SUMMER SEASON 2024
27TH JULY - 31ST AUGUST 2024
JOIN US THIS SUMMER FOR A GREAT SELECTION OF FILMS, OLD AND NEW. WE HAVE SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE. TO BOOK PLEASE EMAIL: boxoffice@southwoldcinema.co.uk BOOKINGS WILL BE DEALT WITH IN THE ORDER WE RECEIVE THEM ON MONDAY 15TH JULY.
MAESTRO
Saturday, 27 July, 2024
SPECIAL OPENING NIGHT BLACK TIE (OPTIONAL) RECEPTION WITH BUBBLES AND NIBBLES AT 7PM. Primarily a life member event but extra tickets may be available at £15. Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan in the story of composer Leonard Bernstein told via his relationship with Felicia Montealegre Cohn.
Running Time:
129 minutes
Year of Release:
2023
Rated:
15
Season Complete
THE JUNGLE BOOK
Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
The first of our family films, the great animation of the Rudyard Kipling tale with all the memorable songs. "Bear Necessities" for instance.
Running Time:
78 minutes
Year of Release:
1967
Rated:
U
Season Complete
THE BOOKSHOP
Thursday, 1 August, 2024
Based on Penelope Fitzgerald's story of a bookshop - originally in the Crooked House in Southwold High Street, and describing a variety of locals she encounters. With Emily Mortimer and Bill Nighy.
Running Time:
113 minutes
Year of Release:
2017
Rated:
PG
Season Complete
GREASE SINGALONG
Friday, 2 August, 2024
Olivia Newton-John, John Travolta and Stockard Channing in the 1950s high school musical with a number of great songs. Sing along and dress up if you like.
Running Time:
110 minutes
Year of Release:
1978
Rated:
PG
Season Complete
NAPOLEON
Saturday, 3 August, 2024
The new Ridley Scott version with Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby and Rupert Everett. The French emperor's rise as seen through the prism of his relationship to Josephine.
Running Time:
158 minutes
Year of Release:
2023
Rated:
15
Season Complete
FIVE CHILDREN AND IT
Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
Entertaining family film of the E Nesbit story with Tara Fitzgerald, Kenneth Branagh and Eddie Izzard. Five children find a sand fairy on the beach.
Running Time:
89 minutes
Year of Release:
2004
Rated:
U
Season Complete, Date has passed
NIGEL'S FILM NIGHT
Thursday, 8 August, 2024
A programme of local films made by our much-missed projectionist and local film-maker Nigel Hemming. Including "Southwold from the Air" "Southwold Swans" and "Southwold Railway' etc.
Running Time:
90 minutes
Year of Release:
2024
Rated:
U
Season Complete
SWIMMING WITH MEN
Friday, 9 August, 2024
Rob Brydon, Rupert Graves and Jim Carter in mid life crisis story of a men's synchronised swimming group who compete in the World Championship.
Running Time:
96 minutes
Year of Release:
2018
Rated:
12A
Season Complete
BACK TO BLACK - THE AMY WINEHOUSE STORY
Saturday, 10 August, 2024
A celebration of the life and music of the much loved and troubled Amy Winehouse. With Eddie Marsan and Lesley Manville.
Running Time:
122 minutes
Year of Release:
2024
Rated:
15
Season Complete
THE ARCHITECTURE FOR PLEASURE WALK
Monday, 12 August, 2024
John Bennett's one hour walk around the town in support of the Film Society. Meet at the Town Pump at 6pm. £10
Running Time:
60 minutes
Year of Release:
2024
Rated:
U
Season Complete
POLLYANNA
Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
Hayley Mills as the incurable optimist, a little girl who cheers up an embittered town. With Jane Wyman and Karl Malden.
Running Time:
134 minutes
Year of Release:
1960
Rated:
U
Season Complete
GREY MATTER
Thursday, 15 August, 2024
Appealingly filmed in Southwold and at the Electric Picture Palace, a film based on true events when a teenage girl's grandmother is diagnosed with Alzheimers and the girl becomes her carer. With Stephanie Beacham and Eloise Smyth.
Running Time:
93 minutes
Year of Release:
2023
Rated:
12A
Season Complete
DEATH AT A FUNERAL
Friday, 16 August, 2024
Matthew Macfadyen, Ewan Bremner, Kris Marshall, Keeley Hawes, Daisy Donovan, Peter Dinklage, Jane Asher, Peter Egan. A funeral at a country house does not go exactly to plan. Very funny black comedy - the funniest film we have shown here.
Running Time:
90 minutes
Year of Release:
2007
Rated:
15
Season Complete
POOR THINGS
Saturday, 17 August, 2024
Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo and William Dafoe in Jorgos Lanthimos'strange and fantastical story. Note the classification - 18
Running Time:
141 minutes
Year of Release:
2023
Rated:
18
Season Complete
DANNY - THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD
Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
Roald Dahl story with Jeremy Irons, Robbie Coltrane, Ronald Pickup and Cyril Cusack in which the idyllic life of a widower and his son is threatened by a property developer.
Running Time:
U minutes
Year of Release:
1989
Rated:
99
Season Complete
THE BRIDGE
Thursday, 22 August, 2024
A Walberswick story featuring the Impressionist painter Philip Wilson Steer and based on the novel by Maggie Hemingway. Evocative fin de siecle love story.
Running Time:
102 minutes
Year of Release:
1992
Rated:
12
Season Complete
WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY
Friday, 23 August, 2024
Rosamund Pike, David Tennant, Ben Miller, Celia Imrie and Billy Connollyin a very entertaining family story of a birthday party in Scotland.
Running Time:
95 minutes
Year of Release:
2014
Rated:
12A
Season Complete
THE TASTE OF THINGS
Saturday, 24 August, 2024
A French Victorian setting for a superb hymn to the culinary arts via the story of Eugenie, a cook (Juliette Binoche) and Dodin, a gourmet chef. French with subtitles.
Running Time:
135 minutes
Year of Release:
2023
Rated:
12A
Season Complete
GREYFRIARS BOBBY - THE TRUE STORY OF A DOG
Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
Donald Crisp, Andrew Cruickshank in the story of a terrier and his enduring friendship with Old Jock, a shepherd.
Running Time:
91 minutes
Year of Release:
1961
Rated:
U
Season Complete
THE DIG
Thursday, 29 August, 2024
Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, Carey Mulligan in a great film based on the John Preston book about the Anglo-Saxon ship and treasure at Sutton Hoo.
Running Time:
112 minutes
Year of Release:
2021
Rated:
12A
Season Complete
JEAN DE FLORETTE
Friday, 30 August, 2024
Excellent Marcel Pagnol story directed by Claude Berri, featuring Gerard Depardieu as a struggling Provencal farmer. With Yves Montand and Daniel Auteuil.
Running Time:
120 minutes
Year of Release:
1986
Rated:
PG
Season Complete
MANON DES SOURCES
Saturday, 31 August, 2024
Great sequel (but stand alone film), with Emmanuelle Beart as Manon, the farmer's daughter, plus Yves Montand and Daniel Auteuil. Claude Berri directs.