Arran’s film scene …

Tomorrow (if you are reading this on Feb 1st) will see Corrie Hall showing films all day at their annual mini-festival called A Day in the Dark. Free to all comers, the day starts with a Chaplin classic, Modern Times, then after lunch shows the highly eccentric Ping Pong, about the world over-eighties table tennis championships in Inner Mongolia. Equally wacky in a very different way is Derek Jarman’s 1979 take on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, then after a tea break, there is Hidden, a thriller about a television presenter who starts to receive some very peculiar messages on his computer. Baked potatoes and various goodies follow, to which all are welcome to contribute. The marathon watch-in ends with the superb Latcho Drom, which records Romany people in a year-long journey, and was described by a reliable witness as the most beautiful film she had ever seen.

See the timetable below for guidance, but feel free to drop in and out of the day’s marathon as you choose. Take a break and go home to feed the cat, or settle in for the entire ride – it’s up to you. In big or small doses, it will be a day of great fun.

• 10:00am - 10:30am    Coffee
• 10:30am - 12:00pm    Modern Times
• 12:05pm -  1:10pm    Soup lunch
•  1:45pm -  3:05pm    Ping Pong
•  3:15pm -  4:45pm    The Tempest
•  4:45pm -  5:15pm    Tea break
•  5:15pm -  7:00pm    Hidden
•  7:00pm -  8:00pm    Supper
•  8:00pm -  9:45pm    Latcho Drom