Capital Celluloid 2024 — Day 248: Tue Sep 10

Carnival (Wilcox, 1931): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 6.15pm


This 35mm presentation is part of the 'Projecting the Archive' strand at BFI Southbank and will be introduced by BFI curator Josephine Botting.

BFI introduction:
To mark 25 years since the death of British screen superstar Dorothy ‘Chili’ Bouchier, we present a rare outing of this archive print with beautiful stencil colour sequences. This Venice-set drama revels in the lavish spectacle of the carnival, enhanced by stunning sets and costumes by renowned artist and theatrical designer Doris Zinkeisen. Matheson Lang plays a celebrated actor convinced of his wife’s infidelity and so consumed with jealousy that he plots her murder during a performance of Othello. Bouchier’s affecting performance as a woman trapped in a stifling marriage saw her labelled the ‘British Garbo’.

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