Can’t bear to drag yourself away from the box? Not even for some of the world’s most inspirational artists, musicians and writers? Well the Harrogate International Festival is offering all of you square eyes something really special – a giant movie screen at the bottom of Montpellier Hill.
It’s a chance to watch some absolute classic films open-air style with a programme destined to put a warm fuzzy glow onto your summer. Films in the pipeline include the DreamWorks animation, How to Train Your Dragon and instant classic, the Oscar-winning Up, which sees pensioner Carl Fredricksen tie thousands of balloons to his home to fulfil a lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Forget the kids; this film will cause some serious damage to your tear ducts. Don’t leave your tissues at home for this literally uplifting movie destined to leave you laughing and crying at the same time.
What do you get when you cross ‘swell’ and ‘elegant’? High Society, starring the iconic Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelley, Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong brings some swellegant partying to proceedings with the sensational songs
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? True Love and Well did you Ever? With dialogue that zips, clothes that drip chic and songs that wedge themselves firmly into your hearts, this is a classic you won’t want to miss.
Other films include Ocean’s 11 and Dirty Dancing (‘nobody puts Baby in the corner’), and tying into the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival celebrating 120 years of Agatha Christie*, there’s a chance to catch a ride full of murderous twists and turns courtesy of Murder on the Orient Express and ITV shows Poirot, Marple and the Murdoch Mysteries from TV channel, Alibi.
In addition, the Festival plan to show student shorts from the Northern Film School and the work of other local young filmmakers.
(Please note times may vary by a few minutes). The schedule is:
Friday 16th July
1100 – 1200 Student Shorts
1200 – 1245 Episode 1, Murdoch Mysteries
1245 – 1330 Episode 2, Murdoch Mysteries
1300 – 1415 Episode 3, Murdoch Mysteries
1415 – 1548 Poirot: Five Little Pigs
1548 – 1731 Marple: Pocket Full of Rye
1731 – 1910 Poirot: Death on the Nile
1910 – 2106 Ocean’s 11
Saturday 17th July
1100 – 1200 Student Shorts
1200 – 1245 Episode 4, Murdoch Mysteries
1245 – 1330 Episode 5, Murdoch Mysteries
1300 – 1415 Episode 6, Murdoch Mysteries
1415 – 1555 How to Train Your Dragon
1555 – 1740 High Society
1740 – 1915 Marple: The Body in the Library
1915 – 2100 Dirty Dancing
Sunday 18th July
1100 – 1200 Student Shorts
1200 – 1245 Episode 7, Murdoch Mysteries
1245 – 1330 Episode 8, Murdoch Mysteries
1330 – 1506 Up
1506 – 1640 Marple: The Body In The Library
1640 – 1813 Poirot: Five Little Pigs
1815 – 2022 Murder On The Orient Express
* More Tea Vicar? Celebrating 120 years of Agatha Christie features Christie’s grandson, Mathew Prichard, biographer Laura Thomson and crime author Andrew Taylor at the Crown Hotel on Friday 23 July, 5pm (tickets available at http://www.harrogate-festival.org.uk/crime or Ticket Hotline: 0845 130 8840.
