The Eclectic Cinema Have you tried The Electic Cinema yet? It’s Cheltenham’s little cinema club, based in The Playhouse. (It’s a pun on The Electric Cinema, by the way, something founder Andrew Holt had to explain to me.) This week’s theme is Weird Films. On Monday, 4 April, Andrew is putting on The Love Witch,… [continues]

The Roses New to the Roses next week, but not to the local circuit, are Ali & Ava and Flee, both described in earlier newsletters. There is also the bold commitment to showing the Academy Award Best Picture winner on Wednesday and Thursday. Let’s hope it is available and not buried on Netflix. You can… [continues]

The Roses The Duke shows up at The Roses this week, but there are two new films to see. There is The Real Charlie Chaplin, directed by Peter Middleton and James Spinney, which consists of a blend of original audio recordings, personal archive and dramatic reconstructions to tell the story of Chaplin’s career. Then there… [continues]

The Roses Cyrano continues at The Roses this week with a range of screenings to suit all circumstances. Just as a reminder, P means Prompt start (allegedly) i.e., no trailers or adverts, S is for subtitles for the hard of hearing and R is a ‘relaxed’ screening. There is also the rather redundant E for… [continues]

The Eclectic Cinema The Eclectic Cinema, the film club at The Playhouse, has Buster Keaton’s The General (1926) on Monday March 7 at 19:30. It’s one of the most important, ingenious and beautiful silent features ever made. Keaton plays a railway engineer during the American Civil War. A Southerner, he wants to join up to… [continues]