Category: Halesworth – Films/Festivals

Delicious food was prepared by Imogen Tempest using Josaih Meldums Hodmedods ingredients (which can be found in Focus Organic shop in Halesworth), including Chocolate cake made with Fava beans. Mike Ambrose Manages the John Innes Centre, (Norwich), Germplasm Resource Unit (= seedbank),  where, for 39 years, he has worked with peas. The purpose of the Germ Plasm… Continue reading Science Cafe – Celebrating Pulses (March 2016)

Extraordinary. He did this. Showed there was another way. Outside a box. Reading the words to Changes again - or did i ever read them back then - he touches on universals then, Buddhist ones, transitory natures, etc. The Man who fell to Earth - at the Cut - good old Cut for screening it.… Continue reading Death and art of dying of David Bowie (Jan 2016)

Surprisingly well attended this dark January night, and the first of Bob’s choice of films at the Cut. We sat in the front 2nd row, Bob complaining almost immediately that the sound was ‘crap’. His breathing was shallow and noisy, but he could not hear this, for he was as always focused. On the film.… Continue reading The Music Room by Satyajit Ray, with Bob (Jan 2016)

Mild November. Real rain for the first time this autumn and I forgot to bring real rain coat.  No dog (Barry looking after) and missing him. Friday, preparing the rooms. Joanna, my traditional Aldeburgh PF team mate and I are together, (phew), in the Baptist Chapel, in Aldeburgh, the only people in town not Snape.… Continue reading Aldeburgh Poetry Festival 2015

West Bank  village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the footage was later given to Israeli co-director Guy Davidi to edit. Structured around the violent destruction of each one of Burnat's cameras. Burnat… Continue reading Five Broken Camera’s – Cut Film

Live Streeming from Barbican, London Who is Nick Cave? Who was this man who had others in white gloves handle the archive of his family photo album? The compare said special 20 times. A special evening, with special people, and a special Nick Cave. The two directors came on the stage. They were unusual. Not… Continue reading 20,000 days on Earth, Nick Clave (Film Cut)

I put out maps, books - some of which I’d written. When I came to the van, all were put aside. The maps were useless as I gathered in a phone call later from a desperate JF saying he could not remember the way from Halesworth to the van, a mile up the road. I… Continue reading JF

Inspired by Bob, accompanied by his friend from Late Night Line up, Ian, with films from 40 years ago re-mastered by Stuart Orr, a small gathering of us ventured back into a time when these two film-makers were walking out into their lives. It felt intimate, edgy and expansive. It was the time when the BBC made a programme which no fixed… Continue reading Bob and Ian’s films at the Waveney festival

Ex Guardian. Started off taking photos of bands until they became rote, like Garry Glitter, then turned to Sports In the days when the Guardian and Independent were in healthy competition with each other. Sadly The Independent no longer plays ball. The importance of family albums - what’s happened to them now? Old photographs of… Continue reading Photographer Eamonn McCabe (The Cut 10.30 Thursdays)

I wrote the title in my notebook, but didn’t look down again. Suspense amazing. Brilliant retelling of the true story of Captain Philips’ and his container cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates. The machinations of the ship, it’s engine room and corridors. An inspiring Captain, holding all together until right at the end when he… Continue reading Captain Philips (Film at The Cut)