Past Events Archive

Professor Mike Wayne explores the fascinating story of how the trend towards “adult” material in such Depression-era films as the 1932 Scarface and Red Dust led to Hollywood submitting to self-censorship under the elaborate Hays Code, to drastic effect.

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CineSundays will be showcasing classic movies on the last Sunday of each month at the Cinema Museum - with delicious themed cocktails! First up is Working Girl, nominated for four academy awards and starring Melanie Griffith, Sigourney Weaver and Harrison Ford.

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Join our alternative Jubilee celebrations with the other Windsor – Queen of the Carry Ons, in conversation with Neil Brand. Her numerous film successes range from Sparrows Can't Sing to The Boyfriend, after which she found a new audience as Peggy Mitchell in Eastenders.

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Join us for a programme of little-seen British silent films, including the stylish and pacy British spy thriller A Woman Redeemed (Sinclair Hill, 1927), starring Brian Aherne and Joan Lockton, with musical accompaniment from Stephen Horne and introduction by Amy Sargeant.

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Join us for a fascinating evening as Keith M. Johnston explores the 100-year history of the ‘coming attraction’ film trailer and its place within the British film industry, screening a selection of the best trailers in the Cinema Museum archives, and bringing to light some of the unsung heroes of British trailer production.

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The 'Jack the Ripper' murders in 1888 have been interpreted in any number of ways across the world, but in Britain, especially in films, class has been a major preoccupation. What class was ‘Jack the Ripper’? Professor Richard Dyer traces this across a number of films, from The Lodger 1927 through Hammer horror treatments in the 1950s and 1960s, to From Hell in 2001.

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Film historians Tony Fletcher and Alex Gleason select an eclectic mix of rarely seen gems from the 1920s-1970s, mainly culled from the collection at the Cinema Museum, including Vitaphones, R.K.O. shorts, animation, a one-reel version of The Lodger, a silent comedy compilation by Philip Jenkinson, some early British Phototones, a Widgey Newman and a film by Mervyn Peake - make sure you bring your Marmite sandwiches!

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