Flatpack Film Festival: The Lodger

Free BCU staff and student tickets

Flatpack Film Festival takes over venues across Birmingham every spring, and this year it’s coming to Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. With a mixture of films, performances, contraptions and surprises, Flatpack aims to show people things they might not have otherwise seen.

Hitchcock's silent chiller hits the big screen at The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with a new live score from the Meg Morley Trio.

Subtitled 'A Story of the London Fog', Hitchcock's Ripper-inspired thriller is a wonderful evocation of the capital at its murkiest. Face wrapped in a scarf, onto the scene arrives the title character (played by matinee idol and latterly gay icon Ivor Novello), seeking bed and board and perhaps connected with a string of gruesome murders. The film is widely regarded as Hitch's first masterpiece, and it's fascinating to see how many of his tricks and techniques were already present in the silent era. (Given that local boy Michael Balcon produced it, we can also just about claim it as a Brummie masterpiece.)

This very special presentation of The Lodger is accompanied by a suitably tense, atmospheric score by composer and musician Meg Morley, performing tonight as part of a jazz trio.

Please note doors will open at 13:00 for a 13:30 start.