BRIDPORT-based writer and graphic designer Claire Shilton went on impulse to visit some remote islands in the South Pacific – she will be a the arts centre on Thursday 26th October to talk about her travels to Vanuatu. She says: “The Brexit thing had happened, Trump was now in power and I was burnt out,…
EXMOOR’s adventurous film society, Cinema Obscura, will be showing the Oscar-winning Persian film, The Salesman, on Sunday 15th October at the usual venue, Wiveliscombe Primary School, at 7.30. Directed by Asghar Farhadi, in English and Persian, with English subtitles, The Salesman won the Academy Award as Best Foreign Language film at the 2017 Oscars. Forced…
FROM little acorns … 21 years ago Purbeck Film Festival was born, a small but ambitious project in one of the most beautiful parts of the country. Now, celebrating its 21st birthday, from 13th to 29th October, it is the biggest rural film festival in the UK. The festival is based at the historic Rex…
THIS year, Dorset’s Screen Bites Food Film Festival celebrates its “Bakers Dozen,” 13 years of bringing delicious gems of world cinema to village halls around the region, with local food producers and farm shops offering tastings and sales. It’s a unique formula – not only the country’s only food film festival but believed to be…
REAL life personal stories and public events dominate the themes of the October films on the Moviola circuit – Indian independence and the bloodshed of Partition, the Second World War and the space race. Unsurprising, giving the theme and the cast, Their Finest is the most popular film of the month. The story of a…
BRUTON’s At The Chapel shows screenwriter Gaby Chiappe’s critically acclaimed film, Their Finest, on Thursday 12th October at 7pm. Starring Gemma Arterton as a scriptwriter in London in 1940, with Bill Nighy as a vain, ageing film star, it’s a witty, touching and uplifting story about the making of a World War II propaganda movie….
OCTOBER is the month of the Dorset film festivals – both Screen Bites Food Film Festival and Purbeck Film Festival run for the second fortnight – but Poole’s Lighthouse Arts Centre has a busy programme of films for all the family. From Friday 6th to Thursday 12th October, the big film is Victoria and Abdul,…
SCREEN Bites Food Film Festival, brings films from around the world to village halls across Dorset – this year, from 13th to 28th October, from Cranborne to Wootton Fitzpaine, and from Japan to Iran via New England and India. After the opening Fanny and Johnnie Cradock dinner theatre night, (see separate story), Screen Bites heads…
BOURNEMOUTH’s new music ensemble Kokoro will be playing live to accompany a screening of Blackmail, a classic silent Hitchcock thriller at Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival, on Sunday 15th October at 8pm at Pavilion Dance. The event is the closing event of the first annual Short Sounds Film Festival, celebrating the sound of cinema …
BOURNEMOUTH’s always inventive Arts by the Sea Festival offers some wild and witty watery adventures at this year’s seventh annual festival, from 14th to 21st October. With a theme of Plastic Beach, to highlight the serious environmental concerns about plastic pollutions in the oceans, the festival offers a line-up that ranges from fantastic fantasy fish…