FILMS to commemorate the First World War include Renoir’s 1937 masterpiece La Grande Illusion (Friday, August 22, 11am) and an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell To Arms (Monday, August 25, 11am) made in 1932 and starring Gary Cooper. One-off events include Derek Jarman’s War Requiem (Thursday, August 28, 9.15pm) which puts Benjamin Britten’s choral gem to pictures in Chichester Cathedral n Galas and open air screenings The Night Train To Lisbon (Thursday, August 14, 18.30pm, Friday, August 15, 2pm) opens the festival. It stars Jeremy Irons as Swiss professor Raimund Gregorius who quits his boring life. Marilyn Monroe’s seminal performance in Some Like It Hot (Saturday, August 9, 7.30pm) and Richard Attenborough’s Oh! What A Lovely War (Friday, August 8, 7.30pm) are the open air screenings in Priory Park. Woody Allen’s Magic In The Moonlight (Sunday, August 31, 11am and 6.30pm) is a blockbuster to close the festival.

Special events and talks Organist Ben Hall accompanies German expressionist classic The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Friday, August 29, 21.15pm) in the atmospheric St John’s Chapel. Tribute To Dylan Thomas & Stan Tracey (Wednesday, August 20, 8.15pm) features a filmic portrait of Stan Tracey, Godfather Of British Jazz, followed by tenor sax player Bobby Wellins performing Tracey’s Under Milk Wood.

 East Meets West Shanghai Gypsy (Sunday, August 17, 6pm, Tuesday, August 19, 8.30pm) stars Asli Bayram (due to appear at the festival) as one of four Romany gypsy families who face difficult questions when his smuggling business turns to arms trading. Another Slovenian gem is Zoran, My Nephew The Idiot (Wednesday, August 27, 9pm, Sunday, August 31, 6pm) with Italian waster Paolo inheriting his 16-year-old nephew.

Documentaries Highlights from the 14 include Les Cyclistes (Saturday, August 30, 6pm), a presentation by David Furnham which considers the cultural differences between the French and English towards cycling, and Rent Rebels (Friday, August 15, 1.45pm, and Wednesday, August 27, 6.15pm) which follows Berlin’s activists against the city’s private rental market.

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