Event 3
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (15)
Dracula - Prince of Darkness was the eagerly awaited sequel to Hammer’s 1958 groundbreaking Dracula. John Trevelyan, the director of the BB FC, felt strongly about the level of violence in the film. He argued that the repeated stabbing of Alan should be toned down and the subsequent decapitation removed. In addition, he felt Alan’s body should not be held upside down and the blood should not be excessive. Unsurprisingly, The Motion Picture Association of America also had similar concerns. The violence was toned down – Alan’s throat is slit (although copious amounts of blood flow into Dracula’s coffin!). A classic!

Event 4 - sponsored by number two
Victim
Victim was one of the post-war ‘social problem’ films and the first British film to deal explicitly with homosexuality. Victim arrived in the wake of the public debate following the 1957 Wolfenden report, (although homosexuality remained an imprisonable offence until 1967). For Dirk Bogarde, given rumours about his own sexuality, Victim was a brave decision, marking the closing of his ‘idol’ period, and the beginning of a more serious phase which drew him increasingly towards European art cinema. Bogarde brings dignity and genuine pathos to the role of Melville Farr, who sacrifices his marriage and a promising legal career to take on the blackmailers.
Matthew Sweet will introduce the Festival’ 60s films discussing their significance, style and influence on a generation of British film makers. (20 minutes)

Event 6 - curated by Aradhna Tayal and introduced by Francine Stock
Shorts
Boy and Bicycle (PG) Director: Ridley Scott UK 1965. 27 minutes Scott’s first film stars his brother Tony Scott as a young boy and features Scott’s own childhood bedroom.
The Short and Curlies (PG) Director: Mike Leigh UK 1987. 17 minutes Starring David Thewlis and Alison Steadman, Leigh’s film was commissioned for the Channel 4 short film series, the Short & Curlies.
War Story (U) Director: Peter Lord UK 1989. 5 minutes This early short from Peter Lord, co-founder of the multi Oscar winning Aardman studios, features the animation of Nick Park.
The Most Beautiful Man in the World Director: Alicia Duffy UK 2002. 5 minutes Duffy’s multi award-winning short was commissioned by a collaborative project between the UK and French national film councils.
Wasp Director: Andrea Arnold UK 2003. 26 minutes The Oscar winning short from the director of Red Road and Fish Tank.
I Do Air Director: Martina Amati UK 2009. 7 minutes Winner of the 2010 BAFTA award, Amati’s film explores under-water digital media and draws on her own experiences of free-diving.
Paper Lips Directors: Ally Hardy & Dympna Jardine UK 2010 Made with a minimal crew and no budget, this short was produced and filmed entirely locally in Hereford and stars young actors and musicians from the local schools.

Event 7 - Panel discussion and Q&A following the film with Kevin Brownlow, Owen Sheers and Francine Stock. (30 minutes)
It Happened Here (PG)
“The German invasion of England took place in 1940 after the retreat from Dunkirk” so begins this chilling film of a Britain occupied by the German army and local fascist militia. The story focuses on the experiences of a nurse Pauline who at first collaborates with the Germans but as she sees the effects of the Nazi occupation she becomes more sympathetic to the partisans. Made when Brownlow and Mollo were barely out of school. Pauline Murray playing the nurse and the non-professional cast give beautifully natural yet tough performances.

Event 9
The Innocents (12A)
Long acknowledged as the definitive film version of Henry James’ 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw Clayton and his writers Truman Capote and John Mortimer stay with James’ chilling tale right to the end. Deborah Kerr gives a virtuoso performance as the emotionally repressed governess who finds herself outmanoeuvred by her precocious charges Miles and Flora. Who are the innocents- the sly, giggling unnervingly knowing children or their naïve suggestible governess? Shot in black and white by master cinematographer Freddie Francis, The Innocents is one of the best British horror films that still packs a powerful punch nearly five decades on.

Event 10
Saturday Night Sunday Morning
At the time, its impact with critics and audiences lay in its depiction of a working class world that was previously unseen on British screens. This world was presented in matter-of-fact terms, rather than being seen as a ‘problem’ to be solved. People drink, fight, commit adultery, get pregnant and get married – that’s the way it is. A remarkably frank film for the time in its treatment of adultery, abortion and violence. Albert Finney’s performance is a defining one in British film – Arthur may be a liar and a cheat, but he is most definitely alive, and his unbending defiance feels liberating.
BAFTA Award for Best British Film 1960.

Event 12
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (15)
An award-winning documentary chronicling the life of the legendary punk hero Joe Strummer, lead guitarist of the Clash. Shot over many years by his long-time friend Julien Temple, it includes archival footage covering the whole of Strummer’s career. Temple, who has made a trilogy of films about the Sex Pistols, is no stranger to punk and brings a candid eye to the film, which includes many interviews with his friends and enemies. Strummer is a paradoxical figure: ex public school boy, son of a Diplomat who became a punk icon. Who else has a field named after them at Glastonbury?

Event 13 - Both films will have piano accompaniment by Neil Brand
Lost Worlds of British Silent Cinema
Writer and broadcaster Matthew Sweet presents his brief guide to the lost worlds of British silent movies, with a bill of two timeless pictures. Rescued by Rover (1905) is a deceptively simple film about a dog that rescues a baby from a kidnapper – it’s one of the most important films ever shot, and is the foundation of almost every Hollywood action picture being made today. The main feature, Shooting Stars (1928) offers a scorching satire on the film business set in a studio populated by vain stars and vapid gossip columnists.
Rescued by Rover One of the most important films in the history of cinema, this chase drama was shot 105 years ago on the streets of Walton-on-Thames, and was a huge hit all over the world – so popular that the film had to be reshot twice because the negatives kept wearing out. Blair, the canine star of the picture, is arguably the world’s first film star.
Shooting Stars There’s blood spilt under the klieg lamps as a love triangle between the star turns in a British film studio turns nasty. Donald Calthrop excels as the Chaplin-like clown who falls for a married leading lady. The directorial debut for Asquith one of Britain’s most important directors.

Event 14 - Sponsored by Aardman animations
Family Films: A selection of classic Aardman Animations staring the inimitable Wallace & Gromit!!!
A Sunday morning of Wallace & Gromit, a joy for all the family from 6 to 60 by the Bristol based Aardman Animations world famous for their endearing old-fashioned characters. We have four shorts, each following a similar plot line; an exciting adventure where Wallace gets in to trouble and Gromit saves him from his folly.
A matter of Loaf and Death (U) 30 minutes
A Close Shave (U) 30 minutes
The Wrong Trousers (U) 30 minutes
A Grand Day out (U) 30 minutes

Event 15 - Director Q&A
I Know You Know (15)
This is the second film by Cardiff-based Justin
Kerrigan, director of the wild Human Traffic.
A semi autobiographical rites of passage drama, which centres on the relationship between preadolescent Jamie (a brilliant debut performance from Aron Fuller) and Charlie (played by Robert Carlyle), his unstable and increasingly out of control father. The two of them move to an urban Welsh council estate and their lives take increasingly bizarre turns. Jamie thinks his dad may be a spy, or perhaps a criminal, or maybe he is something else altogether? A powerful and tender film with two excellent central performances.

Event 17
Tamara Drewe
Based on Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel, which in turn is very loosely based on Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd, Stephen Frears’ film is endlessly entertaining. The eponymous heroine returns to her native village unrecognisable with a new nose-job and quickly causes three very different local men to fall hopelessly in love with her. Two teenagers make matters even more complicated adding to the ensuing havoc. With amusing reflections on novel writing, literary pretension and bucolic romps this is a frothy, witty, insubstantial and highly enjoyable film.

Event 18
A Hard Day's Night (U) An imaginary day in the life of the Beatles, who travel to London by train and headline a television variety show, with many diversions along the way
The Beatles’ Liverpudlian wit, together with an irreverent attitude and lack of deference to their elders, is used to deflate the film’s more traditional characters. The film ends with the group performing their songs before a hysterical audience of young girls climaxing with ‘She Loves You’. A Hard Day’s Night did not revolutionise the British film musical, but its influence on music videos can be seen to this day.