{"id":8335,"date":"2022-03-31T16:10:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T15:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmcheltenham.online\/?p=8335"},"modified":"2022-03-31T16:10:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T15:10:28","slug":"films-around-cheltenham-from-2-april-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmcheltenham.online\/index.php\/2022\/03\/31\/films-around-cheltenham-from-2-april-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Films around Cheltenham from 2 April 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Eclectic Cinema<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em> Cinema, by the way, something founder Andrew Holt had to explain to me.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week’s theme is Weird Films. On Monday, 4 April, Andrew is putting on The Love Witch<\/em><\/a>, a very entertaining parody of the horror\/sexploitation films of the 1970s, made almost as a one-woman project by Anne Biller. A young witch comes to a Californian town and ensnares various young men, and not to their advantage. Recommended. There’s a very interesting interview with the director on the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday, 6 April, he follows that up with Berberian Sound Studio<\/a> by Peter Strickland. This one features Toby Jones as a sound-effects recordist working in a film studio in Italy, making some sort of giallo<\/em> film called The Equestrian Vortex. It’s strange, creepy and sometimes baffling, in Strickland’s manner. I did wonder when I saw the film whether its title refers to the New York avant-gardiste Cathy Berberian<\/a>. If so, it’s another posthumous nod from popular culture, after her appearance in Steely Dan’s ‘Your Gold Teeth’: ‘Even Cathy Berberian knows \/ There’s one roulade she can’t sing’. Followed by a plink. Note to rock fans: the film features smashing pumpkins. And melons. And much more violence against soft fruit. (JM)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Roses<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately for Patrick Bliss, who runs The Roses’s film programme, the Oscar for Best Film went to CODA<\/em>, only available on Apple TV+, so he had to show Power of the Dog<\/em>, for which Jane Campion won the Oscar for Best Director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next week Belfast<\/em> returns for a few more screenings but there are some new films. First, there is Marry Me<\/em>,<\/a> a rom-com starring Jennifer Lopez as one half of a celebrity power couple who are about to get married in front an audience of fans. At the last minute the bride discovers the groom has been unfaithful, so on a whim she picks out a member of the audience, played by Owen Wilson, and marries him instead. Will there be a happy ending? Probably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is also Dog,<\/a><\/em> a road movie\/ buddy comedy directed by Reid Carolin and Channing Tatum. It’s the story of two Army veterans: one is Channing Tatum and the other is a dog. Tatum’s character, Briggs, is required to escort the dog to the funeral of his (the dog’s) former handler, somewhere along the Pacific coast. After encountering a number of tricky situations the couple form a strong bond. Well they would, wouldn’t they? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday 8th two more films open: The Bad Guys<\/em>, the animated film about animal criminals, which is already showing at Cineworld, and Phantom of the Open<\/em>,<\/a> (also at Cineworld) a comedy loosely based on the real life character who managed to play in the 1976 British Open Golf Championship despite never having played golf before. I cringed at the trailer and couldn’t help wondering if Mark Rylance was short of money, but I am assured by someone whose judgment I usually respect that it is actually very funny and a classic plucky British underdog type of film. (PW)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guildhall<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

l feel I am in a fairground hall of mirrors – wherever I look I see the same films on screen. The Duke<\/em> and Death on the Nile<\/em> are back again and The Phantom of the Open<\/em> starts a three week run. The Bad Guys<\/em> and The Batman <\/em>start on Friday 8 April. (PW)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cineworlds<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lots of kids’ films, for the Easter holidays, but the only new film seems to be Morbius<\/em><\/a>. It’s a comic-book film, so you know what you’re getting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘One of Marvel\u2019s most compelling and conflicted characters comes to the big screen as Oscar\u00ae winner Jared Leto transforms into the enigmatic antihero, Michael Morbius. Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success, a darkness inside him is unleashed and transforms this healer into a hunter.’ <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Really? Sorry Hollywood, the game’s pretty much up, isn’t it? Stick to organising prize- fights at awards ceremonies. (JM)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tivoli<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Tivoli has Morpheus<\/em>, The Phantom of the Open<\/em>, Batman<\/em> and Death on the Nile<\/em>. It has also, inexplicably, brought back Steven Spielberg’s superfluous and bland West Side Story<\/em>. Skip it and watch the Stephen Sondheim documentary on Sky Arts instead. It’s on Wednesday at 21:00. (JM)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sherborne<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Sherborne has Bad Guys<\/em> and Cyrano<\/em>, with Phantom of the Open<\/em> starting on Friday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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