WINTER PROGRAMME 2024
15 January 2024 MONDAY 19:30
Playhouse Main Screen
Tickets £8.00|£5.00 (age up to 25)
Sunday Bloody Sunday 15
UK | 1971 110 minutes
DIRECTED BY
John Schlesinger
STARRING
Peter Finch|Glenda Jackson|Murray Head
We mark the passing of Glenda Jackson with a screening of her 1971 film Sunday Bloody Sunday, in which Jackson plays the female corner of a love triangle. The film went down well with the critics and there were Oscar nominations and BAFTA awards. Here is the chance to appreciate Glenda Jackson's talents alongside a very strong cast.
GAP
22 January 2024 MONDAY 13:00 and 19:30
Playhouse Main Screen
Tickets £8.00|£5.00 (age up to 25)
Metropolis PG
Germany | 1927 153 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Fritz Lang
STARRING
Brigitte Helm|Alfred Abel|Gustav Fröhlich
If
you chose a single film whose aesthetic had influenced so many that came after,
then Fritz Lang's 1927 epic, Metropolis, would be a good choice. The film was ambitious and
expensive, and this latest restoration allows you to see it on the big screen
in a form as close as possible to its original Berlin release.
GAP
5 February 2024 MONDAY 19:30
Green Room Bar
Tickets £7.00|£5.00 (up to age 25)
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 15
(Australia/1994) 104 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Stephan Elliott
STARRING
Hugo Weaving|Guy Pearce|Terence Stamp
A feel-good movie that puts the OUT in the outback! Three somewhat jaded drag artists decide for various reasons to make a trip from Sydney to Alice Springs – over land in an old and unreliable bus that (after an essential paintjob) comes to be known as Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. The script is sharp, the laugh-out-loud moments are many, the soundtrack is fun and, of course, the costumes are gorgeous.
GAP
The Girl Who Leapt through Time 12A
screened with English subtitles
Japan | 2006 98 minutes
19 February 2024 MONDAY 19:30
Playhouse Main Screen
Tickets £8.00|£5.00 (age up to 25)
DIRECTED BY
Mamoru Hosoda
This anime is derived from a 1967 novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui. It involves a teenage girl who finds she has the ability to travel through time, but gets stuck in a time loop, repeatedly reliving the same day. It is a story that seems to have fascinated Japanese film-makers as it has reappeared in several TV series and live-action movies.
GAP
26 February 2024 MONDAY 19:30
Playhouse Main Screen
Tickets £8.00|£5.00 (age up to 25)
Fanny Lye Deliver'd 18
UK | 2019 112 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Thomas Clay
STARRING
Maxine Peake|Charles Dance|Freddie Fox
Set in deepest Shropshire during the time of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth, this has the feel of a western. Fanny Lye is married to a Puritan ex-soldier, and Puritan patriarchy rules their household - at least, until it is disturbed by the arrival of a young couple, naked and dishevelled, who claim to have been attacked. But soon the Lye family is captive in its own house …
GAP
11 March 2024 MONDAY 19:30
Playhouse Main Screen
Tickets £8.00|£5.00 (age up to 25)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes U
USA | 1953 91 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Howard Hawks
STARRING
Jane Russell|Marilyn Monroe|Charles Coburn
This is tremendous fun, with two stars at the top of their game, some great musical numbers, lavish costumes, and all in glorious Technicolor! It’s delightful to see the chemistry between the two female stars in face of the full spectrum of gender politics. And Marilyn's rendition of 'Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend' has become the stuff of legend.
GAP
18 March 2024 MONDAY 19:30
Playhouse Main Screen
Tickets £8.00|£5.00 (age up to 25)
Summer with Monika PG
Sweden | 1953 96 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Ingmar Bergman
STARRING
Harriet Andersson|Lars Ekborg|Dagmar Ebbesen
Welcome to 'B' for Bergman in the ABC of Cinema with a screening of the Swedish director's 1953 drama, in which hard-up teens Harry and Monika run away together to spend an idyllic few weeks on an island close to Stockholm. Unconstrained by Anglo-Saxon sensibilities, the film's Continental credentials were quickly exploited in material promoting its international release!
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