On the 18th and 19th of June the Kennington Bioscope will present its second Silent Film Festival at the Cinema Museum. The event is expected to run from 10.00 till 22.15 on both Saturday and Sunday.
The programme is a collection of carefully selected and rarely screened films from around the world. The Kennington Bioscope is pleased to announce that this programme is curated in conjunction with the world famous historian and archivist Kevin Brownlow, along with revered writers and collectors Glenn Mitchell, Tony Fletcher, and David Wyatt. Live accompaniment by John Sweeney, Stephen Horne, Lillian Henley, Cyrus Gabrysch and Costas Fotopoulos.
Saturday Programme
10.00 The Head of the Family (UK 1922 Dir. H. Manning Haynes 60 mins 35mm) plus Barcelona (1927) and The Jest (1921)
11.40 Jazz Mad (USA 1928 Dir. F. Harmon Weight 70 mins 16mm)
LUNCH
14.20 Hara-Kiri (France 1928 Dir. Henri Debain, Marie-Louise Iribe 93mins 35mm)
16.20 A programme of shorts from the Film Society Archive 35mm
17.40 The Red Mill (USA 1927 Dir. Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle (as William Goodrich) 74 mins DVD)
DINNER
20.15 The Man Who Laughs (USA 1928 Dir. Paul Leni 110 mins 16mm)
Details of the Sunday programme here.
The Museum’s café and bar will be open throughout the event serving sandwiches, hot pastries, cakes, snacks, alchoholic beverges and hot & cold drinks.
The Museum will also be offering a lunch and dinner service. Lunch will be a selection of delicious sandwiches and hot soup. Dinner service will comprise of a hot and cold buffet dinner service. More details here.
Tickets & Pricing
Weekend Ticket £28 / One Day £16 / After 2pm £11. These are available online from Ticket Tailor.
