An overdue look back at the career of one of UK’s most popular actresses, Jenny Agutter, a focus on the best in current Lithuanian cinema and a screen talk by the creator of one of last year’s biggest indie hits, My Summer Of Love, Pawel Pawlikowski are among the highlights of this year’s Bradford Film Festival.
From The Railway Children to An American Werewolf In London to The Rarole Officer, Jenny Agutter has embodied a particular British femininity. Bradford Film Festival celebrates a career that began when she was just 12 and runs the gamut from sci-fi to Shakespeare.
The cinema of Lithuania is given a rare outing with previews and premieres of recent movies, spanning costume drama (Elze From Gilija), resistance against the Soviet empire (Utterly Alone), post Soviet stagnation (Courtyard) and the difficult re-emergence of a nation and culture in its own right (Freedom).
At the cutting edge of filmmaking in the UK, Pawel Pawlikowski has established himself as one of the most important directors working in the UK today, from Twockers – a documentary about car theft in Mixenden, Halifax - to My Summer Of Love, both of which will be shown in a season of his films.
The Festival’s unique centrepiece – Widescreen Weekend (10-14 March) – celebrates the 50th anniversary of Todd-AO, which followed hard on the heels of Cinemascope as the latest word in spectacle, with a special screening of Oklahoma!, the first movie to use the new system, as well as The Sound Of Music, Dr Doolittle, Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines and, courtesy of the all encompassing capabilities of Pictureville Cinema, the 3-strip Cinerama print of How The West Was Won.
The 11th Bradford Film Festival runs from Friday the 4th of March to Saturday the 19th of March.
The Box Office telephone number is 0870 7010200 and the website address www.bradfordfilmfestival.org.uk.
