TWO remarkable teachers are at the heart of the most in-demand films for September, as Moviola begins its autumn season of taking the best contemporary and classic cinema to village halls and community centres across the region. Leading the field are Mr Burton, the acclaimed portrait of the teacher who supported and inspired the great…
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…
WINDROSE Rural Media Trust has a new team at the helm, fir the first time in the more than 40 years since it was founded by Trevor Bailey, who has retired but will remain as a trustee. Three women have taken over the charity, which works across Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire on educational, archival and…
A STARRY film adaptation of Raynor Winn’s best-selling memoir The Salt Path is to open at Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre as part of its national release on Friday 30th May. The film stars Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs as Raynor and her husband Moth who, following his terminal diagnosis and the devastating loss of their…
DEVON-born actress Caroline Corrie has made an impressive debut as a film director with Shalborne and there are two screenings at Honiton’s Beehive on Saturday 8th February, at 3.30pm and 7.30pm. The versatile actress, who trained at RADA, has not only written and directed this debut feature film, she also designed the costumes and sets…
THE music of the baroque is some of the most engaging, moving and enjoyable of any classical music era. Shaftesbury Arts Centre celebrates this colourful musical genre at a festival which runs from Wednesday 22nd to Sunday 26th January, with a programme of recitals, talks and film. What and who do you think of when…
ONE of the great mysteries of the inter-war years is the death of TE Lawrence – Lawrence of Arabia – in a motorcycle accident not far from his Dorset home at Clouds Hill near Wareham. On Saturday 18th January, Bridport’s Electric Palace has a screening of a fascinating documentary, Who Killed Lawrence of Arabia? is…
WORLD-famous Scottish actor Brian Cox is coming to the Marine Theatre at Lyme Regis on 28th January for the launch of a new cinema programme. The actor, currently playing the composer Johann Sebastian Bach in The Score at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, was most recently the fearsome Logan Roy in Succession, and has starred in…
SHERBORNE International Film Festival, over the weekend 17th to 20th October, takes film-goers on an adventurous and exciting journey from Korea to Colombia, via Japan, China and France. The programme includes rarities and favourites and opens on Thursday evening with the spectacular 2002 Chinese historical drama Hero, at the festival venue, the Powell Theatre in…