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In this year’s reliably illuminating celebration of British film before 1930, you can catch the work of the sparky screenwriter Lydia Hayward in Not For Sale (Fri), a 1924 comedy about an aristocrat on his uppers who is forced to take digs at a Bloomsbury boarding house. The Guns Of Loos (Thu), a melodrama focusing on a romantic tug-of-war for a Red Cross nurse, shows too, while Geoff Brown gives a talk (Thu) on the subject of whether Hitchcock’s Blackmail really was the first British talkie. Brown will use excerpts to show that the truth isn’t as black-and-white as the cinematography.
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In this year’s reliably illuminating celebration of British film before 1930, you can catch the work of the sparky screenwriter Lydia Hayward in Not For Sale (Fri), a 1924 comedy about an aristocrat on his uppers who is forced to take digs at a Bloomsbury boarding house. The Guns Of Loos (Thu), a melodrama focusing on a romantic tug-of-war for a Red Cross nurse, shows too, while Geoff Brown gives a talk (Thu) on the subject of whether Hitchcock’s Blackmail really was the first British talkie. Brown will use excerpts to show that the truth isn’t as black-and-white as the cinematography.
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- 9/4/2015
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
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