ONE of the great silent western movies gets a new score played live by The Dodge Brothers at Bridport’s Electric Palace on Sunday 16th June at 7pm. The screening of the 1916 classic Hell’s Hinges, directed by and starring William S Hart, follows last autumn’s first silent black and white film, Beggars Of Life, screened…
AS a film location, Lyme Regis is best known for the iconic scene in The French Lieutenant’s Woman, with a wind-swept and haunted Meryl Streep looking out to sea on The Cobb. But the town has had starring roles in two other films, 70 years apart. A few weeks ago, the national press was full…
THIS year’s Salisbury International Arts Festival marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War with a unique multimedia experience about a couple who refused to leave the fall-out zone from one of the world’s worst nuclear accidents, Chernobyl. Acclaimed at festivals around the world, the…
BRIDPORT’s unique celebration of cinema and the written word returns to the arts centre and the Electric Palace, from 24th to 29th April. From Page to Screen, now in its 11th year, explores the relationship between words and film, with a programme that ranges from black and white classics to the newest releases. The aim…
THE final film of the 2018-19 season for Exmoor’s adventurous Cinema Obscura film society Summer 1993 directed by Carla Simon, on Sunday 14th April at Wiveliscombe Primary School Hall. The film, which is in Spanish Catalan with English subtitles, follows the experiences of six-year-old Frida who watches in silence as the last objects from her…
FROM two of the great stars of the early silver screen to a dark drama about a superficially perfect marriage, the Moviola programme for April has some great films on offer. The most popular film in the region is Stan and Ollie, starring an almost unrecognisable Steve Coogan as Stan Laurel and John C Reilly…
IT would be hard to think of a finer setting for an exhibition of wildlife paintings than the Barn Gallery at Sculpture by the Lakes, at Pallington near Dorchester, where Dorset artist Julie Brunn has her first ever solo show, on until Saturday 6th April. After qualifying with a fine art degree from Birmingham in…
DORSET’s media charity Windrose is bringing a remarkable programme of rare and previously unseen archive film to Dorchester Corn Exchange on Saturday 6th April, at 7.30pm. The films include Gertrude Bugler – Thomas Hardy’s original Tess on stage in Dorchester in the 1920s – talking in later life, and her sister Norrie Woodhall, also a…
AT 82, could John Newcombe be Britain’s oldest cinema projectionist? John has been showing films since 1952 – and at 82 he’s still working regular shifts at Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts. His first break came as a teenage rewind boy in the ABC cinema in Northampton where his job was to physically remove…
THE David Hall at South Petherton has an eclectic March programme, continuing with Somerset’s rising folk star Kitty Macfarlane on Saturday 16th March. Kitty’s songs combine honest snapshots of everyday humanity with the bigger questions that have connected minds and voices for centuries, driven by her own fingerpicked guitar. Handbags and Glad Rags, on Friday…