BRIDPORT hosts the country’s only film festival which celebrates the art of adapting the written word for the silver screen. This year, From Page to Screen runs at the arts centre, with more than 20 films, from 24th to 28th April. The guest curator is Rebecca Lenkiewicz, who wrote the screenplay for She Said and…
THE 2024 Bath Festival, running from Friday 17th to Sunday 26th May, will take audiences on an astonishing and exciting journey through some of today’s most exciting writers, challenging thinkers, hilarious comedians and brilliant musicians, with subjects that range from the climate crisis to silent horror classic Nosferatu, from the Sky at Night presenter Dr…
ONE of the most consistently exciting film events around, the Banff Mountain Film Festival tour, returns with a series of new action-packed films, continuing at the Regent Centre in Christchurch on 10th April. The Festival returns to the south and west in September. From mountain biking across America to terrifying freestyle mountain climbing or skiing…
THE story of Nicholas Winton, a man who helped to rescue hundreds of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War, is told in the film One Life, starring Anthony Hopkins as Winton in later life and Johnny Flynn as the young stockbroker and humanitarian. The film is the most popular…
IT is great news to welcome back Cinema Obscura, the always-adventurous film society based at Wiveliscombe on Exmoor. Screenings at The Shambles Cinema – Wiveliscombe Town Hall – resume with a double bill over the weekend of 5th to 7th April. A Life on the Farm, being shown on Friday 5th at 7pm and Sunday…
THE hard life of the North Sea herring fishermen was memorably captured in a 1929 documentary film which has been reissued with a new live score by the sound artist, nature beatboxer and composer Jason Singh. The film, Drifters, with Singh’s soundtrack and a new film is being shown at two Dorset venues on 15th…
SHAFTESBURY has a new festival, celebrating the baroque, specifically the glorious music of the 17th and 18th centuries. There are concerts, talks and a screening of a film about one of the greatest stars of the period, from 23rd to 28th January, with most events are at Shaftesbury Arts Centre. The festival – the latest…
BRIDPORT Arts Centre hosts a double bill of food documentaries on Thursday 25th January, at 7.30pm – Hungry for Change and Food for Thought. The films, both made in Cornwall, focus on key challenges for the future – waste, resilience and meat. In Hungry for Change, the film maker, forager Josh Quick, explores the shocking…
CINEMA Obscura returns to Wiveliscombe Town Hall on Sunday 22nd October with a screening of the film credited with giving birth to the horror genre – FW Murnau’s Nosferatu. It will be screened, at 4pm, with a new live score played by Chris Green. Nosferatu was the first cinematic interpretation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and…
A NEW documentary by Bridport-based photographer and film-maker Robert Golden is being shown at Bridport Arts Centre on Sunday 17th September, as part of this year’s International Day of Democracy events. The afternoon programme begins at 3.30pm with A Snapshort, an award-winning short film, funded by the British Film Institute, which explores the experience of…