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Borderlines Film Festival
Posted by Karen Thorne on 15/02/2010 15:52:54
You don't come and visit South Shropshire if you're after an exciting night life! We specialise in dinners at lovely restaurants and pubs and then snuggling down with a bottle of wine or local beer. We also have a few games to borrow at the B&B so if you're feeling adventurous you can challenge your partner or friends to a game of scrabble.
However we occasionally have some great events and one of these is the Borderlines Film Festival held in various locations around the Welsh Marches.
Thank you to Jo Comino for the press release I've included below as well as an unusual Hopton House Blog Photo.
Arriving in Herefordshire and Shropshire bright and early in 2010, the eighth Borderlines Film Festival is set to be bigger than ever.
Borderlines (www.borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk) will screen more than 80 films in 40 venues in these two predominantly rural counties and beyond into the Marches between Friday 26 February and Sunday 14 March.
Where most festivals bring people together in one location, Borderlines covers a huge span of countryside from Ross-on-Wye in South Herefordshire all the way up to Wem in North Shropshire, a distance of over 80 miles.
Screening in village halls on the Flicks in the Sticks network, arts centres like The Courtyard in Hereford and Ludlow Assembly Rooms and even, for the first time, in Hereford Cathedral, this film festival brings a superlative selection of the best movies from around the world directly into the heart of communities in one of the most remote parts of the country.
In the words of one member of this year’s audience, “It is great to see some more unusual films brought to the local area.“
Two of this year’s most critically acclaimed films, Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon and Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet, hot-tipped as Oscar contenders in the foreign-language film category, will be showing at Borderlines.
The fluid comedy of Up in the Air, starring George Clooney as an itinerant management consultant with a talent for firing people, is likely to prove popular viewing as are two excellent adaptations: Lynn Barber's memoir of a London schoolgirl seduced by lifestyle in the lively, witty An Education as well as the brilliantly directed The Road from Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
And the variety extends to drama, comedies, documentaries, classics. Follow would-be shepherd Asa to the Kazakh steppe as he woos his way to initiation in Tulpan. Witness a British-made version of a Transylvanian revenge fable, Katalin Varga.
It’s a festival that provides all the thrill and excitement of travel but cuts down the journey.
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