![]() ![]() Y Not? festival 28 to 30 July, Pikehall, Derbyshire Started in 2005 with just 120 people, this east Midlands festival has grown both in status and size over the years. Prog-metallers Sleep Token, fronted by the mysterious Vessel, headline on Friday, while synthwave heavyweight Perturbator and Welsh post-hardcore band Dream State are among the other highlights. Radar 28 to 30 July, O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester The award-winning festival championing experimental rock returns with another stacked lineup of professional noise merchants. My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock Out now The talented and prolific film-maker Mark Cousins enlists the services of the impressionist Alistair McGowan to create a voiceover from none other than “Alfred Hitchcock” for this playful film that imagines the iconic director rewatching his own films and thinking about how they stand up today. This time, it’s the turn of nuclear war and the father of the atom bomb, J Robert Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer Out now In an era of so much “content” designed mainly to sell merch, it’s fun to see Christopher Nolan given pots of money to make expensive films about dreams, time and space (Inception, Tenet, Interstellar). Featuring talks, Q&As and screenings of cinematic landmarks including Meshes of the Afternoon, M*A*S*H and Eve’s Bayou. Margot Robbie stars in the role she was born to play, while Ryan Gosling as Ken deliciously reminds us that before he was an Oscar-nominated actor he did a stint as a Disney Mouseketeer.Ĭinema Rediscovered 26 to 30 July, various venues, Bristol Bristol’s premier arthouse cinema, the Watershed, is once more flinging its doors (and many others) wide open for an accessible and thoughtfully curated banquet of classic cinema for fans new and old. We wish everyone the best of luck and look forward to announcing the winner later this year.Barbie Out now She’s a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world, as visualised by Greta Gerwig, the film-maker behind 2019’s zesty reimagining of Little Women. The selected winner will be announced in September and awarded a £5,000 cash bursary and continue to develop their drama script to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4. These shortlisted writers will now undertake a development process with mentorship from a BBC Audio Drama North Producer ready for the final judging process this Autumn. In this blackly comic coming-of-age drama, Kelsey manages to completely botch her suicide, start planning her mum’s funeral and find an unlikely guardian angel, all in the space of a week.ĭisillusioned with his life, sacked from his job, and drowning in family debt, a young man with seemingly nothing to lose decides to steal himself a better life, by helping his cousin rob the houses of wealthy footballers. It asks the question: when your world is falling apart, what lengths would you go to in order to protect your family, but also yourself?Īs her mum’s cancer quickly advances, a hapless young call centre worker faces grown-up life all on her own. Mouth is the story of two mothers who lie to protect themselves from loss. But when a friend convinces him to post an advert online he has to test that theory. The four writers and their shortlisted plays are:įinn believes that his life sucks because he never had a dad (or any positive male role models). ![]()
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