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MOVIE buffs on the Black Isle and beyond are being promised a magical weekend of cinematic treats next month.
And according to the curator of In Dreams: A Movie Weekend in Cromarty, the Black Isle town is the perfect spot for what he has in mind.
Mark Cousins, renowned film maker and creator of imaginative events, will be the Cromarty Cinema’s first guest curator, programming “a magical weekend of film and surprises” around the theme of dreams and dreaming.
Speaking ahead of the March 13-15 weekender, he said: “I jumped at the chance of making a cinema weekend in Cromarty, one of the most visual places I’ve ever been.
“I suggested that it would be about dreams because the best films are dreamlike, and because Cromarty sometimes looks like a painting by Rene Magritte.
“I can’t wait to work with the volunteers to make something enchanting. The aim is for people to say ‘what a weekend I’ve just had’.”
Features will include Orson Welles’ Macbeth, Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood For Love and Vincente Minnelli’s dream of a Scottish paradise, Brigadoon.
The films will be wrapped around with introductions, music, special guests dropping in by phone/zoom and an atmospheric setting.
More than a selection of films, “it will be a mood, a celebration, a transportation”.
Cromarty Cinema is a non-profit volunteer-run cinema on the Black Isle. The cinema crew thanks Creative Scotland for their support of the guest curator initiative.
Tickets will be available online from the beginning of March. For further details will be posted on the website cromartycinema.com
Cromarty Cinema is a 35-seat, fully accessible, modern cinema which was built in 2020 as a lasting physical legacy of Cromarty Film Festival which had been run in the town since 2007.
The cinema runs due to the hard work of volunteers, committee and generous donors. It operates in partnership with Eden Court.
