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This award-winner at Sheffield Doc-Fest is a joyous uplifting paean to the power of cinema and Britain’s oldest amateur film-making club in Bradford. A must-see!
Tom Hanks at his very best in this intriguing and excellent western based on a novel by Paulette Giles. The true story of the former soldier who reads the newspapers to small communities in the West.
Katharine Hepburn is wonderful in Lean’s favourite film (re-mastered) as the American spinster whose dream of romance becomes a bittersweet reality in a glorious technicolour VenIce.
Like all David Lean films, Summertime should be seen on the big screen. . .
After death, people have to choose only one memory to keep for eternity. All others are lost forever. Remarkable and intensely personal film from a master of Japanese cinema.
Interesting bio pic of C. S. Lewis’s remarkable journey (played by a very good Max McLean) from hardboiled atheist to the leading Christian writer of the last century.
True story of a parolee who takes on the role of a 'priest of God' in Poland's Oscar entry. Brilliant performance from Bartosz Bielenia.
As part of Holmfirth Film Festival's aim to bring film to a wider audience and at a time when many within our community cannot afford to 'go out', this is one of 10 FREE events we hope will bring an opportunity to get out. If you would like to see this film, please book online (click on BUY TICKETS ONLINE - you will not be charged) or pick up a free ticket from Oxfam Bookshop, Holmfirth.
Two mothers (a brilliant Penelope Cruz and Milena Smit) of differing ages and lifestyle bond in an unexpected way after giving birth. Told with wit and warmth in typical Almodovar style of eye-popping colours and ecstatic sense of the theatrical.
Dir. Karel Kachyna (Czechoslovakia 1970 95mins 12)
Banned and not seen for 20 years, this darkly satirical political-paranoid-noir from the aftermath of the Prague Spring is a brilliant expose of life under totalitarianism and paved the way for Coppola’s The Conversation. Walls have ears.
Hugely enjoyable comedy caper movie starring the always brilliant Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren. loosely based on the improbable but true story of the 1961 theft of a painting which was mysteriously returned four years later.
Sadly, director Roger Michell passed away shortly before the film’s official release.