FILM
SILENT COMEDY CLASSIC:
I WAS BORN BUT - WITH LIVE PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT
Presented by:
ABCD Film Society
When:
Thu 15 March, 7:30pm
Where:
Saint Nicolas’ Church, Market Place
Tickets:
£6 (conc £5)
from The Bookstore, Bury Street (Abingdon Shopping Precinct), Abingdon Information Centre: 01235 522711, ABCD: 01235 522163, or email: info@abfilms.org.uk

Another in ABCD’s series of classic silent comedies, this time by one of the world’s greatest filmakers, Yasujiro Ozu. Made in Japan in 1932, brothers Ryoichi and Keiji, a true pair of young rascals, struggle to outwit the local bully and scale the pecking order in their new neighbourhood, but they they discover that injustice does not end with school. Once again our annual silent has piano accompaniment by National Film Theatre pianist, Andrew Youdell. Running time 87 minutes, Cert U.

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FILM & JAZZ
JAZZ MOVIE CLASSIC:
STORMY WEATHER, PLUS LIVE JAZZ WITH THE GEORGE HASLAM TRIO
Presented by:
ABCD Film Society
When:
Thu 22 March, 7:30pm – 10:30pm
Where:
King Charles I Room, upstairs at THE KING’S HEAD AND BELL
Tickets:
£8 (conc £7)
from The Bookstore, Bury Street (Abingdon Shopping Precinct)
Abingdon Information Centre: 01235 522711
ABCD: 01235 522163, or email: info@abfilms.org.uk

Come and enjoy a wonderful film and some great live jazz at this historic Abingdon pub.

7:30 pm: First set with George Haslam, saxophone, Steve Smith, bass, and Jez Cook, guitar, returning after the film. Guardian writer John Fordham described George as “a fine baritone saxophonist with a distinct signature” and “an entire jazz scene on his own”. Their second set follows at 9:45pm.

8.05 pm Stormy Weather (USA 1943, 78 mins), classic musical featuring legendary greats, Lena Horne, Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, Slam Stewart, Benny Carter and tap dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson.

FILM
THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE CAPTAIN SCOTT’S HEROIC JOURNEY TO THE SOUTH POLE
Presented by:
ABCD Film Society
When:
Thu 29 March, 7:45 pm
Where:
Abingdon & Witney College, Wootton Road
Tickets:
£6 (conc £5)
from The Bookstore, Bury Street (Abingdon Shopping Precinct), Abingdon Information Centre: 01235 522711, ABCD: 01235 522163, or email: info@abfilms.org.uk

Another silent era classic. Herbert Ponting, described by the explorer as ‘an artist in love with his work’, directed this official record of the celebrated British Antarctic Expedition. To celebrate the centenary of Scott’s reaching the South Pole, we will be screening the beautiful and dramatic National Film Archive restoration with a new musical score by Simon Fisher Turner.

“You’ll be hard pushed to find a more purely thrilling cinema experience” liitlewhitelies.co.uk UK 1924, black and white and tinted Cert U, 106 mins

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