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“Movies rarely convey the power of the novels that inspire them. The Human Stain is
an exception.” Brent Staples,
THE NEW YORK TIMES
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SWcreenings programme
ith the two Tea Parties (Television and Film) and The Britannia Awards tak- ing place in the next four months, it is easy to forget BAFTA/LA’s impressive program of screenings and Q&A’s. In the next few months, BAFTA/LA has already confirmed the following screen-
Cruise), Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Q&A with Peter Jackson), Cold Mountain (Q&A with Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, and Anthony Minghella), Calendar Girls (Q&A with Nigel Cole), Mona Lisa Smile, The Alamo, Peter Pan, and Girl With A Pearl Earring. Importantly, BAFTA/LA will present, along with
Garden Party at the residence of Anne and Peter Hunt, British Consul-General at Los Angeles. This event, which was BAFTA/LA’s inaugural event in 1987, once again attracted a capacity crowd and continues a summer tradition.
The elections for the BAFTA/LA Board of Directors will be held
next month. Ten Directors (Ian Abercrombie, Duncan Clark, Nicolas Hippisley Coxe, Gary Dartnall, Melanie Greene, Paul Heller, John Houlton, David Korda, Antony Root and Rebecca Segal) have terms which expire in January 2004. Newly elected Directors will join David Campling, Katherine Haber, Pamela
Godfrey, William J. Males, Alan P. Marshall, Vivian Mayer, Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, and Rosalie Swedlin, who were elected in 2002 and will serve on the Board for one more year.
Once again, visit www.bafta- la.org for the latest news of these and other events. If you are plan- ning to be in Los Angeles, be sure to call the office at 310-652-4121 to reserve your seats. You will be very welcome, but call early as seats fill up quickly and there are often long waiting lists.
Photos l-r: Mr & Mrs Malcolm McDowell with Mr & Mrs Michael York; Duncan Clark (Board of Directors, BAFTA/LA) and Gary Dartnall (Chairman, BAFTA/LA); Peter Beale (Founder, BAFTA/LA), Ronnie Neame (Founder, BAFTA) and Marion Rosenberg (Founder, BAFTA/LA); Donald Haber (Executive Director, BAFTA/LA) and Jill Murray (Jaguar - Sponsors of Garden Party); Sir Howard Stringer, (Chairman & CEO, Sony Corporation of America); Director Peter Weir; Angela Lansbury CBE; Hugh Grant
ings: Matchstick Men ( Q&A with Ridley Scott), In This World, Farther Than the Eye Can See, (Q&A with Erick Weihenmayer), The Human Stain (Q&A with Robert Benton), Veronica Guerin (Q&A with Cate Blanchett and Jerry Bruckheimer), Love Actually (Q&A with Hugh Grant and Richard Curtis), The Last Samurai (Q&A with Tom
the UK Film Commission and British Film Office, a special series of films eligible for The Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2003, but without a large US distribution. BAFTA/LA gratefully thanks BAFTA for their help in enabling this series to be shown in Los Angeles.
In July, over 400 people attended the 17th Annual
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