The Cinema Museum - Kennington Talkies, Argentinian Film Season, Kennington Vintage

Pillow Talk (1959) July 3rd La Historia Oficial (1985) July 5th Star of Midnight (1935) July 7th Kennington Talkies presents; Pillow Talk (1959), Wednesday July 3rd @ 7:30pm Kennington Talkies concludes the season of Doris Day films with Pillow Talk (1959), a screwball comedy directed by Michael Gordon, and co-starring Rock Hudson. Doris Day plays Jan Morrow, a single woman and independent interior decorator. Due to the demand for phone lines in the area, she is forced to share a party line with Brad Allen, womaniser and all round pig, who lives in an apartment nearby. The two spar on the phone, but it is only some time later that Brad learns who Jan is, and masquerades as a handsome Texan rancher – except to toy with Jan, this smooth talking Southerner is… just a touch too fruity to be true. Advance tickets are £6 - click below to purchase from Billetto, or call 020 7840 2200 to purchase direct from the Museum during office hours. Buy Now Argentinian Film Season presents; La Historia Oficial (1985), Friday July 5th @ 7:30pm Luis Puenzo’s La historia oficial (The Official Story) (1985), the second in this monthly season of Argentinian films especially selected for the Cinema Museum by Adam Feinstein – who is writing a book on the country’s cinema – won Latin America’s first-ever Oscar for foreign-language film, and it is easy to see why. The central theme of this potent and poignant movie is Argentinian society’s guilt over its complicity, during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, with the military’s so-called ‘dirty war’ against subversion. As many as 30,000 people were kidnapped and subsequently disappeared by the Army. The main action of La historia official centres on the gradual discovery by Alicia, a history teacher magnificently interpreted by Norma Aleandro, that the daughter her high-ranking businessman husband, Roberto (in an equally superb performance by Hector Alterio) had given her is actually the child abducted from her parents (two subversives killed during their imprisonment by the military regime. Find out more here. Advance tickets are £8.50 (£6.50 concession) and may be purchased 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 concession). Kennington Vintage presents; Star of Midnight (1935), Saturday July 7th @ 2:30pm In the stylish tradition of The Thin Man series we recently screened, Kennington Vintage presents Star of Midnight (1935), directed by Stephen Roberts and again starring William Powell, along with Ginger Rogers. William Powell plays a dapper lawyer aided by classy, sassy marriage-minded Ginger Rogers. Suspected of a murder, he untangles the Manhattan maze of double-crosses, disguises and mis-directions without disarranging his dinner jacket! Advance tickets are £6 - click below to purchase from Billetto, or call 020 7840 2200 to purchase direct from the Museum during office hours. Buy Now