In one of the greatest road movies of all time, Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon ride to everlasting fame as two women who embark on a crime spree across the American southwest.
Director: Ridley Scott
Certification: 15
Cast: Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Susan Sarandon
Production Year: 1991
Running Time: 128 minutes
Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The film stars David Oyelowo as the iconic civil rights leader and tracks King’s struggle to secure voting rights for all people, culminating in the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, and President Lyndon Johnson’s signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Director: Ava Duvernay
Certification: 12
Cast: Carmen Ejogo, Cuba Gooding Jr., David Oyelowo, Oprah Winfrey
Production Year: 2014
Running Time: 127 minutes
Distributor: Pathe
For twenty years they shared something stronger than friendship and closer than love, yet they never met. A true story based on the bestselling novel by Helen Hanff.
Director: David Jones
Certification: U
Cast: Anne Bancroft, Judi Dench, Anthony Hopkins, Mercedes Ruehl
Production Year: 1986
Running Time: 99 minutes
Distributor: Sony
Cinema Under The Stars! An amazing outdoor cinema experience at Craven Park in Hull with a screening of the fantastic Mamma Mia!
The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular 1970s group ABBA.
Plus: Food, Snacks, Bar and Music before the film starts.
Gates open 6pm, film starts approx. 8pm.
Bring a blanket or camping chair and watch Mamma Mia! on a giant cinema screen under the stars!
Director Ken Loach received international acclaim for this enormously moving tale of a lonely working-class Yorkshire boy, who turns from a life of comic books and shoplifting when he finds a baby kestrel and decides to raise and train it.
Director: Ken Loach
Runtime: 106 minutes
Production Year: 1969
Distributor: United Artists
Cast: David Bradley, Colin Welland
Daniel Blake (59) has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the State. He crosses paths with single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know, some 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern-day Britain.
Director: Ken Loach
Runtime: 100
Certification: 15
Production Year: 2016
Distributor: eOne
Cast: Mark Burns, Colin Coombs, Harriet Ghost, Natalie Ann Jamieson
Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised.
Director: John Landis
Certification: 15
Production Year: 1980
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Cast: Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Cab Calloway
It’s the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood of Brooklyn, and tensions are growing there, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal’s Pizzeria. Mookie, Sal’s delivery boy, manages to always be at the center of the action.
Director: Spike Lee
Certification: 15
Cast: Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee
Production Year: 1989
Distributor: Universal Pictures
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
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
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
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
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, 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.
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
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