Disablity Film Festival Day, Nationwide
Marking the Un's International Day Of Persons With Disabilities, this day event brings vibrancy, weirdness and a touch of glamour to more than 20 UK cinemas. There are four components: short films from the leading Oska Bright learning disability film-makers' festival; Film Council-funded disability-related shorts; 1986 BBC movie Raspberry Ripple, starring John Gordon Sinclair as a wheelchair user with a gangster movie fantasy life (enriched by a Faye Dunaway cameo), and last and least politically correct, an archive trawl through dated attitudes to disability including a 1920s fundraiser for "the cripples of Leicester" and a 1970s interview with the world's smallest woman.
Nationwide, Fri
Twin Peaks Festival, London
You could say that modern cult TV was born the day that Laura Palmer died, and despite 20 years of X-Files and Losts, it seems that David Lynch and Mark Frost's surrealistic small town full of secrets is still...
Marking the Un's International Day Of Persons With Disabilities, this day event brings vibrancy, weirdness and a touch of glamour to more than 20 UK cinemas. There are four components: short films from the leading Oska Bright learning disability film-makers' festival; Film Council-funded disability-related shorts; 1986 BBC movie Raspberry Ripple, starring John Gordon Sinclair as a wheelchair user with a gangster movie fantasy life (enriched by a Faye Dunaway cameo), and last and least politically correct, an archive trawl through dated attitudes to disability including a 1920s fundraiser for "the cripples of Leicester" and a 1970s interview with the world's smallest woman.
Nationwide, Fri
Twin Peaks Festival, London
You could say that modern cult TV was born the day that Laura Palmer died, and despite 20 years of X-Files and Losts, it seems that David Lynch and Mark Frost's surrealistic small town full of secrets is still...
- 11/27/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
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