Category Archives: News

[ May 4, 2013; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]

Saturday 4th May from 8pm

Dir: David O Russell, 2012, USA, 120 mins, Cert 15

Life doesn’t always go according to plan… Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything–his house, his job, and his wife. He now finds himself living back with his mother (Jacki Weaver) and father (Robert DeNiro) after spending eight months in a state institution [...]

[ April 28, 2013; 2:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ]
Sunday 28th April from 2.30pm – afternoon tea will be available!

Dir: Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, USA , 128mins, Cert PG

Syd Bayley, Moving Image Working Party member, will be leading a discussion on ‘Vertigo”. She says:

“Every ten years, the British Film Institute’s magazine, Sight and Sound, holds a poll of critics to find the Top 50 Greatest [...]

[ April 27, 2013; 12:00 am to 10:00 pm. ]

Saturday 27th April from 8pm

Dir: Ben Affleck, 2012, Canada, 120 mins, Cert 15

“Argo (2012) is a fantastically tense thriller starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston and John Goodman. Set during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, the film follows Affleck’s character Toby Mendez as a CIA operative who “gets people out” of such situations. The film is [...]

[ March 2, 2013; 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. ]
A DAY IN THE DARK: Great Films (you may not know)

“This Day School course will examine 10 – 15 Great Movies (many of which you may never have heard of). We will look at the background in which the films were produced, the stars and the film makers as well as evaluating the reputation [...]

[ February 16, 2013; 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm. ]

Dir: Sally Potter, 2012, UK, 90 mins

London, 1962: Two teenage girls, Ginger (Elle Fanning) and Rosa (Alice Englert), are inseparable. They play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and dream of lives bigger than their mothers’ frustrated domesticity.

But as the Cold War meets the sexual revolution, the lifelong friendship of the two girls is [...]

[ February 2, 2013; 8:00 pm to 9:55 pm. ]  

Dir: Leos Carax, 2012, France, 115mins

Leos Carax’s wilfully delirious love letter to cinema – enfants terribles don’t get older they just get weirder.

Over the course of a single day, Monsieur Oscar travels by limousine around Paris to a series of nine “appointments,” transforming into new characters or incarnations at each stop. Fetched in the morning [...]

[ January 26, 2013; 10:00 pm to 11:31 pm. ] Special notice:
We are very sorry but the screening of this film has unfortunately been cancelled due to the ongoing problems with the Phillip Road heating system. When we have more information on the heating situation we will publish a revised schedule of features so please check back over the coming week either on the website [...]

[ January 12, 2013; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]

Dir: Seth macFarlane. 2012 USA. Starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis.

An acerbic teddy bear comes to life in Seth MacFarlane’s hilarious first film about our refusal to abandon adolescence

See Philip French’s review in The Observer : http://bit.ly/PTJr01