Hitchcock and Cary Grant

Check out this amazing video that Col Needham (Founder and CEO of IMDb.com) has made for us to promote our screening of North by Northwest!

 

Col is a great supporter of the festival and one of Cary Grant’s biggest fans. Shot at IMDb.com headquarters in Bristol, the promo was scripted by Level 3 UWE Filmmaking student Mitchell Brown, based on Hitchcock’s original trailer in which he pretends to be a travel agent:

With Dylan Evans on Camera and Grading, Producer Saoirse Mahon, Editor Holly Bond, Marina Aparicio Arribas and music by UWE Centre of Music. The video is playing on The We The Curious Big Screen in Millennium Square.

This not to be missed screening of North by Northwest takes place in The Planetarium on Saturday 24 November and includes a brief video introduction by Col, followed by a introduction to the fabulous Bernard Herrmann score by Matthew Sweet.

This event had sold out but we’ve just released the last remaining tickets so snap them up now!

This is part of our wider Hitchcock and Cary Grant theme this year, showing all 4 of their collaborations, including Suspicion with expert panel discussion at Watershed, Notorious with an intro by the amazing Paul McGann at Everyman and culminating with a glamorous gala screening of To Catch A Thief with prizes for the best dressed vintage / Hollywood style.

Check out our Full Programme and book early to avoid disappointment!

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

BECOMING CARY GRANT
AT UWE GLENSIDE CAMPUS
WITH DIRECTOR Q&A
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
AT THE PLANETARIUM
INTRO BY MATTHEW SWEET
TO CATCH A THIEF
GALA SCREENING
AT TRINITY CENTRE 

 

 

Hollywood glamour, Bristol style

We are delighted to share this wonderful video filmed by UWE Student volunteer Hattie Williams – it really captures the glamour of our gala event at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, where we screened the screwball classic Bringing Up Baby starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant – this was “event cinema” with bubbly on arrival, live vintage music, cocktails and canapes, plus Hollywood glamour – Bristol style.

Cary Comes Home Festival Gala 2016 from carycomeshome on Vimeo.

Gala Competition

We’ve got a pair of tickets for our gala screening of Bringing Up Baby available to the first person to answer the following question:

Q: Bringing up Baby was the first film Cary Grant made with Howard Hawks. What were the other four films they made together?
  • Email your answer to info@carycomeshome.co.uk with “Gala Competition” in the subject line.
  • Like our Facebook page and/or Follow us on Twitter
  • Share the image below on with the following URL: www.carycomeshome.co.uk/events/gala inviting people to book tickets.

Don’t miss this once in a lifetime chance to watch Cary Grant play a palaeontologist beneath the dinosaur exhibit. We hope this doesn’t happen!:

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Vintage Cocktails and Canapes

If you are coming to our gala screening of Bringing Up Baby on Sunday 17 July we’d be really grateful if you could book by early so we can get a good idea of how many canapes to order!


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The museum catering team have been working hard on designing bespoke vintage canapes especially for the festival and have even recreated one of Cary Grant’s own recipes:


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There will also be a paid bar featuring Cocktails inspired by Cary Grant’s movies, including:

The Cary Grant
Vodka – Tia Maria – Lime

Dry Martini
(as seen in Bringing Up Baby, 1938)
Gin – Vermouth – Green Olive

The Gibson
(as seen in North by Northwest, 1959)
Gin – Vermouth – Pearl Onion

The Highball
(as seen in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, 1947)
Whiskey – Ginger Ale – Slice of Lemon


Bringing Up Baby, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, doors 19:00; film 20:00.

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Tickets cost £25 / £20 concessions (plus £1.50 transaction fee) and the price includes bubbly on arrival, a selection of vintage canapes, live entertainment, including a-cappella singers and the South by Southwest Swing Ensemble, featuring Martyn Harris and players from the Dave Salt Big Band. Red carpet attire is encouraged and there will be prizes for the best dressed.


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Happy 4th of July!

Great photo of Cary Grant receiving his US citizenship in 1942. But did you know that he always had a soft spot for his hometown Bristol and returned every year?

Make the pilgrimage to our festival celebrating Cary Grant’s Bristol roots, kicking off this Friday 8 July with a curtain raising screening of Hitchcock’s Notorious. Watch the famous wine cellar scene in an actual wine cellar – at Averys Wine Cellars in partnership with Bristol Film Festival’s “Vintage” Screenings series. Their last drink-along screening sold out twice-over, so book your tickets early to avoid disappointment!

Tickets cost £25 including bubbly on arrival, bread and cheese and four wines from Latin America and Germany inspired by the film.

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Full festival programme available here.

Bringing Up Baby

PrintWe’ve had a beautiful poster designed for us by local artist Sam Bessant of @CultFilmPosters – we love the subtle Art Deco background and the 1930s typeface. A huge thank you to Sam and hope you all love it as much as we do.

Tickets are now on sale for our red carpet gala screening of Bringing Up Baby at Bristol Museum on Sunday 17 July, doors 1900; film 2000. Tickets £25 / £20 concessions (plus £1.50 transaction fee).

We are also challenging you to make a micro movie – up to 90 seconds long – inspired by Howard Hawk’s screwball classic by 3 July. For full details of the rules, prize and jury visit our Film Challenge page.

Please help spread the word by sharing on your social media. Tweet us @carycomeshome and find us on Facebook.com/carycomehome.

Exciting Announcements!

We are delighted to announce that the date of the next Cary Grant Comes Home For The Weekend Festival will be the weekend of 16-17 July. The gala has been confirmed: Sunday 17 July. We are so looking forward to welcoming him home again. Please spread the word!

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The full programme will be announced in the new year, but for now – save the date and start planning your red carpet outfit! Read more…

We are also really excited to be teaming up with Slapstick Festival for a screening of classic Screwball comedy, The Awful Truth. Read more…

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So if you are searching for a very special Christmas present for the film-lover in your life, then look no further!

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Recreating the Golden Age of Cinemagoing

To give you a flavour of last year’s gala, take a look at this lovely video made by UWE BA (Hons) Filmmaking students who volunteered at the festival. It gives a real sense of the atmosphere: recreating the golden age of cinemagoing; with the Hippodrome staff in vintage ushers uniforms and everybody dressed to the nines. There’s a cameo from Festival Producers, Charlotte Crofts and Anna Farthing on the red carpet and one of the festival goers – the lady in the red coat towards the end – had even met Cary Grant as a young woman.

Showcasing Bristol Talent

A short film documenting the Cary Grant Comes Home For The Weekend Festival 2014 gala screenings at the Bristol Hippodrome, which included a song raid by the Bristol Hippodrome Choir as part of the Bristol Festival of Song and a performance reenacting the life of Archie Leach by The Big Act, plus red carpet entrance and prizes for the best dressed.

This video was made by UWE Level 3 BA (Hons) Media and Journalism students from Taylor’s University, Malaysia participating in work experience at the Cary Grant Comes Home For The Weekend Festival.

We want to extend a huge thank you to all the UWE student volunteers who helped document the festival, Martin Williams and all at The Big Act and Victoria Bourne and all at the Bristol Hippodrome choir for helping us showcase Bristol talent.