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Film-goers get the horn at city's Casablanca love-in
Take a tour at Pallant House Time to see major exhibition of the hearlded work of hugely infleuntial Christopher Wood plus discover work by Henry Moore amongst others... SOPHISTICATED Primitive is the title of the major Christopher Wood exhibition which is at Pallant House Gallery until October. It is described as a major exhibition on the life and art of British artist Wood (1901-1930). The gallery’s website says as an important and influential figure in the British art world during the 1920s, Wood developed a ‘faux-naïve’ style as he navigated a path between the representational painting of the Edwardian era and the new style of abstraction of the 1930s. A celebration of the magnitude of the artist’s achievement in the ten years before his premature death, aged just 29, this comprehensive review explores the enduring paradox between the primitive and the sophisticated in Wood’s oeuvre. Pallant House Gallery's collection is described as one of the best in the UK. Take a tour and discover important works by Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Ivon Hitchens, Henry Moore, John Piper, Graham Sutherland, Patrick Caulfield, Michael Andrews, Peter Blake and many more and learn about how their wonderful minds work and what stories lay beneath their work.
Summer variety is spice of life Make sure that you catch legendary all-round entertainer Bobby Crush along with funnyman Paul James, billed as the 'comedians' comedian' THIS summer, variety is back in a big way at the Regis Centre. In a show that harks back to the glory days of summer at the seaside, this variety performance will showcase the best in professional and local talent. The line-up features renowned pianist and entertainer Bobby Crush. Few entertainers can claim to have had as varied a career as Bobby, famous in the UK for over 40 years primarily as a pianist but also as a songwriter, broadcaster, actor and TV presenter. Then there is Paul James. Paul is an
comedian and has been performing for over 45 years. He is known in the business as “the comedians’ comedian” and is the resident funny man at London’s world famous Brick Lane Music Hall. The performance will also feature live music from the Andy Beaumont Swing Band, professional dancers and vocalists and more! This is the must-see performance of the summer, we are told. *Box Office: 01243 861010. Opening times: Mon to Sat 10am-4pm.
Roger has lead role in movie matters at Chichester festival
Retro & Retro Vintage & Vintage Affair Affair Fundraiser willFundraiser benefit St will Wilfrid's benefit Hospice St Wilfrid's Hospice ST Wilfrid’s Hospice is hosting its annual Retro & Vintage Affair at the Assembly Rooms in North Street, Chichester on Friday 28th August. With Goodwood Revival Festival looming this is the perfect opportunity to get suited and booted, ready to head back in time to the lively 1900s whilst supporting your local charity and hospice. There will be rails upon rails of fabulous vintage clothing ascending to the assembly rooms and shoppers will be welcomed with a fabulous variety of authentic vintage items, ranging from clothes and accessories to toys, haberdashery and furniture. You can also enjoy retro bric-a-brac,
vintage tearooms where you can enjoy a delightful cup of tea and a slice of some of the most delectable homemade cakes. Yum! Hair stylists from Chichester's Creations will be on hand as they offer some brilliant retro styling to make your look complete. And there will be some fantastic live music that will be sure to bring on a sense of nostalgia to everybody in the room. This is an essential fundraiser and over past years it has raised up to £9,000 in aid of St Wilfrids. So take the opportunity to go back in time and immerse yourself in all things vintage.
HUMPHREY Bogart greeted me (well, I think it was him) dressed as Rick Blane, his character in Casablanca, as I made my debut at a drive-in (said to be the first-ever suchlike cinematic showing in these parts). He cut a familiar figure, did Bogey, a white dinner jacket, black bow tie; except he wasn't nursing a glass of bourbon or pulling on a smoke. For this wasn't some Bogey-themed shindig off Hollywood Boulevard, or even the Morrocan desert come to that, rather a lookalike greeter in the car park at the Festival Theatre. The dusk screening of the 1943 classic
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movie was part of the prelude to the 25th International Film Festival. Okay, it wasn't quite as busy as Rick's Cafe with Victor Laszlo and chums one end and the Gestapo the other, and the band playing La Marseillaise in the middle, but a healthy number came out to see legendary performances from Bogey, Ingrid Bergman, Peter Lorre, Claude Reins and Paul Henreid. And as Rick and Renault walked into the Casablanca night at the film's end, the Chichester night air was filled with appreciative horn honks. In all the car parks in all the world... CARL ELDRIDGE
MEET Roger Gibson, the artistic director of the Chichester Film Festival, the cinema’s consultant artistic director and founder of the Chichester Cinema at New Park. According to its website, Roger has been part of the Chichester arts scene since the 1960s, starting at the Chichester College as the ‘Chichester College Adult Education Film Society’ in September 1979. Films were shown on 16mm one evening a week for 24 weeks, plus a Saturday Junior Film Club. The first film shown by the Film Society was Woody Allen's ‘Love and Death’. This developed into an independent cinema,
now in its 37th year and which has won awards thanks to his programming and dealings with distributors and directors. Roger attends all the major film festivals: London, Cannes, Berlin, Karlovy Vary and Toronto to source a legendary mix of eclectic films, his ability to match the good ‘bums on seats’ ones with those which will meet arthouse expectations. But he prefers to open people’s worlds, not creating a niche, rather elitist-seeming market. He is not a one-man band. Jo, his wife, is equally a keen exponent of film and of social issues explored by this medium, “viewing things from a different angle.”
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