CFF: Film Society 100th Anniversary
PG 80 mins
PG 80 mins
SPECIAL EVENT: The Film Society at 100.
Celebrate the Centenary of The Film Society!
Emerging from the ‘Cambridge University Kinema Club’ but founded in London by a group of artists and writers, the Film Society was attended by such luminaries as Virginia Woolf and Alfred Hitchcock and played a central role in establishing film as an art-form.
It introduced films from abroad that the censors banned and that no commercial distributor would handle, hosting the premieres of such films as Nosferatu (1922) and Battleship Potemkin (1925), and it inspired scores of similar societies across the country.
Join experts Inga Fraser (University of Cambridge) and Henry K. Miller (Anglia Ruskin University) for an introduction to and celebration of the Film Society, including special screenings, one hundred years to the minute after its first programme in October 1925.