Ecransbritanniques: British Screen Festival, Nimes 14 - 23 February

Ecrans Britanniques / British Screen, Nimes Bob Davis. Vice-Président Ecrans Britanniques.     We are pleased to announce the 17th Annual Festival of British Film and Cinema ECRANS BRITANNIQUES   Nimes 14th – 23rd February 2014 The Ecrans Britanniques printed programme is now available and in distribution - look out for it in Nîmes, for example at the Carré d’Art and the Sémaphore, and also at many other places around the region. Please find it attached here in pdf. Highlights as follows: Our two guests of honour are Peter Lord, leading animation film director and co-founder of the award-winning Aardman Studios, perhaps best known for Wallace & Gromit; and the much-lauded Mike Leigh OBE, director of Another Year, Secrets and Lies, Vera Drake, and many more of his own creations. Over the first weekend we’ll be showing a selection from the  Aardman catalogue, including Chicken Run and Pirates! and a number of shorts,. Peter Lord will also conduct a masterclass on the making of his Oscar-nominated Pirates!. Mike Leigh - 7 times Oscar nominated and with numerous Bafta awards - will join us mid-week for several screenings. A selection of his early television films - never before seen in France, like Abigail’s Party - will be programmed through the week, and the theatre group  Autres Mots will perform a bilingual reading of Leigh’s script of Grief. We will pay tribute to Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas with his recently restored autobiographical Trilogy (My Childhood, My Ain Folk, My Way Home); and also to the Boulting Brothers, twins Roy and John, who in the post-era era were among Britain’s leading film-makers (Brighton Rock, Journey Together, Seven Days to Noon). The now traditional ciné-concert at the Théâtre Christian Liger will feature Alfred Hitchcock’s Blackmail, with Nîmes favourites Virgile Goller and musicians performing live to the BFI’s recent restoration of this classic silent movie. The current crop of new British cinema releases will include a good selection of new productions from Scotland, and our annual Round Table on Saturday 22nd February will have as its theme Scottish Film: Past and Present.  The three venues in Nîmes are the Sémaphore Cinema, the Bibliothèque Carré d’Art and the Theatre Christian Liger (Centre Pablo Neruda). Bob Davis. Vice-Président Ecrans Britanniques.     www.ecransbritanniques.org. Ecrans Britanniques / British Screen, Nimes Bob Davis. Vice-Président Ecrans Britanniques.     We are pleased to announce the 17th Annual Festival of British Film and Cinema ECRANS BRITANNIQUES   Nimes 14th – 23rd February 2014 The Ecrans Britanniques printed programme is now available and in distribution - look out for it in Nîmes, for example at the Carré d’Art and the Sémaphore, and also at many other places around the region. Please find it attached here in pdf. Highlights as follows: Our two guests of honour are Peter Lord, leading animation film director and co-founder of the award-winning Aardman Studios, perhaps best known for Wallace & Gromit; and the much-lauded Mike Leigh OBE, director of Another Year, Secrets and Lies, Vera Drake, and many more of his own creations. Over the first weekend we’ll be showing a selection from the  Aardman catalogue, including Chicken Run and Pirates! and a number of shorts,. Peter Lord will also conduct a masterclass on the making of his Oscar-nominated Pirates!. Mike Leigh - 7 times Oscar nominated and with numerous Bafta awards - will join us mid-week for several screenings. A selection of his early television films - never before seen in France, like Abigail’s Party - will be programmed through the week, and the theatre group  Autres Mots will perform a bilingual reading of Leigh’s script of Grief. We will pay tribute to Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas with his recently restored autobiographical Trilogy (My Childhood, My Ain Folk, My Way Home); and also to the Boulting Brothers, twins Roy and John, who in the post-era era were among Britain’s leading film-makers (Brighton Rock, Journey Together, Seven Days to Noon). The now traditional ciné-concert at the Théâtre Christian Liger will feature Alfred Hitchcock’s Blackmail, with Nîmes favourites Virgile Goller and musicians performing live to the BFI’s recent restoration of this classic silent movie. The current crop of new British cinema releases will include a good selection of new productions from Scotland, and our annual Round Table on Saturday 22nd February will have as its theme Scottish Film: Past and Present.  The three venues in Nîmes are the Sémaphore Cinema, the Bibliothèque Carré d’Art and the Theatre Christian Liger (Centre Pablo Neruda). Bob Davis. Vice-Président Ecrans Britanniques.     www.ecransbritanniques.org. Ecrans Britanniques.  17ème Festival 14 – 23 fév. Nîmes     •    Hommage à Mike Leigh, grand réalisateur britannique, (Vera Drake, etc.)  en sa présence.     •    Hommage à Peter Lord, fondateur des studios d’animation  Aardman et réalisateur (Pirates etc.) en sa présence.     •    Retrospectives des frères Boulting (Brighton Rock etc.), et du réalisateur écossais Bill Douglas (sa ‘Trilogie’).     •    Ciné-concert  – Blackmail (1929) d’Hitchcock, animé par Virgile Goller et ses musiciens.     •    Actualité du cinéma d’outre-Manche, en particulier de l’Ecosse, avec invités.     •    Rencontres et Table Ronde ‘Cinéma Ecossais  d’hier et d’aujourd’hui’.     •    Séances scolaires. Lieux : Cinéma Sémaphore, Carré d’Art,  Théâtre Christian Liger. Voir notre programme pour tous les détails.