The Vito Project LGBTQ+ Film Club, 18 September

Vito Project LGBTQ+ Film Club
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Image supplied)

Following the success of its Spring season, THE VITO PROJECT LGBTQ+ FILM CLUB returns to the iconic Cinema Museum London with a new series of regular Sunday screenings providing different generations of LGBTQ+ people and friends an alternative safe space to socialise, watch great films and share ideas. 

Forget your troubles, c’mon get happy…

Join The Vito Project for IMITATIONS OF LIFE: DECONSTRUCTING ‘CAMP’ IN CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD.  

This season of cherished Hollywood classics, which begins on 18th September deconstructs the elements that make camp, CAMP!  From fearless and uncompromising women to glossy Technicolor worlds, to some of the best eyebrow acting ever committed to celluloid, the screenings explore how camp has been used not only to entertain moviegoers, but also as a tool to get subversive queer, feminist, and socially-charged content to the screen – while eluding critics in the process!

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THE VITO PROJECT LGBTQ+ FILM CLUB PREPARES AN AUTUMN CELEBRATION OF HOLLYWOOD CAMP WITH MARILYN, BETTE AND JOAN AT THE CINEMA MUSEUM

The season begins with Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) (click links for tickets) on 18th September, then continues with Walk On the Wild Side (1962) on 23rd October starring Barbara Stanwyck and Jane Fonda. A Joan Crawford/ Bette Davis double bill with Beyond the Forest (1949) and Queen Bee (1955) lights up the screen on 20th November. Then we bring you the classic Lana Turner melodrama Imitation of Life (1959) on 11th December. As an extra treat to welcome you into 2023, the season concludes with a classic Disney double bill of The Little Mermaid (1989) and Beauty and the Beast (1991) on 22nd January.

Each screening preceded by introduction and followed by a panel discussion and conversation with the audience. Doors open one hour before start time for socialising. This is a glorious series of movies to laugh with, cry over and clutch your pearls to.

THE VITO PROJECT LGBTQ+ FILM CLUB BOOKING DETAILS

Event format at all screenings: Doors open for socialising one hour before start times. Each screening is preceded by an introduction and followed by a panel discussion. Snacks and refreshments available.

Single film events start at 6pm. Double bills start at 4pm.

Location: Cinema Museum: 2 Dugard Way, London SE11 4TH

Venue accessibility: The Cinema Museum is level access. There is a lift, and an accessible toilet large enough for a motorised wheelchair, with an easy lock and handrails. Some of the interior doors are heavy. There is parking available at the Cinema Museum. The building does not have a hearing loop. Please send us a message if you have any questions.

Social: Facebook @VITOProject,  Instagram @vitofilmclub, Twitter @TheVITOProject

For information about Cinema Museum, visit www.cinemamusem.org.uk  or telephone 020 7840 2200 

The Vito Project LGBTQ+ Film Club 

The popular series has been running at The Cinema Museum since 2015, promoting a safe space to promote dialogue between different generations of LGBTQ+ people, allies, and film lovers. It takes its name after Vito Russo (1945-1990), New York-native a gay rights activist, film historian and author best known for his book THE CELLULOID CLOSET a ground-breaking chronicle of the LGBTQ+ experience in film. Russo famously screened movies in a space for them to be discussed and debated, and the Project continues to honour his tradition at the historic Cinema Museum London

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