If you haven’t booked your Isle of Arts Festival ticket, get a move on! We’re really looking forward to this one. Ed
Barry Norman has been a pillar of the film world for more years than we care to remember. He’s been there. He’s met them all. And now he’s coming right here to tell us all about it. Be nowhere else on Sunday 17th April.
An Audience with Barry Norman – And Why Not – Memoirs of a Film Lover – is set to ensure the Isle of Arts festival finale is loaded with star appeal. The nation’s most illustrious film buff will be turning the spotlight on life behind the movie cameras.
Barry will reveal how Peter Sellers betrayed him three times and nearly got him fired; how John Wayne, “deeply influenced by an excessive intake of bourbon”, rose up with the intention of “smiting him hip and thigh” from his seat in the club car of a train from Denver to Salt Lake City; and how he gate-crashed a private club with Bob Hoskins and they were welcomed as criminals.
All this plus stories about Robert De Niro, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ewan McGregor, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger and, as they say in the movie blurbs, a cast of hundreds.
Household legend
Barry Norman, OBE, headed the BBC’s celebrated Film… series for 26 years and moved on to Sky Premier for a further three years to present Barry Norman’s Film Night.
He became a household name as one of the most influential film reviewers in the world ever. If Barry said ‘Yes!’ the Nation went to see it. No question.
Tickets cost £15 in advance/ £18 at the festival.
Tickets for Isle of Arts festival events can be purchased in advance from http://artsisle.org/tickets/tickets or via our festival telephone hotline 01983 862 596 (open Monday-Friday, 10.00-16.00). Tickets are also available at Seasons, 10 High Street, Ventnor
