Archive for 2009

We’ve been busy selecting the most popular films in the Festival so far and have just confirmed the line-up of repeat screenings at the Arts Picturehouse for our closing weekend.

So if you didn’t catch these films the first time round, don’t miss your chance to see:

Sat 26 Sep
WE THE EMIGRANTS + LONG DISTANCE, 10.30am
NAVIDAD, 11.00am
LEFT, 11.00pm

Sun 27 Sep
THE PIT & THE PENDULUM, 1.00pm
MACHAN, 1.15pm
EVERYONE ELSE, 6.45pm
KIN, 9.00pm

Louie Psihoyos’ much celebrated documentary THE COVE (12A), winner of the Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is our closing night film. THE COVE is an astounding piece of investigative journalism with the heart of an action thriller.

Led by Louie Psihoyos, leader of the Ocean Preservation Society, and Richard O’Barry, an internationally recognised authority on dolphin training, this eco-pic follows a high-tech dive team on a mission to discover the truth about the international dolphin capture trade as practised in Taji, Japan. Utilising state-of-the-art techniques, including hidden microphones and cameras, the team uncovers how this small seaside village serves as a horrifying microcosm of massive ecological crimes happening worldwide.

“The movie is a Trojan horse: an exceptionally well-made documentary that unfolds like a spy thriller, complete with bugged hotel rooms, clandestine derring-do and mysterious men in grey flannel suits.” New York Times

Arts Picturehouse | Sunday 27 September, 9.00pm Book tickets via the Arts Picturehouse website, in person, or by calling 0871 704 2050 (10p per minute from a landline).

Rounding up the usual suspects from the BAFTA PEEP SHOW event at the Cambridge Film Festival

The Cambridge Film Festival welcomed the writers and stars of cult television and BAFTA award winning comedy PEEP SHOW. They were here to give an insight into how a sitcom about two socially inept twenty somethings has become one of the most unlikely popular television shows of recent times.

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Exploring the realms of recent avant-garde with the Mark Boswell strand

Mark Boswell’s filmic colour palette might be black and white, but the content of his films certainly isn’t. A scholar of film and film theory, Boswell studied in various institutions across Europe and America for over 12 years up until 1992, penning the Nova-Kino Manifesto in 1994. His hopes for the Nova-Kino movement; to found a pertinent cinematic theory for filmmakers and media artists alike who, as Boswell describes, “utilise found footage as source material to be re-edited or re-animated, giving radical rebirth or second life in their reconstructed state.”

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Issue #9 of the Cambridge Film Festival Daily newspaper, supported by TTP Group, is available online now. Read our report of the BAFTA PEEP SHOW event on Thursday 24 September, plus feature on Nova-Kino and Mark Boswell & more.