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21ST CENTURY WESTERN
20 November
21ST CENTURY WESTERN
Sometimes your preconceptions can be pretty indelible.
Time Bends
Programming a film festival involves a kind of critical cooperation that in most cases has to supercede private likes and dislikes. If unanimosity isn't possible, we should have come pretty close to it when we decided on most of the festival's films.
Boden & Fleck
15 November
BODEN & FLECK
'Boden & Fleck' made their feature film debut in 2006 with the multiply award-winning Half Nelson, about a crack-smoking high school teacher delivering sermons on dialectics to poor African Americans.
Second Chances
Today, three things about film that took me a shamefully long time to realise:
1. It's OK to go on your own. It wasn't until I noticed that everyone around me had already seen Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King that I finally forced myself to do this.
Seeing Patterns
SEEING PATTERNS
How much a film festival can truly be 'planned' is a subject we can go into later in the week – most of the time it seemed like we were picking the films out, arranging them into informal 'strands' – but maybe it was also a case of the films choosing us.
Recessional
RECESSIONAL
I know, I know. It's a recession! Christmas is coming on, like a mini-mortgage! Otherwise non-scary outgoings are beginning to look unreasonably prohibitive. But don't let that stop you over the next 10 days.
The Beginning of Something
10 /11 November
Hello, and welcome to the daily (or thereabouts) blog of the 19th Bath Film Festival, a.k.a. Bath Film Festival '09. Thanks for coming this far. If you live in Bath, of course, you have no excuse and I have nothing more to say to you.
Seeing Stars
We thought you might enjoy some images of the talented teams who created many of our 2009 BFF Preview films as seen on the red carpet at the recent London Film Festival.
(Photographs from top left moving clockwise). Director Stephen Poliakoff of the film Glorious 39 w/ friends. David Tennant and Fans.
Being There
BEING THERE
Looking back at BFF 2008, the films we chose and how enthusiastically they were received by our audience: it is encouraging to see that two of them have also been selected as Film of the Month in Sight & Sound.
Letter To A Star
Dear Frances McDormand,
Thank God there are people like you in the film business. I don't think you'll be offended if I say you're not glamorous, since glamour is clearly not what you aspire to, and also has very little to do with acting.
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