Past Events Archive

Donald MacKenzie, the organist from the Odeon Leicester Square, presents Erich von Stroheim's silent version of The Merry Widow and plays the piano accompaniment.

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Marking the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination, this new documentary explores the back story of Lee Harvey Oswald: his bizarre transformation from US Marine radar operator in Japan, to 20-year-old Marxist defector, pro-Castro activist in New Orleans, and self-proclaimed patsy in Dallas.

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Enjoy this milestone of Whovian history in the company of fellow fans, special guests, and big screen Technicolor Daleks. More details to be announced!

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Star of Weimar silents including The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, later a villain in Casablanca, from 1932-1940 Veidt starred in 13 British features and became a potent symbol of anti-Nazi opposition. Film maker and historian Tom Hamilton gives an illustrated talk on this fascinating period in Veidt's life and career.

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Powell and Pressburger scholars and Kathleen’s family pay tribute to the actress best known as the disturbed Sister Ruth in Black Narcissus, who also starred in A Matter of Life and Death and The Small Back Room.

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Jean Cocteau's retelling of the Orpheus myth with reference to the Second World War and the French resistance is a surreal cinematic tour de force. The film will be followed by an illuminating talk by Jon Davies, placing the film in its historical and cultural context.

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Alexandria Aileen Adamson will be here to entertain us, followed by a screening of acclaimed HBO film Normal, starring Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson, about the gender transition of Ruth Applewood, a transsexual woman who had been living as a man for 25 years of marriage.

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