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Film Guide July - August 2010
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Unbelievably summer is with us again, with an unusually high calibre of releases. French film is particularly well suited to warm summer evenings - or in fact those slightly chilly ones we usually have. A raft of dramas ranging from the slapstick romantic comedy of Heartbreaker to the cool sophistication of Gainsbourg. And starting off this invasion we have the fiftieth anniversary re-issue of the archetypal new wave film Godard’s A Bout de souffle. Elsewhere in the programme we mark the passing of the greatest of cinematographers and the master of technicolour, Jack Cardiff, with three of his most ravishing creations. Enjoy the beach, enjoy the sun but remember the coolest place this summer is down at The Barn.
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Throughout the day HOME festival-goers will be able to explore ideas of music and belonging captured on film. Dartington Archive
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The Killer Inside Me Saturday 26 June 2010
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Documentary UK / B&W & Colour / c.1hr Restored footage from Dartington’s Foundation days.
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
[12A] 3pm Director Fatih Akin Documentary Ger/Tur 2006 / Colour / Subs / 1hr 30m A unique musical journey through Istanbul which challenges notions of east and west, language and culture, traditional and new.
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The Brothers Bloom
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A Film by David Hilton 2010 / 30m A film about the history of filmmaking at Dartington
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Heima: A Film by Sigur Ros [ ] 10pm U
Director Dean DeBlois Documentary Iceland 2007 / Colour / 1hr 37m In 2006 Sigur Ros returned home to Iceland after a world tour to play a series of free shows. Filmed over two weeks in summer, Heima (meaning 'homeland') is the extraordinary record of these gigs. Stunning.
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Friday 25 & Sunday 27 June / 8pm Monday 28 & Tuesday 29 June / 8pm Wednesday 30 & Thursday 1 July / 5pm Director Michael Winterbottom Cast Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba UK/US 2010 / Colour / 1hr 49m Michael Winterbottom’s already notorious new thriller is based on a classic 1952 pulp novel by Jim Thompson that took the hard boiled noir world of the 40’s and mixed in the darker more contemporary depictions of psycho-sexual violence of the small town serial killer. A thoughtful and stylish addition to the genre jumping ladder that is Winterbotom’s career.
Weds 30 June & Thur 1 July / 8pm Friday 2 July / 5pm Director Rian Johnson Cast Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz, USA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 54m For his first film, Brick, writer-director Rian Johnson successfully created an unlikely marriage of two distinct and distinctive genres, film noir and the teen movie. The Brothers Bloom, which sees two conmen brothers lead an eccentric millionairess on a European trek, is a similar mash-up of styles, ostensibly a slick con man movie but built as a Wes Anderson-esque screwball comedy with a soft rom-com centre. 05
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Letters to Juliet
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Friday 2 - Sunday 4 July / 8pm Monday 5 & Tuesday 6 July / 5pm Wednesday 7 July / 8pm Thursday 8 July / 2pm Director Gary Winick Cast Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan, Gael García Bernal, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero USA 2010 / Colour / 1hr 45m
When a young American travels to the city of Verona, home of the star-crossed lover Juliet Capulet, she joins a group of volunteers who respond to letters to Juliet seeking advice about love. When she answers one letter dated 1957, she inspires its author - the wonderful Vanessa Redgrave - to travel to Italy in search of her longlost love. The search also proves a catalyst for the girl herself setting off a chain of events that will change her own life for ever.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
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Saturday 3 July / 5pm Sunday 4 July / 3pm Director Mike Newell Cast Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina USA 2010 / Colour / 1hr 56m With a pinch of The Thief of Baghdad and a dash of The Mummy, Gyllenhaal proves himself very much the action hero as he plays Dastan, a one-time street urchin framed for the king’s murder and forced to flee with only a bad-tempered princess for company. Young Person’s Matinee Screening Saturday 3 July / 2pm For this young person’s matinee screening, all adults must be accompanied by a child.
Greenberg
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Monday 5 & Tuesday 6 July / 8pm Wednesday 7 & Thursday 8 July / 5pm Director Noah Baumbach Cast Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, Rhys Ifans USA 2010 / Colour / 1hr 47m Noah Baumbach’s (The Squid & The Whale) deft and witty new film tells the story of the eponymous Greenberg: a single, 40-something at a crossroads in his life who finds himself in LA house-sitting for his more successful/marriedwith-children brother. In search of a place to restart his life, Greenberg tries to reconnect with old friends who aren't necessarily still best friends but soon finds himself spending more and more time with his brother's personal assistant Florence, an aspiring singer and also something of a lost soul. 06
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff “I began to have a very strong affinity towards British Cinema, because of my recognition of Jack Cardiff's name.” Martin Scorsese
Cameraman Tuesday 13 July / 8pm Director Craig McCall Documentary UK 2010 / Colour & B&W / 1hr 26m Cameraman illuminates a unique figure in British and international cinema, Jack Cardiff, a man whose life and career are interwoven with the history of cinema, spanning nine decades of moving pictures. The phrase "legend" is all too frequently used, yet Cardiff's story proves him truly worthy of that title. In March 2001, 54 years after winning his first Oscar for his stunning Technicolor work on Black Narcissus, Cardiff was the first cinematographer ever to receive an Honorary Oscar for:"Exceptional distinction in lifetime achievement”. Featuring interviews with the world's greatest actors, directors and technicians, Cameraman explores Jack's life and work in compelling detail, scope and intimacy.
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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
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Sunday 11 & Monday 12 July / 8pm Director Albert Lewin Cast Ava Gardner, James Mason UK 1951 / Colour / 2hr 6m Pandora is writer, producer and director Albert Lewin's lushly romantic visualisation of the oftentold legend of the sea. A glamorous Ava Gardner is Pandora, who falls for James Mason’s Hendrik, a 17th-century seaman eternally condemned to sail the oceans. Unavailable for many years, the film has now been beautifully restored with Cardiff’s cinematography a technicolor perfection.
A Matter of Life & Death
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Wednesday 14 July / 8pm Director Michael Powell Cast David Niven, Kim Hunter UK 1944 / Colour & B&W / 1hr 40m Cardiff surpasses himself in both black & white and technicolour as Niven’s stricken pilot is divided between this world and the next.
The Red Shoes
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Thursday 15 July / 8pm Director Michael Powell Cast Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook UK 1948 / Colour / 2hr 15m One of the most innovative and beautiful works of cinema ever created. 09
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À bout de souffle
Please Give
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Friday 16 - Monday 19 July / 8pm Director Jean-Luc Godard Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg France 1959 / B&W / Subtitles / 1hr 30m This 50th anniversary re-release of Godard's first feature, adapted from an existing scenario written by François Truffaut, celebrates the film which epitomised the iconoclasm of the early Nouvelle Vague with its insolent jump cuts and knowing pastiche. The camera lavishes black-and-white love on Paris as joyrider Belmondo shoots a cop, chases friends and debts across a night-time Paris, and falls in love with a literary lady. Seberg quotes books and ideas and names while Belmondo measures his profile against Bogart's.
Tuesday 20 & Thursday 22 July / 5pm Wednesday 21 July / 8pm Director Nicole Holofcener Cast Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet USA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 30m A freewheeling female cast are all on top form in this NY set drama. Kate has a lot on her mind: There‘s the ethics problem of buying furniture on the cheap at estate sales and marking it up at her trendy Manhattan store; there‘s the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that Kate wants; and there‘s the marriage problem of course. Plus Kate‘s free-floating 21st century malaise -- the problem of how to live well and be a good person when badness and poverty are always right outside the door.
Wild Grass
Heartbreaker
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Tuesday 20 & Thursday 22 July / 8pm Wednesday 21 July / 5pm Director Alain Resnais Cast André Dussollier, Sabine Azéma, France 2009 / Colour / Subtitles / 1hr 44m Resnais’ 48th feature sees him in accessibly playful form as he continues to explore the male mid-life crisis to witty and revealing effect. While the basic tale of a man returning the discarded wallet of a woman and proceeding to stalk, and be stalked by her may sound contrived, Resnais is such a skillful artist that it’s almost impossible not to be sucked in. Visually sumptuous, Resnais explores the emotional twists and turns of ageing in a film part thriller and part psycho-sexual daydream. 10
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Friday 23 & Saturday 24 July / 5pm Sunday 25 & Monday 26 July / 8pm Tuesday 27 - Thursday 29 July / 5pm & 8pm Director Pascal Chaumeil Cast Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Julie Ferrier France 2009 / Colour / Subtitles / 1hr 44m Alex is charming, funny, effortlessly cool and, most importantly, irresistible to women. With his resourceful sister Mélanie and her eccentric husband Marc, Alex offers a professional service – to break up relationships and transform any husband, fiancé or boyfriend into an ex. Juliette is beautiful and rich and in ten days due to marry the man of her dreams, much to her father’s disapproval. When Alex is hired to break up this seemingly perfect couple the scene is set for an action-filled romantic comedy chase through Paris and Monaco. 11
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Friday 23 July / 8pm Saturday 24 July / 8pm Sunday 25 July / 3pm Director Akira Kurosawa Cast Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori Japan 1951 / B&W / Subtitles / 1hr 28m This new digital print is a precurser to our Kurosawa season coming in the autumn, which marks the 100th anniversay of the great man’s birth. Now looked upon as one of the director's canonical films, the title Rashômon has even entered the language of film to denote a story told through multiple perspectives the stand-out and formally bold narrative approach of Kurosawa's crime and mystery drama. Set in 12th century Kyoto, the film reveals an ambush, rape and murder in four contradictory accounts, each through the eyes of a different protagonist. The subtle shifts in point of view, the striking cinematography and powerful performances by Toshiro Mifune and Masayuki Mori make this that all too rare thing - a film that simply demands repeated viewing.
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Whatever Works Friday 30 July / 5pm & 8pm Saturday 30 July / 5pm & 8pm Sunday 1 & Monday 2 August / 8pm Director Woody Allen Cast Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood USA/France 2009 / Colour / 1hr 32m
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OK so it’s not the most original or subtle work of Allen's career but it is his first movie in five years set in New York City and is also among his most upbeat and hopeful – despite centring on a protagonist who addresses the audience early on to say "Let me tell you right now: I'm not a likeable guy." His name is Boris Yelnikoff. He's a retired genius physicist who was ‘almost’ nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. In a role originally written for Zero Mostel 30 years ago, Allen has wisely cast Larry David, who essentially turns Boris into a meaner, more contemptuous version of his Curb Your Enthusiasm persona. Boris makes a living teaching kids how to play chess and spends most of his time hanging out at a coffee shop with old pals. But when he reluctantly takes in Melody, a naïve teenage runaway from Mississippi, he sets in motion a chain of events where the only rule is Whatever Works...
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Dartington International Summer School To complement the performance of Benjamin Britten’s operatic version of The Turn of the Screw in the Graveyard at Dartington this week, we screen the 1961 version of the chilling ghost story.
The Innocents
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Tuesday 3 August / 8pm Director Jack Clayton Cast Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave UK 1961 / B&W / 1hr 40m “The best ghost movie I’ve ever seen” Pauline Kael Jack Clayton’s celebrated adaptation of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, scripted by William Archibald and Truman Capote, with additional scenes by John Mortimer. A brilliant exercise in psychological horror, The Innocents tells of an impressionable and repressed governess, Miss Giddens, who agrees to tutor two orphaned children. On arrival at Bly House, she becomes convinced the children are possessed by the spirits of former governess Miss Jessel and her lover Quint, who both met with mysterious deaths. The sinister atmosphere of The Innocents is carefully created – not through shock tactics – but through its cinematography, soundtrack and decor. It is Deborah Kerr’s career best performance however – struggling to veil her mounting hysteria under a civilised façade – that makes The Innocents such an intensely unsettling experience, creating one of the greatest of all cinematic terror tales.
Other musical highlights include Elysian’s live soundtrack to silent classic My Best Girl; The Concert, featuring Tchaikovsky’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra; and the stirring drama Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky.
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My Best Girl
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With live soundtrack by the Elysian Quartet Tuesday 17 August / 8pm Director Sam Taylor Cast Mary Pickford, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers USA 1927 / B&W / Silent / 1hr 20m This classic silent romantic comedy was produced by and stars Mary Pickford, the greatest female star of the silent era. Alongside her equally glamorous husband Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and D W Griffiths, Pickford founded one of Hollywood’s great film companies, United Artists. In My Best Girl she stars as Maggie, the stock room girl who falls in love with her co-worker Joe, unaware that he is the store owner’s son working undercover to learn the ropes. This collaboration was first performed at Dartington in November 2009 to well deserved rapturous applause. Don’t miss this second opportunity to enjoy this fantastic comedy with a stunning improvised live soundtrack performed by the Elysian Quartet.
The Elysian Quartet The Elysian Quartet will also be playing a twenty minute improvisation to Dartington Archive footage as part of their Sunday evening performance in the Great Hall. (See p37 of the Summer School concert brochure for more details).
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Saturday 7 August / 8pm Sunday 8 August / 3pm Monday 9 August / 8pm Tuesday 10 August / 5pm Wednesday 11 August / 5pm & 8pm Thursday 12 August / 5pm & 8pm Director Catherine Corsini Cast Kristin Scott Thomas, Sergi Lopez France 2009 / Colour / Subtitles / 1hr 25m With her idle bourgeois lifestyle getting her down, well-to-do mother Suzanne goes back to work as a physiotherapist in the south of France. Her husband agrees to fix up a consulting room in their backyard but when Suzanne and the man hired to do the building work meet, their mutual attraction is sudden and violent. Suzanne must then decide whether to give up everything and live this allengulfing passion to the fullest. Nominated for a French Academy Award Kristin Scott Thomas makes the role her own - as she seems to do effortlessly with every part she plays - in this instance bringing a classic emotion to a modern day Lady Chatterley.
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London River
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Saturday 7 August / 5pm Sunday 8 August / 8pm Director Rachid Bouchareb Cast Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté Fr/UK/Algeria 2009 / Colour / 1hr 27m Rachid Bouchareb’s spare, timely drama, is set against the background of the July 2005 London bomb attacks. In Guernsey, widowed Elizabeth hears the news about the bombs and starts to worry about her daughter Jane, currently studying in the city. Meanwhile, Ousmane, an elderly African forester working in France, sets out to find his long-estranged son Ali. As both characters arrive in the North London area, and make inquiries in different directions, it can't be long before they meet…
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Monday 9 August / 5pm Tuesday 10 August / 8pm Director Tom DiCillo Documentary USA 2009 / Colour/B&W / 1hr 30m When You’re Strange, the first feature-length documentary about The Doors provides new insight into the revolutionary impact of the band’s music and legacy. Narrated by Johnny Depp, the film is a riveting account of the history of both the band and 60s America. It follows Jim, John, Robby and Ray from the corridors of the UCLA film school to the stages of sold-out arenas and makes use of rare recordings and beautifully preserved footage of concerts and home movies . 18
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Friday 13 & Saturday 14 August / 8pm Sunday 15 August / 3pm Monday 16 August / 5pm Tuesday 17 August / 5pm Wednesday 18 August / 8m Thursday 19 August / 5pm Director Christopher Nolan Cast Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Marion Cottilard, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Michael Caine USA 2010 / Colour / rt tbc
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Christopher Nolan follows up The Dark Night with this original sci-fi actioner that features a who’s who of hot young Hollywood talent - and Michael Caine. Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible: inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming.
The Concert
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Friday 13 & Saturday 14 August / 5pm Sunday 15 August / 8pm Monday 16 August / 8pm Tuesday 17 August / 2pm Wednesday 18 August / 5pm Thursday 19 August / 8pm Director Radu Mihaileanu Cast Aleksei Guskov, MĂŠlanie Laurent Fr/It/Rom/Bg 2009 / Subtitles / 2hr 3m
Up and coming young French/Romanian director Radu Mihaileanu mixes classical music and comedy to hugely entertaining effect in this film, partly based on a true story of a former worldfamous conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra who was demoted to the role of janitor during the communist era for refusing to fire his Jewish musicians. Twenty-five years later when a fax comes through one night from the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, begging the Bolshoi to step in when another orchestra cancels, Andrei seizes the opportunity to conduct again. With the help of best friend Sacha he gathers together his former musicians to perform in the place of the current orchestra. Throw in some forged visas, an unlikely alliance and more than a few mistranslations and the stage is set for a a dramatic finale where Andrei insists that the only work he will conduct is Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto - the piece that led to his downfall - and the only soloist he'll accept is young virtuoso French violinist Anne-Marie Jacquet.
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Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
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At the Theatre Des Champs-Elysées, Igor Stravinsky premieres his The Rite Of Spring. Coco Chanel attends the premiere and is mesmerized. But the revolutionary work is too modern, too radical: the enraged audience boos and jeers. A near riot ensues. Stravinsky is inconsolable. Seven years later, now rich, respected and successful, Coco Chanel meets Stravinsky again - a penniless refugee living in exile in Paris after the Russian Revolution. The attraction between them is immediate and electric. Coco offers Stravinsky the use of her villa in Garches so that he will be able to work and he moves in straight away, with his children and consumptive wife. And so a passionate, intense love affair between two creative giants begins.
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Friday 20 & Saturday 21 August / 8pm Sunday 22 August / 3pm Monday 23 & Tuesday 24 August / 5pm Wednesday 25 August / 8pm Thursday 26 August / 5pm Director Joann Sfar Cast Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon France 2010 / Colour / Subtitles / 2hr 10m Joann Sfar writes and directs a unique film of the life of one of France’s most important artists. Growing up in wartime Paris the young Lucien Ginsburg escapes from both Nazi and selfpersecution by embarking on a fantastical career in the arts, resulting in him becoming a celebrated song-writer. But it is only through his relationships and affairs with the likes of France Gall, Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin that he becomes a veritable force in music and French popular culture. Despite this ensuing success his life and career remained turbulent until the end, as he provoked the establishment while blazing a musical trail that has continued to inspire generations ever since. Eric Elmosnino is terrific as Gainsbourg and the late Lucy Gordon is uncannily reminiscent of the beautiful young Birkin. Gainsbourg is studded with his fantastic music but what marks it out from other biographies is that it is a cinematic experience that stands on its own merits. If you know nothing of the man himself or remarkably even if you think you do know him and his music you will find this both surprising and illuminating. Gainsbourg would have approved.
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Friday 27 & Saturday 28 August / 5pm & 8pm Sunday 29 August / 3pm & 8pm Monday 30 & Tuesday 31 August / 5pm & 8pm Wednesday 1 September / 5pm Thursday 2 September / 5pm Director Lee Unkrich Cast Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, John Ratzenberger USA 2010 / Colour / 1hr 43m
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Twelve years after the magnificent Toy Story 2, Pixar revisit their finest moment for a final installment. Woody, Buzz and the whole gang are back. As their owner Andy prepares to depart for college, his loyal toys find themselves in daycare where untamed tots with their sticky little fingers do not play nice. So, it's all for one and one for all as they join Barbie's counterpart Ken, a thespian hedgehog named Mr. Pricklepants and a pink, strawberry-scented teddy bear called Lots-o'Huggin' Bear to plan their great escape.
Shoot - Totnes Short Film Festival 2010 Have you got what it takes to get your name on the back of that director’s chair? Now is the time to get your short film entered for the SHOOT Totnes Short Film Festival 2010. As ever we are open to all genres with the only stipulation being that the film is 10 mins or under. The prize is once again the opportunity to have your film screened in front of a main feature in The Barn’s November programme. Films should be enetered on DVD format by 31 July 2010. Entry forms and other details can be found on our website at www.dartington.org/shoot
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Also at Dartington Dartington International Summer School 24 July - 29 August Dartington is home to specialist craft makers and sculptors, two of whom run book-binding and print-making classes throughout the year, open to all levels of experience from beginners to experienced artists.
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French Intensive Courses From June 14th
Learn French with the French!
www.dartington.org/summer-school
Dartington Summer Youth Programme
Very Gorgeous Offer Visit us for a pre-movie spa manicure and blow-dry Just £20.00 Available everyday* * Booking conditions apply
1 - 13 August / Exeter & KEVICC A series of 5-day creative courses for 11 to 18 year olds at the University of Exeter, plus 3-day music workshops at KEVICC for 8 to 12 year olds. www.dsyp.org
Special Of fer
£20
Archive & Collection at High Cross House Open until 29 October 2010 www.dartington.org/high-cross-house for info and opening times. 26
Alliance Française - Devon
01803 86 42 42
44 Fore Street : Totnes : Devon : TQ9 5RP 01803 865724 visit@amandamarsden.co.uk
Email: info@allianceexeter.co.uk Website: www.allianceexeter.co.uk
www.amandamarsden.co.uk
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THE GREEN FUNERAL COMPANY
parties to celebrate
Claire and Rupert Callender. Helping you to create unique, inclusive, honest and appropriate ceremonies. Full undertaking service, cremations, woodland burials, church services We also offer ethically invested, pre-payment funeral plans.
“Two of the UK's wisest and most humane undertakers.” The Good Funeral Guide.
Covering Devon and Cornwall Celebrate at Dartington Hall - a unique venue for celebrating weddings and special occasions. Book now for the festive season Christmas party nights throughout December £28pp. Please call us for available dates and booking.
A New Trustee of The Natural Death Centre
The bar is open from: 10am (coffee) - 11pm Mon-Sun Food is served every day: 12 - 2.30pm and 6 - 9pm
01803 863923 Old School Farm, Dartington Hall, Totnes, TQ9 6EB
Tel: 01803 847111 bookings@dartingtonhall.com
www.dartingtonhall.com
Funeral Directors established 2000
www.thegreenfuneralcompany.co.uk enquiry@thegreenfuneralcompany.co.uk
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booking details
Access for Patrons with Disabilities arts venues
U Suitable for audiences of all ages PG Parental Guidance suggested 12A May be unsuitable for children under 12. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult 12 Exhibition to only those aged 12 and over 15 Exhibition to only those aged 15 and over 18 Exhibition to only those aged 18 and over
Prices £6.50 full price £5.00 all concessions DAS members £4.00 matinée £4.00 students £2.50 young people £2.50 children’s films 30
In Person The Barn box office is open: Monday - Friday 12:30-7:00pm; Saturday & Sunday 1:00 - 7:00pm. As well as the above opening hours the box office is also open one hour prior to any scheduled event for ticket collection and purchase but not for advance booking. The Totnes Bookshop box office is open Monday to Saturday 9.30am to 5pm. Online 24 hrs a day you can visit our website and book cinema tickets via secure email. Upon receipt of your booking form the box office will process your tickets and reply by email. www.dartington.org/arts for details By Post Please send your order with a cheque made payable to The Dartington Hall Trust or credit / debit card details to the Box office, The Barn, Dartington Hall, Totnes, TQ9 6DE. If you wish the tickets to be sent to you, please enclose an SAE. By Phone To book by phone please call 01803 847070 during the opening hours given above excluding the one hour prior to a film. Please have your credit card details ready. When the box office is closed there will be an announcement with programme information and ticket availability. We accept most credit cards. Reservations Please note that all reserved tickets must be paid for prior to the day of the event. We reserve the right to release any tickets that have not been paid for by the day of the event. Concessions Arts Society members; over 60s; full time students; young people; unemployment benefit; DHT Employees. Please provide proof of eligibility at time of purchase or at time of collection. Returns We are normally unable to offer refunds or exchanges.
box office 01803 847070
Certification
Wheelchair access is available at The Barn, Great Hall, Studio 1, Studio 3 and Studio 31. Accessible toilet facilities are adjacent to all the above venues.
For patrons who have a hearing impairment, The Barn and Great Hall offer an infra-red system. Please ask the Front of House manager for further assistance on arrival.
Assistance dogs are welcome. Please inform box office staff when booking your ticket.
Please phone in advance for advice on access and any assistance needed. Our staff will be pleased to help you. Please ask for our leaflet on facilities for disabled patrons.
Large print brochure available. Please telephone 01803 847074
Tickets now available at Totnes Bookshop 31
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The Roundhouse Café is now open to serve audiences and visitors to Dartington Hall. The café features organic and local produce including cakes, Luscombe Farm juices, a selection of organic teas, coffee, beer and wine, plus superb Salcombe ice-cream. We hope you will enjoy this non-smoking, family-friendly space when you visit Dartington Hall.
café:bar OPENING HOURS mon-sun
12:00 - 20:00
During Festival Season from 9 July - 27 August
mon-sun
10:00 - 20:00