10 Days to Change Minds Through the Moving Image There are 10 days left of our ramshackle but increasingly enjoyable film festival. Tonight Tonight, at the Exmouth Arms in Bath Road, we have La Cocina, in the upstairs room at the back. Starting at about 7pm, admission £7. I have now seen all but the… [continues]

Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are It’s a Sunday and I want to interrupt your routine to ask you to come and see a film tonight. The bad news is that it’s at The Barn in Cirencester. It’s about half an hour by car, an hour-and-a-half on a bike, or seven-and-a-half hours on foot.… [continues]

Tonight we celebrate 50 Years of Monty Python and the Holy Grail at the Bacon Theatre, Dean Close School. Someone who shall be nameless vigorously promoted a live appearance by its co-director Terry Gilliam and then, after a whole nightmare, the appearance fell through. We have been apologising and trying to salvage something ever since. … [continues]

It’s all been happening and not happening in the febrile fan-dance of Film Festival Central the last few days. But there is movement. #OldFest has had a number of disappointments as various venues, guests, etc have dropped out. I would like to clarify some those things but try getting anyone on the phone in the… [continues]

Today’s the day. OldFest #OldFest launches with its first film, North by Northwest, at the Sherborne in Gloucester. You really should go. Wonderful film, Bernard Herrmann‘s best score, Cary Grant (sumus Bristolienses), delightful private cinema, enthusiastic team of young people. Information from The Committee for Public Safety: if you buy a coffee, make sure they… [continues]