Film Club
On the second Friday of the month (usually) we have a free film evening in the Church Room.
We alternate between popular films and opera/musicals.
It starts at 7.15pm and there are free drinks and snacks - come for 7pm.
It is open to everyone over 16 years.
Please contact: Margo Evans or Peter Beer if you would like to come.
2024
13 Dec
The Nutcracker
8 Nov
The Pursuit of Happyness
4 Oct
Charlie Wilson's War
20 Sep
Cats - the musical
19 Jul
Waking Ned
21 Jun at 6.45 for 7pm
The Magic Flute
A David McVicar’s classic production from the Royal Opera House, which embraces both the seriousness and the comedy of Mozart’s work. The audience is transported to a fantastical world of dancing animals, flying machines and dazzlingly starry skies.
10 May
The Green Man
In the film, a professional contract killer and his assistant plan the murder of a prominent businessman. The murder is scheduled to take place during the businessman's stay at a seaside hotel. However a salesman and his new female partner have learned of the murder plans, and they are actively trying to prevent the murder.
12 Apr
Wonka
22 Mar
Made in Dagenham
16 Feb
Jesus Christ Superstar
12 Jan
Lady Killers
2023
1 Dec
White Christmas
10 Nov
Manchester by The Sea
The film won Academy and Bafta awards for best actor (Casey Affleck) and best original screenplay. Casey Affleck stars as Lee, a man whose life is turned upside down when the death of his brother, Joe, forces him to return to the hometown he abandoned years before and to the discovery that Joe has made him guardian of his teenage son. Lee has to face up to painful memories and new-found levels of responsibility as he reconnects with his family.
The blurb says it is, ‘an extraordinary journey of grief, love and wit that will stay with you long after watching.’
13 Oct
U-Carmen eKhayelitsha: a modern remake of Bizet’s opera, Carmen, and combines music from the original opera with traditional African music, conducted and directed by the British conductor, Charles Hazelwood. It takes place in the Cape Town township of Khayelitsha and won the prestigious Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival in 2005. A review noted that it is “A vibrant hybrid that translates a classic story to a rich new setting. U-Carmen breathes fresh life into its timeless tale while honouring its central themes.”
8 Sep
The Artist.
11 Aug
Westside Story
7 Jul
Operation Mincemeat: an extraordinary and true story. It is 1943, the Allies are determined to break Hitler’s grip on occupied Europe and plan to launch an all-out assault on Sicily, but they face an impossible challenge: How to protect the invasion force from potential annihilation. It falls on two remarkable intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu (Colin Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley (Matthew MacFadyen) to dream up the most inspired and improbable disinformation strategy of the war.
9 Jun
Tosca
12 May
Little Miss Sunshine
14th Apr
Pirates of Penzance
24th Mar
Lion
10th February
Phantom of the Opera
13th January
The Quartet with Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Pauline Collis and Michael Gambon.
2022
9th December
The Metropolitan Opera's Carmen with Jose Carreras and Agnes Baltsa
18th November
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
14th October
The Mikado
23rd September
Ladies in Lavender
Old Events
March 13th The Good Lie
A feel- good drama that is based on the true story of “The Lost Boys”. Orphaned by the brutal civil war in Sudan that began in 1983, these children travelled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later, a humanitarian effort would bring 3600 lost boys and girls to America.
April 3rd The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Alan Burgess’ novel, The Small Woman, was the source for the British/American production of Inn of the Sixth Happiness. Set in the China of the 1930’s the film stars Ingrid Bergman as the real life missionary, Gladys Aylward. Against the advice of practically everyone, Gladys heads into the war-ravaged interior to spread the Christian gospel.
May 15th Eddie the Eagle
Inspired by true events, Eddie the Eagle is the story of Michael “Eddie” Edwards an unlikely, but courageous, British ski jumper who never stopped believing in himself - even as an entire nation was counting him out. Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world.
June 12th Minority Report
Based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick, this science fiction thriller stars Tom Cruise as John Anderton, a Washington D.C. detective in 2054 who works with a special unit of the police that arrests murderers before they have committed the actual crime. What happens when Anderton himself is identified as the future killer of a man he has never met?
July 10th Tortoise in Love
Needs no introduction! The film set in the village.
Aug 14th Seabiscuit
A sports drama about the legendary racehorse, Seabiscuit. The story centres around the three men who saw the famed horse to victory. An entrepreneur who owns the unlikely racehorse teams up with partially blind boxer`turned`jockey, Red Pollard, and horse trainer Tom Smith. Together they help in inspire a
downtrodden 1930’s America.
Sept 11th Erin Brockovich
Julia Roberts stars in this legal drama based on a true story of a woman who helped win the largest settlement ever paid in a direct-action lawsuit. After securing a job as a filing clerk she discovers a systematic cover-up of the industrial poisoning of a city’s water supply.
Oct 9th Selma
The film chronicles the tumultuous three month period in 1965 when Dr Martin Luther King Jr led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in president Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement.
Nov 13th The Green Book
When a bouncer from an Italian-American area in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr Don Shirley, a world-class black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on “The Green Book” to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, dangers, as well as an unexpected humanity and humour, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on a journey of a lifetime.
Dec 11th Christopher Robin
The young boy who loved embarking on adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood with a band of spirited and lovable stuffed animals has grown up and lost his way. Now it is up to his childhood friends to venture into our world and help Christopher Robin remember the loving and playful boy who is still inside.