2006 Festival
The 9th British Silent Cinema Festival
Channel Crossings
Anglo-European film relations before 1930 - Part Two
The British Silent Cinema Festival is a partnership between Broadway and the British Film Institute and exists to showcase British Cinema made before 1930.
2006 Timetable now available here
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The festival:
- Special Nottingham preview of David Thompson’s Silent Britain – a 90 minute documentary on this neglected period of our cinema history largely inspired by this very event!
- European travelogues from the Joye Collection – from snail farming in France to a canal side funeral in Holland, in glorious stencil colour
- Special presentation by Luke McKernan on Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee
- Presentations on: The European cinema after the Paris Congresses of 1909, The Italian Epic and the rise of the feature film, Family History for Film Historians, Continental cinema cards, Early Newsfilm, The influence of the Film Society on British Film Culture, Film Europe and the Stoll Sacha Collaboration, the French Film D’Art and the British Cinema, Three versions of The Informer, British International Pictures and John Maxwell in Europe.
Screenings of over a dozen rare archive films will include:
Special screening of Hitchcock’s Downhill (1927) at St. Peter’s Church
The Constant Nymph (1928) Adrian Brunel's version of Margaret Kennedy and Basil Dean’s classic play starring Ivor Novello
The Alley Cat (1929) The British version of Hans Steinhoff's thrilling murder mystery
Weekend Wives (1928). A racy comedy set in the favourite 20s French resort of Deauville with Jameson Thomas star of Piccadilly
The Road to Happiness (1926) directed by Michael Curtiz with Lily Damita and Jack Trevor
The Skin Game (1920) Anglo-Dutch version of Galsworthy’s play later remade by Alfred Hitchcock again starring Edmund Gwenn (Miracle of 34th St) courtesy of our friends at the Netherlands Film Archive
Flames of Passion (1922) Directed by Graham Cutts (The Rat) and photographed by great French DP René Guissart (Ben Hur).
Daughter of the Regiment (1928) a newly discovered Betty Balfour film from Germany.
Fred Paul’s Grand Guignol series of macabre tales.
The Wooing of Eve (1926) strange comedy with Warwick Ward.
Terje Vigen (1917) to celebrate Ibsen’s 150th Anniversary.
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The Festival is organised by Broadway, Nottingham and the British Film Institute.
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