Mitchell & KenyonPast Festivals - 2005
- BBC Radio interview with Laraine Porter - Festival Director
- 2005 Timetable now available (subject to confirmation)
- Programme Notes for this year's Festival available
- Bursaries for Post-Graduate Students now available
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Our theme for this year's British Silent Cinema Festival is the relationship between the Cinema of Europe and Britain, in the exchange of ideas, personnel, themes and aesthetics.
The festival is a unique celebration of British Cinema before 1930 and includes rarely seen and recently discovered films all accompanied by internationally acclaimed silent film musicians. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in silent cinema or in British social and cultural history.
Highlights for 2005 include:- "Electric Edwardians: the films of Mitchell & Kenyon" - St Peter's Church hosts this special presentation of M&K films including films of Edwardian Nottingham never seen in public before.
- Early films by world class directors such as Michael Curtiz, Alexander Korda and Anthony Asquith.
- Rare European travelogues depicting travel to cities such as Paris in 1900, The medieval splendors of Dresden, filmed a couple of decades before Allied bombing flattened its many beautiful landmarks and 1910s Amsterdam.
- Landmark adaptations of our common European literary and theatrical heritage such as Dumas and Shakespeare.
- Feature films include the stunning melodrama The Woman He Scorned (1928) starring Pola Negri, filmed at Mevagissey on the Cornish coast, E.A. Duponts early talkie about the Titanic disaster, Atlantic (1929) and Hamlet (1920) starring Asta Nielen in the title role.
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