Upcoming Events

Sat 21st January 4-7pm at The Cinema Museum

The meeting will feature a showing of Buster in a Hearst Metrotone from 1930 (and some out-takes!)

The 2012 Slapstick festival of visual and silent comedy in Bristol from January 26-29.

Among the highlights for Stone Face fans will be

Thursday 26 January, Watershed, Bristol ( 5.40pm)

Kevin Brownlow talks to Graeme Garden about his 1960s meetings with Keaton, his restoration of THE GENERAL and his making of the documentary A Hard Act To Follow with David Gill

Friday 27 January, Watershed, (4pm)

Kevin Brownlow offers unique insights into Keaton’s creativity by sharing and discussing footage taken during the making of A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW with special reference to the film’s re-creation of the collapsing railway bridge scene from The General.

Friday 27 January, Colston Hall (7.30pm)

Griff Rhys Jones hosts the festival’s traditional silent comedy gala, featuring classic shorts, music from the Bristol Ensemble, European Silent Screen Virtuosi and the Matinee Idles (who will be joined by Paul McGann) and a screening of THE GENERAL with a brand new score by Guenter A. Buchwald.

Sunday 29 January, Arnolfini, 2pm

Keaton fans Tim Brooke Taylor, Barry Cryer, Ian Lavender and Bill Oddie choose, share and discuss their favourites from the score of shorts Buster completed from 1919 to 1922.

 

In addition, Sunday will also find Slapstick honouring the French actor, clown and director Pierre Etaix who worked with Jacques Tati, won an Oscar with his first independent film and was toasted on both sides of the Atlantic as the new Keaton in the 1960s but whose output was then locked from view because of a copyright wrangle which has only recently ended. Etaix, now 84, will be talking about his life, work and influences with Sir Christopher Frayling and introducing clips before a full screening of LE GRAND AMOUR.

 

The full festival programme can be found at www.slapstick.org.uk.

Keaton rules!