Absolutely on the Borderline
- 1h 25min
Screening of short films by older women filmmakers, including And She Rode Forth, The Past is Another Country, Tether, Holding Space, For Muriel, Mausoleum and The Queen of Scream: Darby Mills.
Sat 22 Sep
Always Hiding From Me
- 1h 30min
Screening of short films by older women filmmakers, including Back Home, Heather Has Four Moms, Lydia, Artemis and the Astronaut, Hen Ffyrdd y Pothmyn / The Old Ways and Tough.
Sun 23 Sep
La Belle et la Bête
- 1946
- France
- 1h 36min
- PG
- Directed by: Jean Cocteau
- Cast: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parély
The story of a young girl who takes her father's place as prisoner to a wealthy beast. With the original soundtrack (including dialogue) stripped and replaced with music from Philip Glass.
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Come You Spirits
- 1h 30min
Part of a selection of international, short documentary, animation, drama and experimental films showcasing the work of older women in front of and behind the camera.
Sat 22 Sep
Faces Places
- 2017
- France
- 1h 29min
- Directed by: JR, Agnès Varda
- Cast: Agnès Varda, JR
Director Agnès Varda and photographer JR go on a road trip through France, intending to send home postcards that gather the history of the places they visit. Varda’s mischievousness and empathy radiate throughout, and the pair’s cross-generational friendship is enriching, inspiring and irrestistible.
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Holy Horns of Consecration
- 1h 30min
Part of a selection of international, short documentary, animation, drama and experimental films showcasing the work of older women in front of and behind the camera.
Sun 23 Sep
The King of Thieves
- 2018
- UK
- Directed by: James Marsh
- Cast: Michael Caine, Charlie Cox, Michael Gambon
Brian (Caine) is an octogenarian gangster who puts together a team of old codgers to rob the Hatton Garden diamond vaults. The biggest and flashiest of the four versions so far of this story has lots of star power but a boring script, dislikeable characters and colourless direction. Pointless and disappointing.
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The Knowing
- 1h 25min
Screening of short films by older women filmmakers, including Mushroom Thief, The Beekeeper, The Thing About the Morning After, The Betrayal, Ready to Go, Periphery and A Portrait of a Beautiful Woman.
Sun 23 Sep
The Little Stranger
- 2018
- Ireland/UK/France
- 1h 51min
- 12A
- Directed by: Lenny Abrahamson
- Cast: Ruth Wilson, Charlotte Rampling, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter
Dr Faraday (Gleeson) returns to Hundreds Hall, which he knew as a boy, to help care for the war-wounded family son (Poulter), but there seems to be a supernatural presence. Gleeson gives a career-best turn as the haunted Faraday but while it’s laudably subtle it’s also narratively inert.
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Luis and the Aliens
- 2018
- Germany/Luxembourg
- 1h 26min
- U
- Directed by: Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein
- Cast: Callum Maloney, Dermot Magennis, Ian Coppinger
Luis (Maloney) is an 11-year-old boy obsessed with aliens, who gets visited by some shape-changing extra-terrestrial blobs. It has an attractive sheen and likeable characters, but the tone is uncertain and it’s too derivative and unsure of itself to win many admirers.
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The Moon Behind The Clouds
- 1h 30min
Screening of short films by older women filmmakers, including The Vest, O Agathon, Good Girls Don't, Exist, On the Bright Side, The Wait and Swim.
Sat 22 Sep
National Theatre Live: King Lear
- 2014
- UK
- Directed by: Sam Mendes
- Cast: Simon Russell Beale
Mendes returns to the National Theatre to direct Simon Russell Beale in the title role of Shakespeare’s tragedy.
Thu 27 Sep
The Rider
- 2017
- US
- 1h 44min
- 15
- Directed by: Chloé Zhao
- Cast: Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau
Brady (Jandreau) is a South Dakotan bronco rider whose head has been stapled together following a rodeo accident, and who must face that another fall could kill him. Zhao uses non-professional actors to great effect, and the film broods with unforced inner tension and lyric naturalism.
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Spirit of Rebellion
- 1h 30min
Screening of short films by older women filmmakers, including Grandmother, In Orbit, The Matchmaker, A is for Absorbed Dose Rate, Moon-Magic, Perhaps Today, Brethren, Snake Hips Lulu.
Sun 23 Sep
Trumbo
- 2015
- US
- 2h 4min
- 15
- Directed by: Jay Roach
- Written by: John McNamara, Bruce Cook
- Cast: Elle Fanning, Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane
Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Cranston) finds his career coming to a sudden end when he is blacklisted and accused of being a communist. McNamara’s breezy screenplay condenses complex events and an eventful life into a trim, accessible feature, and Cranston is compelling. Informative and entertaining.
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Try Not To Die
- 1h 30min
Screening of short films by older women filmmakers, including Ripe Figs, Romy, Parallelism, Body-City, She's Not There, Here Now, There's No One Home, Edek.
Sat 22 Sep
Vertigo
- 1958
- US
- 2h 8min
- PG
- Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
- Written by: Alec Coppel, Samuel A Taylor
- Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
Detective Stewart, a man afraid of heights, falls in love with a woman who apparently commits suicide. When he meets her double, he becomes obsessed with the possibility that she is still alive. Extraordinary plotting in this undervalued Hitchcock study of romantic mania, with Stewart memorably cast against type as the distinctly on-the-edge cop. The Bernard Herrmann score is simultaneously lush and disturbing.
Thu 27 Sep
An independent community cinema and cafe-restaurant run as a charity, Lewes Community Screen. It takes its name from the site, which used to be a depot for Royal Mail and later for Harvey’s Brewery.
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