More Confirmations!
Gee I’m whizzy with all the excitement! SO much to tell!
Apologises, TSC friends, we’ve been rather busy of late getting down to the nitty gritty of the fest – and I now have a WHOLE HOST of CONFIRMATIONS to offer you for both the Opening Soiree (Friday 7th December 7pm onwards, Curzon, Soho) shorts programme screenings, discussions and events.
Ok, as you will see from the front page, Bourgeois and Maurice, Future Cinema and Lisa Appignanesi will be taking part in the opening night celebrations. We shall also have LIVE MUSIC accompanying the film programme (which shall begin at 8.20pm, don’t be late!) – due to include amongst many other things Moody’s Club Follies, a genuine revue from 1920’s London and the ecstatic Birth of a Flower shot by burgeoning botanist Percy Smith in 1910.
Also we now have Fabien Riggall, Founder and Director of Future Cinema and Future Shorts joining Dr Vanessa Toulmin of the National Fairground Archive / Admission All Classes to discuss Burlesque and Cabaret on Film: Screening the Fantastical on Saturday 8th December; and Amy Lame, host of the seminal club and cabaret night Duckie, CONFIRMED for our second discussion Women in Burlesque and Cabaret: Empowerment Vs Titillation on Sunday 9th December following a screening of The Blue Angel (Josef Von Sternberg, 1930)
See the full confirmed Smoking Cabinet programme here!
