HippFest 2020
The silent film festival HippFest 2020 is on from 18 to 22 March.
This year they celebrate the Roaring Twenties with masked crusaders, real-life martyrs and femmes fatales.
Taking place at Scotland’s first purpose-built cinema, The Hippodrome in Bo’ness, you are assured this will be a weekend full of swashbuckling and romance and stars.
Apart from the starry ceiling in the cinema big names are now being attracted to the award winning festival.
Paul McGann will perform a live narration of L’Homme du Large (1920).
Skiffle and blues band the Dodge Brothers, broadcaster pianist and HippFest favourite Neil Brand will accompany FW Murnau’s City Girl (1930) performing their new live score with Mark Kermode.
Some of the highlights include : Opening night screening Dawn (1928) This is one of the most controversial films of the 1920s telling the story of Edith Cavell who was shot at dawn by the
Germans in 1915 for helping hundreds of Allied soldiers escape from German occupied Belgium The premiere of Laurel and Hardy’s recently restored Duck Soup (1927) which was later remade with sound as Another Fine Mess, screening with two other comedy classics Two Tars (1928) and Liberty (1929 )
Danish superstar Asta Nielsen
taking the lead role in Shakespeare’s best-known tragedy Hamlet (1921).
Closing Night screening : L’Homme du Large (1920) a powerful tale of a fisherman and his family living on the remote Breton coast torn apart by their idle and degenerate son.
Many more films in the programme www.hippfest.co.uk