Our Silent Film Weekend is on April 5th and 6th. And we’re busy compiling a wide selection encompassing the cinema of the US, Europe, Asia and our native UK.

The programme is still subject to change but at present we’re hoping to include the following:

Boy Woodburn (UK 1922) (35mm) Guy Newell with Ivy Duke, Guy Newall and John Alexander.

The Rat (UK 1925) (35mm) Graham Cutts with Ivor Novello, Mae Marsh and Isabel Jeans. The film is based on the 1924 play of the same title written by
Novello and Constance Collier.

The Ring (UK 1928) (35mm) Alfred Hitchcock with Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis, Ian Hunter.

Revolutionshochzeit / The Last Night (Germany 1928) A W Sandberg with Diomira Jacobini, Gosta Ekman and Karina Bell. The German romantic drama, directed by the Danish film director. Rarely seen, this is for many, a neglected masterpiece.

If I Were Single (US 1927) (35mm) Roy Del Ruth with May McAvoy, Conrad Nagel, and Myrna Loy.

The Yellow Lily (US 1928) (35mm) Alexander Korda with Billie Dove, Clive Brook, and Gustav von Seyffertitz, with an introduction by Liz Cleary.

Die Straße / The Street (Germany 1923) Karl Grume with Anton Edthofer, Aud Egede-Nissen, Max Schreck, Lucie Hoflich.

Orochi / The Serpent (Japan 1925) Buntarō Futagawa with Misao Seki, Utako Tamaki and Kensaku Haruji.

Other events to be included will be:

Restorations And Discoveries Programme:

The programme will include:

• Little Mickey Grogan (US 1927) James Leo Meehan with Frankie Darro and Jobyna Ralston. UK premiere of Eric Grayson’s restoration.
• Joshua Cattermole’s Circumnavigation of Graf Zeppelin (Ger. 1930).
• Wait and See (UK 1910) (Alf Collins) Gaumont (Napoleon comic imitator).
• The Lone Indian (1921) (tinted and toned) Directed by Clyde E. Elliott. Produced by Post Nature Pictures, featuring Northern Quebec Indians.
• Tony Saffrey’s new restorations including R. W. Paul’s His Mother’s Portrait, Or, The Soldiers’s Vision (July 1900).

Women Pioneers:

Presented by Dave Peabody.

• Writer, director, and actress Gene Gauntier.
• The Thomas H. Ince actress, Ethel Grandin.
• The Swedish-American actress, Anna Q. Nilsson named as “Most beautiful woman in America”.
• The Edison actress, Laura Sawyer
• The Kalem actress Jane Wolfe who played The Mexican Joan of Arc.

Focus on Biograph:

Another ‘Focus on…’ presentation, featuring a silent film studio and its output – and this time it’s the turn of Biograph. Glenn Mitchell and Dave Glass will be presenting a history of the studio and showing some fine examples of its comedy output. With films directed by such masters as D W Griffith and Mack Sennett, featuring stars like Mabel Normand, Fred Mace and Mary Pickford, it’s sure to please the lovers of vintage film comedy as well as fans of early cinema rarities (film and digital).

Comedies of 1925:

Once again, our comedy experts Glenn Mitchell and Dave Glass, showcase a selection of the best comedies released 100 years ago this year. The mirth-making stars being considered include Harry Langdon, Charley Chase, Alice Howell, Stan Laurel and Billy Bevan (digital and film).

Nasty Women – Breaking Plates & Smashing the Patriarchy:

World Premiere of a raucous new program from the Physical TV Company and Cinema’s First Nasty Women! Presented by Michelle Facey, Breaking Plates and Smashing the Patriarchy is the second in our Nasty Women series, a program of rollicking shorts that takes inspiration from the freedom of the first years of cinema to bring a boundary-smashing brawl and a creative revolution for women to the screen. This programme will include a 25min documentary with film sequences.

TICKETS & PRICING

Details to be announced.