The Cinema Museum - The Sherlock Search and Cinema & Poetry amendment

News about The Sherlock Search plus an amendment to Cinema & Poetry August 29th UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Baker Street Irregulars Lead an International Search to Find and Restore Missing Films Featuring Sherlock Holmes UCLA Film & Television Archive, the second-largest moving image archive in the U.S. after the Library of Congress, and The Baker Street Irregulars (BSI), the first and foremost international Sherlock Holmes society, are mounting a world-wide search for the lost Sherlock Holmes films. Actor Robert Downey, Jr., who has portrayed Sherlock Holmes on the screen in two films, with a third Holmes film that will begin production in the fall and release December 2021, is the Honorary Project Chair. Entitled “Searching for Sherlock: The Game’s Afoot,” the two nonprofit organizations plan to contact film archives, Sherlock Holmes societies, film historians, collectors, and other potential sources around the world to find, restore, and eventually screen, currently lost films featuring the world’s first consulting detective. According to Dr. Jan-Christopher Horak, Director of the UCLA Archive, more than 100 films about the iconic British detective are lost or are in need of restoration or preservation. A blue-ribbon committee has been formed to lead the search, including such notables as BSI member Nicholas Meyer, author of the book and Oscar-nominated screenplay The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and leading silent film historian Kevin Brownlow. Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is one of the most popular characters in all literature. The Victorian detective has made the leap countless times from the printed page to the motion picture and television screens. Beginning with his first appearance in “A Study in Scarlet” in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Holmes has inspired aficionados internationally and is the most-filmed character in the world. More than 100 films about the British detective have been produced; the first was Sherlock Holmes Baffled, a 30-second motion picture released originally for Mutoscope arcade machines in 1900 and copyrighted in 1903. Among the lost films are: a British production of A Study in Scarlet, produced in 1914; a Danish series, produced by Nordisk films, beginning in 1908; The Missing Rembrandt, produced in 1932, starring Arthur Wontner; and many more. Spearheading the search is Archive Board and BSI member Barbara Roisman Cooper. For further information about the project or suggestions regarding the search, contact her at peninc1@aol.com. Cinema & Poetry, Thursday August 29th @ 7pm Please note change of film Celebrating the potential of literary and avant-garde poetry to explore and refract popular or arthouse cinema, this unique event will see performances and readings by some of London’s most interesting writers followed by a screening of Peter Greenaway’s remarkable 1996 feature film The Pillow Book. This event will aim to re-imagine the moving image in the language arts. The event will see the launch of SJ Fowler’s I Stand Alone by The Devils and other poems on films from Broken Sleep Books, alongside readings by Yvonne Litschel, Jonathan Catherall, David Spittle and more. The Pillow Book is a 1996 erotic drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway, which stars Vivian Wu as Nagiko, a Japanese model in search of pleasure and new cultural experience from various lovers. The film is a melding of dark modern drama with idealised Chinese and Japanese cultural themes and settings, and centres on body painting. Tickets are £8 (£5 concession) - click below to purchase form Eventbrite. Buy Now