Becoming Cary Grant (2017) : A premiere at Cinema Rediscovered at The Watershed
More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2017 (19 to 26 October)
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29 July (Post-script added, 11 August)
An account of the sell-out screening of Becoming Cary Grant (2017) plus Q&A at Cinema Rediscovered at Bristol's The Watershed
As some introductory words from director Mark Kidel, @charlottecrofts and @msc45 rightly said, the film is about what it's like to be human.— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 31, 2017
Festival director Charlotte Crofts with Mark Kidel, director of the Becoming Cary Grant documentary at Cinema... https://t.co/HNxaT8tpXo— Cary Grant Festival (@carycomeshome) August 2, 2017
So, with @CaryGrantDoc's English premiere at @wshed in 17hrs 50mins, time to reflect on what director Mark Kidel told @carycomeshome... pic.twitter.com/DhNuVqnlUc— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 29, 2017
NB, about this event for @carycomeshome :— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 15, 2016
An illustrated discussion about the making of the documentary, *not* a screening of the full film
For @carycomeshome, hosted by @wshed #CarySailsHome, Mark Kidel kindly shared extracts from his work in progress... pic.twitter.com/XrkdaiqGPI— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 16, 2016
It's the final day of @CineRedis! Let's see it out with a bang - here's what to choose from today: https://t.co/ajBSKwmLNU pic.twitter.com/azHOLHTWqF— Watershed (@wshed) July 30, 2017
🚨SPOTTED🚨 director Mark Kidel with a familiar face... #CinemaRediscovered #carygrant #premiere @CineRedis pic.twitter.com/PRnVLWa6b6
— CineRedis Reporter (@CineRedisReport) July 30, 2017
Truly - #UCFF only managed Monterey Pop (1968) otherwise, but a comment was heard, on exiting @CaryGrantDoc, that it was the best of the w/e https://t.co/38aLuMs5xX— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 30, 2017
As some introductory words from director Mark Kidel, @charlottecrofts and @msc45 rightly said, the film is about what it's like to be human.— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 31, 2017
Loved listening to Mark Kidel intro +Q&A his affectionate Becoming Cary Grant: "He took acid 100 times, which is 99 times more than I did."
— Rose (@rozebaker) July 30, 2017
In @CaryGrantDoc : Betsy Drake introduced Cary Grant to LSD therapy, but her marriage to him does not seem to have been its beneficiary ?— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 6, 2017
One part of @CaryGrantDoc :— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 1, 2017
Grant's in therapy because of how he saw (chose to see) his childhood experience as rejecting him per se...
Even if Cary didn't acknowledge his resentments in boyhood, it's not likely that his father was unaware of his feelings, on committing Elsie— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 1, 2017
At #UCFF (via Agent A), it was impossible not to take pleasure in @CaryGrantDoc - even in excerpts that Mark Kidel shared at @carycomeshome pic.twitter.com/jF3mIfPMQl— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 30, 2017
Cary, writhing as records play, and lysergic acid diethylamide [LSD] lets him re-enter hidden-away experience : unforgettable @CaryGrantDoc.— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 31, 2017
Yet, for hard-core fan-dedication, nothing beats someone who had travelled from Lincoln(shire) to-day, and kindly said hello again before it https://t.co/LcPv6XKP0k— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 30, 2017
Yay! Great to catch up with some regulars! pic.twitter.com/ivF7xGYxd9
— Cary Grant Festival (@carycomeshome) July 30, 2017
Ah, yes - as Tweeted, very glad that this good person made herself known, from last time !
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 30, 2017
Post-script, to try to formulate some thoughts about Archie more succinctly / clearly :
When Mark Glancy's biography of Cary Grant (Archibald Leach) appears, will :— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 11, 2017
* Archie have complained to his father about his mother ?
Not only because behaviour that she'd reprimanded in Archie 'made her' desert her husband and him - but also since he'd secretly wished it ?— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 11, 2017
It says, there 'he wishes that his family would disappear. [...] In the confusion and rush [for flights], Kevin is accidentally left behind' pic.twitter.com/R3VYUSt46Y
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 11, 2017
In A Story of Children and Film (2013), @markcousinsfilm rightly directs us to Palle Alone in the World (1949)... :https://t.co/t4ytpjQlFO https://t.co/oWr4bnQIc6
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 11, 2017
End-notes :
* Billed as the film's 'English premiere', this is because it showed at Edinburgh Film Festival last month.
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
