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Festival Films at Picturedrome, Holmfirth
(Dir. Jennifer Peedom, Australia 2017, 74mins)
From the same team that brought us the brilliant Sherpa documentary comes a spellbinding visual ode to the perils, beauty and awesome power of the world's highest mountain peaks. A true cinematic experience.
Fundraiser for Holme Valley Mountain Rescue Team.
(Dir. Armando Iannucci, UK 2017, 104mins 15)
No awards for probably the best British film of the year. Great cast and acting in an irreverent, violent, uproarious satire on the Soviet power struggle occasioned by the death of the dictator Stalin 1953. So good Russia banned it.
HOLMFIRTH FILM FESTIVAL FUNDRAISER
SOUL DISCO
PUT ON YOUR DANCING SHOES FOR A NIGHT OF STAX, MOTOWN AND NORTHERN SOUL WITH DJ STEVE DORRIL.
ADVANCE TICKETS £5.00 ONLINE OR IN PERSON FROM BOX OFFICE BAR
8.30PM TILL LATE
(Dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia 2017, 122mins 15)
Russia's Oscar nomination and multi-award winner from the director of The Return, Elena and Leviathan is a searing drama about an estranged couple with new partners going through a bitter divorce. Then their 12 year-old son disappears. The best film of the year?
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:
Film only tickets £6 available from Holmfirth Picturedrome (online) or Box Office Bar (in person)
Lunches start 12 noon, film starts 2.30pm
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
More of the same! But who's complaining? ABBA, Cher, great songs, lots of dancing, sun, sea and a whole lot of fun!
HAVE A GREAT FRIDAY NIGHT OUT AT HOLMFIRTH PICTUREDROME - dressing up positively encouraged
Dir. Ol Parker, US 2018, cert PG
ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM BOX OFFICE BAR or ONLINE FROM HOLMFIRTH PICTUREDROME WEBSITE
FESTIVAL FUNDRAISER
KICK OFF THE WEEKEND OUT ON THE FLOOR
LOOKING FOR A CHANCE TO DANCE? THIS IS IT
Stax, Tamla Motown, Soul and Northern Soul
IL POSTINO (The Postman) IS PART OF 2019'S LADIES WOT LUNCH EVENT.
Re-released and remastered, this is one of the most romantic films ever made. Set in a beautiful looking 1950s' Italy, a moving tale of poetry, love and friendship, made ever more poignant by the knowledge that the actor Massimo Trisosi, playing the poorly-educated Postman, died the day after filming ended.
Dir. Massimo Triosi, Michael Radford (Italy 1994 114mins 12)
MEZZE
THE TAP HOUSE
THE BLACK CAT RESTAURANT
WHIPPET AND PICKLE
Tickets for film only £6 available online
Beautifully composed, Belle Epoque-era, a star is born costume drama starring an excellent Keira Knightley as the French novelist who struggles to escape her writer husband's (Dominic West) control, to be an artist in her own right.
Dir. Wash Westmorland (US 2018 112mina 15)
Dr Simpo's Afternoon Animation Screening
FREE EVENT - NO TICKET REQUIRED
Mirai
Set in the 1980s, a spoilt-rotten son sees his baby sister as competition for his parent's love in a film that easily moves through the generations. Husoda latest anime classic is a dazzling, ravishing, emotional and dreamy look at the importance of family.
Dir. Mamoru Husoda (Japan 2018, 98mins PG)
Darkness and Light - an animation film for the Our Biennale arts festival by young people at Almondbury Community School with visuals from five schools across Kirklees including Holmfirth's Junior, Infant and Nursery school reflecting the landscape, history and myths of the local area.
Rare screening for what is often cited as the greatest war film ever made and the model for many films in that genre. Shot in Cambodia as the US involvement in the Vietnam War was beginning, the writer/director draws on his own experiences as a French soldier in the Indo-China war in 1954 and as a war photographer.
Dir. Pierre Schoenderffer (France 1965, 100mins 12)
If you haven't seen it or have only seen it five times, here is the most popular and entertaining film of the year. Rami Malek as Freddy Mercury is extraordinary. A film that borders on kitsch somehow manages to turn into a thrilling and meaningful movie.
Dir. Bryan Singer (US 2018, 133mins 12)
It’s time to dance. . .
DISCO
60s/70S/80S/90S
Raising funds for Holmfirth Film Festival
DJ Steve Dorril
Holmfirth Picturedrome
Friday Night Out
8.00pm till late
Tickets £5 from Box Office Bar or via online link
Dir. Terrence Malick (US 1978, 94mins 12)
Cinematic masterpiece in 2024 4K restoration. The endless cornfields, the sound of corn breaking, the beauty of the sky, swarms of locusts… Romantic period drama of a farm-labourer (Richard Gere) who persuades the woman he loves (Brooke Adams) to marry a rich landowner (Sam Shepard) so that they can lay claim to a fortune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LAqRFoT97o
New & Old Film of the Valley…
Local Film Night
Filmed Oral Histories of Valley residents and artists - Ashley Jackson, Celia Kilner, Greta Bradley, Mary and Malcolm Shaw by local young film-makers; the Demolition of the Market (2024); Miss Lockwood and the destruction of the Holmfirth Mills in the 1970s; and more…
Chris Morris introduces Four Lions
Dir. Chris Morris (UK 2010, 97mins 15)
Brilliant satirist, actor, radio presenter and director Chris Morris introduces his outrageous and darkly satirical and serious comedy about a group of men who plan a terrorist attack in the name of al-Qaeda. Followed by Q&A.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew-SrlQ9tlI
Time to put on your dancing shoes for an evening of the very best of 60s Soul Music with DJ Steve Dorril.
Saturday night out on the floor at The Picturedrome, Holmfirth
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