Press Room

A SUCCESSFUL FILM FESTIVAL
From Keswick Reminder 21st February 2001

The Keswick Film Club organisers were very pleased with the response of
both local people and visitors to the Second Keswick Film Festival. More tickets
were sold than last year, and significant numbers of people were present not only
from Cumbria, but also from much further afield. Tributes such as ‘the best
Festival of its type I have ever attended’ were not uncommon, notably from Tim
Young, university film lecturer and film programmer at The Dukes, Lancaster.
A good number of weekend pass-holders saw many of the 17 feature films
on offer as well as the short film programme, and they delivered positive
feedback about the wide range of films being screened. The themes of both
‘Literature through the Lens’ at the Theatre and the ‘Coen Brothers
Retrospective’ at the Alhambra proved very popular, and the talks by film
studies experts were well-attended by keen film-goers who enjoyed the chance to
listen to knowledgeable speakers and put their own questions.

This educational side to the Festival is felt by the Film Club to be an
important part of its function, and plans to expand it are already being laid for
next year. Indeed, next year is now much in the organisers’ minds: with the
encouragement of coming successfully through a second festival, always a more
difficult proposition when the novelty has worn off, the intention is to offer an
even better event in 2002.

Meanwhile, the rest of the Film Club’s series of Sunday screenings goes
on until Easter, with some highly -acclaimed, award-winning films in prospect.

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