Monthly talks given by accredited speakers on all aspects of decorative and fine art.

Cinema from the Rubble, the postwar politics of Ealing Studios

With Benedict Morrison at 2.00 pm in the Arts Centre Cranleigh.

Ealing Studios is often hailed as the most quintessentially English of all film studios. Run by Sir Michael Balcon for decades, the studio reached its zenith in 1949, its annus mirabilis, releasing Passport to Pimlico, Whisky Galore!, and Kind Hearts and Coronets.

Now most celebrated for these and the similarly magnificent comedies that followed, Ealing’s films have a reputation for cosiness, whimsicality, and an ever-so gentle subversiveness. This talk revisits these films and reads them again, this time in the light of the post-war new waves that were beginning to emerge across Europe.

Meetings are held at Cranleigh Arts Centre. Non-members are welcome to join us at a talk as a guest. No commitment, but a donations welcome. See the website: www.theartssocietycranleigh.org