A Private Function Sarah Lancashire as Joyce. A Private Function A Private Function is a 1984 British comedy film starring Michael Palin and Maggie Smith. The film was predominantly filmed in Ilkley, Ben Rhydding, and Barnoldswick, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. In a small Northern English town in 1947 the citizens endure continuing food rationing. Some local businessmen want to hold a party to celebrate the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Philip and illegally decide to raise a pig for that occasion. However, the
The Private Life of a Cat refreshing absence of human beings on screen." Dangerous Minds wrote "[t]his beautiful 1944 silent film from husband-and-wife team Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid is quite possibly the only evidence we need that cats are the ultimate well-spring of creativity." The Private Life of a Cat The Private Life of a Cat is a 1944 black and white experimental documentary film by Alexander Hammid and Maya Deren. Archive.org summarises that the film is an "intimate study" of a female cat who gives birth to a litter of kittens and shows their maturation. The film is entirely silent and shot from the