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What movie should we show for the Fairland Park open air movie in September?

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At a FoFP meeting this evening we were talking about what to show for the open air movie at Fairland Park on the 13th of September.

Opening that up for wider input - please suggest some movies you think would be good? It needs to be rated PG or lower, and appeal to both children and grownups.

Any suggestions?

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Permalink Reply by woody on June 25, 2014 at 7:44

My neighbour Totoro - my son loves it !

Permalink Reply by Alison P on June 25, 2014 at 8:12

Love this!

Permalink Reply by ant on June 25, 2014 at 8:04

So many replies already!

Keep sending in suggestions and in a couple of days i'll put them all into a poll for everyone to vote on so we can come up with a short list to take back to the Friends group.

Permalink Reply by Artex Monkey on June 25, 2014 at 11:20

What about 'How to train your dragon'? or 'Spirited Away'?

But I do think the 1st Harry Potter one would be great. You could get all the kids (and adults) to dress up too, that would be really cool.

Permalink Reply by Chris Setz on June 25, 2014 at 11:35

Might help to be more specific - I suppose it depends on what you think the audience is like as to what would work - is it aimed at principally families with young children? Will people be bringing their own seats? I once went to an event where everyone was given their own deckchair, blanket and hot water bottle on entry - enhances the spectacle considerably if you're warm and snug in the cold outsides - could probably enjoy a film about the Arctic even more then...

My first thought is Four Weddings - a real crowd pleaser and something for everyone except the very young.

More or less any of the Bond films. The Italian Job. The King's Speech.

I love every version of the 39 Steps but my kids don't relish B&W so maybe one of the colour versions? I suppose sadly that anti-B&W and scorn for 'old-fashioned' films rules out all of the wonderful Ealing Comedies like Kind Hearts and the Lavender Hill Mob. The Ladykillers is in colour and has glimpses of Kings Cross...

I love Tony Hancock's 'The Rebel' - it's hard to find but I can lend the FoFP a DVD of it if that helps - it's a light comedy and has beautifully subtle things to say about Englishness and our attitudes to art. It's an enjoyable, amusing and entertaining story of an ordinary working bloke who gives it all up to move to Paris to become an artist - lovely!

As It's not an adult audience I guess you can't show the superb V for Vendetta but Brazil might be OK - guess it's a bit too sophisticated to please young minds though.

Man on Wire is breathtaking and audacious - not really a 'mainstream' film experience but well worth everyone seeing if you are at all that way inclined.

Slumdog is well worth a repeat viewing.

Simon Pegg has a sort of local connection (parents still live in Crouch End apparently) and Shaun of the Dead was a hit at the Crouch End Festival (Simon Skyped in a message) but zombies could be a bit frightening for some kids so maybe Hot Fuzz?

BTW you might want to make your own Fairland popcorn and provide free flavoured cordials (elderflower?) - easy and cheap.

Permalink Reply by Maddy on June 25, 2014 at 20:12