Cambridge Film Festival 2010 Brochure

This year’s Festival is proud to present its first writer-in-residence,
with funding from Cambridgeshire County Council.
Published poet, Jane Monson will lead a series of creative writing workshops after selected
screenings at the Arts Picturehouse throughout the Festival. All ages and levels are welcome
and no experience of creative writing is necessary; just a passion for film and an interest in
developing and learning how to use cinematic themes, images, and sounds as the focus and
material for new writing.
The project will be documented and presented in a pamphlet once the Festival is over and
participants will be invited back for an informal launch event at the Picturehouse, and have the
opportunity to read, sell and celebrate their work. The project is a new and original contribution
to the Festival, and a rare creative opportunity to reflect and record the audience’s experience of
the Festival and its 30th Anniversary.
Pre-Festival Screening Sunday 12 September, 12.00pm Arts Picturehouse
Workshop Sunday 19 September, 5.00pm Harrods Room at
Emmanuel College
Screening & Workshop Sunday 26 September, 11.00am Arts Picturehouse
TICKETS £20 (includes access to all WRITER IN RESIDENCE screenings and workshops)
Jane Monson will also be running a separate story-telling workshop after the screening of
THE GRUFFALO on Saturday 25 September at 10.30am (see page 42 for details).
Thursday 23 September, 8.00pm
THE TRIP (15)
Director: Michael Winterbottom. Starring: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon. UK 2010. 90 mins.
Two men. Six top restaurants. And a lot of dodgy impressions.
This latest venture from acclaimed director Michael
Winterbottom sees Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon (A Cock
and Bull Story) reunite to essentially play themselves, with
predictably entertaining consequences. Unceremoniously
dumped by his American girlfriend, the restaurant critic for
the Observer (Coogan) invites Brydon to accompany him on
a work trip up North. Improvised in the style of Curb Your
Enthusiasm, the pair make each other laugh (and wind each other up) as they eat their way around the
Lake District. This specially edited feature brings together all the best bits of the six-part series in ninety
minutes. Eating out has never been this much fun.
We hope to welcome filmmakers Michael Winterbottom and Andrew Eaton to the screening.
Print Source: Revolution Films
BEGGARS OF LIFE
With live accompaniment from the DODGE BROTHERS
Sunday 19 September, 4.00pm
Arts Picturehouse
In this special live performance by the
Dodge Brothers, we combine their exuberant
skiffle sound with William Wellman’s 1928
melodrama BEGGARS OF LIFE, a late silent
film featuring Louise Brooks as a girl
forced to flee the country after murdering
her violent foster father. Assisted by
Jim, Richard Arlen’s young vagrant, she
masquerades as a boy and embarks upon a
rail-riding adventure through all walks of life
in an attempt to evade the police and escape
to Canada.
Offering a powerful insight into American
subculture, BEGGARS OF LIFE is both thought
provoking and uplifting, qualities mirrored
to great effect by the Dodge Brothers’
soundtrack. Using motifs redolent of old
railway songs and melodies influenced
by those of the period, it is imbued with
both bittersweet nostalgia and a joyous
sense of celebration, managing to be both
idiosyncratic and utterly authentic at the
same time.
The Dodge Brothers features Mike Hammond
(lead guitar, lead vocals), Mark Kermode
(bass, harmonica, vocals), Aly Hirji (rhythm
guitar, mandolin, vocals) and Alex Hammond
(washboard, snare drum, percussion).
Culture Show presenter and film critic
Kermode, the Dodge Brothers’ energetic
bass thumper, cites the main preoccupations
of the band’s distinctive music as “trains,
heartbreak, alcohol and death”.
This meeting of live music and film promises
to be an exhilarating exploration of love,
conflict, poverty and the thrill of the journey,
creating an electric atmosphere and a
compelling study in humour and heartbreak.
This presentation of BEGGARS OF LIFE will
include ‘honorary’ Dodge Brother Neil Brand
providing accompaniment on the piano.
TICKETS
Adults £12.50
Picturehouse Members £10
Concessions £11
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