Talks and Cinema
Sunday 4th October | 3.00 pm | Corn Exchange Cinema: Sunday NOIR
Film screening with introduction: Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
Recreate those good old-fashioned Sunday matinee feels with this classic British melodrama, starring Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons!
Set in foggy Victorian London, dastardly deeds are afoot, including poisoning and blackmail. But who will prove the more ruthless – wealthy, amoral Stephen Lowry, or his cockney maid, Lily?
Wednesday 7th October | 7.00 pm | Marriott’s Warehouse Trust: Wednesday WYRD
Talk: Carneys and Sideshows - Selene Paxton-Brooks
Enter the weird and wonderful world of the American Carney! Grab a drink from the bar downstairs and settle in for an evening of the bizarre wonders to be found inside that mysterious stripey tent… Fear in the Fens festival-goers will know Selene from her excellent and entertaining film talks from the past few years, and her partner’s incredible, accompanying props (who can forget the life-size Oddbod Junior from 2025!)
Wednesday 14th October | 7.00 pm | Marriott’s Warehouse Trust: Wednesday WYRD
Talk: Desperately Seeking FR Buckley - Kit Lewis
FR Buckley is one of King's Lynn's most extraordinary characters.
Journalist, screen writer, actor, writer of pulp fiction, painter - and warlock!
Kit Lewis reveals more about Buckley, whose life was often more colourful than his painting and more dramatic than the westerns that he wrote.
Meet this neglected eccentric and former resident of King's Lynn's Exorcist's House.
Sunday 18th October | 3.00 pm | Corn Exchange Cinema:
Sunday NOIR
Film screening with introduction: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Quintessential American Film Noir, starring a radiant Lana Turner as a woman trapped in a loveless marriage, managing a roadside diner in nowheresville. When drifter, Frank Chambers (played by john Garfield) walks into her life sparks begin to fly and Cora sees a way out that nothing, not even murder, will stop her from getting…
