Films A-Z

Until the line-up for 2010 is announced, we are keeping 2009's A to Z in place, so that visitors to the site can find out more about the films screened in our previous festival.

 

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GOODBYE MR CHIPS

Donat won an Oscar for his tour-de-force performance as an unassuming school teacher looking back over a 60-year career in this much-loved classic, adapted by R.C. Sherriff from the novel by Leigh-born author James Hilton.

 

GRACE UNDER PRESSURE

Jimmy the Milkman is trying to move on after splitting with his materialistic, workaholic, cheat of a wife. Drenched and overwhelmed in the day to day routine of his dead-end job, he refuses to let personal demons hinder him in his continual search for something positive in life.... Showing as part of CAUGHT SHORT TWO: SHOTS FROM THE NORTH WEST UNDERGROUND

 

GREGORY’S GIRL

Awkward, weedy Scots teenager Gregory is besotted with the athletic Dorothy, who is a better footballer than he can ever hope to be. But an he at least hope to win her heart? He’s going to have his work cut out for him. This charming, wry, and romantic coming-of-age comedy launched the careers of its writer / director Bill Forsyth, actor John Gordon Sinclair, and pop star Claire Grogan, later vocalist with Altered Images.

 

We should like to dedicate this screening to the film’s much loved and respected co-producer, Clive Parsons, who died in August of this year. Parsons was a strong supporter of the individual, the idiosyncratic, and the independent, and Cinema will be the poorer for his loss. We are hoping that his long-time business partner and producing colleague Davina Belling will be able to attend the screening.

 

SELECTED BY STUART MACONIE.

 

STARRING…THE PEOPLE OF SALFORD

Born in 2003 the Salford Film Festival paid special attention to the huge variety that Salford communities are famous for, and in encouraging their involvement in film-making both on screen and behind the camera, paved the way for five more seriously succ

STEVE BALSHAW INTERVIEW

My primary role is to select, source and secure the films, and to build these into a programme of screenings and related events that will hopefully attract an audience - so I deal with filmmakers and producers, and often with the various screening venues,

INNOVATE, DON’T IMITATE!

Manchester prides itself on being “The City of Innovation”. Benjamin Disraeli famously stated that “What Manchester does today, the rest of the world will do tomorrow

THE ORSON WELLES OF SALFORD

He was Salford's Welles and King of Manchester Exploitation movies. He was a pioneer of independent filmmaking in the region. And now there's a book. You should own it.

UNDERSTANDING THE PAST

In our past is our future. Understand one, and you can better visualise the other. This selection of films from the North West Film Archive offers a glimpse of the world that was, here in Salford - some of it now lost forever, some of it simply altered be