• LRFS Home
  • Membership
  • Programme
  • Chairman's Corner
  • Previous Seasons
  • History
    • The Regent Cinema
    • Our 30th Anniversary
    • Regent Cinema Programmes
  • Contact
Lyme Regis Film Society

Chairman's Corner

29 APRIL – 5 MAY 2023

28/4/2023

0 Comments

 
Three popular members of the arts fraternity passed away last week: Harry Belafonte, aged 94, the actor, singer and activist who made a cameo appearance in our film BlacKkKlansman; Barry Humphries (aka Dame Edna Everage) and Len Goodman. I had the pleasure of meeting Len Goodman during my time as manager of the Regent. You might recall, in addition to Strictly, he hosted a BBC series called Holidays of My Lifetime. He brought the actor Ian Kelsey back to Lyme Regis and they asked permission to film in the cinema. He was very friendly, affable and came across as quite a modest chap who will be missed by many. 
JOHNNY O’CLOCK (1947) Saturday 29 April 9.30-11.25pm TP (Channel 82)    
Dick Powell made a very successful conversion from a light leading man in 1930s musicals to a cynical, weary character in film noir and private-eye thrillers in the 1940s (RKO’s Murder My Sweet is a classic), before moving into directing and television. Here, he plays a gambler who becomes a murder suspect; the future U-I star Jeff Chandler has an uncredited role. The director whose debut this was is Robert Rossen, who often wrote the scripts as well. Whilst he only directed 10 films, they included Body and Soul (still one of the great boxing films), All the King’s Men and the tremendous Paul Newman film The Hustler. There is an overlap, too, with our film Trumbo – Rossen was blacklisted and one of his other films was The Brave Bulls (1951) which was referenced in that fascinating drama.
THE ROAD DANCE (2021) Monday 1 May 11.00pm-12.55am BBC 2    P         
The Road Dance is a period drama, set in 1916 on the Isle of Lewis. Sensitively directed and well acted, it tells the story of 16-year-old Kirsty (Hermione Corfield), whose life changes radically after a sexual assault. John MacKay wrote the source novel. 
I’M YOUR MAN (2021) Wednesday 3 May 11.15pm-1.25am Film Four    P       
Here is your chance to catch a German comedy that didn’t quite make one of our seasons. Alma (Maren Eggert) agrees to take part in a social/AI experiment where a humanoid robot comes to live with her for three weeks . . . .

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    By David Johnson

    Chairman of Lyme Regis Film Society

    Archives

    June 2024
    May 2024
    April 2024
    March 2024
    February 2024
    January 2024
    December 2023
    November 2023
    October 2023
    September 2023
    August 2023
    July 2023
    June 2023
    May 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    October 2017
    September 2017
    July 2017

    RSS Feed

Site Design by John Marriage
Copyright © 2017-25
Updated  23.3.2025
  • LRFS Home
  • Membership
  • Programme
  • Chairman's Corner
  • Previous Seasons
  • History
    • The Regent Cinema
    • Our 30th Anniversary
    • Regent Cinema Programmes
  • Contact