All About Eve

Last night, Ibolya and I were invited to attend a 'gala' screening of 'All About Eve', at the phenomenal Lexi Cinema, down the road from us in Kensal Rise.
The evening was put on by the Flicker Club who are a boutique cinema club, who show movies on the last Thursday of every month at the Lexi. This year, the theme of the movies are short story adaptations. Each movie is introduced by a reading from the source story by a specially invited, celebrity, guest.
The mighty Bob Books (here's a bit of viral marketing for you: there's 25% off until end of December if you use voucher code BOBNEWS) supplies flick books for the Flicker Club's goodie bags.
So after we were treated to dry martinis and cocktails, we took our seats in the theater, the lights dimmed and we were introduced to, none other than, 'Miss' Joan (ruddy) Collins!
She beautifully read the opening chapter of Mary Orr's 'The Wisdom of Eve' and the film started.
It's been a while since I last saw it but it's a terrific film, hardly cinematic but dazzling written.
I hadn't appreciated before it's daring use of language, so much sexually charged dialog, expertly hidden behind the banality imposed by the Hayes Code.
By far the biggest highlight of the film, for me, was George Sander's magnificently camp and spiteful performance as Addison De Witt. The epitome of the English cad in all it's wit, malice and urbanity.
I CANNOT wait for the Flicker Club's screening, one of my all time great favourite films, and one the 10 greatest British films ever made: the Godlike Genius of Nic Roeg's 'Don't Look Now'