Henry Mancini celebration: Breakfast at Tiffany’s

A screening of the classic romantic comedy, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, celebrating the anniversary of the 100th birthday of one of the greatest of all soundtrack composers, Henry Mancini.

This screening will be preceded by an introduction to the music of Henry Mancini by Dr Matt Lawson from Oxford Brookes University.

This film is rated PG.

In partnership with the Ultimate Picture Palace.

2PM Doors open

2:30PM Pre-screening introduction

3PM Film starts

Dr Matt Lawson is a musicologist and Senior Lecturer in Music at Oxford Brookes University, UK, where he has worked since 2017. Primarily a film and television music specialist, Matt completed his PhD at Edge Hill University, with a thesis focusing on the music used in German depictions of the Holocaust on screen. He is co-author of the general interest book, 100 Greatest Film Scores (Rowman and Litlefield, 2018), a number of articles and chapters on screen music, and is currently writing his second book, The Music of Middle-Earth on Screen (Cambridge University Press, expected 2024).