Selma (12A)
Directed by Directed by: Ava DuVernay.
Starring: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Wilkinson.
Running time 128 minutes
Selma is the story of a movement. The film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement in the USA.
Doors open at 7.00pm.
Starts at 7.30pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £5.50.
Students and Under 18’s £3.00.
Members £3.00.
Effie Gray (12A)
Directed by Richard Laxton.
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Claudia Cardinale, Emma Thompson, Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters, Derek Jacobi, James Fox, David Suchet.
Running time 108 minutes
Based on the real-life scandal that shocked Victorian-era England, this is the story of Euphemia “Effie” Gray. At 19, she married the prominent art historian and critic John Ruskin, but Ruskin refused to consummate their marriage. Lonely and frustrated Effie is drawn to pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais, and finds a friend and champion in Lady Elizabeth Eastlake. After five years trapped in a loveless marriage, Effie will defy the rules of Victorian society.
Doors open at 7.00pm.
Starts at 7.30pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £5.50.
Students and Under 18’s £3.00.
Members £3.00.
The Theory of Everything (12A)
Directed by James Marsh.
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones.
Running time 123 minutes
The extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and science, and achieving more than they could ever have dreamed.
Doors open at 7.00pm.
Starts at 7.30pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £5.50.
Students and Under 18’s £3.00.
Members £3.00.
My Old Lady (12A)
Directed by Israel Horovitz.
Starring: Kevin Kline, Maggie Smith & Kristin Scott Thomas.
Running time 107 minutes
A down-on-his-luck New Yorker inherits a Parisian apartment. But when he arrives to sell the place, he’s shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. Moreover, the feisty elderly tenant, who has lived in the apartment with her daughter for many years, can by contract collect monthly payments from the new owner until her death.
Doors open at 7.00pm.
Starts at 7.30pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £5.50.
Students and Under 18’s £3.00.
Members £3.00.
This is a Film Plus event, so there will be a licence bar and snacks available during the film.
What we did on our holiday (12A)
Directed by Guy Jenkin & Andy Hamilton.
Starring: David Tennant, Rosamund Pike, Billy Connolly, Ben Miller, Amelia Bullmore, Harriet Turnbull, Bobby Smalldridge, Emilia Jones.
Running time 95 minutes
Doug (David Tennant) and Abi (Rosamund Pike) and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug’s father Gordie’s (Billy Connolly) birthday party. It’s soon clear that when it comes to keeping a secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are their biggest liability… From the creators of the hit comedy series Outnumbered – this is a heart-warming, uplifting comedy for all the family.
Doors open at 7.00pm.
Starts at 7.30pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £5.50.
Students and Under 18’s £3.00.
Members £3.00.
Calvary (15)
Running time 99 minutes
A good-natured priest is faced by sinister circumstances brought about by a mysterious parishioner. Although he continues to comfort his own fragile daughter and help members of his church with their various scurrilous problems, he feels troubling forces closing in, and begins to wonder if he will have the courage to face his own personal Calvary.
“A whodunnit with a difference”.
“A terrific black comedy with a deep love of language and a sharp sense of place”.
Doors open at 7.00pm.
Starts at 7.30pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £5.50.
Students and Under 18’s £3.00.
Members £3.00.
Mr Turner (12A)
Directed by Mike Leigh.
Starring: Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson.
Running time 150 minutes
Mr. Turner explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies. Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.
Doors open at 7.00pm.
Starts at 7.30pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £5.50.
Students and Under 18’s £3.00.
Members £3.00.
This is a Film Plus event, so there will be a licence bar and snacks available during the film.
The Nut Job (U)
Running time 85 minutes
In a city park, Surly the Squirrel has finally gone too far with his latest caper leading to the animal community’s winter food cache being destroyed. Now exiled, Surly and his rat buddy’s, Buddy, collective nightmare on the streets ends when they discover a nut store to raid. Meanwhile, the squirrels, the heroic Andie and the ditsy Grayson, are charged by Raccoon to find a new food source and Andie runs into Surly. With no other options, she arranges a deal to help in Surly’s heist for the colony, even while Surly fully intends to betray it. However, there is more going on with the nut store being a front for bank robbers while Raccoon has his own agenda to ensure his own power. In the mayhem to come, Surly finds himself challenged in ways he never expected and discovering the real prize to treasure in this adventure.
Doors open at 1.15pm.
Starts at 1.30pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Children’s ticket price £1.50.
Matinee film shows for children are organised by Looe Childrens Centre Parents Forum, and tickets are only available from the Looe Childrens Centre reception.
During spells of bad weather please check with Looe Childrens centre on 01503 265611 that the film show is taking place.
Nebraska (15)
Directed by Alexander Payne
Starring: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk and Stacy Keach.
Running time 115 minutes
A serious but darkly funny film, which describes a father and son road trip, from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska, that gets waylaid at a small town in central Nebraska, where the father grew up and has scores to settle. Told with deadpan humor and a unique visual style (in black and white), it’s ultimately the story of a son trying to get through to an ageing father he doesn’t understand.
Doors open at 7.00pm.
Starts at 7.30pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £5.50.
Students and Under 18’s £3.00.
Members £3.00.
Globe on Screen – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Running time 182 minutes, including a 15 minute interval.
Hermia loves Lysander and Helena loves Demetrius – but Demetrius is supposed to be marrying Hermia… When the Duke of Athens tries to enforce the marriage, the lovers take refuge in the woods and wander into the midst of a dispute between the king and queen of the fairies. Shakespeare put some of his most dazzling dramatic poetry in this teasing, glittering, hilarious and amazingly inventive play, whose seriousness is only fleetingly glimpsed beneath its dreamlike surface. “A hearty and hilarious night” – Time Out.
Doors open at 6.30pm.
Starts at 7.00pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £7.50.
Students and Under 18’s £5.00.
Members £5.00.
Sunshine on Leith (PG)
Running time 98 minutes
Based on the sensational stage hit of the same name, featuring music by pop-folk band The Proclaimers. The film follows the stories of Davy and Ally, who have to re-learn how to live life in Edinburgh after coming home from serving in Afghanistan. An exuberant feel good musical with a great backdrop of the Scottish capital.
Doors open at 7.00pm.
Starts at 7.30pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £5.50.
Students and Under 18’s £3.00.
Members £3.00.
Globe on Screen – Macbeth
Running time 155 minutes including 15 minute interval.
When three witches tell Macbeth that he is destined to occupy the throne of Scotland, he and his wife choose to become the instruments of their fate and to kill the first man standing in their path, the virtuous King Duncan. But to maintain his position, Macbeth must keep on killing – first Banquo, his old comrade-in-arms; then, as the atmosphere of guilt and paranoia thickens, anyone who seems to threaten his tyrant’s crown.
From its mesmerising first moments to the last fulfilment of the witches’ prophecy, Shakespeare’s gripping account of the profoundest engagement with the forces of evil enthrals the imagination. “Marvellous” – The Observer.
Doors open at 6.30pm.
Starts at 7.00pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £7.50.
Students and Under 18’s £5.00.
Members £5.00.
Globe on Screen – The Tempest
Running time 169 minutes including a 15 minute interval
Prospero, Duke of Milan, usurped and exiled by his own brother, holds sway over an enchanted island.He is comforted by his daughter Miranda and served by his spirit Ariel and the deformed slave Caliban. When Prospero raises a storm to wreck this perfidious brother and his confederates on the island, his long contemplated revenge at last seems within reach.
Imbued with a spirit of magic and the supernatural, The Tempest is Shakespeare’s late great masterpiece of forgiveness, generosity and enlightenment. “Spellbinding” – The Telegragh.
Doors open at 6.30pm.
Starts at 7.00pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Bar & food.
Adults £7.50.
Students and Under 18’s £5.00.
Members £5.00.
12 Years a Slave (15)
Directed by Steve McQueen
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyong’o, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, Alfré Woodard, Quvenzhané Wallis.
Running time 131 minutes
Based on an incredible true story of one man’s fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty, as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.
Doors open at 7.00pm.
Starts at 7.30pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £5.50.
Students and Under 18’s £3.00.
Members £3.00.
Bar and snacks.
Belle (12A)
Running time 101 minutes
Inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Captain. Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield and his wife, Belle’s lineage affords her certain privileges, yet the colour of her skin prevents her from fully participating in the traditions of her social standing. Left to wonder if she will ever find love, Belle falls for the idealistic son of a vicar. Together they shape Lord Mansfield’s role as Lord Chief Justice to end slavery in England.
Doors open at 7.00pm.
Starts at 7.30pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £5.50.
Students and Under 18’s £3.00.
Members £3.00.
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The Community Hall at
Looe Children's Centre
Trewint Crescent
Barbican
LOOE
CORNWALL
PL13 1ET
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