Lon Chaney in his most famous role, preceded by a vintage Buster Keaton short. The brilliant Meg Morley on piano.
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THE BATTLES OF CORONEL AND FALKLAND ISLANDS
A thrilling recreation of two World War One battles between the British and German navies, this epic production is now called “one of the greatest British films from the silent era” .
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THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE
Captain Scott’s British Antarctic Expedition to the South Pole, captured in this documentary with extraordinary footage of base camp life amongst remote ice landscapes.
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SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS accompanied by The Meg Morley Trio
SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS, preceded by Buster Keaton’s THE GOAT with live jazz accompaniment by The Meg Morley Trio.
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THE ANCIENT LAW aka DAS ALTE GESETZ
This will be the UK premiere of the restoration, and will be shown on 2K DCP with live musical accompaniment from Meg Morely.
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SPECIAL FEATURES #2 – PART 2: Michelle Facey talks women in silent cinema
In our continuing series of interviews with London’s independent curators, Michelle Facey of Kennington Bioscope talks about film legend Kevin Brownlow, her programming passions and her research into the many amazing women of silent cinema.
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THE ADJUTANT OF THE CZAR + INTRO
The lighter-than-air romance between a Czarist officer and a passport-less girl obliged to share a sleeper compartment on a train is tested when revolutionary zeal meets implacable loyalty in the heightened atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia. With live piano accompaniment by Meg Morley.
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THE CANADIAN + INTRO
Kennington Bioscope presents: THE CANADIAN, adapted by Arthur Stringer from W. Somerset Maugham’s 1913 Broadway play The Land of Promise, produced by Famous Players-Lasky, directed by William Beaudine and starring Thomas Meighan and Mona Palmer.
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A tribute to James Finlayson. The films on show are: WITH LOVE & HISSES (1927); MEN O’WAR (1929); THE HOOSE-GOW (1929); NIGHT OWLS (1930); and, BONNIE SCOTLAND (1935).
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PICCADILLY WITH LIVE BURLESQUE AND MUSIC
One of the pinnacles of British silent cinema, PICCADILLY is a sumptuous showbiz melodrama seething with sexual and racial tension. Enjoy live music and burlesque before the film from local talent Pete Sauders and Marianne Cheesecake.
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