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Kent MOMI is delighted to announce a new eight-week season of summer movies, every Friday evening from 4th August to 22nd September inclusive. Come and celebrate cinema, summer and the museum’s re-opening!

The weather might not look festive right now, but we have prepared a season of summer-themed films that will bring on a holiday mood.  Come and travel with us across the world (and in time) with eight films selected by, and paired with film-themed cocktails by, Dr. Natasha.

Our opening feature is Billy Wilder’s naughty-but-nice take on one hot summer in Manhattan – and one man’s mid-life crisis: The Seven Year Itch (1955, USA, 105mins).  A middle-aged husband (Tom Ewell, in confession-to-camera mode), left dangerously alone in the steaming-hot city, while his wife and son flee to the country, meets the glamorous young woman who has sub-let the apartment upstairs (Marilyn Monroe in full splendid flight as comedienne, and sporting, in the scene that ended her marriage, the white halter-neck dress that has been voted the most iconic screen costume of all time).  As for the drink of the night … “I’m perfectly capable of fixing my own breakfast,” says Ewell’s character.  “As a matter of fact, I had a peanut butter sandwich and two whisky sours.”

Hm … what inspiration is that?