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…
THE 2018-19 season of Exmoor’s adventurous film society, Cinema Obscura, continues on Sunday10th March with the brilliant and Oscar-nominated Polish film, Cold War, directed by Pawel Pawlikowsk, at 7.30pm In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France. Pawlikowski follows his…
A FILM that preceded the #MeToo movement by nearly 40 years is the choice for an International Women’s Day screening, on Friday 8th March, thanks to the locally based Where West Begins film organisation. Nine to Five is a comedy starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton as secretaries who abduct their tyrannical boss…
BANFF Mountain Film Festival returns for the tenth year, with screenings at many of this area’s arts centres and cinemas, starting at Poole Lighthouse on 13th February and Weymouth Pavilion on 15th February. The festival tour features two different collections of new films from some of the world’s most intrepid film- makers, starring pioneers and…
FILM historian and Lyme Regis resident Karol Kulik and David Johnson, a leading light of Lyme Regis Film Society and former manager of the town’s Regent cinema, have got together to organise film nights at the Marine Theatre, starting on Tuesday 12th March with Blade Runner. Tuesday Night at the Movies is a new regular…