Cambridge Film Festival 2010 Brochure

Thursday 23 September, 12.30pm
ORDET (PG)
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer. Starring: Henrik Malberg, Emil
Hass Christensen, Preben Lerdorff Rye. Denmark 1955. Danish
with English subtitles.
Set in a religious farming community in
West Jutland, this challenging, brilliant film
provides a masterful study in family and faith.
Devoted Christian Morten (Malberg) struggles
to come to terms with the disparate beliefs
of his three sons: Mikkel (Christensen) is an
atheist, Anders wants to marry the daughter
of a fundamentalist, and Johannes (Rye) has
gone mad due to reading too much Kierkegaard
and believes himself to be Jesus of Nazareth.
Familial tensions come to a head when Mikkel’s
wife Inger is critically ill following a stillbirth,
leading to an astonishing climax which compels
the viewer to re-examine preconceptions
about the nature of life, death, and spirituality.
Consistently surprising, utterly engaging and
totally unlike anything you will have seen
before.
Print Source: BFI
Wednesday 22 September, 6.00pm
THE PASSING OF THE
THIRD FLOOR BACK (PG)
Director: Berthold Viertel. Starring: Conrad Veidt, René Ray,
Frank Cellier. UK 1935. 90 mins.
Book into this fascinating blend of magical
parable and documentary realism adapted
from the play by Jerome K. Jerome. When a
mysterious stranger (Veidt) rents a room in a
boarding house of petulant lodgers he helps
them rediscover their better selves. Viertel and
Veidt, with fellow émigrés cinematographer Curt
Courant and art director Oscar Werndorff, lend a
subtle Expressionism to a British drama.
The types in the small London ‘private hotel’
are observed with malicious realism. GRAHAM
GREENE
Projecting the Archive is a new programming
strand being launched in collaboration with the
BFI National Archive. Unearthing and reappraising
under-known British features, these films offer us
a fresh take on British cinema.
We are delighted to welcome the
writer and broadcaster Matthew Sweet
to introduce this screening.
With thanks to the BFI National Archive.
Roll up, roll up… it’s the first ever
Cambridge Family Film
Festival!
The Cambridge Family
Film Festival will present
special programmes
featuring kids’
favourite TV and film
characters, old and
new, in a family-friendly
environment and at an
affordable price. Look out
for the friendly Family Film
Festival team, who will be
clearly visible around the
Arts Picturehouse and
who are there to make
your child’s visit to the cinema a little
bit easier - and a whole lot more fun!
There’ll even be a ‘chill-out’ zone if
all the excitement gets a bit too much
for little ones…
So whether they’re loco about
locomotives, bonkers about Bob the
Builder, bewitched by Bagpuss, or
fanatical about
fairies, there’ll
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be something that’s just right for
all junior film fans. And with fancy
dress competitions, workshops,
face painting, craft activities
and giveaways adding to the
film fun, you’ll all be able to
enjoy a family trip to
the cinema as never
before.
All children must be
accompanied by an
adult at all times and we
cannot be responsible for
children who are left alone
– anyway, we’d rather you
enjoyed our events together!
No unaccompanied adults will
be admitted to any Family Film
Festival screening.
The
Cambridge
Family Film
Festival is
supported by
Heffers Children’s Bookshop, who
will be providing special activities
and goodies throughout the Festival
– www.heffers.co.uk/childrens
All tickets
cost only £3.40
for one child, which
includes a free ticket for
an accompanying adult –
except for GRANDPA IN
MY POCKET which is
completely FREE for
everyone!
Box Office: 0871 902 5720 41
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