January 2022 to February 2024
Harry Hill’s The Last Caveman
21 November 2023
Saturday 17th Feb. (17:45 Lantern Hall, Bristol Beacon)
Step into the hilarious and heartwarming world of Harry Hill’s THE LAST CAVEMAN, a cinematic experience that will leave you smiling! It’s a lonely life being a caveman, especially if you believe you’re the last one on Earth.
Tim Vine: The Physical Years
21 November 2023
Saturday 17th Feb. (16:00 The Lantern at Bristol Beacon)
Tim Vine shares video clips from his life and career where he falls over or does something physical in search of humour. As well as moments from Tim’s TV appearances this show includes previously unseen footage of Tim aged 18 being deliberately visual.
Adam Hills & Mike McCartney present: The Timeless Genius of Buster Keaton
21 November 2023
Saturday 17th Feb. (14:00 The Lantern at Bristol Beacon)
Join us for a laugh-out loud afternoon as Mike McCartney hand picks his favourite Keaton short films, reminiscing from childhood.
Tim Vine’s FEARMOTH
21 November 2023
Saturday 17th Feb. (11:30 The Lantern at Bristol Beacon)
This is only the second public big screen showing of FEARMOTH. Written, directed and starring Tim Vine and supported by John Archer and Mona Al-Habib Nmeir
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
21 November 2023
Saturday 17th Feb. (09:45 Watershed Cinema 3)
A fun-for-all-the-family ‘relaxed screening’ of comedy horror masterpiece in which one of the USA’s most popular Slapstick comedy double acts takes delivery of new items for a horror museum only to find themselves besieged by dangers from Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster and a werewolf.
Painfully Funny! When Stunts Go Wrong
21 November 2023
Saturday 17th Feb. (09:30 Watershed)
Christina Newland, lead film critic at the i Newspaper and contributing editor at Empire, in an hour long story-telling session about the hijinx, dangers, and sometimes not-at-all death-defying adventures in the early days of silent comedy and beyond.
Silent Comedy Gala
21 November 2023
Friday 16th Feb. (19:30 Beacon Hall Bristol Beacon)
DOWNTON ABBEY, THE GOLD and PADDINGTON films star Hugh Bonneville introduces a triple bill of laugh-out-loud silent comedy classics, back in the auditorium where Slapstick began: THE GOLD RUSH (1925), COPS (1922), BIG BUSINESS (1929)
Live from New York – Buster Keaton: Camera Man
21 November 2023
Friday 16th Feb. (16:45 Watershed Cinema 3)
Andrew Kelly hosts a live conversation direct from New York with Dana Stevens, author of the best-selling, rave reviewed, book Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
Leading Women: Kiki (1926)
21 November 2023
Friday 16th Feb. (13:30 Watershed)
Norma Talmadge is best-remembered for silent melodramas but she was a fine comedy actor, too, as proved by this Paris-set romcom.
Lloyd Hamilton: The Comedians’ Comedian
21 November 2023
Friday 16th Feb. (11:40 Watershed)
Graeme Garden discovers why Charlie Chaplin once confessed Lloyd Hamilton was the comedy film actor he most envied
Before January 2022, all of our events were listed collectively on a single page that was categorised by year