Don't Look Now

October 2009

When we started the flicker club we made a wish list of the guests and movies that we would like to screen. Top of that list was 'Don't Look Now' and the guest...Nic Roeg, legendary director of this film and the likes of 'Walkabout', 'Performance' and 'The Man Who Fell To Earth'.

Well, as luck would have it, our first illustrious guest Ms. Miranda Richardson, so enjoyed the event that she offered to lean over her garden fence and invite her neighbour, Nic Roeg, to be a guest.

NIC ROEG! 

I mean, what are the chances?

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Well, he and his lovely wife, Harriet Harper, came along and were just terrific. Nic introduced the evening and gave an insight into the task of adapting a book into a movie and Harriet bought Daphne Du Maurier's text alive with a wonderfully insightful reading.

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They say 'Be careful what you wish for'', we beg to differ..

We're drawing up a new wish list with Orson Welles at the top.

You never know your luck.

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Our poster and flickbook were designed by Shiv. Don't Look Now is her favourite film and we think this clearly shows in her beautiful interpretation of the movie. 

Lots of love,

the flicker club

Breakfast at Tiffany's

August 2009

Breakfast at Tiffany’s was such a lovely evening it could have been dinner at the Ritz.

For our second flicker evening we were again joined by Miller’s who set up a lovely marquee and provided our appreciative audience with gin& tonics. Not a bad start to any evening.

The poster for Breakfast at Tiffany’s was designed by Dan Canyon and looked terrific outside the Lexi with magnificently large Audrey Hepburn eyes blazing into the night. Dan also supplied the ingenious flickbook homage to ‘Moon River’, the Henry Mancini ditty that won the 1961 Oscar for best original song.

Next up, our special guest. Last month Miranda Richardson and this month who better than, Sean Mathias.

Sean is a lauded and applauded film and theatre director most recently channeling the combined talents of Sir Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and Simon Callow in a magnificent production of ‘Waiting for Godot’ at the West End’s Haymarket Theatre where he is presently Artistic Director. As Sean is in the midst of bringing Breakfast at Tiffany’s into the Haymarket for its theatrical debut, he was the obvious man for the job of host and we were thrilled when he accepted.

He began with an insight into the chaotic and bumby ride the book took in Hollywood on its road to the screen and then, by reading fragments from the novelette, he gave a wonderful insight into its transition from book to stage and then told us, along with the Penguin edition of the original Truman Capote novelette, tiaras and mini bottles of moet, one lucky audience member would find two tickets to the new play starring Anna Friel in their goodie bag...

Sean was entertaining informative and hugely supportive for which, much thanks.

Lots of love, the flicker club

The Birds

July 2009

The inaugural flicker club event was a resounding success. Many thanks to all of you who came along to make it such an enjoyable evening. 

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flicker club patron, Roy Marsden hosted wonderfully and Miranda Richardson's reading of The Bird's was utterly hypnotic.

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The cocktail and champagne reception went down a treat and the goody bags were full to the brim with wonderful gifts, thanks to our brilliant sponsors. Not to mention the tension during the screening of the classic Hitchcock adaptation.

Thank you to our artists, Jo Ratcliffe for our poster

And Tommy Penton for our first ever flickbook, which you can see here

With love and cheer (and perhaps now a slight fear of birds),

the flicker club