Month: August 2001

Soooo tired. Serves me right for sitting up half the night chatting with Graypies.

UPDATE: since I typed this, the Festival website has been updated with a full programme and details of all the films. If they’d done it yesterday, it would have saved me the effort. guh.

By popular request: a list of films to be shown as part of the Chichester Film Festival:

• Ali Zaoua
• All About My Mother (Todo sobre Mi Madre)
• Amelie from Montmartre (Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amelie Poulain) (English premiere)
• Around the World in 70 Minutes (eight animated shorts for children, including three UK premieres)
• As You Like It (new print from the National Film and Television Archives)
• Atlantis: The Last Empire (preview prior to general release)
• Audition
• Bad Beasts and Creepy Creatures (ten animated shorts for children, including three Tex Avery classics)
• Baise-Moi (preview before general release – and yes, the title is French for Fuck Me)
• Barry Lyndon (as part of Kubrik retrospective)
• Battle Royale (English premiere)
• The Believer (English premiere)
• Bona Cornucopia – the best of Kenneth Williams (part of London Lesbian and Gay Festival on Tour (LLGF))
• Britflicks (eight British animated shorts for children)
• Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des Loups)
• By Means of Music – talk by Tony Palmer on the use of music by Stanley Kubrik
• Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – with John Madden (director)
• Cats and Dogs
• The Center of the World
• Central Station (Central do Brasil)
• The Children’s Midsummer Night’s Dream – introduced by Oliver Stockman (producer)
• Chorus of Disapproval (part of Michael Winner day, including an appearance by the man himself)
• The Circle (Dayereh) (English premiere)
• A Clockwork Orange (part of Kubrik retrospective)
• Crocodile Dundee in L.A.
• Terence Davies Trilogy (part of Terence Davies day, featuring a live interview)
• Death Wish (part of Michael Winner day)
• Distant Voices, Still Lives (part of Terence Davies day)
• Dr Strangelove (part of Kubrik retrospective)
• Escape to Life (preview before general release. Part of LLGF)
• Eureka (English premiere)
• Eyes Wide Shut (part of Kubrik retrospective)
• Farewell My Concubine (Ba Wang Bie Ji)
• Fat Girl (A Ma Soeur!) (English premiere)
• Ghost World (English premiere)
• The Girl (preview before general release. Part of LLGF)
• The House of Mirth – introduced by Terence Davies.
• I’ll Never Forget What’s ‘Is Name (part of Michael Winner day)
• Il Postino
• The Isle (Seom)
• The Jokers (part of Michael Winner day)
• Kolya
• La Bete (The Beast) (complete with scenes of “excessive ejaculations!”)
• La Ville est Tranquille (The Town Is Quiet) (English premiere)
• Life is Beautiful (La Vita Bella)
• Little Otik (Otesanek)
• The Long Day Closes (part of Terence Davies day)
• Lucky Break (English premiere)
• Maelstrom (British premiere)
• The Magic Pudding
• Me, You, Them (Et Tu Eles)
• The Monkey’s Mask (preview before general release – part of LLGF)
• The Neon Bible (part of Terence Davies day)
• New Year’s Day
• The Nightcomers (part of Michael Winner day)
• Pandaemonium
• The Parole Officer
• Paths of Glory (part of Kubrik retrospective)
• Peaches
• Presque Rien (Almost Nothing) (preview before general release – part of LLGF)
• The Princess Diaries (preview before general release)
• Romance
• The Score (British premiere)
• The Shining (part of Kubrik retrospective)
• Shrek
• Sidewalks of New York
• Stanley Kubrik – A Life In Pictures – introduced by Jan Harlan (director)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (part of Kubrik retrospective)
• 2001: The Making of a Myth
• Urbania (preview before general release – part of LLGF)
• Watch With Mother (eight animated shorts for children – including The Wombles, Bagpuss, Captain Pugwash, The Clangers, Roobarb – likely to attract a lot of 30-somethings!)
• What’s Cooking
• …plus 25 short films shown together with a feature

There is no way in the world I am going to get to see all the films that I want to. I also need a few days to get my head around the programme and decide what I want to see. But an impressive line-up, you have to agree.
The Festival runs from 23 August to 9 September. If you want a copy of the programme, I suggest you send a large (at least A5) self-addressed envelope, with a couple of first class stamps stuck on it, to Chichester Cinema at New Park, New Park Road, Chichester PO19 1XN

Make your child a walking billboard.
To be honest, what is the difference between this and clothing your child in Gap sweaters or a Coca-Cola t-shirt, for example? Not an awful lot, if you ask me. However, a company would have to be pretty needy of publicity to go down the avenue of naming a child.

oooo ooo – I know the answer! I know the answer!

When I was a child, my brother used to keep a weblog using a PC he built at home using only fish paste, elastic bands and a hamster. Of course, back in those days, there weren’t many other PCs for people to read your blog, especially not hamster-compliant ones.
Thinking about this got me onto the subject of fish paste, and how turbot flavour is my favourite.
What’s your favourite?

ooooo – got a brochure for the Chichester Film Festival – lots of really good stuff, most of which I’ll probably not get to see (best intentions and all that). Several world and British premieres as usual – it’s such a good festival, and we’re damned lucky to have it in Chichester.

sorry, not had much to say the last few days, which is the result of

• being tired
• being uninspired
• spending too much time listening to Groove Salad at Soma FM
• being busy at work

I’m still working on that “what makes girls tick” post, though I get a feeling it could turn into a lifetime’s work, a magnum opus.

Another all new meme from Meg? who knows?

• “that’ll be 45p, please”
• “tickets from Chichester please”
• “why do they always put them at the bottom?”
• “meow”
• “do you want your coffee here, over there or up the top?”
• “morning”
• “can you plug two PCs into that socket?”
• “why don’t you take a copy from that? then I can throw the original away”
• “is there something sweet smelling in here? is it you?”
• “you can’t really take a bath ballistic into the shower, I find”

Hmmm. I guess more people talk to Meg than to me. At least, they have more interesting things to say.

Further proof (if any were needed) that my ongoing policy regarding older women is entirely justified. Although 27 years might be stretching it a bit, I think I could make that sacrifice in this instance.

I’ve just caught up with the rest of humanity and downloaded WinAmp and now sit listening to online radio as I work. And it is truly evil, as I’ve already noted four albums that I want to buy – spend! spend! spend!

I’ve been pondering what makes girls my age “tick”. I’m mentally working towards a long post on the subject, so don’t all rush to comment just yet. But Angie has posted this which has given another angle and some food for thought.