With the Garrison Films Long Weekend coming up from 17th to 21st August you still have a chance to submit an entry for the Shetland Film Critic of the Year 2011, so sharpen your pencils and have a go! Read on…..
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Shetland Film Critic of the Year 2011
Posted by Kathy Hubbard on July 29th, 2011 No CommentsFilm screening: The Pipe – Saturday 21st May
Posted by Kathy Hubbard on May 18th, 2011 No CommentsOn Saturday 21st May Shetland Film Club will be screening The Pipe at the Shetland Museum and Archive at 7.30pm. Currently being screened at festivals around the world, where it is gathering a great deal of critical acclaim, this is a documentary about a small community being torn apart by the advent of a large…
Read the rest...Take One Action – world changing cinema on 4th and 5th March
Posted by Kathy Hubbard on February 28th, 2011 No CommentsNelson Mandela once said that the film Cry Freedom had done more to tell the world about apartheid in South Africa than all his years in prison. This week sees Scotland’s Take One Action Film Festival Tour continue that theme as it brings the best international cinema that celebrates “the people and movies that are…
Read the rest...Shakespeare on Screen
Posted by Kathy Hubbard on January 25th, 2011 No CommentsShetland Film Club continues its Shakespeare on Screen season at Walls Hall on Sunday 30th January at 4.00pm with Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa’s 1957 interpretation of ‘Macbeth’.
Kurosawa sets his tale in mediaeval Japan, where warring shoguns struggle for power. After securing a great military victory on behalf of the Emperor, Lord Washizu (played…
Last Bricks in Flicks screening
Posted by Kathy Hubbard on December 6th, 2010 No CommentsOn Tuesday 7th December the Shetland Film Club will be showing Of Time and the City at the NAFC Marine Centre at 7:30pm. Mark Kermode’s favourite film of 2008, which he describes as “at once heartbreaking and hilarious, with Davies’ gorgeously ripe narration rolling like heady wine around a half-filled glass, this life affirming memoir….grows…
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