Shipham Community Cinema....

I took a short trip up to Shipham Community Cinema last Friday evening. I like it there. They had Ken Loach come down a couple of years ago. He's a director at Bath City FC. The son of one the Cinema organisers was in the Bath youth team. And contact was made that way. Loach spoke, and did a  Q&A, for about an hour before they screened 'Looking For Eric'. Ken Loach worships footballers, and the opportunity to make a film with Eric Cantona was irresistible.

He spoke of learning his trade, directing plays, with the BBC. He also described how, during the Thatcher years in the 80's, he had huge difficulty in getting his work screened in the UK. At one point he had been so desperate he'd had to make a commercial for MacDonalds.

Anyway, Friday night was black comedy night. Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino. Small excerpt here, as some of the locals prepare to sort out the heroes............