Entertainment Southeast

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BRIGHTON FILM FESTIVAL - DIARY OF SCREENINGS
Thursday 20th November until Sunday 7th December 2008
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Venues :
Duke of York's (Preston Circus, B'ton)
Lewes Cinema (Friar's Walk)
Lighthouse (28 Kensington Street, B'ton)
Sallis Benney Theatre (Grand Parade)
The Brunswick (1 Holland Road, Hove)
Cineworld (Brighton Marina)
Friday 5th - Various venues - Dance for Camera Festival opens

Sunday 7th - 11am - DOY - Tricks (Sztucki) (Adv 18) Dir. Andrzej Jakimowski.  Starring : Damian Ul,Ewelina Walendziak, Rafal Guniczak.  Poland 2007.  96 mins.  Polish with S/T's.  A charming bittersweet tale of childhood.  Six-year-old Stefek spends his summer holiday following his older sister Ela around.  The pair live with their shopkeeper mother but their father left when Stefek was very young.  One day, at a train station, Stefek sees a  man whom he suspects is the father who abandoned them years before.  In an attempt to win his father back Stefek embarks on a game plan or 'trick' to get the man's attention.
Sunday 7th - 12noon - SBT - Quays' Dance Shorts - The Quays' films have always been shaped by the dynamic inter-relationship between music and the choreography of objects. "We rely on music to propose certain things we would have never foreseen.  For us music is the bloodstream and like any choreographer we compose our visual narrative through music - it almost co-writes the scenario."  In recent yeas they have created a number of dance films inspired by myths and fairy-tales.  In this special programme are :
  Duet-Variations On The Convalescence of "A" - 15 mins.
  The Sandman - 43 mins.
  Eurydice - She, So Beloved....   Created to mark the four hundredth anniversary of Monteverdi's Orfeo, the film combines an optical box with an anamorphic painting and a video projection .  Inspired by the classical story of love and loss as Orpheus enters the underworld in an attempt to bring his deceased young bride, Eurydice, back to the world of the living.
Sunday 7th - 1pm - DOY - White Christmas (U)  Dir. Michael Curtiz.  Starring : Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger.  USA 1954.  120 mins.  A buddy movie, love story, musical comedy, with show stopping hists and plenty of good hearted sentiment.
Sunday 7th - 2pm - SBT - Brighton shorts - FREE
Sunday 7th - 4pm - SBT - Sussex on Screen.  This special film event presents rare films made in Sussex since the 1890's.  We visit Victorian Brighton ; see the Devil's Dyke switchback ; visit Hastings in 1914 ; celebrate the Silver Jubilee of 1935 in Chichester ; enjoy the beach at Bognor ; shear sheep ; make a trug basket and enjoy Shippam's paste.  The screening is presented by Dr Frank Gray, Director of Screen Archive South East with piano accompaniment by Stephen Home.
Sunday 7th - 6pm - SBT - The Disappeared (Adv 15)  Dir. Johnny Kevorkian.  Starring : Harry Treadaway, Georgia Groome, Tom Felton, Greg Wise.  UK 2008.  95 mins.   A selection from open submissions to Cinecity, a genuinely spooky psychological horror reminiscent of Dont' Look Now.  Following the disappearance of his younger brother Tom Matthew tries to piece his life back together.  Haunted by guilt, Matthew begins to hear voices and imagines he sees Tom everywhere.  He  becomes convinced that Tom is trying to communicate something about the day he went missing. .........
Sunday 7th - 6.30pm - DOY - Milk (Adv 18)  Dir. Gus Van Sant.  Starring : Sean Penn, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna.  USA 2008.  140 mins.  In 1977, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the first openly gay man to be voted into major public office in America.  His victory was not just a victory for gay rights; he forged coalitions across the political spectrum.  From senior citizens to union workers, Harvey Milk changed the very nature of what it means to be a fighter for human rights before his untimely death in 1978, when he was shot by a former city supervisor.  Milk charts the last eight years of Harvery Milk's life from his decision to leave New York, to his involvemen-+t  with the famous Castro Cinema and his decision to become a spokesperson for change.  Sean Penn stars as Harvey Milk in this excellent biopic from a visionary director.

December 2008
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