| HighTide will be programming a feature film each day, followed by a Questions and Answers session with the director, writer or producer.
Akenfield and Akenfield Revisited Akenfield (1974) was directed by the acclaimed theatre director Sir Peter Hall, and based on the best-selling novel 'Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village' by the historian Ronald Blythe. The film was the first British film to be selected to open the London Film Festival. The film stars local residents of the small Suffolk village, who act out the stories of their lives and the lives of their parents and grandparents. Thirty years after the release of Akenfield, the original producer and editor Rex Pyke returns to Akenfield to see how life has changed for those featured and to recall the making of the production.' Friday 2nd May// 13.00 // Ticket Price: £8/£6 Book Tickets >>
East of Ipswich
HighTide are honoured to have Michael Palin host an exclusive screening of his film East of Ipswich. Best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries, Michael Palin is a rare British Institution.
East of Ipswich was a BBC television drama from 1987 written by Michael Palin, based on his own memories of dreary holidays in English coastal towns in the 1950's. Loosely based on the real-life story of how Michael Palin met his future wife, Helen Gibbins, on Southwold beach in 1959 - The plot revolves around Richard, a seventeen year-old only boy, and his rebellious holiday romances in Southwold, Suffolk, leading to his sexual initiation by a promiscuous Dutch girl named Anna. Its a wonderful coming-of-age tale that shamefully neglected, deserves a new audience and a place on the cultural history curriculum.
The screening will be followed by an interview of Michael Palin by acclaimed BBC presenter Mark Lawson, followed by an exclusive Question and Answer session.
Saturday 3rd May// 17.30 // Ticket Price: £8/£6 Book Tickets >>
The Last Post and Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Acclaimed Director/Producer Ed Blum will be in attendance at HighTide to introduce the screening of two of his films, followed by an exclusive Question and Answer session.
Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath, London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. What makes us tick? The Last Post (1995) is Ed Blum's BAFTA nominated eight-minute comedy.
Scenes of a Sexual Nature was made for only £260K but starred amongst others Ewan McGregor, Sophie Okonedo and Catherine Tate. From a standing start the film went into production just six weeks after the script was finished and was shot over a period of eighteen days entirely on location Hampstead Heath, North London.
Working also in theatre - an exclusive Question and Answer Session will present an opportunity for the audience to discuss how Blum had to navigate a circuitous route to the big screen - and indeed the dialogue in working between the film and theatre industries.
Sunday 4th May// 20.00 // Ticket Price: £8/£6 Book Tickets >> The Sheep Thief and The Warrior
HighTide is proud to welcome multi-awarding winning director and writer team Asif Kapadia and Tim Miller, who will be hosting the screening of the Hindi-language debut feature 'The Warrior', previewed by the short film that preceded it 'The Sheep Thief'. In feudal India, a warrior (Khan) who renounces his role as the longtime enforcer to a local lord becomes the prey in a murderous hunt through the Himalayan mountain. The Warrior was chosen by the BAFTA to represent the UK in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 2003 Oscars, but did not qualify as British since "Hindi was not a language indigenous to the UK" Nevertheless, The Warrior went on to win Best British Film at the British Academy Awards the following year. An exclusive Question and Answer session will give the opportunity to discuss these extraordinary films with the filmmakers and to talk of their successful genesis into the industry. Monday 5th May// 13.00 // Ticket Price: £8/£6 Book Tickets >> |
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