London Baltic Film Festival Part 1 November 27th
London Baltic Film Fetsival Part 2 November 28th
Gothique Film Society December 3rd
Exploding Cinema 30th Birthday December 4th
Musical Sunday December 5th |
|
 | London Baltic Film Festival Part 1, Saturday November 27th @ 2pm The London BALTIC Film Festival invites you to discover the fresh cinematic production of three Northern European countries laid by the Baltic Sea: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Baltic cinema is full of untold and personal stories of the complex past, the Cold War and recent changes in society. The festival features drama, thriller, animation, satire and comedy, including three UK premieres, plus Q&A’s with film directors and actors – there is something for every taste!
The festival is produced by South Social Film Festival and promoted by the Embassy of Estonia, Embassy of Latvia, Embassy of Lithuania, Estonian Film Institute, Latvia Film Centre, Lithuanian Film Centre, Latvia 100 and Lithuanian Culture Institute. More info available here.
Programme - 14.00 My Favorite War (2020), directed by Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen (Latvia) 1h 20min
A personal, animated documentary about the director’s life growing up in Latvia between 1970-1990 when Latvia was occupied by the Soviet Union. The occupation regime used WW2 as an ideological weapon to suppress and scare the population.
Followed by live Q&A with Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen. - 16.00 The Castle (2020), directed by Lyna Luzyte (Lithuania) 1h 31min
Monika, a 13-year-old Lithuanian girl living in Dublin, is a very passionate singer and lives with her mother, Jolanta, a piano player. They get offered a gig at ‘The Castle’.
Followed by live Q&A with Lyna Luzyte. - 19.00 Goodbye Soviet Union (2020), directed by Lauri Randla (Estonia) 1h 31min
A coming of age story of Johannes, who is born prematurely to a premature single mother on the dramatic background of the collapsing Soviet empire.
Followed by live Q&A with Lauri Randla.
All day tickets: £25; individual films: £12, concession (senior, student and under 25) £10. Click below to purchase from TicketTailor. |
|
 | London Baltic Film Festival Part 2, Sunday November 28th @ 2pm Join us for the second part of this amazing weekend of Baltic discovery, full of untold and personal stories of the complex past, the Cold War and recent changes in society.
The festival is produced by South Social Film Festival and promoted by the Embassy of Estonia, Embassy of Latvia, Embassy of Lithuania, Estonian Film Institute, Latvia Film Centre, Lithuanian Film Centre, Latvia 100 and Lithuanian Culture Institute. More info available here. Programme - 14.00 Dawn of War (2020), directed by Margus Paju (Estonia) 1h 40min
A spy thriller about an Estonian intelligence officer, who has to track down a mysterious Soviet double agent on the eve of WWII.
Followed by live Q&A with Olle Mirme, one of the screenwriters. - 16.30 Wild East (2021), directed by Matīss Kaža (Latvia) 1h 35min
A runaway bride, a young peasant, mysterious illusionists and a manic investigator become entwined in a murderous affair at a Baltic German baron’s manor.
Followed by live Q&A with Matīss Kaža. - 20.00 In the Mirror (2020), directed by Laila Pakalniņa (Lithuania)
1h 30min
The story riffs on the legend of Snow White to tell a profusely inventive and wit-filled contemporary tale where self-obsession and grief are countered by hope and kindness.
Followed by live Q&A with Laila Pakalniņa.
All day tickets: £25; individual films: £12, concession (senior, student and under 25) £10. Click below to purchase from TicketTailor. |
|
 | Gothique Film Society presents; Dark Intruder (1965) & The Ghost of Sierra De Cobre (1965), Friday December 3rd @ 7pm The Gothique Film Society continues its 55th season and is delighted that acclaimed author, critic and broadcaster Kim Newman will be introducing a couple of lesser known genre films – Dark Intruder and The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre. Dark Intruder (USA/1965/59mins), directed by Harvey Hart and starring Leslie Nielsen and Mark Richman. In the first of our double bill of intriguing TV pilots, police call in occult expert Brett Kingsford to help solve series of murders in which the victims have been savagely clawed. The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre (USA/1965/81mins), directed by Joseph Stefano and starring Martin Landau and Judith Anderson. Architect and occult investigator Nelson Orion is called in when a rich blind man starts getting phone calls direct from the crypt of his late mother, who was obsessed with a fear of premature burial.
Individual tickets for each show are £8 and can either be purchased via Ticketlab or on the door.
Alternatively, Gothique Film Society membership subscriptions are available. The subscription for all six shows each season is £30.00. For further enquiries about membership, please contact Dave Simpson david.simpson399@btinternet.com or Simon Davies j_s_davies@hotmail.com or come along and join up on the door. |
|
 | Exploding Cinema's 30th Birthday Celebration, Saturday December 4th @ 6pm Exploding Cinema celebrates three decades of flicks, light tricks and spilled beer by looking back on 30 years of movies with a programme stuffed with relics from yesteryear, classics of tomorrow and the very best of everything in between. For something as transient and of-its-time as a group of 1991 Anarchists showing super 8 films on the wall of a squatted sun tan oil factory, Exploding Cinema has inexplicably romped through thirty years and is still running today.
For this epic celebration, we've pulled out all the stops: Live music, the infamous Raffle, food, drink, the Cinema Museum’s incredible permanent collection of Movie history and our trademark twenty projectors of all ages coating the walls with moving images to saturate the brain.
It may take us another 30 years to come down from this one, and by then Robots will have taken over so we can put our feet up. But for now this show is the one to come to if you want to find out why we’ve been alive longer than most of our Audience. More info can be found here Advance tickets are £7 and can be purchased from Ticketlab. Alternatively, you can call 020 7840 2200 to purchase direct from the Museum during office hours, or simply buy on the door. |
|
 | Musical Sunday presents; The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), Sunday December 5th @ 2pm Musical Sunday presents a seasonal screening of The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), starring Michael Caine, along with Kermit, Miss Piggy et al. The first film to be made following Jim Henson’s death, and directed by his son Brian, this is a fairly faithful version of Charles Dickens’s classic tale, with all the regular puppets taking on the story’s many characters. Michael Caine plays it straight as Scrooge (“I’m going to play this movie like I’m working with the Royal Shakespeare Company”), and there is a fine set of songs courtesy of Paul Williams. A Christmas favourite!
Advance tickets are £9 - click below to purchase from Ticketlab. Alternatively, you can call 020 7840 2200 to purchase direct from the Museum during office hours. |
|
|
|
