Dan Carrier’s movies news: Special screening of What’s Up, Doc?; Trafalgar Square cinema; The Shepherd

Saturday, 3rd June 2017 — By Dan Carrier

Whats Up Doc?

Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal in What’s Up, Doc?

THE Tufnell Park Film Club is screening Peter Bogdanovich’s 1972 comedy What’s Up, Doc? The club, based at the The Star pub in Chester Road, Highgate Newtown, has a great track record for giving the classics an airing. The film stars Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal and is described as a homage to “classic screwball comedies”. It revolves around the accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags, which leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations. A critical as well as commercial success, What’s Up Doc? became the third highest grossing film of the year in the US, ranking behind The Godfather and The Poseidon Adventure. On Tuesday June 6, at 8pm and 10pm.

• Trafalgar Square becomes a huge outdoor cinema on June 7 as the Royal Ballet’s performance of The Dream/ Symphonic Variations/Marguerite and Armand are beamed live on to a big screen. Performed at the Royal Opera House, the screenings also feature two other showings in July and are part of the Royal Ballet’s 70th birthday celebrations. See www.roh.org.uk/about/bp-big-screens

• Spanish film The Shepherd, out this week, tells the story of a flock watcher living a contented, solitary life tending his animals and sharing his days with his faithful dog. But when a developer seeks to buy his land, the shepherd’s world is under threat. With echoes of Norman Lewis’s Voices Of The Old Sea, this is a careful study of the impact of change on established ways of life – and the effect on the individual of the concept of “progress”.

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