{"id":5374,"date":"2017-05-04T18:26:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T18:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5374"},"modified":"2017-05-04T18:26:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T18:26:13","slug":"local-film-festival-to-screen-rare-movie-masterpieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5374","title":{"rendered":"Local film festival to screen rare movie masterpieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hauser &amp; Wirth \u00a0at Bruton are staging their Somerset \u201cSound of Silent\u201d festival, to celebrate 100 years of music and movies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The festival kicks off next Friday 12 May\u00a0at 6.30 pm with a screening of Eisenstein\u2019s \u00a0masterpiece \u00a0\u201cBattleship Potemkin\u201d on a big screen with a live accompaniment of original music. This a rare chance to see this very famous Russian film from the Soviet era.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hauserwirthsomerset.com\/events\/thesoundofsilent\">https:\/\/www.hauserwirthsomerset.com\/events\/thesoundofsilent<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Horsington resident <strong>Penny Nagle\u2019s<\/strong> new company <strong>Where West Begins<\/strong> is behind the other screenings in the festival, which runs from the 12- 14 May. \u00a0As you can see, many of these screening are particularly suited to young people, particularly those who want to learn about how films are made.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wherewestbegins.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/WWB-singin-in-the-rain-tcm-24-4-10-kc.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"395\" \/>\u201c<\/strong><strong>Singin\u2019 in the Rain<\/strong>\u201d &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Sunday 14 May at 11am &#8211; &#8220;<\/strong><em>the greatest musical of all time<\/em><strong>\u201d +\u00a0Professor Millie Taylor\u00a0<\/strong>talking why it\u2019s so great. Millie Taylor is Professor of Musical Theatre at Winchester University and author of several books on the subject including \u201cMusical Theatre, Realism and Entertainment\u201d.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wherewestbegins.org.uk\/event\/singin-in-the-rain-prof-millie-taylor-hauser-wirth-somerset-may-13\/\">http:\/\/wherewestbegins.org.uk\/event\/singin-in-the-rain-prof-millie-taylor-hauser-wirth-somerset-may-13\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/wherewestbegins.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/WWB-Circus--600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" \/>Charlie Chaplin\u2019s \u201cThe Circus<\/strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0with\u00a0<strong>circus skills workshop from Frome\u2019s Circus AllStars \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Saturday 13 May at 2pm.<\/strong>\u00a0 Everyone gets very excited about juggling feathers and then collapses laughing in a heap in front of a 90 year old black and white movie. \u00a0It\u2019s an amazing thing to see. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wherewestbegins.org.uk\/event\/charlie-chaplin-circus-1928-u-circus-stars-circus-skills-workshop-hauser-wirth-somerset\/\">http:\/\/wherewestbegins.org.uk\/event\/charlie-chaplin-circus-1928-u-circus-stars-circus-skills-workshop-hauser-wirth-somerset\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft \" src=\"http:\/\/wherewestbegins.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/bugsymaloneposterweb-small-300x300.jpg\" width=\"227\" height=\"227\" \/>Bruton\u2019s Youth Cinema Foundation\u2019<\/strong>s workshop with\u00a0<strong>Yeovil\u2019s Castaways Theatre Group<\/strong>\u00a0on making film followed by a screening of \u201c<strong>Bugsy Malone<\/strong><strong>\u201d Sunday 14 May at 2.30pm<\/strong>. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wherewestbegins.org.uk\/event\/bugsy-malone-hauser-wirth-somerset-may-14-castaways-theatre-group-youth-cinema-foundation\/\">http:\/\/wherewestbegins.org.uk\/event\/bugsy-malone-hauser-wirth-somerset-may-14-castaways-theatre-group-youth-cinema-foundation\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where West Begins also stages films at Wincanton Town Hall and the newly refurbished Westlands Centre, Yeovil. Full details on their <a href=\"http:\/\/wherewestbegins.org.uk\">very comprehensive website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hauser &amp; Wirth \u00a0at Bruton are staging their Somerset \u201cSound of Silent\u201d festival, to celebrate 100 years of music and movies. The festival kicks off next Friday 12 May\u00a0at 6.30 pm with a screening of Eisenstein\u2019s \u00a0masterpiece \u00a0\u201cBattleship Potemkin\u201d on a big screen with a live accompaniment of original music. This a rare chance to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5374\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Local film festival to screen rare movie masterpieces&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-1oG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5375,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374\/revisions\/5375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}