Monday 8 March 2010

A couple of Flatpack specials you might love...

Wednesday 24th March, 6:30pm at Ikon Eastside, Fazeley St


WALKING DOWN BRISTOL STREET
Birmingham’s cultural scene in the 1930s

Tickets: £6


Birmingham was buzzing with creative types during the 1930s; modernist architects, surrealist painters and a host of writers including W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Walter Allen. To use a new-fangled phrase, what made the city such a cultural hub between the wars? Author David Lodge and Tessa Sidey from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery will be exploring the period, alongside a screening of Lodge’s TV documentary As I Was Walking Down Bristol Street (dir: Jim Berrow) and beautiful amateur cine footage shot at the time.



Sunday 28th March, 1:45pm at the Electric Cinema, Station St
WELCOME TO THE DREAM PALACE
Total running time: 100 minutes approx.
Tickets: £6
Wrapping up Flatpack’s thirties strand, special guest Juliet Gardiner will be talking about the social significance of the cinema during this time and sharing some of the celluloid nuggets discovered while researching her ambitious and engaging new book The Thirties: An Intimate History. We’ll also look at two very different film-going experiences: the suburban super-cinema, in 1973 documentary Odeon Cavalcade; and the newsreel theatre, a place to kill time while waiting for a train. While preparing a film about the Electric’s history, the current owners have uncovered a wealth of material from the cinema’s newsreel days including footage of the building unseen since it was first filmed.


Booking for Flatpack 2010 opens at http://www.flatpackfestival.org.uk/ on 25th February.

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