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StudioCanal / ICO (studio)
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05 June 2012 (released)
01 June 2012
In this year of celebration of all things British, STUDIOCANAL and the ICO are delighted to announce a summer season of theatrical screenings in celebration of some of the finest, most entertaining and quirkiest cinema that this sceptred isle has ever produced.
The MADE IN BRITAIN season is sandwiched between the ‘Queen’s Diamond Jubilee’ and the ‘Olympics’ and will give audiences across the country the opportunity to enjoy five restored classic British films on the big screen.
A national screening event every Tuesday from June 5th to July 3rd inclusive will see each film screen digitally in cinemas across the country.
The five films have been chosen to illustrate the breadth of the work that has been produced by British filmmakers over the last century, and range from post-war comedy to ground-breaking sci-fi. A true British musical icon, a bevy of troublesome daughters, aliens on the Underground, zombies in Cornwall and some particularly obstinate inhabitants of a small London borough feature in films from the mighty studios of Hammer and Ealing.
The MADE IN BRITAIN season kicks off with:
PASSPORT TO PIMLICO – Tuesday 5th June
Ealing’s most quintessentially British comedy, about a group of Londoners who protest their right to be “Burgundian” following discovery of an ancient charter in a WWII bomb crater.
It will be followed by:
THE PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES – Tuesday 12th June
One of Hammer’s most underrated films, a fantastically off-the-wall zombie thriller set in Cornwall, starring Jacqueline Pearce and André Morell.
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH – Tuesday 19th June
Nic Roeg’s sci-fi classic starring David Bowie, Rip Torn and Candy Clark in an adaptation of Walter Tevis’ novel about an alien who comes to Earth seeking a solution to his home planet’s woes, only to find himself lost in an unfamiliar, corrupt and sometimes hostile society.
The MADE IN BRITAIN theatrical season will be complimented by a special exhibition of stills and artwork from classic British cinema at the London Film Museum.
