Past Events Archive

Kennington Bioscope Seventh Silent Film Weekend – Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 April

Sat 20 Apr - Sun 21 Apr 2024 · Events

Kennington Bioscope presents its seventh Silent Film Festival, with the support of The Cinema Museum. This year along with our usual themes of rarely seen gems, restorations, and discoveries we are looking at the year of 1924 with many films on 35mm or from 35mm nitrate scans.

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Kennington Noir presents The Killers (1946)

Wed 17 Apr 2024 @ 19:30 · Events

In this classic noir, Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner star as a former boxer, 'Swede' Anderson, and his glamourous but dangerous girlfriend, Kitty.

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The Blinking Buzzards – 13 April

Sat 13 Apr 2024 @ 16:00 · Events

The UK Buster Keaton Society. Quarterly meeting of the society dedicated to the appreciation of the silent comedian.

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Women and Cocaine presents Female (1933)

Fri 12 Apr 2024 @ 19:30 · Events

Women and Cocaine are back this April with a special screening of the fabulous pre-Code film, Female (1933), starring classic Hollywood legend, Ruth Chatterton and directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, Mildred Pierce).

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Kennington Bioscope presents The Last Edition (1925)

Wed 10 Apr 2024 @ 19:30 · Events

Kennington Bioscope presents Emory Johnson's crime drama, set in the pressroom of the San Francisco Chronicle, and until recently considered lost.

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50th Anniversary screening of Swallows and Amazons (1974) plus Q&A

Sat 6 Apr 2024 @ 14:00 · Events

This year is the 50th anniversary of the much loved movie, based on Arthur Ransome's childrens classic. For this special screening, we will be reuniting the crew of the Swallow, Simon West, Sophie Neville, Stephen Grendon and Suzanna Hamilton, along with writer David Wood who wrote the screenplay.

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Cinema Brazil presents Èṣù and the Universe (2022)

Thu 4 Apr 2024 @ 19:00 · Events

In Brazil, a country where religious freedom is under attack and racism is a systemic issue, a Nigerian professor and his community fight to prove their god Èṣù is not the Devil.

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The Nickel presents The Getaway (1972) on 16mm Film

Wed 3 Apr 2024 @ 19:30 · Events

The Nickel presents a series of road films, starting with Sam Peckinpah's brutal Texan noir presented on 16mm film. Based on Walter Hill's adapted screenplay of the Jim Thompson novel, The Getaway stars Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw.