It has only been a week since I first posted about this event but it is worth a classic KM UK ‘quick reminder’, where ‘quick’ means the usual long ramble.
The short film The Coin starring Kathryn and Christopher Lloyd (Back To The Future) will be making a screening appearance at the Portobello Film Festival in London on Saturday (6th Sept). It will be one of nearly 30 films shown under the banner ‘French Films’. The collection is an eclectic mix ranging from 5 minutes to nearly 1.5 hours, and from the U (universal, i.e. suitable for all ages) to 18 certificates.
Based on my own guestimate and a Tweet by director/writer/producer Fabien Martorell’s the other day, The Coin could be shown at around 3pm. I’m not sure if Fabien is basing his figure on something he’s been told, worked it out like me, or read it here.
A key element of the Portobello Film Festival that I managed to not really mention previously was the fact that it is free. Free as in no charge, no tickets. Age restrictions do apply of course, and no doubt all venues have capacity limits as well.
The 2014 Portobello Film Festival started last week and continues on until Sunday the 14th of September. Events are held in venues around Portobello Road in the W11 area of west London. Check the official website for more details.
If you will be attending The Coin screening please come back and let us know what you thought. Friends of the site Tianna and Diane both wrote reports for KM UK of their experiences at local film festivals. See them here and here respectively.
Start Up, episode 7 of Cold Case‘s 3rd season, won at a canter in last week’s poll so that gets the honour of being next week’s featured posted. Lucky you.
What is up for the vote in this, the KM UK Summer Of HD week 20 poll? Superstar and The River, that’s what. You know what to do.
A body turns up in the exam room of Frannie (Philly PD’s answer to Dr Maura Isles, played by Susan Chuang). When the dead woman’s son comes to claim the body he denies it is his mother. Now we have case of identity theft, a mystery dead body, and a cold case from 1954.
Back then the woman, Bettie Petrowski, was suffering from bipolar disorder and was committed (see what they did there?) to a mental institution as she was considered a danger to herself and others, including her young son.
In the end we get a tragic tale and a damning indictment of the way mental health problems were treated not that long ago. It would be nice to say we’ve moved on since then…
This episode of Cold Case had quite a guest cast list with Natasha Gregson Wagner (Two Girls and a Guy) and Diane Ladd (Chinatown) both starring. Also, not only did Susan Chuang make one of her occasional appearances but so did Kevin McCorkle as Det Gil Sherman. In fact we saw both Gil and Josie Sutton (Sarah Brown) for the final time in this one.
KM UK’s Summer Of HD 2014 commits (see what I did there?) to giving you 120 HD (720p) Lilly screencaps now to be found in the Gallery.
It being mid-summer this will be a relatively quiet one but we’ll see what we can do for our latest Cold Case Cast Catch-up (aka CCCC-up) for August 2014. Each month I try to give brief updates on the careers of the members of the Cold Case cast that aren’t Kathryn.
After twicepreviously mentioning that Mr Thom Barry (see above, Will Jeffries on CC) had taken on a recurring role on the TNT drama series Perception I was assuming that this post would be the one to confirm it. However, the show finished its summer run last week, and is now on hiatus, with no sign of the a new FBI field office boss played by Thom. Presumably he will be appearing in the set of five episodes that close out the show’s third season due for broadcast from February 2015. Speaking of Thom, it looks like he has been signed to play the father of R&B star Aaliyah in a Lifetime network TV movie about her life. I gather that the project has been in the works for sometime and has had a few issues with casting and the family of the singer. With Alexandra Shipp (House of Anubis) taking the over lead role and talkshow host Wendy Williams exec producing, Aaliyah: Princess of R&B is due to première in the autumn. That is assuming it does not hit further problems.
It wouldn’t be a CCCC-up without mentioning Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on CC). She’s is a one entertainment industry. The couple of weeks Tracie has been Tweeting extensively about the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. In amongst those messages she mentioned being on set, though didn’t reveal any more than that. For those in the US and with access to the Showtime network you can, apparently, see the woman-on-woman fight to the death movie Raze on there until mid-September. Check EPG for details. This weekend Tracie is due to have her final outing in the For The Record: Tarantino show, which features dramatised performances of songs used in films by writer/director Quentin Tarantino.
This one’s for the Brits and apologies for the comparatively short notice.
Last week director/writer/producer Fabien Martorell let it be known that his short film The Coin had been added as an official selection in the Portobello Film Festival. Not surprisingly the event is based around London’s famous Portobello Road, in the even more famous Notting Hill area of the UK capital.
The Hugh Grant/Julia Roberts rom-com Notting Hill was partly filmed there and gave a taste of second-hand clothes, books and antiques market stalls and shops that Portobello Road is best known for.
Fabien was, not surprisingly, keen to tell the world but, for what ever reason, the official website for the festival was more reluctant. It was only last night that The Coin was added to updated lists of the various film programmes that will be on offer when the event opens later today (7pm, 28th Aug). Note that the official programme (a downloadable PDF on the site) does not include The Coin, probably due to its late inclusion.
The short film starring Kathryn and Christopher Lloyd (Taxi) gets a screening on the 6th September at the Westbourne Studios (242 Acklam Road, W10 5JJ) in an 11 hour film programme starting at 12 noon under the title “French Films”. Obviously The Coin‘s connection to France is Fabien himself. If, and it is a big if, the mixed bag of short and long films were to be played in the order shown and the timings are correct then The Coin would make an appearance at around 3pm.
The Portobello Film Festival runs until the 14th of September. More details can be found on the website here.
Any of you Londoners, or those in London, in the area the weekend after next? If so, we love to hear about your experience.
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It has only been a week since I first posted about this event but it is worth a classic KM UK ‘quick reminder’, where ‘quick’ means the usual long ramble.
The 2014 Portobello Film Festival started last week and continues on until Sunday the 14th of September. Events are held in venues around Portobello Road in the W11 area of west London. Check the official website for more details.
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It being mid-summer this will be a relatively quiet one but we’ll see what we can do for our latest Cold Case Cast Catch-up (aka CCCC-up) for August 2014. Each month I try to give brief updates on the careers of the members of the Cold Case cast that aren’t Kathryn.
The Hugh Grant/Julia Roberts rom-com Notting Hill was partly filmed there and gave a taste of second-hand clothes, books and antiques market stalls and shops that Portobello Road is best known for.
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