British Silents, BFI and the Cambridge Picture House, in association with the Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort University, present....
The 15th British Silent Film Festival
April 19th - 22nd 2012
Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge
( Courtesy of the BFI Stills,Posters and Design)
The British Silent Film Festival will be celebrating its 15th Anniversary in Cambridge at the Arts Picture House. The four-day programme will be packed with rarely-seen films from the BFI and other international archives featuring a wide range of fascinating subjects such as: P.G. Wodehouse's golfing tales including The Long Hole and The Clicking of Cuthbert; rarities based on the charming coastal stories of W.W. Jacobs including The Boatswain's Mate and A Will and a Way; a celebration of the centenary of the British Board of Film Classification with a look at 'What the Silent Censor Saw' with the rarely screened and risqué film Cocaine. We’ll be tracing the origins of Cambridge’s brand of 'university humour' before the Footlights with a selection of burlesque films from the 1920s and featuring A Couple of Down and Outs, the ‘silent Warhorse’ made in 1923 which tells the tale of a WWI soldier who goes on the run with his warhorse to save it from the ‘knacker’s yard’. We are also delighted to be screening the 1920 classic Fante-Anne (Gipsy Anne), directed by the great Norwegian director Rasmus Breistein; accompanied by a new musical score by composer and music producer Halldor Krogh.
We’ll also be featuring some 15th anniversary highlights including the legendary Grand Guignol programme of macabre stories with a twist in the tale and we’ll be including a selection of the best of British silent feature films screened over the past fourteen years. The Imperial War Museum will be presenting their latest silent restorations from their fabulous collection and we are very pleased to announce that Ian Christie will deliver the Annual Rachael Low Lecture.
This year’s ‘hot tickets’ will be the wildly popular Dodge Brothers performing their distinctive brand of Americana to The Ghost That Never Returns at the West Road Concert Hall; Here’s a Health to the Barley Mow with live folk accompaniment to silent films of English folk traditions and the Bronnt Industries playing to the stunning Soviet film Turksib. Regular Festival collaborator Stephen Horne will be performing his fabulous new ensemble music score to The First Born, a dizzying tale of sex, death and British politics.
Screenings will take place at the Arts Picturehouse, Emmanuel College and the West Road Concert Hall. The Festival will draw to a close with screenings of the highlights of the British Silent Film Festivals on the rooftop terrace of the Varsity Hotel.
BOOKING INFORMATION
For further information and to book tickets and delegate passes please go to Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge at the following link:
To find out more about the BFI National Archive, visit bfi.org.uk
