Wagner Hall Brighton

White Wall Cinema Presents: A Night at Roxbury and Zoolander
2023-04-09 19:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London)
DOUBLE BILL SPECIAL

A ridiculously good looking double bill, this Easter Sunday starts with ‘A Night At The Roxbury’ the story of two brothers who dream of opening their own nightclub or at the very least, being allowed into the coolest nightclub in town, The Roxbury. Filled with SNL regulars headed by Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan it’s not only the greatest use of Haddaway’s ‘What is Love?’ in cinema history, but also a hilarious cult classic with a warmth that belies its characters shallow ideals.

​The second film in this epic double is the original Zoolander movie with male supermodel extraordinaire Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) and his sidekick Hansel (Owen Wilson) who must thwart the plans of the world’s most evil fashion designer Jacobim Mugatu (Will Ferrel) mostly by being really, really… really ridiculously good looking. Delightfully idiosyncratic, stuffed with great cameos, and brilliantly silly humour, Zoolander has etched itself indelibly into the popular culture landscape.

DOORS: 6.30pm*

START TIME: 7.00pm*

RUN TIME: 172 mins

CERT: 15

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White Wall Cinema Presents: LA STRADA
2023-04-12 19:20 - 22:20
Perhaps the first outright masterpiece by Italian great Federico Fellini who would later create such legendary cinematic experiences as La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Satyricon, Roma, and Amarcord, this 1954 screen classic stars the director’s wife and collaborator Giulietta Masina as Gelsomina, as a young care-free girl who is sold by her impoverished mother to a travelling showman. A poetic vision of life as a bittersweet carnival, it sees her forced out into a life of roadside shows and village square festivals across the Italian countryside, where she discovers the simple beauty of performance and endures the cruelty of her travelling companion, the brutish strongman Zampano. The first ever foreign language film Oscar winner it remains one of cinema’s most exquisitely moving visions of humanity struggling to survive in the face of life’s cruelties.

DOORS: 7.20pm*

START TIME: 7.50pm*

RUN TIME: 108 mins

CERT: PG (Under 15s must be accompanied by an adult)

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Fringe 2023: THE CINE-TRIO | 100% Ennio Morricone
2023-05-25 20:00 - 22:00
MUSIQUE ET TOILE

Doors: 8.00pm

Performance: 8.30pm

Duration: 90 mins

Price: From £10

Sergio Leone’s composer was a film music monument!. (Re) discover some of his most emblematic compositions for the cinema. With excerpts from: Once Upon a Time in the West | Once Upon a Time in America | The Good, The Bad and The Ugly….amongst many more classics.

The CINÉ-TRIO is the fruit of a friendship between three musicians who graduated the same year from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris: Philippe Barbey-Lallia (piano), Cyril Baleton (violin) and Timothée Oudinot (oboe).Their common passion for film music inspired them to create the trio when they were still students. Since then, the CINÉ-TRIO has nearly 500 unique arrangements of themes among the most famous compositions for cinema, from the 30s until today.

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Fringe 2023: THE CINE-TRIO | 100% John Williams
2023-05-26 20:00 - 22:00
MUSIQUE ET TOILE

Doors: 8.00pm

Performance: 8.30pm

Duration: 90mins

Prices from: £10

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’ award-winning composer John Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in Hollywood history over the past 60 years! With excerpts from: E.T. | Star Wars | Schindler’s List | Indiana Jones | Harry Potter….and many more classics.

The CINÉ-TRIO is the fruit of a friendship between three musicians who graduated the same year from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris: Philippe Barbey-Lallia (piano), Cyril Baleton (violin) and Timothée Oudinot (oboe).Their common passion for film music inspired them to create the trio when they were still students. Since then, the CINÉ-TRIO has nearly 500 unique arrangements of themes among the most famous compositions for cinema, from the 30s until today.

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Fringe 2023: THE CINE-TRIO | Made In France
2023-05-27 20:00 - 22:00
MUSIQUE ET TOILE

Doors: 8.00pm

Performance: 8.30pm

Duration: 90 mins

Prices From: £10

French composers for the silver screen (as well as television) are very talented. This concert will present a wide musical palette, taking you to very different but always emotional universes. With excerpts from: The Super Aces | A Man and a Woman | Jean de Florette | The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain….and many other classics.

The CINÉ-TRIO is the fruit of a friendship between three musicians who graduated the same year from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris: Philippe Barbey-Lallia (piano), Cyril Baleton (violin) and Timothée Oudinot (oboe).Their common passion for film music inspired them to create the trio when they were still students. Since then, the CINÉ-TRIO has nearly 500 unique arrangements of themes among the most famous compositions for cinema, from the 30s until today.

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Fringe 2023: THE CINE-TRIO | Made In Asia
2023-05-28 15:00 - 17:00
MUSIQUE ET TOILE

Doors: 3.00pm

Performance: 3.30pm

Duration: 90 mins

Prices From: £10

From Japan to India, not to forget China, Vietnam and Hong Kong, the Cine-Trio suggests a complet musical change of scenery on the Asian continent! With excerpts from: Parasite | Indochine | In the Mood for Love | The Last Emperor | The Lover | Seven Years in Tibet….and many more classics.

The CINÉ-TRIO is the fruit of a friendship between three musicians who graduated the same year from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris: Philippe Barbey-Lallia (piano), Cyril Baleton (violin) and Timothée Oudinot (oboe).Their common passion for film music inspired them to create the trio when they were still students. Since then, the CINÉ-TRIO has nearly 500 unique arrangements of themes among the most famous compositions for cinema, from the 30s until today.

Doors: 3.00pm

Duration: 90 mins

Price: From £10

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White Wall Cinema Presents: MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON
2023-05-31 19:10 - 22:00
A completely unique and organic take on the animation / mockumentary genres, director Dean Fleischer Camp and Jenny Slate have upscaled their small series of You Tube shorts into a feature film about the inimitable Marcel the Shell.

The story begins when documentary filmmaker Dean (Dean Fleischer Camp) moves into an Airbnb following the end of his marriage. There he discovers he has unwittingly taken up residence alongside Marcel (a brilliant Jenny Slate), Nana Connie (the always brilliant Isabella Rossellini) and their pet ball of lint, Alan. When Dean decides to document Marcel’s rather tiny life online, it opens up a world of not only internet fame but also sparks the possibility that Marcel could once again be re-united with his wider family who, whilst hidden in the sock drawer were inadvertently taken away by a previous resident.

Funny, touching, and quite obviously adorable, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is a real gem of beautifully simple inspiration from Camp and Slate, and manages to encompass a true range of human emotion all packed neatly into one small shell. Plus, stay on after the film for a short look behind the scenes of how this miniature marvel was brought to the big screen.

DOORS: 7.10pm*

START TIME: 8.10pm*

RUN TIME: 90 mins

CERT: PG Under 15s must be accompanied by a adult.

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White Wall Cinema Presents: NEW JACK CITY
2023-06-08 19:00 - 22:00
Next up in our ‘Black Cinema Goes Boom’ programming strand (which focuses on the explosion of early ‘90s popular black cinema) it’s the bombastic New Jack City. This highly stylised neo-noir crime thriller classic is directed by Mario Van Peebles (son of pioneer director Melvin Van Peebles) and is an era-defining piece of black cinema. An on fire Wesley Snipes heads up an all star cast that including Ice-T, Chris Rock, Judd Nelson, and Bill Cobbs, who all do outstanding work bringing to life a cast of characters being chewed up and spit out by the Harlem crack epidemic. Oozing early 90’s street culture, this story about two police officers (T & Nelson) who decide to pursue the notorious megalomaniac drug baron and leader of the Cash Money Brothers gang, Nino Brown (Snipes) has left an indelible mark on popular culture (particularly the world of Hip Hop) and this rare big screen outing is a can’t miss event.

DOORS: 7pm*

START TIME: 8pm*

RUN TIME: 100 mins

CERT: 18

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White Wall Cinema presents: "YOU CAN'T GET THE STAFF THESE DAYS"
2023-06-12 19:00 - 22:30 | Wagner Hall
SECRET MOVIE CLUB

DOORS: 7pm*

START TIME: 8pm*

RUN TIME: 95 mins approx

CERT: PG (Under 15s Must Be Accompanied by an Adult)

|| You Can’t Get The Staff These Days ||

This time we bring you a forgotten gem that arguably kicked off an entire genre. A comedy about the pitfalls of being mega rich (you can’t get the staff these days!), an insightful look at the class divide, it’s a bona-fide classic that piles on the acerbic wit lampooning the pampered, whilst offering sly social commentary. As ever, you won’t know the title of the movie until the opening credits roll, but once again we will present you with an under-appreciated gem that will enrich your understanding of the world of cinema and offer some unexpected delights.

|| What is secret movie club? ||

Our “Secret Movie Club” project takes a movie you most likely haven’t seen before (but will instantly love) and keeps the identity of the movie a secret, only revealing which film you are watching when the opening credits roll. The aim is to provide you with a brilliant forgotten or overlooked gem from cinema’s past or present (or at least a major lesser screened cult classic). Every time we do these events we get such phenomenal feedback from you guys. It’s incredibly rewarding to have people say to us they had never even heard of the movie we screened for them, but that it is now instantly among their favourites!

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White Wall Cinema presents: PURPLE RAIN
2023-06-23 19:00 - 22:30 | Wagner Hall
+ PRINCE ‘DEEP CUTS’ DJ SET

DOORS & DJ SET: 7pm*

FILM START TIME: 8.20pm*

RUN TIME: 111 mins

CERT: 15

His royal purpleness takes to the screen in his legendary 1984 motion picture that offers a fictionalised story of his rise to fame. Starring as ‘The Kid’, this fictional Prince origin story nonetheless features his real life backing band The Revolution, protégés Morris Day and The Time as well as the real site of his early days as a budding performer in Minneapolis. Part dark tale of a struggling young musician and part full blown glittering ‘80s style document, it’s powered by a series of blistering live music performances by one of the greatest pop stars the world has ever known on the brink of absolute megastardom.

The film will be preceded by the opening of our summer garden, and a DJ set of lesser known Prince classics.

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FINITE : The Climate of Change
2023-06-28 18:30 - 22:00 | Wagner Hall
DOORS: 6.30pm

START TIME: 7.00pm

RUN TIME: 110 mins

CERT: 12A ((Under 15s Must Be Accompanied by an Adult)

Transform Brighton and Hove brings together the local community and groups working for social change.

In Germany, concerned citizens step forward to save an ancient forest from one of Europe’s biggest coal mines. They form an unlikely alliance with a frustrated community in rural England who are forced into action to protect their homes from a new opencast coal mine. FINITE: The Climate of Change is an insider’s view of the world of direct action; a raw, authentic and emotional insight into the David and Goliath battle between front line communities, activists and fossil fuel corporations.

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White Wall Cinema presents: Sofia Coppola's SOMEWHERE
2023-06-30 18:30 - 22:30 | Wagner Hall
+PRE FILM INTERVIEW WITH SPECIAL GUEST – AUTHOR HANNAH STRONG

DOORS: 6.30pm*

START TIME: 7.20pm*

RUN TIME: 98 mins + 40 mins discussion

CERT: 15

Join us for a special screening of Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere, plus a pre-film discussion with Little White Lies Associate Editor and author of ‘Sofia Coppola Forever Young’, Hannah Strong.

​Hannah’s book explores the ‘tonally diverse, meticulously crafted, and unapologetically hyperfeminine aesthetic’ of the great Sofia Coppola, director of several modern classics including The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette, The Beguiled and more. Something of a companion piece to Coppola’s outstanding Academy Award winning film Lost In Translation, Somewhere (itself the winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival) once again explores the ennui of a famous temporary hotel resident detached from everyday life and family.

Stephen Dorff puts in a career best performance in this remarkably touching and intimate story of a jaded Hollywood actor who, whilst spending time recuperating and giving in to the various vices afforded a star at Beverly Hills famed Chateau Marmont hotel, is suddenly confronted by a visit from his 11 year old daughter (Elle Fanning). As the pair navigate their somewhat uncertain father daughter relationship, a story of true tenderness emerges as the listless and disinterested movie star reassess his life outlook.

Undoubtedly semi-autobiographical, Somewhere is a hypnotic, funny, tender, understated and meditative piece of cinema that taps into a deep well of personal emotion for the director all powered by Coppola’s trademark beautiful cinematography and glistening pop culture soundtrack.

​As well as the on-stage discussion and film screening, there will be a chance to purchase (and have signed) one of Hannah’s beautiful and fascinating books.

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White Wall Cinema presents: DAYS OF HEAVEN
2023-07-12 19:30 - 22:30 | Wagner Hall
DOORS: 7.30pm*

START TIME: 8.30pm*

RUN TIME: 94 mins

CERT: PG (Under 15s Must Be Accompanied by an Adult)

One of the most aesthetically attuned directors of all time, Terrence Malick’s ability to conjure up breath taking images on screen is virtually unparalleled. Days of Heaven is one of only two movies Malick made in the ‘70s (prior to a near 20 year absence as a director) and is an undoubted masterpiece of ethereal atmospherics.

This tale of a young couple who pretend to be siblings in order to secure work and fortune at the home of a rich landowner in the Texas Panhandle of 1916, produces both achingly poetic images, as well as a beautifully simple but philosophically rich story.

​One of the most critically acclaimed films of all time, Days of Heaven is widely recognised as the absolute pinnacle of 70s American cinema.

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White Wall Cinema presents: THE DRIVER
2023-07-27 19:30 - 22:30 | Wagner Hall
(4K RESTORATION)

DOORS: 7.30pm*

START TIME: 8.30pm*

RUN TIME: 91 mins

CERT: 15

Quite clearly the biggest single inspiration for the Nicolas Winding Refn/Ryan Gosling film ‘Drive’, The Driver is the product of cult film director Walter Hill (also responsible for The Warriors, 48hrs and more) who crafts a taught pulp noir thriller about a getaway driver (Ryan O’Neal), his crooked cop nemesis (Bruce Dern) and the gambler who chooses to protect him (Isabelle Adjani). Cool as ice, filled with red hot stunt driving, with style to burn, Shaun of The Dead/Last Night In Soho director Edgar Wright (whose own Baby Driver film was also influenced by this cult classic) called The Driver ‘A diamond-tight minimalist masterclass’.

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White Wall Cinema presents: PROXIMA
2023-08-01 18:55 - 22:00 | Wagner Hall
+ OPTIONAL POST FILM DISCUSSION GROUP

DOORS: 6.55pm*

START TIME: 7.55pm*

RUN TIME: 107 mins

CERT: 12 (Under 15s Must Be Accompanied by an Adult)

LANGUAGE: French, English, Russian, German w/ English Subtitles

White Wall Cinema’s discussion group returns! Join us for a screening of this brilliant new film with an optional chance to stay on and discuss the film in a relaxed informal post film group chat. Contribute or just listen in, it’s a fun and interesting way to better understand the nuance of a great piece of cinema.

​French director Alice Wincour crafts a stunningly intimate and mature tale about one woman’s commitment to her dual role as mother and astronaut. Chosen to be part of a year-long mission to the international space station, Sarah (Eva Green) must tackle the challenges of both mission prep and the strain of leaving behind her eight-year-old daughter Stella.

A completely unique take on the Sci-Fi genre, Proxima is a deeply personal drama that cuts to the heart of the dilemma of family life for women who pursue elite occupations. A genuinely outstanding Eva Green puts in a career-best performance in this timely, inspirational, intelligent, and powerful drama.

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White Wall Cinema presents: RIFIFI
2023-08-07 18:45 - 22:00 | Wagner Hall
DOORS: 6.45pm*

START TIME: 7.45pm*

RUN TIME: 115 mins

CERT: 12 (Under 15s must be accompanied by an adult)

Legendary French film director Francois Truffaut called it ‘the best Film Noir I have ever seen’. Jules Dassin’s Rififi is a twisting tale of four robbers who plan one last jewellry heist in 1950’s Paris.

Getting out of prison after a five year stretch, exhausted master thief Tony le Stéphanois initially turns down a heist job offered by friends. However, once he discovers his girlfriend is now dating a rival gangster, Tony sets about planning his next job. Meticulously considering every detail, he fails to account for one thing, human weakness.

Influencing everything from Reservoir Dogs to Oceans Eleven, not only did Rififi invent the modern heist movie, it still stands as perhaps the greatest example of the genre ever constructed. As well as its dazzlingly breathless heist sequence, Dassin’s film is notable for its humanist qualities that extend well beyond the action, as the film commits to fully realising the fate of its characters and the wages of sin.

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White Wall Cinema presents: TREMORS
2023-08-11 19:30 - 22:00 | Wagner Hall
DOORS: 7.30pm*

START TIME: 8.30pm*

RUN TIME: 96 mins

CERT: 15

One of the most surprisingly entertaining films ever made, Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward star as a pair of handymen who are fed up with their dull lives in the tiny isolated desert community of Perfection, Nevada.

On the very day they decide to leave town a mysterious set of deaths begin to occur, not only halting the pair’s progress but sending the small town into a frenzy.

A brilliantly fun, tongue in cheek comedy horror that takes its inspiration from 1950s creature features, this little corker of a movie from City Slickers director Ron Underwood is the perfect Friday night treat and a true cult classic

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'HAWKS - ANTI-IDIOTS'
2023-09-16 18:30 - 22:00 | Wagner Hall
Brighton Rocks International Film Festival | Whitehawk FC

DOORS: 6.30pm

START TIME: 8.00pm

DIRECTORS Q&A: 9.30pm

RUN TIME: 50 mins

Brighton Rocks International Film Festival, in collaboration with Whitehawk FC, is proud to be hosting an exclusive screening of ‘Hawks – Anti-Idiots’, a joyous documentary about the football club directed by Hossam Sarhan.The event will take place on Saturday 16th of September. Doors open at 6:30pm for guests to enjoy a drink in the venue’s secluded city centre garden oasis before the screening, which will be followed by a Q&A and finishing at 9:30pm.

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White Wall Cinema: JUNGLE FEVER
2023-10-24 19:00 - 22:00 | Wagner Hall
DOORS: 7pm*

START TIME: 7.30pm*

RUN TIME: 132 mins

CERT: 18

The final entry in our year long exploration of early ‘90s black cinema sees Spike Lee tackling societal attitudes when Black architect ‘Flipper’ (Wesley Snipes at the peak of his powers) begins dating Italian-American secretary Angie (an excellent Annabella Sciorra). Surrounded by an outstanding supporting cast including Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Samuel L. Jackson, John Turturro, Frank Vincent, Halle Berry (in her film debut), Tim Robbins, Brad Dourif, Queen Latifah, Michael Imperioli, and Anthony Quinn. Funny, troubling, romantic and unflinching in equal measure, it all adds up to another searing piece of cultural conversation alongside Lee’s other works like Do The Right Thing and BlacKkKlansman.

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White Wall Cinema: BODIES BODIES BODIES
2023-10-30 19:30 - 22:00 | Wagner Hall
DOORS: 7.30pm*

START TIME: 8pm*

RUN TIME: 94 mins

CERT: 15

A brilliant ensemble cast including Rachel Sennott (Shiva Baby, Bottoms), Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Lee Pace, and Pete Davidson star in this modern slasher comedy about a group of upper middle class twenty-somethings who plan to party through a hurricane at a rich friend’s remote mansion. When the gang decides to play a spooky game of ‘Bodies, Bodies, Bodies’ all hell breaks loose in this deeply satirical horror-comedy about what happens to Gen Z rich kids when their smartphones fail them.

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White Wall Cinema: POLTERGEIST
2023-10-31 19:10 - 22:00 | Wagner Hall
DOORS: 7.10pm*

START TIME: 7.40pm*

RUN TIME: 114 mins

CERT: 15

This horror classic is what you get when you combine the twin talents of Producer Steven Spielberg (Jaws, E.T., Jurassic Park) with Director Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre). Hooper invades the classic Spielbergian suburban family home with a supernatural presence that first arrives (in iconic fashion) via the TV set, only for things to dramatically escalate as the house turns on its inhabitants in spectacular fashion, forcing the family to call in a team of parapsychologists. One of the key pop culture movies of the ‘80s, Poltergeist is a brilliant roller coaster ride of of eye catching special effects and creepy goings on.

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White Wall Cinema: PEEPING TOM
2023-11-01 19:00 - 22:00 | Wagner Hall
DOORS: 7.00pm*

START TIME: 7.30pm*

RUN TIME: 101 mins

CERT: 15

As part of a major BFI nationwide celebration, ‘Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger,’ we are excited to present this special screening of the infamous 1960 classic psychological horror ‘Peeping Tom’.

The film’s director, Michael Powell, best known for his collaborations with directing partner Emeric Pressburger (the duo creating legendary works such as The Red Shoes, A Matter Of Life & Death, Black Narcissus, The Tales of Hoffman and more), seemingly ended his own career when he struck out on his own to create this controversial classic.

​Released the same year as Hitchcock’s Psycho, Peeping Tom is an equally brilliant piece of filmmaking that failed at the box office due to revulsion of a shocked British establishment press. This twisted tale of a psychopathic serial killer cameraman who films his victims as he murders them is now widely considered to be a highly influential masterpiece that has subsequently been championed by the likes of master director Martin Scorsese and feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey.

​Not only a pre-cursor to the modern slasher movie, Peeping Tom is also a psychologically sharp thriller that asks difficult and fascinating questions about cinema as a form of voyeurism. Undoubtedly one of the best British movies ever made it is a must see big screen experience when coupled with our special visual mix-tape introduction (and our companion piece film on Nov. 29th).

​Programmed as part of Brighton’s Powell and Pressburger: Dual Delights Season, we have matched it with very a special companion piece in Brian DePalma’s ‘Blow Out’, screening Weds. Nov. 29th. Details HERE.

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White Wall Cinema: THE BIG LEBOWSKI
2023-11-11 17:30 - 23:00 | Wagner Hall
+ PARTY

White Wall Cinema once again teams with The Brighton Film Party Society to invite you into the world of the dude for the 25th anniversary of The Big Lebowski.

Alongside a screening of the Coen Brothers classic, our venue will be set dressed with Lebowski paraphernalia with a rug that really ties the room together, including a special set for photo ops. Not only that, but there will be a DJ set of tunes stolen straight from the Dude’s 8-Track player in his 1973 Ford Gran Torino (lots of Creedence but strictly no Eagles). Lebowski style fancy dress is highly encouraged as there will be a prize for the best costume, aside from Dudes in dressing gowns, Walters, Jesus’s, Maudes and more are welcomed, as well as obscure outfits, or even dressing as inanimate objects (severed toe anyone?). But rest assured, your normal clothes are welcome too. All this will be powered by a bar serving White Russians with an opportunity for a bit of ‘bowling’ on the side.

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DOORS: 5.30pm

SCREENING TIME & LAST ADMISSION: 7.40pm

AGE: This event is strictly 18+

White Wall Cinema: ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME MARGARET
2023-11-15 19:00 - 22:00 | Wagner Hall
Edge of Seventeen director Kelly Fremon Craig returns to coming-of-age dramedy with this adaptation of the 1970s Judy Blume novel.

Beloved for generations by women and girls for its refreshing frankness about early-adolescent anxieties, and its bewildering whirlwind of menstruation, brassieres and boys.

This wonderfully light yet moving story of growing pains and family complexities is deftly and humorously executed by a great cast including Rachel McAdams, Benny Safdie, and Kathy Bates, fronted by the brilliantly talented Abby Ryder Fortson as Margaret.

DOORS: 7pm*

START TIME: 7.30pm*

RUN TIME: 106 mins

CERT: PG

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White Wall Cinema: BROKER
2023-11-20 19:00 - 22:00 | Wagner Hall
This poignant, South Korean drama from Palme d’Or winning Shoplifters director Hirokazu Kore-eda brings joy to the potentially dark subject of ‘baby boxes’, a place where unwanted babies can be anonymously abandoned safely.

Parasite star Song Kang-ho teams with Gang Dong-won as a pair of ‘brokers’ who illegally attempt to sell these abandoned babies on the adoption black market. When young Mother Moon So-young (Lee Ji-eun) reconsiders her decision, the trio set out on a road trip to look for new adoptive parents for her child, whilst slowly becoming an unconventional misfit family in their own right, all the while being trailed by police detective Soo-jin (Bae Doona – The Host). Warm and uplifting but never sentimental thanks to Kore-eda’s precise, naturalistic, tenderly melancholic storytelling style.

DOORS: 7pm*

START TIME: 7.30pm*

RUN TIME: 129 mins

CERT: PG

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White Wall Cinema: MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
2023-11-24 19:30 - 22:00 | Wagner Hall
With Barbie having earned more than a billion dollars at the global box office becoming the 12th highest earning film of all time (topping even Marvel’s The Avengers) prepare yourself for the oncoming endless onslaught of Mattel movies with this warning from history.

Witness a fabulously wooden but ripplingly muscled Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV) don his small underpants and wield an oversized sword as galactic savior He-Man, battling The evil Skeletor (an outrageously tongue-in-cheek Frank Langella). He-Man must (like Barbie) travel to the real world of earth to right imbalances of the universe with pals ‘Man-At-Arms’, Teela and Gwildor, inventor of the all important Cosmic Key (obviously), to team up with 1980s teenagers Kevin and Julie (a young Courteney Cox). This shameless Star Wars rip-off is both an outrageously terrible film and a ton of hilarious Friday night fun.

DOORS: 7.30pm*

START TIME: 8pm*

RUN TIME: 106 mins

CERT: PG (Under 15s must be accompanied by an adult)

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White Wall Cinema: BLOW OUT
2023-11-29 19:00 - 22:00 | Wagner Hall
DOORS: 7.00pm*

START TIME: 7.30pm*

RUN TIME: 108 mins

CERT: 18

As part of a major BFI nationwide celebration, ‘Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger,’ we are excited to present this special screening of Brian DePalma’s 1981 classic ‘Blow Out’ programmed in response to Powell’s Peeping Tom.

Even in a career that encompasses such classics as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables, Carlito’s Way and many more, Blow Out is a stand out piece of DePalma brilliance as well as the best film of John Travolta’s career.

​Centred on movie sound-effects man Jack (Travolta) who inadvertently captures the sound of a murder, we (and Jack) are then drawn into one of the most easily watchable but intricately plotted thrillers of all time as he attempts to piece together what happened against a backdrop of personal paranoia, political intrigue alongside possible eyewitness Sally (Nancy Allen).

​Brimming with multi-layered references to cinema’s past, as well as being stacked with DePalma’s own endlessly inventive cinematic style, Blow Out is perhaps the finest example of murder seen through the prism of filmmaking, as well as just being one of the most raucously satisfying thrillers ever made. A brilliantly shot big screen experience that breaks the very idea of cinema down into it’s constituent parts only to piece it back together again to create of the most entertaining and witty movies of it’s type from any era. When coupled with our special visual mix-tape introduction (and companion piece film on Nov. 1st), it’s a can’t miss event.

​Programmed as part of Brighton’s Powell and Pressburger: Dual Delights Season, we have matched it with a very special companion piece in Michael Powell’s ‘Peeping Tom’ ‘screening Weds. Nov. 1th. Details HERE.

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White Wall Cinema: TOKYO GODFATHERS
2023-12-14 19:30 - 22:00 | Wagner Hall
Our Christmas special is this wonderful tragicomedy about the homeless trio of an unruly middle aged alcoholic named ‘Gin’, a lonely but stoic trans woman Hana and rebellious runaway teenage girl Miyuki.

When they find an abandoned baby one Christmas Eve, the ragtag bunch embark on a madcap adventure to find the baby’s parents. A soulful and decidedly grown up, yet accessible anime from the director of classics like Perfect Blue and Paprika, that perfectly embodies the Christmas spirit. Presented here in the wonderful new critically acclaimed translation / dub that has garnered plaudits from Anime fans worldwide and is being held up as a model of just how far Animation dubs have progressed.

DOORS: 7.30pm*

START TIME: 8pm*

RUN TIME: 92 mins

CERT: 12 (Under 15s must be accompanied by an adult)

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White Wall Cinema: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
2024-02-14 19:10 - 22:00 | Wagner Hall
Taking centre stage for our 2024 alternative Valentine’s special is the deliciously dark comedy cult classic about a romance between two simple flower shop assistants, Seymour Krelborn (Rick Moranis), and Audrey (Ellen Greene), who are both helped and hindered by Seymour’s accidental discovery of a sentient alien plant that feeds on human blood (of course). What at first promises to be the saviour of their run down Skid Row, N.Y. flower shop, eventually threatens to not only de-rail the couple’s budding romance but become an unstoppable malevolent force.

​From the legendary Frank Oz, Little Shop of Horrors fizzes with life and oozes class, comedy and menace. With a cast of top flight talent, it is undoubtedly one of the funniest, sharpest, most outrageously brilliant films of the 80s, and the musical for people who don’t like musicals. Join us for this special screening of the film’s decidedly more ‘romantic’ theatrical cut for maximum Valentine’s day enjoyment.

DOORS: 7.10pm*

START TIME: 7.40pm*

RUN TIME: 94 mins

CERT: 12 (Under 15s must be accompanied by an adult)

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THE CELLULOID CLOSET
2024-02-22 19:10 - 22:00 | Wagner Hall
White Wall Cinema in association with The University of Brighton for LGBTQ+ History Month

Celebrating LGBTQ+ History month we are excited to bring you this special screening of this highly acclaimed documentary film (currently 97% on Rotten Tomatoes) from two time Oscar winners Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein (for The Times of Harvey Milk, & Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt) based on the landmark Vito Russo book. The Celluloid Closet is a fun, fascinating and sometimes troubling journey through Hollywood’s chequered on-screen history of LGBTQ+ representation and a powerful piece of cinematic history on its own terms and a must see for any film lover.

DOORS: 7.10pm*

START TIME: 7.40pm*

RUN TIME: 107 mins

CERT: 15

​This event is held in association with The University of Brighton, as such students and staff members can get hold of FREE tickets by following the special link.

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