ARTS PICTUREHOUSE CINEMA
WEDNESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2007 9.00 am
MORNING PROJECTIONS
HUNGARIAN FILM SELECTION
BEING JULIA Directed by Istvan Szabo'.
STARRING ANNETTE BENING & JEREMY IRONS
Free entrance
HALAS & BATCHELOR CARTOON FILM STUDIO
1940 -1995
This was the largest and most influential animation
studio in Western Europe for over 50 years.
John Halas, having left Hungary, founded the studio
in London with his British wife Joy Batchelor.
From small beginnings in 1940 they made over
2,000 films and earned an international
reputation for fine animation.
'Animal Farm' remains the most famous.
Adapted from George Orwell's classic book, it
was released in 1954 and was Britain's first full
length animated feature in colour.
It was banned in Hungary.
PROGRAMME
BEING JULIA 2004 104 minutes
Released on 3rd September 2004
The film directed by Istvan Szabo inspired
by W. Somerset Maugham's Novel
Theatre
Set in the world of the London stage in the
late 1930s, reigning diva Julia Lambert's
success and fame grow suddenly wearisome.
She falls in love with a young American, Tom
Fennel, and begins a passionate affair.
When she realises that Tom is just a social
climber whose real passion is ambitious
starlet Avis Crichton, Julia begins to plot
a delightful revenge.
For her performance Annette Bening won the
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion
Picture in the 2005 Golden Globe awards and
was also nominated for a Screen Actors Guild
Award and Academy Award.
HUNGARIAN MOVIE HISTORY
Sir Alexander Korda was born in 1893
in today's Hungary, then the Austro-Hungarian
Empire.
He started working as a journalist and later
went into film as a producer.
He worked closely with another
Hungarian friend, painter and set designer
Emile Lahner.
Korda's first film was made in the USA in 1927
and was titled The Stolen Bridge .
By 1932 he had made 16 more films.
In 1932 he came to Britain and founded
London Films in 1932, soon to build studios
at Denham, financed by Prudential.
His films were lavish and once colour films
were made, striking.
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) was
nominated for the Academy Award for
Best Picture. This movie and Rembrandt
both starred Charles Laughton.
In 1942 he became the first film
producer to be Knighted.
Among his greatest successes as
producer were The Four Feathers
Q Planes , "The Thief of Bagdad"
in 1940 and "The Third Man" in 1949.
He died in London in 1956.
The Alexander Korda Award for
"Outstanding British Film of the Year"
is given in his honour by the
British Academy of Film and
Television Arts.
ARTS PICTUREHOUSE CINEMA
Situated above the Wetherspoons
Regal, reputed to be the largest pub in
Europe.
It opened as an arts-oriented cinema
in July 1997.
The place was once a concert venue,
most notably host to The Beatles in
1963
It was built on the site of Ye Olde
Castle Hotel, which burned down in
1934
The Hotel was established in 1243
(partially rebuilt in 1620).
AWARD WINNING HUNGARIAN MOVIES
AN AMERICAN RHAPSODY
2001 Directed by Eva Gardos
starring Scarlett Johansson,
Nastassja Kinski
SUNSHINE
1999 Directed by Istvan Szabo'
starring Ralph Fiennes
Rosemary Hiennes
WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES
B/W
2000 Directed by Bela Tarr
starring Lars Rudolph
Hanna Schygulla
COLONEL REDL
1985 Directed by Istvan Szabo'
starring Klaus Maria Brandauer
The screenplay is adapted
from British playwright John
Osborne' s play
"A patriot for Me".
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