The Cinema Museum - Kennington Classics, Kennington Shoot-Em-Ups, The Great Dictator & Exploding Cinema

Muriel's Wedding March 22nd, Angel and the Badman March 26th, BECTU presents The Great Dictator March 29th & Exploding Cinema March 31st Kennington Classics presents Muriel's Wedding (1994), Thurs 22nd March @ 7:30pm Muriel’s Wedding (1994) is an Australian comedy, written and directed by P J Hogan, and starring Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths. Muriel finds life in in the Australian seaside resort of Porpoise Spit dull, and spends her days alone in her room listening to ABBA music and dreaming of her wedding day. One slight problem – Muriel has never had a date. Advanced tickets are £6 - click below to purchase from Billetto or call 020 7840 2200 during office hours to purchase direct from the Museum. Buy Now Kennington Shoot-Em-Ups presents Angel and the Badman (1947), Mon 26th March @ 7:30pm Angel and the Badman (1947), is a Republic western, directed by James Edward Grant and starring John Wayne (who also produces for the first time in his career) and Gail Russell. Wayne plays a wounded gunfighter, who is nursed back to health and humanised by Russell and the rest of her compassionate Quaker family. Advanced tickets are £6 - click below to purchase from Billetto or call 020 7840 2200 during office hours to purchase direct from the Museum. Buy Now BECTU presents The Great Dictator(1940), Thurs 29th March @ 7:00pm Join BECTU for a special screening of Charlie Chaplin’s film, The Great Dictator (1940). In this, Chaplin’s first picture with sound and his most commercially successful, he plays both Adenoid Hynkel, leader of Tomania and a Jewish barber who gets caught up in a rebellion against Hynkel’s fascist regime. Released in 1940, Chaplin said later that he would not have made comedy of such events had he known the full extent of the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis. Tickets £7 for BECTU and Prospect members, £9.97 for non-members (includes booking fee). Advance tickets may be purchased from Eventbrite. Exploding Cinema, Sat March 31st @ 7pm  Now 27 years old, London’s longest running film club Exploding Cinema presents a night of Indie, Undie and OTT short films. From animation to documentary, drama to CGI and experimental to just plain mental, short films submitted from all over the world find their way into Exploding Cinema’s bag and this mixed bag is what will be screened tonight. In addition to the film programme, a free raffle, live performance, psychedelic projections and the usual unusual. Advanced tickets are £6 - click below to purchase from Billetto or call 020 7840 2200 during office hours to purchase direct from the Museum.

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