Internationally acclaimed West End hit, Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie, is coming to the Carnegie Hall this Wednesday, 18 May, featuring the award-winning original London cast. The tragic, touching and joyful tale of America’s greatest folk poet is told in his own words and includes Guthrie classics such as Bound for Glory, Pastures of Plenty, The Ballad of Tom Joad, This Land is Your Land. The performance
If you enjoyed the recent BBC production of War and Peace – and perhaps even more so if you didn’t – you may be intrigued to see this wonderful clip of the ballroom scene from the epic Russian version directed by Sergei Bondarchuk. The film was made in 1966 and was over six hours long on release. Bondarchuk, a great hero of Russian cinema, himself took the role of Pierre with
A sumptuous western about a young Scotsman pursuing a lost love and starring Michael Fassbender – what’s not to adore? If you didn’t catch the brilliant Slow West when it came out earlier this year, you can still catch it on iTunes. The film is set at the end of the nineteenth century and tells the story of well-born, 16-year-old Jay journeying across the American frontier in the company of
Before CGI was commonly used for movies, models of film sets were painstakingly created by hand and some of the sets were in miniature. Dan Ohlman, a former cabinet-maker of 15 years, opened the Palais de la Miniature in Lyon, France to display the miniature movie sets and other works by miniature artists.
Interested to know what people think of this. Plan to Work On is Kay Mander’s 1948 government-sponsored film about the planning for Dunfermline’s post-war reconstruction. It was originally intended for a specialist audience of architects and planners but is now a fascinating record of mid-20th-century town planning and, for locals, full of great shots of post war Dunfermline. It was made with help from James Shearer , the architect behind Dunfermline’s
A few weeks left to catch Purple TV‘s film about Fife’s – and many would say Scotland’s – finest footballer Jim Baxter on BBC iPlayer. Baxter, who came from Hill of Beath, was famously funny and charming if enigmatic and unpredictable. The film suggests this complex character might have had its roots in the fact that Baxter was given up by his mother as a baby. The footballer was devastated,
Coming to Fife on 16 September is, Pioneers of Performance , a day long festival of thought-provoking and fun dance theatre, created by independent artists working in Scotland. The shows have been chosen for their outstanding quality – this really is the best work of its kind. There’s something for all age groups, with a show for young children before lunch, older children in the afternoon, and two shows for adults in
There are some excellent showings coming up at the Dunfermline Odeon as part of its Event Cinema programme. You can see Tom Hiddleston in Shakespeare’s tragedy Coriolanus when it is screened live from the National Theatre on 24 September and catch Benedict Cumberbatch’s bravura turn as Hamlet, also from the National Theatre, on 15 October. The Royal Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet is on 22 September and you can choose between
Lots of people are raving about this, a brand new film directed by Andrew Haigh from a David Constantine short story. 45 years tells the story of Kate (Charlotte Rampling) who is planning a party to celebrate her 45th wedding anniversary. One week before the celebration, however, a letter arrives for her husband, Geoff (Tom Courtenay), that reawakens troubling and long-hidden memories. Kate becomes increasingly concerned by Geoff’s preoccupation with
BROOKLYN tells the moving story of Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan), a young Irish immigrant navigating her way through 1950s Brooklyn. Lured by the promise of America, Eilis departs Ireland and the comfort of her mother’s home for New York City. Homesickness quickly diminishes as a romance with an Italian boy develops. Soon, however Eilis’s new life is disrupted by her past, and she must choose between two countries and two