Hitchcock and Cary Grant

Posted on 12 November, 201812 November, 2018 By Cary Comes Home

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

Becoming Cary Grant English Premiere

Posted on 2 June, 2017 By Cary Comes Home

We are excited to announce that Becoming Cary Grant, a new documentary, directed by local Bristol-based director Mark Kidel, which has just premiered at Cannes International Film Festival is coming to Bristol. Watershed are now screening the English Premiere as part of their Cinema Rediscovered season, in partership with the Cary Grant Festival on Sunday 30 July at 17.50, with an introduction and Q&A with director Mark Kidel. We were lucky enough to welcome Mark to the 2016 Cary Grant Festival where we were given a sneak peak of work in progress and an exclusive Q&A with the director. READ MORE>>>>

Happy 4th of July!

Posted on 4 July, 2016 By Cary Comes Home

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.

Full festival programme available here.

Full Programme Announced

Posted on 15 June, 201615 June, 2016 By Cary Comes Home

We are delighted to announce our full programme is now on sale – we’ve got something for everyone, from the romantic tear-jerker An Affair To Remember to the action adventure Only Angels Have Wings at the newly refurbished Everyman Cinema, to inspiring talks at the Watershed., including one on Cary Grant’s kiss and a sneak preview of work in progress from a new documentary biography on Cary Grant.

Bristol-born actor Cary Grant - real name Archie Leach. (Died 30/11/1986, aged 82). — Cary Grant on the deck of the SS Great Britain shortly after it returned to Bristol in the 1970s

This year the festival runs in partnership with the Bristol Harbour Festival as we celebrate how Bristol’s maritime history and the golden age of Transatlantic travel helped shape Archie Leach’s incredible journey from Bristol boy to “the man from Dream City”.

Come and join is in Millennium Square next to the Cary Grant statue where you can snap Cary Grant selfies, book tickets and buy our official merchandising to help make the festival sustainable for the future.

For full details visit our Events page.