A special screening of The Butterfly Tattoo will take place Wednesday, 26 November at the Cornerhouse Cinema in Manchester as part of the Exposures Film Festival. The film begins at 8pm and the screening will include a question and answer session with the cast and crew. Seating is limited but you can call the box office at 0161 200 1500 to reserve your tickets.
Click here for the festival programme or visit the film’s official site for more details.
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Screenwriter Stephen Potts and Director Phil Hawkins picked up awards for Best Adaptation and Best Director respectively for their work on the independent film adaptation of Philip Pullman’s The Butterfly Tattoo at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. Congratulations!
See the rest of the winners here or visit the film’s official site to find out more.
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Andrew French of the Oxford Mail spoke to Golden Compass author Philip Pullman who indicated disappointment in hearing that the sequel had been put on hold but was not surprised: “The longer you leave it, the more difficult it becomes  Dakota Blue Richards, the young actress, is getting older, which makes a sequel less likely.” Actress Eva Green who portrayed the witch queen Serafina Pekkala said of the film’s prospects, “At the moment, it’s quite dead.” French cites IMDb reports that the “bleak outlook” for the film adaptation of the Subtle Knife were further worsened by the current global economic downturn. Read more.
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John Vidal of the Guardian reports: Plans to develop the 160 year old boatyard into luxury flats were rejected by Oxford city council because they were “sterile” and “uninspiring.” Author Philip Pullman, whose Gyptian characters docked at Jericho, was one of many conservation activists protesting the bid by the real estate developer by Spring Residential, calling the boatyard “part of a complex human ecology that sustains all kinds of life: economic life, artistic life, social life, environmental life, cultural life in the widest possible sense.” Pullman hopes that the site might instead be developed for social housing and local workshops. “The ideal situation now would be for a fairy godmother to appear with a pot of gold and make over the site to a trust.” Read more. Thanks to Kinders again for the tip.
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In conjunction with Banned Books Week in the US, which we reported on earlier this week, Philip Pullman has written an article in the Guardian’s culture section: “When I heard that my novel The Golden Compass … appeared in the top five of the American Library Association’s list of 2007’s most challenged books, my immediate and ignoble response was glee.” Although the film adaptation suffered in the American box office due in large part to the Catholic League’s boycott activities, Pullman’s book sales went a long way up. Read more. Thanks to Kinders for the tip.
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