Cambridge Film Festival on Tour – Stately Screenings in August
Cambridge Film Festival, in association with the National Trust and Screen East is delighted to present spectacular open-air screenings in magnificent settings across the Eastern region.
On 15 & 16 August we will be in the splendid setting of the 17th century country house, Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk with screenings of Charlotte’s Web (U) on Wednesday 15 August and Casino Royale (12A) on Thursday 16 August. Then on 24 August Grease (PG) comes to Ickworth House, near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.
Tickets cost £12.50 for adults, £7.50 for children or £30 for a family ticket (2 adults, 2 children) and include a glass of wine or soft drink on arrival and exclusive after-hours access to the grounds. Gates open at 6.30pm and the films will start at dusk (approx 9pm).
Book now on 08707 55 12 42 or online at www.picturehouses.co.uk
An interview with director Sarah Turner by Jon Mitchell.
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Ecology: oikos from the Greek meaning ‘house’, and logos, the word. ECOLOGY is
a feature film in three parts, three characters and three stories to be screened in any order: the stories of a mother, a daughter and a son, on holiday in Majorca. Visually, the film is stunning: we move from split-screen to degraded footage from a mobile phone to
Super 8, giving a pronounced textural richness to the image. The sound design is equally striking: the director’s aim was to ‘recycle’ sound from the landscape, which adds greatly to the sense of disquiet and fragmentation in the narratives. Monologues run out of synch from the events on screen; we see things often after they have been narrated, or images float into view to contradict the words we are hearing. In rare moments of conventional dialogue, the image is likely to break down into a sequence of stills, a stuttering relay of static moments. It is as though the apparatus of the film falters, unable in some way to deal with the emotional force of the encounter and distancing us further from the moment of interaction. Read the rest of this entry »
This week’s edition of the World Service technology programme Digital Planet has an extended report from the Festival, concentrating on the digital future of film-making and including interviews with Tony Jones, Roger Smith, Isabelle McNeill and Tim and April from Rock, Paper, Scissors.
You can listen to it on the BBC website for seven days… so go now!
The 27th Cambridge Film Festival finished last night with a gala screening of THE HOAX to a packed cinema, and now there’s only the clearing up to be done. We’d like to thank everyone involved, and all those who came to see the films!
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