CARY GRANT – ACROBAT!
Cary Comes Home Festival 2024
Friday 29 November – Sunday 1 December 2024
Bristol Megascreen at Bristol Aquarium & Bristol Spiegeltent,
Anchor Rd, Bristol, UK, BS1 5TT
Join us in Cary Grant’s home city for a three-day celebration of how the Hollywood star’s early training as an acrobat lent physical prowess to many of his films and made a lasting impact on action cinema.
Our 6th festival runs from 29 November to 1 December 2024 at city centre venues close to the Cary Grant statue in Millennium Square.
The line-up includes screenings, talks, walks, Q&As, insights into stunt work, circus elements and, for the first time since the festival began in 2014, a partnership with the magical Bristol Spiegeltent that will result in a gala finale featuring a special screening of TO CATCH A THIEF with a live cabaret show.
All in all, there is no better way to explore Grant’s legacy as a cinematic trailblazer and the original inspiration behind the quintessential action hero, James Bond.
“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant” (Cary Grant).
Experience Grant’s versatility, from the slapstick brilliance of BRINGING UP BABY to the high-stakes suspense of NORTH BY NORTHWEST, screening as part of Art of Action, a UK-wide film season supported by National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network. Scroll down for full programme!
AT-A-GLANCE SCHEDULE
FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER
WATCH ONLINE
19:00 Cinematic Style
TUESDAY 26 NOVEMBER
WATCH ONLINE
19:30 To Catch A Spy
FRIDAY 29 NOVEMBER
CARY GRANT STATUE
14:00 Raising Cary Grant Theatre Walk
BRISTOL MEGASCREEN
18:30 Opening Night Reception
19:45 North by Northwest
SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER
BRISTOL MEGASCREEN
10:00 I’m No Angel
12:00 Panel: Cary in Motion
14:00 Panel: Animal Magic!
16:00 Monkey Business
19:00 Bringing Up Baby – with live music
SUNDAY 1 DECEMBER
CARY GRANT STATUE
12:00 Raising Cary Grant Theatre Walk
BRISTOL MEGASCREEN
10:00 Holiday
13:00 The Awful Truth
15:00 My Favorite Wife
CHRISTMAS SPIEGELTENT
19:00 Closing Night Gala: To Catch A Thief – with live circus performance
Download a PDF of the programme
All films are U or PG
Cary Comes Home is a biennial festival which aims to celebrate Cary Grant’s Bristol roots, develop new audiences for his work and recreate the golden age of cinema-going, directed by Dr Charlotte Crofts (Associate Professor of Filmmaking, UWE Bristol). The festival will take place over the weekend of 29 November – 1 December 2024.
