These screenings are a part of Scalarama (http://scalarama.screeningfilm.com), a month-long, UK-wide DIY film festival held every September.
1. Screening of 'The Magic Christian' and 'live' DVD commentary - 15 September, 2016 at 7.30 p.m. Venue: The Cinema Museum, 2 Dugard Way, London SE11 4TH
Tickets available at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-magic-christian-a-box-set-live-dvd-commentary-tickets-27347897297
Prices: £5 and £4 (unwaged). All the profits will be split between the Cinema Museum and Resonance 104.4 FM.
With streaming online services becoming the way that most of us watch films, DVD commentaries are becoming, if not a thing of the past, then certainly increasingly rare. Join Film scholar, critic and activist Roz Kaveney and friends for an experimental screening and broadcast on London’s arts radio station, Resonance FM, a recorded ‘live’ DVD commentary for the Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr starrer ‘The Magic Christian’.
Join us for a tangential and digressive conversation on ‘The Magic Christian’ - a film partly scripted by Terry ‘Easy Rider’ Southern from his comic novel, with Pythons Graham Chapman and John Cleese also having a hand in the screenplay (Cleese makes a cameo as a snidely smooth auctioneer). It’s a film depicting the other side of the swinging Sixties, and explores the darker side of the 'love and peace' version. ‘The Magic Christian’ is old fashioned in some of its attitudes yet oddly prescient of modern, hypercapitalist London. Watch the film and comment along.
2. A FREE Screening of Chaplin's 'The Immigrant' (1917) followed by a Chaplin walk - 24 September 2016 at 9.45 p.m Venue: The Cinema Museum, 2 Dugard Way, London SE11 4TH
Tickets: FREE but ticketed.
Tickets available at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chaplins-south-london-the-immigrant-tickets-27355363629
Starting at the Cinema Museum, Oval from 9:45pm on Saturday 24th September we’ll retrace the steps of local boy Charles Chaplin, ending up at his boyhood home in Kennington. Chaplin grew up in poverty. At seven, he was placed in a workhouse, the Cuckoo Schools, which is now Hanwell Community Centre, Westcott Crescent, Hanwell. One of Chaplin’s childhood homes is at 39 Methley Street. The Order of Water Rats put a commemorative plaque there. He went on to become the first international film star. When Chaplin was expelled from the United States in 1952 for his supposed Communist beliefs, his tramp character kicking an immigration officer up the behind in ‘The Immigrant’ was cited as evidence of his anti-Americanism.
We’ll project it near his plaque, with some appropriate live music. Join us to discover where Chaplin came from and where London’s going almost a century later. We’ll also be recording people’s thoughts about the film and about South London for broadcast on Resonance FM’s ‘Music for Films’. The film and the walk are both free. Charlie Chaplin moved freely, and so should we.
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