Kennington Bioscope presents its ninth Silent Film Festival, with the support of The Cinema Museum. All silent films will have live accompaniment by our highly acclaimed team of musicians. The line-up below is provisional.
Saturday
10:00 Weekend Wives (1929), directed by Harry Lachman and starring Monty Banks.
Introduced by Lisa Stein Haven, author of the upcoming Monty Banks biography
11:50 The White Heather (1919), directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Holmes Herbert.
13:15 Lunch
14:00 The Triumph of the Rat (1926), directed by Graham Cutts.
15:55 Redicoveries and restorations I
To include A Victim of Circumstances (1913), a lost film from the Thanhouser studio, and Sprechende Hande (1925), a German documentary about a care home and school for the deafblind.
17:25 A Cardboard Lover (1928), directed by Robert Z Leonard and starring Marion Davies.
Introduced by Ben Model of Undercrank Productions (on video).
18:45 Dinner
19:45 The Student of Prague (Der Student von Prag) (1926), directed by Henrik Galeen and starring Conrad Veidt.
Sunday
10:00 Ypres (1925), directed by Walter Summers, reconstructions of the Battle of Ypres.
11:45 Redicoveries and restorations II
To include The Cattle Rustler’s End (1911), starring J. Warren Kerrigan, and Racing for Life (1924), directed by Henry MacRae and starring Eva Novak and William Fairbanks.
13:15 Lunch
14:00 Pêcheur d’Islande (Fishers of the Isle) (1924), directed by Jacques de Baroncelli and starring Sandra Milovanoff and Charles Vanel.
Introduced by Liz Cleary.
16:00 Focus on… Rolin
Glenn Mitchell and Dave Glass look at the history and earlier output of the Hal Roach studio.
17:25 Irene (1926), directed by Alfred E Green) and starring Colleen Moore.
19:00 Dinner
20:00 The Three Musketeers (1921), directed by Fred Niblo and starring Douglas Fairbanks.
