Dear List Members,

**with apologies for cross-posting**

A quick reminder of the special screening of The Debussy Film (1965 dir. Ken Russell) on Thursday 22nd March at The Electric, Birmingham. The event includes an introduction and post-screening discussion with Prof. John Hill as part of CBSO's Debussy Festival. Please note this is now taking place in Screen 1, not Screen 2 as previously advertised.

The Debussy Film

Thursday 22nd March 6.30pm

The Electric Cinema , 47–49 Station Street,  Birmingham B5 4DY  

Screen 1

Director: Ken Russell  

Starring: Oliver Reed

UK 1965, 120mins

Book tickets at: http://www.theelectric.co.uk/programme.php?film=2007

 

As part of its Debussy Festival, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) presents a special screening of the Ken Russell film, made for the BBC in 1965. Co-written by a young Melvyn Bragg, this ambitious work about the composer's life is a film within a film, with Vladek Sheybal starring as a Director who wants to make a movie about Claude Debussy, played by Oliver Reed.

The film will be introduced and accompanied by a post-show talk with John Hill, Professor of Media at Royal Holloway, University of London. John was the Principal Investigator on a four-year AHRC-funded research project on The History of Forgotten Television Drama in the UK and is the co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of British Cinema and Television (2015) on the work of the director Ken Russell.

John Hill’s talk will link The Debussy Film to the ‘television biographies’ – such as Elgar (1962) and Bela Bartok (1964) - made by Ken Russell for the BBC in the 1960s. It will consider Russell’s use of dramatisation in these biographies and explain the controversy that The Debussy Film provoked.

This screening is in partnership with The History of Forgotten Television Drama in the UK project and the Centre for the History of Television Culture and Production at Royal Holloway and is part of the CBSO's Debussy Festival.


For further information on the Forgotten Television Drama project please visit:
http://www.tvcentre.org.uk/

https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/mediaarts/research/thehistoryofforgottentelevisiondrama/historyofforgottentvdrama.aspx

For further information on the CBSO Debussy Festival, please visit: https://cbso.co.uk/debussy-festival

Kind regards,

 

Dr Stephanie Janes

Research Assistant

Department of Media Arts

Royal Holloway, University of London

Egham

Surrey TW20 0EX

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