DECEMBER Stockbridge Community Cinema

MILITARY WIVES (12A) Wednesday 9 December 4.30 & 7.30pm 1hr 53min Comedy, Drama Military Wives centres on a group of women from different backgrounds Autumn Season whose partners are away serving in Afghanistan. Faced with their loved 2020 ones' absences, they come together We aim to encourage and support the appreciation and to form the very first military wives choir, helping each understanding of film by providing screenings of quality other through some of life's most difficult moments, films for the local community. Our programme offers a and quickly find themselves on an international stage. wide range of films, both mainstream as well as alternative Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty) directs Kristin Scott content / specialist films. At our Wednesday Film Thomas and Sharon Horgan in this feel-good crowd- Nights we screen the more popular drama or comedy pleaser inspired by true events. films while for our Film Night Extra events we show "You are well aware of the shameless manipulation and can ‘art-house’, foreign language, documentary films, recorded second-guess exactly where it is going and yet resistance is arts events or films with more mature themes and with futile. It tugs at the heartstrings with such determination and added programme notes. Both films are screened twice. sincerity that there may not be a dry eye in the cinema." Films are shown at Stockbridge Town Hall, High Street Screen Daily SO20 6HE twice monthly during most of the year and we "Inspired by BBC television series The Choir, director Peter also present occasional special Q&A events and family Cattaneo's Military Wives is every bit as briskly cheerful and films. The air-conditioned hall has a hearing loop system modestly scaled as that real-life origin story suggests." and lift access. We can accommodate wheelchairs or those Financial Times with special requirements - contact us for details. KEEPING SAFE Our aim is to provide a shared social experience in a During the current pandemic we are following UK Cinema Association Guidelines Cinemas - comfortable atmosphere and at a modest cost. All profits keeping workers and customers safe during Covid-19. are donated to local causes/projects. Measures include- All tickets must be purchased either online via our ● reducing the hall capacity by spacing rows further website from Ticketsource at a cost of £7.00 (£6.25 apart but an extra Friday matinee to compensate. plus £0.75 booking fee) per ticket, or using the ● maintaining social distancing with numbered seating Ticketsource telephone booking service 0333 666 and keeping gaps between individual households 3366 (£1.75 fee per booking in addition to above). Tickets go on sale approximately one month before every ● online or telephone booking only and contactless payment for any door tickets available screening date. ● additional cleansing before each screening and hand Sign up for our mailing list via the contact page gel available on our website to be kept informed.

● Wearing face coverings in line with Govt guidelines Website: www.stockbridgecinema.org.uk ● Self service flyers / programme notes and emailed film ratings Email: [email protected] 5 6 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON PARASITE (15) THEY SHALL NOT FIRE (15) Friday 16 October 4.30 and 7.30pm 2hrs 12min GROW OLD (15) Friday 18 Sept 4.30 & 7.30pm Friday 13 November 2hrs 2min Drama, Romance Drama, Comedy [In Korean with English subtitles] 4.30 and 7.30pm 1hr 39min France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned A poor family, the Kims, con their way Documentary, War to paint the wedding portrait of into becoming the servants of a rich Through ground breaking computer Héloïse, a young woman who has just family, the Parks. Their easy life gets restoration technology, filmmaker left the convent. Because she is a complicated when their deception is 's team creates a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives threatened with exposure. moving real-to-life depiction of the under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by First World War in restored, vivid colorizing & day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the "The less you know about the plot in advance the more you retiming of the film frames, in order to honour two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction will enjoy it." those who fought and more accurately depict this grow as they share Héloïse's first moments of freedom. "Furious and fiendishly well-crafted new film. ... Giddy one historical moment in world history. "Razor-sharp and shatteringly romantic ... as perfect a film moment, unbearably tense the next, and always so "By applying cutting-edge restoration techniques to as any to have premiered this year." Indiewire entertaining and fine-tuned that you don't even notice when footage shot at the time, Jackson has crafted an "Not since Jane Campion's The Piano has a costume drama it's changing gears, "Parasite" takes all of the beats you historical portrait of matchless immediacy and power, in presented such a gorgeous view of love from a woman's expect to find in a Bong film and shrinks them down with which young souls lost in a century-old war stare out point of view." CineVue clockwork precision." Indiewire Winner of four 2020 across the years and meet our gaze." The Telegraph Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best "They Shall Not Grow Old is a tribute paid by the Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film. present to the past, and what a gorgeous gift it turns out KNIVES OUT (12A) to be." The Los Angeles times Wednesday 23 Sept OFFICIAL SECRETS (15) A PERSONAL HISTORY 4.30 and 7.30pm 2hrs 11min Wednesday 21 October OF DAVID COPPERFIELD PG Comedy, Mystery 4.30 and 7.30pm 1hr 52min Wednesday 18 November When renowned crime novelist Harlan Drama, Biography 4.30 and 7.30pm 1hr 59min Thrombey dies just after his 85th One day in 2003, in the lead up to the Drama, Comedy birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Iraq War, British intelligence specialist From birth to infancy, from Detective Benoit Blanc arrives at his Katharine Gun (Keira Knightly) receives adolescence to adulthood, the good- estate to investigate. From Harlan's a memo from the NSA with a shocking hearted David Copperfield is dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts directive: the United States is enlisting Britain's help in surrounded by kindness, wickedness, poverty and through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to collecting compromising information on UN Security wealth, as he meets an array of remarkable characters uncover the truth behind Thrombey's untimely demise. Council members to blackmail them into voting in favour in Victorian England. As David sets out to be a writer, "Built upon a wittily verbose script that delivers more laugh- of an invasion of Iraq. Unable to stand by and watch the in his quest for family, friendship, romance and status, out-loud lines than most of the year's alleged comedies, world be rushed into war, Gun makes the gut-wrenching the story of his life is the most seductive tale of all. Knives Out retains a beating human heart into which daggers decision to defy her government and leak the memo to "A fleet-footed and boisterously enjoyable Dickens are regularly plunged" the press. adaptation that breathes new life into a well-worn story. A "A crackling, devious, and hugely satisfying old-school "A model of professionalism and energy, Official Secrets winning Dev Patel leads a highly amusing cast." Total Film whodunnit with a modern twist. Even if you do manage to moves along at a brisk clip. It's paced like a police procedural, "Throughout the film, the cast engage in so many piece the whole thing together in advance, there's no way of but it focuses not on an investigator but rather a moral wonderfully measured scenes of mayhem that the fun predicting the joy of watching it all unfold." Indiewire exemplar who takes a principled stand in defiance of the they're clearly having radiates from the screen." Guardian price that has to be paid." Los Angeles Times 2 3 4