26th June - 21st July '09

Hitchin Film Festival

Compiled by Hitchin Film Club, sponsored by PICTURE THIS

Tues 7 July

SLUM DOG MILLIONAIRE * new showing added 5pm

The Studio at The Queen Mother Theatre, Walsworth Rd.. 5pm & 8pm £5

The Oscar winner that you may have missed!

Wed 8 July

HOUSEWIVES’ CHOICE - SOLD OUT * taking details for possible future showing

The Studio at The Queen Mother Theatre, Walsworth Rd.. 8pm £5

Not so long ago housewives had a number of very good reasons to be desperate. Not only did they have to look after their families in an age of depression, war and austerity but they did so without the consumer durables that we now consider essential. With humour frequently in its sights, Housewives' Choice is a programme of films from the BFI National Archive that explores the lives of British housewives from the 1920s to the 1950s. The programme includes documentaries, cinemagazines, propaganda films and adverts. It also features films by two of the women who helped to shape the British documentary movement of the 1930s and 40s – Ruby Grierson (1904-40) and Kay Mander (1915-).

Wed 15 July

WOODSTOCK

The Studio at The Queen Mother Theatre, Walsworth Rd.. 7.30pm £3

For all those that tuned in, turned on and dropped out and those who want to know what it was all about. Come and celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival.

Thur 16 July

OLD HITCHIN ON FILM

The Studio at The Queen Mother Theatre, Walsworth Rd.. 7.30pm £5

Richard Whitmore hosts an evening of archive films showing the changing scenes in Hitchin during the 20th century.
Sponsor: Hitchin Historical Society