Event Type : Film

The Arts Centre is delighted to have been chosen as one of the venues for the pre-release showings of ‘Lawrence: After Arabia’, written and directed by Mark T Griffin and starring Tom Barber Duffy, Brian Cox and Hugh Fraser.

The film will be followed by a Q&A session with the director Mark Griffin.

This film is the story of the last years of the life of T.E. Lawrence – Lawrence of Arabia – a scholar, writer, soldier and reluctant hero. Retiring to his cottage in Dorset he hopes to escape his past but is pulled into political intrigue. While he has powerful friends, with his uncompromising manner he has made dangerous enemies.

​As they plot against him he dies in a tragic motorcycle accident. However, with such enemies was his untimely death an assassination and cover up by the British Secret Service?

“Lawrence: After Arabia” is the final act in the TE Lawrence story which chronologically follows David Lean’s “Lawrence of Arabia” (1962) which starred Peter O’Toole as T.E. Lawrence and “Lawrence: A Dangerous Man” (1996) which starred Ralph Fiennes in the starring role.

Tickets £12

Website: www.lawrenceafterarabia.co.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawrencethemovie/
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4695264/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

The Arts Centre is delighted to have been chosen as one of the venues for the pre-release showings of ‘Lawrence: After Arabia’, written and directed by Mark T Griffin and starring Tom Barber Duffy, Brian Cox and Hugh Fraser.

The film will be followed by a Q&A session with the director Mark Griffin.

This film is the story of the last years of the life of T.E. Lawrence – Lawrence of Arabia – a scholar, writer, soldier and reluctant hero. Retiring to his cottage in Dorset he hopes to escape his past but is pulled into political intrigue. While he has powerful friends, with his uncompromising manner he has made dangerous enemies.

​As they plot against him he dies in a tragic motorcycle accident. However, with such enemies was his untimely death an assassination and cover up by the British Secret Service?

“Lawrence: After Arabia” is the final act in the TE Lawrence story which chronologically follows David Lean’s “Lawrence of Arabia” (1962) which starred Peter O’Toole as T.E. Lawrence and “Lawrence: A Dangerous Man” (1996) which starred Ralph Fiennes in the starring role.

Tickets £12

Website: www.lawrenceafterarabia.co.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawrencethemovie/
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4695264/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad.

Nomadland is the third feature film from director Chloé Zhao and features real nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells as Fern’s mentors and comrades in her exploration through the vast landscape of the American West.

Cert (12)

Friday 29 Oct at 8pm

Tickets:

• Free For Film Society Members
• SAC members: £5.50
• Adults: £7.00
• Under 18s: £5.00

Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad.

Nomadland is the third feature film from director Chloé Zhao and features real nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells as Fern’s mentors and comrades in her exploration through the vast landscape of the American West.

Cert (12)

Friday 29 Oct at 8pm

Tickets:

• Free For Film Society Members
• SAC members: £5.50
• Adults: £7.00
• Under 18s: £5.00

The Father stars Anthony Hopkins who plays the role of a mischievous and highly independent man who, as he ages, refuses all assistance from his daughter Anne (Olivia Colman).

As Anne’s father tries to make sense of his changing circumstances he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.

The Father is adapted from the stage play of the same name, written by Florian Zeller.

Cert (12A)

Friday 12 Nov at 8pm

Tickets:

• Free For Film Society Members
• SAC members: £5.50
• Adults: £7.00
• Under 18s: £5.00

Dream Horse tells the true story of Jan Vokes, (Toni Collette) a Welsh cashier and bartender, who decides to breed and rear a race horse. She persuades her neighbours and friends to contribute financially to the project. The group’s unlikely investment plan pays off as the horse rises through the ranks and puts them in a race for the national championship.

Starring Toni Collette and Damian Lewis.

Cert (PG)

Tuesday 16 Nov at 2pm – Seniors’ Film (Over 50’s) 

Tickets: £4.00 (No Member Discount)

During a series of adrenaline-fueled one-night gigs, itinerant punk-metal drummer Ruben (Riz Ahmed) begins to experience intermittent hearing loss. When a specialist tells him his condition will rapidly worsen, he thinks his music career, and his life, are over.

His bandmate and girlfriend Lou (Olivia Cooke) checks the recovering heroin addict into a secluded sober house for the deaf in the hope it will prevent a relapse and help him learn to adapt to his new situation.

Ruben has to choose between his equilibrium and the drive to reclaim the life he once knew.

Cert (15)

Friday 26 Nov at 8pm

Tickets:

• Free For Film Society Members
• SAC members: £5.50
• Adults: £7.00
• Under 18s: £5.00

In 1968 a young, charismatic activist named Fred Hampton became Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, inspiring a generation to rise up and not back down to oppression. His actions put him directly in the line of fire of the government, the FBI and the Chicago Police.

Facing prison, William O’Neal is offered a deal by the FBI. If he can infiltrate the Black Panthers and provide intel on Hampton, he will walk free. He takes the deal, but is drawn in by Hampton’s fiery message.

Directed by Shaka King, the film stars Oscar nominee Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield.

Cert (15)

Friday 3 Dec at 8pm

Tickets: Free For Film Society Members

• Free For Film Society Members
• SAC members: £5.50
• Adults: £7.00
• Under 18s: £5.00

This immersive and charming film explores the timeless world of a group of elderly truffle hunters and their dogs, whose traditional ways of hunting out the rare and expensive truffles are in contrast to the sophisticated market they command. Set in Piedmont, this award-nominated documentary is beautifully shot and the dogs are as much the stars as the humans.

Piero Botto, Sergio Cauda, Maria Cicciù and dogs

Friday 17 December 2021

START: 8.00PM END: 9.25PM

Subtitles, 84 mins

Prices:

• Free to Film Society members.
• SAC Members £5.50
• Adults £7.00
• Under 18s £5.00