Lights camera action betty boop poster1/20/2024 ![]() Online audiences can learn more about the film’s hugely influential director, Maurice Tourneur, with a lively HippFest at Home presentation by his French biographer: Christine Leteux ( click here to tune in).Įarlier in the day critic and filmmaker David Cairns will be joined by Chris Heppell, a Campaigner with Changing Faces, the UK’s Visible Difference and Disfigurement charity for a talk “All Faces are Masks”: Visible Difference in Silent Cinema. The film will be accompanied by the world premiere of a new commission by Sonic Bothy, an award-winning Glasgow-based inclusive ensemble that explores, composes and performs experimental and contemporary music. The HippFest Opening Night will also be live-streamed for online audiences. With bewitching costumes, stunning sets and gorgeous production design, every frame is visual delight. The magical journey of Tyltyl and Mytyl, based on playwright Maurice Maeterlinck’s hugely popular 1908 play L’oiseau bleu, echoes The Wizard of Oz, with its charming allegory about what is really important in life. ![]() The Festival opens on Wednesday 22 March with a screening of The Blue Bird (1928), Maurice Tourneur’s fantasy fairy-tale of two children’s quest for happiness. Scotland’s only festival dedicated to silent film takes place in the country’s oldest purpose built cinema, the Hippodrome in Bo’ness, Wed 22 – Sun 26 March 2023.Ģ023’s edition looks to continue bringing silver screen gems, world-class musicians and renowned experts on silent film from across the world to Bo’ness. This year served by a daily Festival shuttle bus between Linlithgow station and the Hippodrome, bookable in advance. The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival has announced the programme for its 13th edition.
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