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After an amazing start to the day I'm brought crashing down to earth when Sacre bleu! The ticketing system has crashed!
In an attempt to become a minor internet celebrity, I am introducing something new and fabulous this week... the @ICOtweets official Must-see-No-brainer award! Look out for the #MSNB tag to find out which event is just so good it takes no brains to know you have to go and see it.
Heading into the final stretch of the festival, one of the films that sticks out for me is.....
Simon greets me when I get to Cannes with keys to our apartment and a shiny ticket in hand for the competition gala screening of Borgman later on, what a way to arrive!
An inauspicious start for me to Cannes this year. My flight is delayed for two hours meaning I am too late for any films on Thursday evening... Even worse BA have lost my luggage... Yikes!
Arriving into Cannes mid-afternoon on Friday 17th May, I was invited to dinner with our very own Simon Ward and Ed Fletcher of Soda Pictures. A relaxed and comfortable re-introduction to the madness that is Festival de Cannes, I thought.
Cinema programming is a mix of taste, audience engagement and often detective work. In a new series, Anatomy of a Programme, we ask programmers to share their experience of research - the nitty gritty, pleasures and pain of getting films to audiences.
There's a little bit of everything in this news round-up, including time travel.
Kristina Johansen, of Dundee Contemporary Arts was one of the participants of the ICO Creative Digital Marketing course, which ran over a six month period, encouraging participants to experiment and pilot new approaches in their venues or film festivals. Here she talks through her experience of the course and shares what was learnt from her campaign.
To celebrate the restorations of two Dr Who feature films, now available for booking on DCP, we invited groovy Who-vian Kevin Harley (The Independent, Total Film) to tell us what he digs about The Doctor.
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