STRICTLY FRED AND GINGER

Friday, 15 October, 2021

James Pyke's compilation of all the best dance sequences from the films, mainly from the RKO studios. Thanks also to Nick Wood and Nigel Hemming

Running Time:

TBC minutes

Year of Release:

Rated:

U

Season Complete

THE SMALLEST SHOW ON EARTH

Saturday, 16 October, 2021

One of our favourite films featuring the refurbishment and running of a tiny cinema. With Peter Sellers, Margaret Rutherford, Bernard Miles, Leslie Phillips, Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna. "Old films Mr Spenser - classics you might call them". bw

Running Time:

80 minutes

Year of Release:

1957

Rated:

U

Season Complete

THE LEGEND OF 1900

Friday, 22 October, 2021

To acknowledge the passing of Enrico Morricone, the great composer of film music (Cinema Paradiso etc), here is another great Tornatore film featuring a pianist (played by Tim Roth) who is born on, and never leaves, a transatlantic liner. Featuring an incredible piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, this is a terrific film. Peter Vaughan is in it too.

Running Time:

169 minutes

Year of Release:

1998

Rated:

15

Season Complete

THE COURIER

Saturday, 23 October, 2021

Benedict Cumberbatch as Greville Wynne, in the true story of a businessman who becomes caught up in a serious espionage drama.

Running Time:

112 minutes

Year of Release:

2020

Rated:

12A

Season Complete

BEING THERE

Friday, 29 October, 2021

Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine in an extraordinary tale of an anonymous naive gardener who becomes a White House adviser. Arguably Sellers' greatest role.

Running Time:

130 minutes

Year of Release:

1979

Rated:

A

Season Complete

BEST IN SHOW

Saturday, 30 October, 2021

A very funny film featuring Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara and a number of well-scrubbed dogs competing at the national dog show.

Running Time:

90 minutes

Year of Release:

2000

Rated:

12

Season Complete

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST

Friday, 5 November, 2021

Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher as the icy Nurse Ratched, plus Danny de Vito and Christopher Lloyd. Concerned with mental health and questionable, institutional authority, this is a powerful drama but not without comedy.

Running Time:

133 minutes

Year of Release:

1975

Rated:

18

Season Complete

NOMADLAND

Saturday, 6 November, 2021

Frances McDormand as Fern, who, following the failure of her business, embarks on a journey through the American west in her camper van, engaging with an itinerant community.

Running Time:

107 minutes

Year of Release:

2020

Rated:

12A

Season Complete

BABY DRIVER

Friday, 12 November, 2021

Kevin Spacey, Lily James, Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx and Ansel Elgort in very entertaining musical car chase heist movie. 'Mozart in a Go Kart".

Running Time:

113 minutes

Year of Release:

2017

Rated:

15

Season Complete

84, CHARING CROSS ROAD

Saturday, 13 November, 2021

Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft and Judi Dench in true 1950s bibliophile story featuring a New York writer and the manager of a London bookshop. Very good.

Running Time:

100 minutes

Year of Release:

1987

Rated:

PG

Season Complete

LE MANS 66

Friday, 19 November, 2021

Splendid film with Matt Damon and Christian Bale in the Ford versus Ferrari motor sports battle and the crucial involvement of British driver/engineer, Ken Miles.

Running Time:

152 minutes

Year of Release:

2019

Rated:

12A

Season Complete

THE LAST BUS

Saturday, 20 November, 2021

Touching tale wherein Timothy Spall as pensioner Tom makes the most of his bus pass by travelling from John O'Groats to Land's End. With Phyllis Logan. Excellent.

Running Time:

86 minutes

Year of Release:

2021

Rated:

12A

Season Complete

ANONYMOUS

Friday, 26 November, 2021

Roland Emmerich's atmospheric film of the Elizabethan theatre and the plausible theory that Edward de Vere wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare. With Rhys Ifans, Derek Jacobi and Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Elizabeth 1st.

Running Time:

130 minutes

Year of Release:

2011

Rated:

12A

Season Complete

BALLOON

Saturday, 27 November, 2021

True story of a 1979 plan by two families to escape from East to west Germany using a homemade hot air balloon and risking detection by the Stasi. Thrilling. German with subtitles.

Running Time:

135 minutes

Year of Release:

2018

Rated:

12A

Season Complete

ALL MY LIFE'S BURIED HERE

Friday, 3 December, 2021

Touching documentary about George Butterworth, an English composer of great promise who perished tragically in WW1. He visited Southwold in 1910 with Ralph Vaughan Williams on a mission collecting folk songs and dances, footage of which is included.

Running Time:

97 minutes

Year of Release:

2019

Rated:

U

Season Complete

MOBY DICK

Saturday, 4 December, 2021

John Huston's classic film version of the Herman Melville novel with the great performance of Gregory Peck as Ahab. With james Robertson Justice and Orson Welles.

Running Time:

116 minutes

Year of Release:

1956

Rated:

U

Season Complete

OUT OF AFRICA

Friday, 10 December, 2021

Robert Redford and Meryl Streep in the true story of Swedish writer Karen Blixen and her affinities with Africa and Denys Finch-Hatton. With Klaus Maria Blandayuer.

Running Time:

161 minutes

Year of Release:

1985

Rated:

PG

Season Complete

GUYS AND DOLLS

Saturday, 11 December, 2021

Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons and Stubby Kaye in the classic musical based on the Damon Runyon tale. Great film - Luck be a Lady Tonight etc.

Running Time:

150 minutes

Year of Release:

1955

Rated:

A

Season Complete

SCROOGE

Wednesday, 29 December, 2021

Alastair Sim as the redeemed Christmas Carol miser - with Michael Hordern as Marley's Ghost plus Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison. Brilliant! bw

Running Time:

86 minutes

Year of Release:

1951

Rated:

U

Season Complete

SCROOGE

Thursday, 30 December, 2021

Alastair Sim as the redeemed Christmas Carol miser - with Michael Hordern as Marley's Ghost plus Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison. Brilliant! bw

Running Time:

86 minutes

Year of Release:

1951

Rated:

U

Season Complete