Slapstick Festival 2016

A rib-tickling selection of Stan & Ollie shorts hand picked and introduced by Laurel and Hardy admirer Goodie Bill Oddie.

Chaplin authority David Robinson offers fresh insights on Chaplin’s The Kid - presented later this evening with live performance of Chaplin’s own musical score

Starring the King of Hollywood, Douglas Fairbanks, Wild and Woolly is one of the best action packed comedy Westerns of the silent era. Jeff is a rich Easterner who always wanted to live in the Wild West.

Lucy Porter talks about the fascinating life of Anita Loos - one of early Hollywood's most talented and prolific screenwriters.

A selection of his best comedies shorts from the 1910s and 1920s featuring performers from the Keystone stable including Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Roscoe Arbuckle.

This is a unique chance to see this rare silent comedy from Kevin Brownlow’s own collection.

Starring Phyllis Haver, in a brilliantly understated comic appearance, this is the original version of the subsequent global musical and Hollywood film Chicago. With live musical accompaniment.

Bristol’s legendary Cary Grant teams with screwball comedy’s most underrated actress, Irene Dunne, in the film that helped in break through as a romantic lead. Introduced by comedian Lucy Porter.

Originally billed as a satire and comedy, this film was controversial at the time of its release (1927) in the Soviet Union, due to its focus on human relationships and disregard of state and party.

A renowned film archivist and historian, and co-founder of Lobster Films, Serge Bromberg has helped restore hundreds of rare silent films and here he presents their most recent discoveries.