The Cinema Museum - Farewell, My Lovely (1975), Jason & The Argonauts (1960), Three On A Match (1932), Ingeborg Holm (1913), Naked Tango (1990

Farewell, My Lovely (1975) September 18th Jason & The Argonauts (1960) September 20th Three On A Match (1932) September 24th Ingeborg Holm (1913) September 25th Naked Tango (1990) September 26th Kennington Noir presents; Farewell, My Lovely (1975), Wednesday September 18th @ 7:30pm Farewell, My Lovely (1975) is directed by Dick Richards, and stars Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles and Harry Dean Stanton. An ex-con hires private eye Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) to find his girlfriend Velma, a lounge singer. Marlowe also goes on a routine ransom exchange for a jade necklace, and gets knocked out and framed for murder. This is an atmospheric colour remake of noir classic Murder My Sweet (1944). It captures perfectly the mood of 1940s LA, and is closer to the original Raymond Chandler book than the 1944 film. Not to be confused with the less successful follow-up The Big Sleep (1978) relocating Marlowe to London. 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 Fantasy/Animation Series Screening of Jason & The Argonauts (1960), Friday September 20th @ 7:30pm The first of a series of Fantasy/Animation screenings curated by Christopher Holliday and Alexander Sergeant is: Jason and the Argonauts (1963), directed by Don Chaffey, and made in collaboration with stop-motion animation master Ray Harryhausen. Harryhausen regarded the film as his best, and it is notable for the iconic fight scene featuring seven skeleton warriors. The film also features a score by Bernard Herrmann. Animator Astrid Goldsmith has kindly agreed to take part in a Q&A following the screening. Astrid, who runs Mock Duck Studios, will also show her 2-minute monster movie Polymer, which was inspired by Jason and the Argonauts and has a mix of puppet animation and humans. It was made in 8 weeks as a commission for SALT, a festival of the sea and environment. Tickets are £6 and can be purchased from Ticketlab, or call 020 7840 2200 to purchase direct from the Museum during office hours. Women & Cocaine presents; Three On A Match (1932), Tuesday September 24th @ 7:30pm Women & Cocaine Presents is a new film night at the Cinema Museum to celebrate the fierce and liberated women of Pre-Code cinema. From the period of 1930 to 1934, before the introduction of censorship (known as the Hays Code), women were depicted in roles with a frankness and sex-positivity that remains rare even today. These newly independent women pushed gender boundaries as they pursued their own economic freedom and excitement, defying the previous Victorian ideals of domesticity, sexual purity and religion. Hollywood soon caught on and began to represent these women on screen. This month we celebrate the Pre-Code Queens Bette Davis, Joan Blondell & Ann Dvorak in the nail biting crime drama Three on a Match from 1932. Find out more here. Advance tickets are £9 - click below to purchase from Eventbrite.  If you would prefer to pay on the door, the price will be the same, (although £8 concession is available if you present valid ID on the night). Buy Now Kennington Bioscope presents; Ingeborg Holm (1913), Wednesday September 25th @ 7:30pm The 1913 Swedish film Ingeborg Holm is a social drama directed by Victor Sjöström, who later worked in Hollywood under the anglicised surname Seastrom. Reportedly based on a true story, it was adapted from a 1906 stage play by Nils Krok, who co-wrote the screenplay with Sjöström. While one needs to be wary of naming any `firsts’ in movie history, Ingeborg Holm has been called the first true narrative film, chronicling the misfortunes of a widow (Hilda Borgström) whose deteriorating health leads to dependence on the Workhouse and estrangement from her children. The film prompted debate in Sweden over such conditions and brought about changes to the law. The first half of the evening will be a screening of Maurice Tourneur’s The Wishing Ring (1914), a beautiful 16mm amber print introduced by Kevin Brownlow and from his collection. Find out more here. Tickets are £6, but seats are limited.  To avoid disappointment, please request an invitation using the email kenbioscope@gmail.com. Screening of Naked Tango (1990) with Samira Ahmed in conversation, Thursday September 26th @ 7:30pm The Cinema Museum are pleased to be hosting a 35mm presentation of Naked Tango (1990). Before the film there will be a variety of clips and discussion on the film and the career of Leonard Schrader with acclaimed journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed and film curator and historian The Celluloid Sorceress (Rebecca Nicole Williams). By generous permission of David Weisman, the producer of the film, all proceeds of this screening will go to the #SaveTheCinemaMuseum campaign fund. Leonard Schrader’s single solo directorial film was a troubled production that only received a minor release. Never released on DVD or blu-ray, the long out of print VHS is considered a collector’s item. Naked Tango screens here from an archive 35mm print. Find out more here. Donations at the door please, minimum £5, more if you can afford it. There are no pre-sales for this event.

The Cinema Museum - Imitation of Life, 1985, An Old Gangster’s Molls, #WalkToPalestine talk, The Bill Reunion, Juliet Lawson

Imitation of Life (1934) February 3rd VITO screening of 1985 (2018) February 3rd An Old Gangster’s Molls (1927) February 6th #WalkToPalestine talk with Benjamin Ladraa February 7th Misty Moon - The Bill Reunion 3 February 9th Juliet Lawson in concert February 10th Kennington Talkies presents Imitation of Life (1934), Sunday February 3rd @ 2:30pm Following our screening of the 1959 Douglas Sirk remake of Imitation of Life as part of the Ross Hunter season, your chance to see the 1934 version of Fannie Hurst’s bestseller, directed by John M. Stahl. Claudette Colbert plays a young widow and single mother, who employs a black cook (Louise Beavers) to help look after her daughter. The two women start a successful business, but racial issues are never far away... Full supporting programme. Tickets £6 VITO screening of 1985 (2018), Sunday February 3rd @ 7:30pm The VITO Project is teaming up with AIDS Memory UK Campaign(#AIDSMemoryUKCampaign), StopAIDS & Youth Stop AIDS and GMFA to present a special screening of 1985, a 2018 award-winning US film directed by Yen Tan. This screening is courtesy of Peccadillo Pictures. Texas, Christmas 1985 – Adrian is home for the first time in three years having moved on from the repressed life he left behind. Between his mother’s warm affection, his father’s begrudging, stilted conversation and his younger brother Andrew’s cold shoulder, Adrian is all too aware of the impact his absence has had on them. The film will be followed by a post-screening discussion. Tickets £6 Kennington Bioscope presents An Old Gangster’s Molls (1927), Wednesday February 6th @ 7:30pm Our main feature is An Old Gangster’s Molls (The Lovers of an Old Criminal) (1927), directed by Svatopluk Innemann. This is a restored Czech crazy slapstick comedy about the factory owner Mr Pardon and his uncle Mr Monday, who swap their identities and invent incredible stories to escape marriage and be with their beloveds. Starring one of Alfred Hitchcock’s muses Anny Ondra and “the King of Czech Comedians” Vlasta Burian, this silent movie excels for its original slapstick, especially the mélange of invented murders, chases, and doppelgänger scenes. £5. Seats are limited, so please request an invitation using the email kenbioscope@gmail.com. #WalkToPalestine talk with Benjamin Ladraa, Thursday February 7th @ 7:00pm In August 2017, Swedish human rights activist Benjamin Ladraa set off on a walking journey to Palestine from Sweden to raise awareness about the question of Palestine and the plight of the Palestinians under Israeli occupation. In this event, Benjamin will talk about his journey, the people he met on the road and life in Palestine as he saw it. Free admission. Places are limited, so please register via the Eventbrite webpage. Misty Moon Presents The Bill Reunion 3, Saturday February 9th @ 7:30pm After the huge success of the last two The Bill reunions, Misty Moon is proud to announce The Bill Reunion 3. Misty Moon’s MC Linda Regan, who has appeared in several episodes of The Bill, will be chairing the Q&A. There will be a meet and greet after the Q&A where the guests will also be taking part in a paid signing. A complete list of guests can be found on our website page. Get tickets to The Bill Reunion 3 Juliet Lawson – All These Days Concert, Sunday February 10th @ 7:45pm Juliet Lawson will be performing with her band at the Cinema Museum. The concert will be filmed for inclusion in an upcoming documentary based on her 8mm footage of her extensive travels. More about Juliet's career and travels on our website page. Get tickets for the Juliet Lawson – All These Days Concert

The Cinema Museum - Blinking Buzzards, Kennington Talkies, Kennington Bioscope, Casablanca Screening

Blinking Buzzards January 5th Kennington Talkies January 6th Kennington Bioscope January 9th Casablanca Screening January 12th Blinking Buzzards, Saturday January 5th, 4pm-7pm 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 Sherlock Jr. (1924). Buster plays a film theatre projectionist in love with a beautiful girl (Kathryn McGuire). When his love rival fingers him for the theft of her father’s watch, all seems lost, but while falling asleep in the projection booth, he dreams that he becomes Sherlock Jr. and solves the crime. Sherlock Jr. is famed for its special effects and in-camera tricks. Kevin Brownlow reports that Keaton told him “every cameraman in the business went to see that picture more than once trying to figure out how the hell we did some of that.” Entry is free to members and annual membership is available to purchase on the door (£10). Advance tickets are £8.50 (£6.50 concessions) and may be purchased from Billetto, or direct from the Museum by calling 020 7840 2200 during office hours. If you would prefer to buy tickets on the door, the price will be £10 (£7 concessions). Kennington Talkies presents; Song of The Thin Man (1947), Sunday January 6th @ 2:30pm The sixth and last Thin Man film is directed by Edward Buzzell, from a script by Steve Fisher and Nat Perrin. Also starring Phillip Reed, Keenan Wynn and Jayne Meadows, as well as Dean Stockwell as Nick Jr., and Gloria Grahame as a singer (although her voice was dubbed by Carol Arden). Tommy Drake, the leader of a jazz band in killed aboard a gambling ship where he was performing. The ship’s owner, Phil Brant, who is the prime suspect, turns up at Nick and Nora’s apartment asking for help. When he is then shot at, Nick turns him in to the police, deciding this is the safest place for Brandt to be while he investigates… Advance tickets are £6 - click below to purchase from Billetto, or call 020 7840 2200 during office hours to purchase direct from the Museum. Purchase Tickets Kennington Bioscope presents; A Modern Musketeer (1917) & The Good Bad Man (1916), Wednesday January 9th @ 7:30pm We start the New Year with a Douglas Fairbanks double bill, Allan Dwan’s A Modern Musketeer (1917) and The Good Bad Man (1916), introduced by Kevin Brownlow. In the first, Fairbanks plays a restless young man in rural Kansas who dreams of being a hero like the Three Musketeers. The film was shot on location at several Arizona landmarks, including the Grand Canyon. This is a 35mm presentation, courtesy of Patrick Stanbury. The second, The Good Bad Man with Bessie Love is among Fairbanks’s earliest films to explore themes and ideas that recurred throughout his work — including issues of identity and a passion for the history of the American West. Tickets are £5, but seats are limited.  To avoid disappointment, please request an invitation using the email kenbioscope@gmail.com. Best Pick Screening presents; Casablanca (1942), Saturday January 12th @ 2:30pm A screening of the classic wartime romance starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. It was nominated for eight Oscars in 1943, and won for Best Picture, Best Director (Michael Curtiz) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch). Based on an unproduced stage play called ‘Everybody Comes to Rick’s’, Casablanca (1942) is set amongst a group of characters stranded in the North African town by the war. Bar-owner Rick (Bogart) must choose between his love for Elsa (Bergman) and the need for her and her husband, Czech Resistance leader Victor (Paul Henreid), to escape back to Europe and continue the struggle against the Nazis. The screening will be preceded and followed by the recording of the Best Pick Podcast. Advance tickets are £6 - click below to purchase from Billetto, or call 020 7840 2200 during office hours to purchase direct from the Museum. Purchse Tickets

The Cinema Museum - Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971), An Evening With Martine Beswick, Madame X (1966), Cinema Museum bookstall and Christmas cards

Cinema Museum Bookstall, Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971) & An Evening With Martine Beswick December 8th Madame X (1966) December 13th and Museum Christmas cards Cinema Museum Bookstall Sat 8 Dec 2018 @ 14:00 The Cinema Museum Bookstall is open to all between 14.00 and 17.00. Admission free. In addition to books, magazines and stills there will be some films, equipment and other items surplus to our requirements. We also have a range of Christmas cards for sale. Designs are: Santa Claus Conquers The Martians; Jane Russell dresses her Xmas tree; Our Gang wait for Santa to visit; A Silent Movie Xmas; A Trap for Santa Claus; Joan Leslie waves in a festive fashion. All A5 size with envelope and hand made by a Cinema Museum elf! You can also buy a pack of all six designs via our online shop. Screening of Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971) Sat 8 Dec 2018 @ 17:00 Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971) is a classic Hammer horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker. The film was their third adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella, and is notable for showing Jekyll transform into a female Hyde. The two characters are played by the film’s stars, Ralph Bates and Martine Beswick. Admission £5 Misty Moon Presents An Evening With Martine Beswick Sat 8 Dec 2018 @ 20:00 Come and spend an evening with Bond Girl Martine Beswick. She was cast in the second film From Russia with Love(1963) as the fiery gypsy girl, Zora and engaged in a “catfight” scene with her rival Vida. She then appeared as the ill-fated Paula Caplan in Thunderball(1965). She went on to appear in One Million Years B.C. (1966) opposite Raquel Welch, with whom she also engaged in a catfight, followed by other Hammer Studio films, including the gender-bending Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971). Martine will be interviewed by Misty Moon’s MC Linda Regan, and then take part in a paid signing. More details here. Purchase Tickets Magnificent Obsessions: The Films of Ross Hunter presents Madame X(1966) Thu 13 Dec 2018 @ 19:30 Madame X, directed by David Lowell Rich, was the fifth American remake of the work by French playwright Alexandre Bisson, starring Lana Turner as a lower class woman who marries into a wealthy family who look down on her and her wretched past. This film is not subtle. It’s tawdry, trashy and crazy fun. And to quote critic Pauline Kael: “With almost every line a howler, this is a camp special.” Madame X is “A Ross Hunter Production” from start to finish. Not to be missed. Tickets £6

The Cinema Museum - TCM Events: Truth Behind The Headlines, First Time Tragedy, Fringe, Vito Project

The Truth Behind The Headlines January 23rd, First Time Tragedy January 26th, Fringe January 28th, Vito Project January 31st Unite presents; Belonging, The Truth Behind The Headlines (2017), Tues 23rd Jan 2018 @ 7pm Join Unite for a special screening of Belonging: The Truth Behind the Headlines (2017). This multi-awardwinning film tells the vitally important story about recent trade unionism and government. Belonging is an investigative feature-length documentary about where power lies in the United Kingdom. Re-examining events surrounding three industrial disputes, three governments and over three decades, the film shows the impact of government and corporate power on democracy and human rights not just for trade unionists, but for all. In this film there are many reveals – not least a secret government plan to destroy community and collectivism. Belonging uses documents clearly showing what has long been suspected by many but not proven – until now. Heart wrenching personal stories are told by those at the centre of these industrial disputes, not only highlighting the impact of the actions of those in power on individuals and communities, but also raising the question of what lies ahead. From Murdoch’s purchase of The Times and The Sunday Times in 1981 through the News International dispute (1986/7), Royal Mail as it prepared for privatisation (2007/8), and a dispute at the Grangemouth Oil Refinery in Scotland (2013), Belonging explores what has happened behind closed doors of successive UK governments and the resulting impact on people’s human rights. Power: “who has it, and what do they do with it?” is as relevant today as it ever was.  Find out more here Advance tickets are £5 (£2 for Unite members) - click below to purchase from Billetto, or call 020 7840 2200 to purchase direct from the museum during office hours. Buy Now Australia Day screening of First Time Tragedy Second Time Farce (1989), Friday 26th January @ 7:30pm To celebrate Australia Day, a screening of First Time Tragedy Second Time Farce (1989), a documentary written, produced and directed by John Cumming, Jane Madsen and James Swinson.   In 1988 the Australian and British Governments with multinational sponsors embarked upon a programme of cultural events to mark 200 years of European settlement in Australia. First Time Tragedy Second Time Farce follows the theatrical history lesson of the re-enacted voyage of the First Fleet of British ships that settled Australia in 1788 – framing other histories and experiences. Aboriginal people travelled thousands of kilometres across Australia and brought their fight for Land Rights and Self Determination to Sydney Harbour. Their protest was echoed by immigrants resounding against the celebrations of a state that had marginalised difference.  Find out more here. Advance tickets are £5 - click below to purchase via Billetto or call 020 7840 2200 during office hours to purchase direct from the Museum. Buy Now Fringe! Presents a programme of films curated by Liz Rosenfeld, Sunday 28th January @ 6:30pm Fringe! are excited to welcome back festival alumnus Liz Rosenfeld for a special event at The Cinema Museum in two parts, featuring a new film made during her recent Goethe at Lux residency alongside a curated programme of works from the LUX film archive based on research on her forthcoming feature film Foxes. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Liz Rosenfeld. A selection of works will be shown on 16mm.  Find out more here. Advance tickets are £10 and can be purchased from Outsavvy The Vito Project presents; Valencia (2013) Wednesday 31st January @ 7pm ReShape and the Cinema Museum present the third season of the VITO Project, a series of free monthly screenings bringing generations of LGBTs together to provide an alternative space to mix, watch films and share ideas. The Vito Project presents Valencia, a 2013 experimental feature collaboration of 18 directors each adapting a chapter of Michelle Tea’s award winning queer memoir of the same name. Valencia is a collaboration between a national community of queer filmmakers to adapt the underground classic memoir into a kaleidoscopic vision of San Francisco’s vibrant Mission District in the early 1990s, before the dot-com apocalypse, when the neighborhood functioned as a low-rent playground for a generation of punk lesbians who came of age during the birth of the Queer Nation. Valencia documents the rise of a punk lesbian diaspora through the experience of Michelle, a single rootless twenty-something searching for sex and love, drugs and adventure.  Find out more here. This is a free event but we need your donations on the night to ensure the continuation of the VITO project. Donations are VITO’s only source of funding and we need to raise an average of £5 per person just to cover our costs. So PLEASE DIG DEEP and give us a donation if you are able to.

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The Cinema Museum - TCM Events - Alborada, Kennington Noir, Evening With Claire Bloom, Misty Moon Book Launch

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Alborada October 1st, Kennington Noir October 12th, Evening With Claire Bloom October 14th, Misty Moon Book Launch November 12th Alborada presents; The Cambridge Squatter, Sun October 1st @ 7pm Alborada presents the Brazilian film The Cambridge Squatter (Era o Hotel Cambridge) (2017), followed by a Skype Q&A with Director Elaine Caffe and Art Director Carla Caffé. The Q&A will be chaired by Victor Fraga (editor of DMovies) and journalist Maysa Monção. Eliane Caffe’s docu-fiction hybrid Era O Hotel Cambridge charts the trials, tribulations and triumphs of homeless people and refugees living in an abandoned hotel in Sao Paulo, Brazil.  Click here for more info. Advance tickets are £6 (£5 concessions) - click below to purchase from TicketSource or  call 020 7840 2200 to purchase direct from the Museum during office hours. Albarado will also show a screening of Gas Leaks (2014) @ 2pm - more info here.  Advance tickets are £6 (£5 concessions) and can be purchased from TicketSource or  call 020 7840 2200 to purchase direct from the Museum during office hours. If you'd rather pay for both films in one, the advance ticket price is £10 (£8 concessions). Buy Now Kennington Noir presents; Pitfall (1948) Thurs 12th Oct @ 7:30pm Directed by Andre de Toth and starring Dick Powell and Lizabeth Scott, post war American bliss is shaken to its core in this tale of the company man’s discontent. By the time of this film’s release, Dick Powell had already established himself in the dark streets of celluloid crime with films like Murder My Sweet(1944), Cornered (1945) and Johnny O’Clock (1947). Powell had a kind of every day man’s look, and it fits perfectly here in his role as Johnny Forbes, insurance company claims investigator who is tempted into infidelity. Meanwhile Lizabeth Scott had considerable noir pedigree in films such as The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), I Walk Alone (1947), and Dead Reckoning (1947), and Raymond Burr is perfect as a sleazy private investigator. According to Madeleine Stowe, guest host on the May 21 2016 Turner Classic Movies screening of this film, the production was in trouble because the script violated the Hayes Code, as the adulterer was insufficiently punished. When director De Toth found out, he met with two senior Hayes Code members, whom he had selected with care. De Toth revealed that he knew the two were both married and both had mistresses. There were no problems after that. With supporting programme and an introduction from Kulraj Phullar from Kings College London. 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 An Evening With Claire Bloom, Sat 14th Oct @ 7:30opm The Cinema Museum is pleased to welcome Claire Bloom CBE for an evening discussing her career on stage, film and television with Jonathan Rigby. Claire Bloom made her stage debut at 15, and was soon appearing as Ophelia in Hamlet opposite Paul Schofield, and in Christopher Fry’s The Lady’s Not For Burning with John Gielgud and a young Richard Burton. Other notable appearances were in Look Back in Anger, Romeo and Juliet, Hedda Gabler, and as Blanche DuBois in a London revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, which was much admired by author Tennessee Williams. She made her major film debut in Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight (1952), in which she plays a suicidal ballerina, and this led to international fame. She has appeared on screen in a great number of films, including Richard III (1955), Look Back in Anger (1958), The Haunting (1963), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), A Doll’s House (1973), Clash of the Titans (1981), Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and The King’s Speech(2010).  Find out more here Advance tickets are £14 (£13 concessions) - click below to purchase from Billetto or  call 020 7840 2200 to purchase direct from the Museum during office hours.  If you would rather purchase on the door, tickets will be £15 (£14 concessions). Buy Now Misty Moon presents; The Professionals Book Launch Sun Nov 12th @ 2:30pm The Professionals was a British crime-action television drama series, with 57 episodes filmed between 1977 and 1981. It starred Martin Shaw, Lewis Collins and Gordon Jackson as agents of the fictional ‘CI5’ (a reference to the real-life MI5). This is the book launch of The Professionals, written by Bob Rocca. It’s an encyclopedia of everything you ever wanted to know about the hit show. Hosted by Misty Moon’s Linda Regan, the afternoon will consist of clips from the series and special Q&A panels with guests who have appeared in the programme. There will also be a chance to meet the guests, get autographs and purchase the book. Confirmed guests include: Julian Vogt (who is the co-author of the book), Diane Keen, Judy Matheson, Gary Shail, Pat Quinn, Derek Lyons, James Faulkner, Felicity Dean, Mike Kemp, George Clemens, Samuel Clemens, Sara Walkden, Ahmed El Shenawi with many more to be announced. Advanced tickets are £10 and can be purchased from Billetto, or direct from the Museum by calling 020 7840 2200 duing office hours.