Audio Review: Slapstick 2010 on BBC Radio Scotland’s Movie Café

Last weekend I was lucky enough to attend Slapstick 2010, the UK’s only (as far as I’m aware) festival dedicated to screenings of silent films alongside guest talks and special events.

Over four days I recorded some of my thoughts of the event for BBC Radio Scotland’s excellent Movie Café programme, and the episode is now up for seven days on the BBC iPlayer.

While I’d recommend listening to the full programme, my segment begins around 25.47 minutes in and features an interview with actor Paul McGann and Aardman Animation’s Peter Lord.

You can also read a review by fellow Slapstick 2010 attendee Walter Dunlop over on my other blog, Adventures in Primetime.

Film Preview: Modern Times, 22 September, Filmhouse, Edinburgh

There’ll be a rare screening of Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times on Tuesday 22 September at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse.

According to the Filmhouse website, Modern Times was made at the time of Roosevelt’s New Deal, Chaplin’s first ‘political’ film tells the story of a worker buffeted about and neglected by inhuman forces of industrialisation, politics and the law.