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Published: 19 February 2009

Pick of the Indies

WORD reaches me that the documentary made by the BBC’s Storyville series about the New Journal’s late columnist Rose Hacker will be screened at the Birds Eye View Festival.
The festival, which features work by female directors, runs through March. Called The Time Of Their Lives, the film follows the life and times of Rose and her friends Hetty and Alison. They were the oldest residents of the Mary Feilding Guild, a home for the “active elderly” in Highgate. Director Jocelyn Cammack began to visit two years ago, and quickly decided that she wanted to capture its special quality on film.
“Once you’ve had your first ‘centenarian experience’, there’s no going back,” she said. “The people I met have so much to tell us about what it is to be alive in the world today.”
Although a sneak preview for friends was shown last week at the Phoenix in East Finchley, the premiere will be at the ICA on March 8.
Meanwhile, may I just say a big thank you to the marvellous people behind central London’s best value cinema?
The Prince Charles, the recently refurbished arthouse venue just off Leicester Square, is without doubt one of my favourite places to watch a film.
Tickets to go and see their eclectic programmes are the cheapest in town.
For weekday matinées, it’s just £1.50. And the price rises to a colossal fiver for weekend screenings!
With other cinemas which shall remain nameless charging more than double that for the latest anodyne Hollywood releases, I know where I’m heading.

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