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SCREENING: The Hunt for Red October (1990, Dir. John McTiernan)

In support of designer Neal Potter’s talk and Q&A at the museum on Saturday 6th June (see EVENTS), Kent MOMI will screen his favourite film, THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER on June 5th. The screening also has a personal note as our curator, Joss’ father, Terence Marsh was the film’s production designer, responsible for the film's acclaimed, realistic submarine interior sets, working alongside art director William Cruse and set designer Mickey S. Michaels, for which he was nominated a BAFTA. Starring Sean Connery & Alec Baldwin, the film was nominated for a total of three BAFTAS and three Oscars, winning the latter for Best Effects. Doors open 5.30, for drinks, nibbles & classic cocktails. Film starts 6.30 with a brief introduction from the curators. Entry is free with a yearly ticket, although we suggest a small donation of £5 per person to help keep the lights on. Yearly tickets can be purchased on the door (£7.50 adult / £6.00 concessions). If you buy tickets and are subsequently unable to attend, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can give your seat(s) to someone else. Click here to buy tickets Sell tickets online with Ticket Tailor

Fri 5 JunKent MOMI

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Arts & CultureTalks & Lectures

"From Pit Painting to Global Exhibition" - talk + Q&A with MOMI designer Neal Potter

We welcome our friend Neal Potter to the museum for a special talk plus Q&A. "From Pit Painting to Global Exhibition,” follows his career journey from his formative years in a Derbyshire mining village, through art school and on to travelling the world designing international exhibitions and museums. Neal recalls his journey – the charity work – the lucky breaks – the sleepless nights – the lost exhibits - the crazy clients - the passionate clients - a constant desire to be creative and, the need to stay financially viable. Neal is a film-inspired designer of both Kent MOMI and the original Museum of the Moving Image, on London's Southbank. Ticket includes complimentary glass of wine or tea/coffee. There will be a free screening of Neal's favourite film, The Hunt for Red October (production designer, Terence Marsh) on Friday 5th, at 6.30pm (see EVENTS page). Click here to buy tickets Sell tickets online with Ticket Tailor

Sat 6 JunKent MOMI

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SCREENING: Ivan the Terrible, Part II (Sergei Eisenstein, 1946)

We preview film historian Ian Christie’s SOVIET CINEMA production design talk at the museum on Saturday 11th July (see EVENTS) with a special screening of Sergei Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible Part II (1946; 1hr 28mins). Some of the greatest production designers of the studio and classic eras in the USA and Europe have begun to win belated recognition, thanks to scholars and historians – not least Ian Christie, the most wide-ranging British film critic-historian of the past 30 years and a renowned expert on Soviet cinema. “Navigating the deadly waters of Stalinist politics, Eisenstein was able to film two parts of his planned trilogy about the troubled sixteenth-century tsar who united Russia. Visually stunning and powerfully acted, Ivan the Terrible charts the rise to power and descent into terror of this veritable dictator. Though pleased with the first instalment, Stalin detested the portrait in the second film—with its summary executions and secret police—and promptly banned it.” (The Criterion Collection) Doors open 5.30, for drinks, nibbles & classic cocktails. Film starts 6.30 with a brief introduction from the curators. Entry is free with a yearly ticket, although we suggest a small donation of £5 per person to help keep the lights on. Yearly tickets can be purchased on the door (£7.50 adult / £6.00 concessions). If you do buy tickets and are subsequently unable to attend, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can give your seat(s) to someone else.

Fri 10 JulKent MOMI

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CinemaTalks & Lectures

TALK: Ian Christe 'Soviet Cinema – not just great directors but great designers too'

Soviet Cinema – not just great directors but great designers too A talk by Ian Christie, Emeritus Professor of Film and Media History, Birkbeck College, University of London Some of the greatest production designers of the studio and classic eras in the USA and Europe have begun to win belated recognition, thanks to scholars and historians – not least Ian Christie, the most wide-ranging British film critic-historian of the past 30 years, a champion of the work of John Box, featured in Kent MOMI’s new design exhibition (‘Terence Marsh & Production Design’), and a renowned expert on Soviet cinema. In conjunction with the exhibition, Professor Christie unfolds a penetrating analysis of the obscured designers of such major Soviet classics as The New Babylon , Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible Parts 1 and 2, Kozintsev’s great Shakespeare films, and Kozintsev and Trauberg’s New Babylon . In the case of Eisenstein, a prolific draughtsman, it’s perhaps understandable to believe that effectively he designed Nevsky and Ivan . But the production designer of record for those films was actually Iosif Shpinel, who had forty other credits between 1928 and 1956, and also designed some key films by Barnet, Pudovkin and Ermler. Is it too late to start reclaiming credit for those who designed and built these enduring classics? Click here to buy tickets Sell tickets online with Ticket Tailor

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