miss_s_b: (Gashlycrumb Tinies)miss_s_b ([personal profile] miss_s_b) wrote,
@ 2010-06-09 01:39 pm UTC
Current location:in bed
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Entry tags:being helpful o:-), fantastic films weekend
You might have gathered over the past few days that I am a big fan of the FFW. It's something I look forward to every year. Next year is the festival's tenth birthday, and as such it ought to be a doozy. The thing is, the FFW is not guaranteed to happen; if there isn't enough public demand then there's no point in the museum spending all that money to put the event on. So we need to make sure that the museum know the demand is there...

Now, I know that lots of readers of this blog are fans of genre films. But how many of you would be willing to travel to Bradford to see them? Are there any films which would have you leaping on a train with gay abandon?

Leave a comment to this entry and I will make sure Tony, the festival director, sees it. Or send the man himself an email - tony DOT earnshaw AT nationalmediamuseum DOT org DOT uk.

My suggestions include Ginger Snaps (feministy werewolf films FTW!), Dark City (Rufus Sewell's bum!), The Tingler (with or without seat modifications) and The Blob. I also think it would be cool to do something with Doctor Who - perhaps one of the Peter Cushing films (Dalek Invasion of Earth has genre favourites Cushing and Andrew Keir in, and would capitalise on interest in the current series).

What films/events would attract YOU?


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[identity profile] andrewhickey.info
2010-06-09 01:31 pm UTC (link)
Hi crispy, shame I didn't see you at FFW - you must have been just to the ones I've not been to (I've been to the last couple). You can actually log in on dreamwidth using either your blogger or LJ accounts - click 'log in with OpenID' - if you want to receive replies.

I know that Tony said he wanted to broaden it out a bit more again. It's just that horror films of the 70s/UK/low-budget type tend to be easy and cheap to get hold of prints of compared to 1940s Czech science fiction or whatever. But from people's suggestions this time, I think we'll see more SF and fantasy along with the horror.

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[identity profile] irkthepurist.livejournal.com
2010-06-09 09:00 pm UTC (link)
we haven't been the last couple of years (we went the two years before it - the first year ruined by an unfortunate choice of a double bill of "the woman in black" and "threads" which, as you may know, is thusly a double bill of two of the single most punishingly bleak and depressing bits of tv ever which ultimately sent us into a massive funk for the the rest of the day, the second year absolutely brilliant) because the line up has just not been... tantalising enough? basically we don't make much of a wage between us these days, and the line up has to be truly stunning (like it was in 2008) to coax us out. and it's just been a bit... samey the last couple of years. nothing really striking at all. it just needs to be opened out a bit. otherwise it's just too niche to bother with

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