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21 September
Without scope, this year, for any of 2014's elaborate planning, this posting will end up recording what happened, and when, with links to reviews (to come, when Tweets do not suffice... [meanwhile, 2014's posting is, bit by bit, being cannibalized])
As ever, there is a code, which is :
A Abandoned – Walked out partway through
AA Wished to abandon – But, against better judgement, could not (or did not) leave partway through
B Blog – There is a posting about the film on the blog, to which the link takes one (although it may not be a review)
C Catalan preview – A film from the Camera Catalonia strand, reviewed ahead of and for the Festival
M Missed – Planned (or had tickets) to see, but had to skip
O Take One – Published on line as a guest review
P Partly watched – A clash with an earlier (or later) film prevented seeing it as a whole
Q Q&A – Hosted a Q&A after the screening
R Recorded – Recorded the Q&A after the screening
S Seen – The opposite of Missed
T Twitter – Tweeted about the film
Thursday 3 September
(0) 3.30 C M El camí més llarg per tornar a casa (The Long Way Home) (2014) : Screen 3 (85 mins) – Somehow, the slow, quiet opening was not best suited to Silver Screen viewers, asking if they were in the right film...
(1) 6.00 S T The Clearstream Affair (L'enquête) (2014) : Screen 2 (110 mins)
-> Others at @camfilmfest were trying to fathom ins and outs of The Clearstream Affair (L'enquête) (2014)...— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 8, 2015Then again (no endorsement, as the TAKE ONE exegesis is, as yet, unread) :
Chose THE CLEARSTREAM AFFAIR over STAR*MEN at @camfilmfest? Still scratching your head? Let us untangle it for ya: http://t.co/Hj5vxZeiZi— TAKE ONE (@takeonecinema) September 11, 2015(2) 9.00 S T Irrational Man (2015) (96 mins)
Friday 4 September
(3) 3.30 S T Atomic : Living in dread and promise (2015) plus Q&A with Mark Cousins (@markcousinsfilm) : Screen 2 (72 mins)
-> A teenager fearing waking to Global Thermonuclear War, à la War Games (1983) : some error / accident, but a chain-reaction of launches— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 8, 2015(3½) 6.30 S One Night in Hell (2014) / Brian May 3-D Rarities) (2015) : Screen A (The Light) (7 / 94 mins)
(4½) 9.00 S T Pasolini (2014) : Screen 1 (85 mins)
Mid-1980s, Bananaramaseemed fun with : http://t.co/0TLv6kh1IE Now that we've Willem Dafoe 'talking Italian' in Pasolini, welcome back !— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 24, 2015* Rather more like Le Petit Prince than anything v. profound ? * Had not much to say about gay underground ? * Hearing Bach St Matthew OK— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 16, 2015Not that, of course, Antoine de Saint-Exupéryis not good enough in his own terms, but Volde Nuitis more where it's really at... ?— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 16, 2015On @IMDb, no mention of budget, but let's guess $4-6 of the relevant units, and a cast / crew of 300, and for - what, @FilmPasolini ? ?— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 16, 2015(5½) 11.00 S T The Chelsea Hotel (1981) : Screen 2 (55 mins)
Checking into The Chelsea Hotel at @camfilmfest, with @BBC's Arena from 1981, was a chance for a vicarious meeting with Archyand Mehitabel— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 5, 2015Saturday 5 September
(6½) 4.30 S T Neil Brand's Keaton for Kids : Steamboat Bill Jnr (1928) (plus Keaton excerpts) : Screen 1 (70 / 120 mins)
(7) 6.30 S A Confession (2015) (from Secrets programme) (ShortFusion) plus Q&A : Screen 3 (9 / 80 mins)
Interview conducted for TAKE ONE with director Petros Silvestros and producer Murray Woodfield
(8) 10.00 S T TridentFest : Screen 1 (allegedly 90 mins)
Interviews conducted for TAKE ONE with Project Trident (@ProjectTrident) film-makers Andrzej Sosnowski (@Dr_Zej) and Carl Peck (@UntilDayBreaks), Ryd Cook (@RydCook), Simon Panrucker (@spanrucker), Christian Lapidge (@CJLapidge), and Sammy Patterson
Sunday 6 September
(8½) 6.00 A The Wind (1928) (with accompaniment from Stephen Horne) (Sjöström) : Emmanuel (Queen's Building) (78 mins)
Sadly, despite a late start to the day's viewing, the preceding late night soon induced a headache that needed an urgent remedy – one that could not remotely have withstood the tumult, such as was judged even from waiting outside the lecture-theatre, that multi-instrumentalist Stephen Horne whipped up
9.30 C R Born (2014) (Camera Catalonia) : Screen 3 (102 mins)
6.30 B S Under Milk Wood plus Q&A (1971) (Dylan Thomas 100) : Screen 1 (88 mins)
9.00 B S Before I Go to Sleep plus Q&A (2014) : Screen 1 (92 mins)
Tuesday 2 September
1.00 M M : Screen 1 (1931) (117 mins)
Nifty bit of timing - arrive at Festival Central at 1.15 for 1.30 screening of Fritz Lang's M at @camfilmfest : it was at 1.00... #CamFF
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 2, 2014 3.30 S Last Call (2013) : Screen 2 (91 mins)6.00 S How I Came to Hate Maths (Comment j'ai détesté les maths) (2013) : Emmanuel (110 mins)
8.30 B S Mary is Happy, Mary is Happy (2013) : Emmanuel (127 mins)
Wednesday 3 September
1.30 B S Iranian (2014) : Screen 1 (105 mins)
4.00 AA Eastern Boys (2013) : Screen 1 (128 mins)
6.30 B x 2 S Stations of the Cross (and further thoughts on a second viewing) (Kreuzweg) (2014) (German) : Screen 2 (104 mins)
9.00 C S Tasting Menu (plus a riposte to TAKE ONE's reviewer) (2013) (Camera Catalonia) : Screen 2 (85 mins)
11.00 M Short Fusion : Life Lessons : Screen 2 (79 mins)
Thursday 4 September (a day for not sticking to the plan at all !)
11.00 M Night will Fall (2014) : Screen 1 (75 mins)
1.30 M Le Jour se Lève (Daybreak) (1939) : Screen 1 (93 mins)
As to be on general release, substituted by rewatching :
2.30 B x 2 S Stations of the Cross (and further thoughts on a second viewing) (Kreuzweg) (2014) (German) : Screen 2 (104 mins)
4.00 P German Short Films (German) : Screen 1 (~70 mins) (all 2013) Will have to miss the end to get to Still the Enemy Within (2014)...
6.00 M Still the Enemy Within (2014) : St Philip's Church (112 mins)
Instead rewatched :
6.00 B S Mary is Happy, Mary is Happy (2013) (Festival link) : Emmanuel (127 mins)
8.30 M Under the Lantern (1928) (Lamprecht) : St Philip's Church (129 mins)
Stay for this - or head to Festival Central for...
9.00 M We Are Many (2014) : Screen 1 (104 mins)
Friday 5 September
1.00 B C S We All Want What's Best for Her (Tots volem el millor per a ella) (2013) plus write-up of Q&A (now with photos) (Camera Catalonia) : Screen 1 (105 mins)
Just time to interview Mar Coll (director and co-writer of We All Want What's Best for Her- write-up to come...) before :
4.00 S People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) (Lamprecht) : Emmanuel (73 mins)
5.00 P Energized : Screen 1 (91 mins) Sadly, needing to miss the start of which...
7.50 C S Son of Cain (Fill de Caín) (2013) (plus write-up of Q&A) (Camera Catalonia) : Screen 2 (90 mins)
10.30 M The Mad Magician (Retro 3-D) : Screen 2 (72 mins)
Saturday 6 September
1.00 M Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (Lamprecht) : Screen 3 (74 mins)
Missed to interview - and take punting - Jesús Monllaó, director of Son of Cain (Fill de Caín)
2.30 B S Fiction (Ficció) (Camera Catalonia) : Screen 3 (107 mins)
5.00 AA B Amour Fou : Screen 1 (96 mins)
7.30 B S Tony Benn : Will and Testament : Screen 1 (running-time not advised)
Not likely to finish in time for (as was indeed so)...
9.00 M West (Lagerfeuer) (German) : Screen 2 (102 mins)
Sunday 7 September
1.00 C S Othello (Otel.lo) (Camera Catalonia) : Screen 2 (69 mins)
The next film was missed, because of lunch and then completing an interview with Hammudi Al-Rahmoun Font, director of Otel.lo (with the kind assistance, as translator, of Cristina Roures)
4.00 M A Poem in Exile (Camera Catalonia) : Emmanuel (77 mins)
Silver Punt Award For Best Documentary 2014: A Poem In Exile http://t.co/HdEMjBqncg
— Cambridge Film Fest (@camfilmfest) September 12, 2014 5.30 M Set Fire to the Stars (Dylan Thomas 100) : Screen 1 (90 mins)
Sorry to have to miss you, @setfirettstars, at @camfilmfest, but needed to take @Al_RahmounFont punting whilst he was around...
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 16, 2014For the sceptical, there is evidence of that punting-trip, with star pupil Hammudi
8.00 A The Grandmaster (which turned out to be Surprise Film 1) : Screen 1 (?? mins)
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
