Slapstick Festival 2023

The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash is the cult classic mockumentary from Eric Idle and Neil Innes which paved the way for all others, including This Is Spinal Tap and The Comic Strip’s Bad News and More Bad News.

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp follows the story of a poor boy who enters a gruelling cross-country hike in the hope of winning enough prize money to secure the love of a pin-up.

As a companion piece to our Live From New York event, the Oscar-winning director, film historian and silent film champion Kevin Brownlow introduces another Raymond Griffith crime caper.

Set just after WW2, local bigwigs are planning a feast to celebrate the upcoming wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip by cooking a secret raised pig – which suddenly goes missing!

Silent film champions Steve Massa and Ben Model have a cunning plan to fill in the gap of the final reel missing from Raymond Griffith’s finest onscreen comedy Paths To Paradise.

As Marlene Dietrich’s only silent comedy, she plays a recent divorcee who pins her hopes on a future with a rich Russian count, disbelieving her ex’s claims that the man is penniless and working as a waiter.

East Of Ipswich is a comedy coming-of-age film scripted by Michael Palin for BBC 2’s Screen Two series and was inspired in part by his family holiday to a sleepy seaside resort in 1959.

Comedian and Slapstick favourite Lucy Porter and Jane Duffus, author of the What The Frock Book of Funny Women, present and discuss their picks from a new collection of rarely-seen silent comedy films in collaboration with Kino Lober.

The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom is an endearing rom com filled with likeable characters and some self-effacing insights into the filmmaking process.