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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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WUTHERING HEIGHTS

You all know the story - bleak moors, undying love, primal emotions and black revenge. The original and still the best film version of Emily Bronte’s feral, wild-eyed romance, this is Northern Gothic with a Hollywood gloss: the Myth of the North writ large - with a screenplay by Charles McArthur, Ben Hecht and an unaccredited John Huston - and lit beautifully, by Oscar-winning cinematographer Gregg Toland. Oliver was nominated for an Oscar, for his brooding turn as the implacable Heathcliff - but he lost out , ironically enough, to Robert Donat’s Mr Chips. Festival goers might like to compare the performances, see which one they prefer.

 

SELECTED BY STUART MACONIE.

 

WHAT'S SO FUNNY?

A portrait of the legendary Tib Street Joke Shop, where a whole generation of kids stocked up on ammunition for endless mischief. These days, it’s either a sex shop or a bar, which says it all, really. Showing as part of UNDERSTANDING THE PAST

 

WASTED

Its the morning after the night before, Liam wakes up in a police cell with a bad head and bright orange. As the day unfolds we discover the truth about his lost time and wasted lives.

 


The young people of Clifton worked together to make this film to highlight the dangers of teenage binge drinking.  This film is screening as part of PATHWAYS.
 

 

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