Films around Cheltenham from 24 September 2022

By John MorrishSeptember 24, 2022 Uncategorized Leave a comment

To be honest, I haven’t had time to do this page this week, so here are the links to the websites. Click on them and you’ll find the rich panoply of pleasures the cinema industry currently has to offer in our area. Hope to do better next time, if I get a bit of help… [continues]

Freeview films from 24 September 2022

By Film Cheltenham TeamSeptember 24, 2022September 24, 2022 Freeview highlights Leave a comment

World Cinema Sunday (25/9) 23:50 Film4 The Handmaiden (2016) I’ve written about this lots of times, and I’m not really that big a fan. So I’ll reprint approximately what I wrote before: ‘Park Chan-Wook’s glossy period thriller, set during Japan’s long occupation of Korea: a crime story with lesbian trimmings, or… [continues]

Roses Tewkesbury

By Pamela WeaverSeptember 18, 2022 Films around Cheltenham, Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Roses Is closed on Monday 19th, which means that there is just one screening, on Thursday morning, of Eiffel, directed by Martin Bourboulon and starring Romain Duris. As you might deduce it is the story of Gustave Eiffel, the engineer, and his attempts to construct the tower that bears his name. There is also… [continues]

Freeview films from 17 September 2022

By Film Cheltenham TeamSeptember 18, 2022 Uncategorized Leave a comment

World Cinema Saturday (17/9) 21:00 BBC4 The Girl With a Bracelet (2019) Superb courtroom drama about a teenager accused of murder, spare in tone but rich in emotions and motives that are sometimes only half hinted at. Melissa Guers is excellent as Lise, the teen in the dock for killing her… [continues]

Freeview films from 10 September 2022

By Martin HarrisSeptember 10, 2022 Uncategorized Leave a comment

World Cinema Saturday (10/9) 02:10 Channel 4 First Love (2019) 23:55 BBC1 The Keeper (2018) Sunday (11/9) 01:20 Film4 Dogs Don’t Wear Pants (2020) Tuesday (13/9) 01:55 Channel 4 … [continues]

Roses Tewkesbury

By Pamela WeaverSeptember 10, 2022 Uncategorized Leave a comment

Next week the Roses has Mr Malcolm’s List, directed by Emma Holly Jones and described as a “witty Regency romcom”. (Sigh). The eponymous Mr Malcolm (Sope Dirisu) has a list of the qualities he requires in a future wife. When jilted Julia (Zawe Ashton) discovers she doesn’t fit the person specification she is determined to… [continues]

Eclectic Cinema

By David SaitchSeptember 9, 2022 Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Eclectic Cinema is back at Cheltenham Playhouse, after its summer break, with a varied programme of six films between now and Christmas. The first is Promising Young Woman (15), starring Carey Mulligan, on Monday 12 September. The show kicks off at 19:30 and tickets can be bought online, or on the door, for £7.50 each. This… [continues]

Cheltenham Film Society

By David SaitchSeptember 9, 2022 Uncategorized Leave a comment

Cheltenham Film Society’s new season launches on Tuesday 13 September, opening with the rambunctious comedy, Our Ladies. “Our story is older than the glens and hills,” teenage girl Orla (Tallulah Greive) recites in the opening moments of Our Ladies. She’s dressed in fair-maiden white, her bare feet delicately balanced across the pebbles of a Highland loch… [continues]

Crossing the Streams

By David SaitchSeptember 8, 2022September 9, 2022 Crossing the Streams, Uncategorized Leave a comment

BFI Player BFI Player is the British Film Institute’s video on-demand streaming service, showing critically acclaimed classic, cult and archive films. BFIPlayer has 2 sections, a subscription service, where you pay a monthly fee of £4.99 or an annual fee of £49, which obviously works out marginally cheaper, and a rental service, where you pay… [continues]

Crossing the Streams

By David SaitchSeptember 2, 2022September 5, 2022 Crossing the Streams, Uncategorized Leave a comment

MUBI Mubi started off as The Auteurs back in 2007, but changed their name in 2010 as they were looking to expand globally and wanted a simple to say, simple to spell name that would work in any language. Initially they were a small scale streaming service showing a curated range of quality films, but… [continues]