Sunday, July 8, 2012

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A Successful evening at the CMP Festival – and tennis films!

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 11:45 AM PDT

Team Filmspot are having a day off watching the Wimbledon final after all the excitement of yesterday at the CMP Festival! Last night’s screening of ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ at St Nicholas Church was a great success, with many people commenting that they really enjoyed the film.

A Tale of Two Cities at the CMP Festival

The audience settling in to watch A Tale of Two Cities at the CMP Festival

Were already looking forward to our screening of ‘Les Enfants du Paradis’ next Sunday (15th July). The doors open at 6pm, with optional theatrical drawing sessions, followed by the film starting at 6.30pm. Booking details follow at the end of this post.

So, back to our day off – while waiting for the roof to close on centre court, we were chatting about tennis in films, so here, inspired by Wimbledon, are a few tennis related film suggestions:

Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot [1953]

M. Hulot’s Holiday (tennis clip)

Any excuse to feature Jacques Tati on this blog! His unorthodox but highly successful tennis serve would certainly give Federer a run for his money…

Royal Tenenbaums [2001]

Surely inside every great tennis player, there is a Richie Tenenbaum waiting to get out? Luke Wilson’s tennis prodigy is a tortured soul – as is evident from this clip of his on-court meltdown…

School for Scoundrels [1960]

“Oh I say, smashing cricket stroke!”

Strangers on a Train [1951]

Strangers on a Train (tennis clip)

Amateur tennis star Guy Haines (Farley Granger) plays a match ‘with murder’. A film about the danger of humouring people, one of the most unsettling scenes is this one – the crowd all watching the ball travelling backwards and forward on the court, but Robert Walker’s eyes do not leave Granger…

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead [1990]

The best game of tennis ever played, even if there are no racquets or balls involved…

So there you have it for another year… in the time it’s taken for me to finish this blog Federer has beaten Murray, and is World No. 1! Well done Roger! …if, after all that excitement, you’d like to think about something other than tennis, to calm yourself down, may I suggest coming along to our screening of Les Enfants du Paradis at St Nicholas Church next Sunday evening? There will be theatrically costumed drawing sessions (drawing optional!) from Jake Spicer and DRAW: Brighton Life Drawing Sessions. Doors open (and first drawing session) at 6pm, with the first part of the film starting at 6.30pm. Tickets are available from Dome Box Office (01273 709709), www.brightonticketshop.com or on the door. Hope to see you all there!
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