Wrecking Ball Film Club: Death In Venice

While recovering in Venice, sickly Composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio.

Director: Luchino Visconti
Production Year: 1971
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Mark Burns, Silvana Mangano, Romolo Valli

Wrecking Ball Film Club: Vita & Virginia

Based on a true story, ‘Vita & Virginia’ details the passionate relationship between literary trailblazer Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki), and enigmatic aristocrat Vita Sackville-West (Gemma Arterton).

Director: Chanya Button
Runtime: 110
Certification: 12A
Production Year: 2019
Distributor: Thunderbird Releasing

Wrecking Ball Film Club: Get Carter

When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.

Director: Mike Hodges
Runtime: 112
Production Year: 1971
Distributor: Warner Bros
Cast: Michael Caine, Alan Cumming, Britt Ekland, Stephen Kay, John Osborne, Mickey Rourke, George Sewell

Wrecking Ball Film Club: West Side Story

Winner of ten Academy Awards including Best Picture, this electrifying musical sets the ageless tragedy of Romeo and Juliet in the slums of 1950s New York and stars Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer.

Director(s): Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
Runtime: 145
Certification: PG
Production Year: 1961
Distributor: United Artists
Cast: Richard Beymer, George Chakiris, Rita Moreno, Russ Tamblyn, Natalie Wood

Wrecking Ball Film Club: Harold and Maude

The Wrecking Ball Film Club gets underway with Hal Ashby’s cult 1971 black-comedy.

A repressed and eccentric young man (Bud Cort), fixated on death and funerals, meets a much older eccentric woman (Ruth Gordon) who teaches him the joy of living.

Director: Hal Ashby
Runtime: 92 minutes
Production Year: 1971
Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Love Actually In Concert

Love Actually, the seasonal romcom that has become a revelation and synonymous for so many with the festive period, will tour the UK in winter 2021 with a full orchestra performing its soundtrack live to picture, in what is becoming an annual highlight of the holiday calendar.

Directed by Richard Curtis and originally released in cinemas in 2003, Love Actually tells ten separate yet interweaving stories of love around Christmas time.

The film features an all-star ensemble cast, including Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Laura Linney, Bill Nighy, Martine McCutcheon, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Keira Knightley Rowan Atkinson, Martin Freeman, and many more.

A full, live orchestra will perform Craig Armstrong’s evocative score at these shows, with the film being projected onto a huge screen. Armstrong is one of the UK’s most recognised film composers, with his work being awarded a BAFTA for his Achievement in Film Music. Age 15+ only.

Movie Night: Cocktail

Tuesday nights are film nights at The Piper Club and on September 28th its Cocktail on a 5m HD screen.

Doors open at 7:30pm and the film starts at 8pm

£5 per person

Movie Night: Notting Hill

Tuesday nights are film nights at The Piper Club and this week its Notting Hill on a 5m HD screen.

Doors open at 7:30pm and the film starts at 8pm

£5 per person

Lady Bird

Lady Bird is a 2017 American coming-of-age-drama film written and directed by Greta Gerwig in her solo directorial debut. The cast includes Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts and Lucas Hedges. Set in Sacramento, California between the fall of 2002 and the summer of 2003, it is a coming-of-age story of a high school senior and her strained relationship with her mother.

Tickets sold in Tables of 2, Tables of 3, or Tables of 4.

Table/seat choice is unallocated, first-come, first-served when you arrive at the venue.

Distanced tables and chairs throughout the venue space, with full table service for drinks.

Film certificate: 15 (entry is 15+, under 16s must attend with an adult 18+)

La La Land

Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and Mia (Emma Stone) are drawn together by their common desire to do what they love. But as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

Tickets sold in Tables of 2, Tables of 3, or Tables of 4.

Table/seat choice is unallocated, first-come, first-served when you arrive at the venue.

Distanced tables and chairs throughout the venue space, with full table service for drinks.

Film certificate: 12A (entry is 14+, under 16s must attend with an adult 18+)

CINEMA NIGHTS: A STAR IS BORN

Enjoy a night of socially distanced, open-air cinema at the Stage@TheDock amphitheatre.

A Star Is Born:
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) discovers-and falls in love with-struggling artist Ally (Gaga). She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer – until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally’s career takes off, the personal side of their relationship is breaking down, as Jack fights an ongoing battle with his own internal demons.

The Greatest Showman

Parkway Cinema Beverley and Wykeland brings you The Greatest Showman Film (PG) in the amazing open-air amphitheatre at Stage@TheDock

The smash hit musical was inspired by the life of P.T. Barnum, starring Hugh Jackman.

Barnum was a visionary who rose from nothing to create the “Greatest Show on Earth,” a spectacle and celebration of his larger-than-life imagination that captivated audiences around the globe.

Play It Loud! AMY

Play It Loud! presents – AMY

The new film night Play It Loud! (from the team behind Cult Cinema Sunday and Hull Independent Cinema) combines a classic album playback and music film screening.

From BAFTA award-winning director Asif Kapadia (SENNA), AMY tells the incredible story of six-time Grammy-winner Amy Winehouse – in her own words. Featuring extensive unseen archive footage and previously unheard tracks, this strikingly modern, moving and vital film shines a light on the world we live in, in a way that very few can.

7pm doors: classic album playback – ‘Back to Black’
8pm film start: AMY

This event is taking place with a lower audience capacity, socially distanced tables and chairs, with table service only.

Play It Loud! Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense

The new film night Play It Loud! (from the team behind Cult Cinema Sunday and Hull Independent Cinema) combines a classic album playback and music film screening.

Widely hailed as the greatest concert movie ever made, director Jonathan Demme’s celebrated film captures Talking Heads live at Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre in December, 1983.

Capturing the infectious energy of a unique Talking Heads performance, Stop Making Sense is an unforgettable musical and cinematic experience.

7pm doors: classic album playback – ‘Remain in Light’
8pm film start: STOP MAKING SENSE

 

This event is taking place with a lower audience capacity, socially distanced tables and chairs, with table service only.

Play It Loud! Liam Gallagher: As It Was

The new film night Play It Loud! (from the team behind Cult Cinema Sunday and Hull Independent Cinema) combines a classic album playback and music film screening.

The film tells the honest and emotional story of how one of the most electrifying rock’n’roll frontmen went From the dizzying heights of his `champagne supernova’ years in Oasis to falling into a wilderness of booze and legal battles, before making an attempt to stage the greatest comeback in rock history.

Play It Loud! presents – Liam Gallagher: As It Was Film

Tickets sold in Tables of 2, Tables of 3, or Tables of 4. Distanced tables and chairs throughout the venue space, with full table service for drinks.

Table/seat choice is unallocated, first-come, first-served when you arrive at the venue.

Film certificate: 15 (under 16s must attend with an adult 18+)

7pm doors: classic album playback – ‘Definitely Maybe’
8pm film start: LIAM GALLAGHER: AS IT WAS

DRIVE-IN CINEMA: GROUNDHOG DAY

Phil, a self-centred weatherman, goes to the town of Punxsutawney for an assignment. He is later shocked when he wakes up the next morning and realises that he is reliving the same day over and over’.

Contact free and social distance friendly with additional measures put in place for a safe event experience, following all government guidelines.

*Bring your own food & drink. Don’t forget the popcorn!

*No food & drink available on-site to minimise contact.

*Built-in social distancing from the comfort and safety of your car.

*On-site toilets available.

Please note that large cars such as SUV’s and people carriers are allowed, but may be positioned towards the back to allow other customers better viewing. *Vans are not permitted.