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Cromarty, UK: Outdoor Movies to be Screened on Cromarty Lighthouse

By on September 3, 2010 in Outdoor Movie Events

Outdoor Movies to be Screened on Cromarty Lighthouse

Outdoor Movies to be Screened on Lighthouse

The white walls of Cromarty Lighthouse are to be used as a screen for a special outdoor film experience.

On September 11 the Jean Epstein silent film Fall of the House of Usher will be projected on to the lighthouse accompanied by specially-composed music performed by the Southwell Collective, specialists in composing and playing music to accompany silent films.

Last year’s Highland tour was such a success that they have decided to come back.

The membership varies but this year they will be playing as a three-piece: Gary Southwell, composer and nine string guitar, Zoe Glossop on oboe and cor anglais and Sarah Watts on clarinet and bass clarinet, with an additional electronic soundscape by Jon Sampson.

Epstein’s 1928 masterpiece based on the gripping classic story by Edgar Alan Poe is full of suspense as well as being visually stunning.

The music is inspired by quotes found in Poe’s original story. The organisers say the experience of live music being played with a silent film is an extraordinary one. They compliment each other and heighten the emotional impact on the audience.

And add to that the setting of the Cromarty Lighthouse, which is normally used as the marine research base for Aberdeen’s Robert Gordons University.

Tickets at £8 and £6 can be bought at the door or in advance from The Emporium, High Street, Cromarty.

Read more: http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1899126?UserKey=#ixzz0yUibJ95g

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Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK: First Film Festival to Include Outdoor Films

By on March 29, 2010 in Outdoor Movie Events
Hollywood, Bollywood and the era of silent film will grace the first ever Film Festival.

Movie-goers will also have the chance to watch their favourite films outdoors at an open-air cinema, which will be brought to the town for the three-day festival in October.

Founders Martin Pilkington and Adam Clarke revealed details of Cheltenham’s latest major festival at the Queen’s Hotel. It included proposals to put a big screen in Montpellier Gardens so families can watch a PG film. Audiences will be invited to bring a picnic and blanket for the films, which will have no entry charge.

The festival has already attracted talk show host Sir Michael Parkinson, who says he cannot wait for the festival’s debut from October 1 to 3.

Sir Michael said: “As a long-term fan of the Cheltenham jazz and literature festivals, it’s wonderful to hear that a new film festival will be added to the line-up in 2010.”


The Town Hall will host an independent cinema, including an exclusive glimpse at the famous Pinewood Studio where Clash of the Titans and Quantum of Solace were produced.

It will also show Bollywood, Latin American and East Asian films in the 300-seat world cinema.

The Prince’s Hall, at Cheltenham Ladies College, will show classic cinema, including silent film, and the Parabola Theatre will hope to stun audiences with innovative movies produced by London Film School students and work by the National Star College. Disability in film, represented in hit movie Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, forms part of the diverse festival programme. The Echo is the official media partner of the event. Editor Kevan Blackadder said: “All our other festivals have grown from small beginnings and I think there is every chance that this idea can grow to become a significant event for the film industry.”

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Liverpool, United Kingdom: 'Valentine's Day' Great as Outdoor Movie and Features its Own Similar Scene

By on February 16, 2010 in Outdoor Movie Events

SINGLETONS of the world unite.

Let us denounce Valentine’s Day as a conspiracy by florists and greetings card companies to prey upon our loneliness.

Why should we all feel compelled to bear our souls on February 14, when any other day would do just as well?

“It’s Valentine’s Day. You don’t think, you just do,” says one of the characters in this sugar-coated tale of romance and heartbreak.

Two hours isn’t long enough to fully develop more than 20 major characters and their storylines, and Garry Marshall’s film runs the risk of being simple cinematic candy floss.

However, amidst the gooey sentiments and shameless wish fulfilment there are some big laughs and eye-catching performances from a stellar cast – including Julia Roberts, Ashton Kutcher, Jennifer Garner, Jamie Foxx and Shirley MacLaine.

Valentine’s Day is a morass of cloying fairytale romances across the generations that predominantly end with a happy ever after or, at least, a comeuppance and emotional closure.

Some of the plot strands are hopelessly contrived and characters could have been cut entirely.

However, there are some charming distractions such as the interplay between MacLaine and Hector Elizondo, which comes to a head at an open-air film screening of the 1958 film Hot Spell, starring a young, fresh-faced…MacLaine.

You’ll need a very sweet tooth to stomach all of the saccharine outpourings, culminating in some amusing out-takes over the end credits.

Catherine Jones

source-http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/-entertainment/echo-reviews/film-and-cinema/2010/02/12/film-review-valentine-s-day-100252-25818006/


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