We have just 2 more days left now so it really is time to make sure you don’t miss out! We’ve added some repeat and NEW screenings to the programme! To make deciding what to watch easier for you, we’ve produced an updated timetable that you can download as a PDF.
Announcements:
SURPRISE FILM 2! (CFF 15) Addition
Sun 25 8.15pm @ ArtsPicturehouse
Whilst our annual SURPRISE FILM has now sold out as per usual, our Festival Director has surprised us all by announcing a second, entirely different Surprise Film! Having used our imagination we’re naming this SURPRISE FILM 2 (Cert. CFF 15). Tickets are already selling fast. If you missed out on tickets for the 6pm option but are keen to enjoy the liberating feeling of finding out what the film is only as the lights go down, book online now or phone the box office (0871 902 5720) – or ask at the Arts Picturehouse. All we can tell you is that you will be some of the first in the UK to see this film…!
FAMILY FILM FESTIVAL (U) Additions
Due to their popularity with children, and parents (partly to do with the fantastically cheap tickets & friendly venue no doubt!) we have been able to add more weekend morning options:
OCTONAUTS: Explore! Rescue! Protect! Sat 24 10.15am @ ArtsPicturehouse
TO INFINITY – & BEYOND! (Mr Benn, Bagpuss, The Clangers, Ivor the Engine) Sun 25 10.15am @ ArtsPicturehouse
OTHER ADDITIONS, SECOND CHANCES
Saturday
DIMENSIONS: A LINE, A LOOP, A TANGLE OF THREAD 5.00pm @ Murray Edwards College
Filmed entirely in Cambridge, DIMENSIONS returns for a third time to meet demand!
Sunday
THE OAK 10.15am @ Arts Picturehouse [Strand: Romanian]
Don’t miss the last opportunity to see this compelling example of the Romanian New Wave.
SOUND IT OUT screening with ANALOGUE KINGDOM 12.30pm @ Arts Picturehouse [Strand: DOCS]
A must for any half-serious or old school music fans with a love of elusive vinyls.
TASTE THE WASTE 1.00pm @ Murray Edwards College [Strand: DOCS]
A gripping look at the vast amount of food we waste and what it means for our present & future.
AGE OF CHAMPIONS screening with WATER LILIES IN BLOOM 3.00pm @ Murray Edwards College EUROPEAN PREMIERE [Strand: DOCS]
The triumphant spirit of a 100-yr-old tennis champion, an 86 yr-old pole vaulter, a team of basketball grandmothers & more characters seek gold medals at the National Senior Olympic Games!
Other Weekend Highlights:
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F.C. Chechnya & FUNGUS
* UK Premiere*
Sat 1.00pm @ Arts Picturehouse
See if you liked STREET KIDS UNITED and/or BENGALI DETECTIVE. Football provides a lifeline at this Chechnyan club, for the murky world of those seeking asylum. Now there are hopes and dreams.
FUNGUS is an incredible 8 minute short film from Sweden.
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AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Sat 3.00pm @ Arts Picturehouse
A new HD print of this lovable classic starring Gene Kelly: a struggling American painter in Paris is “discovered” by an influential heiress with an interest in more than just his art!
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TROUBADORS
Sat 5.30pm @ Arts Picturehouse
Fans of American music from the likes of James Taylor and Carole King should get down to see this: a musical history journey centred around the infamous Troubadors club of L.A. in the States.
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TYRANNOSAUR
* UK Premiere* PLUS Paddy Considine joins us!
Sat 8.00pm @ Arts Picturehouse
Actor Paddy Considine (SUBMARINE, HOT FUZZ) impressed audiences at Sundance with this feature-length directorial debut, earning himself the Word Cinema Directing Award in the process. TYRANNOSAUR takes an unflinching look at one man’s submission to rage and violence emotions that threaten to consume him. Watch the trailer >
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Late Night Special: SILENT RUNNING
Sat 10.30pm @ Arts Picturehouse
Perfect Saturday night viewing, this classic Sci-Fi is a new HD print and follows an introverted caretaker of the Earth’s last remaining greenery up on a space station.
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Late Night Special: GUILTY OF ROMANCE
* UK Premiere*
Sat 10.45pm @ Arts Picturehouse
Bending genres such as film noir, melodrama, thriller and soft porn, GUILTY OF ROMANCE is the anticipated trilogy-finish that began with LOVE EXPOSURE, from Japanese cult director Shion Sono.
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Looking ahead to Sunday’s Closing Night Film: THE LOOK
Sun 8.30pm
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Full Saturday listings here
Wondering what to see on Sunday? Take a look
Here’s a list of festival highlights that we thought you should keep in mind when planning your weekend:
Friday 23 Sep – Saturday 24 Sep – Sunday 25 Sep
SURPRISE MOVIE (15)
Sun 25 Sep at 8.15pm @ Arts Picturehouse
With our SURPRISE MOVIE screening at 6pm on Sunday having already sold out, the Festival Director has just announced an additional, brand new secret treat which will screen at 8.15pm on Sunday. You know the score – we won’t reveal anything at all about this film until the opening credits roll, but rest assured this is a hot ticket and you’ll be amongst the first in the UK to see it! This will be a completely different film to the 6pm Surprise Film, so if you’ve already bought tickets for that why not double your fun and sign up for a second filmic surprise too?
FAMILY FILM FESTIVAL CLOSING WEEKEND TREATS
Saturday: OCTONAUTS @ 10.15am / THE GRUFFALO @ 11am / family -friendly shorts SPRITES 10 @ 11.30am
Sunday: MR BENN, BAGPUSS, CLANGERS and IVOR THE ENGINE go TO INFINITY – AND BEYOND! @ 10.30am
Top Indie Film Distributor that brought Park Chan-Wook & the biggest Bergman collection to UK just arrived at the Arts Picturehouse! Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw will be interviewing the maverick film mogul at CFF tonight at 8pm sharp. The man behind infamous TARTAN FILMS will give us more of an insight into his bold and unorthodox leadership, so don’t miss out!
To top it all off…
The man whose imagination conceived intrepid, dance-obsessed gumshoe Rajesh Ji and his motley band of helpers on unpredictable investigations across Kolkata and India is now bracing himself for an informative Q&A session right after tonight’s screening of his Sundance and Berlin hit doc THE BENGALI DETECTIVE. Phil Cox is here, and yes, we’re well excited! Are you?
*STOP PRESS* *STOP PRESS* * STOP PRESS* With our SURPRISE MOVIE screening at 6pm on Sunday having already sold out, the Festival Director has just announced an additional, brand new secret treat which will screen at 8.15pm on Sunday. You know the score – we won’t reveal anything at all about this film until the opening credits roll, but rest assured this is a hot ticket and you’ll be amongst the first in the UK to see it! This will be a completely different film which is totally unrelated to the 6pm Surprise Film, so if you’ve already bought tickets for that why not double your fun and sign up for a second filmic surprise too? Buy your tickets here.
Surprise Film 2 - Sunday 25th September 2011 – 8.15pm - Suggested certificate 15
Former Tartan boss Hamish McAlpine talks about film business at the Cambridge Film Festival
TARTAN FILMS fans should also come by at the Picturehouse to see critically acclaimed Donald Cammell’s Wild Side screening on Wed 21 Sep at 11pm.
Eccentric and flamboyant, McAlpine was an adventurous distributor with a taste that ranged from the best US independent cinema to turn-of-the-century pornography (THE GOOD OLD NAUGHTY DAYS) to films about serial killers (ED GEIN, TED BUNDY) and classic European arthouse cinema (Tartan has released far more Ingmar Bergman titles on DVD than any Swedish distributor). He championed free speech, constantly jousting with the BBFC over ratings for films such as THE PORNOGRAPHER and THE ISLE. He was pioneering in introducing British cinemagoers to the work of Asian directors like Park Chan-wook, Wong Kar-wai and Kim Ki-duk.” Geoffrey Macnab, The Guardian
Few independent film distribution companies make a name for themselves – one that is remembered and recognised – but before it folded in 2008, Tartan Films had achieved that honour – largely due to the bold and unorthodox leadership of Hamish McAlpine. A man with an uncanny eye for a great film, who established Tartan’s reputation as a the distributor of great arthouse and horror cinema, he also allegedly dressed up as Béatrice Dalle when the French actress failed to turn up to a press junket, and held a knife at the throat of a US executive in order to demonstrate that film was ‘a cut-throat business’.
To get the inside story, join us on Thu 22 Sep at 8pm @ Arts Picturehouse as the enfant terrible himself talks with Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw for one night only!
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