Dir. Denis Villeneuve, US, 2016
Twelve mysterious spacecraft appear across the globe... A big high-concept sci-fi that is both epic and intimate, mixing realism with a sense of wonder. Ideal for a Saturday afternoon.
2018 FESTIVAL 25th - 27th MAY
12A
Festival Films at Southgate Theatre, Honley
Sat, 20/05/2017 - 7:00pm
Children
£4.00
Adults
£5.00
108mins
Dir. J A Bayona, US, 2016
Splendid melodrama of a boy who seeks the help of a tree monster to cope with his single mother's terminal illness. Great performances in a deeply affecting movie that brings a lump to the throat. Partly filmed around Marsden.
Sat, 20/05/2017 - 7:30pm
Children
£4.00
Adults
£5.00
128mins
Dir. Damian Chazelle, US, 2016
Romantic musicals - what happened to those? Back with a fistful of awards, this delectable treat starring Emma Stone and Ray Gosling brings a tear to the eye and a broad smile.
Tue, 23/05/2017 - 7:30pm
Children
£4.00
Adults
£5.00
101mins
Dir. Taika Waititi NZ, 2016
There are moments of pure magic in this New Zealand-based comedy drama about a national manhunt for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle played by Sam Neil. An oddball treat that both critics and audiences love.
Showing at Meltham Carlile Institute
Fri, 26/05/2017 - 12:30pm
FREE
110mins
Dir. Ralph Thomas, UK, 1962
Real life friends, Manchester's 20 year-old Ian McShane ('a real discovery') and 21 year-old John Hurt ('a sensitive roommate'), make their film debuts in this early sixties drama about students and their lives in a provincial University (Lincoln). Tame now but entertaining.
Film Festival Friday - Films
Friday 25 May 2018
Fri, 25/05/2018 - 2:30pm
£6.00 film only; £15 lunch and film
105mins
Dir. Paul McGuigan (UK 2017 105mins 15)
Superb award-winning performances from the ever wonderful Annette Bening, the excellent Jaime Bell and Julie Walters based on the true story of the Hollywood actress, Gloria Grahame, who finds romance and happiness with a young man even after a life changing event that takes place in Liverpool in the early 1980s.
THIS FILM IS BEING SCREENED AS PART OF OUR LUNCH AND FILM EVENT. TICKETS FOR LUNCH PLUS FILM £15 AVAILABLE ONLY FROM PARTICIPATING RESTAURANTS:
- ALDEA (tel 01484 689003)
- BLACK CAT BISTRO (tel 01484 682212)
- MEZZE (tel 01484 681311)
- THE TAP HOUSE (tel 01484 681568)
Film only tickets £6 available from Holmfirth Picturedrome (online) or Box Office Bar (in person)
Lunches start 12 noon, film starts 2.30pm
Fri, 25/05/2018 - 7:30pm
ADMISSION £5
115mins
Dir. Martin MacDonagh (US/UK 2017 115mins 12)
Multi-Oscar winning film with a great central performance from the ever reliable Frances McDormand as the plucky and stubborn vigilante who confronts the police and exacts cinder-black revenge for the tragedy of her daughters' death by erecting three billboards to her grief and rage.
Fri, 25/05/2018 - 7:30pm
ADMISSION £5
105mins
Dir. Michael Gracey (US 2017, 105mins PG)
The audience hit of the year. Auto-tuned and full of CGI, it makes no difference to the sensational reception of this exuberant celebration of the life of T.P. Barnum (Hugh Jackman). But don't forget the theme of discrimination, the excellent Michelle Williams, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya and Keala Settle and the brilliant costumes of Ellen Mirojnick.
Fri, 25/05/2018 - 7:30pm
ADMISSION £5
97mins
Dir. Petra Vople (Switzerland 2017, 97mins 12)
Unbelievably, Swiss women did not have the vote in 1970, then a demur housewife in a small time village decided to get political and win the vote for women. This fictionalised entertaining crowd-pleaser delivers a genuine and rousing sense of sisterhood in Switzerland's entry to the Oscars.
Film Festival Saturday - Films
Saturday 26 May 2018
Sat, 26/05/2018 - 1:00pm
Children:
£4.00
Adults:
£5.00
94mins
Dir. Dorota Kobiela/Hugh Welchman (Poland/UK/US 2017, 94mins 12)
Oscar nominated, the world's first entirely painted feature is a labour of love and creativity. An awe inspiring and stunning visual animated life of the artist Vincent van Gogh.
Sat, 26/05/2018 - 2:00pm
ADMISSION £5
98mins
Dir. Henry Koster (US 1953, 98mins PG)
Marvellous passionate romance based on Daphne du Maurier's gothic novel about an anguished cousin (the first Hollywood role for Richard Burton) who tries to unravel the suspicious circumstances of the sudden death of his Cornish uncle, a man of property, and the involvement of his mysterious wife (Olivia de Havilland).
Sat, 26/05/2018 - 2:00pm
ADMISSION £5
108mins
Dir. Angela Robinson (US 2017, 108mins 15)
The true story of the writer of the feminist superheroine Wonder Woman, the secret life shared by him, his wife and their female lover, and the attacks on the wartime comic for sexual perversity.
Sat, 26/05/2018 - 3:00pm
ADMISSION £5
116mins
Dir. Ildiko Enyedi (Hungary 2017, 116mins 15)
Film of the year? Great originality, exquisite and beautifully composed direction in an eccentric but moving romantic and sometimes brutal drama that has the look of an Edward Hopper painting about how two people connect with each other in life and in dreams in a love without rules. The winner of the Berlin prize and Hungary's Oscar entry for best foreign language film.
Sat, 26/05/2018 - 7:30pm
ADMISSION £5
101mins
Dir. David Butler (US 1953, 101mins U)
Shout it from the highest hill, the Deadwood stagecoach is coming over the black hills of Holmfirth. An entirely enjoyable whip-crack-away, gun totin', technicolour Doris Day musical. Sing-along it's no secret anymore...
Prize for best dressed cowgirl of the night.
Sat, 26/05/2018 - 7:30pm
ADMISSION £5
112mins
Dir. Gabriela Cowperthwaite (US 2017, 112mins 12)
Known as Megan Leavey in the United States, this turned out to be one of the big films of the year which audiences absolutely loved. The uplifting true story of a young female Marine (Megan Leavey played by Kate Mara) and her combat dog with whom she develops a unique bond. After 100 successful missions, both were wounded by IED explosions in Iraq (2006). Leavey was awarded the Purple Star but what happened next leaves everyone in tears.
Sat, 26/05/2018 - 7:30pm
Children:
£4.00
Adults:
£5.00
ADMISSION £5
102mins
Dir. Maysaloun Hamoud (Israel/France 2016, 102mins 15)
This exhilarating first feature from Palestinian director Maysaloun Hamoud caused a sensation in Israel for her depiction of three free-spirited and joyful modern Palestinian women living in Tel Aviv. She extracts wonderful performances from the actors in this slyly subversive award-winning feminist drama.
Film Festival Sunday - Films
Sunday 27 May 2018
Sun, 27/05/2018 - 2:00pm
ADMISSION £5
90mins
Dir. Alexandra Dean (US 2017, 90min 12)
Very enjoyable and intriguing documentary about the beautiful Austrian-born Hollywood actress infamous for her marriages and affairs (JFK) who was also a brilliant scientist who just happened to co-invent wireless technology in the 1940s.
Sun, 27/05/2018 - 2:00pm
ADMISSION £5
94mins
Dir. Rob Curry & Tim Plester (UK 2017, 94mins PG)
Wonderful, warm documentary on the life and work of folk music icon, Shirley Collins, who was central to the genre's revival in the 1960s through her rediscovery of old songs both here and in the United States. Now promoting a new highly praised album at the age of 82.
Sun, 27/05/2018 - 2:00pm
ADMISSION £5
180mins
THE PARTY
Dir. Sally Potter (UK 2017, 68mins 15)
Potter's short, sharp and at times disconcerting dark comedy about Middle Class mores showcases British acting at its best with great performances and sparkling dialogue from Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson and Timothy Spall.
GLORY
Dir. Kristinia Grozeva & Peter Valchanov (Bulgaria/Greece 2017 99mins 12)
Beautifully acted and often very funny fable about a honest and innocent railworker who comes across a large cache of money and sets off a tale of corruption and eventual tragedy as the hard-edged PR people (a wonderful Margita Gosheva) take over. Another gem from these Bulgarian directors (The Lesson, 2015).
Sun, 27/05/2018 - 7:00pm
ADMISSION £5
140mins
Dir. Aaron Sorkin (US 2017, 140mins 12)
A force-of-nature performance from Jessica Chastain in the Bafta nominated true story of Molly Brown, the glamourous former Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker games before being arrested by the FBI. Scorching dialogue from Sorkin in his directorial debut.
Sun, 27/05/2018 - 7:00pm
ADMISSION £5
117mins
Dir. Steven Spielberg, (US 2017, 117mins 12)
A nuanced and brilliant performance from multi Oscar winner Meryl Streep as Kathrine Graham, the first female publisher of a major US newspaper (Washington Post), and the attempt with her editor (Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee) to publish during the Nixon era the Pentagon Papers, the secret government documents on the Vietnam war leaked by Daniel Ellsberg. Entertaining and entirely relevant to our times.
Sun, 27/05/2018 - 7:30pm
ADMISSION £5
117mins
Dir. Martin Provost (France 2017, 117mins 12)
Two outstanding performances from two of France's greatest actresses, Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Frot, as the still wild but dying former mistress of her father and the inhibited and hurt daughter, now a midwife, who meet again after thirty years. A moving film of warmth, depth and emotion that is entirely a pleasure.
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