Oskar, who is fascinated by gruesome<br />
stories, it does not take long before he realises that Eli is a<br />
vampire. He becomes increasingly aware of the tragic, inhuman<br />
dimension of her plight but cannot bring himself to forsake her.<br />
When Oskar faces his darkest hour, Eli returns to defend him the<br />
only way she can.<br />
Print source: Momentum<br />
Monday 22 September, 8.15pm Tuesday 23 September, 3.30pm<br />
PIANO, SOLO (15)<br />
Director: Riccardo Milani. Starring: Kim Rossi Stuart, Jasmine Trinca,<br />
Paola Cortellesi. Italy 2007. 104 mins. Italian with English subtitles.<br />
PIANO, SOLO is based on the heart-rending true story of the life<br />
of Italian jazz pianist Luca Flores. A tragic destiny awaits Luca on<br />
a road in Africa when, at a young age, he sees his mother die in<br />
a car accident. Luca returns to Italy where his exceptional and<br />
precocious talent as a pianist soon becomes evident. But the<br />
inspired rhythms of his boyhood Africa and a prompt by a couple<br />
of soon-to-be friends turn him from a conventional classical<br />
career into a new jazz star, an acclaimed figure on the Italian<br />
and international jazz scenes, appearing with legendary greats<br />
such as Chet Baker and Dave Holland. Yet the unbearable feeling<br />
of guilt for his mother’s death grows into an obsession and each<br />
day, as he withdraws further into isolation, not even his music<br />
has the power to redeem him.<br />
Print source: Adriana Chiesa Enterprises<br />
Thursday 25 September, 8.00pm Friday 26 September, 12.45pm<br />
STRENGTH AND HONOUR (15)<br />
Director: Mark Mahon. Starring: Michael Madsen, Vinnie Jones,<br />
Patrick Bergin, Richard Chamberlain. Ireland 2007. 90 mins.<br />
STRENGTH AND HONOUR is a story of hope and love, sacrifice<br />
and devotion, set against the violent underground world of<br />
bare-knuckle boxing. It tells the story of an Irish-American boxer,<br />
Sean Kelleher (Michael Madsen), who accidentally kills his friend<br />
in the ring and promises his dying wife that he will never box<br />
again. However, years later, when he discovers that his only son<br />
is dying of the same hereditary heart disorder that took his wife,<br />
he is forced to break his promise to raise money for life-saving<br />
surgery. Starring Michael Madsen, Vinnie Jones, Patrick Bergin<br />
and Richard Chamberlain, screenwriter Mark Mahon’s directorial<br />
debut has already attracted a host of accolades, including Best<br />
<strong>Film</strong> and Best Actor at the Boston <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
We are delighted to welcome director Mark Mahon and members of the<br />
cast to this screening.<br />
Print source: Marion Pictures<br />
Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
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Wednesday 24 September, 8.30pm<br />
SUMMER (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Kenneth Glenaan. Starring: Robert Carlyle, Steve Evets,<br />
Rachael Blake. UK <strong>2008</strong>. 83 mins.<br />
A powerful study of social alienation and rejection from Kenneth<br />
Glenaan. As kids, Shaun and Daz are inseparable, skipping school,<br />
racing bikes, knocking about down by the lake with Katy, Shaun’s<br />
first love. Full of life, Shaun runs up against an education system that<br />
cannot contain him. He is squeezed and eventually spat out, taking<br />
Daz down with him as he self-destructs. Twenty years later, Daz is in<br />
a wheelchair and has eight weeks to live. Shaun is left to reflect on<br />
one gilded summer of love, sex and loyalty that marked the end of<br />
his innocence. His memories lead him to track down Katy, in a bid for<br />
personal redemption. This is a story of bright lives unfulfilled, of hopes<br />
that are snuffed out and then, finally, rekindled.<br />
Print source: Vertigo<br />
“This film further cements Kenny<br />
Glenaan as one of the best young British<br />
directors working today - Summer is sublime.”<br />
eyeforfilm.co.uk<br />
Thursday 18 September, 10.30pm<br />
SUMMER SCARS (CFF 18)<br />
Director: Julian Richards. Starring: Kevin Howarth, Ciaran Joyce,<br />
Amy Harvey. UK 2007. 73 mins.<br />
In this disturbing British thriller, the fate of a gang of urban<br />
kids who skip school to play in the woods with a souped-up<br />
stolen moped is changed forever when they crash into Peter.<br />
A dishevelled drifter, Peter is delighted to have a group of<br />
youngsters to hang out with. First he gains their trust by joining<br />
in their games but then his behaviour begins to change. Peter<br />
uses what he has learned about the kids against them, bullying<br />
the alpha boys, belittling the weaker ones and saving his worst<br />
for the only girl of the group. The kids realise too late that they<br />
are being held hostage and when Peter acknowledges things<br />
have gone too far, the kids are forced to embrace the dark side<br />
of human nature if they are going to survive the ordeal.<br />
Print source: Prolific <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
“a coming of age drama injected<br />
with an uncomfortable dose<br />
of darkness” bloodandfear.com<br />
Saturday 27 September, 3.00pm<br />
THE BLACK BALLOON (CFF 12A)<br />
Director: Elissa Down. Starring: Toni Colette, Rhys Wakefield,<br />
Luke Ford. Australia <strong>2008</strong>. 97 mins.<br />
A story about fitting in, discovering love and accepting your<br />
family. When Thomas (Rhys Wakefield) and his family move to<br />
a new home and he has to start at a new school, all he wants<br />
is to fit in. But his pregnant mother (Toni Collette) has to take<br />
things easy so his father Simon (Erik Thomson) puts him in<br />
charge of his autistic older brother Charlie (Luke Ford). Thomas,<br />
with the help of his new girlfriend Jackie (Gemma Ward), faces<br />
his biggest challenge yet. Charlie’s unusual antics take Thomas<br />
on an emotional journey that causes his pent-up frustrations<br />
about his brother’s autism to pour out – in a story that is funny,<br />
confronting, and ultimately heart-warming.<br />
Contains one scene of nudity and moderate coarse language.<br />
In a post-screen discussion, Sharon Hatt from the National Autistic<br />
Society and Jan Osbourne from <strong>Cambridge</strong>shire’s INSPIRE will look at the<br />
issues families face when dealing with autism.<br />
Print source: Icon<br />
Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
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PREMIERE<br />
Saturday 20 September, 10.30pm Sunday 21 September, 8.15pm Friday 19 September, 10.30pm Sunday 21 September, 10.15am<br />
THE LARK (CFF 18)<br />
Directors: Steve Tanner and Paul Farmer. Starring: Mary Woodvine,<br />
Mark Jackson, Helen Rule. UK 2007. 70 mins.<br />
An absolutely riveting tour-de-force, on a minute budget of<br />
£12k, from the blossoming Cornish film-making scene. THE<br />
LARK is a disorientating and disturbing journey into the world<br />
of Niamh and her two children, a seemingly endless maze in<br />
which every corridor disappears into an infinite darkness that<br />
can suddenly part to reveal uncanny scenes and characters. Still,<br />
Niamh has made a home here, a shelter from a poisonous world<br />
outside, where they live under the protection of Niamh’s strange<br />
friends while she tries to discover a way they can escape to<br />
safety. But then the balance of the nightmare is disturbed by<br />
intruders from outside. The violent Jackson and the prying<br />
Siobhan claim to have come here in search of a missing friend.<br />
But the truth seems to be very different – the newcomers have<br />
plans for Niamh that can lead them all to disaster.<br />
Print source: Courtesy of Paul Farmer<br />
THE MAN FROM LONDON (CFF 15)<br />
(A LONDONI FÉRFI)<br />
Director: Béla Tarr. Starring: Miroslav Krobot, Tilda Swinton,<br />
Ági Szirtes, János Derzsi, Erika Bók. Hungary 2007. 132 mins.<br />
Hungarian with English subtitles.<br />
THE MAN FROM LONDON is the latest film by Hungarian<br />
auteur Béla Tarr. Concocting a rich dreamscape from a Belgium<br />
crime novel by Georges Simenon, Tarr enters the world of film<br />
noir here, which effortlessly glides along with his shadowstrewn,<br />
black and white aesthetic. One night a lonely dockside<br />
signalman spies a man throwing a suitcase overboard. Further<br />
investigation reveals the contents to be a sizeable amount of<br />
pounds sterling. Crushingly, the plot tightens as the “man from<br />
London” plays his hand and a police inspector gives dogged<br />
chase. Master of the strenuous single take, Tarr works his magic<br />
at a glacial pace that devastatingly plunges the audience into the<br />
emotional grist as it builds. Write this off as “uneventful” at your<br />
peril – you’ll be haunted by it for weeks.<br />
Print source: Artificial Eye<br />
THE OBJECTIVE (CFF 18)<br />
Director: Daniel Myrick. Starring: Jonas Ball, Matt Anderson, Kenny<br />
Taylor, Mike C. Williams, Vanessa Johansson. USA <strong>2008</strong>. 90 mins.<br />
From the director of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT comes this<br />
supernatural horror film set in the desert landscape of Southern<br />
Afghanistan, which flirts with the issue of intelligent life and<br />
the effect of its existence on the human psyche. CIA Special<br />
Agent Ben Keynes’ mission is to locate Mohammed Aban,<br />
the legendary Mujahadeen leader who aided in defeating the<br />
Russians in the late 70s, and get a videotaped statement from<br />
Aban acknowledging his support in ridding the country of the<br />
Taliban. But the dynamics in the seemly straightforward game of<br />
chase soon change, when the chasers become the chased and<br />
the form “enemy” is not as expected. Keynes’ company numbers<br />
dwindle as they are slaughtered but he drives on, regardless, with<br />
his objective: to get the data sought by the CIA and to find out the<br />
truth behind Mohammed Aban and the “Vimanas”.<br />
Print source: Gearhead Pictures, Inc.<br />
32 Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk
UK<br />
PREMIERE<br />
Friday 19 September, 7.30pm Sunday 21 September, 1.00pm Thursday 18 September, 8.15pm Thursday 25 September, 11.15pm<br />
THE UNDERSTUDY (CFF 15)<br />
Directors: David Conolly, Hannah Davis. Starring: Marin Ireland,<br />
Paul Sparks, Aasif Mandvi. USA <strong>2008</strong>. 104 mins.<br />
The perfect film for all of those who ever thought that if they<br />
could just get one shot at their big break, then everything would<br />
be okay… After years of scratching around for small acting<br />
parts, Rebecca is offered the chance to understudy Hollywood<br />
superstar Simone Harwin on stage. Things begin to look up<br />
when Simone is struck down with flu: Rebecca’s performance is<br />
feted by the great and powerful from Broadway to Hollywood and<br />
things look as though they may finally improve – until Simone<br />
returns, fully recovered, on the opening night. With so much at<br />
stake, it seems as though there’s really only one thing for it. And<br />
it’s not legal… A darkly comic take on what any one of us might<br />
do to get what we want.<br />
We are delighted to welcome the directors, the producer and composer<br />
Carl Davis to this screening.<br />
See page 11 for details of a special masterclass with Carl Davis.<br />
Print source: Mansion Pictures<br />
THE WAVE (15)<br />
Director: Dennis Gansel. Starring: Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau,<br />
Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich. Germany <strong>2008</strong>. 101 mins.<br />
German with English subtitles.<br />
Based on the social experiment undertaken by US history<br />
teacher Ron Jones in the 1960s when he attempted to<br />
demonstrate to pupils how Germany fell under the spell of Adolf<br />
Hitler, THE WAVE is a powerful and shocking portrait of how<br />
far individuals will go to belong and to become empowered.<br />
Now brought into present day Germany, the action centres on<br />
Rainer Wegner, a popular teacher who has been given the task<br />
of teaching his students about autocracy. Convinced they have<br />
heard the story of the Nazis enough times to be bored rigid, the<br />
class’s reaction is one of apathy and arrogant assumption. It is<br />
at this point Wegner decides to see how easy it will be to create<br />
a little bit of Nazi Germany in his own classroom, unaware of<br />
how just how damaging the unfolding events will be.<br />
Print source: Momentum<br />
TIME CRIMES (CFF 15)<br />
(LOS CRONOCRÍMENES)<br />
Director: Nacho Vigalondo. Starring: Karra Elejalde,<br />
Candela Fernández, Bárbara Goenaga. Spain 2007. 88 mins.<br />
Spanish with English subtitles.<br />
A new house and a new life for Hector and his wife – until he<br />
goes out into the woods, lured by the sight of a naked woman<br />
through his binoculars, and is suddenly attacked by a man with<br />
a swathe of pink bandages for a face. Before he knows it, he<br />
has gone back in time by one hour to a point before this new<br />
and sudden nightmare has started, but just as it is only truly<br />
beginning. In the spirit of PRIMER, but with its own unique<br />
twists, this is a mind-bending roller-coaster of a film from writer<br />
and director Nacho Vigalondo (who is also one of the stars)<br />
which challenges the viewer not only with complex issues of<br />
time and logic but also with more basic questions concerning<br />
right and wrong.<br />
Print source: Optimum<br />
Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
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UK<br />
PREMIERE<br />
Thursday 18 September, 9.00pm Sunday 28 September, 3.15pm Wednesday 24 September, 5.45pm<br />
UNRELATED (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Joanna Hogg. Starring: Kathryn Worth, Tom Hiddleston,<br />
Mary Roscoe, David Rintoul. UK 2007. 100 mins.<br />
With the UK on the cusp of possible transition to a Tory<br />
government, do our films reflect this? Forty-something Anna<br />
arrives unexpectedly at a friend’s holiday villa in Tuscany minus<br />
her husband. An apparent spat has left its mark on her and she<br />
won’t tell anyone what happened. Seemingly distant, she avoids<br />
her friend, preferring to spend more time with the teenagers on<br />
the trip – which increasingly puts her at odds with adults as the<br />
behaviour grows steadily out of control. The first feature film of<br />
former photographer and TV director Joanna Hogg, UNRELATED<br />
depicts a rarely seen sight in modern British cinema – a<br />
prosperous middle class family. Avoiding the usual UK clichés,<br />
this is a revealing study of a family with its guard down and<br />
shorts out, on holiday, marking Hogg as a major new talent.<br />
Print source: Verve<br />
VANAJA (CFF 12A)<br />
Director: Rajnesh Donalpalli. Starring: Mamatha Bhukya,<br />
Urmila Dammannagari, Karan Singh, Krishna Garlapati. India 2006.<br />
112 mins. Telugu with English subtitles.<br />
Vanaja is the 14 year-old daughter of a poor, low caste<br />
fisherman, struggling with dwindling catches and mounting debt<br />
in rural South India. When a sooth-sayer predicts that she will<br />
be a great dancer one day, she goes to work in the house of<br />
the local landlady in hopes of learning Kuchipudi dance while<br />
earning a keep. She is hired as a farmhand; her vivacious ways<br />
soon catch the landlady’s eye and she manages to secure the<br />
landlady’s mentorship – first in music, and then in dance – at<br />
a game of dice. Vanaja excels at the art and seems to be on a<br />
steadily ascending path when Shekhar, Rama Devi’s 23 year old<br />
son – handsome, muscular and rather insecure, returns from the<br />
US to run for local political elections.<br />
Contains references to sexual violence.<br />
We hope to welcome director Rajnesh Donalpalli to the screening.<br />
Print source: Emerging <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
WELTSTADT (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Christian Klandt. Starring: Florian Bartholomäi, Gerdy Zint,<br />
Karoline Schuch, Hendrik Arnst, Justus Carrière. Germany <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
104 mins. German with English subtitles.<br />
On the night of 16 June 2004, in a picturesque East German<br />
town, two drunk teenage boys attacked a homeless man in the<br />
street. When they realised that he had no valuables, they beat<br />
him up and set him on fire. Based on a true story, WELTSTADT<br />
portrays five characters 24 hours before the crime. Karsten, Till,<br />
Steffi, Günter and Heinrich are average Germans, leading a small<br />
town life in a state of mediocrity and apathy. But sometimes<br />
indifference turns into aggression and boredom into violence<br />
as this film demonstrates in its compelling portrayal of social<br />
brutality and a deeply aggressive youth sub-culture.<br />
Print source: Hochschule für <strong>Film</strong> und Fernsehen Konrad Wolf<br />
Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
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UK<br />
PREMIERE<br />
UK<br />
PREMIERE<br />
Tuesday 23 September, 8.00pm Thursday 25 September, 1.15pm<br />
RUNNING THE SAHARA (CFF 12A)<br />
Director: James Moll. Narrator: Matt Damon. USA <strong>2008</strong>. 103 mins.<br />
In 2006, an international expedition team of three men<br />
undertook a quest never before attempted by man: to run across<br />
the Sahara. Making its way from village to oasis to nomadic<br />
settlement, the documentary delves deep into the culture of the<br />
Sahara through the eyes of these three individuals undergoing<br />
a life-altering experience. Each runner brings his own unique<br />
story and motivations but all share a love for Africa and a<br />
desire to make a difference in the lives of the people of the<br />
Sahara by risking their own, running coast-to-coast across the<br />
desert to prove that the impossible is possible. They ran 4600<br />
miles in 111 days. With them we cross six countries: Senegal,<br />
Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Libya and Egypt, and interact on a daily<br />
basis with the locals, accept their hospitality and learn about<br />
their lives and the challenges they face.<br />
Contains moderate coarse language.<br />
Print source: Porchlight<br />
Friday 26 September, 9.15pm Sunday 28 September, 10.30am<br />
1000 JOURNALS (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Andrea Kreuzhage. USA 2007. 88 mins.<br />
This intriguing documentary is part of the international<br />
phenomenon that is the 1000 JOURNALS project: a 21st<br />
century take on releasing a message in a bottle. In 2000, a<br />
graphic artist, Someguy from San Francisco, sent 1000 blank<br />
journals out into the world – in 2003 he got one back. 1000<br />
JOURNALS is director and writer Andrea Kreuzhage’s voyage of<br />
discovery to locate the other 999. Where did they go? Whose<br />
hands have they passed through and what marks, messages or<br />
images have been left in each one? Moved from state to country<br />
to continent on a world-wide current of strangers, friends and<br />
relatives, the 999 journals have acquired almost mythic status<br />
and between them tell the stories of ordinary people who,<br />
through their contact with Someguy and his experiment, have<br />
become extraordinary.<br />
Print source: Courtesy of Andrea Kreuzhage<br />
“an intriguing documentary”<br />
hollywoodreporter.com<br />
Friday 26 September, 8.15pm<br />
ALONE IN FOUR WALLS (CFF 15)<br />
(ALLEIN IN VIER WÄNDEN)<br />
Director: Alexandra Westmeier. Germany 2007. 85 mins.<br />
Russian with English subtitles.<br />
Handsomely photographed – and delivered in an almost<br />
uncomfortably dispassionate tone – this documentary follows<br />
the lives of a handful of Russian boys, all under the age of 14,<br />
who are serving terms in a detention centre for crimes ranging<br />
from theft to murder. Stark, beautiful imagery of floors being<br />
scrubbed and beds being made with military precision by some<br />
of the young inmates – as emotionally challenging as it is<br />
visually arresting – is counter-balanced by the views of those<br />
affected by their crimes. Glimpses of the boys’ home lives, as<br />
evidenced by interviews with their parents, hint at why some<br />
of them seem relatively content within their four prison walls.<br />
Interviews with the boys themselves reveal the confused children<br />
behind the harsh machismo they have been forced to adopt.<br />
Print source: Linger On <strong>Film</strong> Production<br />
36 Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk
DOCUMENTARIES<br />
Thursday 25 September, 1.00pm Wednesday 24 Sep, 5.15pm Friday 26 Sep, 10.15am Saturday 20 September, 3.30pm<br />
FACELESS (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Manu Luksch. UK/Austria 2007. 50 mins.<br />
THE NEW TEN<br />
COMMANDMENTS (CFF 15)<br />
JUMP! (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Helen Hood Scheer. USA 2007. 86 mins.<br />
In an eerily familiar city, a reformed “Real-Time” Calendar has<br />
been introduced by the Big Brother state, dispensing with the<br />
past and the future, leaving citizens faceless, without memory<br />
or anticipation. Using fear to legitimise the constant observation<br />
of public space, people’s faces are erased, reducing them into<br />
a safe, anonymous collective. But one day the film’s protagonist<br />
abruptly regains her face and, with the help of the Spectral<br />
Children, she slowly discovers the lost power of the human<br />
individual and begins the search for its future. Using only images<br />
obtained from the operators of CCTV video-surveillance systems<br />
in London – as stated in the rules of the “Manifesto for CCTV<br />
<strong>Film</strong>makers” – Luksch transforms London using oppressively<br />
familiar views into a nightmarish stage.<br />
Showing with SHE SHOULD HAVE GONE TO THE MOON – see page 17.<br />
Print source: Manu Luksch<br />
“It dares its audience to question<br />
its own culpability in this all too<br />
real state of affairs” THE GUARDIAN<br />
Directors: Kenny Glenaan, Douglas Gordon, Nick Higgins, Irvine<br />
Welsh, Mark Cousins, Tilda Swinton, Sana Bilgrami, Alice Nelson,<br />
Doug Aubrey, David Graham Scott, Anna Jone. UK <strong>2008</strong>. 105 mins.<br />
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration<br />
of Human Rights, Lansdowne Productions and the Scottish<br />
Documentary Institute have gathered together some of the<br />
most talented filmmakers and visual artists based in Scotland<br />
today. Collectively they have created the feature length<br />
documentary, THE NEW TEN COMMANDMENTS. United<br />
by a single theme – human rights in Scotland – the film<br />
communicates a variety of artistic visions whilst exploring the<br />
real life stories of those for whom the Universal Declaration<br />
has intimate meaning. With testimony of human rights abuses<br />
sitting alongside tales of human rights recognition, the film<br />
is both an emotionally powerful journey and an exercise in<br />
passionate filmmaking of the highest calibre.<br />
Print source: Lansdowne Productions<br />
A fun and fast-paced documentary about competitive jump<br />
rope, JUMP! follows five teams from around the United States<br />
who push their physical and psychological limits in pursuit of<br />
winning the World Rope Skipping Championship. The sport<br />
is part extreme athletics, part art form and the kids create<br />
masterfully choreographed moves that burst with rhythm,<br />
sweat and originality. Throughout arduous training and mindboggling<br />
performances, these unexpected trailblazers reveal<br />
what makes them tick and what sets each of them apart.<br />
In the end determination, rivalry and collaboration converge<br />
with dramatic and unexpected results – ingredients that<br />
made it Overall Audience Favourite at the 2007 Los Angeles<br />
<strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>. If you are thinking double Dutch in a school<br />
playground, think again...<br />
Print source: Nutshell Productions LLC<br />
“JUMP! has all the right moves.”<br />
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER<br />
Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
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UK<br />
PREMIERE<br />
Monday 22 Sep, 10.00pm Tuesday 23 Sep, 6.00pm, The Junction<br />
PAGEANT (CFF 15)<br />
Directors: Ron Davis, Stewart Halpern. USA <strong>2008</strong>. 95 mins.<br />
For 34 years the Miss Gay America Pageant ® has been the<br />
premier pageant system in the art of female impersonation. It is<br />
for male artists who create the female “illusion” – no hormones<br />
or implants of any kind are permitted. PAGEANT takes you<br />
behind the scenes as 52 ordinary gentlemen go to extraordinary<br />
lengths in order to be crowned the 34th Miss Gay America ® .<br />
Following five of the most talented and beautiful female<br />
impersonators as they prepare to dominate in this underground<br />
competition, PAGEANT features stunning musical numbers,<br />
ecstatic highs and tearful showbiz lows as it delves into the<br />
heart and soul of this little-known make-believe world. We hear<br />
from the men behind the make-up as well as from those in<br />
their entourage: husbands, mothers, sons, and little brothers.<br />
Everybody has a dream; these men are making theirs a reality.<br />
Print source: Illusion Arts<br />
“A+... It has so much heart, love and<br />
acceptance” JOHN GARCIA, PEGASUS NEWS<br />
Sunday 28 September, 5.45pm<br />
CRAWFORD (CFF 15)<br />
Director: David Modigliani. USA <strong>2008</strong>. 74 mins.<br />
In 1999, Governor George W. Bush buys a ranch in Crawford,<br />
Texas, and calls it “home”; overnight, an insular community<br />
explodes. Bush declares candidacy for President, using<br />
Crawford as the perfect set-piece to project a folksy image,<br />
and the town is instantly overrun with international press<br />
corps and droves of flocking tourists. But soon, the town’s<br />
inhabitants feel the human impact of political stagecraft. The<br />
spotlight exacerbates tensions between freethinking and<br />
conformity, pushing a progressive teacher and her favorite<br />
student to the edge – and beyond. By 2005, the President’s<br />
mounting problems follow him home, and Crawford’s boom<br />
is busting like the Presidency itself. Tourists have stopped<br />
coming; land is overvalued; the bumper sticker and trinket<br />
shops are boarded up. Two people are dead and one is<br />
leaving town. Bush is soon to abscond. Left to deal with the<br />
aftermath are the real people of Crawford. Their lives are<br />
changed forever.<br />
Print source: Live Action Projects<br />
Monday 22 Sep, 4.00pm Wednesday 24 Sep, 11.00am<br />
GOD MADE THEM BLIND (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Richard Todd. Australia <strong>2008</strong>. 73 mins.<br />
GOD MADE THEM BLIND is an observational documentary<br />
about how Australian ceramicist, John Fawcett, is devoting<br />
his life to reducing the enormous number of cataract blind<br />
people in Indonesia after narrowly escaping his own death on<br />
two occasions. His greatest challenge, however, is convincing<br />
a nation that blindness is not God’s punishment. Ironically, the<br />
most resistance he faces comes from the very people he is<br />
trying to help. Four years in the making, the film reveals how<br />
John’s life-altering quest brings him into conflict with Hindu<br />
beliefs in Karma and black magic, resulting in profound personal<br />
transformations on both sides.<br />
Print source: Aquarius Productions<br />
38 Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk
DOCUMENTARIES<br />
Saturday 27 September, 10.45pm Saturday 20 Sep, 5.45pm Tuesday 23 Sep, 3.00pm Saturday 20 September, 8.15pm Monday 22 September, 12.30pm<br />
CAFÉ DE LOS MAESTROS (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Miguel Kohan. USA/Brazil/UK/Argentina. 100 mins.<br />
Spanish with English subtitles.<br />
With the return to democracy, Argentina is experiencing an<br />
extraordinary rebirth of its main national musical tradition,<br />
the Tango. CAFÉ DE LOS MAESTROS is the gathering of the<br />
greatest living legends of this formidable musical genre.<br />
These extraordinary men and women, ranging from 70 to<br />
95 years old, reveal to us the mysteries and essence of this<br />
melancholic and sexy music. Acclaimed musician, producer<br />
and composer Gustavo Santaolalla (winner of 2 Academy<br />
Awards) leads us on a journey to bring together these<br />
unique “maestros”. Reconstructing historical arrangements<br />
and recording unpublished material for the first time, the<br />
collaboration culminates with a grand performance of Tango<br />
music and dance at Buenos Aires’ famous Colon Theatre.<br />
Print source: Pathé<br />
THE DANCING FOREST (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Brice Lainé. UK <strong>2008</strong>. 76 mins.<br />
Long abandoned as a land without hope, Africa has battled to<br />
overcome the negative stereotypes that have condemned it<br />
to the periphery of civilization. The damning lie is of a people<br />
trapped in their past; unable to break the cycle of corruption<br />
and apathy – a people who will always be dependent on<br />
foreign help as they are incapable of helping themselves.<br />
THE DANCING FOREST is Africa’s strident retaliation. Through<br />
the shining example of a small village in Togo, we find a<br />
community that refuses to wait for outside aid to make its<br />
way out of poverty and ruin. With tools in hand, its proud men<br />
and women stoop to build their own destiny and a model of<br />
self-reliance. THE DANCING FOREST is a powerfully optimistic<br />
vision of Africa in the 21st Century and a touching story to<br />
shatter many destructive myths about the Dark Continent.<br />
Print source: Elmadro Productions<br />
SLEEP FURIOUSLY (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Gideon Koppel. UK <strong>2008</strong>. English and Welsh with English<br />
subtitles. 94 mins.<br />
SLEEP FURIOUSLY is set in a small farming community in mid<br />
Wales, about 50 miles north of Dylan Thomas’ fictional village<br />
of Llareggub. This is a place where Koppel’s parents – both<br />
refugees – found a home. It is a landscape and population that<br />
is changing rapidly as small-scale agriculture is disappearing<br />
and the generation who inhabited a pre-mechanised world<br />
is dying out. Much influenced by his conversations with the<br />
writer Peter Handke, the filmmaker leads us on a poetic and<br />
profound journey into a world of endings and beginnings; a<br />
world of stuffed owls, sheep and fire. Allied to a soundtrack by<br />
the revered electronic musician Aphex Twin, SLEEP FURIOUSLY<br />
is lyrical filmmaking at its best.<br />
Following the screening, we hope to welcome the director and the<br />
producer for a Q&A sponsored by BAFTA..<br />
Print source: New Wave<br />
Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
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TIMETABLE<br />
More screenings to come – for<br />
updates check the <strong>Festival</strong> website<br />
www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk,<br />
at the Arts Picturehouse, and the<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Daily newspaper.<br />
All tickets must be collected at<br />
least 15 minutes prior to the start of<br />
the screening.<br />
Do check your tickets – we have four<br />
main venues this year, and would hate<br />
you to turn up at the wrong one!<br />
Remember, there are no adverts or<br />
trailers before <strong>Festival</strong> presentations<br />
We aim for films to begin at the<br />
advertised start time.<br />
SATURDAY 13 &<br />
SUNDAY 14 SEP<br />
PAGE NO.<br />
CAMBRIDGE INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY<br />
6.00 THE COLOURS OF INFINITY 10<br />
8.00 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 10<br />
TUESDAY 16<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
CRASSH<br />
PAGE NO.<br />
4.30 TRANSMISSION: ECOLOGY 8<br />
RIVERSIDE SCREENING<br />
7.30 GREENSCAPE 13<br />
WEDNESDAY 17<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
PAGE NO.<br />
4.15 TRANSMISSION: LA VIE<br />
NOUVELLE & LAID DOWN 8<br />
RIVERSIDE SCREENING<br />
7.30 BATTLEFIELD 13<br />
THURSDAY 18<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
PAGE NO.<br />
11.15 TRANSMISSION:<br />
BECOMING VERA 8<br />
3.00 UK SHORTS 1 70<br />
3.15 FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED<br />
3.30 CAUGHT IN THE ACT 21<br />
5.30 BELLE TOUJOURS &<br />
BELLE DE JOUR 21<br />
5.45 REVIVALS: LOVE LETTERS<br />
AND LIVE WIRES 54<br />
6.00 GOMORRAH 24<br />
8.15 THE WAVE 33<br />
9.00 LINHA DE PASSE 19<br />
9.00 UNRELATED 35<br />
10.30 SUMMER SCARS 31<br />
11.00 KARLOFF: 69<br />
THE OLD DARK HOUSE<br />
FRIDAY 19<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
10.00 FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED<br />
10.15 FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED<br />
PAGE NO.<br />
10.30 KARLOFF: THE OLD 69<br />
DARK HOUSE<br />
12.30 FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED<br />
12.45 LA VIE NOUVELLE 8<br />
1.00 FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED<br />
2.30 GOMORRAH 24<br />
3.15 POLISH: CANAL 44<br />
3.30 FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED<br />
5.00 EDEN 23<br />
5.45 SEIDL: LOSSES TO BE 62<br />
EXPECTED<br />
6.00 POLISH: 45<br />
TWISTS OF FATE<br />
7.30 THE UNDERSTUDY 33<br />
8.15 LIFE FOR SALE 15<br />
8.30 DRESSING GRANITE 22<br />
10.00 MUSIC: WE DREAMED 51<br />
AMERICA<br />
10.30 THE OBJECTIVE 32<br />
10.45 EUROPEAN SHORTS 73<br />
SATURDAY 20<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
10.15 FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED<br />
PAGE NO.<br />
10.30 CAUGHT IN THE ACT 21<br />
11.00 CFC: I MADE THIS 76<br />
12.30 KARLOFF DOUBLE BILL: 68<br />
FRANKENSTEIN &<br />
THE MUMMY<br />
12.45 EDEN 23<br />
1.30 CFC: MONSTERS ON FILM 76<br />
2.00 CFC: MONSTERS ON FILM 76<br />
2.00 POLISH: KATYN 44<br />
2.30 CFC: MONSTERS ON FILM 76<br />
3.15 MASTERCLASS WITH<br />
CARL DAVIS 11<br />
3.30 JUMP! 37<br />
5.00 JULIA 60<br />
5.45 THE DANCING FOREST 39<br />
6.00 SEIDL: DOG DAYS 63<br />
8.00 FAINTHEART 23<br />
8.15 SLEEP FURIOUSLY 39<br />
8.30 MUSIC: BLIND HUSBANDS 50<br />
10.30 THE LARK 32<br />
10.45 INTERNATIONAL SHORTS 1 72<br />
11.00 MUSIC: PATTI SMITH: 50<br />
DREAM OF LIFE<br />
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WEDNESDAY 24<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
PAGE NO.<br />
10.00 REVIVALS: LOVE LETTERS 54<br />
AND LIVE WIRES<br />
10.15 THE OBJECTIVE 32<br />
10.30 FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED<br />
12.00 FEATURE 24<br />
12.30 REVIVALS:<br />
WHITE CHRISTMAS 55<br />
1.00 THE UNDERSTUDY 33<br />
2.00 MACHINIMA: 47<br />
SYNTHETIC CINEMA<br />
3.00 POLISH: TIME TO DIE 45<br />
3.30 UK SHORTS 1 70<br />
4.00 SEIDL: JESUS, YOU KNOW 63<br />
5.00 THE OLYMPIC GAMES 76<br />
ON FILM<br />
6.00 MACHINIMA: DREAMS 48<br />
AND SHADOWS<br />
6.30 JARMAN: WAR REQUIEM 58<br />
8.00 MAGDALENE STREET 10<br />
SCREENING<br />
8.15 THE MAN FROM LONDON 32<br />
8.30 POLISH: PRESERVE 45<br />
8.45 I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG 27<br />
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10.00 FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED<br />
10.15 SEIDL: DOG DAYS 63<br />
10.30 FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED<br />
12.30 SLEEP FURIOUSLY 39<br />
1.00 FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED<br />
2.00 MACHINIMA: ZERO BUDGET, 48<br />
BIG AUDIENCE<br />
3.00 POLISH: KATYN 44<br />
3.30 JARMAN: THE LAST OF 58, 56<br />
ENGLAND & ARIA<br />
4.00 GOD MADE THEM BLIND 38<br />
5.30 REVIVALS: BICYCLE THIEVES 54<br />
6.00 MACHINIMA: PLAY’S THE THING 48<br />
6.00 JARMAN: THE GARDEN & 57<br />
A PIECE OF MY SKY IS MISSING<br />
8.00 SEIDL: IMPORT/EXPORT 63<br />
8.15 PIANO, SOLO 29<br />
8.30 UK SHORTS 3 71<br />
10.00 PAGEANT 38<br />
10.30 LET THE RIGHT ONE IN 29<br />
11.15 THE BROKEN 15<br />
ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY<br />
12.00 MACHINIMA: WORKSHOP 49<br />
3.30 MACHINIMA: WORKSHOP 49<br />
THE JUNCTION<br />
6.00 UK SHORTS 2 70-71<br />
8.30 MUSIC: HEAVY METAL IN<br />
BAGHDAD 52<br />
10.15 FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED<br />
10.30 FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED<br />
11.00 CFC WORKSHOP: 76<br />
CENSORSHIP, FILM & THE BBFC<br />
12.45 POLISH: TIME TO DIE 45<br />
1.00 INTERNATIONAL SHORTS 1 72<br />
3.00 THE DANCING FOREST 39<br />
3.30 PIANO, SOLO 29<br />
4.00 MACHINIMA: SCREEN STORIES 49<br />
5.30 IN MEMORY OF US 27<br />
5.45 JARMAN: DEREK 57<br />
6.00 GOODNIGHT IRENE 25<br />
8.00 RUNNING THE SAHARA 36<br />
8.15 JARMAN: EDWARD II 57<br />
8.30 ALEXANDRA 20<br />
10.00 KARLOFF: THE BLACK CAT & 69<br />
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN<br />
10.15 LATE NIGHT SHORTS 1 75<br />
10.30 SAVAGE GRACE 15<br />
ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY<br />
12.00 MACHINIMA: WORKSHOP 49<br />
WYSING ARTS CENTRE<br />
6.00 STOP. WATCH. 12<br />
THE JUNCTION<br />
6.00 PAGEANT 38<br />
8.30 MUSIC: A LIFE IN THE 52<br />
DEATH OF JOE MEEK<br />
WESLEY CHAPEL<br />
8.00 MUSIC: THE LAST LAUGH 51<br />
RIVERSIDE SCREENING<br />
7.30 RIVERRUN 13<br />
10.30 BIG SCREAM!*: SAVAGE GRACE 15<br />
10.30 BIG SCREAM!*: EDEN 23<br />
11.00 GOD MADE THEM BLIND 38<br />
12.30 IN MEMORY OF US 27<br />
1.00 CFC: CAMBRIDGESHIRE ON FILM 77<br />
1.15 JARMAN: SHORTS 1 58<br />
3.00 WARNER BROS.: WHITE HEAT 65<br />
3.15 REVIVALS: A MATTER OF 54<br />
LIFE AND DEATH<br />
3.30 INTERNATIONAL SHORTS 2 72<br />
5.15 THE NEW TEN 37<br />
COMMANDMENTS<br />
5.45 WELTSTADT 35<br />
6.00 JARMAN: RICHARD HESLOP 59<br />
8.00 WARNER BROS.: YOU MUST 64<br />
REMEMBER THIS<br />
8.15 JARMAN: THE JARMAN 59<br />
AWARD<br />
8.30 SUMMER 31<br />
11.00 FEAR(S) OF THE DARK 23<br />
11.00 JARMAN: THE DEVILS 57<br />
11.15 BLOOD CAR 17<br />
THE JUNCTION<br />
6.00 DR STRANGELOVE 16<br />
8.00 MUSIC: HEAVY LOAD 51, 77<br />
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THURSDAY 25<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
PAGE NO.<br />
10.00 CFC: FRANKENSTEIN 77<br />
10.15 FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED<br />
12.45 WARNER BROS.: WHITE HEAT 65<br />
1.00 SHE SHOULD HAVE GONE 17, 37<br />
TO THE MOON & FACELESS<br />
1.15 RUNNING THE SAHARA 36<br />
3.15 JARMAN: BLUE & OSTIA 56, 59<br />
3.30 INTERNATIONAL SHORTS 2 72<br />
4.00 THE BEST OF DIGITAL 74<br />
SHORTS<br />
5.30 WARNER BROS.: I AM A 64<br />
FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG<br />
5.45 REVIVALS: LA RABBIA 55<br />
6.00 REVIVALS: A STREETCAR 55<br />
NAMED DESIRE<br />
8.00 STRENGTH AND HONOUR 29<br />
7.45 ALGERIA, UNSPOKEN STORIES 20<br />
8.30 FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED<br />
10.30 WARNER BROS.: 65<br />
CAPTAIN BLOOD<br />
10.45 BI THE WAY 17<br />
11.15 TIME CRIMES 33<br />
THE JUNCTION<br />
6.00 STANLEY KUBRICK: 16<br />
A LIFE IN PICTURES<br />
9.00 WILD COMBINATION 17<br />
RIVERSIDE SCREENING<br />
7.30 DREAM SCREEN 13<br />
FRIDAY 26<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
PAGE NO.<br />
10.00 WARNER BROS.:<br />
CAPTAIN BLOOD 65<br />
10.15 THE NEW TEN<br />
COMMANDMENTS 37<br />
12.30 REVIVALS: LA RABBIA 55<br />
12.45 STRENGTH AND HONOUR 29<br />
1.00 WARNER BROS.: BABY FACE 66<br />
2.45 NEW ROMANIAN SHORTS 73<br />
3.00 MUSIC: TRIP TO ASIA 52<br />
3.15 WARNER BROS.: YOU MUST 64<br />
REMEMBER THIS<br />
5.00 BIG PITCH, MICROBUDGET 12<br />
5.30 GOOD DICK 25<br />
5.45 CLERMONT FERRAND 74<br />
SHORTS <strong>2008</strong><br />
7.15 AÑO UÑA 20<br />
8.00 HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS 25<br />
AND ALIENATE PEOPLE<br />
8.15 ALONE IN FOUR WALLS 36<br />
9.15 1000 JOURNALS 36<br />
10.15 WARNER BROS.: 66<br />
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN<br />
10.45 FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED<br />
11.00 LATE NIGHT SHORTS 2 75<br />
THE JUNCTION<br />
6.15 MUSIC: PATTI SMITH: 50<br />
DREAM OF LIFE<br />
8.30 MUSIC: ONE MAN IN 50<br />
THE BAND<br />
SATURDAY 27<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
10.00 FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED<br />
10.15 FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED<br />
PAGE NO.<br />
10.30 UK SHORTS 2 70-71<br />
12.30 WHERE THE WATER MEETS 17<br />
THE SKY<br />
12.45 WARNER BROS.:<br />
BLACK LEGION 66<br />
1.00 CLERMONT FERRAND 74<br />
SHORTS <strong>2008</strong><br />
3.00 THE BLACK BALLOON 31, 77<br />
3.15 THE GROCER’S SON 15<br />
3.30 BURMA ALL INCLUSIVE 17<br />
5.30 IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA 27<br />
5.45 CYCLES 22<br />
6.00 CONVERSATIONS WITH 22<br />
MY GARDENER<br />
8.00 BRIDESHEAD REVISITED 21<br />
8.15 LAS MENINAS 28<br />
8.30 JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY 28<br />
10.30 WARNER BROS.:<br />
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY 65<br />
10.45 CAFÉ DE LOS MAESTROS 39<br />
11.00 HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS 25<br />
AND ALIENATE PEOPLE<br />
PLEASE NOTE: The programme is correct at the time of<br />
going to press; we will only make changes in exceptional<br />
circumstances, but we do reserve the right to do so if we must.<br />
SUNDAY 28<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
PAGE NO.<br />
10.00 CYCLES 22<br />
10.15 WARNERS BROS.: 65<br />
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY<br />
10.30 1000 JOURNALS 36<br />
12.30 MUSIC: TRIP TO ASIA 52<br />
12.45 JARMAN: SHORTS 2 59<br />
1.00 KARLOFF: THE RAVEN 69<br />
3.00 FERMAT’S ROOM 24<br />
3.15 VANAJA 35<br />
3.30 THE GROCER’S SON 15<br />
5.30 SURPRISE MOVIE 15<br />
5.45 CRAWFORD 38<br />
6.00 KING OF THE HILL 28<br />
8.00 FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED<br />
8.15 FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED<br />
8.30 ENCOUNTERS AT THE END<br />
OF THE WORLD 19<br />
THE ARTS PICTUREHOUSE<br />
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THE JUNCTION www.junction.co.uk<br />
WYSING ARTS CENTRE<br />
www.wysingartscentre.org<br />
WESLEY METHODIST CHURCH<br />
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Polish cinema has consistently been<br />
haunted by the losses and triumphs<br />
of historical events. Whether this<br />
is embodied in the physical decay<br />
of a city’s architecture or in the<br />
contemporary invocation of people’s<br />
memories, the past is never far below<br />
the surface of a Polish film. The <strong>Festival</strong><br />
is pleased to bring you a selection of<br />
films from Poland’s most celebrated<br />
directors, who are finding new ways of<br />
engaging with history in a manner both<br />
aesthetically powerful and particularly<br />
poignant for contemporary society.<br />
Saturday 20 Sep, 2.00pm Monday 22 Sep, 3.00pm<br />
KATYN (CFF 18)<br />
Director: Andrzej Wajda. Starring: Jan Englert, Artur Zmijewski,<br />
Maja Ostaszewska. Poland 2007. 118 mins. Polish with<br />
English subtitles.<br />
Brutal and devastating, the latest film from one of Poland’s<br />
greatest directors revolves around the secret massacre of<br />
thousands of Polish officers by Soviet forces in the forests of<br />
Katyn in 1944, and the fates of the women and children they<br />
left behind them. Their attempts to ascertain the truth behind<br />
the disappearance of the soldiers brings them up against<br />
a conspiracy that was not officially unraveled until after the<br />
fall of the USSR in 1989. KATYN is the film that Wajda has<br />
always wanted to make: his own father was murdered there,<br />
and the film bears a personal wound that resonates through<br />
its haunting and beautiful cinematography. Nominated for an<br />
Oscar for the Best Foreign Language <strong>Film</strong> in <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
Print source: TVP (Telewizja Polska)<br />
Friday 19 September, 3.15pm<br />
CANAL (KANAŁ) (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Andrzej Wajda. Starring: Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz<br />
Janczar. Poland 1957. 91 mins. Polish with English subtitles.<br />
One of Wajda’s first films, CANAL asks us to bear witness to<br />
the activities of a group of resistance fighters in the last hours<br />
of their lives, on the eve of the failure of the 1944 Warsaw<br />
Uprising. They have only one means of escaping death at the<br />
hands of the Nazis: the sewers. Apocalyptic, hallucinatory, and<br />
tragic, the film was made under censorship during the period<br />
of Polish socialism and its complex layers of allusion are as<br />
captivating now as they were to original audiences.<br />
Print source: Contemporary <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
“I spent seventeen hours in the sewers...<br />
Wajda’s film is telling the truth.”<br />
WARSAW UPRISING FIGHTER (1957)<br />
44 Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk
POLISH CINEMA<br />
Sunday 21 September, 3.00pm Tuesday 23 September, 12.45pm<br />
TIME TO DIE (PORA UMIERAC) (CFF 12A)<br />
Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska. Starring: Danuta Szaflarska,<br />
Krzysztof Globisz. Poland 2007. 104 mins. Polish with<br />
English subtitles.<br />
Adored by audiences at recent international festivals, this<br />
stunningly shot black-and-white film features a 93 year-old<br />
Polish screen veteran as the feisty and spirited Aniela.<br />
Offset by sharp and witty monologues to her dog (for whom,<br />
incidentally, the prize of Best Canine Performance was<br />
created at The Polish <strong>Film</strong> Awards), she finds her own unique<br />
ways to battle against greedy property developers, old age,<br />
and juvenile delinquents.<br />
Print source: Kid <strong>Film</strong><br />
“every shot is beautifully composed and<br />
edited...every role, even the smallest,<br />
is brilliantly played. This is real Polish cinema.<br />
Unbelievable.” MACHINA<br />
Sunday 21 September, 8.30pm<br />
PRESERVE (REZERWAT) (CFF 18)<br />
Director: Łukasz Palkowski. Starring: Marcin Kwasny,<br />
Sonia Bohosiewicz. Poland 2007. 100 mins. Polish with<br />
English subtitles.<br />
After his girlfriend throws him out, photographer Marcin<br />
Kwasny moves into the Praga district of Warsaw, the ‘preserve’<br />
of the title, infamously dilapidated and inhabited by drunks<br />
and delinquents. On the request of the tenement owner, who<br />
wants to prove to the council that the buildings should be<br />
destroyed, Marcin begins to photograph his neighbours and<br />
their run-down apartment blocks. As he does so, he becomes<br />
irrevocably drawn into, and increasingly fascinated by, their<br />
unique and hermetic world. A warm, bitter-sweet comedy<br />
that allows viewers to glimpse areas of Warsaw they might<br />
otherwise never see, Palkowski’s film has justifiably become<br />
a favorite on the Polish film festival circuit. Winner of the<br />
Audience Award at the Polish <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> in Gdynia.<br />
Print source: Paisa <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Friday 19 September, 6.00pm<br />
TWISTS OF FATE (KOROWÓD) (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Jerzy Stuhr. Starring: Jan Frycz, Kamil Mackowiak.<br />
Poland 2007. 112 mins. Polish with English subtitles.<br />
This gripping film spans the moral attitudes of two<br />
generations and their complex entanglements. A former<br />
secret police officer under Polish Socialism is facing the<br />
consequences for his past actions. Meanwhile, Bartek, a<br />
student who makes a career from lying and cheating, finds<br />
a briefcase and coat containing a mobile phone on a train.<br />
When the phone begins to ring, Bartek doesn’t hesitate to<br />
answer it, setting off a shocking series of events that changes<br />
the characters’ lives forever.<br />
Print source: Fundacja Promocji Kina <strong>Film</strong> Polski<br />
“...one of the best and most<br />
important films in this year’s<br />
Gdynia <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>” GAZETA WYBORCZA<br />
Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
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GAME, SET AND MACHINIMA<br />
Lights, Camera, Action in Virtual Space<br />
Sunday 21 September, 2.00pm<br />
90 mins<br />
Machinima (from the conflation of Machine and<br />
Cinema) is a mix of animation, 3D film and realtime<br />
games technologies. Originally the province<br />
of hardcore gamers and codeheads, Machinima<br />
has exploded out of the games ghetto and is<br />
undergoing a revolution as artists and filmmakers<br />
start to exploit this new technology. Suddenly,<br />
creative filmmakers can make ambitious films<br />
without a camera, a lighting rig, or a crew.<br />
Machinima is a world where the wardrobe<br />
department and casting agency are a library of<br />
files on your hard disk; a world where resources<br />
and technical know-how can no longer block you<br />
from making imaginative films. These screenings<br />
represent a snapshot of the vibrant interplay<br />
between computer games, 3D animation, and<br />
both mainstream and experimental film.<br />
Print source: FDMX/Short Fuze<br />
ENTER<br />
THE CURIOUS<br />
WORLD OF<br />
MACHINIMA!<br />
SYNTHETIC CINEMA (CFF 15)<br />
Machinima, borne out of games, has started a love affair<br />
with film. Although lacking the detail, dynamic range and<br />
sumptuousness of film stock, “machinimators” have made<br />
up for this with their flair for precision editing and cinematic<br />
composition, creating mood and suspense with big screen<br />
ambitions. In this session you’ll find a gamut of current film<br />
genres transported into the virtual world, from the romantic<br />
and mawkish through to the humourous and the horrific.<br />
However, these aren’t mere fan homages – these are<br />
engaging stories in their own right. As well as a screening<br />
of acclaimed films there will be a panel including Hugh<br />
Hancock, creator of the first Machinima feature film, and<br />
David Heinemann, associate film tutor of the BFI, discussing<br />
where cinematic Machinima is going and whether it will find<br />
acceptance in the wider film world – or even change it!<br />
Sam Goldwater<br />
Geliga<br />
Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
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Sunday 21 September, 6.00pm<br />
90 mins<br />
DREAMS AND SHADOWS (CFF 15)<br />
Machinimators are not bound by the resources or rendering time<br />
constraints animators commonly endure to achieve their vision.<br />
The ability to change images rapidly in 3D space has led to an<br />
avalanche of playful experimentation – often with evocative or<br />
surreal results. There’s a feeling that since there are few ground<br />
rules in this new media, there’s plenty of room to try out new<br />
ideas, to bend and disrupt narrative, to explore different kinds<br />
of colourful abstraction. Here we see a collection of the more<br />
experimental, fantastic and occasionally dark visions conjured<br />
up in Machinima, from the exquisite Second Life-created<br />
mindscape of Lainy Voom’s BLACK SWAN to the paintbox<br />
craziness of Phil Rice’s BODYSNATCHERS Radiohead video –<br />
and the feverish nightmare of Tony Bannan’s FOLIE A DEUX.<br />
Monday 22 September, 2.00pm<br />
90 mins<br />
ZERO BUDGET, BIG<br />
AUDIENCE (CFF 15)<br />
Making a Machinima movie on zero budget doesn’t<br />
mean that you can’t reach as many people as a<br />
TV channel. Come and see the most successful<br />
Machinima movies ever made, and listen to leading<br />
personalities from the world of amateur Machinima<br />
explain how YOU can reach a million people with a<br />
single home-produced Machinima movie. See great<br />
Machinima examples and hear how the creators got<br />
the publicity, and built on their success. Our panelists<br />
will be kept in check by chairperson David Bailey, CEO<br />
of Moviestorm. If you aspire to making your own movies<br />
and clocking up a million hits, this session’s for you!<br />
Illegal Danish 2<br />
Lainy Voom<br />
Lainy Voom<br />
Monday 22 September, 6.00pm<br />
PLAY’S THE THING:<br />
MACHINIMA IN THE<br />
GAMEWORLD (CFF 15)<br />
90 mins<br />
Games are now mainstream and the games industry outstrips<br />
film and TV in terms of size; more people play World of Warcraft<br />
on any given day than see a new blockbuster film on its first<br />
weekend, and recently Grand Theft Auto 4 was reportedly the<br />
highest grossing media product of all time. Machinima has<br />
its roots in the twilight worlds of “modding” and tinkering with<br />
games engines. Here we explore the weird world of homages,<br />
satires and wry social commentary made by hijacking games<br />
characters and environments. See familiar characters from Halo,<br />
Sims, Half-Life, Grand Theft Auto and even Hillary Clinton(!)<br />
migrate to the big screen to entertain you, crossing from<br />
high-octane game into drama, comedy, or even soap opera<br />
genres. A leading Games expert will be on hand to explain to the<br />
uninitiated just exactly how and why it’s done.<br />
Lit Fuse <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Ross Scott<br />
48 Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk
Riot <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Tuesday 23 September, 4.00pm<br />
SCREEN STORIES:<br />
NARRATIVE IN GAMES<br />
AND FILM<br />
90 mins<br />
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live” JOAN DIDION.<br />
Narrative in games has become more sophisticated thanks<br />
to photo-real graphics, surround-sound audio, larger screens<br />
and professional scriptwriters, but how does the experience<br />
of gaming on the latest consoles compare to storytelling<br />
on the big screen? Is the car chase in Bullitt better than<br />
running from the cops on GTA IV? Is the obelisk in 2001 more<br />
awe-inspiring than the Halo? And whose zombies would<br />
you rather have chasing you – George Romero’s or the ones<br />
in Dead Rising on the Xbox 360? Join technology writer Bill<br />
Thompson and a panel of industry experts to debate the<br />
future of narrative, with a batch of illustrative film clips, live<br />
gameplay and Machinima extracts.<br />
Sam Goldwater<br />
Myndflame<br />
Ross Scott<br />
Monday 22 September, 12.00-1.30pm<br />
Monday 22 September, 3.30-5.00pm<br />
Tuesday 23 September, 12.00-1.30pm<br />
MAKE A MOVIE<br />
IN YOUR LUNCH BREAK:<br />
MACHINIMA LIVE<br />
Hugh Hancock and Johnnie Ingram (Moviestorm), authors of<br />
Machinima for Dummies, present a hands-on workshop where<br />
you will be able to make a complete 3D animated movie in one<br />
hour. All software will be provided, you don’t need<br />
to know anything about 3D modelling or animation,<br />
and you’ll get a free digital movie-making<br />
kit to take away with you. Try it out!<br />
Pre-booking through the Arts Picturehouse essential.<br />
Suitable for ages 13 and over.<br />
Game, Set and Machinima is curated by<br />
Saint John Walker and Matt Kelland,<br />
and sponsored by FDMX (The <strong>Film</strong> and<br />
Digital Media Exchange).<br />
Thanks to Short Fuze, creators of Moviestorm.<br />
THREE<br />
WORKSHOPS AT<br />
ANGLIA RUSKIN<br />
UNIVERSITY<br />
FREE<br />
EVENT<br />
GAME, SET AND MACHINIMA<br />
Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
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PREMIERE<br />
Friday 26 September, 8.30pm, The Junction Saturday 20 September, 8.30pm Saturday 20 Sep, 11.00pm Friday 26 Sep, 6.15pm, The Junction<br />
ONE MAN IN THE BAND (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Adam Clitheroe. Starring: Dennis Hopper Choppers, Duracell,<br />
Honkeyfinger, Man from Uranus and others. UK <strong>2008</strong>. 83 mins.<br />
One-man bands. Showmen, eccentrics, loners. But whatever<br />
you do, don’t call them buskers. Adam Clitheroe’s new feature<br />
documentary is a funny and moving portrait of contemporary<br />
musicians who play as one-person acts. For them, music just<br />
sounds so much better when you make it all alone. With an<br />
eclectic array of musical styles – ranging from theremin rock<br />
to hurricane drum solos and a backing band made of bicycle<br />
wheels – they bring to the stage noise and spectacle worthy<br />
of a whole band, but at a fraction of the budget. Following<br />
their progress with sympathetic eyes – perhaps helped by the<br />
fact that it’s made by a one-man band filmmaker – we meet<br />
a selection of contemporary one-man bands from Europe and<br />
the USA and join them for their lonely existence on the road.<br />
Life for a one-man band is a journey into solitude, and so the<br />
documentary asks: what drives us as humans to create, and is<br />
it worth the pain?<br />
Print source: Courtesy of Adam Clitheroe<br />
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BLIND HUSBANDS (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Erich von Stroheim. Starring: Erich von Stroheim,<br />
Sam de Grasse, Francelia Billington. Austria 1919. 98 mins.<br />
With live piano accompaniment by Neil Brand.<br />
BLIND HUSBANDS is the remarkable directorial debut of Erich<br />
von Stroheim, one of the most celebrated film-makers of the<br />
silent era. The film tells the story of an American couple’s<br />
marriage and the jealousy and repression which lurks beneath<br />
the surface. Vacationing in the Alps, Mrs Armstrong (Billington)<br />
is seduced by a heartless officer (von Stroheim) which not only<br />
challenges her fidelity but also the manhood of her husband<br />
(de Grasse). With spectacular camerawork and an exhilarating<br />
climax, BLIND HUSBANDS introduced to the world one of the<br />
finest film artists of his generation. The film is presented with<br />
a live piano score by Neil Brand, praised by BBC Radio 4 as<br />
‘…the Doyen of silent film accompanists’.<br />
Print source: Independent Cinema Office<br />
PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE (15)<br />
Director: Steven Sebring. USA <strong>2008</strong>. 109 mins.<br />
The iconoclastic punk songwriter, artist and poet Patti Smith is<br />
profiled in this extraordinary documentary created by acclaimed<br />
fashion photographer Steven Sebring. Following Smith’s return<br />
to the public eye after the death of her husband in 1994, the film<br />
captures Smith’s life both onstage and off, juxtaposing intimate<br />
footage of Smith offstage with friends and family with snarling<br />
and energetic performance film which shows her to be no less<br />
vital than she was 30 years ago. Artfully shot and poetically<br />
structured, Sebring’s vivid collage allows the footage to speak<br />
for itself and the result is a powerful portrait of one of the most<br />
important musicians in rock history.<br />
Print source: Verve<br />
“…both a journey into Smith’s storied<br />
past and a portrait of her life today – less<br />
a movie about a musician than a transfixing<br />
meditation on her own iconography.”<br />
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
Friday 19 September, 10.00pm<br />
WE DREAMED AMERICA (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Alex Walker. USA/UK <strong>2008</strong>. 48 mins.<br />
WE DREAMED AMERICA examines the influence of American<br />
country music on a new breed of British artists. Featuring<br />
six UK bands, from the country-tinged rock of Alabama 3 to<br />
the exuberant rhythm-and-blues of Kitty, Daisy and Lewis,<br />
the film explores the continuing interaction between British<br />
and American musical traditions. All the bands featured are<br />
united by their passion for American country and rhythm &<br />
blues music, and are redefining the genre from the other<br />
side of the Atlantic. Featuring a wide range of performance<br />
footage as well as musical and social commentary from<br />
‘Whispering’ Bob Harris, Guy Clark, Tom McRae and BJ Cole,<br />
WE DREAMED AMERICA offers a fresh perspective on the<br />
most American of musical genres.<br />
We are delighted to welcome the band Hey Negrita for a live<br />
performance following this screening.<br />
Print source: Verve<br />
copyrightmorganwhite<strong>2008</strong><br />
Wednesday 24 September, 8.00pm, The Junction<br />
HEAVY LOAD (12A)<br />
Director: Jerry Rothwell. UK <strong>2008</strong>. 91 mins.<br />
Calling themselves Brighton’s answer to the Ramones,<br />
Heavy Load is a band fuelled by the same energy and<br />
attitude that made the original New York punks great.<br />
Yet Heavy Load are unique in the UK punk scene by<br />
virtue of the fact that they are made up of musicians<br />
with and without learning disabilities. Jerry Rothwell<br />
(DEEP WATER) follows the band recording their debut<br />
record The Queen Mother’s Dead and charts the band’s<br />
attempts at breaking the mainstream, culminating in<br />
an electrifying performance at the Wychwood Music<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> in front of hundreds of revellers. Rothwell’s<br />
film presents an engaging insight into the ambition<br />
and dreams of being in a band, and goes a long way to<br />
furthering Heavy Load’s stated mission “to demonstrate<br />
that disability rocks”.<br />
Contains one use<br />
of strong language.<br />
Print source: Met <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Tuesday 23 September, 8.00pm, Wesley Methodist Church<br />
THE LAST LAUGH (CFF PG)<br />
Director: F.W. Murnau. Starring: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft,<br />
Hans Unterkircher Germany 1925. Silent. 101 mins.<br />
With live accompaniment by jazz pianist John Law.<br />
Often considered to be the greatest film of the silent<br />
era, Friedrich Murnau’s classic tells the story of a proud<br />
hotel worker whose life is shattered when his attempts<br />
at concealing his demotion from doorman to washroom<br />
attendant are discovered. Technically stunning (the film is one<br />
of the first to use a moving camera) and emotionally complex<br />
despite the simplicity of the story, the film is an embodiment<br />
of the German Expression movement of the 1920s.<br />
Print source: Arrow <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
“One of Europe’s most<br />
adventurous pianists.”<br />
JAZZWISE MAGAZINE ON PIANIST JOHN LAW<br />
MUSIC AT THE MOVIES<br />
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MUSIC AT THE MOVIES<br />
Friday 26 September, 3.00pm Sunday 28 September, 12.30pm<br />
TRIP TO ASIA (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Thomas Grube. Germany <strong>2008</strong>. 108 mins.<br />
German, English and Spanish with English subtitles.<br />
This compelling documentary follows the Berlin Philharmonic<br />
Orchestra on a concert tour of Asia, offering a unique insight<br />
into the internal dynamic of one of the world’s leading musical<br />
ensembles. Reuniting the orchestra and its charismatic<br />
conductor Simon Rattle with director Thomas Grube after<br />
the 2004 breakthrough documentary RHYTHM IS IT! the<br />
film examines the nature of the orchestra as a collective<br />
of individuals, and documents the quest to harmonise<br />
the unique personalities of each musician to create the<br />
acclaimed orchestra’s unique sound. Beautifully shot and<br />
with a remarkable score by Simon Stockhausen, this subtle<br />
exploration of the search for harmony with oneself and one’s<br />
neighbours offers a truly breathtaking cinematic experience.<br />
Print source: Axiom<br />
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Monday 22 September, 8.30pm<br />
HEAVY METAL IN BAGHDAD (15)<br />
Directors: Suroosh Alvi, Eddy Moretti. USA <strong>2008</strong>. 84 mins.<br />
English and Arabic with English subtitles.<br />
Offering a unique look at the situation in Iraq, Alvi and<br />
Moretti’s debut film follows the fortunes of Acrassicauda,<br />
the country’s only heavy metal band. The story begins after<br />
the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 as the band try to keep<br />
their heavy rock dreams alive despite being seen as infidels.<br />
From receiving death threats to being unable to perform or<br />
even practice due to safety fears, life is not easy for the four<br />
members of the band. Yet this film shows the band continuing<br />
despite this extraordinary adversity, and highlights the necessity<br />
of art to transcend even in the most difficult situations.<br />
Print source: Slingshot<br />
“Both a stirring testament to the plight<br />
of cultural expression in Baghdad and<br />
a striking report on the refugee scene in Syria,<br />
this rock-doc like no other electrifies its genre<br />
and redefines headbanging as an act of hardcore<br />
courage.” NEW YORK TIMES<br />
Tuesday 23 Sep, 8.30pm, The Junction<br />
A LIFE IN THE DEATH OF<br />
JOE MEEK (CFF 15)<br />
Directors: Howard S Berger, Susan Stahman. USA <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
122 mins.<br />
Often considered to be Britain’s finest music producer,<br />
Joe Meek was a creative maverick with remarkable aptitude<br />
for making and producing successful pop records from his<br />
small studio in a flat above a leather goods store. Yet despite<br />
this commercial success Meek led a troubled personal life,<br />
coping with his deteriorating mental health as well as dealing<br />
with being a homosexual at a time when it was illegal. This<br />
documentary traces the rise and fall of Joe Meek from<br />
childhood to his death by his own hand in 1967, and includes<br />
interviews with some of Meek’s closest friends and fans<br />
including The Tornados (whose Meek-produced hit Telstar<br />
was the first US number one by a British group) and Alex<br />
Kapranos (Franz Ferdinand).<br />
Print source: Palm Door <strong>Film</strong>s
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Monday 22 September, 5.30pm<br />
BICYCLE THIEVES (U)<br />
(LADRI DI BICICLETTE)<br />
Director: Vittorio De Sica. Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani,<br />
Enzo Staiola. Italy 1948. Italian with English subtitles. 85 mins.<br />
Vittorio de Sica’s remarkable drama of desperation and survival in<br />
Italy’s post-war depression earned a special Oscar for its affecting<br />
power. Shot in the streets and alleys of Rome, De Sica uses a<br />
real-life environment and cast non-professional actors to frame<br />
this moving drama of desperation. The impoverished Antonio’s new<br />
job delivering cinema posters is threatened when a street thief<br />
steals his bicycle. Too poor to buy another, he and his son take to<br />
the streets in an impossible search for the bike. This landmark film<br />
defined the Italian neorealist approach with its brutal portrayal of<br />
post-war life, its truthful acting, its compassion and poetic rhythm.<br />
De Sica uses the wandering pair to witness the lives of everyday<br />
folk whilst ultimately depicting a story of love and hope.<br />
To mark the 60th anniversary of the release of BICYCLE THIEVES, the<br />
BFI is publishing a book on the film. We are please to welcome the author,<br />
Robert Gordon (University of <strong>Cambridge</strong>), to this screening.<br />
Print source: Park Circus<br />
Wednesday 24 September, 3.15pm<br />
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (U)<br />
Directors: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Starring:<br />
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey.<br />
UK 1946. 104 mins.<br />
Armed with a commission for a propaganda feature to help<br />
ease strains in Anglo-American wartime relations, Powell and<br />
Pressburger produced their most audacious, flamboyant fantasy.<br />
Squadron Leader Peter Carter leaps from a blazing bomber<br />
without a parachute but finds his entry to heaven on temporary<br />
hold because of bureaucratic bungling (the hereafter as radiant,<br />
monchrome welfare state) and the fact that he shared his last<br />
moments over the intercom with USAF radio operator June<br />
(Kim Hunter) and has fallen in love with her voice. Surgeon<br />
Roger Livesey recognises symptoms of brain damage and<br />
arranges immediate operation. Though chosen for the first<br />
Royal Command Performance, LIFE AND DEATH drew fire from<br />
contemporary critics for lack of taste and patriotism. Art<br />
direction by Hein Heckroth; bravura Technicolor camera by the<br />
great Jack Cardiff.<br />
Print source: BFI<br />
Thursday 18 September, 5.45pm Sunday 21 September, 10.00am<br />
LOVE LETTERS AND LIVE WIRES –<br />
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE GPO<br />
FILM UNIT (U)<br />
UK 1936-1939. 80 mins.<br />
As part of a special touring programme marking the 75th<br />
anniversary of both the British <strong>Film</strong> Institue and the General<br />
Post Office film unit, this collection of the GPO’s greatest<br />
public information films offer an evocative record of the 1930s<br />
zeitgeist. The selection showcases the Unit’s range: from<br />
documentary (NIGHT MAIL) to animation (TRADE TATTOO)<br />
and even musical comedy (THE FAIRY OF THE PHONE), as<br />
well as its use of varied talents such as Grierson, Len Lye and<br />
Norman Mclaren. <strong>Film</strong>s illustrating instructions on the uses of<br />
new-fangled devices, such as the postcode and the telephone,<br />
are coupled with those promoting the GPO’s contribution to<br />
workplace efficiency, world trade and smoothing the path of<br />
true love.<br />
Presented by BFI in partnership with Royal Mail,<br />
The British Postal Museum and Archive, and BT Heritage.<br />
Print source: BFI<br />
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Thursday 25 September, 6.00pm<br />
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (15)<br />
Director: Elia Kazan. Starring: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando,<br />
Kim Hunter, Karl Malden. USA 1951. 122 mins.<br />
Probably the best known screen adaptation of Tennessee<br />
Williams, this is also undoubtedly one of the finest, thanks partly<br />
to the claustrophobic hot-house atmosphere created by Kazan’s<br />
close-in direction, and partly to the characteristic blend of<br />
subtle detail and charismatic power in Marlon Brando’s epochal<br />
performance. He’s simply electrifying as Stanley Kowalski,<br />
brutishly in conflict with the fragile Blanche (Vivien Leigh), who<br />
comes to visit her pregnant younger sister, Stanley’s wife Stella,<br />
in New Orleans. The first of several collaborations on film for the<br />
director and star, it remains the most fully satisfying, not least<br />
because they surrounded themselves with such a marvellous<br />
cast and creative team: Harry Stradling behind the camera,<br />
Richard Day as art director, Alex North as composer – and, of<br />
course, Williams himself ensuring a faithful transition from<br />
stage to screen. GEOFF ANDREW<br />
See pages 64-66 for more Warner Bros. classics.<br />
Print source: BFI<br />
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Thursday 25 September, 5.45pm Friday 26 September, 12.30pm<br />
LA RABBIA (CFF 15)<br />
Directors: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovannino Guareschi.<br />
With the voices of: Giorgio Bassani, Renato Guttuso, Gigi Artuso,<br />
Carlo Romano. Italy 1963. 104 mins. Italian with English subtitles.<br />
In 1963 newsreel producer Gastone Ferranti commissioned<br />
Marxist Pier Paolo Pasolini and conservative Giovannino<br />
Guareschi to each make a one hour document about the state<br />
of things as they saw it. Using footage culled from newsreel<br />
archives (both used the same sources) accompanied by<br />
narrative voices employing poetry and prose to deliver their<br />
messages, Pasolini rails against the crimes committed in the<br />
name of Western culture – particularly those in the African<br />
colonies – while Guareschi sees in those same Western,<br />
“civilising” values hope for the future humankind. This<br />
unreleased and virtually unseen film is a masterclass in 1960s<br />
ideology from both points of view, and proved a significant<br />
influence on Derek Jarman, for whom Pasolini became<br />
a great source of inspiration – most evident in the<br />
British filmmaker’s mythic and poetic SEBASTIANE.<br />
Print source: Raro Video<br />
Sunday 21 September, 12.30pm<br />
WHITE CHRISTMAS (U)<br />
Director: Michael Curtiz. Starring: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye,<br />
Rosemary Clooney. USA 1954. 120 mins.<br />
When former Broadway entertainer Bob Wallace (Crosby) and<br />
his wannabe sidekick Phil (Danny Kaye) leave the army they<br />
decide to team up to become a song and dance act. As the<br />
pair start to hit the bigtime, they meet a pair of glamorous<br />
showbiz sisters, who they follow to a Christmas show at a<br />
lodge in Vermont – only to discover that it is owned by their<br />
former commanding officer, General Waverly, now down on<br />
his luck. Mix-ups, romantic encounters and sparkling musical<br />
routines follow (with songs by Irving Berlin and choreography<br />
by an uncredited Bob Fosse) as they set about making<br />
Waverly’s Christmas one he’ll never forget – with a little help<br />
from one of the most memorable songs of all time.<br />
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DEREK JARMAN: REMEMBERED<br />
56 Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
Derek Jarman died in 1994 but it is perhaps only<br />
now that he is becoming properly recognised<br />
for his extraordinary oeuvre. One of the truest<br />
poets of our national cinema, Jarman was an icon<br />
to the gay community yet widely loved for his<br />
intensely lyrical and committed films. He brought<br />
a sense of community to his oeuvre, working<br />
with a team of regulars in production, design and<br />
performance, and refusing to separate art and life.<br />
Monday 22 September, 3.30pm<br />
ARIA (SELECTED EPISODES) (18)<br />
Director: Derek Jarman and others. Starring: John Hurt,<br />
Theresa Russell. UK 1987. 89 mins.<br />
A portmanteau production from one of Jarman’s regular<br />
producers, Don Boyd, this inevitably uneven premise sees<br />
ten leading directors take on ten famous arias. From the off,<br />
the promise is high and there’s no problem with leftfield reinterpretations<br />
– it’s the stuff of opera after all. Audiences will<br />
find their favourites but for our purposes here, Jarman riffs<br />
on the potencies of super 8, thus continuing one of his most<br />
productive and rewarding lines of celluloid enquiry.<br />
Showing with THE LAST OF ENGLAND – see page 58.<br />
Print source: Courtesy of Don Boyd<br />
Thursday 25 September, 3.15pm<br />
BLUE (15)<br />
Director: Derek Jarman. Voices: Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton,<br />
Nigel Terry, John Quentin. UK 1993. 76 mins.<br />
A film at the very limit of what cinema is and can be – and,<br />
as a result, a remarkable incarnation of the most essential<br />
qualities of the medium – Jarman’s final work is both a<br />
startlingly personal summation of the priorities of a life and a<br />
universally resonant document of mortality and its meaning.<br />
Its unchanging blue screen and collaged soundscape of<br />
thoughts, anxieties, meditations, create a space unique in<br />
visual culture.<br />
Print source: Courtesy of James Mackay<br />
Showing with OSTIA – see page 59.<br />
“His words are restless, a battery of<br />
passing, original turns of phrase. You<br />
may sit through BLUE with nothing to see, but<br />
you leave it rich with images - fading pictures<br />
of one man’s life” WASHINGTON POST
Tuesday 23 September, 5.45pm<br />
DEREK (15)<br />
Director: Isaac Julien. Starring: Tilda Swinton and others.<br />
UK <strong>2008</strong>. 74 mins.<br />
A lovingly assembled tribute to Jarman’s life and work – built<br />
around Colin MacCabe’s interview with the film-maker at<br />
his retreat in Dungeness – Isaac Julien’s film draws on the<br />
influential and widely disseminated ‘letter’ to Derek by Tilda<br />
Swinton (delivered, in a Vertigo magazine commission, at the<br />
Edinburgh <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> in 2002). Meditating on his unique<br />
qualities and place in British and international moving image<br />
culture, Swinton provides the counterpoint to a collage of<br />
clips, location footage and interview extracts, making for<br />
a richly textured appreciation of a man whose influence<br />
continues to grow.<br />
We are delighted to welcome director Isaac Julien to this screening.<br />
Print source: J&N <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Wednesday 24 September, 11.00pm<br />
THE DEVILS (CFF 18)<br />
Director: Ken Russell. Starring: Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave.<br />
UK 1971. 111 mins.<br />
Ken Russell’s camp-horror psychodrama, a riff on the Huxley<br />
chronicle The Devils of Loudun and John Whiting’s play of<br />
the same, found its crucial production designer in Jarman,<br />
on a breakthrough commission that would change his life’s<br />
direction. While Russell’s ‘possessed’ nuns under Redgrave’s<br />
tutelage face the wrath of inquisitor Reed, Jarman’s<br />
astonishing expressionist sets constantly command the eye<br />
and remain its greatest legacy, a performer in their own right:<br />
brooding, threatening and urgent.<br />
Print source: Warner Bros.<br />
Monday 22 September 6.00pm<br />
THE GARDEN (15)<br />
Director: Derek Jarman. Starring:<br />
Tilda Swinton, Kevin Collins.<br />
UK 1990. 92 mins.<br />
By the time he made this remarkable<br />
cine-poem to life, love and landscape,<br />
Jarman knew the score and had made<br />
some major choices. Prospect Cottage, his<br />
Dungeness dreamscape, offered the perfect<br />
space for a strikingly fresh and fecund take on<br />
perennial themes, encoded here within various biblical<br />
gardens, from Eden to Gethsemane. The baseline to the<br />
often-inspired image-making is an extended reflection<br />
on the gay condition and crisis, with Christ cast as an<br />
sympathetic sacrificial icon of the oppressed.<br />
Print source: Artificial Eye<br />
A PIECE OF MY SKY<br />
IS MISSING<br />
Director: Davide Pepe. Italy 2007. 3 mins.<br />
PLUS<br />
SHORT<br />
A group of tower cranes slowly obscure the sky.<br />
Tuesday 23 September, 8.15pm<br />
EDWARD II (18)<br />
Director: Derek Jarman. Starring: Steven Waddington,<br />
Tilda Swinton. UK 1991. 90 mins.<br />
Jarman was, despite – or perhaps because of – his<br />
iconoclasm, a genuinely English artist, and mined the canon<br />
on several occasions, here tackling Marlowe’s regal tragedy<br />
head-on in a visceral contemporary update. Outrage activists,<br />
business suits, army officer class symbolics: the grim<br />
realities of gay oppression in Thatcher’s Britain get a vigorous<br />
dramatisation via a doubly historical reframing.<br />
Print source: Salzgeber & Co<br />
DEREK JARMAN REMEMBERED<br />
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Monday 22 September, 3.30pm<br />
THE LAST OF ENGLAND (15)<br />
Director: Derek Jarman. Starring: Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry.<br />
UK 1987. 87 mins.<br />
Seen now, 20 years on, this fervent visual scream is perhaps<br />
best considered less a ‘state of the nation’ polemic than a<br />
take on the corrupted imagination of a country in spiralling<br />
decline. While remaining a catalogue of mid-period Thatcherite<br />
meltdown, its allusive image-making, deployment of multiple<br />
formats and the Nigel Terry commentary point to an urgency<br />
beyond the merely political. It is as if Jarman felt the very fabric<br />
of possible creative response to such issues was in danger of<br />
unravelling and so sought to give the collective culture a startling<br />
hit of visionary possibility.<br />
Showing with selected episodes of ARIA (see page 56).<br />
Print source: Blue Dolphin<br />
Sunday 21 September, 6.30pm<br />
WAR REQUIEM (PG)<br />
Director: Derek Jarman. Starring: Tilda Swinton,<br />
Laurence Olivier. UK 1988. 93 mins.<br />
Jarman’s movingly innovative vision of the challenging choral<br />
work by Benjamin Britten remains one of his most intriguing<br />
and ambitious works. Britten’s lyrical and religious reflection<br />
on the losses of war as filtered through the poetry of Wilfred<br />
Owen is here delivered complete in Jarman’s fragmented<br />
narrative response. He threads images of the poet with potent<br />
footage of various conflicts and a silent-movie strand featuring<br />
exemplary performances by Swinton and others. While a work<br />
of mourning, it is one in which a love of life and an attention to<br />
what matters shine through most strongly.<br />
Print source: Courtesy of Don Boyd<br />
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JARMAN: SHORTS<br />
Wednesday 24 September, 1.15pm<br />
DEREK JARMAN: EARLY WORK (CFF 15)<br />
PROGRAMME 1 (1969 – 1975) 90 mins<br />
In the years between 1969 and 1982, Derek Jarman<br />
made over 72 longer and shorter films using S8mm. In this<br />
programme we see some of his earliest work.<br />
STUDIO BANKSIDE, edited entirely in camera, comprises<br />
of two films. The first is a colour study of the inside of his<br />
studio at Bankside, London (near what is now the Tate<br />
Modern) and the second documents the area surrounding<br />
his studio, now demolished. Featuring a soundtrack<br />
by Coil.<br />
TAROT, features Christopher Hobbs, later designer of many<br />
of Derek’s films, as “the Magician” and Jarman’s then lover<br />
Gerald Incandela as “the muse”.<br />
ANDREW LOGAN’S MISS WORLD is a beautiful document<br />
of this underground alternative to the increasingly tacky<br />
beauty contest.<br />
Gareth Evans is a writer, curator and editor of moving image journal Vertigo (www.vertigomagazine.co.uk). He is currently developing a three-year<br />
project, The Re-Enchantment, a mixed media artists’ project in response to the spirit.<br />
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Sunday 28 September, 12.45pm<br />
DEREK JARMAN: EARLY WORK (CFF 15)<br />
PROGRAMME 2 (1975-1982) 90 mins<br />
The second programme of Jarman’s early work starts with<br />
two films that are bound with his first works as Director<br />
(instead of Artist).<br />
SEBASTIANE WRAP is an abstract film shot on the set<br />
of SEBASTIANE.<br />
The continuing use of S8mm in JORDAN’S DANCE<br />
demonstrates Jarman’s determination to keep hold of his<br />
vision of cinema – something that he would go on to realise<br />
fully with the films of the 80s: ANGELIC CONVERSATION and<br />
LAST OF ENGLAND.<br />
SLOAN SQUARE features Simon Turner’s first composition<br />
for a Jarman film.<br />
GERALD’S FILM is a single reel, filmed at a dilapidated Victorian<br />
boathouse discovered on a stroll through the Essex countryside<br />
and one which Jarman considered one of his best works.<br />
The diary compilation B2 MOVIE was the last that he made<br />
entirely on his own.<br />
INFLUENCES, COLLABORATORS AND LEGACY<br />
Thursday 25 September, 3.15pm<br />
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI<br />
OSTIA (Director: Julian Cole. UK 1991. 26 mins.)<br />
Julian Cole’s imaginative description of the last night in the<br />
life of Pier Paolo Pasolini, made whist he was a final year<br />
student at the Royal College of Art. Derek Jarman takes<br />
the role of his hero.<br />
Showing with BLUE – see page 55. See also LA RABBIA on page<br />
59 which, co-directed by Pasolini, had a profound effect on Jarman.<br />
Wednesday 24 September, 6.00pm<br />
RICHARD HESLOP<br />
This glimpse into the cinema of Richard Heslop – one of<br />
the most exciting film-makers to emerge in the post-punk<br />
80s – includes a rare screening of THE CHILD AND THE<br />
SAW, his graduation film, which took First Prize at Huesca<br />
<strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>, and FLOATING which was named best<br />
short film at Cannes in 1993. A central collaborator with<br />
Jarman on LAST OF ENGLAND and THE GARDEN, he was<br />
also a prolific maker of music videos – a few of which are<br />
included in this programme.<br />
Wednesday 24 September, 8.15pm<br />
THE JARMAN AWARD<br />
The Jarman Award was launched in January <strong>2008</strong> as part<br />
of a range of activities and events celebrating the artist and<br />
filmmaker’s life and work. The first award went to Luke Fowler<br />
who was chosen from over 60 nominees. The <strong>Festival</strong> is<br />
delighted to present a selection of their work and hopes to<br />
welcome to the event some of the artists and award organisers,<br />
such as Christopher Hobbs, Richard Heslop, Julian Cole,<br />
Annie Symons and Isaac Julien.<br />
DEREK JARMAN REMEMBERED<br />
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TILDA SWINTON: THE ARTIST’S ICON<br />
An inspiration to many, one of Jarman’s most important fellow travellers was Tilda Swinton,<br />
renowned in her own terms for her unstinting advocacy of independent and imaginative<br />
work. After graduating from the University of <strong>Cambridge</strong>, Tilda joined the Royal Shakespeare<br />
Company, but left after a year to pursue a working relationship with Jarman. He would become<br />
something of a mentor and their creative partnership would bring to fruition an impressive<br />
catalogue of distinctive British filmmaking. Tilda continued to have international success in<br />
Hollywood blockbusters like THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA, while still supporting independent<br />
projects she has her roots in, such as THE DEEP END and THE MAN FROM LONDON and JULIA.<br />
Tilda also features in<br />
THE MAN FROM LONDON<br />
(page 32) and THE NEW TEN<br />
COMMANDMENTS (page 37).<br />
Saturday 20 September, 5.00pm<br />
JULIA (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Erick Zonca. Starring: Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek,<br />
Kate Del Castillo, Jude Ciccolella. France/USA/Mexico/<br />
Belgium <strong>2008</strong>. 138 mins.<br />
Tilda Swinton plays Julia, a 40 year old alcoholic just scraping<br />
through a life of vodka and one night stands. Her only friend<br />
Mitch, himself a recovering alcoholic, encourages her to<br />
attend an AA meeting after she loses her job. A chance<br />
meeting there with her Mexican neighbour Elena provides<br />
Julia with a potential way out. Elena suffers from psychosis,<br />
so her son Tommy is in the care of his rich grandfather<br />
following his father’s death. Elena will pay Julia $50,000 if<br />
she will aid in his kidnap and ransom. Driven to the brink<br />
of financial and emotional desperation, Julia must make a<br />
decision that will either pull her back, or push her over.<br />
We are delighted to welcome Tilda Swinton for a Q&A following<br />
the screening.<br />
Print source: Artificial Eye<br />
UK<br />
PREMIERE<br />
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BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL<br />
THE FILMS OF ULRICH SEIDL<br />
From one of Europe’s most distinctive and provocative voices, Seidl’s dispassionate<br />
but always deeply humanistic films sit precariously on the line between fact and<br />
fiction. Likened to Fassbinder, Pasolini, Herzog and Haneke, Seidl investigates<br />
the dark corners and crevices of society not as a voyeur but actively engaging the<br />
camera and the audience as participants in his staging of reality.<br />
Friday 19 September, 5.45pm<br />
LOSSES TO BE EXPECTED (18)<br />
Director: Ulrich Seidl. Starring: Paula Hutterová, Sepp Paur,<br />
Vladimir Kundrát, Rusena Machaloyá. Austria 1992.<br />
118 mins. German and Czech with English subtitles.<br />
A foray into the East/West divide that Seidl would revisit<br />
fifteen years later in IMPORT/EXPORT, LOSSES TO BE<br />
EXPECTED explores the borders, both physical and<br />
social, that separate people from one another. Austrian<br />
widower Sepp awkwardly courts Paula, a widow who<br />
lives just across the Czech border but, while they live<br />
near enough that he’s able to watch her with binoculars,<br />
their relationship is jeopardised by the mounting cultural<br />
differences between the impoverished socialism of the<br />
Czech Republic and the prosperous consumerism of<br />
Austria. Punctuating their tale with formal, painterly<br />
tableaux, Seidl deftly employs a visual and structural<br />
symmetry throughout the film to contrast the differing<br />
landscapes and rhythms of life in the two countries.<br />
Print source: Coproduction Office<br />
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Saturday 20 September, 6.00pm Monday 22 September, 10.15am<br />
DOG DAYS (18)<br />
Director: Ulrich Seidl. Starring: Maria Hofstätter, Erich Finsches,<br />
Franziska Weiß, Claudia Martini. Austria 2001. 120 mins.<br />
German with English subtitles.<br />
The oppressive heat virtually emanates from the screen in<br />
Seidl’s Venice <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>-winning feature debut. Over several<br />
long, sweltering summer days in suburban Vienna, six sets<br />
of characters wallow in their own and each other’s misery,<br />
resentment and frustrated desire; among them a divorced<br />
couple who still live together under the shadow of their dead<br />
child, a middle-aged teacher and her sadistic lover, and a<br />
chatty but slow-witted hitchhiker. Interspersed with nearly static<br />
shots of sunbathers which recall both Diane Arbus and Francis<br />
Bacon, DOG DAYS features an ensemble cast of professional<br />
and non-professional actors, all of whom contribute compelling,<br />
visceral performances to Seidl’s bleak but brilliant chronicle of<br />
middle-class desperation and disconnection.<br />
Print source: Coproduction Office<br />
“I don’t seek to entertain people with<br />
my films, but to touch them, perhaps<br />
even disturb them. My films are<br />
critical not of individual people<br />
but of society... I want the people in<br />
the theatre to be confronted with<br />
Sunday 21 September, 4.00pm<br />
JESUS, YOU KNOW (18)<br />
Director: Ulrich Seidl. Starring: Elfriede Ahmad, Waltraute<br />
Bartel, Hans-Jürgen Eder, Thomas Ullram, Angelika Weber,<br />
Thomas Grandegger. Austria 2003. 87 mins. German with<br />
English subtitles.<br />
More immediately<br />
recognisable as a documentary<br />
than some of his earlier work, Seidl<br />
employs one of the most intimate of<br />
human experiences – prayer – as an<br />
entry point into revealing the everyday<br />
complaints and deepest secrets of his<br />
subjects. Set up in Viennese Catholic<br />
churches, the camera observes six<br />
figures as they beseech Jesus as a<br />
best friend, therapist and fortune teller,<br />
offering intimate details that range from<br />
the mundane to the shocking. As always,<br />
Seidl’s gaze keeps a clinical distance,<br />
letting his subjects speak for themselves<br />
and making the audience interrogate our<br />
own reaction to these people who, upon reflection, are<br />
perhaps more familiar than we’d like to admit.<br />
Print source: Coproduction Office<br />
Monday 22 September, 8.00pm<br />
IMPORT/EXPORT (18)<br />
Director: Ulrich Seidl. Starring: Ekateryna Rak,<br />
Paul Hofmann, Michael Thomas. Austria 2007. 135 mins.<br />
German, Slovak, Russian and English with English subtitles.<br />
Both confrontational and compassionate, Seidl’s tale of<br />
migration and social borders weaves its way through<br />
contemporary Europe as it interrogates the political, cultural<br />
and economic forces which shape life here. Moving in<br />
diametrically opposed directions, the film traces two of its<br />
citizens’ peripatetic journeys toward a better life: nurse Olga<br />
leaves the poverty of the Ukraine for a new start in Austria,<br />
while unemployed Austrian Paul heads to the Ukraine in<br />
search of work and meaning. Real locations (including<br />
an internet sex agency and a geriatric care home) and<br />
non-professional actors soberly heighten the realism of this<br />
powerfully drawn drama, unafraid to show the grim, appalling,<br />
touching and darkly humourous extremes as it depicts the<br />
dissolving line between East and West.<br />
Following the screening, we are delighted<br />
to present a Q&A with Ulrich Seidl in partnership<br />
with Sight & Sound.<br />
Print source: Trinity <strong>Film</strong>ed Entertainment<br />
PREVIEW<br />
PLUS Q&A<br />
Between Heaven and Hell: the <strong>Film</strong>s of Ulrich Seidl is a Watershed season and will be touring independent<br />
cinemas across the UK this Autumn. For further information, please visit www.watershed.co.uk/seidl<br />
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ULRICH SEIDL<br />
THE FILMS OF ULRICH SEIDL
CELEBRATING WARNER BROS.<br />
As Warner Brothers mark their 85th birthday<br />
this year, we present a selection of films to help<br />
celebrate the veteran studio’s contribution to the<br />
world of cinema: classics from the Golden Age of<br />
Hollywood and a new documentary by Richard<br />
Schickel telling the full Warner Bros. story.<br />
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Thursday 25 September, 5.30pm<br />
I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A<br />
CHAIN GANG (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Starring: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell,<br />
Helon Vinson. USA 1932. 93 mins.<br />
Based on the true story of Robert E Burns, Mervyn<br />
LeRoy’s film tells the story of Sgt James Allen a WWI<br />
veteran unwittingly caught up in a robbery and wrongly<br />
sentenced to 10 years in a brutal chain gang. After Allen<br />
escapes he becomes a successful businessman but has<br />
trouble keeping his secret. The film’s powerful critique<br />
of the US legal system stirred controversy on its release<br />
(it was banned in Georgia) and inspired the appeals and<br />
subsequent release of numerous chain gang prisoners<br />
across the United States. Beautifully paced with strong<br />
central performances, I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN<br />
GANG has lost none of its power.<br />
Print source: BFI<br />
Wednesday 24 Sep, 8.00pm Friday 26 Sep, 3.15pm<br />
YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS:<br />
THE WARNER BROS. STORY (CFF U)<br />
Director: Richard Schickel. USA <strong>2008</strong>. 120 mins.<br />
This new documentary forms the centrepiece of Warner<br />
Bros Studios’ 85th Anniversary celebrations, as the awardwinning<br />
filmmaker and Time magazine senior film critic takes<br />
a look at the history and legacy of the legendary studio.<br />
Narrated by Clint Eastwood and including hundreds of clips<br />
from films and archive interviews spanning the whole history<br />
of Warner Bros. the film tells the story of the attitudes, values<br />
and mores of the times in which they were produced. This<br />
gives not only a fascinating history of the studio’s output and<br />
its place in Hollywood but also a unique look at the social<br />
contexts of the Warner Bros.’ output.<br />
We are delighted to welcome director<br />
Richard Schickel to this screening.<br />
Print source: Warner Bros.<br />
UK<br />
PREMIERE<br />
“When I was a kid, living in a suburb<br />
of Milwaukee, the neighbourhood<br />
theaters nearest to me obviously had some sort<br />
of arrangement with Warner Bros. and played<br />
more movies from that studio than from any<br />
other. Somehow, for reasons I couldn’t quite<br />
understand, they appealed to me more than<br />
any of the competition’s offerings.” RICHARD SCHICKEL
Thu 25 Sep, 10.30pm Fri 26 Sep, 10.00am<br />
CAPTAIN BLOOD (CFF PG)<br />
Director: Michael Curtiz. Starring: Errol Flynn,<br />
Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill. USA 1935.<br />
119 mins.<br />
A swashbuckling adventure, CAPTAIN<br />
BLOOD stars Errol Flynn as Dr Blood,<br />
convicted of treason and sold into slavery.<br />
Dr Blood leads a mutiny of the slaves on a Spanish<br />
ship and under his leadership the slaves make a name for<br />
themselves as buccaneers on the Caribbean seas. With an<br />
astonishing score by Erich Korngold, superb swordplay and an<br />
adrenaline-fuelled performance by the effusive Flynn which<br />
propelled him to superstardom, the film is a highly enjoyable<br />
romp through the high seas. Pieces of eight!<br />
Print source: BFI<br />
Wednesday 24 Sep, 3.00pm Thursday 25 Sep, 12.45pm<br />
WHITE HEAT (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Raoul Walsh. Starring: James Cagney,<br />
Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien. USA 1949. 114 mins.<br />
One of the greatest gangster movies of the<br />
post-war period, WHITE HEAT’s influence can be<br />
found in countless other classics of the genre.<br />
James Cagney turns in perhaps his greatest<br />
role as Cody Jarrett, an incendiary gang leader<br />
who is dependent on the support of his equally psychotic<br />
mother. After being imprisoned after a heist botched by his<br />
incompetent henchmen, Jarrett escapes with his gang<br />
and plans a final heist. However it is not long before the<br />
gang is torn apart by internal rivalries, and Jarrett’s<br />
world spirals out of control towards a bloody and<br />
unforgettable climax. After WHITE HEAT, the crime<br />
movie would never be the same again.<br />
Saturday 27 Sep, 10.30pm Sunday 28 September, 10.15am<br />
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (U)<br />
Director: Michael Curtiz. Starring: James Cagney, Joan Leslie,<br />
Walter Huston. USA 1942. 126 mins.<br />
This dynamic and patriotic film tells the<br />
story of George M Cohan, the theatrical<br />
everyman who is considered to be the<br />
father of American musicals. From the<br />
his days as a child star to vaudeville<br />
shows alongside his family until<br />
the time that he received a medal<br />
from the US president for his<br />
special contributions to the<br />
role. The film is positively bursting with<br />
energy from start to finish, and includes such<br />
classic songs as ‘Yankee Doodle’ and ‘Give<br />
My Regards to Broadway’. Yet it is Cagney’s<br />
Oscar-winning performance as Cohan which<br />
steals the show, singing and dancing with<br />
unparalleled vigour.<br />
Print source: BFI<br />
CELEBRATING WARNER BROS.<br />
Print source: BFI<br />
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CELEBRATING WARNER BROS.<br />
Friday 26 September, 10.15pm<br />
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (PG)<br />
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman,<br />
Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Laura Elliot. USA 1951. 101 mins.<br />
It starts with a shriek of a train whistle... and ends with<br />
shrieking excitement! Tennis star Guy Haines meets a<br />
stranger on the Washington-to-New York train who offers to<br />
exchange murders. The stranger, Bruno Anthony, will kill Guy’s<br />
estranged wife if Guy will kill Bruno’s hated father. Guy does<br />
not take Bruno seriously until his wife, Miriam, is found dead<br />
in an amusement park. Thus ensues a web of suspense and<br />
surprise, which is guaranteed to leave you on the edge of<br />
your seat. This 1951 masterpiece is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s<br />
most captivating works. STRANGERS ON A TRAIN focuses on<br />
questions of doppelgängers and mistaken identity, and perfectly<br />
exemplifies Hitchcock’s favourite theme of the evil that lurks<br />
just below the surface of everyday life and ordinary men.<br />
Satrday 27 September, 12.45pm<br />
BLACK LEGION (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Archie Mayo. Starring: Humphrey<br />
Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O’Brien-Moore, Ann<br />
Sheridan, Helen Flint. USA 1937. 83 mins.<br />
This hard-hitting, socially conscious<br />
drama, the sort of story that Warner<br />
Bros. made their hallmark in the 1930s, stars Humphrey<br />
Bogart and Erin O’Brien Moore. Bogart plays Frank Taylor, a<br />
Detroit factory worker who becomes angry when he loses out<br />
on a promotion to a Polish co-worker.<br />
He is then recruited by the Black Legion, a secretive hate<br />
group similar to the Ku Klux Klan, who believe in “America<br />
for Americans”. As the Legion demands more and more<br />
of Frank’s time and energy, the rest of his life begins to<br />
unravel, and he is set on a path to tragedy.<br />
Given that racially motivated violence<br />
was still not uncommon in parts<br />
of the USA in the mid-1930s,<br />
BLACK LEGION won critical<br />
acclaim for its brave attack<br />
on hate groups, and<br />
remains socially<br />
relevant to this day.<br />
Print source: Warner Bros.<br />
Friday 26 September, 1.00pm<br />
BABY FACE (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Alfred E Green. Starring: Barbara Stanwyck,<br />
George Brent, John Wayne. USA 1933. 75 mins.<br />
Alfred Green’s gritty tale of post-Depression amorality tells the<br />
story of Lily Powers, a prostitute who leaves rural Pennsylvania<br />
for the bright lights of Manhattan after the death of her abusive<br />
father. Climbing the ladder of society the best way she knows<br />
how – sleeping her way through a string of wealthy men –<br />
Lily’s actions eventually bring about her downfall. Re-cut<br />
after being rejected by the New York State Censorship Board,<br />
Green’s film is racy and gritty and includes a star turn by<br />
Stanwyck whose portrayal of a strong female with no inhibitions<br />
became the template for countless female roles in Hollywood.<br />
Print source: Warner Bros.<br />
Print source: Contemporary <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
“A gripping, palm-sweating<br />
piece of suspense...” VARIETY<br />
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BORIS KARLOFF: THE<br />
UNIVERSAL FACE OF HORROR<br />
Beginning with his remarkable depiction of Frankenstein’s monster<br />
in 1931, Boris Karloff created perhaps the most distinguished<br />
and memorable human monsters in the history of the movies.<br />
Discovered by the English director James Whale, Karloff’s best<br />
known performances were in the classic Universal Studios’ movies<br />
of the 1930s; pulp classics that continue to inspire this summer’s<br />
blockbusters. But many lesser-known roles were just as noteworthy:<br />
the butler in Whale’s wonderfully eccentric THE OLD DARK HOUSE;<br />
the smooth and sinister villain in his masterpiece, THE BLACK CAT.<br />
The horror boom ended in the 1940s and Karloff too often found<br />
himself in walk-on parts, adding distinction to the movie poster but<br />
little else. Yet there were still unforgettable performances. He never<br />
stopped working and at the end of his career he launched<br />
Peter Bogdanovich as a film director with TARGETS, a film that<br />
highlighted again the dignity beneath the mask.<br />
Sat 20 Sep, 12.30pm Thu 25 Sep, 10.00am<br />
FRANKENSTEIN (PG)<br />
Director: James Whale. Starring: Colin Clive, Boris Karloff,<br />
Mae Clarke, Dwight Frye. USA 1931. 71 mins.<br />
The story of the mad scientist Dr Frankenstein who stitches<br />
together body parts from graves (British actor Colin Clive: “Now I<br />
know what it feels like to be God!’’), his sidekick, the hunchback<br />
Fritz who steals the brain marked “abnormal”, and the terror<br />
unleashed on a small Bavarian town when the lightning strikes<br />
and the monster awakes. The film that made the 43-year-old<br />
unknown “Karloff” a star to rival “Chaplin” and “Garbo”.<br />
Print source: Universal<br />
THE MUMMY (15)<br />
Director: Karl Freund. Starring: Boris Karloff,<br />
Zita Johann, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan.<br />
USA 1932. 73 mins.<br />
Archaeologists from the British Museum<br />
unearth and bring back to life an Egyptian<br />
mummy (Karloff). So begins this wonderful<br />
hokum adventure, inspired by the discovery<br />
of Tutankhamun’s tomb, in which Karloff<br />
stalks the streets of Cairo armed with a holy<br />
parchment and evil stare. One of the few films<br />
directed by the great cinematographer<br />
Karl Freund, photographer of Fritz<br />
Lang’s METROPOLIS.<br />
Print source: Universal<br />
DOUBLE<br />
BILL<br />
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Thursday 18 Sep, 11.00pm Friday 19 Sep, 10.30am<br />
THE OLD DARK HOUSE (PG)<br />
Director: James Whale. Starring: Raymond Massey, Gloria Stewart,<br />
Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton. USA 1932. 72 mins.<br />
Loosely based on a J.B.Priestley play, an assorted cast find<br />
themselves stranded overnight in a sinister Welsh house in<br />
this splendidly eccentric comedy. There’s the butler Karloff<br />
(“an uncivilized brute... A night like this will set him going and<br />
once he’s drunk he’s rather dangerous”), the newly married<br />
couple, the damaged war veteran, the northern industrialist,<br />
and of course the pyromaniac locked in the attic.<br />
Tuesday 23 September, 10.00pm<br />
THE BLACK CAT (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Starring: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi,<br />
David Manners, Julie Bishop. USA 1934. 65 mins.<br />
DOUBLE<br />
BILL<br />
Karloff is the evil architect, luring a young American couple<br />
to his modernist mansion in the Hungarian hills, where his<br />
arch-enemy Bela Lugosi seeks revenge for the death of his<br />
wife. Extraordinary art deco sets and menacing performances<br />
from the two horror leads (Karloff’s smooth accent and silky<br />
performance the model for subsequent villains) make this one<br />
of the most distinctive horror films of the era.<br />
BORIS KARLOFF<br />
Print source: Universal<br />
“Karloff’s face fascinated me. I made<br />
drawings of his head...His physique<br />
was weaker than I could wish but that<br />
penetrating personality of his, I felt, was more<br />
important.” JAMES WHALE (DIRECTOR OF FRANKENSTEIN, AS<br />
PLAYED BY IAN MCKELLEN IN GODS AND MONSTERS)<br />
Print source: Universal<br />
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (PG)<br />
Director: James Whale. Starring: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive,<br />
Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester. USA 1935. 75 mins.<br />
Better than the original and the greatest of Universal<br />
Studios’ films of the 1930s, Dr Frankenstein is forced by<br />
the dangerously eccentric Dr Pretorius to return to the<br />
laboratory and create a bride (Elsa Lanchester, the then<br />
wife of Charles Laughton). This is a superb black comedy in<br />
which Karloff returns to the sympathetic monster role that<br />
made him a star, chased through the countryside, befriending<br />
a blind musician and learning to speak. But it’s Ernest<br />
Thesiger as Dr Pretorius who gets the immortal line: “To a<br />
new world of gods and monsters!”<br />
Print source: Universal<br />
Sunday 28 September, 1.00pm<br />
THE RAVEN (PG)<br />
Director: Roger Corman. Starring: Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter<br />
Lorre, Hazel Court, Olive Sturgess, Jack Nicholson. USA 1963. 86 mins.<br />
Very loosely based on a poem by director Roger Corman’s<br />
frequent muse, Edgar Allen Poe, THE RAVEN tells of a trio of<br />
sorcerors – one good (Vincent Price), one bad (Peter Lorre)<br />
and one ugly (Karloff) – all of whom are heading for a final<br />
showdown. Typically tongue-in-cheek in camp Corman style,<br />
and bringing together three of cinema’s creepiest screen<br />
presences, it provides Karloff with a lipsmackingly evil part<br />
in the shape of the diabolical Dr<br />
Scarabus – plus an early role<br />
for a young Jack Nicholson.<br />
Print source: Universal<br />
The make-up as much as the acting made Karloff’s Frankenstein’s monster and Mummy<br />
such memorable monsters. It was created by Universal Studios’ legendary make up<br />
artist Jack Pierce, who spent 5 hours preparing Karloff each day. See page 76 for ways<br />
to bring your own monster to life in MONSTERS ON FILM: YOUNG PEOPLE’S<br />
SPECIAL EFFECTS AND FILM WORKSHOP!<br />
With thanks to the Boris Karloff Foundation for its generous support.<br />
www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
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Monday 22 September, 6.00pm, The Junction Saturday<br />
<br />
Three eclectic programmes with<br />
contrasting themes and ideas.<br />
From the deep and meaningful<br />
questions about love, death and<br />
life in the playgound, to the more<br />
frivolous side of human nature.<br />
This selection of UK shorts brings<br />
together comic and tragic<br />
tales through digitalisation<br />
and animation that will<br />
take you on the most<br />
extreme rollercoaster.<br />
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Thursday 18 September, 3.00pm Sunday 21 September, 3.30pm<br />
(CFF 15) 73 mins<br />
HAND GUM<br />
Director: James Farrant. UK. 9 mins.<br />
A poetic study on the cruelty and innocence of<br />
youth in modern society.<br />
TRIP<br />
Director: Harry Wootliff. UK. 9 mins.<br />
An emotional tale of what happens when a<br />
father tries to do the right thing by his two<br />
daughters but chooses the worst way<br />
to go about it.<br />
K<br />
Director: Piers Thompson. UK.<br />
20 mins.<br />
15-year-old Kaylee encounters an<br />
enigmatic stranger who compels<br />
her to re-evaluate her future.<br />
RIPPLE<br />
Director: Paul Gowers. UK. 18 mins.<br />
A black comedy. One small random act of<br />
malice forces an ordinary man off the safe road<br />
and on to a dark journey that he’ll never forget.<br />
VEILS<br />
Director: Dan Susman. UK. 13 mins.<br />
Veils is a story about a Jewish girl and a<br />
Palestinian guy on their wedding day. But this<br />
is not a standard Romeo and Juliet story of<br />
forbidden love...<br />
TIDE<br />
Director: Felix Wiedemann. UK. 4 mins.<br />
He kisses her. Is this the beginning of a great<br />
love – or the end ? A short film which plays<br />
with the audience’s perception – backwards.<br />
(CFF 15) 71 mins<br />
HOME TIME<br />
Director: Natalie Brady. UK. 6 mins.<br />
At the end of a school day there’s one girl in<br />
the playground who doesn’t want to go home.<br />
BREATH<br />
Director: Mark Gillespie. UK. 11 mins.<br />
Hard-hitting drama based around the<br />
delivery of a donor organ.<br />
I WAS HERE<br />
Director: Richard Porter. UK. 12 mins.<br />
I WAS HERE tells the story of a man<br />
who decides not to go to work one day.<br />
He simply walks away, with no idea of<br />
where he will go or what he will encounter.<br />
HOME<br />
Director: Debs Gardner-Paterson. UK. 11 mins.<br />
Sometimes leaving brings you back.<br />
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27 September, 10.30am<br />
LEGION OF PLOTTERS<br />
Director: Tom Martin. UK. 10 mins.<br />
Conspiracy or paranoia? Plagued by a<br />
deluge of aggrivations, Mr Jasper draws<br />
a dark conclusion.<br />
THE IMAGINARY GIRL<br />
Director: Richard Porter. UK. 11 mins.<br />
Seven year old Amy, whose recently<br />
separated parents hold different views on<br />
her social development, is enthralled in<br />
her world of make-believe.<br />
CROSSWORDS<br />
Director: James Malcom. UK. 10 mins.<br />
Mrs Mitchell thinks people are sending<br />
her messages through crosswords.<br />
Her eccentric house, packed floor to<br />
ceiling with thousands of old puzzles,<br />
is about to be targeted by the Pristolux<br />
Homecore Company.<br />
Monday 22 September, 8.30pm<br />
(CFF 15) 75 mins<br />
SPEECHLESS<br />
Director: James Cooper. UK. 8 mins.<br />
D has plenty of time on his hands. He<br />
could be doing all sorts of things....<br />
but generally he isn’t doing very much.<br />
Disillusioned with just about everything<br />
around him, he takes solace in gangsta<br />
rap and bags of family sized crisps….<br />
and texting.<br />
TIME OUT<br />
Director: Angus Gafraidh. UK. 8 mins.<br />
What would you do if you could see twenty<br />
four hours into the future?<br />
TERRAFARMER<br />
Director: Will Adams. UK. 2 mins.<br />
A lone astronaut attempts to terraform a<br />
hostile planet with a malfunctioning robot<br />
as his only companion.<br />
BLUNDER<br />
Director: Simon J Riley. UK. 8 mins.<br />
A sales rep witnesses the kidnapping<br />
of a female jogger whilst driving to meet<br />
a client. After following the kidnapper to<br />
his house and trying to save the jogger,<br />
Jack realises things aren’t quite what<br />
they seem.<br />
THE LEGEND OF OL’ GOLDIE<br />
Director: Matthew Snyman. UK. 8 mins.<br />
A fairytale about a boy and his only friend...<br />
his pet goldfish. The thing is, Goldie isn’t<br />
your average goldfish.<br />
AND THE MAN IS BORN<br />
Director: Pavel Prokopic, Marie Morgan.<br />
UK. 9 mins.<br />
A comedy of life’s disappointments for one<br />
young woman. Realising her dreams never<br />
felt so bad.<br />
SUN IN THE NIGHT<br />
Director: Anne Wilkins. UK. 4 mins.<br />
A mother hopelessly waits for her lost son to<br />
return whilst her young daughter plays with<br />
a strange imaginary friend.<br />
21 SECONDS<br />
Director: Ru McArdle. UK. 9 mins.<br />
A gritty romantic tragedy. Maddie is looking<br />
for a place to commit suicide; security guard<br />
Keith is out to save her. Fairytale ending?<br />
Definitely not.<br />
CHARON<br />
Director: Chiara Ambrosio. UK. 13 mins.<br />
Charon, the mythic ferryman over the river<br />
Styx, sails off on a journey to recover his<br />
childhood and mortality. This is a film about<br />
loss and time.<br />
SUNDAYS<br />
Director: Sarah Bick. UK. 6 mins.<br />
A visual study of spending Sundays in makebelieve.<br />
Because six bad days is bearable.<br />
Seven is not.<br />
<br />
Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
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Globalisation conjures up<br />
images of bustling urban<br />
metropolises but this<br />
collection of shorts from<br />
around the world reveals<br />
the international language<br />
of cinema.<br />
Saturday 20 September, 10.45pm Tuesday 23 September, 1.00pm<br />
(CFF 18)88 mins<br />
Our first programme involves tales of loss or isolation, from the solipsism of a Parisian<br />
clown in PUNCH to the furtive sexuality of two young girls in MAN; from an international<br />
student struggling to communicate in HELLO GOODBYE to the heartbreaking tale of two<br />
young lovers in DREAMERS, these shorts follow the lives of people across the planet<br />
trying to find their place in the world.<br />
PUNCH<br />
Director: Sotiris Dounoukos. Australia/France.<br />
10 mins.<br />
In a city of beauty and noise, a broken man<br />
tries to escape his pain and loneliness by<br />
playing the clown he feels like...<br />
HELLO, GOODBYE<br />
Director: Antoine Bourges. Canada. 16 mins.<br />
A short drama that depicts the first and last<br />
day of a foreign student in Vancouver, from<br />
his initial observations to his last farewells.<br />
PUPPIES & PICK UP TRUCKS<br />
Director: Vincent Biron. Canada/France. 18 mins.<br />
The chronicle of a dying childhood.<br />
MAN<br />
Director: Myna Joseph. USA. 15 mins.<br />
Maggie and her sister form an unusual bond<br />
during an encounter with a young man.<br />
LEGACY<br />
Director: Grant Sputore. Australia. 15 mins.<br />
A coming of age story – an account of<br />
innocence lost and a life saved in Australia<br />
during World War ll.<br />
DREAMERS<br />
Directors: Vlamyr Vizcaya, Carlos Bedoya.<br />
Colombia. 14 mins.<br />
A tender coming of age story in a<br />
crude world!<br />
Wednesday 24 September, 3.30pm Thursday 25 September, 3.30pm<br />
(CFF PG)55 mins<br />
Our second programme deals with the need to connect to our fellow man. In these shorts, it<br />
is the connections that people make with one another that tell a global truth, whether it be<br />
a child with her long lost hamster in DEAR FATTY, or the mismatched romance of an unlucky<br />
guy in RADU AND ANA. Night time revelations abound in THE BACK ROOM, whilst FOR YOU<br />
MY PEOPLE is an animated expose of greed and corruption in South America.<br />
DEAR FATTY<br />
Director: Hsin-I Tseng. USA. 7 mins.<br />
In this stop-motion animation,a little girl is<br />
writing a letter to her runaway hamster ‘Fatty’<br />
and wondering about its experiences in the<br />
outside world.<br />
THE BACK ROOM<br />
Director: Greg Ivan Smith. USA. 17 mins.<br />
Two utter strangers uncover astonishing<br />
connections as they search for a mysterious<br />
Renaissance painting.<br />
FOR YOU MY PEOPLE<br />
Director: Jose Pablo Gonzalez. Canada. 5 mins.<br />
An animated short film that tells the<br />
compelling story of a senator who must<br />
confront his secret deeds of corruption.<br />
RADU AND ANA<br />
Director: Paul Negoescu. Romania. 8 mins.<br />
Radu is the unluckiest guy on earth. Things<br />
might change. Or not.<br />
AMMA<br />
Director: Aparna Kapur. Canada/India. 5 mins.<br />
After receiving a ball of yarn at her<br />
grandmother’s deathbed, Mia diligently<br />
begins to knit a weave that will eventually<br />
reunite the two of them.<br />
GIRL IN RED SARONG<br />
Director: Jeremy Sing. Singapore. 13 mins.<br />
A spoof of a Singapore national icon,<br />
told through a day-in-the-life tale of<br />
Leng, a waitress who is simply trying<br />
to survive.<br />
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Friday 26 September, 2.45pm<br />
<br />
(CFF 15)91 mins<br />
SPECIAL<br />
FREE<br />
SCREENING<br />
Romanian cinema has undergone a<br />
renaissance in recent years – witness 2007<br />
Cannes winner 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS<br />
and acclaimed releases such as THE DEATH OF<br />
MR LAZARESCU, 12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST<br />
and CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’.<br />
Friday 19 September, 10.45pm<br />
<br />
(CFF 15)101 mins<br />
The crème de la crème from Europe: from future Michel Gondrys (TONY ZEAR) and Lynne Ramseys (FLYER) to strange<br />
new hybrids of Tarkovsky and Kielslowski (THE END OF THE WORLD), you won’t be disappointed.<br />
Proving that these were not isolated successes and that<br />
the industry has plenty of new talent breaking through,<br />
Romanian films picked up the best short film awards at<br />
both this year’s Berlin <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> (A GOOD DAY FOR A<br />
SWIM) and Cannes (MEGATRON).<br />
Introduced by Mihai Chirilov, film critic and director of<br />
Transylvania International <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>, this programme features<br />
both these festival winners as part of a showcase of the best new<br />
Romanian cinema.<br />
THE BOX LESSON Director: Alexandru Mavrodineanu<br />
MEGATRON Director: Marian Crisan<br />
A GOOD DAY FOR A SWIM Director: Bogdan Mustata<br />
LA DRUMAL MARE Director: Gabriel Sarbu<br />
WAVES Director: Adrian Sitaru<br />
THE YELLOW SMILEY FACE<br />
Director: Constantin Popescu<br />
Supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute in London.<br />
TONY ZEAR (TONY ZOREIL)<br />
Director: Valentin Potier. France. 20 mins.<br />
Quirky à la SCIENCE OF SLEEP style comedy about<br />
Tony Zear, who’s out to meet the girl that matches his<br />
ear size. Not an easy one, if you have giant piercings and<br />
fine hearing.<br />
FLYER<br />
Director: Andrea Harkin. Poland/UK. 15 mins.<br />
Ana’s from Poland and she is working as hard as she can<br />
in order to get her boyfriend over to the UK. This brilliant<br />
short shows real attention to human drama, a sensibility for<br />
music, and an intimate yet never intrusive cinematography<br />
calling to mind those MOVERN-CALLAR-like moments of<br />
lyrical realism. In addition, a great example of European<br />
short film-making.<br />
THE TOURNAMENT (IL TORNEO)<br />
Director: Michele Alhaique. Italy. 15 mins.<br />
Slice of life from three boys who go beyond their limits to<br />
get tournament-qualifying t-shirts in an environment where<br />
boyhood needs to be measured against manhood – a finely<br />
directed film by an actor-turned-director to look out for.<br />
SYNOPSIS DOCU DRAMA<br />
Director: Vlad Trandafir. Romania. 22 mins.<br />
A young director wants to get his first job in TV and has to<br />
learn how to push past all obstacles, and about “the real<br />
world” – a good lesson for all aspiring filmmakers.<br />
DEAR WORLD<br />
Director: Kei Ishikawa. Poland. 17 mins.<br />
STALKER-like landscapes are crossed, empty supermarkets<br />
offering masses of food are quietly used, a black dog leads<br />
the way to a house that looks like home, only stripped bare<br />
of all its interior. And all along, radio messages from Zone<br />
42 offer assurance that somewhere, someone is still alive<br />
and ready to hook up with you. An apocalyptic and strangely<br />
believable story of how the end might look.<br />
ONE OF THE LAST (UNO DEGLI ULTIMI)<br />
Director: Paul Zinder. Italy. 12 mins.<br />
A documentary short following the musings and wise<br />
thoughts of an old man who’s worked the Italian land all his<br />
life. A beautiful reflection on past and future, modernity,<br />
change, and a worrying look at the environment by taking a<br />
close up of the small things.<br />
Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
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Thursday 25 September, 4.00pm<br />
<br />
(CFF 15) 60 mins<br />
Screen East’s Digital Shorts is a short<br />
film scheme in partnership with the<br />
UK <strong>Film</strong> Council. Each year emerging<br />
talent get the opportunity to make a<br />
fully funded short film using digital<br />
technology. To coincide with the<br />
launch of the 2009 scheme, a<br />
selection of films from past years will be screened<br />
followed by a Q&A session with a past writer director<br />
and Sam Burton, Executive Producer of the scheme.<br />
THE TECHNICAL HITCH Director: Jon Dunleavy. 2006.<br />
Written by Luke Wright, produced by Jon Dunleavy.<br />
Friday 26 September, 5.45pm Saturday 27 September, 1.00pm<br />
(CFF 18) 110 mins.<br />
The best of the Clermont Ferrand Short <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>, presented in partnership with Alliance Française.<br />
AUF DER STRECKE<br />
Director: Reto Caffi. Germany/Switzerland<br />
2007. 30 mins. German with English subtitles.<br />
A security guard working for a<br />
department store is racked with guilt<br />
having decided not to help a stranger<br />
who was being attacked on the<br />
underground.<br />
CAMERA OBSCURA<br />
Directors: Thierry Onillon, Jean-Michel<br />
Drechsler, Matthieu Buchalski. France<br />
2007. 7 mins. French with English subtitles.<br />
The blind man had been left there. A<br />
helmet had been placed upon his head to<br />
help him to see that which he couldn’t.<br />
MISSING<br />
Director: Matthieu Donck. Belgium 2007.<br />
15 mins. French with English subtitles.<br />
Bernard has disappeared. Was he ever<br />
really there?<br />
MOMPELAAR<br />
Directors: Wim Reygaert, Marc Roels.<br />
Belgium 2007. 22 mins. French with<br />
English subtitles.<br />
Lubbert is a withdrawn young man<br />
who lives at home with his overbearing<br />
mother. During a morning stroll through<br />
the Flemish countryside, he has a<br />
surreal encounter with the nightmarish<br />
inhabitants of the region.<br />
LA SAINT FESTIN<br />
Directors: Léo Marchand, Anne-Laure Daffis.<br />
France 2007. 16 mins. French with English<br />
subtitles.<br />
For an ogre to lose his teeth is bad enough,<br />
but for it to happen on the eve of the feast of<br />
Saint-Festin, the patron saint of ogres, is a<br />
catastrophe…<br />
TONY ZOREIL<br />
Director: Valentin Potier. France 2007.<br />
20 mins. French with English subtitles.<br />
Tony, a 28 year-old bachelor, has<br />
inherited a remarkable physical trait. Like<br />
the rest of his family, he has very big<br />
ears and suffers from extreme sensitivity<br />
to the slightest noise...<br />
MONOCULTURE Director: Jason Cuddy. 2007.<br />
Written by Simon Edmondson, produced by Jonathan Blagrove.<br />
BILLY’S DAY OUT Director: Iain B Macdonald. 2005.<br />
Written by Antony Mann, produced by Fiona McAlpine.<br />
BLASTED ANGELS Director: Ian Claxton. 2006.<br />
Written by Paul Burke, produced by Andy Pritchett.<br />
BLOOD ON HIS HANDS Director: Justin Coleman. 2007.<br />
Written by Justin Coleman, produced by Patrick McGrady.<br />
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A selection of mind-boggling chillers<br />
exploring the underbelly of modern<br />
society. A surreal world unearthed.<br />
Tuesday 23 September, 10.15pm<br />
(CFF 18) 81 mins<br />
CARGO<br />
Director: Jennifer Harrington. USA.<br />
14 mins<br />
Hidden inside a shipping container on a<br />
boat headed to the United States, eight<br />
Colombian strangers wait for days in the<br />
dark to reach their destination.<br />
CAM TO CAM<br />
Director: Davy Sihali. France. 28 mins.<br />
A young woman talks on the Internet with<br />
a friend. At the beginning, she’s a little<br />
shy – and then she lets go in front of the<br />
camera. But after a while she begins to have<br />
some doubts...<br />
HUSH<br />
Director: Fernando Cordero. USA. 18 mins.<br />
A psychological thriller about Alice, a young<br />
woman dealing with the loss of her child and<br />
the growing apathy of her husband.<br />
STROKING THE 8<br />
Director: Jack Wareham. Australia. 4 mins.<br />
Power, strength, timing and the ability to<br />
push through the pain barrier. As the cox<br />
keeps telling his rowing eight, coming first<br />
requires discipline.<br />
PERSON, PLACE OR THING<br />
Director: Elle Martini. USA. 17 mins.<br />
A drifter’s solitary routine is interrupted by<br />
an unforeseen encounter.<br />
Friday 26 September, 11.00pm<br />
(CFF 18) 53 mins<br />
VIOLA<br />
Director: Shih-Ting Hung. USA. 9 mins.<br />
Stumbling on slippery moss at the<br />
4 o’clock bus stop, little giant Viola<br />
steps outside of her own world to<br />
embark on an adventure. She is<br />
going to search for the true meaning<br />
of loneliness.<br />
AN UNQUIET MIND<br />
Director: Chihwen Lo. Taiwan/USA. 6 mins<br />
Shuei-in, in a manic state, witnesses<br />
his body in a coffin; Samsara – the<br />
cycle of death and rebirth. Inspired by<br />
the struggle of those with bipolar<br />
disorder, the film follows Shuei’s<br />
mercurial journey of mood swings and<br />
deep restlessness.<br />
BOX<br />
Director: Matt Smith. UK. 12 mins.<br />
Social expectations are crushing his<br />
bones and pulping his fat; he has no<br />
escape and he can see no end, only the<br />
flashing and pulsating of The Box...<br />
THE ROSE AND THE POISON TREE<br />
Director: Alejandra Viejo Lopez de Roda.<br />
UK. 16 mins.<br />
A dark fairy-tale inspired story that tells<br />
of a man who is miserable with his life<br />
and desires only death. In order to fulfill<br />
his wish, he embarks on a journey in<br />
search of a mythical poison tree.<br />
DON’T LOSE HEART<br />
Director: Taliesyn Brown. UK. 10 mins.<br />
Alone, trapped and running out of<br />
water – Lucy wants out but all the<br />
zombies want to do is get in!<br />
<br />
Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
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CAMBRIDGESHIRE FILM CONSORTIUM<br />
EDUCATION EVENTS<br />
The <strong>Cambridge</strong>shire<br />
<strong>Film</strong> Consortium is a<br />
partnership between<br />
Anglia Ruskin University<br />
(ARU), <strong>Cambridge</strong> Arts<br />
Picturehouse, <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>,<br />
Long Road Sixth Form College, <strong>Cambridge</strong>,<br />
Longsands College, St Neots, Parkside<br />
Community College and <strong>Cambridge</strong>shire ICT<br />
Education Services. It is core-funded by Screen<br />
East. The Consortium employs a full-time <strong>Film</strong><br />
Education Officer, Trish Sheil, to implement its<br />
aims which are:<br />
Encouraging an interest in film education<br />
linked to cinema screenings, production work<br />
and other activity<br />
Fostering film literacy and developing links<br />
between informal and formal education<br />
Ensuring cultural diversity in the<br />
programming of events and activities<br />
Consulting with Screen East, The <strong>Film</strong> Council<br />
and the British <strong>Film</strong> Institute for the delivery of a<br />
regional film education strategy<br />
Contributing film education initiatives to the<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
Details of the Consortium’s events are also<br />
published in the Consortium’s termly Education<br />
Newsletter and the Arts Picturehouse programme.<br />
Tel: 01223 579127<br />
email: trish.s@picturehouses.co.uk<br />
www.cambridgeshirefilmconsortium.org<br />
FREE<br />
EVENT<br />
Saturday 20 September 1.30/2.00/2.30*<br />
MONSTERS ON FILM: YOUNG<br />
PEOPLE’S SPECIAL EFFECTS AND<br />
FILM WORKSHOP<br />
Learn the tricks of special effects and make-up<br />
to create your own <strong>Film</strong> Monster then watch your<br />
creation on screen. The best monster will be<br />
screened before Boris Karloff films in the festival!<br />
* 3 x 30 minute workshops. Suitable for young people<br />
aged 8-16 years. Tutor: Alex Curtis. Drop in on the day,<br />
or book in advance to assure a place.<br />
See pages 68 and 69 for more Karloff films.<br />
BOOKINGS: 01223 579127<br />
email: cfceducation@picturehouses.co.uk<br />
Saturday 20 September 11.00am – 1.00pm<br />
I MADE THIS<br />
A screening of films produced for the<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>shire <strong>Film</strong> Consortium 2007-<br />
08, including delightful animations,<br />
documentaries and film drama, CFC film<br />
projects with British Antarctic Survey,<br />
Kettles Yard and Scott Polar Research<br />
Institute and Grains of Sand Climate<br />
Change competition.<br />
BOOKINGS: 01223 579127 email: cfceducation@picturehouses.co.uk<br />
Sunday 21 September 5.00pm<br />
TREASURES FROM THE<br />
ARCHIVES: THE OLYMPIC<br />
GAMES ON FILM, 1906-1924<br />
Presented by Dr Luke McKernan (British Library)<br />
A screening of rare<br />
films with live piano<br />
accompaniment from the<br />
acclaimed Neil Brand.<br />
An enlightening<br />
commentary from Dr Luke McKernan, tracing<br />
the Olympic Games from 1906-1924,<br />
including: OLYMPIC GAMES AT ATHENS<br />
(1906) 1908 OLYMPICS: TRACK AND FIELD<br />
1908 OLYMPICS: MARATHON OLYMPIC<br />
GAMES 1912 STOCKHOLM OLYMPIC<br />
GAMES 1912 THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN<br />
PARIS 1924<br />
Kindly supported by Living<br />
Sport LIVING SPORT is<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>shire & Peterborough’s county sports<br />
partnership aiming to increase participation in<br />
sport and supporting talented sportspeople to<br />
achieve their potential. Tel: 01487 841 559 or<br />
visit www.livingsport.co.uk to find out more.<br />
BOOKINGS: 0871 704 2050<br />
FREE<br />
FAMILY<br />
EVENT<br />
FREE<br />
EVENT<br />
Tuesday 23 September 11.00am – 1.00pm<br />
CENSORSHIP, FILM AND<br />
THE BRITISH BOARD OF<br />
FILM CLASSIFICATION<br />
Video Nasties, Pornography, Grand Theft Auto and<br />
Teletubbies. All in a day’s work at the British Board<br />
of <strong>Film</strong> Classification. Find out how the BBFC gets<br />
to make its decisions at a special presentation<br />
and interactive workshop event hosted by BBFC<br />
Education Officer, John Dyer.<br />
Suitable for GCSE/A/AS/Undergraduate <strong>Film</strong> and<br />
Media Studies students Check out the BBFC’s student<br />
website at www.sbbfc.co.uk.<br />
BOOKINGS: 01223 579127<br />
or email trish.s@picturehouses.co.uk<br />
CAMBRIDGESHIRE FILM CONSORTIUM: YOUNG<br />
CRITICS AT THE CAMBRIDGE FILM FESTIVAL <strong>2008</strong><br />
Young Critics gives young people the opportunity to think and write critically<br />
about film. The best submissions will be published on the <strong>Festival</strong> website<br />
and in the <strong>Festival</strong> newspaper. Categories are Primary (up to age 11):<br />
50 - 150 words Pre-Sixth Form (12 to 16 year olds): 200 words<br />
Sixth Form (16 to 18 year olds): 250 words Undergraduate<br />
(18 years old or older, taking a first degree): 250 words.<br />
Overall winners will be chosen in each category at the end of the <strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
Primary school pupils should enter as a school. For all other categories<br />
students should enter individually. Reviews to be submitted to: daily@<br />
cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk. For more info email: trish.s@picturehouses.co.uk<br />
PRIZES<br />
SPONSORED BY<br />
76 Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk
Wednesday 24 September 8.00pm The Junction<br />
HEAVY LOAD (12A)<br />
Director: Jerry Rothwell. UK <strong>2008</strong>. 91 mins. PLUS Funky Flamingo.<br />
Jerry Rothwell’s film HEAVY LOAD (A film about happiness) follows<br />
this Punk band of musicians with and without learning difficulties<br />
on their journey of conflicting ambitions, as they move out of<br />
the ghetto of disability club nights to test whether their dreams<br />
can survive the mainstream. Featuring The Junction as one of<br />
their gigs their journey also leads into the national “Stay up Late”<br />
campaign to encourage support workers to adopt flexible shifts<br />
and enable people with learning disabilities to stay out late.<br />
Join us for a wild night of film with live music from<br />
Funky Flamingo – see page 51 for more details.<br />
BOOKINGS: 0871 704 2050<br />
or purchase at The Junction on the day<br />
Thursday 25 September 10.00am – 1.00pm<br />
FRANKENSTEIN, THE GOTHIC AND THE<br />
HORROR FILM: FRANKENSTEIN (PG)<br />
Director: James Whale. Starring: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive,<br />
Mae Clark, Dwight Frye. USA 1931. 71 mins.<br />
James Whale drew on stylistic references to German<br />
Expressionism for his 1931 film based on Mary Shelley’s<br />
Gothic novel FRANKENSTEIN. Chief make-up artist Jack<br />
Pierce’s design of the flat-headed creature with bolts in his<br />
neck also established Boris Karloff’s monster as synonymous<br />
with the word Frankenstein.<br />
Speakers: Darren Elliott, University of Hertfordshire and Dr. Nick<br />
Potamitis, Long Road Sixth Form College, will give presentations<br />
on the Horror <strong>Film</strong> genre and Gothic influences in Horror <strong>Film</strong>s.<br />
Suitable for GCSE/A/AS/Undergraduate <strong>Film</strong> and Media<br />
Studies students.<br />
Cost: Students: £3.50 Accompanying Teachers FREE<br />
BOOKINGS: 01223 579127<br />
or email trish.s@picturehouses.co.uk<br />
Wednesday 24 September 1.00 – 2.30pm<br />
Saturday 27 September 3.00pm<br />
THE BLACK BALLOON (12A)<br />
Director: Elissa Down. Starring: Toni Colette, Rhys Wakefield, Luke Ford.<br />
Australia <strong>2008</strong>. 97 mins.<br />
A story about fitting in, discovering love and accepting your family.<br />
When Thomas and his family move to a new home and he has to<br />
start at a new school, all he wants is to fit in. But his pregnant mother<br />
has to take things easy so his father Simon puts him in charge of<br />
his autistic older brother Charlie. Thomas, with the help of his new<br />
girlfriend Jackie, faces his biggest challenge yet. Charlie’s unusual<br />
antics take Thomas on an emotional journey that causes his pent-up<br />
frustrations about his brother’s autism to pour out in a story that is<br />
funny, confronting, and ultimately heart-warming.<br />
Contains moderate themes and moderate coarse language.<br />
We hope to welcome a representative from <strong>Cambridge</strong>shire’s Arts<br />
and Health Network INSPIRE to this screening.<br />
BOOKINGS: 0871 704 2050<br />
CAMBRIDGESHIRE ON FILM: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE ARCHIVES<br />
Join us for a screening of films from the national, regional and county film archives, featuring <strong>Cambridge</strong> City<br />
and County, including past <strong>Cambridge</strong> street scenes and clips of students in the colleges. Speakers from<br />
the British <strong>Film</strong> Institute, the East Anglian <strong>Film</strong> Archive and <strong>Cambridge</strong>shire County Archives will introduce<br />
the films.The speakers will also update you on how you will be able to access a vast range of archive films<br />
for your own viewing, for your own curiosity or as a researcher, when the new BFI Mediatheque opens in <strong>Cambridge</strong> Central Library.<br />
Special reduction of £1.00 off each ticket for senior citizens.<br />
BOOKINGS: ARTS PICTUREHOUSE: 0871 704 2050<br />
CAMBRIDGESHIRE FILM CONSORTIUM EDUCATION EVENTS<br />
Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
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INFORMATION<br />
FESTIVAL VENUES<br />
THE ARTS PICTUREHOUSE<br />
BOX OFFICE: 08717 04 20 50<br />
www.picturehouses.co.uk<br />
38-39 St Andrew’s Street, <strong>Cambridge</strong>, CB2 3AR<br />
Book tickets in advance at the Arts Picturehouse for ALL venues.<br />
Home of the <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> and a year-round<br />
programme of the best in new and classic cinema, the Arts<br />
Picturehouse hosts 3 screens (including one THX-certificated<br />
for best quality sound), the <strong>Festival</strong> late-night cafe-bar, and a<br />
friendly, film-loving atmosphere. All the screens are licensed, too,<br />
so you can take your drink with you while watching a movie! You<br />
don’t have to be a member by any means, but it helps - you’ll<br />
receive discounts on all member tickets, free preview screenings,<br />
priority booking for the <strong>Festival</strong> and can enjoy being part of this<br />
much-loved local institution.<br />
WYSING ARTS CENTRE<br />
BOX OFFICE: 01954 718 881<br />
www.wysingartscentre.org<br />
Fox Road, Bourn, <strong>Cambridge</strong>, CB23 2TX<br />
All screenings are free – reserve seats in advance or turn<br />
up on the night.<br />
Wysing Arts Centre is a centre for the contemporary visual arts.<br />
Throughout the year we focus on the development of artists<br />
through our studios, international residency programme and<br />
commissioning. Wysing is a working site with currently 24<br />
professional artists on our 11 acre rural site, and this sets us apart<br />
from other arts centres. We host a programme of exhibitions,<br />
events, family activities, screenings and artist talks across the year,<br />
as well as opening up the whole site and studios at least once a<br />
year to complement and develop our artistic programme overall.<br />
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THE JUNCTION<br />
BOX OFFICE: 01223 511 511<br />
www.junction.co.uk<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> Leisure Park, Clifton Way,<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>, CB1 7GX<br />
Buy tickets from The Junction Box Office on the day of the<br />
screening or in advance at the Arts Picturehouse.<br />
Tickets for the outdoor of 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Institute<br />
of Astronomy can be purchased from either The Junction Box<br />
Office or the Arts Picturehouse.<br />
The Junction is one of the most diverse cultural venues in<br />
the UK, a vibrant centre of youth culture and registered charity<br />
with a uniquely varied programme. Opened in 1990 as a<br />
place for the young people of <strong>Cambridge</strong>, those aged up to<br />
30 continue to be the primary audience. Presenting hundreds<br />
of performances each year to over 100,000 customers, The<br />
Junction covers clubs, comedy, dance, live music, theatre and<br />
events for young people. Operating over three spaces, The<br />
Junction is committed to developing new artists and providing<br />
cutting-edge performances.<br />
WESLEY METHODIST CHURCH<br />
BOX OFFICE: 08717 04 20 50<br />
(ARTS PICTUREHOUSE)<br />
www.wesleycam.org.uk<br />
Christ’s Pieces, <strong>Cambridge</strong>, CB1 1LG<br />
All managers reserve the<br />
right to refuse admission<br />
Wesley Church is a large Methodist church in the centre of<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> at the junction of King Street and Short Street. It is<br />
approximately a three minute walk from Drummer Street Bus<br />
Station and from the Grafton Shopping Centre.<br />
TICKET PRICES<br />
ARTS PICTUREHOUSE<br />
Please note that only shows after 5pm will have allocated seating<br />
MON TO FRI (before 5pm) & LATE SHOWS (after 10.30pm)<br />
Adults ........................... £6.40 Members .........£4.40<br />
Concessions* .........£5.50<br />
MON TO FRI (after 5pm) & WEEKENDS:<br />
Adults .............................£7.40 Members .........£5.40<br />
Concessions* .........£5.50<br />
OTHER TICKETS<br />
Children under 14 (at all times) ......£4.90<br />
Big Scream (babies free)...................... £4.80<br />
Big Scream Membership ........................£2.50<br />
(Available to parents with babies under one year old only)<br />
MEMBERSHIP (see page 80)<br />
Single....£27 Joint....£47 Concessions....£17<br />
Advance web/phone booking fee £1.50 per transaction<br />
Please note there will be no cheap day Mondays, Orange<br />
Wednesdays, Kid’s Club or Silver Screen offers for the duration<br />
of the <strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
THE JUNCTION<br />
Adults .........................................................................................................£6.00<br />
Picturehouse Members / Concessions*...............£4.00<br />
SPECIAL EVENTS<br />
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (13 -14 September)<br />
Adults ....................................................................................................£12.50<br />
Picturehouse Members / Concessions*..........£10.00<br />
RIVERSIDE SCREENINGS (16, 17, 23, 25 September)<br />
Adults ....................................................................................................£25.00<br />
Picturehouse Members / Concessions*..........£20.00<br />
THE LAST LAUGH (23 September)<br />
Adults .....................£7.40 Members .......£5.40<br />
Concessions.... £5.50<br />
*Applies to full time students with valid ID, over 60’s and those on income support<br />
Please note that admission is FREE for the Magdalene Street<br />
screening (21 September) and for screenings at Wysing Arts<br />
Centre (23 September).
BUYING TICKETS<br />
MEMBERS’ PRIORITY BOOKING from Monday 1 September<br />
(Visit www.picturehouses.co.uk for details on how to become a Member)<br />
PUBLIC BOOKING from Thursday 4 September<br />
ADVANCE TICKETS available ONLY through the Arts Picturehouse for ALL venues<br />
SPECIAL FESTIVAL BOX OFFICE HOURS: 1 – 7 September<br />
In person: 10am until 15 mins after last performance<br />
TELEPHONE BOOKINGS: 08717 04 20 50 (9.30am – 8.30pm)<br />
ONLINE BOOKINGS: www.picturehouses.co.uk<br />
When booking over the phone please make sure you have all membership card numbers<br />
(if applicable) and a credit or debit card to hand. Telephone and internet bookings can be made<br />
up to 15 minutes before the start of a screening. Please note there is a booking fee of £1.50<br />
per transaction for ‘phone and web bookings (except for Members).<br />
(All <strong>Festival</strong> venues have full disabled access. Please see individual venue websites for details.)<br />
BUYING TICKETS ON THE DAY OF THE PERFORMANCE<br />
On the day of the screening tickets are available from the relevant screening venue ONLY – see left.<br />
QUEEN’S RD<br />
SILVER ST<br />
FEN CAUSEWAY<br />
WHERE TO<br />
FIND US<br />
CORN EX. ST<br />
TRUMPINGTON ST<br />
SIDNEY ST ST ANDREW’S ST<br />
P<br />
BUS<br />
STATION<br />
DOWNING ST<br />
ARTS<br />
PICTURE<br />
HOUSE<br />
DRUMMER ST<br />
EMMANUEL<br />
COLLEGE<br />
REGENT ST<br />
LENSFIELD RD<br />
PARKER’S<br />
PIECE<br />
BATEMAN ST<br />
PARKSIDE<br />
GONVILLE PLACE<br />
HILLS RD<br />
BROOKLANDS AV<br />
P<br />
DE LUCA<br />
GRAFTON<br />
CENTRE<br />
EAST ROAD<br />
GLISSON RD<br />
MILL RD<br />
STATION RD<br />
THE JUNCTION<br />
A603<br />
TENISON RD<br />
P<br />
STATION<br />
P<br />
CLIFTON RD<br />
CHERRY HINTON RD<br />
INFORMATION<br />
TICKET COLLECTION<br />
Arts Picturehouse: At least 15 mins prior to the start of the screening from any sales point or the<br />
Ticket Collection Machine next to the <strong>Festival</strong> Information Desk.<br />
The Junction: In advance from the Arts Picturehouse or at The Junction on the day of the<br />
performance, at least 15 mins prior to the start of the screening.<br />
DON’T BE LATE!<br />
There are no adverts or trailers for <strong>Festival</strong> presentations; please make sure you take your seat<br />
in good time for the start of the performance. Latecomers will not be admitted, so please do not<br />
contest this with the staff.<br />
THE LATE NIGHT FESTIVAL BAR<br />
Arts Picturehouse Café-Bar will be open from 10am – 12pm (10am – 1am Friday and<br />
Saturdays) during the <strong>Festival</strong> fine wines, beers and spirits coffees, teas, organic juices<br />
and other soft drinks fresh cakes bar snacks crepes, tapas, panini and salads courtesy<br />
of As You Like It served 11.00am – 10.00pm (food is freshly prepared so please leave enough<br />
time to eat before a screening).<br />
83 Regent Street, <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
Tel: 01223 356666<br />
OFFICIAL<br />
FILM FESTIVAL<br />
RESTAURANT<br />
…FOR THE THIRD YEAR RUNNING!<br />
10% off for <strong>Festival</strong><br />
ticket holders!<br />
Situated only 4 mins walk from the Arts Picturehouse,<br />
De Luca Cucina & Bar guarantees to serve you freshly<br />
prepared modern Italian food promptly so you won’t miss your<br />
film. It also offers you a fantastic environment to enjoy a great cocktail<br />
afterwards. The <strong>Festival</strong> team will be taking guests there most evenings,<br />
so you never know who might be sitting next to you…<br />
More information, including details of the newly opened members-only<br />
Regency Club, is available at www.delucacucina.co.uk.<br />
Box Office: 08717 04 20 50 www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk<br />
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CAMBRIDGE FILM FESTIVAL STAFF<br />
DO YOU WANT TO<br />
SEE LOTS OF GREAT<br />
FILMS AT THIS<br />
YEARS FESTIVAL…<br />
AND SAVE MONEY?<br />
Arts Picturehouse Membership<br />
gives you…<br />
£2.00 off every ticket <br />
3 free tickets to use whenever<br />
you like <br />
priority booking for the <strong>Festival</strong> <br />
year-round free screenings and<br />
special offers <br />
£27 Single, £17 Concessions,<br />
£47 for 2 people at the same address<br />
Call 08717 04 20 50<br />
visit www.picturehouses.co.uk<br />
or ask at the Box Office<br />
The <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> is now run<br />
by the <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> Trust, a registered<br />
charity (no. 1120059) that promotes<br />
independent cinema in <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
and the Eastern region.<br />
Nick Joicey Tony Jones Isabelle McNeill<br />
Jean Khalfa Bill Thompson<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> Trust Board Members<br />
Tony Jones<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Director<br />
Paula Beegan<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Manager<br />
Sarah Wood<br />
Artists’ Moving Image Programmer<br />
Nick Joicey<br />
Boris Karloff Programmer<br />
James Mackay<br />
Derek Jarman: Remembered Programmer<br />
Matt Kelland Saint John Walker<br />
Bill Thompson<br />
Machinima Programmers<br />
Matilda Mroz<br />
Polish Cinema Programmer<br />
Clare Leczycki Verena Stackelberg<br />
Michael Pierce<br />
ShortFusion Programmers<br />
Isabelle McNeill<br />
Transmission Programmer<br />
Mark Cosgrove<br />
Ulrich Seidl Season Programmer<br />
Emily Boldy<br />
Assistant Programme Co-ordinator<br />
Print Transport Assistant<br />
Iris Ordonez<br />
UK & International Print Transport<br />
David Jakes<br />
Programme Adviser<br />
Toby Venables<br />
<strong>Brochure</strong> Editor<br />
Georgia King Design<br />
<strong>Brochure</strong> Designer<br />
Bill Thompson<br />
Online Producer<br />
Trish Sheil<br />
Education Officer,<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>shire <strong>Film</strong> Consortium<br />
Marc Atkinson Rydian Cook Gertrud Hill<br />
Education Team<br />
Sarah Wilby Creative Publicity<br />
Press & PR<br />
David Perilli<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Daily Editor<br />
Rebecca Hawketts Alan Smithee<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Daily Sub-Editors<br />
Tom Catchesides<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Photographer<br />
Roger Smith<br />
Technical Manager<br />
Joe Harris Tom Martin Simon White<br />
Outdoor Screening Team<br />
Chloe Chennells-Milton Michael Chilcott <br />
Alex Hall Lucy Newman Alex Oliver<br />
Ann Willmott<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Interns<br />
AT THE ARTS PICTUREHOUSE:<br />
Keith Gehlert<br />
General Manager<br />
Emily Boldy<br />
Assistant and Marketing Manager<br />
Martin Read<br />
Bar and Duty Manager<br />
Cosima Finkbeiner Clare Leczycki<br />
Duty Managers<br />
Tony Stevens<br />
Visiting Duty Manager<br />
Joe Delaney (Chief) Christian Lapidge Clare<br />
Mackenzie Dermot Nolan Roger Smith <br />
John Caswell Colin Verot Sammy Patterson<br />
Projectionists<br />
Carl Peck Peter Harmer Alexandra Curtis <br />
Alex Oliver Francesca Clouston John Davis<br />
Holly Pearson Jeff Knowles Kathrin Lang<br />
Becky Harding Mark Blay Jack Toye <br />
Thomas Martin Simon Panrucker Ruth<br />
Forgacs Devorah Hall Emma Woolerton <br />
Johnny Davey Andy Dillon Alice Nelson <br />
Louise Tan Rosie Amos<br />
Front of House Staff<br />
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THANK YOU<br />
The <strong>Festival</strong> would not be possible without<br />
the support of all our sponsors and partners.<br />
Special thanks go to our main funders,<br />
Screen East, for their long-standing<br />
commitment to our development. We are also<br />
extremely grateful for all the time, energy and<br />
effort put in by our many volunteers, without<br />
whose contributions the <strong>Festival</strong> could not<br />
achieve so much each year.<br />
Nick Kilcoyne – Adriana Chiesa Enterprises;<br />
Christine Cellier, Francine Rounanet-Democrate<br />
– Alliance Francaise; Phil Birchenall, Adrian<br />
Slatcher – AmbITion; Sarah Barrow, Simon Daily,<br />
Andrea Hilliard, Caroline Hyde, Paul Marris,<br />
Lynsey McCulloch – Anglia Ruskin University;<br />
Louisa Dent, Daniel Graham – Artificial Eye; Dipak<br />
Mistry – Arts & Business; Thomas Hoegh – Arts<br />
Alliance Media; Ollie Dawson, Dawn Giles – Arts<br />
Council England, East;Douglas Cummins – Axiom<br />
<strong>Film</strong>s; Tricia Tuttle – BAFTA; Pam Mungroo – BBC<br />
Community Action Desk; Claire Cook – BBC <strong>Film</strong><br />
Network; Emma Borley – BBC Look East; Mandy<br />
Morton – BBC Radio <strong>Cambridge</strong>shire; John<br />
Dyer – BBFC; Nigel Arthur – BFI; Margaret Deriaz,<br />
Isabelle Piqueras, Christine Whitehouse, Andrew<br />
Youdell – BFI Distribution; Rebecca Crouch<br />
– Borders; Peter Williamson – Boris Karloff<br />
Foundation; Gow Gibson, Vicky Lewis – BVI; David<br />
Mitchell – Café Jello; Frances Alderton, Christine<br />
Allison, Emma Thornton – <strong>Cambridge</strong> City<br />
Council; Nigel Cutting, Neil Jones – <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
City Council Arts & Entertainments; Paul Kirkley,<br />
Nik Shelton – <strong>Cambridge</strong> Evening News; Emma<br />
Bonsall, Lindsay Brand – <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Film</strong> Archive;<br />
James Howarth – <strong>Cambridge</strong> Saab; Emma Baxter,<br />
Heidi Mulvey – <strong>Cambridge</strong> University Press;<br />
Sue Hewitt – <strong>Cambridge</strong>shire County Council;<br />
Gareth Davies – <strong>Cambridge</strong>shire County Council<br />
ICT Service; David Prosser – Carlton Screen<br />
Advertising; Lizzy Keene, Darren Pangbourne<br />
– Channel 4; Lou Beegan, Sue Cloke – Cheese<br />
at Leadenhall Market; Tim Brown – CineCity<br />
Brighton; Deborah Allison, Clare Binns, Jo Blair,<br />
David Brighouse, Rob Fredrickson, Lyn Goleby,<br />
Vince Jervis, Alastair Oatey, Rachel Sawyer,<br />
Mark Wealthy, Jason Wood, Rob Younger – City<br />
Screen; Roger Gonin – Clermont Ferrand <strong>Film</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong>; Claude Nouchi – Colifilms Distribution;<br />
Eric Liknaitzky – Contemporary; Robert Kenny,<br />
Michael Pierce, Simone Pyne, Verena v.<br />
Stackelberg – Curzon Cinemas; Matthew Belcher,<br />
Paul De Luca – De Luca Cucina & Bar; Jenny<br />
Chamarette – Department of French, University<br />
of <strong>Cambridge</strong>; Jo Edwards – Discovery <strong>Film</strong>s;<br />
Julian Hayes, Dominic Yemm – DHL; Jane Alvey,<br />
Katherine Mage – East Anglian <strong>Film</strong> Archive;<br />
Lord and Lady Wilson – Emmanuel College,<br />
University of <strong>Cambridge</strong>; Emily Corcoran, Saint<br />
John Walker – FDMX; Sarah Gibson – <strong>Film</strong><br />
Sense; Michael Hewitt, James Stubbins – FOPP;<br />
Ian Rattray – Frightfest; Wioletta Dawidczyk –<br />
Fundacja Promocji Kina <strong>Film</strong> Polski; Robert<br />
Gordon – Gonville & Caius College, University<br />
of <strong>Cambridge</strong>; Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon – Gordon<br />
<strong>Film</strong>s UK; Lidia De Luca – Grosvenor Group<br />
Ltd; Camille Gatin – Halcyon Pictures; Pamela<br />
Raspe – Hauser Raspe Foundation; Penny Price<br />
– Heffers; Mark Adams, Tejinder Jouhal, Sara<br />
Squire – ICA; Anna Kime, Simon Ward – ICO;<br />
Steve Oliver – Icon; Amanda Kelleher – Inspire;<br />
Dr Carolin Crawford – Institute of Astronomy,<br />
University of <strong>Cambridge</strong>; Rob Halden-Pratt,<br />
Venla Hellstedt – ITV Local Anglia; Toby Haggith<br />
– IWM; Alexander King – Leeds <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>;<br />
Steve Turvill – Limoncello; Alexandra and Inigo<br />
Westmeier – Linger On <strong>Film</strong>s; Amanda Moore,<br />
Matt Smith, Andy Woodyatt – Lionsgate; Andrew<br />
Burn – London Institute of Education; Pete Fraser,<br />
Sandra Hamilton-Fox, Tanya Jones, Barney Oram,<br />
Nick Potamitis, Tom Woodcock – Long Road Sixth<br />
Form College; Patrick Neate, Lisa Plowman, Rob<br />
Whatmough – Longsands College; Peter Daybell,<br />
Mike Flanagan, Allegre Hadida – Magdalene<br />
College; David Conolly, Hannah Davis – Mansion<br />
Pictures; Mark Mahon – Maron Pictures; Sara<br />
Frain, John Ramchandani – Metrodome; Mia<br />
Bays – Mia <strong>Film</strong>s; Helen Fairweather, Christopher<br />
Townsend – Mills & Reeve; Moira McDonagh,<br />
Hamish Moseley – Momentum; Fleur Buckley,<br />
Briony Dixon – National <strong>Film</strong> Archive; Robert<br />
Beeson, Pamela Engel – New Wave <strong>Film</strong>s;<br />
Steven Woolley – Number 9 <strong>Film</strong>s; Ben Luxford,<br />
Danny Perkins, Hugh Spearing – Optimum;<br />
Marta Lachacz – Paisa <strong>Film</strong>s; Deborah<br />
Sheppard – Paramount; Colin Webb – Palazzo<br />
Editions Ltd; Nick Varley – Park Circus; Jackie<br />
Billing, Mike Clover, James Durran, Andrew<br />
Hutchinson – Parkside Community College;<br />
John Fletcher, Francois Ivernel, Kate Lambert,<br />
Dave Woodward – Pathe Entertainment UK; Tom<br />
Abell, Kahloon Loke – Peccadillo Pictures; Nikki<br />
Beeson, Simon Singleton – Piggott Black Bear;<br />
Katherine Kaufman – Porchlight Entertainment;<br />
James Keen, Hayley Scrivener – Q103; Paul<br />
Wigfield – QED; Elliot Grove – Raindance <strong>Film</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong>; Sam – Red Lion; Brian Jamieson – Red<br />
Wind Productions; Joel Kennedy, Justin Marciano,<br />
David Shear, Gemma Spector – Revolver; Simona<br />
Nastac, Magda Stroe – Romanian Cultural<br />
Institute, London; David Collins – Samson <strong>Film</strong>s;<br />
Lesley Morgan – Sawston Village Community<br />
College; Martin Ayres, Sam Burton, Maria<br />
Gonzalez, Claire Treadwell – Screen East; Rod<br />
Ingersent, Annabel Bradford – Scudamores<br />
Punting Company; Nick Lumby – Screenprint;<br />
Matt Kelland, Tiffany Kerr, John O’Boyle – Short<br />
Fuze; Kieron Corless, Ronnie Hackston, Rob<br />
Winter – Sight & Sound; Elizabeth Draper –<br />
Slingshot; Ed Fletcher, Marie Foulston, Eve<br />
Gabereau, Kate Gerova, Frances Harvey, Ben<br />
Metcalf – Soda Pictures; Andy O’Hanlon – South<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>shire District Council; Leigh Adams,<br />
Patrick Neate, Rob Watnough – St Neots College;<br />
Andy Campbell – Stagecoach; Vincenzo Esposito<br />
– Stockholm Italian <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>; Edward Casbon,<br />
Simon Jones, Jonathan Woods – Studio 24; Brian<br />
Cleary – Sygma Safety; Jacqueline Clark – The<br />
Flower House; Pete Edwards, Amy Vaughan – The<br />
Junction; Lucy Fleet, Damian Spandley, Laura<br />
Wykes – The Works; Jon Thompson – The Workx;<br />
Penny Hopwood – Threefold Music;<br />
Mihai Chirilov – Transylvania International <strong>Film</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong>; Professor Martin Rees – Trinity College,<br />
University of <strong>Cambridge</strong>; Robin Grbich – Trinity<br />
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INDEX<br />
1000 JOURNALS ....................................... 36<br />
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY ........................... 10<br />
A LIFE IN THE DEATH OF JOE MEEK (MUSIC) 52<br />
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (REVIVALS) . 54<br />
A PIECE OF MY SKY IS MISSING (JARMAN) .. 57<br />
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (REVIVALS)... 55<br />
ALEXANDRA .............................................. 20<br />
ALGERIA, UNSPOKEN STORIES ................... 20<br />
ALONE IN FOUR WALLS .............................. 36<br />
AÑO UÑA................................................... 20<br />
ARIA [EXCERPTS] (JARMAN) ....................... 56<br />
BABY FACE (WARNER BROS.) ..................... 66<br />
BECOMING VERA (TRANSMISSION) ............... 8<br />
BELLE DE JOUR ......................................... 21<br />
BELLE TOUJOURS ...................................... 21<br />
BEST OF SCREEN EAST DIGITAL SHORTS<br />
(SHORTFUSION) ...................................... 74<br />
BI THE WAY................................................ 17<br />
BICYCLE THIEVES (REVIVALS)...................... 54<br />
BIG PITCH, MICROBUDGET ......................... 12<br />
BLACK LEGION (WARNER BROS) ................. 66<br />
BLIND HUSBANDS (MUSIC) ......................... 50<br />
BLOOD CAR............................................... 17<br />
BLUE (JARMAN) ......................................... 56<br />
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (KARLOFF) .......... 69<br />
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED ............................. 21<br />
BURMA ALL INCLUSIVE .............................. 17<br />
CAFÉ DE LOS MAESTROS .......................... 39<br />
CAMBRIDGESHIRE ON FILM (CFC) ............... 77<br />
CANAL (POLISH SEASON) ........................... 44<br />
CAPTAIN BLOOD (WARNER BROS.) ............. 65<br />
CAUGHT IN THE ACT .................................. 21<br />
CENSORSHIP, FILM & BBFC WORKSHOP (CFC) ..76<br />
CLERMONT SHORTS <strong>2008</strong> (SHORTFUSION) ..74<br />
CONVERSATIONS WITH MY GARDENER ....... 22<br />
CRAWFORD ............................................... 38<br />
CYCLES ..................................................... 22<br />
DEREK (JARMAN) ....................................... 57<br />
DOG DAYS (ULRICH SEIDL) ......................... 63<br />
DR STRANGELOVE ..................................... 16<br />
DRESSING GRANITE ................................... 22<br />
ECOLOGY (CRASSH) ..................................... 8<br />
EDEN ........................................................ 23<br />
EDWARD II (JARMAN) ................................. 57<br />
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD . 19<br />
EUROPEAN SHORTS (SHORTFUSION) .......... 73<br />
FACELESS ................................................. 37<br />
FAINTHEART .............................................. 23<br />
FEAR(S) OF THE DARK ................................ 23<br />
FEATURE ................................................... 24<br />
FERMAT’S ROOM ....................................... 24<br />
FRANKENSTEIN (KARLOFF) ......................... 68<br />
FRANKENSTEIN, THE GOTHIC &<br />
THE HORROR FILM (CFC) ........................ 77<br />
GOD MADE THEM BLIND ............................ 38<br />
GOMORRAH .............................................. 24<br />
GOOD DICK ............................................... 25<br />
GOODNIGHT IRENE .................................... 25<br />
HEAVY LOAD (MUSIC) ........................... 51, 77<br />
HEAVY METAL IN BAGHDAD (MUSIC) ........... 52<br />
HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND<br />
ALIENATE<br />
PEOPLE ................................................. 25<br />
I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG<br />
(WARNER BROS) ..................................... 64<br />
I MADE THIS (CFC) ..................................... 76<br />
I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG .......................... 27<br />
IMPORT/EXPORT (ULRICH SEIDL) ................ 63<br />
IN MEMORY OF US ..................................... 27<br />
IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA ............................... 27<br />
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS 1 (SHORTFUSION) ..72<br />
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS 2 (SHORTFUSION) ..72<br />
JARMAN SHORTS 1 (JARMAN) ................... 58<br />
JARMAN SHORTS 2 (JARMAN) ................... 59<br />
JESUS, YOU KNOW (ULRICH SEIDL) ............. 63<br />
JULIA ........................................................ 60<br />
JUMP! ....................................................... 37<br />
JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY ...................... 28<br />
KATYN (POLISH SEASON) ........................... 44<br />
KING OF THE HILL ...................................... 28<br />
LA RABBIA (REVIVALS) ............................... 55<br />
LA VIE NOUVELLE (TRANSMISSION) .............. 8<br />
LAID DOWN (TRANSMISSION) ....................... 8<br />
LAS MENINAS ............................................ 28<br />
LATE NIGHT SHORTS 1 (SHORTFUSION) ...... 75<br />
LATE NIGHT SHORTS 2 (SHORTFUSION) ...... 75<br />
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN .............................. 29<br />
LIFE FOR SALE........................................... 15<br />
LINHA DE PASSE ........................................ 19<br />
LOSSES TO BE EXPECTED (ULRICH SEIDL) .. 62<br />
LOVE LETTERS AND LIVE WIRES (REVIVALS) ..54<br />
MACHINIMA WORKSHOPS .......................... 49<br />
MACHINIMA: DREAMS & SHADOWS ............ 48<br />
MACHINIMA: PLAY’S THE THING ................. 48<br />
MACHINIMA: SCREEN STORIES ................... 49<br />
MACHINIMA: SYNTHETIC CINEMA ............... 47<br />
MACHINIMA: ZERO BUDGET, BIG AUDIENCE ..48<br />
MAGDALENE STREET SCREENING .............. 10<br />
MASTERCLASS WITH CARL DAVIS .............. 11<br />
MONSTERS ON FILM (CFC) ......................... 76<br />
NEW ROMANIAN SHORTS (SHORTFUSION) .. 73<br />
ONE MAN IN THE BAND (MUSIC) ................. 50<br />
OSTIA........................................................ 59<br />
PAGEANT .................................................. 38<br />
PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE (MUSIC) ........ 50<br />
PIANO, SOLO ............................................. 29<br />
PRESERVE (POLISH) ................................... 45<br />
RICHARD HESLOP (JARMAN) ...................... 59<br />
RIVERSIDE SCREENING: BATTLEFIELD ......... 13<br />
RIVERSIDE SCREENING: DREAM SCREEN .... 13<br />
RIVERSIDE SCREENING: GREENSCAPE ........ 13<br />
RIVERSIDE SCREENING: RIVERRUN .............. 13<br />
RUNNING THE SAHARA .............................. 36<br />
SAVAGE GRACE ......................................... 15<br />
SHE SHOULD HAVE GONE TO THE MOON .... 17<br />
SLEEP FURIOUSLY ...................................... 39<br />
STANLEY KUBRICK: A LIFE IN PICTURES ...... 16<br />
STOP. WATCH. (WYSING ARTS) .................... 12<br />
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (WARNER BROS.) ...66<br />
STRENGTH AND HONOUR ........................... 29<br />
SUMMER SCARS ....................................... 31<br />
SUMMER ................................................... 31<br />
SURPRISE MOVIE ....................................... 15<br />
THE BLACK BALLOON (CFC) ................. 31, 77<br />
THE BLACK CAT (KARLOFF) ........................ 69<br />
THE BROKEN ............................................. 15<br />
THE COLOURS OF INFINITY ......................... 10<br />
THE DANCING FOREST ............................... 39<br />
THE DEVILS (JARMAN) ............................... 57<br />
THE GARDEN (JARMAN) ............................. 57<br />
THE GROCER’S SON .................................. 15<br />
THE JARMAN AWARD (JARMAN) ................. 59<br />
THE LARK .................................................. 32<br />
THE LAST LAUGH (MUSIC) .......................... 51<br />
THE LAST OF ENGLAND (JARMAN) ............. 58<br />
THE MAN FROM LONDON .......................... 32<br />
THE MUMMY (KARLOFF)............................. 68<br />
THE NEW TEN COMMANDMENTS ............... 37<br />
THE OBJECTIVE ......................................... 32<br />
THE OLD DARK HOUSE (KARLOFF) .............. 69<br />
THE OLYMPIC GAMES ON FILM (CFC) .......... 76<br />
THE RAVEN (KARLOFF) ............................... 69<br />
THE UNDERSTUDY ..................................... 33<br />
THE WAVE ................................................. 33<br />
TIME CRIMES............................................. 33<br />
TIME TO DIE (POLISH) ................................ 45<br />
TRIP TO ASIA (MUSIC) ................................ 52<br />
TWISTS OF FATE (POLISH) .......................... 45<br />
UK SHORTS 1 (SHORTFUSION) .................... 70<br />
UK SHORTS 2 (SHORTFUSION) ...............70-71<br />
UK SHORTS 3 (SHORTFUSION) .................... 71<br />
UNRELATED ............................................... 35<br />
VANAJA ..................................................... 35<br />
WAR REQUIEM (JARMAN) ........................... 58<br />
WE DREAMED AMERICA (MUSIC) ................ 51<br />
WELTSTADT ............................................... 35<br />
WHERE THE WATER MEETS THE SKY........... 17<br />
WHITE CHRISTMAS (REVIVALS) ................... 55<br />
WHITE HEAT (WARNER BROS.) .................... 65<br />
WILD COMBINATION .................................. 17<br />
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (WARNER BROS.) ...65<br />
YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS<br />
(WARNER BROS.) .................................... 64<br />
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