Past Events...
June 2010
Powell &
Pressburger
Friday 18 June, 6.00 - 9.00 & Saturday 19 June, 10.00am - 5.00
Tutor: Trish Sheil.
Course fee: £50; Members £45; Concessions £35.
Price includes free screening plus a comprehensive study pack.
Brit Chic Fashion:
Fashion on Film
1946 - 1989
Tickets: £4.60; Senior Citizens: £3.60 plus free tea/coffee with each ticket.
Booking opens one week before each screening.
Presented in association with the BFI, the Arts Picturehouse, Cambridgeshire FIlm Consortium and Cambridge City Council.
The Vanishing of Bees
Directors: George Langsworthy, Maryam Henein.USA 2009. 97 mins.
“I realised this was a global issue, a compelling story, and one I had to cover.” (DIRECTOR GEORGE LANGWORTHY)
A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium event for Cambridge City Council Environment Festival sponsored by the Co-operative Membership www.co-operative.co.uk and supported by the Co-operative ‘Plan Bee’ Campaign.
May 2010
Young Peoples
Film Festival
Film Submission Deadline: Monday 31 May 2010, 12.00 noon.
With an ‘Oscars’ style Awards Ceremony.
Primary age: the Cambridge Corn Exchange, 8 July;
11-21 years: the Arts Picturehouse, 25 June.
For IT support, trouble shooting and editing email Rydian from the Cambridgeshire Film Consortium office: rydcook@gmail.com
BFI Mediatheque on Tour
The Search for
Shangri-La: Tibet on Film
1922-1950Introduced by Jan Faull from the BFI National Archive
Tickets: £4.60; Senior Citizens: £3.60 plus free tea/coffee with each ticket.
Booking opens one week before each screening.
Presented in association with the BFI, the Arts Picturehouse, Cambridgeshire FIlm Consortium and Cambridge City Council.
OR AT THE BOX OFFICE
April 2010
INTO FILM 1:
An Introduction to Understanding Film
13 April - 22 June*Tue, 6.00 - 8.00
Do you enjoy watching movies? Would you like to learn more about film? Why not join us for this informal and friendly evening course, exploring editing patterns, avant-garde practices, narrative techniques, and adaptation of literature to film? Using wide-ranging film examples, the course will provide you with an opportunity to develop an understanding of film language, to watch films and participate in relaxed post-screening discussions.
Tutor: Trish Sheil.
Course fee: £85; Members £80; Concessions £65.
Includes two free cinema screenings and a comprehensive study pack.
* excludes 1 and 8 June.
Exploring
Spanish Cinema
28 April - 16 June*Wed, 6.00 - 8.00
plus Sat 22 May, 9.30am - 11.30 am
Do you enjoy watching movies? Would you like to learn more about film? Why not join us for this informal and friendly evening course, exploring editing patterns, avant-garde practices, narrative techniques, and adaptation of literature to film? Using wide-ranging film examples, the course will provide you with an opportunity to develop an understanding of film language, to watch films and participate in relaxed post-screening discussions.
Tutor: Trish Sheil.
Course fee: £85; Members £80; Concessions £65.
Includes two free cinema screenings and a comprehensive study pack. * excludes 1 and 8 June.
Wednesday 21 April 2010
Bombs at Teatime: War-Time Britain.
These films document domestic life of war-time Britain under austerity seeking to retain its sanity in the shadow of war. ISLAND PEOPLE Dir: Paul Rotha & Philip Leacock is a portrait of Britain in which ‘High Tea’ isn’t often taken. But pubs, football and gardening are still fixtures of national life; FIVE-INCH BATHER directed by Richard Massingham instructs Britons in the importance of war-time water economy; THE COUNTRYWOMEN shows Women’s Institute contribution to the War effort; and CHRISTMAS UNDER FIRE shows how life goes on as usual, but in 1941 Christmas trees are cut short to fit in the shelters and the London Underground’s platforms are lined with people trying to sleep.
Presented in association with the British Film Institute, The Arts Picture House, Cambridgeshire Film Consortium and Cambridge City Council
March 2010
Thursday 18 March 2010
VERTIGO Study Day
Through presentations, illustrated with film clips, this CFC Vertigo study day will explore the social and production backgound to Vertigo, Hitchcock as auteur and women in Hitchcock films.
Speakers include: Dr Sarah Barrow: Anglia Ruskin University;
Mark Hansard (Saffron Walden County High School)
Philip Lloyd (Hinchinbrooke School)
Wednesday 17 March 2010
KING COAL:
A CENTURY OF COAL MINING ON FILM
This programme offers a remarkable insight into an industry which came to define 20th century Britain, from precious early films such as A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner to 1940s animation, National Coal
Board recruitment advertisements and rare screenings of 1980s documentaries from the Miners’ Strike. The programme also includes Calvacanti’s 1935 Coal Face (words by W.H. Auden, music by Benjamin Britten),
and 1960’s ballads by Ewan MacColl in The Songs of the Coalfields.
Friday 12 March 2010
BLADE RUNNER : Science Fiction on Film (15)
Speakers: Prof. Rowland Wymer (Anglia Ruskin University) on the adaptation to film of
Philip K. Dick’s source novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Cambridge University Scientist: Science Fact or Fiction in Blade Runner?
BLADE RUNNER (15)
Director: Ridley Scott. Starring: Harrison Ford, Daryl Hannah.
117 mins. USA 1982.
Inspired by Fritz Lang’s METROPOLIS, Ridley Scott’s BLADE RUNNER is now a film classic of the sci-fi genre. In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth. Deckard is a Blade Runner, a cop searching out six escaped replicants.
Suitable for: GCSE/A/AS Level Film/Media/Studies/EnglishScience
Cost: £3.50. Accompanying teachers free
A CFC Event for Cambridge Science Festival 2010
Friday 5 March 2010
MEXICAN CINEMA STUDY DAY
Presentations on Mexican cinema since 1990 in the wider context of Mexican culture, politics and the Mexican film industry.
Speakers: Stephanie Muir (WJEC Examiner), Dr Sarah Barrow (Anglia Ruskin University), Erica Segre (University of Cambridge, Centre for Latin American Studies), Paula Beegan (Cambridge Film Trust)
February 2010
Introduced Screening:
EL VIOLIN (15)
Director: Francisco Vargas. Starring: Angel Tavia, Gerado Taracena, Dagoberto Gama, Mario Garibaldi
2005. 98 mins
During the Mexican peasant revolts of the 1970s, Don Plutarco, an elderly farmer and violinist, fashions an ingenious way of smuggling ammunition to the rebels beneath the noses of government troops. Shot simply and starkly in black and white, a captivating tale of family ties, duty, conflict and innocence.
Suitable for A/AS Media/ WJEC Film Studies/ Spanish
Cost: Students £7.00 Accompanying teachers FREE
Thursday 25 February: Centre of Latin American Studies, 1-day symposium “Ghosts of the Mexican Revolution in Literature and Visual Culture” Trinity College, Cambridge.
FREE for teachers attending Mexican Cinema Study Day
Thursday 4 February 2010
HAMLET ON FILM STUDY DAY
plus screening of THE REVENGERS TRAGEDY (15)
Through presentations, illustrated with film clips, this CFC Shakespeare study day will explore screen adaptations of Hamlet.
Speakers: Professor Rowland Wymer: Anglia Ruskin University,
Abigail Rokison: Homerton College, Director of Studies for Education with English and Drama.
Film Education: Hamlet on Film Workshop exploring key scenes across four film adaptations,
including Olivier’s 1948 and Zeffirelli’s 1990 versions.
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BEFORE MIDNIGHT:
A PORTRAIT OF INDIA ON FILM 1899-1947
This programme shows how lives — both Indian and British — were led across the Subcontinent. Home movies include The Maharajah of Jodhpur’s 1940’s princely life and an intimate picture of British family life
in 1930’s India. TINS FOR INDIA shows the kerosene tin in rural India. NOAKHALI MARCH shows Mahatma Gandhi’s visit to Noakhali, after the 1946 Hindu-Muslim riots (the Calcutta Riots or Noakhali Massacre).
Kanu was one of the most important chroniclers of Gandhi’s life and photographs formed the basis of a number of the shots in Richard Attenborough’s biopic, Ga ndhi.
January 2010
Mondays 18 January 2010
INTRODUCTION TO MODERNISM
THROUGH DRAWING AND FILM
In partnership with Kettle’s Yard, this new CFC course will examine links between the images and ideas in the Modern Times exhibition and 20th-century cinema. There will be six taught sessions, two film screenings and one further film screening with a discussion.
Cost: £80 Members £75 Concessions £60 including comprehensive study pack and three films in the Modern Times film season at the Arts Picturehouse
Tuesdays 12 January - 23 March 2010
INTO FILM 1: INTRODUCTION
TO UNDERSTANDING FILM
Un Chien Andalou, La Jete, Twelve Monkeys , Billy Elliot, The Maltese Falcon, Psycho.
Join us for this informal and friendly evening course exploring editing patterns, avant garde practices, narrative techniques, and adaptation of literature into film.
Tutor: Trish Sheil
Course fee: £90 Members £85 (conc. £70) Includes
comprehensive study pack and two free screenings
December 2009
Monday 7 December 2009
FUNKY FLAMINGO:
National Disability Film Awards 2009
Funky Flamingo TV is the first internet TV station run by and for people with disabilities. Join us for the second annual National Disability Film Awards 2009. Films have been submitted already from all over the country and the standard for this year is set to be even higher than last year!
Categories include: drama, comedy, animationdocumentary and super-shorts.
To submit your film or enquire about the awards, email funky@inspire.co.uk
To watch 2008 winners and find out more, visit Funky Flamingo online.
Saturday 5 December & Sunday 6 December 2009
INTO FILM 2:
Film Noir Weekend
Study film noirs of the forties such as THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE and DOUBLE INDEMNITY with their Expressionist stylistics, low-key lighting and seductive femme fatales. Look also at contemporary neo-noirs such as BLADE RUNNER, KILL ME AGAIN and CROUPIER. Join us for a relaxed and informal course.
Tutor: Trish Sheil. Cost: £70; Members: £65; Conc. £50.
Included comprehensive study pack and complimentary tea/coffee.
Wednesday 2 December 2009
Housewives Choice
Peace & War
Not so long ago housewives had a number of very good reasons to be desperate. Not only did they have to look after their families in an age of depression, war and austerity, but they also did without the consumer durables thaqt we now consider essential. With humour frequently in its sights, Housewives' Choice is a programme of films from the BFI National Archive that explores the lives of Britishhousewives from the 1920s to the 1950s.
November 2009
Wednesday 11 November 2009
Britain at Bay:
Peace & War
(1937 - 1940)
Britain at Bay contrasts the relative calm and advancement of life in Britain in the late 1930s with the build up to and first days of WWII. The programme includes the film IF WAR SHOULD COME.
October 2009
Thursday 29 October 2009
SPOTLIGHT ON VITAL COMMUNITIES
DOCUMENTARY FILM PLUS Q&A
Director: Dominique Chadwick
How important is participating in the arts for local communities? Funded by NESTA this documentary film is an in-depth analysis of the workings of Vital Communities in Peterborough, Sutton, Trumpington and Wisbech St.Mary. It explores the impact of the arts on young people, families and communities who participated in film, dance, music and other art projects.
A vital Communities event in collaboration with the Cambridgeshire Film Consortium and the Camridge Film Trust for Cambridge University, Festival of Ideas.
Introduced by Trish Sheil from the Cambridgeshire Film Consortium.
13 October - 15 December 2009
INTO FILM 1:
An Introduction to Understand Film
Un Chien andalou, La Jettee, Twelve Monkeys, Billy Elliot, The Maltese Falcon, Psycho.
Join us for this informal and friendly evening course exploring editing patterns, avant garde practises, narrative techniques and adaptation of literature into film.
Tutor: Trish Sheil. Course Fee: £90; Members: £85; Conc: £70.
Includes two cinema screenings and a comprehensive study pack.
14 October - 9 December 2009
THE GREAT AUTUERS:
Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles and Stanley Kubrick
What is the difference between a director of a great film and a great director? With Hitchcockm it was blonde women and a fear of falling: with Welles a constant need to explore corruption and with Kubrick, control. Explore how personal obsessions drove these great directors to produce the bodies of work that continue to fascinate, disturb and dominate the critical lists.
Key study films: REAR WINDOW, CITIZEN KANE and THE SHINING
Tutor: Philip Lloyd. Course Fee: £80; Members: £75; Conc: £60.
Includes comprehensive study pack.
REVENGERS TRAGEDY (15)
Director: Alex Cox. Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Eddie Izzard, Derek Jacobi.
UK 2002. 109 mins.
A wronged man returns from self imposed exile to a Liverpool of the future to bring down those responsible for his wife’s murder. Timeless themes of moral corruption and revenge are played out on a stage of gritty punk futurism and anarchic violence. Contains strong language, violence and sex.
Cost: Students £7.00 Accompanying teachers free - includes Teachers Resource Pack
Thursday 15 October 2009
The Princes' Quest (PG) 100 mins
French with subtitles.
Suitable for primary school pupils.
Friday 16 October 2009
Katyn (PG) 100 mins
Introduced by Dr Mathilda Mroz.
Suitable for secondary school pupils.
Monday 19 October 2009
Waltz with Bashir (18) 90 mins
Monday 19 October 2009
Max Minsky and Me (PG) 94 mins
German Subtitles
Suitable for KS2 pupils.
Tuesday 20 October 2009
The 400 Blows (PG) 92 mins
German Subtitles
Suitable for KS2 pupils.
Wednesday 21 October 2009
Mitchell and Kenyon (U) 90 mins
Primary School Archive Workshop.
Thursday 22 October 2009
Shifty (15) 86 mins
With BBFC Masterclass on film classification. www.bbfc.co.uk.
Suitable for secondary/sixth form students.
Friday 23 October 2009
Coraline (PG) 100 mins
Suitable for primary school pupils.
Wednesday 14 October 2009
The Big Smoke:
Films from a lost London
(1896 - 1945)
Explore the forgotten face of the capital with this tantalising tour, taking in horse-drawn traffic, change and continuity on the underground plus the mighty Thames captured in glorious colour.
Features a specially-commissioned score.
September 2009
Thursday 24 September 2009
Workshops For Filmmakers And Professionals
Professional Filmmakers -
Get Involved With First Light
Work with young people as a professional filmmaker, widen networks of professional contacts and contriute to your community with rewarding paid work on projects throughout the UK.
Want To Make A Film But Don't Know How To Start Or Where To Get The Money?
First Light Will Show you How!
New organisations, schools, youth organisations and others can access First Light and Mediabox funding. Get advice on how to apply for one of First Light's funding
BLACK NARCISSUS (U)
Sunday 20 September 2009
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger.
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons, David Farrar.
UK 1947. 100 mins.
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (U)
Monday 21 September 2009
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger.
Starring: David Niven, Roger Livesey, Kim Hunter, Richard Attenborough, Kathleen Byron, Robert Coote.
UK 1946. 104 mins.
THE RED SHOES(U)
Tuesday 22 September 2009
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger.
Starring: Moira Shearer, Marius Goring, Anton Walbrook, Jean Short.
UK 1948. 133 mins.
Tuesday 22 September 2009
JACK CARDIFF: PAINTER WITH LIGHT
AN EVENING WITH FILM CRITIC AND HISTORIAN IAN CHRISTIE
This special Festival tribute to the late Jack Cardiff reveals the influences behind his stunning, Oscar-winning cinematography (for Powell and Pressburger’s BLACK NARCISSUS) and, with clips from some of his greatest films, explores the work that made Jack’s name synonymous with Technicolor photography.
The evening is presented by Ian Christie, Anniversary Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck University of London, co-founder of the international review Film Studies and author of several books on cinema, including Arrows of Desire: The Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
Wednesday 23 September 2009
LUNCHTIME ARCHIVE SHOW
A GOOD DAY OUT: CROSS-CHANNEL MEMORIES OF LEISURE ON FILM
Introduced by Jane Jarvis, Screen East Digital Heritage Project Manager, and Simon McCallum, BFI
If the British have family memories of cricket on the village green or holidays by the sea, the French too remember days at the beach under white cliffs or a picnic in the country. As we compare and contrast our social history of the last century, see how we spent our time at leisure, both here and across the channel, in this screening of Linsday Anderson’s O DREAMLAND (1956), John Taylor’s HOLIDAY (1957) and amateur archive films from the East Anglian Film Archive and Rouen’s Pôle Image Haute-Normandie.
Special reduction of £1.00 off each ticket for senior citizens.
July 2009
Saturday 25 July 2009
TAKE1: Movie Making for Beginners
-
Film Production Workshop
- Ages: 8 - 12 years (max 10 places)
- Venue: Parkside Media College
- Tutor: Filmmaker Rydian Cook
- Cost: £6.50
Plan, shoot and edit a one-minute film! Learn how to storyboard, use digital cameras, tripods and microphones, and edit. All participants will receive a DVD of their film plus a high-quality video file for uploading online to show to friends! Or watch it in the I MADE THIS programme at the Cambridge Film Festival on Saturday 19 September.
A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium event for the 2012 Open Weekend Cambridgeshire & Peterborough