How Does It Feel? - T1346851119Mark Kermode recounts his utterly foolhardy attempts to fulfil his dreams of becoming a pop star - from building an electric guitar from scratch while at school, to playing the tea chest bass on the kids TV show Utterly Brilliant, and becoming the musical director of a major TV show - all without ever learning to read music. This will be a hilarious evening in which the film critic recalls falling in love with Slade as a teenager, and recording an album at Sun Studio as an ageing old ted. Warning: there may be musical interludes. Or not. | |
| 13 Nov 18 | Everyman & Playhouse, Liverpool :: V535 listing details L1540640934 |
It's Only a Movie - T1672977121Scenes from a life lived through a lens. Followed by a screening of It's a Wonderful Life. What happens when you spend most of your childhood in a cinema? Does it mean movies become more real than ‘real life'? Film critic Mark Kermode talks about some real life scenes that he remembers with cinematic clarity: getting shot at while interviewing Werner Herzog in Hollywood, being handbagged by Helen Mirren at the BAFTAs and being thrown out of the Cannes Film Festival for heckling in very bad French. Outspoken, opinionated, and never lost for words, Kermode gives an hilarious account of a life obsessed with film. Followed by Mark introducing a screening of one of his favourite films - Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life starring James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore. | |
| 6 Jul 13 | Barbican Centre, West End :: V371 listing details L01819211556 |
| 19 Nov 10 | artsdepot, Outer London :: V320 listing details L02142067478 |
| 12 Nov 10 | Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry :: V156 listing details L01195828380 |
| 4 Nov 10 | Northern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V568 listing details L728231784 |
| 1 Mar 10 | Oxford Playhouse, Oxford :: V803 listing details L152960571 |
