Autumn Season 2018
19th October - 28th December 2018
A season of wonderful films both old and new. Something for everyone to enjoy
SOLO - A STAR WARS STORY
Friday, 19 October, 2018
Prequel to the series featuring the early career of Han Solo. With Woody Harrelson and Paul Bettany. Great action stuff.
Running Time:
135 minutes
Year of Release:
2018
Rated:
12A
Season Complete, Date has passed
LETTERS TO JULIET
Saturday, 20 October, 2018
Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave in this Italian love story featuring the discovery of a 50 year old letter posted in the Juliet wall in Verona
Running Time:
105 minutes
Year of Release:
2010
Rated:
PG
Season Complete, Date has passed
KEEPING MUM
Friday, 26 October, 2018
Excellent British black comedy set in a vicarage and featuring Maggie Smith, Rowan Atkinson as the vicar, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Swayze and Liz Smith.
Running Time:
99 minutes
Year of Release:
2005
Rated:
15
Sold Out, Season Complete, Date has passed
NORTHANGER ABBEY
Saturday, 27 October, 2018
The Jane Austen story with Geraldine James, Michael Judd and Felicity Jones. A penchant for gothic novels leads to a misunderstanding.
Running Time:
84 minutes
Year of Release:
2007
Rated:
PG
Season Complete, Date has passed
NT LIVE: ALLELUJAH
Thursday, 1 November, 2018
From the Bridge Theatre, Alan Bennett's new play about an NHS hospital. Doors open at 6.45pm. All Tickets £10
Running Time:
170 minutes
Year of Release:
2018
Rated:
15
Season Complete, Date has passed
THE RULING CLASS
Friday, 2 November, 2018
The death of the Earl of Gurney elevates his schizophrenic son to the peerage. Entertaining and very British comedy with Peter O'Toole, in two contrasting roles. Arthur lowe, ditto, plus Harry Andrews, Coral Browne and Alastair Sim as a wonderful archbishop
Running Time:
154 minutes
Year of Release:
1972
Rated:
PG
Season Complete, Date has passed
THE BEGUILED
Saturday, 3 November, 2018
Successful remake of the 1864 Civil War story of a wounded Union soldier assisted by the ladies of a Confederate seminary. With Nicole Kidman and Kirsten Dunst.
Running Time:
93 minutes
Year of Release:
2017
Rated:
15
Season Complete, Date has passed
ENGLAND MY ENGLAND
Friday, 9 November, 2018
Tony Palmer's film delivering a plausible narrative of the life of the great composer Henry Purcell - with lots of the music + Simon Callow and Michael Ball.
Running Time:
153 minutes
Year of Release:
1995
Rated:
PG
Season Complete, Date has passed
SPITFIRE
Saturday, 10 November, 2018
Excellent documentary featuring the story of designer R J Mitchell's exquisite aircraft. With great aerial photography and surviving WW2 pilots describing their experiences.
Running Time:
99 minutes
Year of Release:
2018
Rated:
PG
Season Complete, Date has passed
HARNESSING PEACOCKS
Friday, 16 November, 2018
Based on a Mary Wesley novel, Serena Scott Thomas, Peter Davison and John Mills in the story of Hebe Rutter, a beautiful girl whose life is upended by a teenage pregnancy which leads to an unusual lifestyle, to say the least.
Running Time:
105 minutes
Year of Release:
1993
Rated:
15
Season Complete, Date has passed
GAUGUIN - VOYAGE DE TAHITI
Saturday, 17 November, 2018
Paul Gauguin abandons family life in Paris to paint and pursue a native girl in Tahiti. With Vincent Cassel. Atmospheric. French with subtitles.
Running Time:
102 minutes
Year of Release:
2017
Rated:
15
Season Complete, Date has passed
NT LIVE: THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE III
Tuesday, 20 November, 2018
Mark Gatiss in the Alan Bennett play. Doors open at 6.45pm. All tickets £10
Running Time:
TBC minutes
Year of Release:
2018
Rated:
TBC
Season Complete, Date has passed
STRICTLY FRED AND GINGER
Friday, 23 November, 2018
The best routines from all the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers selected and introduced by James Pyke. Film clips by Nick Wood. Mostly 1930s. bw
Running Time:
90 minutes
Year of Release:
1930s
Rated:
U
Season Complete, Date has passed
THE HAPPY PRINCE
Saturday, 24 November, 2018
Rupert Everett's highly regarded film of the last phase in the life of Oscar Wilde following his release from prison. With Colin Firth and Emily Watson.
Running Time:
105 minutes
Year of Release:
2018
Rated:
15
Season Complete, Date has passed
LITTLE BIG MAN
Friday, 30 November, 2018
Dustin Hoffman as Jack Crabb, the 121 year old single survivor of Custer's Last Stand telling stories of his colourful life in the Wild West as a Cheyenne brave, gunslinger, muleskinner, army scout etc. With Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam and the excellent Chief Dan George.
Running Time:
139 minutes
Year of Release:
1970
Rated:
PG
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SWIMMING WITH MEN
Saturday, 1 December, 2018
British comedy. A man suffering a mid-life crisis joins an all male synchronised swimming team. With Rob Brydon, Jim Parker, Charlotte Riley, Rupert Graves.
Running Time:
96 minutes
Year of Release:
2018
Rated:
12A
Sold Out, Season Complete
NT LIVE - ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
Thursday, 6 December, 2018
The classic by William Shakespeare. With Ralph Fiennes.
Running Time:
210 minutes
Year of Release:
2018
Rated:
TBC
Season Complete
HOW ABOUT YOU
Friday, 7 December, 2018
Comedy featuring Joss Ackland and Vanessa Redgrave as cantankerous residents in a retirement home which Ellie, a newcomer, has to manage over the Christmas period.
Running Time:
87 minutes
Year of Release:
2007
Rated:
15
Season Complete
THAT DAY WE SANG
Saturday, 8 December, 2018
Set in the early 1960s, entertaining musical comedy-romance by Victoria Wood with Imelda Staunton and Michael Ball based around the actual recording in 1929 of Purcell's Nymphs and Shepherds by 250 schoolchildren in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester. Great song about Berni Inns.
Running Time:
89 minutes
Year of Release:
2014
Rated:
U
Season Complete
THE BOOKSHOP
Friday, 14 December, 2018
Based on Penelope Fitzgerald's novel about an only slightly fictionalised Southwold bookshop in 1959. With Bill Nighy and Emily Mortimer
Running Time:
113 minutes
Year of Release:
2017
Rated:
PG
Sold Out, Season Complete
MAMMA MIA - HERE WE GO AGAIN
Saturday, 15 December, 2018
Another romp with Meryl Streep and the gang plus Lily James and featuring ever popular Abba songs.
Running Time:
114 minutes
Year of Release:
2018
Rated:
PG
Season Complete
CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT
Thursday, 27 December, 2018
Barbara Stanwyck as a single New York journalist who cannot cook, portrays herself in a food column as a country farmer's wife. One Christmas she has to prove it. bw
Running Time:
101 minutes
Year of Release:
1945
Rated:
U
Season Complete
THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS
Friday, 28 December, 2018
In 1843, the true story of Charles Dickens, at a low point in his fortunes, deciding to write a Christmas story that became A Christmas Carol. With Dan Stevens, Miriam Margolyes, Jonathan Pryce, Christopher Plummer and Miles Jupp as Thackeray