Orpington Video and Film Makers
Amateur Film Makers since 1958 Based in Orpington, Kent, UK
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Greetings once again and this week’s meeting is round three of the annual Top Ten competition. So far it is fair to say that the competition has got off to a bit of a slow start with just seven films submitted out of a potential twenty over the two previous rounds. Will this week …
Kent Film Festival 2011 Wearing my Kent Film Festival Chairman’s hat, I would like to applaud members of OVFM for their support of the Kent Film Festival as this year your 20 entries represent a staggering 40% of the total number received. All of you deserve a trophy but I have no influence over …
CHARLIE CASELEY To be confined to ten films does make you go over all the movies you have seen over the last seventy odd years, still here goes in order. 10. On The Waterfront (Dir. Elia Kazan 1954) When I was young I lived close to London’s docklands and watched the docks go …
ANNABELLE LANCASTER REPORTING: From time to time we’re asked to send a showreel to another club, like the one we saw from Newcastle recently. With the sad loss of Tom, our Librarian, and the setting up of the archive, we haven’t had one available for the past few months so Freddy has been …
ALAN SMITH In no particular order: 1. Things To Come (Dir. William Cameron Menzies 1936) As a youngster I almost believed it. 2. It’s A Wonderful Life (Dir. Frank Capra 1946) A feel good film to end them all. 3. Great Expectations (Dir. David Lean 1946) Dickens as he should …
COLIN JONES In no particular order: 1. The Summer of 42 (Dir. Robert Mulligan 1971) With most films the effect it has upon you depends partly upon your state of mind at the time. I found it profoundly moving as well as amusing as it captured the struggle of boys in early adolescence …
FREDDY BEARD I have listed 5 films on the basis that if they come back on TV I try to see them although I know the stories backwards. Many on the list I also would have listed – like ET. You will notice that I don’t go to cinemas much now!! In no …
MIKE TURNER I was born into a film fanatical family and we went to the cinema at least once a week, sometimes twice and occasionally three times. One of my happiest memories was joining the queue for the 1/6d seats at the Odeon Morden, Granada North Cheam or the Gaumont Rose Hill. My choice of …
CHERIE HAMLET-SMITH Presented in chronological order and not in order of preference: 1. All Quiet On The Western Front (Dir. Lewis Milestone 1930) WW1 drama. An award-winning film portraying the tragedy of warfare during the ‘War to End All Wars’. 2. This Happy Breed (Dir. David Lean 1944) From one of Noel …
YOU BE THE JUDGE!! What Ho fellow OVFMers. This week’s club meeting will see club members play judge, jury and executioner. Well, maybe no the last one but definitely the first two as we are to step into the shoes of the judges of the British International Amateur Film Festival (BIAFF) as organised by the …