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It's like a book group, but for people who'd like to talk about cinema. Watch a great film and then come and discuss it on the Southbank.
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See all- Film Trip: Greta Garbo in "As You Desire Me" at the Cinema MuseumThe Cinema Museum, London
Join us on a Thursday night in April for our regular visit to the Cinema Museum and the excellent "Woman & Cocaine" night. We'll be at the Cinema Museum from half six to grab a table, and will have a copy of David Niven's autobiography "Bring On The Empty Horses" with us to help first timers find us.
From the event description:
"Greta Garbo plays a mysterious amnesiac woman, living as a cabaret singer in Budapest, who is swept into a whirlwind of passion and intrigue when a man claims she’s his long-lost wife. Torn between identities, she must uncover the truth about her past and the love she desires. Based on a Luigi Pirandello play and produced by MGM, with Irving Thalberg as co-producer, art direction by Cedric Gibbons and costume design by Adrian. The film co-stars Melvyn Douglas, Erich von Stroheim, Owen Moore and Hedda Hopper.
The film will be preceded by a short introduction, and followed by a raffle.
Women and Cocaine Presents is a film night presented by curator Caroline Cassin at The Cinema Museum to celebrate the fierce and liberated women of Pre code cinema. From the period of 1930 to 1934, before the introduction of censorship, women were depicted in roles with a frankness and sex-positivity that remains rare even today. These newly independent women pushed gender boundaries as they pursued their own economic freedom and excitement, defying the previous Victorian ideals of domesticity, sexual purity and religion. Hollywood soon caught on and began to represent these women on screen, and each month we celebrate a different woman from that era.
“My father warned me about men & booze, but he never mentioned a word about women & cocaine” – Tallulah Bankhead."Tickets can be bought from HERE
