Events Calendar

D. Julian Schnabel | 110mins | M | UK, USA In English and French with English subtitles SWIFF’19 ENCORE Painter-turned-director, Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) offers a luminous present-tense drama about the last days of Vincent van Gogh, and in the process revivifies our sense of the artist as a living, feeling human being. Schnabel has stated that he didn’t want to make a film about Van Gogh, but a film where the viewer is Van Gogh.…

All My Sons by Arthur Miller Directed by Jeremy Herrin. Filmed live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) star in Arthur Miller’s blistering drama All My Sons. America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. They have built a home, raised two sons and established a thriving business. But nothing lasts forever and their contented…

TD. Barry Jenkins | 119mins | MA15+ | USA Director Barry Jenkins’ ambitious follow-up to Moonlight adapts James Baldwin’s poignant novel about a woman fighting to free her falsely accused husband from prison before the birth of their child. From the director of the Oscar-winning Moonlight, in his third feature, Barry Jenkins draws deep from the well of James Baldwin, whose profound insight into African Americans’ unique place in American society serves as inspiration for this gorgeous tone poem on love…

For sixty years, Queen Elizabeth II has met with each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a private weekly meeting. This meeting is known as The Audience. No one knows what they discuss, not even their spouses. From the old warrior Winston Churchill, to the Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair right up to today’s meetings with the current incumbent David Cameron, the Queen advises her Prime Ministers on all matters both public and personal. Through these private audiences, we…

Take in the sights and sounds of our majestic Manning Valley on the big screen. Experience a bird’s-eye view, journeying from Barrington Tops to the coast. Tallowdale Music & FilmWorks Media present this short nature film, with soundtrack by composer, Jonathan Billingham. This will follow a rich program of live music featuring international prize-winning pianist, Samuel Dharma, and friends.

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake comes to cinemas with a fresh look for the 21st century and is ‘as bold and beautiful as ever’ (★★★★★ Telegraph). This thrilling, audacious and witty production is perhaps still best known for replacing the female corps-de-ballet with a menacing male ensemble, which shattered convention, turned tradition upside down and took the dance world by storm. Duration: 2 hrs 30 mins, including interval

Adapted by Helen Edmundson. Based on the novel by Andrea Levy. Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel Small Island comes to life in an epic new theatre adaptation. Experience the play in cinemas, filmed live on stage as part of National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday. Duration: 3 hrs 10 mins Small Island embarks on a journey from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948 – the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury, England. The play follows…

The full length documentary, John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new (2018) was shot on Country at a number of significant sites on the artist’s Kurulk clan estate, including around Mawurndjul’s home at Milmilngkan, and also at Maningrida Arts and Culture, Maningrida. John Mawurndjul discusses his prolific art practice, which he balances alongside his responsibilities as Djunkay (cultural manager) for his traditional homelands. Detailing the significance of rarrk (cross-hatching), doloppo bim (bark painting), ochres and sculptural works, this…