You're in for a treat with pristine new 4K restorations of three classic silent shorts, freshly restored and rarely seen on the big screen in such glorious prints.
Hosted by Chris Daniels (festival director) and Robin Ince (comedian, writer and broadcaster), this special screening celebrates Laurel & Hardy’s creative explosion at the height of the silent era and the birth of cinema’s most beloved comic double act.
- In Two Tars (1928), a simple drive with their sweethearts descends into glorious vehicular anarchy, one of cinema’s greatest slapstick finales.
- In We Faw Down (1928), the boys tell their wives they’re off to the theatre, only to end up in a comic tangle of lies, misunderstandings and moral mayhem.
- And in From Soup to Nuts (1928), hired as waiters for a high-society dinner, their attempts at refinement go fabulously off the rails.
With live piano accompaniment by Daan van den Hurk.