Film Club Programme

2018

Friday 05 January

The Dallas Buyers Club (2013) Biography; drama; 117mins; 15

In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease.

The Eagle Huntress ( 2016) Documentary; adventure; sport; 87mins; U

Thirteen-year-old Aisholpan trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle huntress. Through breathtaking aerial cinematography and intimate verite footage, the film captures her personal journey

Friday 23

February

Manchester by the Sea (2016) Drama; 137mins; 15

A depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy’s father dies

Friday 16

March

Hidden Figures

(2016) Biography; drama; history; 127mins; PG

As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history.

Friday 13

April

Death of Stalin

(2017) comedy; 106mins; 15

The film follows the Soviet dictator’s last days and depicts the chaos of the regime after his death as the men in Stalin’s council enter an “interview” process unlike any other.

Tuesday

01 May

at 7 p.m.1 May

7:00 p.m.

NT Live Encore screening of The Audience at a cost of £3 members and £5 non-members

The Audience breaks the contract of silence between monarch and prime minister as it imagines a number of pivotal weekly audience meetings. From Churchill to Cameron, each Prime Minister has used these private conversations as a sounding board and a confessional- sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive.

Lion (change of film)

I am sorry to say we are not going to be able to show the originally published film and are therefore substituting an alternative “Lion” . This is a very moving film which has won numerous awards. The story is about “A five-year-old Indian boy who gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometres from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.”

Bring plenty of hankies. The film is rated PG and lasts just under 2 hours. Many apologies for the substitution.

The Levelling

(2016) drama; 83mins; 15

When Clover Catto (Ellie Kendrick) receives a call telling her that her younger brother Harry (Joe Blakemore) is dead, she must return to her family farm and face the man she hasn’t spoken to in years: her father Aubrey (David Troughton).

Friday 13

July

Murder on the Orient Express

Crime; drama; mystery; 114mins; 12A

When a murder occurs on the train he’s travelling on, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) is recruited to solve the case. All-star cast.

Whiplash

A promising young drummer enrols at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student’s potential.

Friday 21

September

Phantom Thread (2017)

Drama;romance; 130 mins; 15

Set in 1950’s London, Reynolds Woodcock is a renowned dressmaker whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman, Drama, who becomes his muse and lover.

3 Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (2017)

Comedy; crime; drama, 115mins; 15

The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court’s historic 1967 decision.

Friday 23

November

Coco (2017)

Animation; adventure; comedy; 105mins; PG

Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family’s ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.

2019

Friday 04

January

Call Me By Your Name (2017)

Romance; drama’, 132 mins; 15

In 1980s Italy, a romance blossoms between a seventeen year-old student and the older man hired as his father’s research assistant.

Friday 25

January

The Shape Of Water (2017)

Drama; adventure; fantasy, 123mins; 15

At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity

Friday 22

February

The Post (2017)

Biography; drama; history, 116mins; 12A

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents, pushed the country’s first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between the press and the government.