To coincide with the Cambridge Film Festival (September 19th to September 29th, 2013) there’s two special editions of our movie review show Bums on Seats. You can hear them on Saturday 21st and Saturday 28th at midday. Also the team will be uploading podcasts throughout the festival’s 10 days, with new reviews, interviews and articles produced in conjunction with the official festival publication Take One. Stay tuned to twitter and Facebook for updates.
If that’s not enough you can find out more about the festival by listening to these reports from recent editions of Bums on Seats and Arts Round Up.
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Cannes Report:
In May regular Bums On Seats reviewer Sarah McIntosh visited the Cannes Film Festival in her role as Cambridge Film Festival’s Submission Coordinator. This is her story.
Arts Round Up host Simon Bertin speaks to festival administrator Emily Boldy about the wide range movies on offer over the film festival’s 10 days.
On the 24th of September, the Film Festival is hosting the English premiere of Natan, a documentary on forgotten movie pioneer Bernard Natan. Toby Miller spoke to the film’s co-director David Cairns about the unusual life the film helped reveal.
Toby Miller speaks to Sarah McIntosh about the Festival’s Short Fusion strand: nearly 30 short movies ranging from the comical to the dramatic, which show the short film format off at its very best.
Bums on Seats host Toby Miller joins presenter Julian Clover to preview the Cambridge Film Festival; Toby also gives an update on the petition launched in support of the Arts Picturehouse, which faces sale or closure following a Competition Commission report.
Bums on Seats Special – September 21, 2013:
Bums on Seats presents the first of two specials from the Cambridge Film Festival Join Toby Miller, Hannah Dunleavy, Mark Liversidge and Gavin Midgley as they discuss festival opening film Hawking, the carefully measured French short Just Before Losing Everything, and the slow burning drama Prince Avalanche. Plus we look at the Eastern View strand with a chat with Estonian actor Ravio E. Tamm and preview the Roland Klick showcase with an interview with the influential German director himself.
Sunday Breakfast – September 22, 2013:
Jack Bond, whose film The Blueblack Hussar about Adam Ant’s brave return to stardom after mental health problems is being featured at the Cambridge Film Festival, speaks to Cambridge 105’s Julian Clover.
Festival Podcast 1 – September 23, 2013:
Lumiere, Melies, Chaplin, Griffith…the list of influential names from the early days of cinema glaringly lacks a female voices; yet women have been involved from the very beginning. Screening alongside Natan on both the Tuesday and Wednesday is the short film The Pioneer, a documentary on Alice Guy Blache, arguably the first female director and a vital element of the picture of early Hollywood. In the lead up to this screening Sarah McIntosh spoke to Pamela Green, an American filmmaking embarking on her own documentary of the hugely important, but still embarrassingly little known Guy Blanche. The Pioneer is screening Tuesday at 5pm and Wednesday at 1.30.
Festival Podcast 2 – September 24, 2013:
On Monday, as the opener to the Cambridge Film Festival’s Roland Klick showcase, German filmmaker Sandra Prechtel hosted the UK premiere of her Klick documentary The Heart Is A Hungry Hunter. Toby Miller spoke to Ms Pechtel about the ridiculously overlooked Klick, an essential artist of early seventies German cinema, who strived to make personal films that played to widest possible audience” The Heart is A Lonely Hunter screens on the 24th Sept at 3.45, whilst the Roland Klick programme begins with the meta western Deadlock at 9pm.
105 Drive with Julian Clover – September 24, 2013:
Julian’s 5.30 guest is Stefan Georgiou, director of the movie Dead Cat, which can be seen at the Cambridge Film Festival this week.
Festival Podcast 3 – September 25, 2013:
This year the Cambridge Film Festival one again devotes a strand of screenings to contemporary German cinema, an under exposed area of cinema, even for the art houses of the UK. In our third podcast Verena Von Stackelberg, the festival’s international programmer sits down with actress Stephanie Stremler, first time director Ramon Zurcher – whose debut The Strange Little Cat has been causing a stir at the festival – and documentary maker Sandra Prechtel, to discuss their own experiences of production in the German film industry. For more information on the German films screening turn to page 46 of the festival programme.
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