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Autumn Programme
Tuesday 12th November 2024 @ 7:30pm
Dune: Part 2
There are moments in Dune: Part Two that feel so audacious, they play out as if they were already etched onto the cinematic canon. A lone figure stands astride a mountainous worm as it pummels through the sand like Moses parting the Red Sea. A man is trapped by a psychic seduction, its effects splintering across the screen in what could only be described as an indoor thunderstorm. Gladiatorial combat takes place on a planet with an environment so inhospitable, its colours so drained, that it looks almost like a photographic negative. Like its predecessor, this film is a work of total sensory and imaginative immersion. (Independent)
Winter Programme
Tuesday 10th December 2024 @ 8pm
The Holdings
Director Alexander Payne reunites with Paul Giamatti for a 70s-set tale of a boarding school’s Christmas holiday left-behinds that’s as achingly sharp as it is funny. A cantankerous, unpopular teacher, a bright, abrasive student, and the school’s head cook and a recently bereaved mother, find themselves forced to spend the winter holiday together in an otherwise empty New England elite academy.
A Christmas movie, complete with an atmospheric dusting of snow and a selection of fussy a cappella school-choir carols, it’s about finding family where you least expect it. (Guardian)
A Christmas movie, complete with an atmospheric dusting of snow and a selection of fussy a cappella school-choir carols, it’s about finding family where you least expect it. (Guardian)
Tuesday 21st January 2024 @ 8pm
Wilding
Wilding is a 2023 British documentary film directed by David Allen, about Charlie Burrell, Isabella Tree and their rewilding project Knepp Wildland in West Sussex. The film is based on Tree’s 2018 book of the same name, a memoir and an account of the ecology of the countryside.
The pair own 3,500 acres and since 2001 have been engaged in an “experiment” to make the estate both biodiverse and profitable. Basically, they’ve allowed the animals and the vegetation to take care of themselves, and it’s pleasant, as well as eye-opening, to watch jays, beavers, diving pigs and a heroic swarm of butterflies do their thing.
The pair own 3,500 acres and since 2001 have been engaged in an “experiment” to make the estate both biodiverse and profitable. Basically, they’ve allowed the animals and the vegetation to take care of themselves, and it’s pleasant, as well as eye-opening, to watch jays, beavers, diving pigs and a heroic swarm of butterflies do their thing.
Tuesday 18th February 2024 @ 8pm
The Critic
An extravagantly malicious theatre critic who strikes fear into the thespians of 1930s London, Jimmy Erskine (Ian McKellen) is known for many proclivities, but mostly for his savagery. So when the paper’s new owner threatens his job at the Daily Chronicle, Jimmy’s response is as vicious as that of a cornered honey badger in a cravat. A vulnerable starlet (Gemma Arterton), a lovelorn newspaperman (Mark Strong) and even Jimmy’s live-in “secretary”, Tom (Alfred Enoch), are all collateral damage in his machiavellian scheme.
McKellen is by far the star of the show, and you can tell he’s having a great time essentially playing an exaggerated version of himself. Leftlion