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THE MAGNIFICENT TATI
David Bellos and Michael House
LAUNCHING THE 2009 EDITION
  • Wednesday 28 Oct : FFF Media Lunch in Edinburgh
  • Thursday 12 November : Launch Reception at Le Di-Vin in Edinburgh
TABARLY AND PIERRE MARCEL
  • Thursday 19 November: at Dundee' DCA
  • Friday 20 November: at the Consul General's Reception in Edinburgh
  • Friday 20 November: at Glasgow's GFT
  • Saturday 21 November: at Edinburgh Filmhouse
  • The FFF UK's official portrait photographer Valentina Bonizzi captures director Pierre Marcel in two striking poses.
THE MAGNIFICENT TATI, DAVID BELLOS AND MICHAEL HOUSE
  • Thursday 26 November: at Edinburgh Filmhouse
  • Friday 27 November: at Glasgow's GFT
  • Saturday 28 November: At Dundee's DCA
ANOTHER MAN AND LIONEL BAIER
  • Friday 27 November: at Edinburgh Skillset Screen and Media Academy
  • Saturday 28 November: at Glasgow Film Theatre
CRIME IS OUR BUSINESS: RHÔNE-ALPES Event at GFT
  • Thursday 3 December: screening of Crime is our Business, sponsored by Rhone-Alpes Tourisme & Cinema
The FFF at St Andrews
  • It's a first: St Andrews' New Picture House joins in the French Film Festival

VALENTINA BONIZZI: official photographs (coming soon)
 
 
 
26 / 11 / 09:
David Bellos (Jacques Tati's biographer) and Michael House (dir. The Magnificent Tati) at the World Premiere of The Magnificent Tati at Edinburgh Filmhouse.

Jet set: (from left) Michael House, director of The Magnificent Tati, Julia House, Peter France and Tati biographer David Bellos enjoy a drink in Filmhouse Bar just before the world premiere of the new documentary. Both House and Bellos had just flown in from the States to meet and talk with French Film Festival UK audiences.

Tati aficionados: Martine Beugnet from the University of Edinburgh, and David Bellos from Princeton University exchange Tati notes before the screening of The Magnficient Tati. Both appear in the film which largely is based on Bellos's biography.

Première cru: (from left) Richard Mowe, director of the FFF UK, film-maker Michael House and Tati guru David Bellos take part in a Q and A after the world premiere of The Magnificent Tati.

Taking credit: Director Michael House poses beside sponsor standee for TV5Monde, supporters of the Totally Tati season.

Bon appetit at Zucca restaurant in Edinburgh after the premiere of The Magnificent Tati (from left) Richard Mowe, FFF UK director, Julia House, and Michael House
 
27 / 11 / 09:
Davi Bellos at the Glasgow Film Theatre for the screening of The Magnificent Tati.

Berets over the border: David Bellos is greeted by Tati fan Raymond Rose at Glasgow Film Theatre

Tati talk
: James Steel (left), FFF UK chair, in discussion
with David Bellos during the Q & A which followed the
screening of The Magnificent Tati and shorts at GFT

Air of anticipation: The audience at GFT are enrapt
at the Tati antics both on and off screen.

Five for the road: (from left) Valentina Bonizzi, FFF UK official portrait photographer, James Steel (FFF UK chair), Ilona Morison(FFF UK deputy director); Vineet Lai (FFF UK assistant) and David Bellos (Tati biographer) outside Malmaison Hotel in Glasgow
28 / 11 / 09:
David Bellos introduces the screening of the restored version of Mr Hulot's Holiday at Dundee's DCA.

 
 
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