TELEVISION schedules are packed with so-called “holiday” favourites (often films that didn’t get rave reviews first time out), and theatres are bursting at the seams with Dames, ugly sisters and winsome princesses, but Moviola’s audiences have different ideas, and the mobile cinema organisation’s December programme has a fascinating selection, led by the bittersweet Ballad of…
NOTHING explores the depths of emotion and drama like a great movie melodrama, and a new season of films at Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre, starting on 4th and ending on 26th November, sets out to celebrate the genre with a programme that ranges from Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? to Baz Luhrman’s Romeo and Juliet….
UNTIL a few months ago, the names of Moth and Raynor Winn provoked respect and admiration, and the their story was filmed as The Salt Path, with a stellar cast featuring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs. That critically-praised film is the most-requested on Moviola’s November programme. In July, The Observer newspaper broke the story which…
THE West front of Salisbury Cathedral is one of the glories of Western architecture – and it makes for an astonishing backdrop as Luxmuralis return from 4th to 8th November with a breathtaking spectacle of light and sound – Sarum Lights: Lost Worlds. This innovative light and sound show will take viewers on a journey…
A MASTERPIECE of silent cinema, set in one of the world’s greatest cathedrals, will be screened in another – Salisbury Cathedral, on Saturday 15th November, when The Hunchback of Notre Dame will be shown, with a live organ score. Jonathan Hope, one of the most dynamic organists of his generation, will improvise a live organ…
SHERBORNE International Film Festival returns over the weekend 16th to 19th October at the Powell Theatre in Abbey Road, with the usual compelling mix of classic and new foreign films, including the multi Oscar winning Korean black comedy Parasite and Indochine, an epic drama set in south east Asia in the years before the Vietnam…
ONE of the greatest films of all time, and a classic of the silent movie era, Fritz Lang’s 1927 Metropolis is being shown at Bridport Arts Centre on Friday 10th October with an exciting new live soundtrack performed by Palooka 5, playing 1960s-tinged ‘sci-fi surf music’. The film is one of the best science fiction…
BY any stretch of the imagination, Dracula – or Nosferatu – is the most famous horror story of all. Bram Stoker’s 1897 gothic novel has spawned films, plays, ballets, puppet shows … even pantomimes. Now it is back on screen, coming to Dorchester Corn Exchange on Wednesday 15th October, in the FW Murnau silent film…
THERE is grand opera in world-famous venues, country house opera in historic and beautiful gardens – and there is village opera at Oborne, the pretty little village close to Sherborne. Here local music lovers, with Jon and Jenny Fletcher of the Grange at Oborne hotel, have established a small but perfectly-formed summer festival which brings…
MOST of us would agree that the idea of being buried alive is unspeakably terrifying. This is the starting point of a dark thriller, Die Before You Die, which is getting its second local screening at Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre cinema on Tuesday 13th May, at 7.30pm, followed by a Q&A session with the director…