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Silent Film Festival CONTENTS silent film festival Where movies and music come alive! Book before Tue 26 Feb and save 10% on selected events WEDNESDAY 20 MARCH - SUNDAY 24 MARCH 2019 BOX OFFICE: 01324 506850 | HIPPFEST.CO.UK WELCOME CONTENTS Travel home in style Saturday 16 March ..................................................4 see page 19 for Wednesday 20 March ..........................................4-5 A very warm welcome to the 9th annual our community Hippodrome Silent Film Festival. bus offer Thursday 21 March ...................................................6-7 Early Birds Friday 22 March ........................................................8-9 Our thanks go to all our funders and supporters who save 10% Saturday 23 March .................................................10-13 help to make this Festival one of Scotland’s great cultural Book before the end of Sunday 24 March .......................................................14-17 events. Its gala performances and red carpet glamour Tuesday 26 February HippFest at a glance .............................................18 are a firm reminder of the important role this exciting and save ££. How to get here .........................................................19 era of cinema played in the life of our communities in the See page 20 for Booking information ...............................................20 past, whilst our ongoing work with schools - showcased at our New Found Sound more details. Film shorts ......................................................................21 event - is a clear indication of the growing interest in silent film amongst the Performers ....................................................................22-23 younger generation of today. What’s on at the library ......................................24-25 We hope you have a wonderful Festival. For Festival updates, connect with us on: Archives event .............................................................25 David White Youth & community engagement ...............26-27 HippFest Chair, Falkirk Community Trust Explore the area .......................................................28-29 @HippFestScot Love Bo’ness for eating & drinking ...............31 HippFest Love Bo’ness for shopping ..................................32-33 “ Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by HippFest merchandise & Hub ........................34 the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.” Funders, supporters and thanks .................35 Einstein Film is an art form that depends on the joint endeavours of many creative individuals. Our 9th HippFest highlights Festival Hub the extraordinary achievements of such cooperation, between people and between nations. Different A warm welcome awaits you at languages were of little account during the silent era, the Festival Hub - our informal when intertitles could be readily switched to match and friendly HippFest hang-out. each screening location, and international casts and Purchase HippFest merchandise, crews could work interchangeably across Europe and meet up with other Festival-goers or find out more about events at North America. Our programme this year reflects this the Festival and other attractions fruitful state of affairs – Hound of the Baskervilles featuring in the local area. Audiences are also a Scottish author, German director, Danish cinematographer and very welcome to eat their takeaway six leads from six different countries; and Moulin Rouge with a or packed lunches at the Hub. German director, British studio and Russian star. This cultural cross- Venue: 31 North St, Bo’ness pollination is also reflected in our music commissions including a EH51 0AQ (opposite the new German/British collaboration and the pairing of Norwegian and Hippodrome) Scottish musicians for Norwegian epic Laila. The result is a thrilling Open: 20-22 March, 15:00-18:00 Festival, encompassing many cultures and demonstrating how 23 & 24 March 11:00-20:00 we are enriched by our differences and united by our similarities. Willkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome! Fàilte! Alison Strauss Director, HippFest Arts Development Officer (Film and Media) 2 HIPPODROME SILENT FILM FESTIVAL 2019 | BOX OFFICE: 01324 506850 HIPPFEST.CO.UK 3 SATURDAY 16 & WEDNESDAY 20 MARCH WEDNESDAY 20 MARCH See also pg 6: ‘Holmes of the Movies’ Cuppa Talk HippFest Community Screening Cuppa Talk Hound of the Baskervilles The Birth of Horror SATURDAY 16 MARCH | 19:00 WEDNESDAY 20 MARCH | 14:00 £10 | £8 conc. (DOORS OPEN 13:15) VENUE: Barony Theatre, Borrowstoun Road, £6.60 incl. tea/coffee & cake Bo’ness EH51 9RS This illustrated talk will trace the love The world’s most popular detective brought thrillingly affair between silent film and the HippFest Opening Night Premiere & Commission to life in this most famous of all Conan Doyle’s stories, macabre, from Thomas Edison’s now restored and given its UK premiere at HippFest. graphic 1895 Execution of Mary Rob Roy An atmosphere of Saturday matinée entertainment Queen of Scots to the collective Post runs throughout, with secret passages, spooky suits Traumatic Stress in the aftermath of armour, and a dastardly villain creeping about the of WWI that gave rise to German WEDNESDAY 20 MARCH | 19:30 (DOORS OPEN 18:45) shadowy ancestral Baskerville home and foggy moors. Expressionist nightmares like Dr This, the last Sherlock Holmes film of the silent era, Caligari (1920) and the vampire £14 | £11.50 conc. has itself been the subject of mystery and intrigue, the Nosferatu (1922). In Britain the Scotland’s fear and Scotland’s pride, Rob Roy MacGregor… nitrate original being stored (some say hidden) in a 1910s saw a growing fascination with Polish priest’s basement for decades. In this enjoyable Egyptian curses and spiritualism This impressive and rarely screened biopic of one of Scotland’s best-known outlaws, incarnation Holmes bears some of the hallmarks we whilst the 1920s heralded the so stars David Hawthorne in full tartan kilt and tammy and was filmed entirely on location have come to expect: arrogance, a deerstalker hat and called ‘spook era’ and uncovered in the Trossachs and nearby Stirling Castle. Rob Roy is one of the most filmed Scottish a disdainful but fond relationship with his Watson. the dark genius of the master subjects (second only to Mary Queen of Scots) and this 1922 telling was the most himself: Alfred Hitchcock. Using an elaborate treatment of the subject at that point. The film makes liberal use of Scots for Dir. Richard Oswald | Germany | 1929 | N/C PG | b&w international selection of film clips the intertitles (“dinnae fash yersel”) and includes epic fight scenes, with 800 men of the | English intertitles | 1h 5m (+ short accompanied by Stephen Gellatly + Barony Players short performance) we will examine the birth of Horror Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders enlisted as extras in a dramatic battle. from the earliest films in 1895 to the With: Carlyle Blackwell, George Sarof, Fritz Rasp coming of sound in 1929. This special screening will be accompanied by the world premiere of a new commission Performing live: Mike Nolan (piano) from multi-instrumentalist David Allison whose score for The Last of the Mohicans Laraine Porter is Senior Lecturer in (HippFest 2018) received rave reviews and was selected to play at Celtic Connections 2019. Introduced by Barry Young, The Scotland Yard Film at De Montfort University and Jack-in-Ofce of the Sherlock Holmes Society Co-Director of the British Silent Dir. William Kellino | UK | 1922 | N/C 12A | b&w | English & Scots intertitles |1h 26m of Scotland Film Festival. (+ short accompanied by Forrester Pyke) Restoration & screening material courtesy of the 1h 30m incl. Q&A With: David Hawthorne, Gladys Jennings, Wallace Bosco, Simeon Stuart San Francisco Silent Film Festival & the Filmoteka Performing Live: David Allison Narodowa - Instytut Audiowizualny. Performing live: Forrester Pyke (piano) Screening material courtesy British Film Institute National Archive Tonight’s screening will be preceded by a short live performance of the prologue from Ken Ludwig’s murderously funny Holmes-inspired play The Game’s Afoot presented by our hosts the Barony Players. 4 HIPPODROME SILENT FILM FESTIVAL 2019 | BOX OFFICE: 01324 506850 HIPPFEST.CO.UK 5 THURSDAY 21 MARCH THURSDAY 21 MARCH Cuppa Talk Encore Screening Holmes of the Movies Hound of the Baskervilles THURSDAY 21 MARCH | 13:30 (DOORS 12:45) £6.60 incl. tea/coffee & cake Hippfest Commission THURSDAY 21 MARCH | 15:30 Conan Doyle’s enigmatic detective £8 | £6 conc. character Sherlock Holmes became a film Laila star with the birth of the movies. His first The world’s most popular detective cinematic outing was as early as 1901 in a brought thrillingly to life in the most bit of nonsense entitled Sherlock Holmes famous of all Conan Doyle’s stories, now THURSDAY 21 MARCH | 19:00 Baffled. His film career is a fascinating restored and given its UK premiere at £14 | £11.50 conc. one and this talk takes you into the foggy HippFest (see page 4 for full synopsis). This epic-scaled romantic drama HippFest is delighted to present the environs of Baker Street, presenting Dir. Richard Oswald | Germany | 1929 | tells the story of Laila, separated as world premiere of a new commission for an overview of Sherlock’s celluloid N/C PG | b&w | English intertitles | a baby from her Norwegian parents award-winning Norwegian/Scottish folk adventures with illustrative film clips. 1h 5m (+ short accompanied by Stephen Gellatly) and raised amongst the nomadic Sami duo Marit and Rona who have created
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