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