The Spa Suncourt Festival
2007
for most up-to-date info keep an eye on the Film
Scarborough website.
Film Scarborough says.....
This year the Suncourt Festival is dramatically
expanding to take in live music and DJs, as well
as movies.
Running on four nights in late July and early
August, the festival combines some of
Scarborough’s best young musicians with classic
movies, all in the fantastic setting of the Spa
Suncourt. Each evening starts with music and
then, as the sun goes down, movies will be
projected onto a massive new screen that fills
the Suncourt stage.
The first night pairs Ollie Banks with the original
surfing classic Crystal Voyager, then comes Billy
Nielsen followed by Billabong Odyssey – the
search for the perfect wave. In the second week
Matt Crossley is followed by Zidane (‘the
greatest film ever made about football’); the
final night goes sci-fi with Moonjuice providing
the music and Blade Runner hunting down those
replicants.
‘The Suncourt is an amazing space’ say co-
organisers Rowan Oliver and RogerOsborne ‘the
festival aims to reclaim it with some real
creative energy.’
Spa Suncourt
Tuesday 24 July:
Music: Ollie Banks
followed by
Crystal Voyager (1973)
Directed by David Elfick
Starring George Greenough, Ritchie West and Nat
Young
A pinnacle of the surf-movie genre, Crystal
Voyager aims for spiritual transcendance.
Thursday 26 July:
Music: Billy Neilson
followed by
Billabong Odyssey (2003)
Directed by Philip Boston
Starring Shawn Barron, Layne Beachley, Ken
Bradshaw
The best big wave surfers travelling the world
searching for the largest waves that nature has
to offer.
Tuesday 31 July:
Music: Matt Crossley
followed by
Zidane (2006)
Directed by Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno
A sports documentary and an conceptual art
installation, consisting of a full-length football
match entirely filmed from the perspective of
soccer superstar Zinedine Zidane.
Thursday 2 August:
Music: Moonjuice
followed by
Blade Runner (1982)
Directed by Ridley Scott
Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Daryl
Hannah, Sean Young
Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the
future who hunts down and terminates
replicants, artificially created humans.
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