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Cannes in a Van - The Documentary
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| Written by KatalystProductions |
| The documentary of Cannes in a Van at the 60th Cannes Film Festival gets it's world premiere out of the back of the Cannes in a van at the 61st Cannes Film Festival. Check out the bright yellow van on the Croisette in Cannes. The documentary will also be showing at the Short Film Corner. Filmed, Directed, Produced & Edited by Sharron Ward. See the trailer here and at www.youtube.com/user/katalystproducions www.cannesinavandoc.com www.katalystproductions.co.uk
See also www.cannesinvan.com
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Great Movie Tours
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| Written by DaVinci |
| London is very lucky to have this brand new visitor attraction dedicated to film. The opening of the new BFI Southbank is a tremendous asset too. Only 10 minutes from one to the other....easy! I am an actor/tour guide and have set up 2 walking tours of film locations in London which will begin in April 2008. I am a former British Cultural Representative for Walt Disney World and have combined my love of film with my passion for London to create The Great Movie Tours . These tours last approximately 2.5 hours and must be booked in advance by email. I only take up to 15 guests on each tour so making it more intimate and last year had a great response and a lot of fun. If you are interested in these tours please take a look at my website for further details www.greatmovietour.co.uk |
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Sandra`s Alfred Hitchcock London Walk
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| Written by sandrashevey |
| I interviewed Alfred Hitchcock in Hollywood in 1972 which was a rare interview because he talked unsually about technique, location and also the lurid subtext (criticized by director Mike Leigh) of London.
I have played this interview several times at the St. Martin`s reference library in Westminster and anyone who has listened to it comments about the sheer perversity and nastiness of Alfred Hitchcock. He was to the end a real shocker!
Despite the initial estrangement, we became (surprisingly) friends and Hitchcock was very cooperative whenever I had a query about one of the films. I was teaching a pioneer course on women in film at USC in California at the time and did have questions about the roles of his heroines (the Hitchcock blondes!)
In addition to running Masterclasses in London about Alfred Hitchcock I also run a tri-weekly walk (every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 11am) The walk lasts for 3 hours and in the course of it I play excerpts from the interview and talk about what the director was really like. The walk identifies locations which previously had been unidentified (until some writer, critic or academic decided to upload the locations onto the internet). Some have still been identified as I seem at loggerheads with the BFI over the location of the eastern European embassy in the 1954, `The Man Who Knew Too Much`.
Henry Bumstead, Hitchcock`s set designer, gave me the storyboards for some of his films and these are also used in the course of the walk.
I run a secondary walk linking Alfred Hitchcock with Walter Sickert and emphasizing the Camden locations, as Hitchcock was highly influenced by Sickert`s representation of London`s working class and this is evident in several of his films such as `Blackmail`, `Sabotage` and a few others.
Pls check out our website ( www.geocities.com/sandra_shevey/hitchcock.html and if you`d like to book for one of the walks pls do so in advance at sandra_shevey@yahoo.com
If you e-mail me I can also let you know when the next Masterclasses will take place. |
