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29 February - 15 March 2008

14th ANNUAL FILM FESTIVAL at the NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM Box Office 0870 70 10 200 www.bradfordfilmfestival.org.uk EXPERIENCE FILM A5 Booklet_08:Layout 1 28/1/08 15:55 Page 1

The 14th International Film Festival is generously supported by the following funders and sponsors:

To discuss sponsorship opportunities for this and other museum events please contact Nikki Hawkins on 01274 203330 or email nikki.hawkins@national mediamuseum.org.uk 1 A5 Booklet_08:Layout 1 28/1/08 15:55 Page 2

You’re invited...

Bradford has been showing movies since the twilight of the 19th century. More than 100 years later the ’s association with cinema continues to evolve, and Bradford International Film Festival remains at the very heart of it.

The Festival’s reputation is growing. Bradford has become a byword for exciting, adventurous programming – a showcase for the new, the ground-breaking, the unusual and the obscure.

In 2008 our line-up is once again constructed from a disparate mix of fresh material and tributes in the form of retrospectives. Thus Bradford straddles the cinema of the past and the cinema of the present while, always, looking forward to the future. This year special seasons are devoted to , , Julien Temple, Leslie Norman and Christian Petzold. We will also be joined by Barry Norman, Patrick Doyle and Mike Figgis.

Together they represent an incredible, unique cast list. Balanced with the films themselves – shorts and features – the offer is some- what overwhelming. If you are a lover of film, you really won’t want to be anywhere else over the next 16 days. See you at the movies…

Tony Earnshaw, Artistic Director

Contents Opening/Closing Galas 3/4 Premieres & Previews 5 - 14 Uncharted States of America 15 - 16 CineFile 17 - 18 Who’s Coming... 19 - 20 Guest: Michael Palin 21 - 24 Guest: Kenneth Branagh 25 - 28 Guest: Julien Temple 29 - 30 Guest: Christian Petzold 31 - 32 Guest: Mike Figgis 33 Retrospective: Leslie Norman 34 Guest: Barry Norman 35 - 36 Guest: Dick Carruthers 37 - 38 Special Events 39 - 40 Widescreen Weekend 41 - 42 Industry Weekend 43 Shine Short Film Award 44 4th Film & Music Conference 45 TV Heaven 46 - 50 Display: 51 Festival Information Line 52 Diary 53 - 54 2 A5 Booklet_08:Layout 1 28/1/08 15:55 Page 3

Opening Night Gala

UK PREMIERE IN Friday 29 February Pictureville Cinema Dir. Martin McDonough GB/ 2007 107 mins (18) , , , Clémence Poésy, Jérémie Rénier, Thekla Reuten, Jordan Prentice, Ciarán Hinds When a job goes badly wrong, veteran hitman Ken (Gleeson) and his rookie partner Ray (Farrell) are sent by their sinister boss, Harry (Fiennes), from to the storybook Flemish city of Bruges to cool their heels. The city’s medieval grace and character soon has them living the life of tourists but, always, they await word from Harry that will switch them back into killing mode. And when the call does finally come, Ken and Ray's vacation becomes a life-and- death struggle of darkly comic proportions and surprisingly emotional consequences. is the debut feature film from acclaimed playwright Martin McDonough whose Oscar-winning short Six Shooter was screened during BIFF2005. Packed equally with spiky profanity and rich, edgy humour, it signals the emergence of a major new talent.

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Closing Night Gala

UK PREMIERE SEARCHERS 2.0 Saturday 15 March Pictureville Cinema Dir. USA 2007 90 mins (adv PG) Del Zamora, Ed Pansullo, Sy Richardson, Jaclyn Jonet On the border between Utah and Arizona, the vast landscapes around Monument Valley are tied to classic tales of Western vengeance. Former child actors Fred and Mel have an old score to settle, and their skewed journey towards a remarkable Valley showdown is stuffed full of movie-fan fun and games. Fred and Mel’s nemesis is cruel screenwriter Fritz Frobisher, who bullied the young stars back in the day. He’s due any day now at a public appearance, and so with Mel’s unimpressed daughter in tow, the three set out to “kick his ass”. On their journey through the South western states, everything from Charles Bronson’s career to the distant War on Terror gets filtered through a gauze of movie obsession. Alex Cox’s new film is a homage to American movies that finds mirth within the myth.

We hope writer/director Alex Cox will be able to join us for the UK Premiere of his latest film.

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4 MINUTES (Vier Minuten) Premieres Sunday 2 March Dir. Chris Kraus 2006 112 mins (adv 12A) Subtitles & Previews Monica Bleibtreu, Hannah Herzsprung, Sven Pippig, Richy All BIFF premieres and Müller, Jasmin Tabatabai Elderly Traude Krüger visits previews will be Luckau prison, as she has done accompanied by a short every morning since 1944, to film. teach the inmates how to play the piano. Jenny is a volatile young convicted murderer. As Traude gets to know her she finds out more about Jenny’s secret 12and decides to turn her into the great player she never became. A moving and telling story, with excellent performances.

UK PREMIERE ALL THE INVISIBLE THINGS Sunday 2 March Dir. Jakob M. Erwa Austria 2007 3 89 mins (adv 15) Michael Sauseng, Simon Mostl, Angelika Schneider A scintillatingly confident debut from a writer/director still only in his mid-20s, this grittily urban tale of youth disorder and family strife injects familiar-sounding material with a rare urgency and freshness. Bold in form and strikingly vivid in content, the multi award-winning drama is by far the most startling thing to come out of Graz since California's current governor. BAD GIRLS (Niñas Mal) 4 5 Tuesday 11 March Dir. Fernando Sariñana Mexico 2007 103 mins (adv 15) Subtitles Martha Higareda, Camila Sodi Adela Léon proudly boasts three tattoos, a body piercing and has recently been arrested for bad behaviour. Afraid the image of his beloved daughter will tarnish his 1. Caramel campaign to become governor of 2. Bunny Chow Mexico City, her father enrols her 3. Bellavista at the city’s most prestigious 4. Cowboy Angels 5. Boxing Day school for girls.

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BEHIND FORGOTTEN EYES BUNNY CHOW CITY OF MEN Sunday 2 March Sunday 2 March Friday 14 March Dir. Anthony Gilmore USA 2007 Dir. John Barker South Africa Dir. Paulo Morelli 2007 75 mins (adv 15) 92 mins (adv 12A) 110 mins (adv 15) Subtitles Narrated by Yunjin Kim David Kibuuka, Kim Engelbrecht, Douglas Silva, Cunha, Jonathan An extraordinary documentary Kagiso Lediga, Joey Yusuf Rasdien Haagensen, Rodrigo dos Santos, about an almost-forgotten period This South African road movie Camila Monteiro in history. When Japan occupied focuses on three aspiring Based upon the remarkable City Korea during World War II, the who set off for the of God, City of Men is a far less crimes of the occupying troops Oppikoppi in the vicious but emotionally satisfying were horrifying. Anthony Gilmore hope that they will get their drama. Acerola and Laranjinha uses animation to create a sense chance to perform. The three are young men from the slums of innocence around those young leads each have their own and Acerola is about to marry the women who became sex slaves problems - from stage fright to long-suffering Cris. They already to troops and contrasts with the infidelity but the journey may have a baby. While fatherless testament of the women . teach them something about from a gang shooting, Acerola is Very moving and shocking. themselves. coming to terms with being a parent, while Laranjinha is UK PREMIERE BURKE & WILLS looking for his own long-time BELLAVISTA Saturday 15 March absent father. Thursday 6 March Dirs. Oliver Torr, Matt Zeremes Dir. Peter Schreiner Austria 2007 Australia 2004/2006 THE COTTAGE 117 mins (adv 12A) Subtitles 72 mins (adv 18) Thursday 6 March Documentary with: Giuliana Some subtitles Dir. Paul Andrew Williams Pachner, Bernardina Piller Puicher, Matthew Zeremes, Oliver Torr GB 2008 (adv 15) Erminia Colle Tiz Bracingly unconventional in Andy Serkis, Jennifer Ellison, Documentaries simply don't several different ways (most Georgia Groome, Doug Bradley, come any more sensitive or obviously the daringly Reece Shearsmith poetic than this. In a remote experimental approaches to From the director of London to corner of northern Italy where a editing and music), this Brighton, The Cottage is a horror German dialect is still spoken by shoestring-budgeted oddity comedy that centres on a couple the older residents, we meet a begins as a quietly hilarious of kidnappers hiding out in a middle-aged woman scarred - comedy about a pair of cottage in the woods with their physically and psychologically - mismatched Sydney housemates hostage. What they don’t know is by life's vagaries. An intense, before darkening radically (and that another cottage is host to a quietly philosophical exploration nightmarishly) in tone all the way psychopath. Borrowing liberally of darkness and light. to a shocking finale. A startling from the genre, The Cottage will example of low-cash, high-risk compete with Shaun of the Dead EUROPEAN PREMIERE cinema. as one of Britain’s favourite BOXING DAY horrors as the cult grows. Saturday 1 March CARAMEL Dir. Kriv Stenders Australia 2007 (Sukkar banat) UK PREMIERE 82 mins (adv 15) Wednesday 5 March COWBOY ANGELS Richard Green, Tammy Anderson, Dir. Nadine Labaki Wednesday 12 March Syd Brisbane /Lebanon 2007 Dir. Kim Massee France 2006 Over a single day - and through 95 mins (adv PG) Subtitles 100 mins (adv 12A) Subtitles what looks, in a display of Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Elmasri Thierry Levaret, Diego Mestanza, technical bravura that will make A delightful romantic comedy Françoise Klein, Noëlie Giraud your head spin, like a single that revolves around five women Driving from urban Paris blues to unbroken shot - we follow a in a beauty salon in Beirut. the gradually warming Spanish grizzled Adelaide ex-con through Owner Layale is at the tail-end of coast, 11-year-old Pablo and his his valiant attempts to stay on an affair, her breaking heart mercenary chauffeur Louis the straight and narrow. A tough, supported by salon colleagues escape their woes, and search for uncompromising, Loachian Nisrine and Rima. Meanwhile, better days. Soon this odd couple drama of gripping intensity. one her clients is preparing to might find what’s been missing marry. Funny and touching, from their lives. But first they Caramel is an enjoyable and have some estranged relatives to uplifting ensemble movie. meet. 6 A5 Booklet_08:Layout 1 28/1/08 15:55 Page 7

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE CTHULHU Premieres Wednesday 5 March Dir. Daniel Gildark USA 2007 108 mins (adv 15) & Previews Jason Cottle, Scott Patrick Green, Cara Buono Like John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness, this clammily inventive chiller is more a tribute to legendary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft than an actual adaptation of his work. It's the dark tale of a troubled man who returns home to find himself entangled in a nightmare that 67may have apocalyptic consequences.

UK PREMIERE DOG DAYS DREAM Sunday 9 March Dir. Masahide Ichii Japan 2006 73 mins (adv 15) Subtitles Kuniaki Nakamura, Ayako Morita, 8 Yoshikazu Ebisu Big city heat – Japanese style - in this gloriously screwball/deadpan comedy in which a mismatched young couple make their way through the modern urban jungle. He's so lazy that she has to brush his teeth for him - but their quest for a decent air conditioning unit leads to unexpected role reversals. A sweetly quirky delight. EMMA'S BLISS Tuesday 11 March Dir. Sven Taddicken Germany 2006 99 mins (adv 15) Subtitles Jordis Triebel, Jurgen Vogel, Maik 9 610 Solbach The ways of the city and the country collide - literally - with bittersweet results in this weirdly wonderful blend of romance, comedy and tragedy. It's the story of independent but cash- strapped farmer Emma and what happens when car dealer Max 6. Diary of the Dead comes crashing into her life one 7. Dog Days Dream dark and stormy night. 8. Honeydripper Handkerchiefs at the ready! 9. Emma’s Bliss 10. Jasminum

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FUNNY GAMES HONEYDRIPPER I SERVED THE KING OF Wednesday 12 March Friday 14 March Dir. Dir. John Sayles Monday 3 March GB/USA/France 2007 USA 2007 123 mins (adv 12A) Dir. Jiri Menzel Czech Republic 112 mins (18) Danny Glover, Lisa Gay Hamilton, 2006 117 mins (adv 15) Subtitles Naomi Watts, , Michael Yaya DaCosta, Charles S. Dutton, Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, Julia Pitt, Brady Corbet, Gearhart Vondie Curtis-Hall, Jentsch At their summer home the Farber Danny Glover stars as debt-rid- A stunning, unexpected return to family is held captive by two den Tyrone 'Pine Top' Purvis, the limelight for the legendary young men with violent owner of the Honeydripper Czech New Wave pioneer Menzel intentions. Following the huge Lounge which he is struggling to - based, like his 1966 Oscar- arthouse hit of Hidden, Michael keep open. “Beautifully-scripted, winner Closely Watched Trains, on Haneke has returned to his earlier with great performances, a novel by Bohumil Hrabal. A film Funny Games and remade it, atmospheric music and barnstorming epic set during the transposing the location from impressive period authenticity, last century's tumultuous middle Europe to Long Island, New . Honeydripper is a wonderful new decades, this is a gripping tale of drama from John Sayles”. war, love and money audaciously GARAGE - London Film Festival sprinkled with that inimitably dry Thursday 13 March Czech humour. Dir. Lenny Abrahamson Ireland I’M A CYBORG, 2007 85 mins (18) BUT THAT’S OK UK PREMIERE Pat Shortt, Anne-Marie Duff, Sunday 9 March JASMINUM Conor Ryan Dir. Park Chan-wook S. Korea 2006 Wednesday 12 March When David starts work at a local 105 mins (adv 12A) Subtitles Dir. Jan Jakub Kolski Poland 2006 garage he changes the life of Su-jeong Lim , Rain, Hie-jin Choi 115 mins (adv 12A) Subtitles co-worker Josie for ever. “Witty, playful, romantic, tragic, Janusz Gajos, Grazyna “Lenny Abrahamson more than Park Chan-wook's I'm a Cyborg, Blecka-Kolska, Wiktoria Gosiewska delivers on the promise of his but that's OK is a whole chocolate Winner of seven awards at debut feature, the brilliant Adam box of emotions in a highly Poland's equivalent to the Oscars, and Paul, with this wonderful decorative but absolutely this wonderfully charming and character study. At turns characteristic wrapping. Offbeat well-observed comedy applies a hilariously funny and achingly love story between two young light touch to some very serious moving.” - Michael Hayden, inmates of a loony bin - a woman issues. The conflicts between art, London Film Festival who thinks she's a cyborg and a science and faith, are played out man with kleptomania - could in a rural monastery - as observed GEORGE A. ROMERO'S only come from the director of by an exceedingly precocious DIARY OF THE DEAD Old Boy and (especially) five-year-old girl. Delicate, deft, Saturday 1 March Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. - and irresistibly delightful. Dir. George A. Romero Derek Elley, Variety USA 2007 97 mins (18) Michelle Morgan, Joshua Close, IN SEARCH OF A Friday 14 March Shawn Roberts MIDNIGHT KISS Dir. Grant Gee From the man who single- Saturday 8 March GB 2006 93 mins (adv 15) handedly invented the genre, the Dir. Alex Holdridge Documentary with: Joy Division latest unmissable instalment of USA 2007 90 mins (adv 15) Following the huge success of entrail-munching, politically- Scoot McNairy, Sara Simmonds, Control last year, this timely savvy zombie horror. Now the Brian McGuire release for Grant Gee’s maestro has gone back to his A romantic comedy - but one documentary is a great tribute to low-budget roots to craft this that's sufficiently romantic and an influential band. With a mix of razor-sharp satire set in a world comic to win over those who archive footage of gigs and where the dead roam the streets can't usually stand romantic interviews with Curtis, the film and you can't believe anything comedies - in which we follow could descend into a nostalgia you see on TV - or online... the fortunes of a hapless bloke trip, but Gee manages to reach who finds himself without a date an inspiring climax. Not just for on New Year's Eve. Smart and fans of the band but of interest original, exploring some down- to anyone who wants to know town LA locations that you've where the ‘80s went. never seen before in the movies. 8 A5 Booklet_08:Layout 1 28/1/08 15:55 Page 9

KENEDI GOES BACK HOME Saturday 15 March Premieres Dir. Zelimir Zilnik Serbia & Montenegro 2003 78 mins (adv 15) & Previews Documentary with: Kenedi Hasani, Orhan Berisa, Denis Ajeti In the early 1990s, thousands of Yugoslavs fled their war-torn country for the safety of EU nations. In 2002, many of them were sent back. This compelling documentary tells the story of one of them, Kenedi Hasani. Follow his remarkable story in the remaining two sections of the 11 12 'Kenedi Trilogy', assembled now for the very first time. + KENEDI LOST AND FOUND Dir. Zelimir Zilnik Serbia 2005 26 mins KENEDI IS GETTING 13 MARRIED Saturday 15 March Dir. Zelimir Zilnik Serbia 2007 80 mins (adv 15) Kenedi Hasani, Salji Hasani, Philipp Eisenmann Acclaimed veteran Zilnik's landmark 'Kenedi trilogy' of stand-alone works is completed in this fiction documentary hybrid which finds our happy-go- lucky hero taking some rather unexpected steps in his quest to obtain EU citizenship. A disarmingly direct analysis of inescapably topical issues. + KENEDI LOST AND 14 15 FOUND Dir. Zelimir Zilnik Serbia 2005 26 mins

11. 12. Outside Love 13. Little Moth 14. The Lighthouse 15. Kenedi is Getting Married

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LARS AND THE REAL GIRL UK PREMIERE THE OPERATING THEATRE: Monday 10 March LITTLE MOTH JOURNEY INTO SURGERY Dir. Craig Gillespie Wednesday 5 March (Le Théâtre des USA 106 mins (12A) Dir. Tao Peng China 2007 opérations) Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, 99 mins (adv 15) Subtitles Thursday 13 March Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner Huihui Zhao, Dequn Han, Dir. Benoît Rossel In small town America, Lars is a Lei Zhang 2007 86 mins (adv 18) Subtitles socially awkward bachelor. His This harrowing tale of child Documentary with: Professor life consists of church and work. exploitation - praised as one of Michel Gillet, Dr. Nikos He lives close to his brother and the finest Chinese films of recent Kotzampassakis sister-in-law but when she years - has been likened to This compelling documentary becomes pregnant, Lars changes Dickens and the Dardenne uncovers the inner workings of a and suddenly finds a girlfriend. Brothers for its “anger and story- hospital operating theatre as it With more than a nod to the telling scope”, and its follows a fledgling surgeon at world of Garrison Keillor, Lars and “documentary-influenced work. Forthright interviews with the Real Girl is both bizarre and immediacy and sensitive gaze”. surgeons on the front line makes charming. A pressingly topical, rigorously for compulsive, though at times unsentimental story that pulls no uncomfortable and slightly THE LAST MISTRESS punches. morbid, viewing. (Une vieille maîtresse) Tuesday 4 March MID-AFTERNOON BARKS UK PREMIERE Dir. France/Italy Sunday 2 March OUTSIDE LOVE 2007 104 mins (adv 18) Subtitles Dir. Zhang Yuedong China 2007 (Uden for kærligheden) Asia Argento, Fu'ad Ait Aattou, 77 mins (adv 12A) Subtitles Tuesday 4 March Mesquida, Claude Sarraute Chu Chen, Han Dong, Zhang Dir. Daniel Espinosa Denmark Catherine Breillat’s films have Yuedong 2007 103 mins (adv 12A) often shocked. Now she turns to This summer's Beijing Olympics is David Dencik, Nicolas Bro, Louise costume drama set in Paris, 1835, turning the world's eyes firmly Hart, Jacob Ottensten with an adaptation of the novel towards China, with A gripping new drama from by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. On the unprecedented attention being Denmark. Shmuli is a young eve of his wedding to the much paid to the country's vibrant Jewish man desperate to escape younger Hermangarde, notorious artistic scene(s). In terms of the Copenhagen suburbs for New libertine Ryno de Marigny cinematic rising stars, look no York. At first, Muslim girl Amina confesses his past affairs to her further than Zhang Yuedong: his offers merely the means towards grandmother. debut is an audaciously his ticket, but strong feelings avant-garde, accessibly absurdist, emerge to rock both their worlds. THE LIGHTHOUSE visually remarkable triptych that An ageless problem becomes an Saturday 1 March quietly but clearly announces the affecting tale for our times. Dir. Maria Saakyan Russia 2006 arrival of a major new talent. 78 mins (adv 15) Subtitles Anna Kapaleva, Sofico Chiairelli, MILKY WAY Sos Sarkisyan Tuesday 4 March Armenian-born, Russian-raised Dir. Benedek Fliegauf Hungary Saakyan pays lavish tribute to her 2007 82 mins (adv 12A) Subtitles nations' cinematic legends Janos Breckl, Peter Balazs, Barbara Paradjanov and Tarkovsky with Balogh this genuinely poetic vision of a From a young Hungarian director nation ravaged by war. Her focus already well on his way to cult is on the women and children status, an unclassifiable, “left behind” at home. experimental - but surprisingly Heart-stoppingly beautiful and accessible - walk on the wilder thunderously intense, it's a debut side of the human imagination. which promises (and indeed Who needs dialogue when you achieves) great things. have such remarkable images and such eloquent sounds? It's like nothing else you'll see - or hear - all year.

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REALLY Thursday 13 March Premieres Dir. Daniel Mitelpunkt GB 2006 81 mins (adv 12A) Kirsty Bushell, Philip Arditti, Mark & Previews Doyle, Niky Wardley, Joanne Henry A mockumentary from debut director Daniel Mitelpunkt. Eleanor is trying to change her life, find a new boyfriend and a new apartment. She’s accepted the offer to be filmed by a documentary crew on her journey. Good characters with excellent performances. Great fun. 16 17 REDACTED Thursday 6 March Dir. Brian De Palma USA/Canada 2007 91 mins (adv 18) Patrick Carroll, Rob Devaney, Izzy Diaz, Mike Figueroa, Ty Jones Veteran director Brian De Palma is one of the great American 18 stylists and action directors. His latest focuses on an incident in the Iraq war. Modern video filmmaking is shown from various viewpoints as a U.S. army squad rapes and murders a 15-year-old Iraqi girl and slays her family. A hit at the Venice Film Festival and a major new motion picture.

UK PREMIERE RETRIEVAL Thursday 13 March Dir. Sławomir Fabicki Poland 2006 103 mins (adv 15) Subtitles Antoni Pawlicki, Natalia Vdovina, Jacek Braciak 19 20 Shadows of Rocky and Raging Bull hover over this grittily no-nonsense urban drama set on the mean, chilly streets of modern Poland. An ambitious young pugilist finds himself inadvertently enrolled at the academy of hard knocks when he starts working for a 16. Summer’s Tale Machiavellian loan . But 17. Redacted does his moral fibre match his 18. This Beautiful City muscle…? 19. The Spy Who Loved Me 20. Saviour’s Square

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RETURN TO GORÉE UK PREMIERE EUROPEAN PREMIERE (Retour à Gorée) SOME PHOTOS IN THE SUMMER’S TALE Wednesday 12 March CITY OF SYLVIA (Xiatian de weiba) Dir. Pierre-Yves Borgeaud Swi/Lux Wednesday 12 March Saturday 15 March 2007 110 mins (adv 12A) Dir. Jose Luis Guerin Dir. Wen-Tang Cheng Taiwan 2007 Some Subtitles 2007 67 mins (adv 12A) 98 mins (adv PG) Subtitles Youssou N’Dour, Moncef Genoud, The most revered and influential Enno Cheng, Bryant Chang, Dean Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye of living Catalan directors delivers Fujioka, Han Lin After acting as the slave Olaudah a superbly original miniature. In Taiwan’s lush green rice fields, Equiano in Amazing Grace Part-inspired by Chris Marker's La music-obsessed Yvette whiles (BIFF2007), Youssou N’Dour sets Jetée, this is a cinema-poem that, away time at the hazy height of off on a journey across America while technically silent, speaks summer. When she spots a young and then on to France and with a crystal-clear “voice” as it boy trying to fend for himself, she Luxembourg before heading back relates the tale of a writer and realises she has a serious to Gorée, an island off the coast the woman who haunts his summer project. A warm paean of Senegal. Along the way he memories. to youth, and a teen pic with rare performs with many musicians, heart. focusing on the roots of their WORLD DIGITAL PREMIERE music in slavery. Very uplifting. THE SPY WHO LOVED ME EUROPEAN PREMIERE Saturday 1 March THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY SAVIOUR'S SQUARE Dir. Lewis Gilbert Wednesday 5 March Thursday 6 March GB 1977 125 mins (PG) Dir. Ed Gass-Donnelly Canada Dirs. Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curt 2007 85 mins (adv 15) Krause Poland 2006 Jurgens, Richard Kiel Aaron Poole, Kristin Booth, 105 mins (adv 15) Subtitles 007 links up with a sexy Russian Caroline Cave, Noam Jenkin Jowita Miondlikowska, Arkadiusz agent to solve the mysterious Junkies and pimps rub up against Janiczek, Ewa Wencel disappearance of two nuclear nouveau riche in a Toronto Many critics' choice as the best submarines. This brand new neighbourhood. When Carol falls Polish movie of its year, and digital restoration receives its from her balcony to the street, named Best Film at that nation's first-ever screening. the jolt unfastens her from her equivalent of the Oscars, this is a steady life. Meanwhile, a nervous superbly-drawn portrait of a DOUBLE BILL: Johnny fights to save Pretty from young family moving from the SUMMER SCARS the ravaging streets. This clash of countryside to Warsaw and Saturday 8 March lifestyles is gazed through a suffering financial and emotional Dir. Julian Richards mordantly witty lens. woes as a result. A powerfully GB 2007 68 mins (adv 15) acted and vividly atmospheric Kevin Howarth, Ciaran Joyce EUROPEAN PREMIERE slice of life... and death. ‘TIS AUTUMN: THE SEARCH + THE INHERITANCE FOR JACKIE PARIS SHOTGUN STORIES Dir. Charles Henri Belleville Tuesday 4 March Saturday 1 March GB 2007 62 mins (adv 15) Dir. Raymond De Felitta Dir. Jeff Nichols Fraser Sivewright, Tim Barrow USA 2006 100 mins (adv U) USA 2007 117 mins (adv 15) Documentary with: Jackie Paris, Michael Shannon, Douglas Ligon, A double-bill of tough new films Anne Marie Moss, Peter Barlow Jacobs by emerging British talents. Bogdanovich, Harlan Ellison Tough and tender by turns, this In late ‘40s NYC, jazz singer Jackie award-winning drama is one of In Summer Scars, knowing whom Paris was a hot ticket. His warm, the year's most acclaimed to trust isn’t always easy. Bunking mischievous vocals soared to the American debuts. It's a violent, off school to the woods takes an top of Best Newcomer polls, and darkly comic and powerfully unsteady turn when six friends Jackie seemed bound for great atmospheric tale of feuding meet an unknown quantity. things. But instead of breaking brothers in the Deep South that through, he vanished. ‘Tis showcases the talents of the The Inheritance that Fraser and Autumn solves an emotional terrific Michael Shannon - one of David are searching for has been mystery - what happened to Hollywood's most reliable left by their distant late father. Jackie’s thwarted career? supporting players. Does the brothers’ journey to Skye carry a message, left unsaid until now? 12 A5 Booklet_08:Layout 1 28/1/08 15:55 Page 13

UK PREMIERE THIS WORLD OF OURS Premieres Tuesday 11 March Saturday 15 March Dir. Ryo Nakajima Japan 2007 & Previews 94 mins (adv 18) Subtitles Okutsu Satoshi, Hata , Taniguchi Yoshohiko Box Office 0870 70 10 200 At 23, Nakajima is arguably the most explosive and exciting new talent in current Japanese cinema - and this electrifying debut proves that the hype is fully justified. A heady, relentlessly in-your-face brew of transgressive sex, youth disorder 22 21 and nihilistic terrorism, the movie takes no prisoners en-route to its stunning finale. DOUBLE BILL: UNDER THE SUN Sunday 2 March Dir. Baran bo Odar Germany 2006 60 mins (adv 12A) Subtitles

23 Maximilian Waldmann, Janina Stopper, Astrid M. Funderich Summer, 1984, in suburban Germany. Twelve-year-old Viktor is packed off, unwillingly, to stay with his aunt - and receives a rapid education in life's unfairnesses thanks to his bratty older cousin and a neighbour's scary dog. No mere nostalgia trip, this is an alluring but ultimately jarring evocation of childhood's mysteries, moods and frustrations.

UK PREMIERE + ZEPP Dir. Moritz Laube Germany 2007 25 24 45 mins (adv 15) Subtitles Klaus Manchen, Karoline Schuch, Charly Hubner From a Wim Wenders protege who's regarded as one of Germany's most precocious moviemaking talents: the wry tale of a crusty, recently widowed farmer for whom mourning takes 21. Xioalin Xiaoli a back seat to the more 22. The Wonder Years important business of an 23. XXY impending Icelandic holiday. Life, 24. Vexille as he learns, has a way of taking 25. This World of Ours you by surprise. A deft, disarming miniature. 13 A5 Booklet_08:Layout 1 28/1/08 15:55 Page 14

UK PREMIERE EUROPEAN PREMIERE XXY VACATION THE WAY OF SNOW Thursday 6 March Saturday 15 March Friday 7 March Dir. Lucia Penzo 2007 Dir. Thomas Arslan Germany 2007 Dir. Justin Calen Chiang 86 mins (adv 15) Subtitles 91 mins (adv 15) Subtitles USA 2007 72 mins (adv 15) Ines Efron, Ricardo Darin, Valeria Angela Winkler, Karoline Eichhorn, Justin Calen Chiang, Sharon Nao, Bertucelli Uwe Bohm Megan Webster, Travis Greenstreet Superb performances from Two couples in marital crisis; Jay is getting through a tough veteran Darin and newcomer hormonal teenagers with time. A gap has opened up Efron anchor this sensitive pressing romantic problems - and between two versions of himself, portrayal of youthful angst in a an inconveniently ailing public and private. But where coastal Argentinean village. But grandmother: the ingredients for should he turn to find a happy the waif-like protagonist's a subtle meditation on modern medium – friends? A girl? A problems go way beyond the relationships and family tensions, boldly impressive indie debut, usual hormonal difficulties set among the leafy surroundings crafted with an integrity that suffered by most 15-year-olds: of well-heeled northern Germany never falters. Alex is a hermaphrodite, stranded one hazy summer. Bergman may between the sexes, facing a no longer be with us - but his UK PREMIERE painfully nightmarish dilemma. spirit, clearly, lives on. THE WONDER YEARS Sunday 9 March, 1.45pm YOU, THE LIVING VEXILLE Dir. Kim Hee-jeong South Korea Sunday 2 March Sunday 9 March 2007 94 mins (adv 12A) Subtitles Dir. Roy Andersson Dir. Fumihiko Sori Japan 2007 Lee Se-Young, Kim Yu-na, Choo Swe/Ger/Fra/Den/Nor 2007 109 mins (adv 15) Subtitles Sang-mi 95 mins (adv PG) Subtitles Voices: Meisa Kuroki, Shosuke South Korea has been one of the Jessika Lundberg, Elisabeth Tanihara, Yasuko Matsuyuki cinematic hot-spots for several Helander, Englund, Leif Larsson, It’s 2077 and a female agent has years now, and writer/director Olle Olson been sent to Tokyo to investigate Kim looks like becoming the Roy Andersson’s Songs from the rumours of robotic technology latest star to emerge from this Second Floor was one of the most that has been banned. Vexille is creatively fertile corner of East bizarre films of 2001. He returns an extraordinary Japanese Asia. Her debut feature is a with an equally off-the-wall animation from the team behind refreshingly quiet, delicately- comedy on the . Appleseed boasting great action crafted coming-of-age tale about The film unfolds in a series of sequences and an unparalleled a schoolgirl who becomes tableaux that are all visual imagination. convinced that her “real” mother immaculately constructed and is a prominent pop star. delivered. UK PREMIERE WAR, LOVE, GOD & EUROPEAN PREMIERE SPECIAL EVENT: MADNESS XIOALIN XIAOLI US THEM YOU I Tuesday 11 March Monday 3 March Saturday 15 March Dir. Mohamed Al-Daradji Dir. Miaoyan Zhang China 2007 This special event is a short film Iraq/GB 2008 72 mins (adv 15) 108 mins (adv 18) Subtitles showcase. It features short films Documentary Danhui Mao, Yun Liu, Xiaolong from action movies to social From the director of Ahlaam and Deng, Chenglian Li dramas, all made by young fresh from its world premiere at A world away from Shanghai’s people from throughout the the Rotterdam Film Festival, this gleaming new opportunities, Yorkshire region who have is the story behind his filming in a Xiaolin and Xiaoli are lost on the worked with C Media Productions war zone from 2004 to 2007. This harsh end of China’s new deal. In to produce an eclectic mix of is a film for anyone who wants to this un-dreaming town, original content. This exciting understand what is happening humanity braces against project is funded by Media Box. on the ground in Iraq and what it relentless profiteering. An urgent takes to survive. and powerful debut, blessed with a restless eye for damaged beauty.

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SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENING AUGUST EVENING Uncharted States Sunday 2 March Dir. Chris Eska USA 2007 129 mins (adv 12A) Subtitles of America Veronica Loren, Pedro Castaneda, Abel Becerra Persuasively poetic and political, Movies you’ve never seen, made by people you’ve this award-winning drama probably never heard of. A second offering of our explores some underexposed acclaimed showcase for new indie filmmakers from realities of modern America's the USA. immigrant experience. It's the story of a dignified Mexican-born widower, his young, widowed After the runaway success of last year's first Uncharted daughter-in-law and their search selection, showcasing the very best in genuinely for money, work and independence. With dialogue independent (as opposed to “indie”) American cinema, almost entirely in Spanish, it's a we're excited to introduce you to another batch of refreshingly different 'voice' from tomorrow's headline makers. We've also included new the USA. work from a couple of veterans who remain right on SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENING the creative cutting edge, plus one very special ‘blast BROKE SKY from the past’. Low on budget but high on ambition Saturday 8 March and talent, these films confirm that, whatever the Dir. Thomas L. Callaway bloated excesses of Hollywood, the underground, USA 2007 97 mins (adv 15) Joe Unger, Will Wallace, Bruce radical tradition remains thumpingly vibrant. Glover Low-budget, high-skill American independent filmmaking at its craftiest. An atmospheric rural-Texas noir in the finest Blood Simple tradition unfolds after a pair of wisecracking 26 28 roadkill-sweepers stumble across a brutal murder. Genial character-based comedy segues into darker thriller territory - and back - with the deadly suppleness of a desert rattler.

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE THE CALL OF THE WILD 27 Saturday 15 March Dir. Ron Lamothe USA 2007 108 mins (adv 12A) The adventurous life and lonely Alaskan death of ‘spiritual adventurer’ Chris McCandless - also the focus of 's recent Hollywood biopic Into the Wild - is merely the starting point 26. The Call of the Wild for a freewheeling, irresistibly 27. RR genial chronicle of the real, 28. Broke Sky hidden America, its inhabitants and its many paradoxes. Buckle up for one hell of a trip.

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CASTING A GLANCE UK PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Friday 14 March HOHOKAM WHEN IS TOMORROW Dir. James Benning Saturday 1 March Wednesday 12 March USA 2007 80 mins (adv U) Dir. Frank V. Ross Dir. Kevin Ford One great American artist pays USA 2007 72 mins (adv 15) USA 2007 80 mins (adv 15) tribute to another: minimalist Allison Latta, Anthony J. Baker, Eddie Steeples, Kevin Ford, Angela maestro Benning (see also RR in Danny Rhodes Bettis this year's programme) creates a Cinema isn't exactly short of What happens when best mates unique and breathtakingly movies exploring relationship drift apart? When Ron and Jake beautiful portrait of Robert which is perhaps why, when a reunite after five years, they Smithson's Spiral Jetty - a colossal really good one comes along, you realise how little they now have sculpture jutting out into Utah's must grab it while you can. This is in common. Straight out of the Great Salt Lake. Ruminative and the story of a woman and a creative hotbed that is Austin, playful, but sobering in its man - and that bizarre, Texas, this “buddy-movie gone implicit ecological concerns, this maddening, mysterious thing wrong” - from a close associate of gentle masterpiece has been called love, in all its waywardness - is caustic, called “the avant-garde's and unpredictability. A deceptive, hilarious and true. Inconvenient Truth”. rock-solid little gem. THE WHOLE SHOOTIN' DOUBLE BILL: UK PREMIERE MATCH UK PREMIERE QUIET CITY Monday 10 March FISH KILL FLEA Thursday 13 March Dir. Eagle Pennell Thursday 13 March Dir. Aaron Katz USA 1979 109 mins (adv 15) Dirs. Brian M Cassidy, Aaron Hillis, USA 2007 81 mins (adv 15) Lou Perry, Sonny Carl Davis, Doris Jennifer Loeber Erin Fisher, Chris Lankenau, Sarah Hargrave USA 2007 50 mins (adv 12A) Hellman A wonderfully laid-back and Documentary with: Tommy From the director of Party genial charmer about two Barone, Walter Castle USA ('Uncharted States', 2007) boozing, brawling, bickering How did New York State's another excellent and utterly Texas buddies, this is the movie fanciest suburban shopping mall believable portrait of two young which directly inspired Robert turn, after only a couple of people edging towards friendship Redford to create what we now decades, into its most delightfully and possible romance. Finding know as the Sundance Film scuzzy fleamarket? The answers lyrical beauty in some unlikely Festival. A no-frills landmark of and much more besides - are to New York settings, the film has genuinely independent American be found in this superbly sly, been compared favourably with cinema, it now returns, shaggily unexpectedly hilarious parable of Before Sunset and Before Sunrise - triumphant, via a superb, American capitalism's pleasures but has an intoxicating brand-new restoration. and pitfalls. Like the man said, freshness entirely its own. ‘It's the economy, stupid.’ RR + PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE Friday 14 March WHISPERING WIND Dir. James Benning Dir. John Gianvito USA 2007 112 mins (adv 12A) USA 2007 58 mins (adv PG) In recent decades no filmmaker Documentary has addressed the subject of This hypnotically graceful, American landscape with the structurally audacious, multi rigour, brilliance or originality of award-winning documentary James Benning (also responsible chronicles - by means of for Casting a Glance in this year's gravestones, statues and programme). Here he monuments - the struggle for imaginatively uses the nation's civil rights (of all kinds) in the US underappreciated railroads to of A. It's an unforgettable journey explore big ideas about space, into the violent past, present and commerce and history - with future of an ever-turbulent some wildly surprising choices on nation - nothing if not timely, as the soundtrack. the country hurtles towards election day. 16 A5 Booklet_08:Layout 1 28/1/08 15:55 Page 17

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE CineFile PRESENTS: VAL LEWTON - THE MAN IN THE SHADOWS Friday 14 March Dir. Kent Jones A concise but eclectic documentary strand, CineFile is USA 2007 77 mins (adv PG) a kaleidoscopic collection of films that records and Documentary with: Roger documents the world of movies and moviemakers. Corman, Kiyoshi Kurosawa Narrated by Martin Scorsese The first project to bear Scorsese's name since his Oscar success for The Departed is this terrific profile of a true unsung hero of cinema: legendary 29 producer Val Lewton, whose string of 1940s B-movie horror films (including Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie and The Bodysnatcher) proved wildly successful and influential. A very special treat for all true cinephiles. BRANDO Monday 10 March Dirs. Leslie Greif, Mimi Freedman USA 2007 165 mins (adv 12A) Documentary with: , , Jane Fonda, , Martin Scorsese Marlon Brando was one of the biggest stars of his generation and many claim that he changed the world of acting forever. Showing a whole new side to this fascinating movie legend, Brando features never-before-seen footage of the enigmatic screen icon including an unseen movie featuring Brando and Montgomery Clift. SPIELBERG ON SPIELBERG Saturday 15 March Dir. Richard Schickel USA 2007 86 mins (adv PG) Documentary with: Richard Schickel conducts an interview with Steven Spielberg. 29. Spine Tingler! Early days, early breaks, first 30. Wrath of Gods films, successes, failures, ambitions and conscience-prick- ing epics are all explored with Spielberg giving a frank overview of a life in movies. 17 A5 Booklet_08:Layout 1 28/1/08 15:55 Page 18

SPINE TINGLER! THE KING OF TEXAS THE WILLIAM CASTLE Tuesday 11 March STORY Dirs. Mark Rance, Rene Pinnell, Monday 10 March Chuck Pinnell Dir. Jeffrey Schwartz USA 2008 60 mins TBC (adv 15) USA 2007 80 mins (adv PG) Documentary with: Eagle Pennell, Documentary with: John Waters, Richard Linklater, Lou Perry Joe Dante, John Landis The raucous life and bittersweet A wonderfully warm, witty - and career of Eagle Pennell - maverick overdue - tribute to the most director of landmark American Val Lewton - The Man in the Shadows flamboyant and outrageous of all independent film The Whole Brando producer/directors: William Shootin' Match (also showing in Speilberg on Speilberg Castle, a man now remembered, BIFF this year) - are chronicled in perhaps unfairly, more for his this intimate portrait. inventively bizarre publicity- generating ‘gimmicks’ than the + HELL OF A NOTE horror movies (The House on Dir. Eagle Pennell 30 Haunted Hill; The Tingler; 13 USA 1977 28 mins (adv 12A) Ghosts) they were so Eagle Pennell's debut short. successful in promoting. UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE IRAN: WRATH OF GODS A CINEMATOGRAPHIC Wednesday 5 March REVOLUTION Dir. Jon Gustafsson Wednesday 12 March Can/Ice 2006 72 mins (adv PG) Dir. Nader T. Homayoun France Documentary with: Sturla 2006 98 mins (adv 12A) Subtitles Gunnarsson, Gerard Butler, Stellan Documentary with: Bahman Skarsgård, , Ingvar Ghobadi, Mohsen Makhmalbaf Sigurdsson Iranian cinema has been Life becomes one long struggle as extremely big news on the the cast and crew of Beowulf and world's film festival circuit for a Grendel battle against decade plus. But this particular hurricane-strength winds, a fire, a nation's cinematic heritage goes slowly sinking Viking longboat back a very long way, as we and precarious funding. It’s a discover in this invaluable survey disaster in the making, with the - liberally illustrated with a frustrated crew believing firmly terrific range of archive clips. that they have been cursed by the ancient Norse gods. THE MAN WHO SHOT CHINATOWN: MAURICE PIALAT - LOVE THE LIFE AND WORK OF EXISTS... JOHN A. ALONZO Saturday 1 March Saturday 8 March Dirs. Jean-Pierre Devillers, Dir. Axel Schill Germany/USA/GB Anne-Marie Faux France 2007 2007 77 mins (adv 12A) 81 mins (adv 15) Subtitles Documentary with: John A. Documentary with: Maurice Alonzo, William Friedkin Pialat, Guy Marchand We all know the great Hollywood Of all the great French post-war actors and directors - and directors, Maurice Pialat has, perhaps some of the always lagged behind the likes of screenwriters - but how many of Godard, Truffaut and Chabrol. But the movies’ most renowned this major new documentary cinematographers can you name? shows why he's very much Ace ‘lenser’ John A. Alonzo's egarded as one of the true career and personality are heavyweights in his homeland. entertainingly examined in this affectionate tribute. 18 A5 Booklet_08:Layout 1 28/1/08 15:55 Page 19

Who's Coming... TO THE 14TH BRADFORD INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

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31. Michael Palin 32. Kenneth Branagh 33. Julien Temple 34. Christian Petzold 35. Mike Figgis 36. Barry Norman 37. Patrick Doyle

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SCREENTALKS: MASTERCLASS: MICHAEL PALIN MIKE FIGGIS Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 March Wednesday 12 March Actor, writer and all-round Mike Figgis is a British filmmaker funnyman Michael Palin talks with a unique vision and a strong about and beyond reputation for experimenting as he runs through his with technology and creativity. adventures in the screen trade. This Masterclass will be See pages 21 - 24 stimulating, reflective and challenging and will reveal 33 SCREENTALK: precisely why his eclectic KENNETH BRANAGH approach is so vital to the cinema Sunday 9 March of the future. A genuine renaissance man, See page 33 Kenneth Branagh is renowned for bringing Shakespeare to the SCREENTALK: masses. He will discuss his film BARRY NORMAN career and reveal some of the Wednesday 5 March background to epics like The nation’s best-loved film critic 34 and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. recalls five decades of meetings See pages 25 - 28 with the great and the good of the international movie industry. SCREENTALK: See pages 35 - 36 JULIEN TEMPLE Monday 10 March SCREENTALK: For more than 30 years Julien DICK CARRUTHERS Temple has documented the Friday 7 March changing face of the British See pages 37 - 38 35 rock ‘n’ roll scene. One of the UK’s leading creators of music-related KEYNOTE SPEECH: films, he has worked closely with PATRICK DOYLE everyone from the to Tuesday 4 March . The acclaimed composer behind See pages 29 -30 the soundtracks of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Calendar SCREENTALK: Girls and Donnie Brasco will CHRISTIAN PETZOLD discuss his work as one of the 36 Sunday 2 March most popular and prolific The up-and-coming master of musicians in the country. Patrick new German cinema discusses is the keynote speaker at the 4th his particular brand of compelling Film & Music Conference. filmmaking. See page 45 See pages 31 - 32

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Michael Palin The 14th Bradford International Film Festival presents this first-ever retrospective of the film work of Michael TRAVELLING THROUGH COMEDY Palin – a unique tribute to a unique figure in the annals of British (and American) screen comedy.

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AND NOW FOR MONTY PYTHON’S MONTY PYTHON’S SOMETHING COMPLETELY THE MEANING OF LIFE FLYING CIRCUS: DIFFERENT Monday 10 March WITHER CANADA? Saturday 1 March Dirs. , Sunday 2 March Dir. Ian McNaughton GB 1983 107 mins (15) Dir. Ian McNaughton GB 1971 88 mins (12A) , , GB 1969 30 mins (no cert) Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, , Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin The Pythons’ last hurrah is a Terry Gilliam, The earliest Python movie is a scattergun selection of sketches See page 46 collection of skits and sketches that consider Man’s route from re-staged for the cinema. Among birth through life to death. THREE MEN IN A BOAT the gems are hell’s grannies, Always funny, and frequently Sunday 2 March defence against fresh fruit, the gut-bustingly brilliant, The Dir. English/Hungarian phrasebook, Meaning of Life introduced ‘80s GB 1975 65 mins (no cert) the dirty fork, upper-class twit of audiences to a fresh collection of Tim Curry, Michael Palin, Stephen the year, the lumberjack song Python grotesques such as the Moore and, of course, the parrot sketch. unforgettable Mr. Creosote. Parts See page 46 of ‘’ were MONTY PYTHON shot in Bradford. : AND THE HOLY GRAIL TOMKINSON'S Monday 3 March JABBERWOCKY SCHOOLDAYS Dirs. Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones Thursday 6 March Sunday 2 March GB 1975 91 mins (15) Dir. Terry Gilliam Prod. Terry Hughes Graham Chapman, John Cleese, GB 1977 101 mins (PG) GB 1976 30 mins (no cert) Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Max Wall, Deborah Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Gwen Michael Palin Fallender, Warren Mitchell Watford, A contender for the funniest film Full of dirt and blood-stained See page 46 ever made, Monty Python and the atmospherics of medieval Holy Grail is a glorious spoof of England, Jabberwocky tells the G.B.H. every po-faced historical epic ever epic tale of Dennis Cooper's rise (Episode 1) made. A milestone in British film from coopering to unwitting Monday 3 March comedy, it features all six Pythons heroics with great gusto and Dir. Robert Young in multiple roles as Arthur and considerable violence and death. GB 1991 90 mins (15) his travel ancient England A companion piece to Holy Grail, , Michael Palin, in search of the Holy Grail. Jabberwocky gives new meaning , to peasantry and bodily See page 47 MONTY PYTHON’S functions. LIFE OF BRIAN A COMPLETE AND UTTER Saturday 8 March FIERCE CREATURES HISTORY OF BRITAIN Dir. Terry Jones Wednesday 12 March (Episode 1) GB 1979 93 mins (15) Dirs. Robert Young, Fred Schepsi Tuesday 4 March Graham Chapman, John Cleese, GB/USA 1997 93 mins (12) Dir. Maurice Murphy Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, John Cleese, , GB 1969 30 mins (no cert) Michael Palin , Michael Palin Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Wallas Brian, an innocent, skirts the Fierce Creatures focuses on the Eaton, Melinda May, Diana Quick various militant organisations full-scale rebellion by the Narrated by Colin Gordon fighting against Roman harassed staff of a small zoo See page 47 occupation. He is mistaken for when autocratic company man the Messiah and a cult builds up Rollo Lee (Cleese) decides to kill EAST OF IPSWICH around him, bringing him into off all the boring animals in Tuesday 4 March direct conflict with the Romans. favour of the fierce creatures that Dir. Tristram Powell Three decades after its release please the bloodthirsty crowds. GB 1987 75 mins (15) Life of Brian remains a delicious Cue much stupidity and slapstick. John Nettleton, Pat Heywood, time capsule of whimsy, outrage Palin plays garrulous Edward Rawle-Hicks, Allan and politically-incorrect comedy. entomologist Adrian ‘Bugsy’ Cuthbertson, Rosemary Macvie Malone. See page 47

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SCREENTALK: MICHAEL PALIN in conversation with Tony Earnshaw Saturday 1 March An architect of the 1960s new wave of as one of the Monty Python team, Michael Palin is something of a revered figure. In this unique interview with BIFF Artistic Director Tony Earnshaw, he will look back at his comedy roots and trace the lineage of a remarkable life that has encompassed films, television and lots of travel. We are delighted that Michael Palin has agreed to accept the BIFF2008 Lifetime Achievement Award and to discuss his career during this special retrospective.

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A FISH CALLED WANDA Wednesday 12 March Saturday 1 March Dir. Charles Crichton Dir. Malcolm Mowbray GB/USA 1988 108 mins (15) GB 1984 94 mins (15) John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Palin, , Kevin Kline, Michael Palin , , Alison Barrister Archie Leach (Cleese) Steadman, Richard Griffiths, Pete finds himself up to his neck with Postlethwaite, Tony Haygarth a group of jewel thieves including In the depths of Yorkshire a small the seductive Wanda (Curtis), village is preparing to celebrate who wants the gems for herself. the marriage of Princess Packed with inspired lunacy, Elizabeth. Michael Palin and outrageous characters (including Maggie Smith are the husband Palin’s stuttering Ken Pile) and and wife team desperate to scale some truly zany humour, A Fish the social ladder and be a part of Called Wanda is cinematic an exclusive middle-class club. comedy at its best. Priceless.

THE MISSIONARY We hope to be joined by Sunday 9 March members of the cast and crew of Dir. this classic British comedy. GB 1982 83 mins (15) Details TBC at the time of going Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, to press. , Michael Hordern Michael Palin stars as Edwardian AMERICAN FRIENDS missionary Charles Fortescue, + MICHAEL PALIN IN who returns from Africa and is PERSON assigned to minister to London’s Sunday 2 March ladies of the night. He finds Dir. Tristram Powell himself pursued by wealthy GB 1990 96 mins (PG) sponsor Lady Ames (Maggie Michael Palin, Alfred Molina, Smith). A delicious parody of the Connie Booth, , Alun upper classes. Armstrong, David Calder, Bryan Pringle, , Sheila Reid BRAZIL Holidaying in Switzerland in Wednesday 5 March 1861, academic Francis Ashby Dir. Terry Gilliam meets Americans Miss Hartley GB 1984 142 mins (15) and her 17-year-old ward, Elinor. Jonathan Pryce, , Romance blossoms but back in Katherine Helmond, Michael Palin Oxford Ashby's life returns to Sam Lowry (Pryce) is the diligent, normal until the two women turn low-grade bureaucrat who up. Both are in love with him but dreams of escaping from his college rules demand that he meaningless existence in a brutal remain celibate. Michael Palin's Kakfa-esque world. With every witty script is based on the facet of his life monitored by an diaries of his great grandfather. insidious ministry, Sam finds that escape comes at a high price. We hope that director Tristram Michael Palin stands out as the Powell will be present to evil, double-crossing Jack Lint. introduce this screening. Details TBC at the time of going to press.

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Kenneth Branagh Through a combination of graft, energy, talent and a THE ALL ROUNDER little luck, Kenneth Branagh has become one of the key figures in modern British cinema. We are delighted to welcome him to the 14th Bradford International Film Festival to discuss his work on TV and film. 44. Directing Sleuth

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A MONTH IN THE IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER MUCH ADO ABOUT COUNTRY Tuesday 4 March NOTHING Sunday 2 March Dir. Kenneth Branagh Wednesday 5 March Dir. Pat O’Connor GB 1995 99 mins (15) b/w Dir. Kenneth Branagh GB 1987 96 mins (PG) Michael Maloney, Nicholas Farrell, GB/USA 1993 111 mins (PG) , Kenneth Branagh, Richard Briers, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Natasha Richardson, Jim Carter Out of work and with no Thompson, Keanu Reeves, Kate Two WWI veterans arrive immediate prospects on the Beckinsale independently at the Yorkshire horizon, Joe Harper mounts his An energetic, exuberant village of Oxgodby. They start to own production of Hamlet with a adaptation of Shakespeare’s bring the pieces of their lives motley band of thesps desperate melodrama in which the path to together again, one through the enough to work for nothing over true love for smitten Claudio and repairing of a church fresco and Christmas. A warm-hearted and Hero is undermined by the the other through archaeology. bittersweet ensemble comedy. dastardly Don John. Branagh stars as Benedick and directs a HENRY V SLEUTH glorious ensemble. A cheerful, Thursday 6 March Thursday 13 March witty, affectionate, comic, Dir. Kenneth Branagh Dir. Kenneth Branagh infectious battle of the sexes. GB 1989 137 mins (PG) GB 2007 86 mins (15) Kenneth Branagh, Brian Blessed, , MARY SHELLEY’S Robbie Coltrane, Emma The ensemble that is Caine, Law, FRANKENSTEIN Thompson, , Judi Pinter and Branagh makes for a Monday 3 March Dench mouth-watering combination as Dir. Kenneth Branagh A sober, intense and exciting Anthony Shaffer’s take on GB/Japan/USA 1994 picture that positively bristles diabolical games-playing is 123 mins (15) with energy, Henry V reflected updated for the 21st Century. Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, great credit on Branagh as actor, Andrew invites Milo Tindle director and adaptor. The picture to his home to discuss their Victor Frankenstein, a medical also provided a sensational entry shared interest: Andrew’s wife student, builds an artificial living into international filmmaking and Milo’s lover. But all is not as it being from stolen body parts and and created the beginnings of seems. the brain of the man who Branagh’s unofficial repertory murdered his mentor. Visually company. CELEBRITY arresting, strikingly delivered and Friday 7 March beautifully crafted, Mary Shelley’s HAMLET (70mm) Dir. Frankenstein is an unusual Sunday 9 March USA 1998 113 mins (18) addition to the genre. Dir. Kenneth Branagh Kenneth Branagh, Leonardo GB 1996 242 mins (PG) DiCaprio, , RABBIT-PROOF FENCE Kenneth Branagh, , Friday 7 March , Kenneth Branagh leads an all-star Dir. Philip Noyce Hamlet is the greatest of Kenneth cast as a shallow, celebrity- Australia 2002 94 mins (PG) Branagh’s many achievements so obsessed freelance journalist Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, far. He presents boldly the full based in New York whose Laura Monaghan, Kenneth text of the play with an amazing ambitions lead him into the Branagh star-studded cast of actors world of superstars. An acerbic Rabbit Proof Fence is the appearing in roles throughout view of star culture. harrowing story of three young the four hours. This is both a Aboriginal girls in the early great adventure and a staggering 1930s, forcibly removed from achievement. their families as part of a racially-motivated government programme. The trio find themselves employed as servants 1,500 miles from home but escape to trek across the Outback.

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OTHELLO Kenneth Branagh Friday 14 March THE ALL ROUNDER Dir. Oliver Parker USA/GB 1995 123 mins (12A) Laurence Fishburne, Irène Jacob, Kenneth Branagh, Nathaniel Parker Writer/director Oliver Parker’s truncated version of Shakespeare’s timeless story of love, obsession, betrayal, jealousy and death. Laurence Fishburne is the Moor; Kenneth Branagh 45. effortlessly essays the role of 46. Conspiracy Iago.

45 CONSPIRACY Tuesday 11 March Dir. Frank Pierson GB/USA 2001 96 mins (adv 12A) Some subtitles Kenneth Branagh, , Colin Firth, January 20, 1942. Reinhard Heydrich calls a top secret gathering of high ranking Nazis. Their purpose: to draw up a plan for the extermination of millions of Jews. A chilling recreation of a monstrous episode in modern history. GHOSTS Monday 3 March Dir. Elijah Moshinsky GB 1986 105 mins (adv 15) Kenneth Branagh, , , Freddie Jones, Natasha Richardson Mrs. Alving (Dench) is preparing for the opening of an orphanage in memory of her late husband, a captain whose respected reputation masked his true character as an immoral philanderer. When their son, Oswald (Branagh), comes home from Paris with the news that he is dying of syphilis, Mrs. Alving is forced to reveal a terrible family secret.

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PLAY FOR TODAY: SHORT FILMS x 5 TOO LATE TO TALK TO BILLY Saturday 8 March Sunday 9 March Dir. Paul Seed SWAN SONG GB 1982 90 mins (adv 15) Dir. Kenneth Branagh Kenneth Branagh, James Ellis, Brid GB 1992 23 mins (adv PG) Brennan, Maggie Shevlin, Tracey , Richard Briers Lynch, Ainé Gorman A faithful adaptation of a one-act The Martin family lives off the play by Chekhov, this Oscar- Donegal Road in . The nominated short stars John parents are estranged and the Gielgud as Svetlovidov, an aged family fractured, with young Billy actor revisiting the great (Branagh) constantly battling Shakespearean roles of his past in against his domineering father a darkened theatre. (Ellis). Too Late to Talk to Billy was one of the first Belfast-set THE PERIWIG-MAKER dramas to use The Troubles as a Dir. Steffen Schäffler 46 backdrop rather than a central Germany 1999 15 mins (adv 12A) character. Voice: Kenneth Branagh A man who seals himself off in LOOK BACK IN ANGER plague-infested London is visited Monday 10 March by an ill little girl. Oscar- Dir. David Jones nominated Tim Burton-esque GB 1989 115 mins (adv 15) chiller. Kenneth Branagh, , Gerard Horan, Siobhan THE DANCE OF SHIVA Redmond, Edward Jewesbury Dir. Jamie Payne An educated but unfulfilled man, GB 1998 26 mins (adv 12A) Jimmy Porter (Branagh) rages at Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kenneth the class-bound nature of English Branagh, Julian Glover society, directing his frustrations The Great War, 1915. A British at his pregnant, upper middle- army chaplain finds himself class wife, Alison (Thompson). questioning his faith as he Bitter and self-aggrandising, watches hundreds of Hindu Jimmy eventually drives Alison soldiers needlessly sacrificed. away and embarks on an affair with her friend, Helena, which ALIEN LOVE TRIANGLE has disastrous consequences for Dir. GB 2002 30 mins (adv 15) his unborn child. Kenneth Branagh, Alice Connor, SCREENTALK: KENNETH BRANAGH SHACKLETON Courteney Cox, Heather Graham Physics lecturer Steven in conversation with Wednesday 12 March Chesterman invents a Tony Earnshaw Dir. teleportation device and rushes Sunday 9 March GB 2002 206 mins (15) home to break the news to his We are delighted that Kenneth Kenneth Branagh, Kevin McNally, wife, only to discover she is Branagh has taken time out Nicholas Rowe, actually an alien with news of her from a busy work schedule to In the early 20th century, a own. join us in Bradford. He will formidable race began to be the discuss his eventful career thus first to cross the Antarctic SCHNEIDER’S 2ND STAGE far and accept the 2008 BIFF content. Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Dir. Phil Stoole Fellowship Award. expedition was legendary - not GB 2001 17 mins (adv 15) for having achieved that goal - Kenneth Branagh, Gerard Horan Tickets available from the but for his epic struggle to lead After driving for hours Joe Box Office 0870 70 10 200 his 28-man crew to safety after finds himself in the middle of their ship was crushed in the nowhere, unaware of the forces Tickets for this special event pack ice of the Weddell Sea. that have conspired to bring him are priced at £10 or £7.50 there and for what reason. concessions 28 A5 Booklet_08:Layout 1 28/1/08 15:56 Page 29

Julien Temple ANARCHY & ARTISTRY IN THE UK - AND BEYOND

Julien Temple’s career began with and has THE GREAT ROCK ’N’ ROLL lasted more than 30 years. Now considered to be the SWINDLE Thursday 6 March doyen of rock and pop documentary makers, he has Dir. Julien Temple built an impressive body of work, collaborating with GB 1980 103 mins (18) some of the biggest names in music. We are delighted Documentary with: Malcolm to present this first retrospective of his films during McLaren, Johnny Rotten, , Steve Jones, , Bradford International Film Festival. Glen Matlock Punk rock’s anarchic heart is given celluloid presence by The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, a sometimes incoherent series of loosely interlinked vignettes 47 48 narrated by manager Malcolm McLaren in which the self-styled Svengali claims to reveal how the band was created. A postmodern demolition job, both bizarre and quietly subversive. + SEX PISTOLS NUMBER 1 Dir. Julien Temple GB 1977 25 mins (adv 15) With: The Sex Pistols A montage of TV clips from the Pistols’ brief ‘70s heyday.

47. 48. Julien Temple on set ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS (70mm) Tuesday 11 March Dir. Julien Temple GB 1986 108 mins (15) Eddie O'Connell, Patsy Kensit, , James Fox, , Mandy Rice-Davies, Sade, Steven Berkoff, Edward Tudor-Pole, Based on Colin MacInnes' seminal SCREENTALK: ‘50s novel, this multi-million JULIEN TEMPLE pound extravaganza in conversation with re-constructed period Soho with great detail and atmosphere. Chris Phipps Beautifully shot and directed by Monday 10 March Julien Temple, the film follows a A full and frank discussion with young aspiring photographer one of the original pioneers of through a hip and exciting world. the pop promo and the rock doc.

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VIGO: THE FILTH AND THE FURY JOE STRUMMER: A PASSION FOR LIFE Tuesday 11 March THE FUTURE IS Thursday 13 March Dir. Julien Temple UNWRITTEN Dir. Julien Temple GB/USA 2000 107 mins (15) Monday 10 March GB/Jap/Fra/Sp/Ger 1998 Documentary with: Johnny Dir. Julien Temple 103 mins (15) Rotten, Sid Vicious, Steve Jones, GB 2006 125 mins (15) James Frain, Romane Bohringer, Paul Cook, Glen Matlock, Malcolm Documentary with: Joe Strummer, Nicholas Barnes McLaren Mick Jones, Topper Headon, Terry Temple’s hagiographic The Filth and the Fury is a Chimes homage-cum-biopic to the fascinating document of a With successful films on the Sex tortured genius of split highly-charged era and the most Pistols under his belt, Julian audiences and critics alike on its notorious rock group of all time. Temple assembled a fascinating release in the late ‘90s. Julien Temple first documented insight into the career of Clash Unmistakably flawed, Vigo the rise and fall of the Sex Pistols frontman Joe Strummer. nevertheless offers heart-rending in The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, Compiled from film from their performances from James Frain a film constructed from the point earliest rehearsals through later as the tubercular auteur who of view of the band’s self- gigs and interviews with realises his time on earth is short aggrandising manager, Malcolm colleagues, this is the definitive and Romane Bohringer as the girl McLaren. The Filth and the Fury, statement on his legacy. who devotes her life to him. culled from a substantial archive of never-before-seen footage, JULIEN TEMPLE: PANDAEMONIUM sets the record straight. PROMO SELECTION Sunday 9 March Monday 3 March Dir. Julien Temple GLASTONBURY R/T: approx 90 mins GB 2000 124 mins (12) Friday 14 March A quick trawl through Julien , John Hannah, Dir. Julien Temple Temple’s many rock and pop , Emily Woof GB 2006 135 mins ( 15 ) promos reveals work for artists as The story of Lakeland Poets Documentary featuring: The diverse as the Rolling Stones, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Roache) Velvet Underground, Nick Cave , David Bowie, Bryan and William Wordsworth and the Bad Seeds, , Adams, Sade and Dexy’s Midnight (Hannah), Pandaemonium is a , David Bowie Runners. This selection represents wonderful blend of history and Interweaving images of some of his best work from more drama. The cast is passionate and impromptu art happenings, than 25 years. full of energy, giving the subject a sceptical locals, and stirring fresh and modern appeal. A performances by music legends, + SEX PISTOLS NUMBER 1 powerful look at two of the not to mention the unbridled Dir. Julien Temple greatest poets the English energy of each successive GB 1977 25 mins (adv 15) language has ever produced. generation of youthful music With: The Sex Pistols fans, Glastonbury skilfully A montage of TV clips from the chronicles the evolution of the Pistols’ brief ‘70s heyday. longest-running in the world.

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DRIFTERS Christian Petzold Sunday 2 March POET OF APPREHENSION Dir. Christian Petzold Germany 1995 68 mins (adv 15) Subtitles Eleonore Weisgerber, Nadeshda Brennicke, Udo Schenk Petzold's raw-boned, Bradford is delighted to present the most (scandalously) seldom screened comprehensive retrospective ever staged in this debut contains the germ of many country for the man Sight & Sound magazine called of his future projects: the “the up-and-coming master of new German cinema”. soul-sapping blandness of Germany's industrial hinterland From early rarities like Cuba Libre and Drifters to his is the backdrop for a terse tale of latest, the multi award-winning Yella, this tribute dark desires and criminal celebrates a writer/director whose intricate escapades, as two unlikely female psychological thrillers have established him among avengers go on a wayward, reckless spree. Schwestern are the very front rank of current European auteurs. doing it for themselves! Neil Young CUBA LIBRE Thursday 6 March Dir. Christian Petzold Germany 1996 92 mins (adv 15) Subtitles Richy Mueller, Catherine H. Flemming, Wolfram Berger 49 The first feature-length work by Petzold, and an über-rare chance to see this masterful filmmaker at a crucial early stage in his development. A neon-lit autobahn road movie - with several cruel twists - about a romance gone very badly wrong, it's a typically ironic, cool take on well established cinematic genres. An intoxicating, disconcerting cocktail. SOMETHING TO REMIND1. Yella ME Tuesday 4 March Dir. Christian Petzold Germany 2002 90 mins (adv 15) Subtitles Nina Hoss, Andre Hennicke, Sven Pippig Petzold's first collaboration with his “muse” Nina Hoss (later to indelibly incarnate Yella) is perhaps the most ingeniously constructed of all his movies - and, given Petzold's scriptwriting mastery, that's certainly saying 49. Yella something. A genuinely Hitchcockian thriller of manipulation, passion ice-cold revenge, it builds steadily to a finale of shattering intensity.

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THE STATE I AM IN GHOSTS Friday 7 March Monday 3 March Dir. Christian Petzold Germany Dir. Christian Petzold Germany 2000 106 mins (adv 15) Subtitles 2007 89 mins (12A) Subtitles Julia Hummer, Barbara Auer, Richy Nina Hoss, Devid Striesow, Mueller Hinnerk Schonemann Described as perhaps the single Five years after The State I Am In, most influential German movie Petzold reunites with co-writer since reunification - certainly Harun Farocki and youthful star within Germany itself - and Hummer for this Petzold's big financial and critical characteristically intricate, gently breakthrough, this expertly- suspenseful - and accessibly crafted political thriller/teen straightforward tale - of a mousy romance/character study traces teenager, her wild-child best the legacy of the nation's violent friend, and the Frenchwoman radicalism of the ‘60s and ‘70s. who may (or may not) be her Built around a phenomenal long-lost mother. A truly performance from Julia Hummer, haunting thriller. it's brilliant, bold - and, ultimately, brutal. Beware! YELLA Sunday 2 March WOLFSBURG Dir. Christian Petzold Germany Wednesday 5 March 2007 89 mins (12A) Subtitles Dir. Christian Petzold Germany Nina Hoss, Devid Striesow, 2003 90 mins (adv 15) Subtitles Hinnerk Schonemann Benno Furmann, Nina Hoss, Antje Named on many international Westermann critics' ten-best lists when In between Something to Remind released last autumn, Yella finally Me and Yella, Nina Hoss showed introduced Britain's movie-going again why she's the ideal public to a writer/director who's interpreter for Petzold's multi- quietly established himself as layered approach to character one of Europe's most remarkable development. Here she's in cinematic talents. It's a SCREENTALK: implacable angel-of-vengeance deliciously unsettling CHRISTIAN PETZOLD mode in a taut parable of grief, psychological thriller set against in conversation with guilt and redemption, set among a backdrop of corporate intrigue, Shane Danielsen the gleaming surfaces and built around a stunning, Sunday 2 March moneyed comforts of star-making turn from the In conjunction with our Volkswagen's eponymous ever-wondrous Nina Hoss. retrospective of his acclaimed, company town. award-winning films, we are delighted to welcome writer/ director Christian Petzold to Bradford. He will discuss his methods and films on stage with journalist Shane Danielsen, former Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

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TIMECODE: Mike Figgis LIVE MIX BY MIKE FIGGIS LEAVING THE FILM INDUSTRY Tuesday 11 March BEHIND Dir. Mike Figgis GB 1999 93 mins (15) Jeanne Tripplehorn, , Kyle MacLachlan, Stellan MASTERCLASS: Skarsgard MIKE FIGGIS A feature film shot entirely using Wednesday 12 March, 6pm four digital cameras in real time, On Location featuring a host of acclaimed Mike Figgis has a unique vision actors improvising within a and a strong reputation for predetermined structure over experimenting with technology 93 minutes, Timecode is either and creativity. This Masterclass mesmerising or perplexing. Each will be stimulating, reflective and ‘performance’ of the film is a challenging and will reveal unique event and demonstrates precisely why his eclectic the immense power of the approach is so vital to the cinema soundtrack in shaping audiences’ of the future. perception of film.

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DUNKIRK Leslie Norman Wednesday 12 March (1911 - 1993) Dir. Leslie Norman GB 1958 134 mins (PG) b/w , , Bernard Lee, Robert Urquhart May, 1940. In London, the civilian In conjunction with the population, lulled into an visit of Barry Norman, atmosphere of false security, goes Bradford International about its business as usual. But Film Festival is delighted to Charles Foreman, war correspondent, knows better. As be screening three of his the war in France takes a turn for father Leslie Norman’s the worse, he volunteers for the best films as director. greatest mission ever mounted… the evacuation of Dunkirk. THE NIGHT MY NUMBER CAME UP Thursday 6 March 52. Dunkirk 53. The Night My Number Came Up Dir. Leslie Norman (Image from the Ronald Grant Archive) GB 1955 94 mins (PG) b/w 54. Leslie Norman with John Mills, 1957 Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, (Image from the Daily Herald archive) Michael Hordern Commander Lindsey relates a 52 53 dream he has experienced to his fellow dinner guests. It involves a ‘plane carrying 13 passengers. The aircraft is lost over the sea, the radio fails, and fuel is running short when, through a break in the clouds, a rock-strewn beach is sighted. The pilot makes desperate attempts to avoid the 54 cliffs. There is a terrible crash, then silence. THE LONG AND THE SHORT AND THE TALL Wednesday 5 March Dir. Leslie Norman GB 1961 110 mins (PG) b/w , Richard Todd, Richard Harris, David McCallum The tragic story of seven British soldiers who, trapped behind Japanese lines, are so concerned with arguing out their own destinies that the enemy has to take second place. When they capture a lone Japanese scout and argue over his fate as well, the film shows with a terrible truth that in war there can be no second chances. Based on the stage play by Willis (Billy Liar) Hall.

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THE HOLLYWOOD GREATS: Barry Norman JOAN CRAWFORD THE INCORRUPTIBLE CRITIC Wednesday 5 March, 2pm Dir. Judy Lindsay GB 1978 50 mins (no cert) Jesse Lasky Jr., Joan Crawford was the epitome For a quarter of a century of a movie star. Despite her the face of the BBC’s Film controversial private life, she show, Barry Norman managed to achieve iconic status brought artistry and with her flamboyant style. artists into people’s living THE HOLLYWOOD GREATS: rooms. In doing so he HENRY FONDA offered film buffs both Thursday 6 March, 2pm young and old an insight Dir. Margaret Sharp GB 1984 50 mins (no cert) into the good, the bad and , , the indifferent currently Mark Rydell, Susan Blanchard playing on the nation’s Henry Fonda epitomised the cinema screens. image of the thoroughly decent, hard-working, all-American hero. But his private life was plagued We are delighted to by failed marriages and an welcome Barry Norman to awkward relationship with his the 14th Bradford children. International Film Festival. THE HOLLYWOOD GREATS: JOHN WAYNE Friday 7 March, 2pm Dir. Margaret Sharp GB 1984 50 mins (no cert) Ronald Reagan, SCREENTALK: John Wayne represented the ultimate cowboy. courageous, BARRY NORMAN resilient and principled. But how in conversation with far did his on-screen persona Tony Earnshaw reflect his real character? Wednesday 5 March Few journalists have done more FILM ’90: to foster a love of film among the ROBERT DE NIRO British public than Barry Norman. Wednesday 5 March, 3pm His was a form of movie Dir. Shaun Williams GB 1990 reviewing that made audiences 30 mins (no cert) sit up and take notice: Norman The adrenaline really flows in this liked good movies and the people rare conversation with made them. He was frank, notoriously cagey star. he was blunt but he was fair. In this Screentalk interview he will FILM ’92 SPECIAL: discuss his run-ins with the stars and how cinema has changed Thursday 6 March, 3pm since he entered it. Dir. Liz Hartford GB 1992 30 mins (no cert) Tickets available from the Pfeiffer discusses her career. Box Office 0870 70 10 200

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40 YEARS GONE: LED ZEPPELIN DECODED + SCREENTALK: DICK CARRUTHERS Friday 7 March 56. Led Zeppelin in , 1975 (Ian Dickson/Rex Features) Archivist and documentary maker Chris Phipps looks back at the origins of über-rockers Led Zeppelin. This special event is complemented by screenings of the thinly veiled Zeppelin tribute Almost Famous and the band’s legendary concert film The Song Remains the Same. Dick Carruthers is a multi award- winning director of live and concert DVDs. He is also the producer/director of the ground- breaking 2003 Led Zeppelin DVD set. He will discuss the artistic and technical challenges of selectively unleashing and showcasing the myth that is Led Zeppelin and reveal the challenges of directing last year’s reunion gig. THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME Friday 7 March Dirs. Peter Clifton, Joe Massot GB/USA 1976 137 mins (15) John Bonham, John Paul Jones, , Robert Plant Three live concerts combine with some truly bizarre moments to create The Song Remains the Same. Each member of the band is depicted in his own “fantasy sequence”. When not fantasising, the band is caught in epic form. ALMOST FAMOUS Thursday 13 March Dir. USA 2000 122 mins (15) Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, , Patrick Fugit Teenage rock journalist William Miller falls in love with the rock music scene and legendary groupie Band Aid, who is both used and abused by band leader Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup). Affectionate, poignant and maybe the most jubilant film ever made about disillusionment. 38 A5 Booklet_08:Layout 1 28/1/08 15:56 Page 39

Special Events

57. The Phantom of the Opera 58. Cipher 59. The Railrodder 60. Un Chien Andalou

WORLD PREMIERE 57 CIPHER PRESENTS: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Thursday 13 March only, 7.30pm Dir. Rupert Julian USA 1925 93 mins (PG) b/w Silent Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland, John St. Polis, Snitz Edwards The grand atmospheric melodrama of The Phantom of the Opera with its balance of terror and tragedy provides a perfect vehicle for the dark ambient jazz soundscapes of Cipher. Bradford International Film Festival is proud to present the World Premiere of this brand new score prior to a UK tour.

During the latter decades of the Victorian Era, the great Paris Opera is troubled with whispers of a ghost - a frightening spectre that visits misfortune on the company should they fail to please him. Up-and-coming singer Christine Daae (Mary Philbin), meanwhile, is more preoccupied with her singing tutor. He is a disembodied voice she believes to be an emissary from her dead father, who guides her to new heights but demands she put her music above all else, including (and especially) her handsome childhood sweetheart, Raoul. Neither Phantom nor tutor is a spirit in truth, but are two different sides of the same man: a horribly disfigured, unnaturally gifted and frighteningly passionate man, but a man nonetheless.

Cipher – saxophonist/flautist Theo Travis and bassist Dave Sturt – have been reinventing music for silent films for live performance since 1996. Their acclaimed scores include Pabst’s Pandora’s Box, Murnau’s The Last Laugh and two Hitchcock classics: The Lodger and Blackmail.

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Bradford International Film Festival and the Royal Academy of Music together present this special event in which young musicians premiere completely new scores to a trio of classic silent shorts: Luis Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou, Laurel and Hardy’s The Finishing Touch and Buster Keaton’s The Railrodder.

Composers Chris Brown, Dominic Lewis and James Murray (who also acts as conductor) were given no indication as to style or function, but simply required to respond to each of these widely varied classic films in as inventive and original a manner as possible.

There is by its nature a ‘seat-of-the-pants’ aspect to the whole concept of ‘live’ film music which, we hope, will bring a certain frisson to what is normally a well-controlled (and controllable) feature of the filmmaking process.

WORLD PREMIERE 59 SOUNDS FOR SILENTS: THREE NEW SCORES FOR CLASSIC FILMS Tuesday 4 March only, 5pm THE FINISHING TOUCH Dirs. Clyde Bruckman, Leo McCarey USA 1928 19 mins (U) Silent b/w Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Sam Lufkin Having built a house in a single day, Stan and Ollie manage to wreck it. Chris Brown has written for many different ensembles including orchestra, wind orchestra and jazz trio. THE RAILRODDER Dir. Gerald Potterton Canada 1965 24 mins (U) Silent Buster Keaton A mute adventurer journeys across Canada on a motorised handcar. Dominic Lewis co-wrote the scores for the feature film The Poet, starring Daryl Hannah and Roy Scheider, and the short film Crews. UN CHIEN ANDALOU Dirs. Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dali France 1929 17 mins (15) Silent b/w Simone Mareuil, Pierre Batcheff, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí Un Chien Andalou remains beyond interpretation. James Murray has completed commissions for the London-based Ossian Ensemble and the Lancashire Youth Symphony Orchestra.

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THIS IS Friday 7 March Dirs. Merian C. Cooper, Michael Todd, Fred Rickey USA 1952 120 mins (U) The first 3-strip film made. This is the original Cinerama feature The Widescreen Weekend continues to welcome all which launched the widescreen those fans of large format and widescreen films – era, and is about as fun a piece of CinemaScope, VistaVision, 70mm, Cinerama and IMAX – Americana as you are ever likely and presents an array of past classics from the vaults of to see. More than a technological curio, it's a document of its era. the National Media Museum. A weekend to wallow in the nostalgic best of cinema. HAMLET (70mm) Sunday 9 March Widescreen Passes £70 / £45 Dir. Kenneth Branagh GB/USA 1996 242 mins (PG) Available from the box office 0870 70 10 200 Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, Derek Jacobi, Kate Winslet, Judi Patrons should note that tickets for 2001: A Space Odyssey are priced Dench, Charlton Heston at £10 or £7.50 concessions Anyone who has seen this Hamlet in 70mm knows there is no better-looking version in colour. The greatest of Kenneth Branagh’s many achievements so 61 far, he boldly presents the full text of Hamlet with an amazing cast of actors. STAR! (70mm) Saturday 8 March Dir. Robert Wise USA 1968 174 mins (U) , Daniel Massey, , Jenny Agutter Robert Wise followed his box office hits West Side Story and The Sound of Music with Star! Julie 62 63 Andrews returned to the screen as and the film charts her rise from the to Broadway stardom. Star! is a spectacular compendium of the best of 20th century popular music as well as an excellent rags-to-riches story. THE BIGGER PICTURE: A HISTORY OF CINEMA EXHIBITION With Tony Sloman Saturday 8 March 61. 2001: A Space Odyssey Regular WSW guest Tony Sloman, 62. The Great Escape 63. Blade Runner a member of the Academy of the Widescreen Weekend, gives an introduction to the history of cinema. 41 A5 Booklet_08:Layout 1 28/1/08 15:56 Page 42

WINDJAMMER CINERAMACANA BLADE RUNNER: Saturday 8 March Sunday 9 March THE FINAL CUT Dir. Louis de Rochemont III One of the most popular events Sunday 9 March Norway/USA 1958 120 mins (U) of the Widescreen Weekend and Dir. The 50th anniversary of the a great way to wake up on a USA 2007 117 mins (15) release of this film shot in Sunday morning. Cineramacana Harrison Ford, , M. . Widescreen fans brings together all those little Emmet Walsh, Sean Young love it. It’s a great cultural bits and pieces that lie around in A quarter of a century after its experience as a group of cadets people’s cupboards or on dusty release, Blade Runner receives its on a training exercise take the SS shelves in archives and which third and ultimate edit by Christian Radich from Oslo, seldom see the light of a director Ridley Scott. A seminal across the Atlantic and on to New projector. classic of the genre. Screening in York. Featuring great and much digital. sought-after music. HONEYMOON Sunday 9 March 70mm DOUBLE BILL: UK PREMIERE Dir. EDWARD SCISSORHANDS THE SAND PEBBLES GB/Spain 1959 105 mins (adv U) Monday 10 March Saturday 8 March Anthony Steel, Ludmilla Tchérina, Dir. Tim Burton Dir. Robert Wise Antonio, Léonide Massine USA 1990 105 mins (PG) USA 1966 196 mins (PG) A newly married couple Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder Steve McQueen, Richard honeymoon in Spain. Recently An elderly inventor creates Attenborough, Richard Crenna, restored by Charles Doble with Edward, a living being, but dies Candice Bergen, Mako funds from the Martin Scorsese before he can complete the In between The Sound of Music Foundation, this is not only a rare hands. Edward is left alone – but and Star!, Robert Wise delivered a Michael Powell film but also a with a dazzling array of knives classic war epic set in 1920s rare widescreen classic, filmed in and scissors at the ends of his China. The Sand Pebbles boasts an ARC 120. arms. Peggy, the local Avon lady, Oscar-nominated performance by finds him and brings him back to Steve McQueen’s as engineer Jake CINEMATIC SOUND town. There he becomes a star at Holman, who upsets the status FORMATS topiary and hairdressing. A very quo on board the US gunboat San With Dion Hanson peculiar vision of small town Pablo. Remastered digitally at the Friday 7 March America sees Tim Burton at his highest resolution, this new print A special presentation by imaginative best. Edward is one receives its UK premiere. engineer and cinema technology of cinema’s great sympathetic historian Dion Hanson, who takes characters. UK DIGITAL PREMIERE us on a sound journey through THE GREAT ESCAPE the history of cinema. Dion + BRAINSTORM Friday 7 March previously worked for Dolby Dir. Douglas Trumbull Dir. John Sturges Laboratories and was chairman USA 1983 106 mins (15) USA 1963 172 mins (PG) of the Projected Picture Trust. , Natalie Wood Steve McQueen, , With a machine that can put you Richard Attenborough, James 2001: into someone else’s experiences Donald, Charles Bronson A SPACE ODYSSEY (70mm) then this could be a great fun An immediate classic on its Friday 7 March experience or learning device. But release, this timeless tale of Dir. the military can also see some courage in adversity remains GB/US 1968 141 mins (U) great potential. Partly shot in notable for the emergence of Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, 70mm, this is a great ride and Steve McQueen as a bonafide William Sylvester, Leonard Rossiter action movie from Douglas movie star. Based in part on Paul A film deserving of the Trumbull, the man responsible for Brickhill’s book on the mass description “ground-breaking”, the effects in Kubrick’s 2001. escape from a German prison Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey camp during WWII, the film goes remains one of the all-time THE MAKING OF HOW off into flights of Hollywood classics of science-fiction cinema. THE WEST WAS WON fancy as McQueen heads for the It is presented during WSW in its Saturday 8 March Swiss border on a stole German original Cinerama format in a Behind the scenes with Dave motorcycle. But it’s the sheer restored 70mm print with six- Strohmaier as he reveals more verve and machismo that drives track magnetic stereo sound on from the Cinerama archive. the story forward. the curved Pictureville screen. 42 A5 Booklet_08:Layout 1 28/1/08 15:56 Page 43

Saturday 1 & Sunday 2 March, On Location Prices: Full Industry Weekend Pass £25 / £20 concessions Industry Weekend Day Pass £15 / £12 concessions Individual Event tickets £5 / £3.30 concessions (A Full BIFF Pass allows you free access to all Industry Weekend events) Available from the box office 0870 70 10 200

The BIFF2008 Industry Weekend Guest speakers will include: is two packed days of events and David Nicholas Wilkinson, masterclasses for anyone managing director of Guerilla working in film and provides an Films Ltd; Peter M. Kershaw, opportunity for them to expand director of Harrogate-based and broaden their knowledge of Duchy Parade Films; Jason Wood, the different aspects of programming manager of City filmmaking through key figures Screen Picturehouses; Hugo in the industry. Covering a wide Heppell, head of production at variety of different aspects of Screen Yorkshire and Damian getting your film from Spandley from The Works. conception to distribution with guidance and advice on funding, Benefits; distribution, working with actors Free entry into all Industry and how they interact with a film Weekend events Industry crew. Weekend delegate pack £1 off entry to all screenings Among the subjects being during BIFF2008 covered are how to shoot outside Free entry to all drinks receptions the funding system, setting up a during BIFF2008 production company, the legal ins and outs of filmmaking, how directors and actors work together, what cinemas and distributors are looking for when approaching them with your film and how to successfully submit a film to a festival.

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Shine Short Film Award

Saturday 1 & 15 March, Cubby Broccoli Cinema Treading the borders yet pushing The Shine Award honours the best short film by an the boundaries.. emerging director. The six shortlisted films are considered by a jury for innovation and originality. R/T: approx 99 mins 64. Zohar 65. London Love Story 66. Trip

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THE SHINE SHORT LIST AIRLOCK OR HOW TO SAY LONDON LOVE STORY TRIP GOODBYE IN SPACE Dir. Alexander Thomas Dir. Harry Wootliff Dir. Chris Boyle GB 2007 13 mins 52 secs (adv 15) GB 2007 16 mins (adv PG) GB 2007 15 mins (adv 15) Frankie Fitzgerald, Lois Winstone, Sam Hazeldine, Karis Igoe, Chloe Michael Sheen, Steven Alex Ellis, Sam Oatley, Jay Brown Garner, Sara Fellows Waddington and the voice of As Jack and Hannah say goodbye Way past bedtime, a man takes Derek Jacobi for the night, their glances are his kids on ‘holiday’, taking care Christmas Eve, 1976. Stranded in worth a lot. The thrill of early not to wake the woman in the space, NASA astronauts Adam romance sends Jack on his way next room. He’s trying hard to do Banton and Carl Ackland orbit the home happy. But, on the bus, the right thing, but this is a earth awaiting the news that will some other passengers interrupt strained trip - one that you know decide their fate. As their oxygen his reverie. This gripping tale of can’t be good in the long run. A dwindles they receive a the unexpected earns a killer lean, riveting gem of a film. transmission from their moral punchline. President. It is not what they ZOHAR expect… A poignant, affecting, LULLABY Dir. Yasmine Novak Israel 2007 claustrophobic drama that Dir. Kevin Markwick 31 mins 17 secs (adv 15) Subtitles considers life, death and GB 2007 14 mins 20 secs (adv PG) Elinor Cohen, Sharona Elimelech everything in between. Haydn Gwynne, Piers Thomas Zohar lives with her mother and A touching and moving account sister in a Tel-Aviv suburb. Being BAGGAGE CLAIM of a young mother who, having 16, still dependent and smart, the Dir. Toni Bestard Spain 2007 lost a child some years earlier, hypocrisy of the adults around 10 mins (adv 12A) Subtitles eventually comes to terms with her is ever more annoying. An Natalia Mateo, Xisco Segura her grief. This thoroughly affecting portrait, boasting a bold As a man waits to collect his rounded film boasts a superb and performance by Elinor Cohen as luggage in an airport arrival mesmerising performance from Zohar, and with a fine-tuned ear lounge, he is joined by an Haydn (Peak Practice) Gwynne. for a domestic row. attractive woman who makes Brilliant. him an offer, based on a bet: which of their suitcases will appear first…? 44 A5 Booklet_08:Layout 1 28/1/08 15:56 Page 45

4th Annual Film & Music Conference CONFERENCE THEME: SHAKESPEARE

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Wednesday 5 March, 10am start There are paper presentations On Location Conference Suite covering a range of Shakespeare The University of Leeds School of and film music topics, and a Music and the School of Art of round-table session: Brunel University, in collaboration “Shakespeare, film and music”. with the National Media Museum, are pleased to present The fee is £20 for the full the 4th Annual Film and Music conference (includes lunch, but Conference in association with excludes other meals and Bradford International Film accommodation) with £12 Festival. This year’s conference is concessions for students and the also in association with Dare, a unwaged. Registration begins at new collaborative partnership 10am on Wednesday 5 March. between the University of Leeds and Opera North, and is part of For full details and an application Opera North’s 2007/08 form email Ian Sapiro Shakespeare season. ([email protected]) or see the conference website at The conference features a http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/fi keynote interview with Patrick lmmusic Doyle, composer of the scores for Kenneth Branagh’s film adaptations of Shakespeare, as well as recent releases Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Nanny McPhee and Sleuth.

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MONTY PYTHON’S FLYING CIRCUS: TV Heaven WITHER CANADA? Sunday 2 March, 2pm Dir. Ian McNaughton GB 1969 30 mins (no cert) Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Carol Cleveland Dead parrots, silly walks, the 68 … the comedy revolution started here. This 1969 pilot includes an interview with Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson and the famous modern artists’ marathon cycling race. THREE MEN IN A BOAT Sunday 2 March, 3pm Dir. Stephen Frears GB 1975 65 mins (no cert) Tim Curry, Michael Palin, Stephen Moore A television adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome’s humorous account of a boating holiday on the Thames shared by a trio of friends who bicker, offend the local TV Heaven is a collection of more than 900 classic population and discover the hazards of outdoors life along the television programmes from the last 60 years of way. British broadcasting history, all of which can be viewed free of charge on our custom-built viewing RIPPING YARNS: gallery, the only facility of its kind in the UK. Booking TOMKINSON'S SCHOOLDAYS is not necessary but is advisable at busy times. Monday 3 March, 2pm Prod. Terry Hughes All titles showing during Bradford International Film GB 1976 30 mins (no cert) Festival 2008 will begin at either 2pm or 3pm in the Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Gwen Watford, Ian Ogilvy TV Heaven Viewing Room. Parodying Tom Brown's Schooldays and the Boy's Own style of children's fiction, Tomkinson's Schooldays was written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones and starred Palin as an overgrown schoolboy desperate to escape a barbaric public school.

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G.B.H. (Episode 1) TV Heaven Monday 3 March, 3pm Dir. Robert Young GB 1991 90 mins (15) Robert Lindsay, Michael Palin, Lindsay Duncan, Julie Walters For seven weeks in the summer of 1991, broadcast GBH, 's epic story of two men caught in a whirlwind of politics, power and madness: Michael Murray (Lindsay), an ambitious Labour politician and Jim Nelson (Palin), a schoolteacher who takes a moral stand. 69 A COMPLETE AND UTTER HISTORY OF BRITAIN (Episode 1) Tuesday 4 March, 2pm Dir. Maurice Murphy GB 1969 30 mins (no cert) Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Wallas Eaton, Melinda May, Diana Quick Narrated by Colin Gordon The idea behind A Complete and Utter History of Britain was to “bring to your screens for the first time history as it actually happened”. In this first episode, we see English cavemen standing for the National Anthem, a 1066 70 71 edition of the ITN News and an estate agent trying to sell Stonehenge to a young couple. EAST OF IPSWICH Tuesday 4 March, 3pm Dir. Tristram Powell GB 1987 75 mins (15) John Nettleton, Pat Heywood, Edward Rawle-Hicks, Allan Cuthbertson, Rosemary Macvie, Oona Kirsch, Pippa Hinchley Forced to endure a holiday in a sleepy Suffolk resort with his family, 17-year-old Richard Burrill (Rawle-Hicks) befriends a disparate gang of other teenagers including a local 69. Look Back in Anger 70. GBH ruffian, a fiery Dutch exchange 71. Walking with Dinosaurs: Giants of the Skies student (Hinchley) and gorgeous 72. Robert De Niro Julia (Kirsch). 73. Henry Fonda

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THE HOLLYWOOD GREATS: WALKING WITH JOAN CRAWFORD DINOSAURS: Wednesday 5 March, 2pm GIANTS OF THE SKIES Dir. Judy Lindsay Friday 7 March, 3pm GB 1978 50 mins (no cert) Dir. Jasper James Vincent Sherman, Robert GB 1999 30 mins (no cert) Montgomery, Jesse Lasky Jr., Cliff Narrator: Kenneth Branagh Robertson, Charles Walters This acclaimed natural history Joan Crawford was the epitome series aimed to create the most of a movie star. Despite her accurate portrayal of prehistoric controversial private life, she animals ever seen on the small managed to achieve iconic status screen. Combining fact and with her flamboyant style. ‘informed speculation’ with cutting-edge computer graphics THE HOLLYWOOD GREATS: and animatronics, the series took HENRY FONDA two years to make. Thursday 6 March, 2pm 72 Dir. Margaret Sharp : GB 1984 50 mins (no cert) TOO LATE TO TALK TO BILLY James Stewart, Jack Lemmon, Sunday 9 March, 2pm Mark Rydell, Susan Blanchard Dir. Paul Seed Henry Fonda epitomised the GB 1982 90 mins (adv 15) image of the thoroughly decent, Kenneth Branagh, James Ellis, hard-working, all-American hero. Brid Brennan, Maggie Shevlin, But his private life was plagued Tracey Lynch, Ainé Gorman by failed marriages and an The Martin family lives off the awkward relationship with his Donegal Road in Belfast. The children. parents are estranged and the family fractured, with young Billy THE HOLLYWOOD GREATS: (Branagh) constantly battling JOHN WAYNE against his domineering father Friday 7 March, 2pm (Ellis). Too Late to Talk to Billy was TV Heaven Viewing Room one of the first Belfast-set Dir. Margaret Sharp dramas to use The Troubles as a GB 1984 50 mins (no cert) backdrop rather than a central 73 Ronald Reagan, Kirk Douglas character. John Wayne represented the ultimate cowboy, courageous, LOOK BACK IN ANGER resilient and principled. But how Monday 10 March, 3pm far did his on-screen persona Dir. David Jones reflect his real character? GB 1989 115 mins (adv 15) Kenneth Branagh, Emma FILM ’90: Thompson, Gerard Horan, Siobhan ROBERT DE NIRO Redmond, Edward Jewesbury Wednesday 5 March, 3pm An educated but unfulfilled man, Dir. Shaun Williams Jimmy Porter (Branagh) rages at GB 1990 30 mins (no cert) the class-bound nature of English The adrenaline really flows in this society, directing his frustrations rare conversation with the at his pregnant, upper notoriously cagey star. middle-class wife, Alison (Thompson). Bitter and FILM ’92 SPECIAL: self-aggrandising, Jimmy MICHELLE PFEIFFER eventually drives Alison away and Tuesday 6 March, 3pm embarks on an affair with her Dir. Liz Hartford friend, Helena, which has GB 1992 30 mins (no cert) disastrous consequences for his Pfeiffer discusses her career. unborn child. 48 A5 Booklet_08:Layout 1 28/1/08 15:56 Page 49

GHOSTS Tuesday 11 March, 4pm TV Heaven Dir. Elijah Moshinsky GB 1986 105 mins (adv 15) Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Freddie Jones, Natasha Richardson Mrs. Alving (Dench) is preparing for the opening of an orphanage in memory of her late husband, a captain whose respected reputation masked his true character as an immoral philanderer. When their son, Oswald (Branagh), comes home from Paris with the news that he 74 is dying of syphilis, Mrs. Alving is forced to reveal a terrible family secret. CONSPIRACY Tuesday 11 March, 2pm Dir. Frank Pierson GB/USA 2001 96 mins (adv 15) Some subtitles Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci, Colin Firth, David Threlfall January 20, 1942. Reinhard Heydrich calls a top secret gathering of high ranking Nazis. Their purpose: to draw up a plan for the extermination of millions of Jews. A chilling recreation of a monstrous episode in modern 75 76 history. SHACKLETON Wednesday 12 March, 2pm Dir. Charles Sturridge GB 2002 206 mins (15) Kenneth Branagh, Kevin McNally, Nicholas Rowe, Phoebe Nicholls In the early 20th century, a formidable race began to be the first to cross the Antarctic content. Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition was legendary - not for having achieved that goal - but for his epic struggle to lead his 28-man crew to safety after their ship was crushed in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea. 74. Conspiracy 75. Johnny Cash in San Quentin 76. Shackelton 77. Ghosts 78. Ravi Shankar

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THE STONES IN THE PARK JOHNNY CASH IN Thursday 13 March, 2pm SAN QUENTIN Dirs. Jo Durden-Smith, Leslie Friday 14 March, 2pm Woodhead Dir. Michael Darlow GB 1969 50 mins (adv 12A) GB 1969 55 mins (adv PG) Documentary with: The Rolling Documentary with: Johnny Cash, Stones, June Carter Cash On a hot July afternoon in 1969, In 1968, Johnny Cash gave his 500,000 music fans gathered in famous concert at Folsom Prison Hyde Park for a legendary free – the recording of which became concert. Altogether, 12 hours of his biggest album success. A year film were shot by six camera later, the Man in Black did it units, and so The Stones in the again, this time at the notorious Park successfully bottles the San Quentin prison and in front excitement of the gig and the of a Granada documentary crew. heady atmosphere of the late ‘60s. THE SOUTH BANK SHOW: 77 THE VELVET THE SOUTH BANK SHOW: UNDERGROUND THE MAKING OF Friday 14 March, 3pm SERGEANT PEPPER Dir. Kim Evans Thursday 13 March, 3pm GB 1986 55 mins (no cert) Dir. Alan Benson With: , , GB 1992 55 mins (no cert) Sterling Morrison, Lou Reed, With: Melvyn Bragg, Paul Maureen Tucker, Nico McCartney, , George This edition of the long-running Harrison, George Martin arts show focuses on the To mark the 25th anniversary of influential American rock group this remarkable psychedelic The Velvet Underground, who album, Melvyn Bragg talks to were managed for a while in the producer George Martin and the 1960s by pop artist Andy Warhol. surviving members of . Featuring evocative archive footage and material from The Beatles’ original recordings. RAVI SHANKAR: BETWEEN TWO WORLDS Thursday 13 March, 4pm Dir. Mark Kidel GB 2001 60 mins (no cert) Documentary with: Ravi Shankar, Anoushka Shankar 78 This insightful documentary traces the career of the leading sitar player of modern times, from his childhood in Benares, to his work with film director , his famous concert at Monterey Pop, and his collaborations with Yehudi Menuhin, John Coltrane, The Beatles and many other musical greats.

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Display Basil Pao: The Man Who Shot Everything

79 19 February – 20 April 2008 Museum Foyer This display introduces the photographic work of the photographer, Basil Pao, who has produced ten books in collaboration with Michael Palin. His beautiful travel photographs capture the character of the people and places visited in the popular TV travel series (1992), (1997), Hemingway Adventure (1999), Sahara (2002), Himalaya (2004) and (2007).

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79. Mass paneurythmic dancing, the highlight of the year for the White Brotherhood, Bulgaria, 2007 © Basil Pao 80. Celebrating Jani (the summer solstice) in the Latvian countryside, 2007 © Basil Pao

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0870 70 10 200 Festival 8.30am - 8.30pm daily (National Rate) or book online at Information Line www.bradfordfilmfestival.org.uk

MUSEUM BOX OFFICE TIMES Refreshments 10am - 5pm Tuesday - Sunday in the Museum foyer Intermission Café: 5pm - 9pm Monday and evenings in Pictureville Cinema Open Tue - Sun 10am - 5pm Pictureville Bar: TICKET PRICES Open 5pm-9pm daily Pictureville Cinema £5.00 / £3.30 (Special thanks to Discovery Cubby Broccoli Cinema £5.00 / £3.30 Music Store, 73 Westgate, 2 films £7.90 / £5.40 Bradford, BD1 2RD for providing IMAX Cinema £6.95 / £4.95 bar and auditorium music in the Full Festival Pass £120 / £80 cinema). Industry Weekend Pass £45 / £25 Widescreen Weekend Pass £70 / £45 Access * Concession prices are available at venues for students, unemployed, senior The Museum is fully accessible. citizens, registered disabled and under 15s. Please check with the Box Office. All cinemas have wheelchair spaces and the Sennheiser infra-red hearing system. Subtitled and audio described screenings are listed inside.

National Media Museum 81 Pictureville, Bradford , BD1 1NQ ( is five minutes walk away with rail, bus and taxi services). By road: From the M6 and the M1, the M62 leads to the M606. Follow the Bradford City Centre signs and then brown tourism signs which lead directly to the Museum.

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Diary Bradford International Film Festival 29 February - 15 March 2008

FRIDAY 29 FEBRUARY WEDNESDAY 5 MARCH 9.15 Opening night gala: In Bruges 10.00 Film & Music Conference (OL) 11.30 Much Ado About Nothing SATURDAY 1 MARCH 12.00 Brazil © 10.15 New European Cinema x 4 © 1.45 Wolfsburg 10.15 And Now For Something Completely Different 2.40 The Long and the Short and the Tall © 12.00 Hokokam 3.30 This Beautiful City 12.30 Shine Award shortlist (Jury screening) © 4.45 Wrath Of Gods © 1.30 Mid-Afternoon Barks 5.30 Cthulhu 2.30 Maurice Pialat - Love Exists...© 6.15 Little Moth © 3.15 The Spy Who Loved Me 8.15 Screentalk: Barry Norman 4.15 The Lighthouse © 8.30 Caramel © 5.30 Diary of the Dead 6.30 Boxing Day © THURSDAY 6 MARCH 7.45 Screentalk: Michael Palin + A Private Function 10.30 Senior Citizens: Henry V 8.15 Shotgun Stories © 12.00 The Night My Number Came Up © 1.30 Bellavista SUNDAY 2 MARCH 1.45 Cuba Libra © 10.05 A Month in the Country 3.30 The Great Rock’n’ Roll Swindle © 11.00 August Evening © 3.45 Jabberwocky 12.00 Behind Forgotten Eyes 5.45 Redacted 1.30 All the Invisible Things © 6.00 Saviour's Square © 2.00 Under The Sun + Zepp 8.00 The Cottage 3.45 Bunny Chow © 8.15 XXY © 4.00 Drifters 5.30 Four Minutes FRIDAY 7 MARCH 5.45 Screentalk: Christian Petzold + Yella © 10.00 7.45 Screentalk: Michael Palin + American Friends 11.45 Celebrity © 8.30 You, The Living © 2.00 The Great Escape 2.00 The State I Am In © MONDAY 3 MARCH 4.00 The Way of Snow © 3.00 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 5.45 Rabbit-Proof Fence © 3.30 Julien Temple: Promo Selection © 6.30 Cinematic Sound Formats 5.30 Xioalin Xiaoli © 7.30 2001: A Space Odyssey (70mm) 5.45 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 7.45 Screentalk: Dick Carruthers + 7.45 I Served the King of England The Song Remains the Same © 8.15 Ghosts © SATURDAY 8 MARCH TUESDAY 4 MARCH 10.00 Windjammer 12.00 In The Bleak Midwinter © 10.15 Short Films x 5 © 1.30 Milky Way 12.00 The Man Who Shot Chinatown © 2.00 Outside Love © 1.00 The Bigger Picture 4.15 Something to Remind Me © 1.30 Summer Scars + The Inheritance © 6.00 ‘Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris © 2.30 The Sand Pebbles 8.00 Sounds for Silents 4.00 Monty Python’s Life of Brian © 8.15 The Last Mistress © 6.00 The Making of How the West Was Won 6.00 Broke Sky © 7.30 Star! (70mm) 53 8.15 In Search of a Midnight Kiss © A5 Booklet_08:Layout 1 28/1/08 15:56 Page 54

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SUNDAY 9 MARCH THURSDAY 13 MARCH 10.00 Cineramacana 10.30 Senior Citizens: Sleuth 12.00 The Missionary © 11.15 Almost Famous © 1.00 Screentalk: Kenneth Branagh + Hamlet 70mm 1.30 Fish Kill Flea + Profit Motive © 1.45 The Wonder Years © 2.00 The Operating Theatre 2.00 Pandaemonium © 3.45 Really © 4.15 Dog Days Dream © 4.00 Vigo: A Passion for Life 6.00 Honeymoon 5.30 Quiet City © 6.00 Vexille © 6.00 Retrieval 8.15 I'm a Cyborg, but that’s OK © 8.15 Garage 8.30 Blade Runner 8.30 Cipher presents: The Phantom of the Opera © MONDAY 10 MARCH FRIDAY 14 MARCH 10.30 Edward Scissorhands + Brainstorm (70mm) 11.30 Othello © 2.00 Brando © 1.30 Glastonbury 2.30 Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life 1.50 Val Lewton - The Man In The Shadows © 4.30 Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story 3.30 Casting a Glance © 5.30 Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten © 4.00 New British Filmmakers x 6 6.15 The Whole Shootin’ Match 5.45 City of Men 8.15 Lars and the Real Girl 5.45 RR © 8.15 Screentalk: Julien Temple © 8.00 Honeydripper © 8.15 Joy Division TUESDAY 11 MARCH 1.15 Bad Girls© SATURDAY 15 MARCH 1.30 Absolute Beginners 10.15 This World of Ours © 3.30 The King of Texas + Hell of a Note 10.15 Spielberg on Spielberg 3.30 The Filth and the Fury © 12.00 The Call of the Wild 5.30 War, Love, God & Madness 12.15 Summer’s Tale © 5.45 This World of Ours © 2.00 Us Them You I 8.00 Timecode: Live Mix by Mike Figgis 2.15 Kenedi Goes Back Home + 8.15 Emma's Bliss © Kenedi: Lost and Found © 3.45 Burke & Wills WEDNESDAY 12 MARCH 4.15 Kenedi is Getting Married © 11.45 Dunkirk © 5.45 Vacation 12.00 6.00 Shine Award presentation © 2.00 Fierce Creatures 8.00 Closing night gala: Searchers 2.0 + Guests 2.15 Some Photos in the City of Sylvia © 3.45 When is Tomorrow © 4.00 Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution 5.30 Jasminum © 6.00 Cowboy Angels 6.00 Masterclass: Mike Figgis (OL) 8.00 Return to Gorée © 8.15 Funny Games

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