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Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema 2012

Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema 2012

Programme includes The First Born, Another Fine Mess, The Black Pirate and Safety Last!

17 Feb 2012

Shhh...! Whisper it quietly, but it’s fair to say that 2012 is likely to be the biggest year in silent cinema for nearly eight decades. The global success of Michel Hazanavicius’ glowing tribute The Artist means that silent films currently have their…

One Night Stan

One Night Stan

Excellent one-man show based on life of Stan Laurel

(4 stars)8 Aug 2011

This excellent one-man show written and performed by Miles Gallant dramatises the life of Stanley Jefferson aka Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy fame. With his partner taken ill on the penultimate week of their 1954 UK tour, Stan looks back on his…

Bo’ness Festival of Silent Cinema - Neil Brand interview

Bo’ness Festival of Silent Cinema - Neil Brand interview

Screening highlights include films by Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd

6 Mar 2011

One imagines the two women who dreamed up The Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema must have kept quiet about it until they launched it. Scotland’s first silent film festival in Scotland’s first purpose-built cinema? That idea’s so good it’s a wonder no…

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DVD Round-Up

8 May 2008

Not only does Land of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930-1950 (BFI) •••• provide fascinating insights into a bygone age, this four-disc collection of 40 films totalling 13 hours of viewing also showcases the groundbreaking talent of the…

Laurel pen pal letters to go under the hammer

5 Sep 2007

Letters charting the 10-year correspondence between a Scottish housewife and comedy legend Stan Laurel are to be sold at auction today in Edinburgh. Walterina Hunter wrote a letter to Laurel as a fan in 1952, which led to the two becoming pen pals.

Fresh hopes for Laurel and Hardy statue

17 Aug 2007

A bronze statue in tribute to comedy duo Laurel and Hardy has received a £100,000 grant raising hopes that it will be in place in 18 months. The statue is to be positioned outside the Coronation Hall theatre in Ulverston, Cumbria, where Stan Laurel was…

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