Tickets Selling Fast for Silver Screen Week
Several screenings for the Silver Screen Week at Fairfax House have now sold out!
Photocall Opportuntiy: A Commissionaire and usherettes will be showing people to their cinema seats at Fairfax House on Friday 11 September at 10.15am in advance of the opening of the Fairfax House Silver Screen Week. Also pianist Kieran White, in period costume, will be present to accompany Buster Keaton’s The General.
There has been a rush on tickets for the Fairfax House Silver Screen Week which starts on 13th September and runs through to 20th September 2009.
Both screenings of The General (13 and 20 September) along with the evening screening of The Wicked Lady (17 September), have now sold out but many of the evening screenings have a few tickets left.
The Silver Screen week is part of the 25th year anniversary celebrations marking the building opened as a House Museum and director Peter Brown is delighted with the response. He commented: “We have had a tremendous amount of interest in the Silver Screen week across several generations. Many people have their own memories of seeing films at St Georges in their youth, others have heard stories about the cinema days from parents and grandparents and some are just looking forward to watching an old film in our stunning 18th century townhouse.”
During this special cinema week there will be screenings of some of the old films
shown in the House when it was run as a cinema and also a selection of Yorkshire-connected films. The building was owned between 1921 -1965 by the St George’s Cinema Company and during those years the City of York was awash with cinemas – there were 11 cinema buildings in total in fairly close proximity to each other.
The showings of Buster Keaton’s silent movie ‘The General’, will be accompanied
by local pianist & performer player Kieran White who has written a specially commissioned score for this film. The other films scheduled include ‘Young and Heart’ (1954) starring Doris Day and Frank Sinatra and ‘The Wicked Lady’ (1945) starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason, which were recalled with affection by York residents. There will also be a showing of the re-make of the 1921 version of ‘Three Men in a Boat’ which was the first film to be screened at Fairfax House, plus three Yorkshire connected films – ‘This Sporting Life’, ‘Room at the Top’ and ‘Turn of the Tide’.
Here is a complete list of public morning and evening screenings that still have tickets available:
Dates 9.30am screenings 7.00pm screenings
Sun 13 Sept Three Men in a Boat
Mon 14 Sept Young at Heart
Tues 15 Sept This Sporting Life
Thurs17 Sept Room at the Top The Wicked Lady
Fri 18 Sept Turn the Tide
Sat 19 Sept The Wicked Lady Three Men in a Boat
In addition there will be a special illustrated lecture and discussion on the ‘History of Cinema in York’ where memories, images and memorabilia will be featured on all
11 cinema buildings in York, including The Regal in Piccadilly, The Grand in Clarence Street and the Electric Scala in Fossgate. The event will be led by Tim Addyman and Dave Taylor and will be held at City Screen in York (10am – 12 noon, Sunday 20 September). Tickets include coffee and cake prior to the event.
During normal opening hours, visitors to the House during the Silver Screen Week will get the opportunity to sit and look at footage of film taken in York over the past 100 years prepared by the York Film Archive.
Fairfax House is also collecting people’s memories of the cinema days at
St George’s Cinema and is asking people who have memories and memorabilia to contact them. It is planned at some stage to collate these memories into an exhibition and publication.
Tickets for the film screenings are £8.50 and for the ‘History of Cinemas in York’ lecture and discussion £12.50 are available from Fairfax House on 01904 655543 or by calling into the House in Castlegate, York during opening hours. More details about the Silver Screen Week are also available on the Fairfax House website at www.fairfaxhouse.co.uk
Ends
Press Contacts: Peter Brown
Tel: 01904 654443
Email: peterbrown@fairfaxhouse.co.uk
or
Melanie Paris
Tel: 01904 647408
E mail: hello@melanieparis.com
There has been a rush on tickets for the Fairfax House Silver Screen Week which starts on 13th September and runs through to 20th September 2009.
Both screenings of The General (13 and 20 September) along with the evening screening of The Wicked Lady (17 September), have now sold out but many of the evening screenings have a few tickets left.
The Silver Screen week is part of the 25th year anniversary celebrations marking the building opened as a House Museum and director Peter Brown is delighted with the response. He commented: “We have had a tremendous amount of interest in the Silver Screen week across several generations. Many people have their own memories of seeing films at St Georges in their youth, others have heard stories about the cinema days from parents and grandparents and some are just looking forward to watching an old film in our stunning 18th century townhouse.”
During this special cinema week there will be screenings of some of the old films
shown in the House when it was run as a cinema and also a selection of Yorkshire-connected films. The building was owned between 1921 -1965 by the St George’s Cinema Company and during those years the City of York was awash with cinemas – there were 11 cinema buildings in total in fairly close proximity to each other.
The showings of Buster Keaton’s silent movie ‘The General’, will be accompanied
by local pianist & performer player Kieran White who has written a specially commissioned score for this film. The other films scheduled include ‘Young and Heart’ (1954) starring Doris Day and Frank Sinatra and ‘The Wicked Lady’ (1945) starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason, which were recalled with affection by York residents. There will also be a showing of the re-make of the 1921 version of ‘Three Men in a Boat’ which was the first film to be screened at Fairfax House, plus three Yorkshire connected films – ‘This Sporting Life’, ‘Room at the Top’ and ‘Turn of the Tide’.
Here is a complete list of public morning and evening screenings that still have tickets available:
Dates 9.30am screenings 7.00pm screenings
Sun 13 Sept Three Men in a Boat
Mon 14 Sept Young at Heart
Tues 15 Sept This Sporting Life
Thurs17 Sept Room at the Top The Wicked Lady
Fri 18 Sept Turn the Tide
Sat 19 Sept The Wicked Lady Three Men in a Boat
In addition there will be a special illustrated lecture and discussion on the ‘History of Cinema in York’ where memories, images and memorabilia will be featured on all
11 cinema buildings in York, including The Regal in Piccadilly, The Grand in Clarence Street and the Electric Scala in Fossgate. The event will be led by Tim Addyman and Dave Taylor and will be held at City Screen in York (10am – 12 noon, Sunday 20 September). Tickets include coffee and cake prior to the event.
During normal opening hours, visitors to the House during the Silver Screen Week will get the opportunity to sit and look at footage of film taken in York over the past 100 years prepared by the York Film Archive.
Fairfax House is also collecting people’s memories of the cinema days at
St George’s Cinema and is asking people who have memories and memorabilia to contact them. It is planned at some stage to collate these memories into an exhibition and publication.
Tickets for the film screenings are £8.50 and for the ‘History of Cinemas in York’ lecture and discussion £12.50 are available from Fairfax House on 01904 655543 or by calling into the House in Castlegate, York during opening hours. More details about the Silver Screen Week are also available on the Fairfax House website at www.fairfaxhouse.co.uk
Ends
Press Contacts: Peter Brown
Tel: 01904 654443
Email: peterbrown@fairfaxhouse.co.uk
or
Melanie Paris
Tel: 01904 647408
E mail: hello@melanieparis.com