The Cinema Museum, London

Elstree 1976 – SORRY EVENT CANCELLED

Mon 12 Dec 2016 @ 19:00 · Events

Elstree 1976 posterMuch more than just a documentary about Star Wars, Elstree 1976 is a movie about what happens to the lives of ordinary people when they find themselves tangentially associated with a cultural juggernaut.

Over the summer of 1976, a wide array of North American and British actors, along with an inexhaustible supply of film extras, donned crazy costumes and headgear to populate George Lucas’s universe. Few of them understood what the film even was, let alone the global cultural impact it would have. Filmmaker Jon Spira has tracked down a cross-section of these people and explored the bizarre community they have formed, to find out what it means to exist in the shadow of such a phenomenon.

Director Jon Spira is a documentary filmmaker based in London. His first film Anyone Can Play Guitar was named one of the top ‘music films you must see’ by the NME. His films tend to be about people who exist in the shadows of pop-culture success. Jon makes his feature documentaries in his spare time, whilst working as an in-house documentary filmmaker for the British Film Institute.

Canal Cat Films’ independent cinema tour in support of the UK release includes a post-screening director and cast Q&A, including Laurie Goode (the Stormtrooper who banged his head) and Anthony Forrest (“These aren’t the droids we’re looking for” Stormtrooper). The film is released in the UK on iTunes and special edition DVD by Soda Pictures on 14 November 2016.

Doors open at 18.00, for a 19.00 start.

Refreshments will be available in our licensed cafe/bar.

TICKETS & PRICING

Autumn Season 2016 ticketing applies.

Advance tickets may be purchased from Billetto, or direct from the Museum by calling 020 7840 2200 in office hours.
Elstree 1976