Best of 2024 Season.Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For the band of tombaroli, thieves of ancient grave goods and archaeological wonders, the Chimera means redemption from work and the dream of easy wealth. For Arthur, the Chimera looks like the woman he lost, Beniamina. To find her, Arthur challenges the invisible, searches everywhere, goes ...
Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan) first meet at college, thrown together on an 18-hour drive to New York. It's not exactly love at first sight.Years pass before they meet again, both having suffered the traumas of break-up and divorce. They begin an unlikely on-off friendship – or is it something deeper? – complicated by the fact that Harry is set in his cynical attitude, convin...
On Christmas Eve, Italian-American family the Blasanos gather for what could be their last celebration in their Long Island home.As the night wears on, festive hijinks, generational squabbles, and family traditions ensue – until one of the family's teenagers sneaks out with her friends to claim their wintry suburb for her own.FILM CLUB films are £1 for members and £8 General Admission. M...
Best of 2024 Season. Peerless cook Eugenie (Juliette Binoche) has worked for the famous gourmet Dodin (Benoît Magimel) for the last 20 years. Bonding over a passion for gastronomy and mutual admiration, their relationship develops into romance and gives rise to delicious dishes that impress even the world's most illustrious chefs. But Eugenie is fond of her freedom and has never wanted to marry ...
Best of 2024 season. One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood h...
C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) is a downtrodden office clerk who courts favour with the executives in his office by giving them the key to his apartment for their extramarital flings. Among them is his callous boss, who Baxter eventually learns is using his place to sleep with Miss Kubelik (Shirley Maclaine), the sweet elevator operator he's loved from afar. After Sheldrake coldly dumps the vulnerable ...
Best of 2024 season.From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them -- a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa) -- and with the schoo...
Best of 2024 Season.Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more of his past. A deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around ...
Tightly-wound marketing executive Neal Page (Steve Martin) just wants to get to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his wife (Laila Robins) and kids.But when his flight is rerouted to a distant city in Kansas because of a freak snowstorm, his sanity begins to fray – and things get even more chaotic when he's forced to bunk up with Del (John Candy), a well-meaning blabbermouth of a shower curtain ...
Atmospheric, compelling and visually breathtaking, THE UNIVERSAL THEORY is a lush cinematic mystery not to be missed. 1962. Against the towering landscape of the post-war Swiss Alps, a gifted young physicist meets an elusive pianist – one who knows things about him that he’s never told another living soul. Before he knows it, his curiosity traps him inside a mind-bending web of murder and mys...
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) is spending his Christmas at home. Only problem is, he's the only one at home: his chaotic family, helmed by his mother Kate (Catherine O'Hara), have flown to France leaving Kevin as the head of the household. He's happy to be ruling the roost – until a pair of burglars attempt to break in...FILM CLUB films are £1 for members and £8 General Ad...
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