SPRING SEASON 2025
3RD MAY - 28TH JUNE 2025
JOIN US FOR OUR 100TH SEASON WITH 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 28TH APRIL.
THE SMALLEST SHOW ON EARTH
Saturday, 3 May, 2025
This is the entertaining film which inspired us when creating the Electric Picture Palace. A couple inherit an ancient cinema and decide to re-open it. Much of what happened to them also happened to us - such as turning up the heating to encourage drink sales! With excellent cast including Peter Sellers, Margaret Rutherford, Bernard Miles and Leslie Phillips. bw
Running Time:
80 minutes
Year of Release:
1957
Rated:
U
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PIANO TO ZANSKAR
Friday, 9 May, 2025
One of our Distant Land films. Desmond O'Keeffe, a Camden Town piano mender and tuner moves a Victorian upright piano overland to a remote school in the Himalayas. Fascinating and charming true story set in amazing scenery.
Running Time:
86 minutes
Year of Release:
2018
Rated:
U
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MRS HENDERSON PRESENTS
Saturday, 10 May, 2025
Two features that seem to guarantee a good audience here are Judi Dench and nudity. This has both! The true story of how Laura Henderson created the Windmill which became a very popular London venue. Provided the girls did not move about. With Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins and Will Young in a delightful film.
Running Time:
103 minutes
Year of Release:
2005
Rated:
12A
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KEEPING MUM
Friday, 16 May, 2025
The life of a country vicar and his family is turned upside down by the arrival of a new housekeeper. Comedy with Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rowan Atkinson and Patrick Swayze.
Running Time:
99 minutes
Year of Release:
2005
Rated:
15
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ANORA
Saturday, 17 May, 2025
Oscar winning production in which the son of a Russian oligarch becomes enraptured by a young "escort" from Brooklyn. With Mikey Madison and Paul Weissman. Note the 18 certificate.
Running Time:
139 minutes
Year of Release:
2024
Rated:
18
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CASABLANCA
Friday, 23 May, 2025
One of the first films we showed and a timeless story well worth seeing again in this newly restored print. With Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains and Paul Henreid. "We'll always have Paris". bw
Running Time:
102 minutes
Year of Release:
1942
Rated:
U
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THE CHAIN
Saturday, 24 May, 2025
Jack Rosenthal's brilliant story of seven house-moves across London each illustrating one of the seven deadly sins - lust, pride, avarice etc.... English humour at its best and a brilliant script. Great cast with Warren Mitchell, Bernard Hill, Nigel Hawthorne, Maurice Denham, Billie Whitelaw.
Running Time:
100 minutes
Year of Release:
1984
Rated:
PG
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BABETTE'S FEAST
Friday, 30 May, 2025
The classic story of a French dinner in a remote Danish village in the 19th century. Highly regarded foreign language film. Danish with subtitles
Running Time:
102 minutes
Year of Release:
1987
Rated:
U
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A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
Saturday, 31 May, 2025
True story of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York and up to the infamous "electric" performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. With Edward Norton as Pete Seeger and Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez. Excellent, authentic performance by Timothee Chalomet.
Running Time:
141 minutes
Year of Release:
2024
Rated:
15
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A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
Friday, 6 June, 2025
Very popular true story of the American Ladies Baseball teams of WW2 with Tom Hanks, Geena Davis and Madonna. Very funny.
Running Time:
86 minutes
Year of Release:
1992
Rated:
PG
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I CAPTURE THE CASTLE
Saturday, 7 June, 2025
One of our "films of the novel" screenings. The 1930s story from the Dodie Smith book featuring a family's struggle to survive in an ancient decaying castle. With Bill Nighy, Romola Garai and Rose Byrne.
Running Time:
113 minutes
Year of Release:
2003
Rated:
PG
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BRIDGET JONES - MAD ABOUT THE BOY
Friday, 13 June, 2025
Helped by her friends Bridget Jones navigates life as a single mother and widow - but a new younger man appears. Well up to the standard.
Running Time:
124 minutes
Year of Release:
2025
Rated:
15
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MR BURTON
Saturday, 14 June, 2025
True story of a Port Talbot schoolteacher who encourages a wild teenage boy - Richie Jenkins, the son of a miner, to become the actor Richard Burton. With Harry Lawtey, Toby Jones and Lesley Manville.
Running Time:
124 minutes
Year of Release:
2025
Rated:
12A
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THREE MEN IN A BOAT
Friday, 20 June, 2025
Michael Palin, Tim Curry and Stephen Moore in a delightful film which celebrates the great book. Directed by Stephen Frears. Plus Buster Keaton short "One Week", the building of a kit house (1920, 20m, U, bw)
Running Time:
64 minutes
Year of Release:
1975
Rated:
U
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MARIA
Saturday, 21 June, 2025
Following the great soprano's retreat to Paris at the end of her career in the 1970s. Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas.
Running Time:
124 minutes
Year of Release:
2024
Rated:
12A
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FRED AND GINGER NIGHT
Friday, 27 June, 2025
Curated and presented by James Pyke, the best dance sequences from the great Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers films. Approx 2 hour show. bw
Running Time:
120 minutes
Year of Release:
2025
Rated:
U
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THE COMMITMENTS
Saturday, 28 June, 2025
Alan Parker's joyful film about the creation of a Dublin soul band against a background of urban decay. Very funny, and the music is great.