Club celebrates cinema victory with Hitchcock documentary

Club celebrates cinema victory with Hitch film

Thursday, 06 June 2013

by Pat Jones

CAMPAIGNERS are celebrating saving historic EMD cinema with a special screening of film by Alfred Hitchcock – who watched movies there when he was a boy.
The McGuffin Film Society, which fought for ten years to save the Walthamstow cinema from conversion to a church, is marking last week’s Government decision to preserve it, with a free showing of a film about the area made by the master of suspense.
The group will show the feature-length documentary ‘Alfred Hitchcock in East London’ which is about the legendary director’s Waltham Forest roots and inspirations.
“This is a great opportunity to thank everyone in the borough who has supported the campaign to save the EMD Cinema and a chance to celebrate Waltham Forest’s unique legacy as the birthplace of the world’s most famous film director,” said McGuffin spokesman Bill Hodgson.
Hitchcock was born above his father’s Leyton-stone grocery store in 1899 and is believed to have watched films on the EMD site as a boy. He went on to create some of the most influential and enduring films of all time and last year the British Film Institute voted his 1958 masterpiece Vertigo as the greatest movie ever made.
The screening of ‘Alfred Hitchcock in East London’ is being held as part of Waltham Forest Council’s Love Your High Streets weekend. It is free entry, on Saturday, June 8 at O’Neils Music Venue, 762 Leytonstone High Road, London E11. Doors open at 5pm.
Further details about the show can be found at www.mcguff-in.info.
To view the full line-up of Love Your Streets events you can visit www.walthamforest.gov.uk/
loveyourhighstreet.

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