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IAC MOVIE 92 : SELECTION 2 (Library ref no. 83)
Four more of the movies shown in the Dawson Suite at the Novotel, Bradford on Sunday, March 29, 1992, under the banner 'The World Premiere'.
1. | IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER Paul Warner (USA) In 14th-Century France during the Hundred Years' War, an English knight, Robert Knollys (Trevor Eve), flees the battlefield and falls into an exhausted sleep, only to be haunted in his dreams by the war. Awakened with a start by two French children, he accidentally kills the girl (Brooke Varon) and is forced to kidnap her brother (Michael Garin Turner). A sort of bond grows between captor and captive, the boy even saving the man's life. Photographed by Mark Gordon and with an original music score by Peter R. Melnick, whose feature-film work includes L.A. Story. Transfer from 16mm film. (If the synopsis of the film seems familiar, it is because Paul McCudden's screenplay was also made under the title The Tree of Battles by Nicole Bettauer at the University of Southern California.) IAC Best Open 1992 |
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2. | COLOUR Günther Haller (Italy) A documentary about the making of Indian saris, showing the processes of cutting-out the cloths - enormous cottons of all colours - dying them, drying them and folding them ready for sale. Told without commentary, with superb photography and evocative actuality sounds. Transfer from super 8 film. IAC Gold Seal, Best Documentary Award 1992 |
Documentary |
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3. | SATURN RISING Circle Eight Film Group (Surrey) Subtitled 'Mind is master of the man', this is set in the offices and works of Acme Inflatables, where Ms Mindis (Jenny Crease) is determined to steamroller herself to the top in business over anybody's dead body. . . Also starring Bryan Payne and Geoff Rayner. Photography and editing: Jason Flock; directed by Jenny Grove. IAC Gold Seal 1992 |
Humour |
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4. | ROYAL MEDICINE Colin Pain, FACI (Surrey) An account of the attempted cures by court physicians in February 1685, when King Charles II (a tall, virtuous, debonair monarch 'with great imperfections') falls down with apoplexy. Transfer from super 8 film. IAC Silver Seal 1992 |
Animation |
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Total running time 58 min. DVD Rental fee £7.50 |