Hiya,
This maybe of interest to London Crime Fans, last year
Lehane, Connolly and Pelacano's turned up. This year looks
Kindda fun..........
CRIME SCENE 2001
The annual festival of crime literature and film, Crime Scene
2001 returns to the National Film Theatre 12-15 July 2001
with a packed programme of discussions, special preview
screenings, personal appearances, signings, rare archive
television, and a book fair, adding up to an unmissable 4 day
event for fans of crime fiction.
The festival launches on Thursday 12 July with Steve Buscemi
taking part in The Guardian Interview following a special
preview screening of his latest film as director, Animal
Factory, a gripping prison drama scripted by Eddie Bunker,
with a stellar cast including Willem Dafoe, Seymour Cassell,
Edward Furlong, Tom Arnold, Mickey Rourke and Buscemi
himself.
Adrian Wootton, head of Crime Scene 2001 said,
"It is wonderful to have as our special guest of honour such
a prestigious American actor and director as Steven Buscemi
to launch our second Crime Scene festival with The Guardian
Interview and special preview of Animal Factory."
"Steve Buscemi is one of the leading lights of American
independent cinema of the last decade and has appeared in
some of the most inventive films in the crime and thriller
genre".
We are very pleased to welcome TCM - Turner Classic Movies -
as Main Sponsor of Crime Scene 2001.
TCM General Manager, Tina McCann said,
"Turner Classic Movies are delighted to be supporting Crime
Scene 2001. TCM features many of the all-time great crime
movies and we look forward to working together on the
festival"
Official Media Partners for Crime Scene 2001 are LBC 1152AM
and ITN News Direct 97.3FM.
More than 40 crime authors will be taking part in a wide
range of discussion events including UK writers such as Jake
Arnott, Iain Sinclair, Martina Cole, John Connolly, Lindsey
Davis and Mark Timlin. Also visiting from the US are Tami
Hoag and Steve Hamilton. All of the authors will also
participate in Vox 'n' roll, a continuous series of readings
from their own crime fiction during the afternoons of Sat 14
and Sun 15 July.
A panel of publishers will discuss what they are looking for
in crime fiction; a panel of crime fiction reviewers will
reveal their likes and dislikes; and a group of radio
scriptwriters will discuss the issues of adapting crime for
radio drama. More than 50 writers will be taking part in a
range of other discussion events. We wil have the London
premiere of a new play Drella and the McGuffin, written and
staged by film writer Michael Eaton. There will also be a
star-studded staging of a little known Agatha Christie radio
play, Butter in a Lordly Dish produced by Simon Brett.
This year's festival has a special focus on Agatha Christie,
the undisputed queen of British crime fiction, marking 25
years since her death.
Agatha Christie's grandson, Mathew Prichard who is also chair
of Agatha Christie Ltd will take part in an event discussing
the Christie legacy along with a number of distinguished
members of the crime-writing community including film-maker
Chris Petit, Russell James, Chairman of the Crime Writers'
Association, HRF Keating, President of the Detection Club and
other eminent specialists.
The early history of Agatha Christie and the cinema is
revealed in a selection of rarely screened works including
German silent Die Abenteurer GmbH (1928) (based on The Secret
Adversary), Alibi (1931) (based on The Murder of Sir Roger
Ackroyd), an early Poirot mystery starring Trevor Austin who
took up the role again in Lord Edgware Dies (1934), and
Spider's Web (1960) (based on an original Christie
play).
Exploring contemporary Christie adaptations there will be an
on-stage event with the Poirot production team behind ITV's
much-loved, long-running Poirot series plus a visit by two
members of the cast.
The film programme offers a range of great previews including
Before the Storm (2000) a high-powered Swedish drama in which
political assassination and personal loyalties collide,
Leak
(2000) is a Dutch action thriller following a rookie cop
implicated in a dangerous information leak, The Woman
Chaser
(1999) is a lurid 60s pulp given a film noir treatment and Ed
Gein (2001) is another take on the cinema's most popular
real-life killer.
An added bonus complimenting Crime Scene throughout the month
of July will be a season of rare classic crime films from the
glory years of film noir including The Blue Dahlia (1946) and
The Glass Key (1942), This Gun for Hire (1942) and Phantom
Lady (1944)
Booking dates for members by post from 10 June Telephone and
personal booking from 21 June website:
www.bfi.org.uk/crimescene
NFT Box Office tel:020 7928 3232 lines open daily 11.30am -
8.30pm Box Office window open Mon - Thu 5pm - 8.30pm &
Fri - Sun 11.30am - 8.30pm
Press contact: Brian Robinson or Ian Cuthbert NFT Press
Office tel:020 7815 1327 or 1330
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