Recipient of an honorary Oscar in 2010, renowned film historian Kevin Brownlow explains and demonstrates the rapid progression of film techniques during the silent era, from films lasting a minute, showing one shot, to massive epics with stunning photography and editing.
Past Events Archive
Those Surprising Silents: Kevin Brownlow
Thu 14 Apr 2011 @ 19:30 · Events
NEW EVENT 14th British Silent Film Festival: What Next? (1928) + shorts
Sat 9 Apr 2011 @ 18:00 · Events
The recently rediscovered What Next? (UK 1928, dir. Walter Forde, 60 min) is one of a series of comedy features made by popular British comedian Walter Forde, who stars here as a bric-a-brac salesman who unwittingly buys a valuable antique candlestick that is also being sought by a deranged archaeologist with a Napoleon complex.
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Peggy Cummins in Conversation with Jo Botting
Sat 2 Apr 2011 @ 19:30 · Events
British actress Peggy Cummins made her film debut in Hollywood aged 15, and is perhaps best known for her starring role as a trigger happy femme fatale in cult noir Gun Crazy. She is in conversation with BFI Fiction Editor Jo Botting.
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SORRY – SOLD OUT! Wallace, Gromit & Shaun the Sheep Storyboard Workshop
Sat 2 Apr 2011 @ 12.00 & 14.00 · Events
Top story artist, Jay Clarke, who has worked on Aardman Animation’s Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Shaun the Sheep and many other award winning TV shows and films, presents a unique storyboard workshop for kids (age limit 6-12) at the Cinema Museum.
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David Rose: My Journey Together
Thu 31 Mar 2011 @ 19:30 · Events
David Rose discusses half a century of working in theatre, television and cinema, from being the first producer of Z Cars to founding Channel 4's Film on Four. Between 1981 and 1990 David commissioned136 films, working with, amongst others, Mike Leigh, Alan Bleasdale, Willy Russell and Stephen Frears.
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Anna May Wong Evening: Frosted Yellow Willows (documentary) + Song (1928)
Sat 26 Mar 2011 @ 19:30 · Events
Our programme this evening showcases the life and work of Chinese American actress Anna May Wong, who defied cultural and legal barriers to achieve stardom in silent and talking pictures. A documentary about her will be followed by a Q&A with the director and a screening of the rarely-seen 1928 film Song, aka Schmutziges Geld (German)/Show Life (UK), featuring Anna in one of her classic roles.
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Once Upon a Time in Italy – The Westerns of Sergio Leone: Sir Christopher Frayling
Fri 18 Mar 2011 @ 19:30 · Events
Professor Sir Christopher Frayling discusses the Western films of the Italian director/screenwriter Sergio Leone, with extracts from his ‘Dollars Trilogy’, Once Upon a Time in the West and A Fistful of Dynamite.
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A Conversation with Shirley Anne Field
Sat 5 Mar 2011 @ 19:30 · Events
Our Spring Season opening event is an evening with Shirley Anne Field. Her first sizeable role was in Michael Powell's notorious Peeping Tom (1960). This was followed by a string of classic British movies including Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Damned and Alfie.
