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EP APRIL/MAY/JUNE 2020.indd 1 06/03/2020 10:34 Sun 7 June - 7.30pm APRIL FATHER CAME TOO PG Peter Graham Scott, 1964, 91mins, UK Thu 2 Apr - 11am & 8pm, Fri 3 Apr - 8pm Q&A with actress Sally Smith AND THEN WE DANCED PG James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter and Sally Smith star in this hilarious comedy featuring a remarkable Levan Akin, 2020, 113mins, Sweden | Georgia | France, Subtitles array of comedy talent including Ronne Barker, Kenneth A gripping love story, full of moments of ope, Terry Scott and Hugh Lloyd Newlyweds Dexter and grace, that focuses on a young dancer Juliet purchase a ramshackle cottage in order to escape her Merab competing for a place in the National overbearing father, Shakespearean actor-manager Sir Beverly Georgian Ensemble. This passionate tale Grant. But he soon turns up to "help"... of love and liberation captures the beauty and stifl ing social values of modern Tbilisi, alongside energetic Thu 11 June - 11am & 8pm choreography and an extraordinarily physical lead performance 15 from dancer Levan Gelbakhiani. ONLY YOU Harry Wootliff, 2018, 118mins, UK / Sweden Sat 4 Apr - 8pm Elena and Jake meet by chance on ROLLING STONE: LIFE AND DEATH OF BRIAN JONES 15 New Year’s Eve, arguing for the same Sun 19 Apr - 8pm Thu 14 May - 11am & 8pm, Fri 15 May - 8pm, Sat 16 May - 8pm taxi. Instead of going their separate Danny Garcia, 2020, 96mins, Spain | UK ways after sharing a ride, they start a PG 12 Special Q&A to be announced THE MEDICINE BUDDHA JOJO RABBIT passionate relationship. Within weeks they are living together, In the mid 60’s, Brian Jones emerged Benjamin Johns, 2017, 100mins, UK Taika Waititi, 2019, 108mins, Czech Republic | New Zealand | USA, Some subtitles and talk about starting a family. But, as the seasons pass, reality as 'the face' of the Swingin’ London catches up: Falling in love was the easy part. Can they remain in Hosted by Hastings Triratna Buddhist Group A lonely boy, Jojo is living in Germany in the scene, topping the charts with The love when life doesn't give them everything they hoped for? Narrated by Ben Kingsley, this is a cinematic portrait of one of fi nal days of the Nazi regime. With his father Rolling Stones. His excessive lifestyle and reputation as the the leaders of the Buddhist faith in Mongolia: Khamba Lama gone, Jojo is a member of the Hitler Youth, original bad boy of Rock & Roll was to cost him dearly. He Natsagdorj, a fascinating man, who masterfully bridges faith his imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler. When spiralled out of control and two-years later was found at the COMEDY FEST / LIVE SHOWS! and science. Buddhist philosophy and science are explored as he discovers his mother has been hiding a bottom of his swimming pool. During the last 50 years theories Fri 12 June - 7.30pm we are immersed in Lama’s eclectic humanitarian efforts. Jewish girl in their house, Jojo must confront the veracity of his emerged claiming that Brian’s death was a high level cover-up - 7:30pm Laura Davis beliefs. Tackling the ludicrousness of racism head on, Waititi has the evidence for this proves extremely compelling. 8:45pm Barry Ferns crafted an audacious black comedy that boasts emotional depth Thu 23 Apr - 11am & 8pm, Fri 24 Apr - 8pm, Sat 25 Apr - 8pm 10pm Alfi e Brown and tenderness. Riotously funny, moving and relevant. Sun 5 Apr - 8pm THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD PG Sat 13 June - 7.30pm TEHRAN CITY OF LOVE 12 Armando Iannucci, 2020, 119mins, USA | UK Sun 17 May - 8pm 7:30pm Robyn Perkins (15+) 8:45pm Edd Hedges (14+) Adapted from the classic novel by 15 Ali Jaberansari, 2019, 102mins, Iran | UK | Netherlands, Subtitles THE GRASS ARENA 10pm TBC Charles Dickens, this comedy drama This engagingly downbeat comedy-drama brings a wry, yet heart-fi lled storytelling Gillies MacKinnon, 1992, 96mins, UK Sun 14 June - 3.30pm offers intriguing insights into modern style to revisiting this iconic hero on his quirky journey from Presented by Black Huts 3:30pm Frances Boulle Iranian life through three disenchanted impoverished orphan to burgeoning writer in Victorian England. Introduced by Nicholas Johnson, John Healy’s publisher 4:15pm Michael Capozzola (12+) characters: an ex-champion bodybuilder, The good hearted David Copperfi eld (Dev Patel) is surrounded by This award-winning BBC drama is an adaptation of the powerful 5:30pm Alasdair Beckett – King (14+) an overweight beauty clinic secretary and kindness, wickedness, poverty and wealth, as he meets an array autobiography of John Healy, starring Mark Rylance, Pete a dispirited religious singer, all yearning NOTE: Doors open at 7pm / 3.15pm. of remarkable characters in Victorian England. Postlethwaite & Clive Russell. Born in London to poor Irish for love and connection in Tehran. £5 per act to reserve a seat (See News) parents and hardened on the streets by the age of 7, John is Sun 26 Apr - 8pm consumed by alcoholism as a teenager. A promising career as Sun 14 June - 7.30pm Thu 9 Apr - 11am & 8pm a boxer crumbles as he enters The Grass Arena, a community PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES UNRATED THE GOOD LIAR 15 of vagrants, psychopaths and beggars - who will do anything THE DALAI LAMA – SCIENTIST Mario Bava, 1965, 88mins, Italy | Spain | USA to quench their thirst. In prison he faces certain death until a Bill Condon, 2019, 109 mins, USA Dawn Gifford Engle, 2019, 94mins, USA B Movie Fan Club fellow inmate shows him how to play chess: one addiction is Career con man Roy (Ian McKellen) sets Hosted by Hastings Triratna Buddhist Group After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin about to replace another. his sights on his latest mark: recently Containing extensive rare footage, this fi lm tells the very human to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain infl uence of the widowed Betty (Helen Mirren), worth story of the Dalai Lama that no one knows. His Holiness tells planet and its strange inhabitants. Wed 20 May - 7pm millions. But as the two draw closer, what should have been his own story of his lifelong journey from the world of Buddhism a simple swindle takes on the ultimate stakes. Two legendary FIRST HEARD PRESENTS: ‘CHRISTMAS 1915’ into the world of modern science, and how the world has Thu 30 Apr - 11am actors star together for the fi rst time in this suspenseful drama By Glyn Carter changed as a result. about the secrets people keep and the lies they live. "The veteran TIT FOR TAT PLUS DOUBLE ACTS U See News for Full details Wed 17 June - 7pm pair duel hypnotically in a mystery thriller" - The Guardian Charles Rogers, 1935, 19mins plus 40 mins Talk, USA Thu 21 May - 11am & 8pm, Sat 23 May - 8pm, Sun 24 May - 8pm FIRST HEARD Fri 10 Apr - 8pm LIVE MUSIC Film and Talk A Laurel and Hardy classic short fi lm ‘Tit for Tat’ 1917 15 By John Knowles FRIDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT followed by ‘Double Acts’ - an illustrated talk on how these timeless Sam Mendes, 2019, 119mins, SA | UK | India | Spain | Canada See News for full info 90mins approx comedians infl uenced British comedy fi lms and TV sitcoms. Stan and Ollie encounter their old nemesis whose grocery shop is next Two young British soldiers during the First Glenn Veness and Mike Willis return due to their sell out shows Thu 18 June - 11am & 8pm, Sat 20 June - 8pm, Sun 21 June - 8pm to their home appliances store. Unable to let bygones be bygones, World War are given an impossible mission: for another fabulous night of fi lm and music. Glenn promises a war breaks out. Will those tit-for-tat battles ever end? deliver a message deep in enemy territory PARASITE 15 surprises with his fi lms, and Mike has lined up more sparkling that will stop 1,600 men, and one of the guests including the fabulous Eddy Odel! - you’re guaranteed Bong Joon Ho, 2019, 132mins, Korean, Subtitled Thu 30 Apr - 8pm, Fri 1 May - 8pm soldiers' brothers, from walking straight an unforgettable evening! All tickets £15 The Kim family are close. They live into a deadly trap. Winner of 7 awards at this 12A in a tiny fl at and all are unemployed. HARRIET year’s BAFTAs and 3 Academy Awards. Sat 11 Apr - 8pm Kasi Lemmons, 2019, 125mins, USA But when the son, Ki-woo, is recommended by his friend to take a Fri 22 May - 7.30pm SEANANIGAN’S FILM QUIZ Based on the thrilling and inspirational well-paid tutoring job, hopes of a regular income blossom. Sean Hollebon life of an iconic American freedom THE WHALEBONE BONE BOX UNRATED He discovers the family also need an art tutor something his fi ghter, this fi lm tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's Live Quiz Night sister could pretend to do… if they don’t know she’s his sister. escape from slavery and transformation into one of America’s Andrew Kötting, 2020, 84mins plus short fi lm, UK Easter Saturday sees the ‘resurrection’ of the Seananigan’s fi lm Soon the whole family has infi ltrated the Park home and events greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed Preceded by short fi lm: ‘In Far Away Land’ quiz. A quiz for those with an ‘eggcellent’ knowledge of fi lms begin to get increasingly out of hand in ways you simply cannot hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.“History, Q&A with director plus special guest. and some for those who only ‘hop’ to the movies every now and imagine. Parasite is the fi rst non-English language fi lm ever to heroism and leadership are the stuff of Kasi Lemmons’ rousing A box made of whale bone, entangled in a fi sherman’s net was then. With a few red herrings and overly diffi cult surprising win an Oscar for Best Picture. and heartfelt fi lm about the life and times of Harriet Tubman, the washed up on a remote beach in the Outer Hebrides. Once touched clues thrown in for a fun mix. It’s sure to be an ‘Easter Parade’. Spartacus of the American south.” - The Guardian the box can change lives. In 2018 the box was taken back to the Isle So assemble your team, (don’t be late like the white rabbit) and Fri 19 June - 8pm of Harris by Andrew Kötting, Iain Sinclair and Anonymous Bosch. make sure you follow Good Friday with a great quiz. Tickets £5pp Meanwhile Eden Kötting narrates the story, working as both muse MULHOLLAND DRIVE 15 and soothsayer. Ultimately the whalebone box is fi nally buried in David Lynch, 2001, 147mins, France | USA Sun 12 Apr - 8pm the sand on the very beach from which it came. ‘In Far Away Land’ Presented by Hastings Contemporary THE KINGMAKER 15 MAY is a fi lm by Eden and Andrew Kötting with Glenn Whiting. and Trash Cannes Lauren Greenfi eld, 2019, 100mins, USA / Denmark Sat 2 May - 8pm Lynch takes the viewer on a memorable Thu 28 May - 11am & 8pm, Fri 29 May - 8pm, Sat 30 May - 8pm Former First Lady of the Philippines Imelda MIDSOMMAR 18 neo-noir trip through Hollywood’s dark underbelly in a mystery LITTLE WOMEN U that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality and features Marcos – she of the sensational shoe shopping Ari Aster, 2019, 147mins, USA | Sweden habit and excesses so notorious they led Greta Gerwig, 2019, 135mins, USA astonishing performances from Naomi Watts and Laura Elena to the spawning of an adjective, 'Imeldifi c' – is the fascinating Jack in the Green Festival Harring. Lynch dispenses with a conventional narrative in favour of This beautifully crafted fi lm about the beloved subject of this jaw-dropping new documentary. This is a timely, A couple travels to Sweden to visit a rural hometown's fabled mid- an hallucinogenic assault on the senses that will stay with you long story of the March sisters - four young women cautionary tale of a powerful female leader whose questionable summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves after the credits roll. All Tickets £5. See News for further info. each determined to live life on her own terms sense of reality divided a nation. 5 Stars, The Guardian. into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult. From the visionary mind of Aster comes a cinematic - is both timeless and timely. Portraying Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth Thu 25 June - 11am & 8pm fairytale where a world of darkness unfolds in broad daylight. March, the fi lm stars Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Wed 15 Apr - 7pm Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, with Timothée Chalamet as their neighbor ORDINARY LOVE 12A Laurie, Laura Dern as Marmee, and Meryl Streep as Aunt March. FIRST HEARD PRESENTS: ‘BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE YALTA’ Sun 3 May - 8pm Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn, 2020, 92mins, UK Neil Salvage Annie’s Staff Pick THE WICKER MAN 15 Sun 31 May - 8pm See News for full info. Joan and Tom have been married for many Robin Hardy, 1973, 102mins, UK VARAN THE UNBELIEVABLE UNRATED years. There is an ease to their relationship Thu 16 Apr - 11am & 7.30pm, Fri 17 Apr - 8pm Jack in the Green Festival Jerry A. Baerwitz, Ishirô Honda, 1962, 70mins, Japan | USA which only comes from spending a lifetime together and a depth A puritan Police Sergeant is sent to a Scottish island village in of love which expresses itself through tenderness and humour UNRATED HONEYLAND search of a missing girl who the townsfolk claim never existed. B Movie Fan Club in equal part. "Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson are note-perfect" A prehistoric behemoth is unwittingly Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov, 2019, 89mins, Republic of Macedonia, Subtitles The Wicker Man still holds an enduring fascination for us here - 5 stars, The Guardian in Hastings for May weekend! Today we are screening a version awakened from hibernation due to Rebecca’s Staff pick US-Japanese military experiments approved by Robin Hardy as The Final Cut - the fi nest Fri 26 June, 8pm LIVE MUSIC Plus special Q&A (Thursday 11am & 7.30pm only) and most complete version of the fi lm. (how many times guys?!). Awake and The last female bee-keeper in Europe not happy, the monster decides to FRIDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT must save her bees and return the natural attack Japan. Blimey, poor Japan! Glenn Veness and Mike Willis return for a night of fi lm and music. balance in Honeyland, when a family of Thu 7 May - 11am & 8pm, Sat 9 May - 8pm, Sun 10 May - 8pm Glenn has yet more up his sleeve with his fi lms, and Mike has lined nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood. PG up Philip Rambow plus Roger Hubbard to play alongside Blair and This fascinating documentary is fi lmed in Macedonia, and is both THE TRUTH Siddy! - you’re guaranteed an unforgettable evening! All tickets £15 an immersive experience and an undeniably gorgeous refl ection Hirokazu Koreeda, 2019, 106mins, France | Japan, Subtitles on our relationship to nature. Plus Q&A and other surprises Catherine Deneuve stars as Fabienne; a star JUNE Sat 27 June - 8pm with Katherine O'Brien, local beekeeper, founder of Bee Potion of French cinema. She reigns amongst men apothecary and woodland wellbeing facilitator. Thu 4 June - 11am & 8pm, Fri 5 June - 8pm, Sat 6 June - 8pm ROCKS 12A who love and admire her. When she publishes 15 her memoirs, her daughter Lumir (Juliette PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Sarah Gavron, 2019, 93mins, UK Sat 18 Apr - 8pm Binoche) returns from New York to Paris with her husband Céline Sciamma, 2020, 119mins, France, Subtitles Filmed partly in Hastings! 15 THE STREET (Ethan Hawke) and young child. The reunion between mother On the cusp of the 19th century, young painter Marianne 15-year-old Rocks fears that she and her little brother Zed Nelson, 2019, 94mins, UK and daughter quickly turns to stormy confrontation: truths told, travels to an island off the coast of Brittany. She has been Emmanuel will be taken into care and forced apart if anyone accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed. commissioned to create a wedding portrait of the wealthy fi nds out that their mother has left them to fend for themselves. Rachel's Staff Pick yet free-spirited Héloise, whose hand in marriage has been Against all odds, and with the help of her loyal friends, she A documentary by renowned photographer Zed Nelson about Fri 8 May - 7.30pm promised to a man she’s never met. Resentful of the forced evades the authorities and navigates the most defi ning days of love and loss, and a community unravelled by gentrifi cation. A SCANNER DARKLY 15 union, Héloise at fi rst refuses to be painted, yet a bond develops her young life. Rocks is a truly astounding fi lm about resilience, Over four-years we between the women. Sciamma builds her double portrait joy, and the spirit of girlhood. follow the inhabitants Richard Linklater, 2006, 100mins, USA from tentative of a traditional East Presented by The Young Electrics romance to a quietly Sun 30 June - 8pm London street, less A sci-fi thriller based on the novel by cult writer Philip K. devastating ending, LASERBLAST PG than a mile from Dick. Using an innovative and visually stunning technique while subverting the the City of London, of rotoscoping, animators trace over live action frame by frame to traditional story of Michael Rae, 1978, 85mins, USA and witness the create a visual, mind-blowing journey into a politically unstable an artist and “his” B Movie Fan Club toxic collision of world. Keanu Reeves plays an undercover cop in a not-too- muse. Winner of A teenager stumbles upon an alien weapon (as you do), so a gentrifi cation, austerity distant future, who becomes involved with a dangerous new drug Best Screenplay teenager with an alien gun what could possibly go wrong? and the nation’s slide and begins to lose his identity. Also starring Winona Ryder, Woody at Cannes Well for one he goes on a killing spree and and two, the aliens into Brexit. Harrelson and Robert Downey Jr. All tickets £5 for under 25s. Film Festival. want the weapon back. Expect an awful 70's fi lm.

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