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Bath Film Festival 2005
From the archive, first published Friday 14th Oct 2005.
OCTOBER 13 - 30 2005, BATH: THE 15th Bath Film Festival started with a gala preview of Aardman's first Wallace and Gromit feature The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit and there is plenty more outstanding cinema to look forward to over the next 18 days.
The festival is on until October 30 with 50 films and special events taking place all over Bath.
Film anniversaries abound in 2005 it is the centenary of visionary British director Michael Powell, and 80 years since Eisenstein made one of the most influential films of all time, Battleship Potemkin. The screening of A Matter Of Life And Death (tomorrow, Little Theatre, 4pm), is introduced by the film's cinematographer Jack Cardiff, and is the first of four Powell tributes which include Bluebeard's Castle, (Sunday, Little Theatre, 3pm) and Black Narcissus (Tuesday, Little Theatre, 6.30pm).
James Dean died 50 years ago and Rebel Without A Cause, one of his most popular films, will be shown next Sunday, October 23, at the Little Theatre, at 4pm. It will include an introduction by author George Perry. The festival also looks at how Japanese film-makers have treated the nuclear attacks that ended the Second World War 60 years ago with films such as Sophie Scholl (Monday, Little Theatre, 6.30pm), and Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (Tuesday, Mission Theatre, 9pm).
Previews include Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers (tonight, Little Theatre, 9pm), the astonishing Murderball, on October 25, and Jacques Audiard's The Beat That My Heart Skipped (October 26). Festival patron Stephen Woolley will introduce his new film about Brian Jones, Stoned, on Saturday October 22, at the Little Theatre at 4.20pm.
On the documentary front, the playful Dig! (October 22), Czech Dream (tomorrow, Little Theatre, 2pm), and Mad Hot Ballroom (October 27) contrast with Darwin's Nightmare (Sunday, Little Theatre, 9pm) an environmentally thought-provoking film. Uncompromising and brilliant movies include Mysterious Skin (October 21), Battle In Heaven (Sunday, Little Theatre, 9pm), Head-On (October 21) and Private (Sunday, Little Theatre, 7pm). Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (tomorrow, Little Theatre, 6.50pm) will be shown along with other classic re-releases.
The festival closes on October 30 with The Constant Gardener, an eagerly awaited preview by Fernando Meirelles, director of the highly acclaimed City Of God, which stars Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz.
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