It is April and that means only one thing in the filmgoer’s diary… From Page to Screen 2026. Curated by Bridport’s very own screen wizard Chris Chibnall! He has chosen some truly great films such as the amazing 2001 A Space Odessey that has to be seen on a big screen. Here is a selection from the festival.
Bridport Arts Centre
Touch of Evil (1958) – 22nd April @ 10.45 am. ‘Touch of Evil proceeds with one of the most celebrated long-takes in screen history. The sequence is a marvel of technical virtuosity and staged action. From the very start, Orson Welles’s grubby and sweaty noir classic has us in its grip with a gloriously devised piece of showmanship emblematic of the director’s audaciously talented spirit.’ Cine Vue.
Tell No One – 22nd April @ 2.15 pm. ‘Thrillers aren’t ways so thrilling, but Tell No One is.’ Wall Street Journal. Joe Morgenstern
Rashomon (1950) – 23rd April @ 10.45am. ‘Kurosawa is always worth a look, but this is a particular classic that has influenced so much to come, it’s almost essential.’ Empire Kim Newman
His Girl Friday (1940) – 24th April @ 10.45 am. ‘Quite simply a masterpiece.’ Time Out. Geoff Andrew
Black Orpheus (1959) – 26th April @ 5pm. ‘A film that art-house audiences in 1959 loved madly. And who can blame them? A buoyant, searingly colorful retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth set in Rio de Janiero, writer-director’s Marcel Camus’ movie is a romance heightened by its backdrop.’ Chicago Tribune. Michael Wilmington
The General (1926) – 26th April @ 8pm. ‘Made barely three decades after the invention of film itself, Buster Keaton’s timeless 1926 silent The General is the perfect chase movie: it has never been bettered, and maybe never will.’ Time Out.
