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AUTUMN PROGRAMME 2025
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Night and the City PG
UK | 1950 96 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Jules Dassin
STARRINGRichard Widmark | Gene Tierney | Googie Withers
15 September 2025 MONDAY 19:30
GREEN ROOM
Tickets £7.00|£5.00 (under 26) CONCESSION NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE
Here’s another thriller
from Jules Dassin - we screened Rififi (1955) in September last year.
Exiled from the USA, Dassin first went to London where he made Night and the
City. Filmed on location in London and at Shepperton Studios, it gives a
fascinating view of the sleazy underbelly of the capital just after the war.
Richard Widmark is Harry Fabian - full of great ideas that turn out badly.
Mostly, he’s running from the men he’s crossed on the way. His latest plan is
to become London’s premier wrestling promoter. But taking on the infamous
Kristo family proves a step too far.
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All About My Mother 15
Spain | 1999 101 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Pedro Almodóvar
STARRINGCecilia Roth | Marisa Paredes | Candela Peña
22 September 2025 MONDAY 19:30
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Almodóvar is famed for his family melodramas featuring a recurring cast of fine female actors. In this one, Cecilia Roth plays Manuela, who witnesses Esteban’s death in an horrific road accident early on in the film. Esteban is her son from a relationship with Lola – now a trans woman, dying from AIDS – who never knew of Esteban, while Esteban never knew of Lola. Manuela therefore travels to Madrid to see Lola and reveal her secret. The story continues, with Almodóvar keeping perfect grip on the complex twists, turns and coincidences to deliver a movie that is amusing, dramatic, and always, always sympathetic to its characters.
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Man's Favorite Sport? U
USA | 1964 120 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Howard Hawks
STARRINGRock Hudson | Paula Prentiss
29 September 2025 MONDAY 19:30
GREEN ROOM
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A late screwball comedy from Howard Hawks, maker of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). You’ll know of Rock Hudson, but Paula Prentiss may be a revelation, despite being one of America’s most highly-rated comedy actors in the 1960s. Hudson plays Roger Willoughby, an acclaimed fishing expert, with a ‘how-to’ book to his name, a top sales job in a fishing store, and a terrible secret: he has no real practical experience of fishing. He fears being outed when his employers insist he enters a prestigious fishing competition. Never mind, Paula Prentiss (aka Abigail) is here to help! A very funny film in which the stars have great chemistry.
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Man with a Movie Camera U
USSR | 1929 68 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Dziga Vertov
STARRINGMikhail Kaufman | Elizaveta Svilova
6 October 2025 MONDAY 19:30
GREEN ROOM
Tickets £3.00!
Vertov directs a silent classic documenting the lives of residents and workers in a typical day from dawn till dusk. Made shortly before the dead hand of control curbed the imagination of Soviet cinema, this ‘city symphony’ takes the format to a new level with its use of cinematic trickery and montage techniques. The city in this case is a composite that includes footage from Kyiv and Odessa as well as Moscow. Prepare to be amazed as the man with his movie camera roams the streets, railways and workplaces of the city.
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Peeping Tom 15
UK | 1960 101 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Michael Powell
STARRINGKarlheinz Böhm | Anna Massey | Moira Shearer
13 October 2025 MONDAY 19:30
GREEN ROOM
Tickets £3.00!
Another man with a movie camera, but with murderous intent! Michael Powell is best known for his collaboration with Emeric Pressburger in making such films as The Red Shoes (1948). Peeping Tom is much darker, but also features Moira Shearer who had donned the red shoes twelve years earlier. Mark works as a focus-puller at a film studio, but has a side-hustle in pornography and ‘snuff-movies’. Abused as a child, he has become a serial killer, obsessed with capturing images of fear and death. Highly controversial on release, it all but ended Powell’s career, but is now considered to be among the very best of horror films.
This screening is sponsored by Cinema for All in celebration of 100 years of community cinema, so the ticket price is just £3!
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A Clockwork Orange 18
UK/USA | 1971 136 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Stanley Kubrick
STARRINGMalcolm McDowell | Patrick Magee | Michael Bates
20 October MONDAY 19:30
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Tickets £3.00!
Another highly controversial film - even banned by its own director, shortly after release, only to re-emerge after Kubrick’s death in 1999. Adapted from the 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess, it chronicles the lives of Alex (Malcolm McDowell) and his ‘droogs’, who commit violence and intimidation in a dystopian vision of 1960s Britain. After the ‘ultra-violence’ reaches murderous proportions, Alex is deserted by his gang and receives a long prison sentence. But an experimental treatment is proposed, and Alex becomes the subject of aversion therapy. While invasive and painful, this seems to work, and Alex is released. No spoilers about how the story ends!
This screening is sponsored by Cinema for All in celebration of 100 years of community cinema, so the ticket price is just £3!
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Dracula Double Bill PG
Dracula
USA | 1931 75 minutes
Dracula's Daughter
USA | 1936 71 minutes
Dracula
DIRECTED BY Todd Browning & Karl Freund
STARRING Bela LugosiDracula's Daughter
DIRECTED BY Lambert Hillyer
STARRING Gloria Holden
27 October 2025 MONDAY 19:30
GREEN ROOM
Tickets £10.00|£7.00 (under 26) CONCESSION NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE
No need to recap the Dracula story, but this is the original with Bela Lugosi in the title role. Released by Universal in 1931, its commercial success led the studio to greenlight Frankenstein, which was released later the same year. These two films firmly established Universal as the home of horror movies. Dracula’s Daughter picks up the narrative where the first film left off. Dracula is dead, but his daughter lives on. Played by Gloria Holden, it’s said her absolute disdain for the genre in which she was contracted to act greatly enhanced her performance in the role, which received much acclaim at the time.
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12 Monkeys 15
USA | 1995 129 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Terry Gilliam
STARRINGBruce Willis | Madeleine Stowe | Brad Pitt
10 November 2025 MONDAY 19:30
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You may have seen Terry Gilliam in person recently alongside one of his Python films. In this later film, he exploits his endless imagination to a different end. This sci-fi thriller is set in 2035, when the earth’s population lives underground to avoid a man-made virus released in 1996. The Army of the Twelve Monkeys is believed to be responsible, and most of humanity was wiped out. A decision is made to send a convict back in time to find out what happened in the years leading up to the catastrophe and, if possible, to thwart it. A gripping film that wowed both the public and the critics!
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Carol 15
USA | 2015 118 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Todd Haynes
STARRINGCate Blanchett | Rooney Mara | Sarah Paulson
17 November 2025 MONDAY 19:30
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In 1950s New York, Carol (Cate Blanchett) is shopping for Christmas presents in an upmarket store. She’s attracted by the young shop assistant, Therese (Rooney Mara) who is helping her choose a gift for her daughter. Having left behind her gloves after making her purchase, Carol contacts Therese again, and a romantic, later sexual, relationship develops between them, against the backdrop of Carol’s ongoing divorce from her husband. The story is based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith. Among the countless nominations for major awards, the film won the Queer Palm at Cannes in 2015 and has since developed a fandom known as the Cult of Carol.