http://www.cinemaofdreams.co.uk/forum/

I am a Scot living in Southern California, hoping that my next visit home will include: a front row deck chair/beanbag, tea and bun ticket to the ‘cinema of dreams’.

In the meantime I will be sure to sign up for the Nairn Natter – I have membership to Netflix so I’m sure I’ll be able to rent any movie that is being shown in the UK.

Carol

p.s. I have been telling my pals here in the US …forget Cannes, Palm Springs, The Oscars etc. ‘Cinema of Dreams’ is the film festival event to be seen.

One of the things we’ve missed most, since those mad, fun, unexpected 8 1/2 days after which we scattered to our hearths in Nairn and the four corners of the world, is the chance to parlay and chinwag about movies in that dark wee Cinema of Dreams.

We liked the Nairn Natter. We liked the way kids talked to grown ups about movies; the banter about how weird and wonderful Dames was; the collective greet we had at The Boot and Peter Ibbetson; the conversational shougles and spraffs.

Then we had an idea called “Last Night I Dreamt I Was At The Ballerina Again…” It goes like this. Every month or so we will pick one movie on TV that is in the spirit of the Ballerina movies – dreamlike or fun or challenging or childlike. Something weird, rare, unexpected. We’ll post its name on the Ballerina website. If there are a few movies we like, we will pick the main one plus recommend some others. We will assume that people have the main UK TV channels plus freeview (at £50, the cheapest one-off access to digital).

Then those of us who are into it – kids and adults, in groups, families or alone, in their jammies, eating fairy cakes or chips – can watch the movie. Then, as fancy takes us, we jump online and pour out our reactions to it as entertainment, as art, as ideas, as inspiration or warning, as adventure or window on the world.

And, crucially, we’ll have a heated debate about which song we should have played in the dark, with the spotlight roaming, before the movie began!

We know this excludes people who don’t have TVs – so sorry. And our pals abroad may not get these TV channels but how fab would it be if you – our intergalactic buds – could rent the DVD, watch it and then join us?

All we need you to do is to go to the website at http://www.ballerinaballroom.com or http://www.cinemaofdreams.co.uk, whichever you prefer, they both end up in the same place, and sign up to the forum. Add a pic and a bit about yourself if you like. And when we get enough people signed up we’ll get started!

And if you’re wondering about the next festival… fret not, you’ll be the first to know as soon as we have any news.

Love from Mark and Tilda xxx

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Btw, Stephen, are you based in Nairn by any chance? If so, you’re welcome to give me a call from Thursday.