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Summer outdoor film screenings announced
The rest of the country has plenty of outdoor film screenings this summer. But despite the extravagant promises of organisations that seem to exist only on Facebook, nothing has been confirmed in Bristol apart from July’s Floating Cinema. Until now. We can reveal that Rob Reiner’s 1987 comic fantasy classic The Princess Bride will be shown in the appropriate surroundings of Blaise Castle Estate on Saturday, August 29. Tickets are pegged at a very reasonable £10 for adults and £5 for children under 10 and are available here.
What’s more, the Two Wheeled Drive In movie theatre for bikes returns for two nautically-themed events deep in Leigh Woods among the boats of Luke Jerram’s Withdrawn art project. On Friday July 3, you can see Wes Anderson’s comedy The Life Aquatic. On Saturday July 4, they’re showing Spielberg’s classic Jaws. Tickets are £10 for each event and are available here.
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The Princess Bride is the first venture for Bristol Sunset Cinema, which is the brainchild of Bristol Bad Film Club‘s Ti Singh. If it’s a success, he promises more outdoor screenings of classic films in future.
“With Bristol being such a film-loving city, I thought it was about time someone put on regular outdoor screenings throughout the year,” Ti tells us. “While there are several companies in the south-west that put on occasional screenings, the hope is that, if there is the demand, we can put on three to five screenings each summer.
“The Princess Bride is the perfect choice for our first screening,” he adds. “It’s funny, touching, full of adventure and stars Billy Crystal. It has it all. Besides, Bristol City Council said no to Con Air.”
The event is being organised in association with outdoor screening experts FilmAir, who use only cinema-quality projectors, screens and sound systems.
Wearing his other hat as purveyor of pleasure to appreciative connoisseurs of cinematic crud, Ti has also set up a Bristol Bad Film Club outdoor screening of the 1968 Ray Harryhausen stop-motion curio, The Valley of Gwangi. Heavily indebted to King Kong, this is the tale of the boss of a turn-of-the-century Wild West show who visits Mexico’s Forbidden Valley (hey – there’s a clue in the name, fella), where he bags a giant, belligerent toothy dinosaur for exhibition. Guess what happens next. This one will be shown in Bedminster’s Victoria Park on Saturday, August 8. Tickets are £5 each and are available here.
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