Archive for September, 2009

Bonus issue of the Cambridge Film Festival Daily newspaper, supported by TTP Group, is available online now. Read our interviews with the directors of THE OTHER IRENE, MORRIS: A LIFE WITH BELLS ON and BOOGIE WOOGIE, plus discover what the surprise film was & more.

Interview with Lucy Akhurst & Charles Thomas Oldham of MORRIS: A LIFE WITH BELLS ON

During my conversation with husband-and-wife team Lucy Akhurst and Charles Thomas Oldham (director and screenwriter / producer respectively of MORRIS: A LIFE WITH BELLS ON), it occurred to me that creating a film must have a lot in common with dancing as part of a morris troupe. An instinct for choreography – by which I mean, balancing different roles and pressures – must be essential to co-ordinate a project as multi-faceted as this. Maybe it’s even a little like marriage as well. Against the odds, however, the pair have pulled it off: they have assembled an impressive cast, captured the beauty of the English landscape, and updated the image of a rather under-appreciated English pastime. It is a film filled with gentle (and occasionally riotous) humour, that should – and hopefully will – do for morris dancing what STRICTLY BALLROOM did for another popularly-derided dance form.

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An interview with the director of THE OTHER IRENE, Andrei Gruzsniczki

As part of the Festival’s ‘Border Crossings’ season, audiences saw a Romanian production, THE OTHER IRENE directed by Andrei Gruzsniczki. Just before the screening of the film, I had an opportunity to talk to the director. Sipping his tea, Gruzsniczki tells me about “the story behind the story” of his movie, specifically “I didn’t choose the story. It chose me.”

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Director Justin Molotnikov and producers Rachel Robey and Alastair Clark join us for our last live Q&A following the screening of CRYING WITH LAUGHTER at 6.00pm.

A powerfully redemptive and darkly comedic revenge thriller, CRYING WITH LAUGHTER is set against the vicious world of stand-up comedy. Watch the teaser trailer.

Starring Stephen McCole (Rushmore, Band of Brothers, The Crow Road, High Times), Malcolm Shields (Young Adam, The Lost World, Hallam Foe), Andrew Neil (Amazing Grace) and Jo Hartley (This is England).

Make sure you don’t miss a late addition to the Festival programme, RAIN OF THE CHILDREN, which weaves drama with documentary to unravel the extraordinary story of Puhi, a Maori woman who welcomed director Vincent Ward into her home in 1978.

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