Lansdown Film Club

07/03/2024

🎞️ THIS SUNDAY — F***y: The Other Mendelssohn at at Stroud Film Festival

🗓️ Sunday 10 March, 7:30 PM
📍 Lansdown Hall & Gallery, Stroud GL5 1BB
✨ Followed by a Q&A with the film’s director, Sheila Hayman.

Take a celebrated musical genius, sibling rivalry, an unknown manuscript, some very persistent research and one sensational revelation, and what have you got? F***y: The Other Mendelssohn — the documentary from BAFTA-winning director Sheila Hayman that features global Decca star, Isata Kanneh-Mason.

The film reveals the extraordinary story of F***y, a composer long sidelined to her famous brother Felix by the guardians of classical music, who — despite being forbidden a musical career — persevered, composing 450 works in her short life. F***y’s lost masterpiece ‘The Easter Sonata’ is brought to life by virtuoso pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason.

As she explores the music, the parallels between her life and F***y’s become clear — including the challenge of being a pioneer with few role models in classical music. As moving as it is joyous, and shot on location in Berlin, New York, London, Oxford and Buckingham Palace, F***y: The Other Mendelssohn is the story of a very modern woman — who just happened to live 200 years ago.

🎟️ Screenings in Houston, TX and Biarritz, France recently sold out! Get tickets while they last at stroudfilmfestival.org/events-2024/2024/3/10/fanny-the-other-mendelssohn

07/03/2024

Showing at Vue Stroud, big screen experience with film festival pricing.

🎬 Presenting: ‘The Red Shoes’ – At the Stroud Film Festival

🗓️ Date & Time:
📅 08/03/24
⏰ 07:30 PM

📍 Venue:
🏰 VUE Cinema
🌆 Five Valleys Shopping Centre, GL5 1RY

🎟️ Ticket Options:
🎫 Pay it Forward: £8
🎭 Standard: £6
🍿 Low Income/Cost of Living Affected: £4
Grab your tickets at: https://www.stroudfilmfestival.org/

🌟 Film Highlight: 'The Red Shoes':

In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s visually ravishing masterpiece, a young ballerina is torn between the demands of love and art. Like the heroine of Hans Christian Andersen’s source fairytale, whose magic shoes compel her to dance, Victoria Page – played by real-life ballerina Moira Shearer – finds herself driven to breaking point by obsessive Russian impresario Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) when she’s cast in his ballet The Red Shoes.

The film interweaves Victoria’s story, with that of The Red Shoes ballet in the most dazzling flight of fantasy in Powell’s career, scarcely matched in British cinema. With its captivating behind-the-scenes insight into the creative process, and characters for whom art is more important than life itself, the film has proved an inspiration to filmmakers and dancers alike.

For writer-directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, it represented a triumphant attempt to create a ‘composed film’ in which music – here by Brian Easdale – plays a more central role, demanding similar expressive intensity in every detail of design and performance. Fittingly, it won Oscars for both art direction and music.

🌈 Join us for a celebration of diverse stories and exceptional filmmaking! 🎉

28/04/2020

Hey Film lovers! Well you delivered for our latest 60 second film challenge! Www.stroudfilmfestival.org Thanks for all your films on the theme Unexpected. Premiere at 7.30pm on Weds 29th April on our website! Come join us and all our local talent.

28/04/2020

We have been contacted by a second year Media Communications student at Bath Spa University.

"As part of my promotional media module, I am creating promotional material for the (now online) Stroud Film Festival. As I am no longer able to conduct interviews with festival organisers & people of Stroud, I have created a survey to help me gain primary research and an understanding of the best ways to promote a local event/ film festival.

Stroud Film Festival has lots of interesting events happening online, we recommend checking out their website to find out more!
www.stroudfilmfestival.org

Create a new survey on your own or with others at the same time. Choose from a variety of survey types and analyze results in Google Forms. Free from Google.

20/02/2020

You haven't seen anything yet. Amazing Grace is In Theaters April 5.

10/02/2020

Have you had a look at all the events happening during Stroud Film Festival? 27th Feb - 28th March, Catalogues can be found around Stroud and surrounding areas or check out their page and website:
www.stroudfilmfestival.org