The Cinema Museum - Blinking Buzzards, Kennington Talkies, Symphony of a City & Turkish Star Wars

Blinking Buzzards April 28th, Kennington Talkies April 29th, Symphony of a City May 3rd & Turkish Star Wars May 4th Blinking Buzzards, Saturday 28th April @ 4pm The UK Buster Keaton Society. Quarterly meeting of the society dedicated to the appreciation of the silent comedian. After a selection of Keaton shorts and a break, the second half will be a screening of Three Ages (1923). This was the first full-length film that Keaton made as writer, director and star. It intercuts three stories set in three different historical periods – the Stone Age, Ancient Rome and the Roaring Twenties. In each ‘age’, Buster plays The Boy, Margaret Leahy plays The Girl , and Wallace Beery plays The Villain. This format satirises D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916), but was also a clever ploy by the studio. If the film as a whole had failed, it could have been re-cut as three separate shorts, as it was thought that although Buster’s shorts were hugely popular, a full length film was a gamble. Luckily the gamble paid off, and his next feature, Our Hospitality, followed in the same year. Entry free to members with £10 annual membership available at the door. Kennington Talkies presents; Lady By Chocie (1934), Sunday 29th April @ 2:30pm Lady by Choice (1934) stars Carole Lombard as a fan dancer and May Robson as a homeless drunk asked to pose as the dancer’s mother for a publicity stunt, with unexpected consequences. Although directed by David Burton, it was promoted as a follow-up to Frank Capra’s 1933 hit Lady for a Day (1933). Tickets are £6 may be purchased from Billetto, or direct from the Museum by calling 020 7840 2200 in office hours. Screening of Brighton; Symphony of a City (2016), Thursday May 3rd @ 7:30pm This cinematic portrait of Brighton, in all its bohemian, and campaigning glory, darts between past present and is set to a sumptuous orchestral score. ‘Father Neptune’ is dunked in a raucous 1951 ritual, 1930s marchers celebrate the Soviet Union. Today’s residents parade at Pride and commemorate Gaza. The elegant ferris wheel marks the passage of time, and this day-in-a-life culminates in astounding puppetry and the winter festival, ‘The Burning of the Clocks’. A Brighton Festival Commission. Supported by Screen Archive South East, The University of Sussex and Sea Life Centre. Find out more about the film on their website. The film will be accompanied by a screening of Georges Méliès’s Voyage to the Moon (1902), with an original composition by Ed Hughes. Here is the proposed event programme: Brief introduction by Lizzie Thynne (Director) – 5 minutes Voyage to the Moon – 13 minutes Brighton: Symphony of a City – 48 minutes Q&A with Lizzie – 20 minutes Advance tickets are £8.50 (£6.50 concessions) - click below to purchase from Billetto or call 020 7840 2200 to purchase direct from the Museum during office hours.  If you would prefer to pay on the door, the price will be £10 (£7 concessions). Buy Now Remakesploitation presents; Turkish Star Wars (1982), Friday 4th May @ 7:30pm Remakesploitation presents the world premiere of the new 2K scan of Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam, better known as the Turkish Star Wars (1982). Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam literally translates as The Man Who Saved the World. Its notorious use of footage from Star Wars (1977) and other Hollywood sci-fi epics, as well as news clips from the US and Soviet space programmes, gained it the sobriquet Turkish Star Wars. Directed by Çetin İnanç, and starring Cüneyt Arkın (who also wrote the screenplay) and Aytekin Akkaya as two adventurers whose spaceships crash on a desert planet. Panned on its release, it subsequently achieved a cult status, as a “so-bad-it’s-good” classic. The screening will be followed by a Q&A. Details to be announced. Advance tickets are £8.50 (£6.50 concessions) - click below to purchase from Billetto or call 020 7840 2200 to purchase direct from the Museum during office hours.  If you would prefer to pay on the door, the price will be £10 (£7 concessions). Buy Now