Talks and Cinema
Sunday 4th October | 3.00 pm | Corn Exchange Cinema: Sunday NOIR
Film screening with short introduction: Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
Recreate the Sunday matinees of yesteryear 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
Freak or Unique?
Enter the weird and wonderful world of the American Carney!
Roll up, roll up, for a look into the lives of the characters who shocked their audiences by being given the opportunity to leave the darkness and astound the viewer’s gaze.
Banned for over 30 years, the film,‘Freaks’, by Tod Browning in 1932 brought shock and horror to theatres, causing outrage and disapproval.
Take a look with Selene Paxton-Brooks at the real people who terrified crowds at theatres, exhibitions and sideshows around the globe.
A tragedy or a blessing? You decide! Join us if you dare… for a night of the unique, the astounding and the unusually beautiful individuals who, for some, will forever haunt the mind.
Wednesday 14th October | 7.00 pm | Marriott’s Warehouse Trust: Wednesday WYRD
Talk: Desperately Seeking FR Buckley - Kit Lewis
Who was FR Buckley?
Author, actor, broadcaster... warlock?
Was he all these things - or more?
Meet this neglected eccentric and former resident of King's Lynn's Exorcist's House when we explore the life of FR Buckley on October 14.
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
will stop her from getting… not even murder.
