Post by avalon on Oct 31, 2007 4:07:57 GMT 9.5
Will be a miracle if MIRANDA shows, anyway hope so... 
Preview: "Bath Film Festival, Various venues, Bath"
Source:belfasttelegraph
1-11 November ( www.bathfilmfestival.org )
PUFBALL INFO:
www.bathfilmfestival.org/festival-films.asp?content_id=112
Something wicked this way comes
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
By Charlotte Cripps
The British director Nicolas Roeg's latest film Puffball gets its UK premiere at this year's Bath Film Festival. The supernatural thriller is about a female architect, played by Kelly Reilly, who moves to rural Ireland to build a house, only to be cursed by a jealous neighbour's witchcraft-skilled mother when she gets pregnant.
The film is adapted from Fay Weldon's novel by her son Dan, who also produced it. It stars Miranda Richardson as the neighbour desperate for a child.
Roeg says: "Puffball is a strange film about chance meetings. It is difficult to categorise because it is not a genre film. I could identify with it as soon as I read the script. I hope it won't be judged as just as a horror film or a love story – or even a story of hope and grief – but recognisable as your own life lurking in there.
"The challenge is always to try to get as much truth as possible into a film because all fiction has truth. It is flattering that Fay Weldon likes the film, as people often get possessive about their work."
Roeg, who has been making films since 1970 (they include Don't Look Now, The Man Who Fell to Earth and Walkabout) will attend the festival with members of the Puffball cast to take audience questions after the screening on Friday 9 November at 8.30pm.
Other preview highlights at this year's Bath Film Festival, in its 17th year, include The Killing of John Lennon, Brick Lane and The Diving Bell and The Butterfly. There's a a Polish mini-season and a handful of documentaries, including Helvetica, about the typographic font that celebrates its 50th birthday this year.
The Artists' Moving Image Exhibition presents artists' films and installations: Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9 is set on a Japanese whaling ship and stars his partner Björk, while an audiovisual display of photographs taken in Lebanon last summer after the Israeli air strikes by Magnum photographer Paolo Pellegrin is set to a soundtrack by Patti Smith.
Preview: "Bath Film Festival, Various venues, Bath"
Source:belfasttelegraph
1-11 November ( www.bathfilmfestival.org )
PUFBALL INFO:
www.bathfilmfestival.org/festival-films.asp?content_id=112
Something wicked this way comes
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
By Charlotte Cripps
The British director Nicolas Roeg's latest film Puffball gets its UK premiere at this year's Bath Film Festival. The supernatural thriller is about a female architect, played by Kelly Reilly, who moves to rural Ireland to build a house, only to be cursed by a jealous neighbour's witchcraft-skilled mother when she gets pregnant.
The film is adapted from Fay Weldon's novel by her son Dan, who also produced it. It stars Miranda Richardson as the neighbour desperate for a child.
Roeg says: "Puffball is a strange film about chance meetings. It is difficult to categorise because it is not a genre film. I could identify with it as soon as I read the script. I hope it won't be judged as just as a horror film or a love story – or even a story of hope and grief – but recognisable as your own life lurking in there.
"The challenge is always to try to get as much truth as possible into a film because all fiction has truth. It is flattering that Fay Weldon likes the film, as people often get possessive about their work."
Roeg, who has been making films since 1970 (they include Don't Look Now, The Man Who Fell to Earth and Walkabout) will attend the festival with members of the Puffball cast to take audience questions after the screening on Friday 9 November at 8.30pm.
Other preview highlights at this year's Bath Film Festival, in its 17th year, include The Killing of John Lennon, Brick Lane and The Diving Bell and The Butterfly. There's a a Polish mini-season and a handful of documentaries, including Helvetica, about the typographic font that celebrates its 50th birthday this year.
The Artists' Moving Image Exhibition presents artists' films and installations: Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9 is set on a Japanese whaling ship and stars his partner Björk, while an audiovisual display of photographs taken in Lebanon last summer after the Israeli air strikes by Magnum photographer Paolo Pellegrin is set to a soundtrack by Patti Smith.
