Join our alternative Jubilee celebrations with the other Windsor – Queen of the Carry Ons, in conversation with Neil Brand. Her numerous film successes range from Sparrows Can’t Sing to The Boyfriend, after which she found a new audience as Peggy Mitchell in Eastenders.
Entries from March 29th, 2012
An Evening with Barbara Windsor
March 2012 · Events
An Evening with Barbara Windsor CHANGE OF DATE
March 2012 · News
We would like to apologise, but due to circumstances beyond our control Barbara Windsor has had to reschedule her event at the Cinema Museum, which will now go ahead on Wednesday 20 June (and NOT Saturday 2 June as previously advertised). We hope that all those who have pre-booked tickets will still be able to come along […]
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An Evening with Vera Day
March 2012 · Events
“The British Monroe” Vera Day talks to Steve Chibnall about her glamorous career, from early success in Carol Reed’s A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) to a memorable performance in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), with cult films such as Quatermass 2 and The Woman-Eater along the way.
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This special event is an affectionate portrait of the life of director and comedian Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, presented by much-loved comedy writer and broadcaster Barry Cryer. He will be joined onstage by renowned investigative writer David Yallop, who uncovered the incredible facts of the scandal that unjustly ruined Arbuckle’s career in his book “The Day The Laughter Stopped”. The ban on Arbuckle’s films has never been lifted in this country – so enjoy the illicit entertainment of some seldom-seen shorts and clips!
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~ A Tribute To Cinema’s Most Scandalous Publication ~ with discussion with Popbitch’s Camilla Wright and artist Nina Mae Fowler. Avant-garde film director and occultist Kenneth Anger’s infamous 1959 exposé has been banned, debunked by academics and adored by millions. Little Joe pays tribute with a screening of Nigel Finch’s 1991 BBC Arena documentary.
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To commemorate the disaster, a hundred years ago to this very day, film historian Luke McKernan presents films and extracts, fiction and non-fiction, genuine and fake, made at the time and in the years since, including a surviving non-fiction film from 1912. Plus Valentine Palmer talks about his book investigating the circumstances of the disaster, “Titanic … And the Strange Case of Great Uncle Bertie”.
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Cine Sisters – a series of live events
February 2012 · News
Our guests are five women with a wealth of experience of the film and television industries: composer Debbie Wiseman, Python muse Carol Cleveland, actress Sylvia Syms, “the British Monroe” Vera Day and Carry On’s Barbara Windsor. This is a collaboration with the Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre at De Montfort University.
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Sartorial Elegance at the Picture Palace
February 2012 · Uniforms
Our exhibition of original vintage cinema uniforms recalling the great days of fashion, tailoring and “going to the pictures” ran for 6 months from April-October 2013.
