Dear All,
Hope we can tempt you to make the pilgrimage to Bristol for the Cary Comes Home festival which kicks off this Friday with a Christmassy screening of The Bishop's Wife, 5mins walk from Bristol Temple Meads station at 7pm.
The full programme is available below and you can book your tickets here: www.carycomeshome.co.uk
We've got all the versions of Cary from Cockney and Pre Code Cary to Angelic and Screwball Cary, with intros and panel discussions and our red-carpet gala screening of Charade is on Saturday night at one of the oldest cinemas in the world, the Curzon Community Cinema in Clevedon with cocktails, jazz and prizes for the best dressed.
Please share widely on our social media channels @carycomeshome.
Thanks and look forward to seeing some of you there!
All the best,
Charlotte
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Cary Comes Home 2022 Festival Programme
Friday 18 – Sunday 20 November 2022
The Fifth Cary Comes Home Festival takes its theme as “Class”, with accessible and inclusive film screenings, panel discussions and expanded cinema events that celebrate the working-class heritage of Archibald Leach. Born in Bristol in 1904 as the son of a tailor’s presser, Archie went on to become the epitome of Hollywood elegance and style as Cary Grant. He returned to the city of his birth regularly and never forgot his roots. This tension between Archie/Cary is something we see Grant battle with throughout his life, in front of and behind the camera.
“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant” (Cary Grant).
Taking class in its broadest sense, our programming will explore social mobility and identity across a range of performances from Cockney Cary in Sylvia Scarlett and None But the Lonely Heart, to Sophisticated Cary in The Bishop’s Wife and Charade. Our Looking for Archie Walking tour celebrates Grant’s ongoing connections to the city and we’re taking over the Former Bristol IMAX on Sunday for a rare chance to see two lesser-known Pre-Code Cary Grant films (Born to Be Bad and Blonde Venus) on the biggest screen in town and the festival culminates with a screening of classic comedy, Arsenic and Old Lace. For all IMAX screenings we’re piloting a sliding Pay What You Can Afford ticket scale – recognising the cost-of-living crisis, in an effort to practice what we preach and bring Cary Grant to the widest possible audience.
FULL PROGRAMME:
Opening Night: The Bishop’s Wife (dir. Henry Koster, 1947)
St Mary Redcliffe Church, Redcliffe, Bristol, BS1 6RA
Friday 18 November 2022, 7pm
Running time: 1hr 49mins; Rating: U
The ultimate Christmassy film with the famous ice-skating scene, starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven, screened in the glorious nave of St Mary Redcliffe Church, which Queen Elizabeth I dubbed “The fairest, goodliest and most famous parish church in England” during her 1574 visit to Bristol. With an intro with the last surviving member of the cast child actor Karolyn Grimes.
Tickets
Full Price – £15.50
Concession – £14.00
Age 30 and under – £5.00
CEA card – £0.00 (Carer goes free for anyone that needs support attending the cinema. CEA card required)
Plus £1.50 Transaction Fee
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Sylvia Scarlett (dir. George Cukor, 1936) - TICKETS NOW ON SALE!
Watershed, 1 Canons Road, Harbourside, Bristol BS1 5TX
Saturday 19 November, 10-12pm
Running time: 1hr 35min; Rating U
A rom-com with shades of drama and enough hints of queerness and criminality to upset the Catholic League of Decency on its release. Katharine Hepburn adopts the guise of a boy to help her crooked father (Edward Gwenn) escape embezzlement charges. She keeps the disguise when they team up with a Cockney rogue (Cary Grant) for a series of cons, and when she attracts the attention of a woman. But she is forced to choose which identity to keep when handsome artist (Brian Aherne) confesses to experiencing “queer feelings”. With an introduction by Jade Evans.
Tickets
£8.50 full / £5.00 concessions.
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Gala Screening: Charade (dir. Stanley Donen, 1963)
Curzon Cinema, 46 Old Church Road, Clevedon, BS21 6NN
Saturday 19 November, doors 6.30pm; film 8pm
Running Time: 1hr 55min; Rating: PG
A gala screening in one of the UK’s oldest cinemas of a film many describe as the best Alfred Hitchcock thriller Hitchcock didn’t make. Featuring glamorous settings in the French Alps and Paris, it stars Audrey Hepburn as a widow thought to know the whereabouts of a fortune stolen by her dead husband. But are any of those on the track of the money – Cary Grant, James Coburn and Walter Matthau among them – really who they claim to be? Come down for a night of early 60s glamour!, including live music on the Christie Organ and a jazz trio inspired by Henry Mancini's signature score, a chance to enter a Best Dressed contest, a photo booth and bar with Cary Grant-themed cocktails! Prizes for the best-dressed will be announced soon and we'll also be giving you some ideas inspired by the films in the next newsletter...
Tickets
Full Price – £15.50
Concession – £14.00
Age 30 and under – £5.00
CEA card – £0.00 (Carer goes free for anyone that needs support attending the cinema. CEA card required)
Plus £1.50 Transaction Fee
If you are travelling from Bristol you can also book your seat on the vintage bus:
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Vintage Bus to Gala
Behind We The Curious, Explore Lane, BS1 5TY
Saturday 19 November, pick up 6pm; drop off 11pm
Arrive at our Gala screening of Charade at the Curzon in Clevedon in style. We’ll pick you up behind We The Curious on Explore Lane at 6pm so you can arrive in time for 60s inspired live music and cocktails before the screening which starts at 8pm. You need to book tickets for Charade separately.
Tickets
Adult - £5.00
16-21 year old/student - £3.80
Child 5-15 - £1.80
Under 5s, bus passes, can't afford to pay - Free
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None But The Lonely Heart (dir. Clifford Odets, 1944) - TICKETS NOW ON SALE!
Watershed, 1 Canons Road, Harbourside, Bristol BS1 5TX
Sunday 20 November, 10-12.30pm
Running time: 1hr 35min; Rating U
Cary Grant plays Ernie Mott, the feckless Cockney son of an ailing woman shopkeeper Ma (Ethel Barrymore in an Oscar-winning role), straying into crime and falling in love with the wife of a gangster. Grant was so keen to play the lead in this film he bought the film rights to the best-selling novel by Richard Llewellyn on which it was based, even though the original story was about a very much younger man. Cast against type, Grant too was nominated for Best Actor, but the Academy Award went to Bing Crosby for Going My Way. With an introduction by Ehsan Khoshbakht, exploring Grant’s popularity in Iran (where he’s dubbed into Persian) and why Clifford Odets’ first foray into directing is so important in terms of Hollywood cinema, followed by a panel discussion chaired by Dr Matthew Sweet.
Tickets
£8.50 full / £5.00 concessions.
Born to Be Bad (dir. Lowell Sherman, 1934)
Former Bristol IMAX, Bristol Aquarium, Anchor Rd, Bristol BS1 5TT
Sunday 20 November 2022, 2pm
Running time: 1hr 2min; Rating: U
Born to Be Bad centres around the story of industrious Letty (Loretta Young), an unmarried mother who sets out to blackmail rich businessman Mal (Cary Grant), president of Amalgamated Dairies, after he accidentally hits her truant son Mickey with one of his milk trucks. In a stark contrast to her later appearance with Cary Grant as the well-behaved wife of a bishop, Loretta Young is such a bad ‘un here, original versions of this film ran into all manner of trouble with the censors even before the Hays morality code came into full effect due to her scanty clothing, her status as an unmarried mother, seducer of Grant and blackmailer. With an introduction by Lies Lanckman, followed by a Q&A panel discussion on Pre Code film with Pamela Hutchinson.
Tickets
Sliding Pay What You Can Afford Scale: Free-£15, plus 10% Booking Fee..
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Blonde Venus (dir. Josef von Sternberg, 1932)
Former Bristol IMAX, Bristol Aquarium, Anchor Rd, Bristol BS1 5TT
Sunday 20 November 2022, 4pm
Running Time: 1hr 33min; Rating: PG
Ex-nightclub singer Helen Faraday (Marlene Dietrich) returns to performing as the popular “Blonde Venus” to support her son and husband Ned (Herbert Marshall) who has become sick with radium poisoning. Whilst Ned seeks an expensive cure in Germany, Helen sells herself to millionaire playboy Nick Townsend (Cary Grant) to make ends meet. When he returns from Europe cured, Ned finds out about her affair with Townsend and disowns her. The film came under scrutiny from the Hays Office and von Sternberg was forced to accommodate changes demanded from the Production Code. With an introduction by Pamela Hutchinson.
Tickets
Sliding Pay What You Can Afford Scale: Free-£15, plus 10% Booking Fee.
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Arsenic and Old Lace (dir. Frank Capra, 1944)
Former Bristol IMAX, Bristol Aquarium, Anchor Rd, Bristol BS1 5TT
Sunday 20 November 2022, 7pm
Running Time: 1hr 58min; Rating: PG
Our festival finale features this breathless comedy classic which will blow away the November cobwebs. Newly-wed drama critic Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) frantically tries to embark on his honeymoon with impatient new bride (Priscilla Lane), but has to contend with his well-meaning but ditzy old aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair), who have been bumping off lonely elderly gentlemen with their lethal elderberry wine (spiked with arsenic, strychnine and “just a pinch of cyanide”). If that isn’t enough, he also has to juggle his sociopathic brother (Raymond Massey) – a dead-ringer for Boris Karloff, who played the lead in the original 1941 Broadway play – and his sidekick Dr Einstein (Peter Lorre), as well as his other unhinged brother who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt (John Alexander). With an introduction by Festival Director Charlotte Crofts.
Tickets
Sliding Pay What You Can Afford Scale: Free-£15, plus 10% Booking Fee.
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Special 3 Ticket Offer
Former Bristol IMAX, Bristol Aquarium, Anchor Rd, Bristol BS1 5TT
Sunday 20 November 2022, from 2-9.30pm
Special Ticket Offer: 3 films at the Former Bristol IMAX including two rarely screened pre code films, Born to Be Bad and Blonde Venus and comedy classic Arsenic and Old Lace – not to be missed on the largest screen in Bristol!
Tickets
Full price: £21; Concession: £12, plus £.150 Transaction Fee.
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Download the Full Programme Schedule of What’s On Day-by-Day: https://www.carycomeshome.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Whats-On.pdf
All screenings will be presented with Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing to make the festival as accessible as possible.
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SLIDING "PAY WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD" TICKET SCALE
Sliding Scale: Pay What You Can Afford
Please note for the screenings at the Former Bristol IMAX on Sunday 20 November, we're piloting a Sliding Scale Ticket Price - Pay What You Can Afford, as we want to offer as many people as possible the opportunity to see these wonderful films on the largest screen in Bristol!
What Should I Pay?
You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances - you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest. The recommended price tickets reflect the true cost of delivering our programmes. We offer tickets higher than this for those who are in the privileged position of being able to pay-it-forward.
Please be mindful that if you purchase a ticket at the lowest end of the scale when you can truthfully afford a higher ticket price, you are limiting access to those who truly can't afford to pay.
Free – Can't Afford to Pay
refugees, asylum seekers and those who can’t afford to meet their basic needs* and have no expendable income**
£5 – Young People / Concession
under 30s, students, aged 63+, unemployed, NHS, Emergency Services and Military
£8.50 – Adult / Recommended Full price
People with expendable income** who are comfortably able to meet all of their basic* needs
£15 – Pay it forward
People who fit the criteria of the Full Price ticket who want to use some of their disposable income to support Cary Comes Home so that people less fortunate can have subsidised tickets.
*BASIC NEEDS include food, housing, clothing and transportation.
**EXPENDABLE INCOME might mean you are able to buy coffee or tea at a shop, go to the cinema or a concert, buy new clothes, books and similar items each month, etc.
Plus 10% Booking Fee.
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