The Cinema Museum - Museum Bookstall, Kennington Noir, Blinking Buzzards, Celluloid Sorceress

Museum Bookstall August 11th, Kennington Noir August 15th, Blinking Buzzards August 18th, Celluloid Sorceress August 19th Cinema Museum Bookstall, Saturday 11th August, 2pm-5pm In addition to books, magazines and stills there will be some films, equipment and other items surplus to our requirements.  Admission is free, so why not stop by?  You never know what gems you might find! Kennington Noir presents; Woman On The Run (1950), Wednesday August 15th @ 7:30pm Kennington Noir Presents Woman on the Run (1950), directed by Norman Foster, and starring Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe and Robert Keith. Anne Sheridan gives a memorable portrayal of the wife of a man who has gone into hiding having witnessed a murder. Unfortunately, the murderer tried to bump off Anne’s husband too, so Anne is desperate to find her husband first, before the police and the bad guys, and she teams with a press reporter who claims he wants the scoop on the story and is willing to pay to help out. Chock full of snappy 1940s dialogue, and shot on location in San Francisco, Woman on the Runis a treat for noir fans. The exciting night-time climax, set at SF’s “Playland on the Beach” amusement park, predates by a year the similar use of a fairground at the end of Hitchcock’s classic Strangers on a Train (1951). Advance tickets are £6 - click below to purchase from Billetto, or call by call 020 7840 2200 during office hours to purchase direct from the Museum. Buy Now Blinking Buzzards, Saturday 18th August @ 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 Our Hospitality (1923). Based on the true-life Hatfield–McCoy feud, this was the last film of Buster’s wife Natalie Talmadge, who had married in 1921. This is film to only one to star three generations on the Keaton family – Buster himself, his father Joe and his one year old son Buster Jr. Willie McKay (Keaton) travels from New York to the South to claim his late father’s estate. On the train he meets and falls in love with Virginia Canfield (Talmadge). He is unaware of the longstanding and murderous feud that has existed between the McKays and the Canfields for generations TICKETS & PRICING Entry free to members with £10 annual membership available at the door. The Celluloid Sorceress presets; A Time To Kill (1996) Sunday August 19th @ 3pm Winner of the NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Motion Picture and Supporting Actor 1997, A Time to Kill (1996) follows director Joel Schumacher’s Falling Down (1993) in its prescient examination of white privilege and justice in modern America. Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson) doubts the legal system will serve justice upon the two white local men who rape and torture his daughter. After taking his revenge on the steps of the county courthouse with a shotgun he calls upon white friend and lawyer Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) to defend him at his trial. Preparing his case against the death penalty, Jake and his associates (Sandra Bullock, Oliver Platt and Donald Sutherland) come under attack from the Ku Klux Klan, while the trial becomes a media spectacle in scenes that could easily come from today’s news.  Find out more here. More titles in The Celluloid Sorceress’ retrospective of the films of Joel Schumacher: Sun 30 Sep @ 15.00 – Tigerland (2000) and Phone Booth (2002) 35mm presentations Sun 28 Oct @ 15.00 – Sparkle (1976) 16mm presentation Wed 14 Nov @ 19.30 – Bad Company (2002) Advance Tickets Advance tickets are £10 (£7 concessions) - click below to purchase from Billetto or call 020 7840 2200 to purchase direct from the Museum during office hours. Season Tickets Season tickets £40 (£32.50 concessions) for all the Celluloid Sorceress Joel Schumacher films available from Billetto, or direct from the Museum. Buy Now