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THURSDAY FRIDAY the FESTIVAL BEGINS! Welcome to Slapstick 2010 Welcome to Slapstick 2010 THE FESTIVAL BEGINS! Our sixth edition, bringing laughter to Bristol just when it’s most needed. THURSDAY Along with films from the never-to-be excelled classic era of silent comedy, this year we feature comedians who have shown that SLAPSTICK GALA WITH MICHAEL PALIN great visual comedy did not disappear with the coming of sound - from the incomparable Something Almost Completely Different Will Hay to Kenny Everett, Neil Innes and the Bonzos, and the Monty Python team. THURS 21 JAN 1930hrs Venue: Colston Hall Michael Palin himself - legendary traveller, author, actor and Python - launches Slapstick Bristol’s Slapstick Silent Comedy Festival invites you to a star-studded evening of classic 2010 at Colston Hall with a unique programme of on-stage chat and classic comedy that comedy and live entertainment for its Sixth Slapstick Gala. This unique event presents concludes with one of the supreme achievements of the great era of comedy, comedy legend and national treasure Michael Palin onstage to discuss his illustrious career Buster Keaton’s THE NAVIGATOR. in comedy with fellow writer/performer Graeme Garden. On screen - in homage to Palin’s Other comedy giants on show include W.C.Fields, Harold Lloyd and Laurel and Hardy traveling legacy – we present one of Buster Keaton’s greatest comedies THE NAVIGATOR in a selection of classics and rarities. Extending our international reach we have (1924), set to the world premiere live musical accompaniment by The European Silent René Clair’s AN ITALIAN STRAW HAT from France and THE HOUSE ON TRUBNAYA, Screen Virtuosi. This newly formed five-piece musical ensemble features triple Oscar- a delightful and funny comedy from the unlikely source of revolutionary Russia. winning film animator and jazz cornetist Richard Williams and world-acclaimed silent film maestro Günter Buchwald on violin and piano, along with their international friends. We offer the world premiere of a recently rediscovered college film by Neil Innes, With other celebrity guests both on stage and on screen including Neil Innes, this is featuring the inimitable Vivian Stanshall, and featured in “The Bonzo Dog Scrapbook a once-in-a-lifetime event not to be missed! Early booking is recommended to avoid Show” (Arnolfini, Saturday). Jesters comedy store host the final night events, featuring, disappointment. on stage, four national treasures of comedy art, Neil Innes, Barry Cryer, Tickets: £16.00/£12.00 concessions and Bristol Silents members Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden. Book via Colston Hall: 0117 922 3686 or visit www.colstonhall.org.uk All in all an extravaganza four days packed with classic film comedy to leave you laughing, all brought to life by an unprecedented line-up of special guests. In 2010 we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Bristol Silents and after six years this Slapstick promises to be our best yet! FRIDAY THE ITALIAN STRAW HAT (U) I hope you will join us. with live accompaniment by Barbara Lenz Chris Daniels Director FRI 22 JAN 1740hrs Venue: Arnolfini Slapstick Festival Dir. René Clair, France / Germany, 1928, 1h 25m Booking your tickets and the Slapstick A hilarious misadventure, heralding the beginning of ‘screwball comedy’, this early classic of French cinema is full of wonderful character gags and situation comedy. On the way to Festival Pass: his wedding Ferdinand (Albert Préjean) discovers that his horse has eaten the straw hat of Please book all screenings and events directly with the venue as a married woman (Olga Tschechowa) canoodling in the bushes with her lover, Lieutenant detailed on back page: Tavernier (Geymond Vital), and his big day begins to go rapidly downhill. All events are held at Arnolfini and Watershed except our Gala event: Tickets: £7.00/£5.00 concessions and Bristol Silents members Michael Palin: Something Almost Completely Different which is at Colston Hall and Desert Island Slapstick and The Rutles: All you GIRL SHY (U) Need is Cash which are at Jesters Comedy Club. with live accompaniment from The Slapstick Boys You can save money off the total ticket price by FRI 22 JAN 2000hrs Venue: Arnolfini purchasing a Slapstick Festival Pass for all Watershed and Arnolfini events (except Cinékids) for £55.00 Dir: Fred Newmeyer, USA, 1924, 1h 22m full/£40.00 concessions & Bristol Silents One of Harold Lloyd’s finest and funniest, this rich character comedy about a bashful members. Available from Arnolfini Box stutterer who is chronically shy of women is packed with extraordinary sight gags, brilliant Office only. intertitles and hilarious performances. Including live musical accompaniment from The Slapstick Boys, four of the finest musicians in Europe for silent film accompaniment, this Join Bristol Silents to save money at screening will also feature an onstage discussion with film historian and filmmaker Kevin www.bristolsilents.org.uk Brownlow and avid Lloyd fan, Withnail and I actor Paul McGann. An unmissable medley of fine silent comedy, exhilarating music and discussion! Tickets: £7.00/£5.00 concessions and Bristol Silents members d R Jt St.Pauls Ashley Rd Slapstick Venues m a h n BRISTOL SILENTS PRESENT e t l St Michael’s e h C ch Colston Hall Hill Towards St.Pauls Jesters ws Watershed M32/M4 Stokes Croft Lewins Mead M32/M4 Rupert St Temple Meads A4/A37 an Arnolfini Road Bond St Bond St Perry Towards Jh Jury’s Hotel Rupert St Broadmead Jt Jesters Lower Park Row Lodge St 2O1O P ch Colston Av Colston Av Park RowTrenchard St Trenchard St Colston St Car Park FESTIVAL GUIDE Pipe Lane Baldwin St Queen Charlotte St Charlotte Queen Frogmore St St Marsh Park St Augustine’s Parade King St A4/M5 Harbour d R r Queen o ws Jh St Prince h Square nc A an Watershed Box Office (0117) 927 5100 Arnolfini Box Office (0117) 917 2300 www.watershed.co.uk www.arnolfini.org.uk Colston Hall Box Office (0117) 922 3686 Jesters Box Office (0117) 909 6655 www.colstonhall.org www.jesterscomedyclub.co.uk Presented By: Support From: Our Sponsors: In Partnership with: H SILENT COM OL’S SIXT EDY FEST BRIST IVAL 21 - 24 JANUARY 2010 Follow us on Twitter: @Slapstick2010 and Facebook: Slapstick 2010 for the latest updates! WEEKEND EVENTS WEEKEND EVENTS Girl Shy SATURDAY SUNDAY SLAPSTICK INTERNATIONAL: PORDENONE SILENT FILM WILL HAY – MASTER OF COMEDY FESTIVAL ITALY: THE HOUSE ON TRUBNAIA STREET PG SUN 24 JAN 1100hrs Venue: Watershed Cinema 1 With live accompaniment by Günter Buchwald and Lee Mottram Will Hay was Britain’s best known film comedian of the 1930s and 40s and SAT 23 JAN 1100hrs Venue: Watershed Cinema 1 his film OH MR PORTER one of the funniest of the period. Join David Wyatt Dir: Boris Barnet, Russia, 1928, 1h 04m and Graham Rinaldi, author of the recent Will Hay biography, as they discuss and explore his films and theories while showing extracts starring Hay, and The big surprise hit of the 2009 Pordenone Silent Film Festival in Italy was this some of his favourite comedians such as Chaplin, W.C. Fields, and Laurel & delicious comedy from (improbably) the classic era of Soviet cinema. True to The Italian Straw Hat Hardy. Rarities will include silent footage from Hay’s 1922 revue show, on melodrama tradition, a simple peasant girl (along with an obstreperous duck) the set outtakes and their new unfinished documentary on the making of OH arrives from the country, a ripe victim for all the perils of the big city. Exploited MR.PORTER – NEXT TRAIN’S GONE. Discover the delights of one of Britain’s by a stingey hair-dresser and his odious wife, she uses the new social order to finest comedians. A book signing will follow the event. turn the tables. A uniquely entertaining piece of work. With special introduction from the Director of Pordenone Festival, David Robinson. Tickets: £6.50/£5.00 concessions and Bristol Silents members Tickets: £6.50/£5.00 concessions and Bristol Silents members BARRY CRYER: THE LOST GENIUS OF KENNY EVERETT LAUREL & HARDY: CLASSICS & RARITIES SUN 24 JAN 1400hrs Venue: Arnolfini SAT 23 JAN 1400hrs Venue: Arnolfini Already one of Britain’s most successful radio DJs, Everett rose to national acclaim with the Kenny Everett video show, showcasing his With an eclectic programme of classics & rarities from the ‘two minds without Will Hays unique, anarchic humour. As part of Slapstick after Silents, this is a special a single thought’, Graeme Garden (The Goodies) & silent comedy expert event with one of his closest working collaborators, the legendary comedy David Wyatt demonstrate why Stan and Ollie are now considered amongst writer and Sorry I Haven’t a Clue Star, Barry Cryer. With insights from Cryer, the best comedy teams ever. They will divulge the duo’s influence on other who was Everett’s comedy writing partner for over a decade, and onscreen comedy teams including ‘The Goodies’, and introduce films and clips of the footage of Kenny, join Slapstick 2010 in celebrating the work of this innovative rarest of all L & H appearances in Charley Chase’s ‘Now I’ll Tell One’ (1927) visual comedian. and a complete screening of their classic silent short ‘Putting Pants on Philip’ (1927). Tickets: £7.00/£5.00 concessions and Bristol Silents members Tickets: £7.00/£5.00 concessions and Bristol Silents members SLAPSTICK INTERNATIONAL: SAN FRANCISCO: THE REAL FRED KARNO SO’S YOUR OLD MAN PG SAT 23 JAN 1600hrs Venue: Watershed Cinema 1 Introduction by Chris Serle Tim Brooke-Taylor and Tony Staveacre (author of ‘Slapstick!’) investigate SUN 24 JAN 1600hrs Venue: Watershed Cinema 1 the legacy of the Exeter-born showman and impresario, Fred Karno. Credited Dir. Gregory la Cava, USA, 1926, 1h 07m with discovering Chaplin, Stan Laurel and even the pie-in-the-face gag, he The Navigator has pioneered a tradition of physical comedy which still flourishes today.
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