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Were you at the Curzon Soho in London’s West End on Sunday 22nd February to see The Moon and the Sledgehammer weave its magic?
The special event, featured in the Cinema Nation slot - the home for films that dare to be different - was a complete sell out, leaving many disappointed that they hadn’t booked their tickets earlier.
Special guests had been invited to the screening:
– director Philip Trevelyan, cameraman Richard Stanley, assistant cameraman Chris Morphet, editor Barrie Vince, Robert Erskine, partner in Vaughan Films and John Russell Taylor, film historian and critic who originally reviewed the film in 1972, as well as many other associates of the film, both old and new, many having travelled from abroad for the event.
As guests greeted each other, some after many years, the bar steadily filled amid an air of anticipation. This was only the second big screen showing of the film in nearly 40 years – the previous one being in 2007 to another sell out crowd in the National Film Theatre when the DVD was launched.
Film makers Andrew Kotting and Ben Rivers were among the guests. Their films had been selected to run alongside The Moon and the Sledgehammer. Gareth Evans, editor of leading independent film magazine, Vertigo, who initiated the event, introduced the films and invited the audience to another way of seeing.
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