War correspondent Lee Miller travels to the front lines of World War II to embark on a mission to uncover the hidden truths of the Third Reich.

The true story of photographer Elizabeth “Lee” Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.

Director: Ellen Kuras

Featuring: Kate Winslet, Andy Samberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Marion Cotillard.

Details: UK | Language: English | 2023 | 1h 56m

Showings:

Tuesday 6th January – 2pm Matinée

Please note: Our Tuesday Matinées feature subtitles for the hard of hearing and will include an interval.

Tickets: £5.

An eccentric reclusive lottery winner hires his favourite folk duo for a private gig on his island hermitage.

‘The film bewitches you with its seemingly spontaneous humour, a cadre of original soulful folk tunes and its adoration of the breathtaking surroundings.’ (Roger Ebert)

Dir: James Griffiths, 2025, UK, 1h 39m
Tom Basden, Tim Key, Carey Mulligan

Tickets:
£7.50, SAC members/friends
£6.50, U18s £5.50,
Film Society members free

Victoria Wood remains one of Britain’s most cherished entertainers – a comic genius whose work reshaped the landscape of British humour. But behind the joyous persona – the singer, the satirist, the sharp-witted writer – lay a young woman navigating insecurity, anger, and self-doubt.

Told in her ownwords and through the voices of those who knew her best, the film uncovers the formative experiences and personal battles that powered Victoria’s unmatched ability to make the nation laugh.

Featuring: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Maxine Peake, Joan Armatrading, Jasper Carrott, and Michael Ball.

Tickets: £7.50

Members & Friends: £6.50

Under 18s £5.50

Victoria Wood remains one of Britain’s most cherished entertainers – a comic genius whose work reshaped the landscape of British humour. But behind the joyous persona – the singer, the satirist, the sharp-witted writer – lay a young woman navigating insecurity, anger, and self-doubt.

Told in her ownwords and through the voices of those who knew her best, the film uncovers the formative experiences and personal battles that powered Victoria’s unmatched ability to make the nation laugh.

Featuring: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Maxine Peake, Joan Armatrading, Jasper Carrott, and Michael Ball.

Tickets: £7.50

Members & Friends: £6.50

Under 18s £5.50

The place we’ll always remember. The family we’ll never forget. Everything has led to this.

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, the cinematic return of the global phenomenon, follows the Crawley family and their staff as they enter the 1930s. When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change as the staff prepares for a new chapter with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.

Director: Simon Curtis

Featuring: Simon Russell Beale, Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Dockery.

Details: UK | Language: English | 2025 | 2h 04m

Showings:

Saturday 3rd January – 5pm

Tuesday 13th January – 2pm Matinée

Please note: Our Tuesday Matinées feature subtitles for the hard of hearing and will include an interval.

Tickets: £5.

At one of her lavish parties, celebrated Parisian courtesan Violetta is introduced to Alfredo Germont. The two fall madly in love, and though hesitant to leave behind her life of luxury and freedom, Violetta follows her heart.

But the young couple’s happiness is short-lived, as the harsh realities of life soon come knocking.

As intimate as it is sumptuous, La traviata features some of opera’s most famous melodies, and is a star vehicle for its leading soprano role sung by Ermonela Jaho. In director Richard Eyre’s world of seductive grandeur, the tender and devastating beauty at the centre of Verdi’s opera shines bright.

Sung in Italian with subtitles | Duration: 4h (to be confirmed)

Cast:
Violetta Valéry ERMONELA JAHO
Alfredo Germont GIOVANNI SALA
Giorgio Germont ALEKSEI ISAEV
Annina VEENA AKAMA-MAKIA
Doctor Grenvil BARNABY REA
Flora Bervoix ELLEN PEARSON
Baron Douphol SAM HIRD
Gastone de Letorières GIORGI GULIASHVILI
Marquis d’Obigny OSSIAN HUSKINSON

Creatives:
Music GIUSEPPE VERDI
Conductor ANTONELLO MANACORDA
Director RICHARD EYRE
Designer BOB CROWLEY
Lighting Designer JEAN KALMAN
Director of Movement JANE GIBSON

Tickets: £15. Members, Friends and under 18s £12.50.

Oscar-nominated documentary of the 1961 Cold War episode with jazz and decolonization entwined.

Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crashed the UN Security Council, protesting against the murder of Patrice Lumumba, PM of newly independent Congo, with other leading Black jazz musicians being ‘dispatched’ to win hearts and minds in Africa.

Dir: Johan Grimonprez, 2024, Belgium, France, Netherlands,
Starring: Patrice Lumumba, Dag Hammarskjöld, Louis Armstrong

Subtitled

2h 30m mins

Tickets
£7.50
SAC members & friends: £6.50
U18s: £5.50
Film Society members: Free

Barry Lyndon, an ambitious Irishman of humble origins, sets out in 18th-century Europe to rise through society’s ranks by any means necessary.

Through deceit, duels, and a fortuitous marriage to a wealthy widow, he achieves wealth and status, but his reckless actions and personal flaws precipitate his eventual downfall.

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Featuring: Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Kruger, Diana Körner, Gay Hamilton

Details: UK/USA | Language: English | 1975 | 3h 5m

Showings:

Tuesday Matinée 20th January – 2pm 

Tickets: £5.

Shaftesbury Festival Of Baroque 2026 Season Ticket – £120. Members & Friends £100.

The season ticket gives you access to all the events scheduled for the Shaftesbury Festival of Baroque. Please show your festival season ticket at the entrance of each event. To book, click here.

Clarice Cliff breaks the glass ceiling and revolutionizes the workplace at a pottery factory in 1920s England.

Director: Claire McCarthy

Featuring: Phoebe Dynevor, Matthew Goode.

Details: UK | Language: English | 2021 | 1h 52m

Showings:

Tuesday 3rd February – 2pm Matinée

Please note: Our Tuesday Matinées feature subtitles for the hard of hearing and will include an interval.

Tickets: £5.

Picasso: A Rebel In Paris takes an unprecedented and alternative look at the
maestro of modernity.

The film focuses on the story of a young immigrant, poor but destined to become one of the most important icons of the 20th century.

The film moves continuously in and out of the Musée Picasso in Paris, which has the largest existing collection dedicated to the painter with 6,000 masterpieces and 200,000 pieces of archive material, and follows Picasso through the Parisian neighbourhoods where he lived, from the early days in ateliers with no heating to the large middle-class apartments where his success began: a physical and intellectual journey to gain a deeper understanding of his work and spirit.

Tickets: £15. Members, Friends and under 18s £12.50.

Newly widowed Santosh takes on her late husband’s role as a police constable. She is taken under the wing of a veteran female cop and investigates the death of a young girl.

‘Combines gripping, gritty storytelling with a deft acknowledgement of some of the murkier aspects of modern India’ (Wendy Ide, Guardian).

Dir: Sandhya Suri, 2024, Hindi
Starring: Shahana Goswami, Sunita Rajwar, Nawal Shukla

Subtitled
2h 8m

Tickets
£7.50
SAC members & friends: £6.50
U18s: £5.50
Film Society members: Free

What happens when a cinema’s Lord of the Rings marathon goes terribly wrong?

At the local cinema, all hell breaks loose when the ushers misplace the DVDs of The Lord of the Rings trilogy – every single copy! With only the soundtracks left in hand, the team of hapless ushers must somehow improvise an entire three-film saga in front of a live audience.

Get ready for an uproarious evening of comedy, chaos, and utter nonsense, as they attempt to recreate the epic tale of hobbits, elves, and orcs – without any visuals, any planning, or any clue what they’re doing.

Will Frodo ever make it to Mordor? Will Aragorn get crowned king? Will Gollum stop stealing the show? Will anyone even remember who’s supposed to be who?! It’s a show that’s more fun than a barrel of hobbits, and definitely more chaotic than a Gandalf speech.

If you’ve ever wanted to see Gollum fight a battle with sound effects, or Gandalf desperately trying to remember what happens next, then you’re in for a hilarious treat!

Tickets: £20. Members, Friends and under 18s £18.

Struggling to fit in at his new school after being expelled for his treatment of Auggie Pullman, Julian is visited by his grandmother and is transformed by the story of her attempts to escape Nazi-occupied France during World War II.

Director: Marc Forster.

Featuring: Helen Mirren, Gillian Anderson, Orlando Schwerdt, Bryce Gheisar.

Details: USA | Language: English | 2024 | 2h 01m

Showings:

Tuesday 10th February – 2pm Matinée

Please note: Our Tuesday Matinées feature subtitles for the hard of hearing and will include an interval.

Tickets: £5.

The Brutalist is a critically acclaimed, hugely ambitious, sweeping story of the conflicts and tensions in the relationship between a ruthless American capitalist and a Hungarian holocaust-surviving architect.

A critic has said that it is about ‘immigration, addiction, Zionism, architecture, inequity, class and violence’. This is filmmaking on a grand scale, too long for us to fit into a Friday evening.

When a film is nominated for 11 Oscars, it’s definitely going to be worth seeing!

Dir: Brady Corbet, US/UK/Canada, 2024.

Starring: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce

3h 30m

Tickets
£7.50
SAC members & friends: £6.50
U18s: £5.50
Film Society members: Free

Since The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is full with its existing long-term residents, co-owners Muriel and Sonny make plans for The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel while he prepares for his wedding.

Director: John Madden

Featuring: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Celia Imrie, Dev Patel, Bill Nighy.

Details: UK | Language: English | 2015 | 2h 02m

Showings:

Tuesday 17th February – 2pm Matinée

Please note: Our Tuesday Matinées feature subtitles for the hard of hearing and will include an interval.

Tickets: £5.

Mesmerising- Unique- Magical The WOW Bubble Show For Kids Featuring Bubble Magician Richard Welsh Amazing Bubble Tricks WOW! Mind Blowing Giant Bubbles WOW! Stand Inside a Giant Bubble WOW! Hilarious Bubble Games WOW!

Everybody loves bubbles but popular Children’s Entertainer & Bubble Showman, Richard Welsh really loves bubbles and he wants to show you why. Mixing bubbles, music and comedy, Richard engages and delights audiences of all ages. Be amazed as Richard performs some wonderful bubble tricks which will include breath taking giant bubbles. Be wowed at the smoking bubble volcano and the amazing bubble sculptures including a bubble caterpillar, bubble dog etc. There will be plenty of interactive entertainment with some fun bubble games. With the grand finale of the opportunity to stand inside a giant bubble!!!!

Perfect family entertainment for your little ones ( 3- 8 year olds ).

Tickets:

Adults: £10

Under 18s: £8

Family Ticket: £32

Out Of The Box is a family-friendly circus comedy show, which sees an unlikely character and his box bring audiences together through joyful awe, never knowing what to expect next.

With every opening of the box comes new trick shots, mini acts, and hilarious opportunities for participation – but don’t worry – Darryl only ever wants you to leave the stage feeling like the star of the show (there’s no ridicule here!). Delivered through, non-verbal clowning, ordinary objects become extraordinary in the hands of Darryl – and you won’t believe the reaction he gets from a toothbrush in the finale! The show is a joyous celebration of play throughout your life, whatever your age, bringing generations together through seriously skilful silliness.

Tickets:

Adults: £12

Members & Friends: £10.50

Under 18s: £8

Booking Coming Soon

A collection of new paintings by Sara Westaway featuring local landscapes, flora and fauna.

‘Glimmers’ are moments of joy, and each work is inspired by a place or experience, which Sara has strived to capture in her unique style.

MONDAY ART GROUP The Art Group are a collection of local artists who meet regularly to paint/draw for pleasure.

In addition we are able to book one or two tutors per term to demonstrate different techniques they are happy to share with us. New members always welcome.

Free Entry To All

Wednesday 4th March to Tuesday 10th March

10:00 – 16:00

Join ‘The Magical Mr West’ on an incredible adventure into the world of science!Aided by his corvid companion Crowbert and a collection of curious contraptions, Mr West demonstrates the fundamental principles of scientific enquiry, exploring everything from supersonic speediness to malicious misinformation.

Best known as one half of magic duo ‘Morgan & West’, ‘The Magical Mr West’ has travelled around the world performing to audiences of all ages with spectacular shows that include magic, science and a good deal of tomfoolery. Now he presents his most amazing show yet, with the help (or possibly hindrance…) of a wisecracking cartoon crow.

Expect skills, silliness and the studious application of logic as you embark upon ‘Adventures in Science!’

Tickets:

Adults: £12.50

Members & Friends: £11.50

Under 18s: £10.50

Housed in a state-run shelter, five poor teenage mothers or mothers-to-be hope for a better life, and learn how to look after themselves and babies.A poignant and compassionate study of unforced social realism.

The Dardenne brothers excel at socially conscious cinema: moving, heartrending and hopeful.

Best screenplay at Cannes 2025

Dirs: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, 2025 Belgium/France.

Starring: Babette Verbeek, Elsa Houben, Janaïna Halloy Fokan, Lucie Laruelle, Samia Hilmi

1h 44m

Subtitled

Tickets
£7.50
SAC members & friends: £6.50
U18s: £5.50
Film Society members: Free

When a bomb endangers the Pha Tang temple, Satu, an orphan child labourer, decides to head north through the rich and feral landscape of Laos in search of his long-lost mother, in the company of his aspiring young photojournalist friend Bo.

Beautifully filmed, a thoughtful, unsentimental but moving ‘road movie’.

Dir: Joshua Trigg, 2024, Laos/UK.
Starring: Itthipone Sonepho, Vanthiva Saysana, Tao Chanthavong
1h 33m
Subtitled

Tickets
£7.50
SAC members & friends: £6.50
U18s: £5.50
Film Society members: Free

Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.

Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power and privilege, young Prince Hamlet dares to ask the ultimate question – you know the one.

National Theatre Deputy Artistic Director, Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Operation Mincemeat) directs this sharp, stylish and darkly funny reimagining.

Tickets: £15. Members, Friends and under 18s £12.50.

On a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam navigates the clash of egos between her father and his oldest friend. This character-driven film explores the awkward dynamics between them, focusing on Sam as she navigates their quarrelling and emotional limitations. When a boundary is crossed, Sam exits the forest, a different girl to when she went in. Everything has changed.

Dir: India Donaldson, 2024, US.
Starring: Lily Collias, Sumaya Bouhbal and Valentine Black.
1h 30m

Tickets
£7.50
SAC members & friends: £6.50
U18s: £5.50
Film Society members: Free

Princess Pamina has been captured. Her mother, the Queen of the Night, tasks the young Prince Tamino with her daughter’s rescue.

But when Tamino and his friendly sidekick, Papageno, embark on their adventure, they soon learn that when it comes to the quest for love, nothing is as it really seems. Guided by a magic flute, they encounter monsters, villains, and a mysterious brotherhood of men – but help, it turns out, comes when you least expect it.

Mozart’s fantastical opera glitters in David McVicar’s enchanting production. A star cast including Julia Bullock as Pamina, Amitai Pati as Tamino, Huw Montague Rendall as Papageno, Kathryn Lewek as the Queen of the Night, and Soloman Howard as Sarastro, led by French conductor Marie Jacquot in her Covent Garden debut.

Sung in German with subtitles | Duration: 3h 30m (to be confirmed)

Cast:
Pamina JULIA BULLOCK
Tamino AMITAI PATI
Papageno HUW MONTAGUE RENDALL
Queen of the Night KATHRYN LEWEK
Sarastro SOLOMAN HOWARD
Monostatos GERHARD SIEGEL

Creatives:
Music WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Conductor MARIE JACQUOT
Director DAVID MCVICAR
Designer JOHN MACFARLANE
Lighting Designer PAULE CONSTABLE
Movement Director LEAH HAUSMAN

Tickets: £15. Members, Friends and under 18s £12.50.

An engaging, quirky tale set in Norfolk which tells of bonding and reconciliation across the generations.A relationship develops when two school friends help a granddad, who is a keen gardener, fence his shed – in which he has grown marijuana by accident!

Dir: Richard Bracewell, 2025, UK.
Starring: Ramy Ben Fredj, Hugo Carter, Michael Dalton
1h 30m

Tickets
£7.50
SAC members & friends: £6.50
U18s: £5.50
Film Society members: Free

Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin.

Baritone Igor Golovatenko reprises his portrayal of the urbane Onegin, who realises his affection for her all too late.

The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, “offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance” (The Telegraph).

Sung in Russian with English subtitles | Duration: 4h 5m with two intervals (to be confirmed)

Cast:
Tatiana ASMIK GRIGORIAN
Olga MARIA BARAKOVA
Filippyevna STEPHANIE BLYTHE
Lenski STANISLAS DE BARBEYRAC
Eugene Onegin IGOR GOLOVATENKO
Prince Gremin ALEXANDER TSYMBALYUK

Creatives:
Music PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Conductor TIMUR ZANGIEV
Director DEBORAH WARNER
Set Designer TOM PYE
Costume Designer CHLOE OBOLENSKY
Lighting Designer JEAN KALMAN
Projection Designer IAN WILLIAM GALLOWAY and FINN ROSS
Choreographer KIM BRANDSTRUP

Tickets: £15. Members, Friends and under 18s £12.50.

A wild ride of a film, mixing violence and humour, with an incredible score.DiCaprio plays a drug-befuddled and paranoid ex-revolutionary, forced back into combat when a corrupt military officer starts to pursue him and his daughter. A fast-moving intricate plot, with plenty of allusions to Trump’s America, and a huge box-office success, likely (at the time of writing) to be an Oscar-winner.

Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025, US.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro
2h 42m

Sherlock Holmes The Death and Life. A fantasy based upon a fiction, finds Arthur Conan Doyle tiring of ‘his’ intolerably arrogant Sherlock Holmes, and inventing the arch villain, Moriarty, to dispose of him. But Doyle’s dangerous strategy, combined with his passion for raising the spirits of the dead, has rather more surreal and dramatic consequences than he bargains for!

A light – hearted and intriguing investigation of the consequences, when fictional characters take on lives and ambitions of their own, quite against the wishes of the author.

In this wryly humorous one man tale, of murder, mystery and the occult the world’s greatest detective refuses to leave the stage!

Starring Nigel Miles-Thomas, written by David Stuart Davies, adapted for the stage and directed by Gareth Armstrong; with original music by Simon Slater.

‘Nigel Miles – Thomas plays Holmes with magical candour. Brilliant, Unmissable’ ***** (Noho Arts)

‘A Classy Holmes” **** (The Daily Mail)

‘There is nothing elementary about this production, top class’ *****(Glam)

‘A Firework display of Acting virtuosity’ ***** (Theatre Weekly)

Tickets:

Adults: £18

Members, Friends & Under 18s: £15