Because we’re fans of the Coen’s, we thought we’d give you some of the press stuff that is associated with their next offering, Burn After Reading. This film doesn’t feature the immense talents of Torquay-boy and director of photography Roger Deakins, but the next Coen film does. Enough of the future… let’s hear about the now.

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A letter from Richard Armstrong in this month’s Sight & Sound magazine (we’ll spare you the details for the sake of brevity) led us to delve into the strange and little known story of Irene Dobson and the Penwicken Bijou cinema. It’s a cracking tale of witch hunts, mauled children, and people who turn into cats…

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The original Magical Mystery film.

A new documentary showing previously unseen footage of The Beatles was premiered this month.

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Young video makers listen up - we’ve picked up news from Chew TV that the Bristol Music Foundation is looking to recruit young filmmakers

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Who says opera is elite art - you can watch a live screening of Don Giovanni from the Royal Opera House at Exeter Picturehouse on Monday September 8 for the cut down price of £20, £19 for concessions and £17.50 for members.

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If only the former government operatives chosen for these films occasionally worked in the benefits or tax departments, then we’d know that the skills they acquired would be obfuscation, confusion and error in a mess of bureacratic intrigue, but no. In Taken, which opens on September 26, has Liam Neeson as a former government operative comes out of retirement and uses his extensive training to rescue his estranged daughter from a slave trade operation.

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An image from the first production Moving On

D+Cineastes have been invited to join First Eye Productions - an off-shoot of the TOADS theatre company in Torquay which is looking to put together a feature.

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A comedy film festival is serious business, as you can tell from the recently released line up for next month’s English Riviera International Comedy Film Festival.

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Still from Friday Night, by Ornette Spenceley a winner at the 2007 Cornwall Film Festival

You needn’t be on the outside looking in. There are plenty of ways to get involved in film festivals, and the Cornwall Film Festival is even offering a t-shirt.

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They don’t make em like they used to. And as if to prove it, Jill Craigie’s 1946 film The Way We Live is making another appearance at the Plymouth Arts Centre, on Tuesday September 9 at 8.30pm.

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Universal has made no secret of the fact they’d love Mamma Mia to become a karaoke-type cinema experience - not least because it’s a great way to get large groups to see the movie more than once.

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Oooo, a little bit of politics, as Ben Elton used to say. The Torquay Fringe Film event could not go by without nurturing some political satire. But Michael Bett’s love of animation seems to be the inspiration for his film Escape from Kirkuk rather than the global arena of international politics, and if satire teaches us anything it teaches us tautology.

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The View From Here, the South Devon celebration of film and moving image, is back for a week of superb events from December 1 to December 5, so leave a space in your diary.

Last year, one of the many highlights of the festival was the showing of Deep Water, the film about Donald Crowhurst’s attempt to circumnavigate the world – in Teignmouth, the town where he set off from (yup, that’s the trailer at the top of the page).

The sailer set off from the town, and after the show co-director Jerry Rothwell and Donald’s son Simon Crowhurst talked about the film and the events. It was the first time Simon had returned to the site where he waved his father goodbye.

Here’s a film of the Q&A which took place after the screening

 

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Catch up with Chris Chilton, computer games and animation manager, at Skillset, during the Talent at the Roots event of the Animate and Educate Conference, during Animated Exeter 2008, phew. Check downpage, as we don’t say in the trade for dates and deadlines of next year’s Animated Exeter (but just as a heads up, that means to deadline for films is at the end of September - see below for more details).

Tomorrow: Clive Lissaman during the Talent at the Roots debate

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Animated Exeter - February 13 - 21, 2009 (Schools week February 9 -13)

Film entry deadlines for 2009:
Best of the West Student Films* - 19 September 2008
Screen Out Loud Amateur and Professional Animators** - 19 September 2008
ExAnimation - animators under 18 years ** - 31 October 2008
* from South West & South Wales
** from South West only

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There is more ‘youth-led’ funding available than ever before. But what does this actually mean for young people and those trying to access this funding to support their media initiatives and activities? With a panel comprising of funders and those working with and for young people we will discuss the opportunities, pitfalls and best practise to facilitate and sustain youth-led media projects. Here’s Carolyn Hassan of Knowle West Media Centre talking about such things.

Tomorrow: Chris Chilton during the Talent at the Roots debate

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Animated Exeter - February 13 - 21, 2009 (Schools week February 9 -13)

Film entry deadlines for 2009:
Best of the West Student Films* - 19 September 2008
Screen Out Loud Amateur and Professional Animators** - 19 September 2008
ExAnimation - animators under 18 years ** - 31 October 2008
* from South West & South Wales
** from South West only

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