Programme
(Click on the image to be taken to a short YouTube trailer)
Our Saturday Specials are shown on Saturday afternoons starting at 3pm (doors open 2.30pm). Tickets £5. There is an interval halfway through the film for tea and cake for which a small charge is made.
Mar 27 Cinema Paradiso
Drama Italy (subtitled) 1988 PG 155 min
With the hugely popular soundtrack of Morricone, this is the sort of film you can watch again & again. In it a director recalls his childhood; his love of films at the cinema of his home village and forming a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist. A beautiful, nostalgic film.
Apr 24 Empire of Light
Drama UK 2022 Cert 15 115 min
A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an old cinema in Margate in the early 1980s. Directed by Sam Mendes and starring Olivia Colman. Cinema is the place to go to escape your roubles — but what of those who work there and deliver the magic
May 22 Alcarras
Drama Spain (subtitle) 2022 Cert 15 120 m
The life of a family of peach farmers in a small village in Catalonia changes when the owner of their large estate dies and his heir decides to sell the land, suddenly threatening their livelihood, replacing their peach trees with solar panels
Jun 26 Queen of Glory
Comedy USA 2021 Cert 15 78 min
Ghanaian-American. Sarah is all set to abandon her Ivy League doctoral program to follow her married lover across the country. When her mother dies suddenly, she bequeaths her daughter a Christian bookstore. A film full of laughter and empathy.
Jul 24 Sicilian Ghost Story
Fantasy Italy (subtitled) 2017 123 min
Against a heavy cloak of secrecy, a 12-year-old girl smitten with her handsome classmate ventures deeper and deeper into the enchanted Sicilian forests to find him, unaware of just how thick is the mystery behind his strange disappearance.
Aug 28 Aftersun
Drama UK/Turkey 2022 12A 102 min
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't...