White Wall Cinema: RIDDLE OF FIRE
2024-10-02 19:00 - 22:30 (Europe/London) | Wagner Hall
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Dubbed ‘The coolest debut from Cannes’ by AnoOther Magazine, Riddle of Fire is a totally unique cinematic experience that follows three renegade kids who tear across the rolling hills of Wyoming in a mythical quest for Blueberry Pie in order that they might be allowed to play a stolen video game.

Delightfully odd and very cool, Riddle of Fire is Hayao Miyazaki, Twin Peaks, Zelda, Home Alone, Dungeons & Dragons, Robin Hood, The Brothers Grimm and more, all rolled into one tale of dirt bike riding paintball gun toting outlaws with a heavy dose of folklore with witches in the woods and fairies in the trees, all set in the American mid-west.

As Variety Magazine wrote: ‘Its deadpan comedy and surreal feel — somewhere between “Escape to Witch Mountain,” “Scooby-Doo” and “Napoleon Dynamite” — make it equally appealing to kids, Gen Xers, stoners, Adult Swim watchers and fans of cult indie cinema’.

​Appealingly all shot on 16mm to create a ‘dark 70s kids Disney Sci-Fi vibe’, and layered with one of the coolest soundtracks in recent memory by some of the best ‘dungeon synth’ artists (yes, apparently that’s a thing), it’s an achingly cool, but entirely heartfelt ode to long summers of childhood mischief, as well as lo-fi fantasy ‘dust’ epics of the 70s and 80s.

DOORS: 7.00pm

START TIME: 7.40pm

RUN TIME: 113 mins

CERT: 12 (Under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult)

White Wall Cinema: WATERWORLD
2024-10-11 18:50 - 22:30
‘THE ULYSSES CUT’

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WWC is proud to present a very special screening of the fabled ‘Ulysses Cut’ of the much maligned 90s Kevin Costner ‘Mad Max, but on water’ blockbuster Waterworld. Attacked viciously in the press even BEFORE it’s release due to reported production problems and a ballooning budget of what, at the time, became the most expensive movie ever made, the film has (rather incorrectly) become synonymous with monstrous financial disaster.

Cut to ribbons by the studio in a panic to try to salvage something from the reputation the press had given it before even seeing it, huge chunks of character development, some of the film’s best sequences and the films pacing were lost, giving way to a confusing choppy theatrical cut. Eventually in the years that followed more expansive (but censored for TV) versions surfaced on American TV, and over the intervening decades footage was cribbed from these by fans, and cobbled together into an infamous ‘Ulysses Cut’ that spread around film fans online. Finally now restored in it’s full uncensored, original length glory (restoring some lost 40 minutes of scenes) the official ‘Ulysses Cut’ represents the definitive version of this lost epic blockbuster that now comes across as Mad Max directed by Terry Gilliam.

DOORS: 6.50pm*

START TIME: 7.20pm*

RUN TIME: 178 mins

CERT: 12 (Under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult)

White Wall Cinema: GLORIA (1980)
2024-10-17 19:10 - 22:30
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Originally announced by us back in May, this screening now becomes an unintended tribute to the great Gena Rowlands who sadly passed away on August 14th of this year. One of the great actresses of her, or indeed any other generation, starring in films such as Woody Allen’s Another Woman and Jim Jarmusch’s Night on Earth.

This gem of a movie is the product of Rowland’s husband and collaborator John Cassavetes. A renowned actor himself (Rosemary’s Baby, The Dirty Dozen), Cassavetes was also a revered writer / director and considered a true filmmaker’s filmmaker creating such uncompromising classics as Husbands and The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. But for both Rowlands and Cassavetes it was their husband & wife collaborations that would become their most successful ventures with dense but highly rewarding masterpieces like Opening Night and A Woman Under The Influence. This film was initially designed by Cassavetes’s as a commercial script to sell to a major studio for others to make, but when Rowlands was cast, Cassavetes’s could no longer resist taking on directorial duties.

DOORS: 7.10pm*

START TIME: 7.40pm*

RUN TIME: 122 mins

CERT: 15

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White Wall Cinema: US
2024-10-30 19:10 - 22:30
HALLOWEEN SPECIAL

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Celebrating the release of film director Jordan Peele’s Black horror anthology paperback ‘Out There Screaming’ we screen Peele’s underrated middle feature made between his breakout hit ‘Get Out’ and IMAX style blockbuster ‘Nope’. ‘Us’ is a fascinating secret code of a horror movie filled to the brim with hidden clues, messages and ideas. Lupita Nyong’o stars as Adelaide, who despite being troubled by a memory from her past returns to her childhood home with her husband and kids, only to face a horrifying home invasion from four red-jumpsuit wearing attackers who seem to be exact doppelgangers of her, her husband and children.

Celebrating the release of film director Jordan Peele’s Black horror anthology paperback ‘Out There Screaming’ we screen Peele’s underrated middle feature made between his breakout hit ‘Get Out’ and IMAX style blockbuster ‘Nope’. ‘Us’ is a fascinating secret code of a horror movie filled to the brim with hidden clues, messages and ideas. Lupita Nyong’o stars as Adelaide, who despite being troubled by a memory from her past returns to her childhood home with her husband and kids, only to face a horrifying home invasion from four red-jumpsuit wearing attackers who seem to be exact doppelgangers of her, her husband and children.

Screening in conjunction with Picador Books / Monkeypaw Productions celebrating the release of the new Jordan Peele curated black horror story anthology paperback ‘Out There Screaming’. Grab your copy on the night or get a special combo ticket for the event that includes entry and the book at a discounted price. Standard tickets also available.

DOORS: 7.10pm*

START TIME: 7.40pm*

RUN TIME: 116 mins

CERT: 15 (Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult)

White Wall Cinema: THE CROW
2024-10-31 19:30 - 22:30
HALLOWEEN SPECIAL

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Before Robert Pattinson’s take on ‘The Batman’ another winged avenger ruled the gothic grunge roost. Long held as a bona-fide cult classic, the 1994 version of The Crow has recently begun to be re-evaluated for just how much influence it has had on modern cinema (especially Pattinson’s Batman/HBO’s Penguin). Starring Brandon (son of Bruce) Lee in his final role (Lee was killed in a tragic accident on the set of the movie) alongside other cult movie actors Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters), David Patrick Kelly (Twin Peaks/The Warriors) and Tony Todd (Candyman), this dark pop culture masterpiece tells the tale of Eric Draven, an rock musician who is resurrected from the grave exactly one year after his death (the day before his wedding to his fiancé on Halloween) so he can seek retribution on those who have wronged him, which in this case just happens to lead to the city’s foremost crime syndicate.

The film is cleverly stylised and brilliantly shot by Dariusz Wolski, a music video director for the likes of David Bowie, Elton John, Eminem and Sting. Wolski later became the go to cinematographer for the likes of Ridley Scott, and Tim Burton, fitting given the clear influences of Scott’s Blade Runner and Burton’s 1989 Batman on show here. The film’s tragic story in-front of and behind the camera are the stuff of 90s goth legend, and the film has become a true pop culture landmark and a big influence on the future of popular cinema. Disastrously re-booted in 2024 with IT star Bill Skarsgård and FKA Twigs, this original 1994 film version is infinitely superior and still stands as one of the best dark comic book adaptations ever made. Join us for this very special Halloween night screening.

DOORS: 7.30pm*

START TIME: 8pm*

RUN TIME: 102 mins

CERT: 18

White Wall Cinema: ELECTION
2024-11-05 19:40 - 22:30
25 ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

On the day millions of Americans cast their votes at the ballot box we offer a little light relief with this special 25th anniversary screening of this savagely funny sophomore film from Alexander Payne, director of The Holdovers, Sideways, About Schmidt, The Descendants, Nebraska and more.

When high school teacher Jim McCallister (Matthew Broderick) is confronted by unbearably ambitious student Tracy Flick’s (Reese Witherspoon) unopposed campaign to become school president, he convinces the school’s most popular ‘jock’ Paul to run against her, unleashing unintended chaos into all their lives.

Barack Obama’s favourite ‘political’ movie it is a brilliant satire of U.S. politics as a whole, an exceptionally witty high school comedy that is Payne at his darkly humorous, gloriously bitter best.

DOORS: 7.10pm*

START TIME: 7.40pm*

RUN TIME: 103 mins

CERT: 15 (Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult)

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White Wall Cinema: ONE FINE DAY
2024-11-08 18:40 - 22:30
+ LIVE Q&A WITH CORRINA ANTROBUS AUTHOR OF ‘I LOVE ROMCOMS & I AM A FEMINIST’

Join us for an evening celebrating and reappraising one of cinema’s most beloved but misunderstood genres, the Romantic Comedy. On the night we’ll be hosting a special in person Q&A with author and film critic (Empire, BBC Radio, Huffington Post, Total Film, Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch), & founder of the Bechdel Test Film Fest, straight from her event at London Film Festival, Corrina Antrobus.

In her new beautifully illustrated book*, she examines Rom Coms with a Feminist eye and highlights the (perhaps unexpectedly) positive contributions to feminism many of your favourites have made. From Harold & Maude to Notting Hill to Barbie, we discuss her joyous Rom Com feminist manifesto, followed by a screening of a true underrated gem of the genre, ‘One Fine Day’.

The film takes an almost classical 30s style romantic comedy approach fusing it with the aesthetics of a 1996 rainy New York as two working parents juggle kids and the corporate world. Led by two generational talents in Michelle Pfeifer and George Clooney (in full Cary Grant mode) it is a surprisingly witty affair with sharp dialogue and a refreshing honesty about parenthood and dating that all adds up to a big warm hug of a movie with a surprising dose of sophistication.

*Copies of the book will be available for purchase on the night

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DOORS: 6.40pm*

START TIME: 7.10pm*

RUN TIME: 108 mins + Q&A

CERT: PG (Under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult)

White Wall Cinema: HOUSEKEEPING
2024-11-14 19:30 - 22:30
Perhaps Scotland’s greatest ever director, Bill Forsyth is best known for his smash hit British films Gregory’s Girl and Local Hero, but it’s perhaps his first American film that is his masterpiece.

Based on the novel of the same name by Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping tells the story of two young girls who, after the suicide of their mother, find themselves in the care of their cheerful but decidedly odd aunt Sylvie who is, at best, barely tethered to social norms. The girls, Ruth & Lucille, have then to contend with, not only their own relationship with Sylvie, but also with the concerns of the well meaning but entirely conservative and perplexed residents of the small 1950s Pacific North-western town in which they live. Christine Lahti is exceptional as Sylvie and gives a sublime performance as the eccentric aunt who dares to step outside of the suffocating domesticity that faced women of the era, ‘a woman slightly distracted by the possibilities of life’.

Filled with Forsyth’s off-beat but exceptionally humanist style, Housekeeping is a wonderfully sad, funny, strange and accurate fable about life, directed with exceptional skill, grace and charm. A haunting comedy that will stay with you for many years to come.

DOORS: 7.30pm*

START TIME: 8pm*

RUN TIME: 116 mins

CERT: PG (Under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult)

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White Wall Cinema: NETWORK
2024-11-20 19:20 - 22:30
Nominated for 10 Oscars with a searingly sensational Oscar winning screenplay named by The Writer’s Guild of America as one of the 10 best ever written, Paddy Chayefsky’s story of a TV news anchor who one day appears to have a nervous breakdown live on air whilst going on a fanatical rant, and the subsequent fall-out, is an all encompassing razor sharp satire about America and its media.

The New York Times labelled it “literate, darkly funny and breathtakingly prescient… the greatest screenplay of the 20th century’. Impeccably acted by Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, and Beatrice Straight (who all won Oscars for their roles) joined by William Holden and Robert Duvall, directed by one of the all time greats in Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon), Network is the benchmark by which all other media satires are measured.

DOORS: 7.20pm*

START TIME: 7.50pm*

RUN TIME: 121 mins

CERT: 15 (Under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult)

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White Wall Cinema: AMERICAN MOVIE
2024-11-29 19:30 - 22:30
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One of the funniest, most heartfelt and enjoyable documentaries of all time now celebrating it’s 25th anniversary ‘American Movie’ (winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival) centres on young Wisconsin filmmaker Mark Borchardt who along with friend Mike Schank are attempting to make low budget horror movie ‘Coven’. ‘Attempting’ being the operative word. Armed only with determination and a $3000 loan from his uncle, a combination of mishaps, mismanagement and sheer ineptitude lead to a catalogue of hilarious filmmaking disasters.

Here director Chris Smith, who went on to create a string of successful docs that include ‘Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond’ (the doc about Jim Carrey playing Andy Kauffman in Man On The Moon), ‘Fyre’ (about the failed Fyre Festival), ‘Sr’ (about Robert Downey Jr. and his father, Robert Downey Sr), the recent 2023 Wham! doc and an upcoming 2024 DEVO doc. crafts one of the most beloved, intimate and amusing docs of all time in ‘American Movie’.

​This bittersweet doc about a would-be director and his bumbling but loyal friend is surprisingly funny, touching and a real love letter to the burning sense of ambition that fuels every true filmmaker as well as a loving and joyous portrait of two hapless friends chasing their dreams.

Also available is a discounted joint ticket for this screening and our September 24th screening of ‘Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse’. Charting the infamously over-budget out of control 1979 shoot of Francis Ford Coppola’s cinematic masterpiece Apocalypse Now. Encountering one monumental setback after another and fuelled by a burning desire to create something remarkable, Hearts of Darkness is American Movie writ large, and charts the very same filmmaking passion at the exact opposite end of the scale

DOORS: 7.30pm*

START TIME: 8pm*

RUN TIME: 107 mins

CERT: 15

White Wall Cinema: THE HOLDOVERS
2024-12-04 19:00 - 22:30
Christmas Special!

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Back at WWC again director Alexander Payne (responsible for the likes of Sideways, The Descendants, About Schmidt, Nebraska and more) brings us his latest film in the form of this delightfully witty and touching Christmas tale. Infused with Payne’s trademark bittersweet tone this was one the year’s best reviewed film.

A best picture nominee at this years Oscars the film’s leads came away with a clutch of awards including Best Actor for Paul Giamatti at the Golden Globes, and Da Vine Joy Randolph who took home Best Supporting Actress gongs from the Critics Choice Awards, The Baftas, The Golden Globes, New York Film Critics Circle and even earned herself an Oscar.

​The film takes place over the (perhaps not so) festive season at a snowy New England prep school in 1970, where curmudgeonly classics teacher Paul Hunham (Giamatti) is handed the task of looking after ‘The Holdovers’ i.e. the boys at the boarding school who aren’t going home for Christmas. An unlikely connection is formed between the most intelligent but emotionally troubled of the boys Angus (Dominic Sessna), as well as the recently bereaved school cook Mary, played with breath-taking skill and warmth by Da’Vine Joy Randolph.

This story of three shipwrecked people struggling to find meaning and indeed and any form of Christmas spirit is a masterclass in heartfelt, intelligent and tender comedy. Easily one of the best films the year, the studio bizarrely bungled it’s release putting it into cinemas AFTER Christmas. Easily the best Christmas movie of the last 20+ years it truly deserves to be watched on the big screen in the lead up to the big day as part of a new Christmas tradition given it’s pedigree as an instant classic.

DOORS: 7pm*

START TIME: 7.30pm*

RUN TIME: 133 mins

CERT: 15 (Under 16s must accompanied by an adult)

White Wall Cinema: BRINGING OUT THE DEAD
2024-12-18 19:00 - 22:30
Christmas Special #2!

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Closing out the year much as we began it we are once again in the company of the world’s greatest living director Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull, The King Of Comedy, After Hours, Goodfellas, Casino, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street) who brings us this stealth adaptation of A Christmas Carol.

Suffering from depression, insomnia, and occupational burnout, paramedic Frank (Cage) finds himself botching patient care and experiencing ghostly hallucinations. Collapsing under the strain of the job we follow Frank across three consecutive New York City night shifts accompanied by three different paramedics (John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore) dealing with the kind of late night wildness only The Big Apple can deliver, his only salvation being a blossoming friendship with a recently treated patient’s daughter in the form of the ever brilliant Patricia Arquette.

One of the most underrated films of Scorsese’s career it is directed with the all the virtuosity that one might expect from this true giant of cinema as well as being one of the more interesting works in his cannon, fusing the ghosts of Christmas with the night time hellscape of his beloved New York during the holiday season. Manic, poignant, funny, gothic, spiritual and compulsively entertaining, it’s entirely fitting as our White Wall Cinema Christmas special and final event of 2024.

DOORS: 7pm*

START TIME: 7.30pm*

RUN TIME: 121 mins

CERT: 18

White Wall Cinema: LOVE LIES BLEEDING
2025-01-31 18:50 - 22:30
PLUS MYSTERY MOVIE

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WWC is back at the end of January by which time (let’s be honest) you will have given up on the gym membership you so enthusiastically bought at the beginning of the year. So why not let White Wall Cinema do the heavy lifting for you and provide some cinematic ‘gymspiration’ in the form of a muscular double bill starting with Rose Glass’s rippling queer revenge thriller Love Lies Bleeding followed by a magnificent (and no less ripped) mystery movie.

A major step-up from Rose Glass’s Bafta Nominated 2020 debut ‘Saint Maud’ (Mark Kermode’s favourite film of that year) Love Lies Bleeding is a uber cool sapphic thriller starring Kristen Stewart as shy and reclusive gym manager Lou living in a rural town in New Mexico in the late 1980s. When she meets ambitious female bodybuilder Jackie (Katy O’Brian), who is en-route to her Vegas bodybuilding competition dreams, romance immediately blossoms, but is stopped in it’s tracks by the complications of Lou’s dangerous and criminal family headed by her ruthless gangster father Lou Sr (Ed Harris).

This hyper stylised, ultra horny revenge thriller splattered with flashes of violence and even a psychedelic horror edge is also blessed with a brilliant soundtrack and an excellent ensemble performance that all adds up to a rip(ped) roaring tale that pulls off the herculean feat of being both a crowd pleaser and a true piece of cult cinema. Join us for this brilliant Friday night screening that will be followed by another equally entertaining cult gem with a reputation as big as Katy O’Brian’s biceps. This mystery movie is really quite something, an eye popping cinematic extravaganza not to be missed.

DOORS: 6.50pm*

START TIME: 7.20pm*

RUN TIME: 104 + 80 mins

CERT: 15 (under 16s must be accompanied by an adult)

Please Note: There will be a short interval between the films but patrons will only be able to enter prior to the start of the first film.

White Wall Cinema: REAR WINDOW
2025-02-14 19:40 - 22:30
ALT. VALENTINE’S SPECIAL

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Legendary director Alfred Hitchcock is often mistakenly most associated with his hit horror movies such as Psycho or The Birds, but any real Hitchcock lover will tell you these don’t come near top of the list when it comes to the director’s greatest films. Hitchcock movies that employ an air of mystery such as Vertigo, or North By Northwest (amongst many others) are the films that best exemplify the style that earned him the moniker ‘The Master of Suspense’. This outrageously brilliant and incredibly entertaining 1954 mystery romance thriller is undoubtedly among Hitchcock’s best as he employs genius production design and his two ultra magnetic leads Jimmy Stewart & Grace Kelly (as well as the wonderful Thelma Ritter) to brilliant effect to create one of the best (and most referenced) films in all of cinema history.

When professional photographer L.B. ‘Jeff’ Jeffries (Stewart) is laid up with an injury after an accident he finds himself confined to a wheelchair and a waist high, leg and foot plaster-cast. Despite frequent visits and overtures from his glamorous socialite girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly sporting a series of jaw droppingly gorgeous pieces of couture fashion) and sage advice from his no-nonsense (and hilarious) nurse Stella (Ritter), Jeff can’t help voyeuristically tracking the activities of his neighbours as he looks out across the courtyard from his chair, only to suspect something entirely more sinister is going on just across the way.

The perfect alternative Valentines film, not only as an undisputed masterpiece of cinema (consistently ranked in the best 50 American films ever made) but as a romantic piece, both through the simultaneously amusing, heart-breaking, sinister and joyous lives of Jeff’s neighbours but through the film’s central enjoyable will they, won’t they relationship between Stewart & Kelly. And after all, what would our now traditional annual alternative Valentine’s romantic special be without something like a suspected murder and some dark humour (here in Hitchcock’s trademark style) thrown into the plot. Book now for a Friday night to remember, whether you are flying solo or bringing your date it doesn’t matter, Rear Window is a joy to watch from beginning to end.

DOORS: 7.40pm*

START TIME: 8.10pm*

RUN TIME: 111 mins

CERT: 15 (under 16s must be accompanied by an adult)

White Wall Cinema: THELMA
2025-02-20 19:10 - 22:30
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Mission Impossible on mobility scooters, the fabulous 93 year old June Squibb takes on her FIRST EVER lead role in the history of her remarkable 70 year career (and is about to have her second ever lead role in the first film directed by Scarlett Johansson). A remarkable treasure of the movie industry, Squibb plays the equally remarkable Thelma, a grandmother who falls foul of a con artist and loses $10,000 dollars. Not willing to stand idly by, she instead plans to take action by sitting quite comfortably on a mobility scooter and hurtling towards danger to try and recover the money.

A fantastically funny and remarkably poignant film, former Oscar nominee Squibb stars alongside Fred Hechinger (Eighth Grade, The White Lotus, Gladiator II, Nickel Boys), Clark Gragg (The Avengers), Parker Posey (Best In Show, Beau Is Afraid), Malcolm McDowell (If…., A Clockwork Orange) and the recently departed legendary Richard Roundtree (best remembered for his role as Shaft in the era defining 70s Blaxploitation film of the same name), in his final role.

A beautiful tribute to the director’s own grandmother, this nonagenarian action movie is a one of kind gem that earns every point of its 98% Rotten Tomatoes score. Infectiously funny, surprisingly affecting and quite unlike anything you have ever seen before.

DOORS: 7.10pm*

START TIME: 7.40pm*

RUN TIME: 98 mins

CERT: 12 (Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult)

White Wall Cinema: DUNE
2025-03-01 18:30 - 22:30
DAVID LYNCH’S (1984) – 4K REMASTER

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With the sad passing of a true icon of cinema in David Lynch, this previously scheduled screening now becomes an unintended tribute to one of the great directors of all time. Despite being Lynch’s second most successful film at the box office (his highest earner was The Elephant Man) 1984’s Dune was seen as a box office bomb and remains (easily) one of Lynch’s most underappreciated works and is still (incredibly given his back catalogue) one of his most misunderstood.

Built for the big screen Dune is a masterpiece of epic and eccentric gothic production design, a true feast for the eyes, with even the less well aged special effects oozing (sometimes literally) charm. It also features an out of this world all-star cast that ranges from Twin Peaks cast members like Kyle MacLachlan, Everett McGill, and Jack Nance, as well as Blue Velvet cast like Dean Stockwell and Brad Dourif mixed in with a stunning array of talent that includes Bergman regular Max Von Sydow, Blade Runner’s Sean Young, and Das Boot’s Jürgen Prochnow. Hell, even Sting turns up (in some outrageously small and weird leather underpants) all offering some of the most wonderfully memorable and ‘Lynchian’ line readings in cinema history.

Despite the film’s initial reception, in 2025, Dune’s concoction of sights and sounds, all capped with an epic soundtrack from Brian Eno and Toto, remains an undeniably mesmerising experience that shows one of cinema’s true iconoclasts attempting and perhaps ‘failing’ to redefine the blockbuster Sci Fi movie. Oh but what beauty there is in the failing, Dune is a swirling dream of a movie that thrills, confounds, entertains and catches the viewer repeatedly off-guard. We urge you to see or re-visit this fascinating, beguiling ride that we think contains a true epic masterpiece lurking just below the surface like a giant Sandworm in the deserts of Arrakis. Come celebrate this legend of cinema in all his eccentricity let loose with $40 million dollars ($121 million in today’s money) with this special 4K restoration screening on Saturday March 1st.

DOORS: 6.30pm*

START TIME: 7pm*

RUN TIME: 137 mins

CERT: 12 (Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult)

White Wall Cinema: PARIS MEMORIES
2025-03-05 19:00 - 22:30
AKA – REVOIR PARIS

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Acclaimed director Alice Wincour (Disorder / Proxima) brings us this tale of remarkable power about Mia (Virginie Efira) a 40 something Parisian who after being caught up in a horrific gunman attack in a bistro attempts to piece back together her life and come to terms with the extreme shock of the event. Desperate to make sense of it all and for some semblance of normality, Mia finds herself returning to the scene of the incident and forming bonds with fellow survivors in order to work through the mental puzzle of recovery.

A devastatingly tender portrait of trauma the film is a remarkable cinematic study of memory and the colliding of the emotional and analytical mind in the most difficult of circumstances. Featuring an astonishingly measured central performance from the brilliant Virginie Efira (Elle / Benedetta) who unearths hope, humanity and courage against the backdrop of a vividly captured city of light. This is a moving and exceptionally crafted film from director Alice Winocour, who is fast becoming one of cinema’s key voices.

DOORS: 7pm*

START TIME: 7.30pm*

RUN TIME: 105 mins

LANGUAGE: French w English Subtitles

CERT: 15 (Under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult)

*This screening will be followed by an optional and informal post film discussion group.*

White Wall Cinema: INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS + ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER TIME
2025-03-14 18:40 - 23:00
GREENWICH VILLAGE DOUBLE BILL

Now that Timothée Chalamet has done us all the service of bringing Bob Dylan’s Greenwich Village back into the cultural conversation we finally have an excuse to screen the greatest piece of film about said 1960s folk cultural hotbed in the shape of one of the finest Coen Brothers films (Fargo, Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading, True Grit etc) the glorious Inside Llewyn Davis starring Oscar Isaac & Carey Mulligan.

Not only that but the evening will continue with the screening of a very special companion piece film ‘Another Day, Another Time’ celebrating the folk music explosion in early 60s New York featuring a who’s who of musicians (Joan Baez, Marcus Mumford, Punch Brothers, Patti Smith, Gillian Welch, Jack White & more) all captured giving sublime stage performances of music from the era, on a truly glorious evening at New York Town Hall.

Considered one of the finest Coen Brothers films and regularly named amongst the top entries in ‘best films of the 21st century’ lists, Inside Llewyn Davis is an undoubted masterpiece of melancholic comedy that follows ‘a complete unknown’ folk singer called Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac), struggling to keep his personal life in order (chiefly his relationship with married folk singer Jean – Carrie Mulligan, and his friend’s ginger cat) whilst also attempting to become a success on the early 60s folk scene. Exceptionally witty, beautifully photographed, with an exceptional supporting cast this is the Coen Brothers at the absolute peak of their powers.

The accompanying concert film is an equally remarkable document of some of the most uplifting and affectingly brilliant folk music performances ever recorded and is a truly joyous concert film produced by the genius behind so many Coen Bros film soundtracks, the fifteen time Grammy Award winner T. Bone Burnett.

DOORS: 6.40pm*

START TIME: 7.10pm*

RUN TIME: 105 mins + 101 mins

CERT: 15 (Under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult)

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White Wall Cinema: INLAND EMPIRE
2025-03-23 17:40 - 22:30
DAVID LYNCH’S – 4K REMASTER

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With the sad passing of a true icon of cinema in David Lynch, we screen the final feature film of his illustrious career in the shape of this special 4K remaster presentation of the infamous Inland Empire. The final ‘ultimate’ puzzle of a career made out of cinematic puzzles, this 2006 experimental psychological thriller represents the natural progression and final landing point of the much discussed Lynchian style. Inland Empire is the direct successor to the likes of Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Twin Peaks, Lost Highway and perhaps most crucially Mulholland Drive.

A crucial artefact of the early digital filmmaking era, Lynch is as innovative as ever in this wild tale of a Hollywood actress (a mighty performance by Laura Dern) who begins to take on the personality traits of a character she is playing in a supposedly cursed film production. ​​Largely financed by Lynch himself, started without a finished screenplay and developed (as was Lynch’s preference) on a scene by scene basis, the film is famously shot by Lynch himself entirely on a handheld Sony camcorder. If Lynch was known for his pre-occupation with the relationship between cinema and dreams then Inland Empire is the closest we will ever come to having a live feed from inside David Lynch’s head on the screen.

The final and most undiluted statement by one of cinemas great heroes Inland Empire is a full circle moment and easily his most personal film since 1977’s Eraserhead and an extraordinary document of Lynch’s boundless imagination. Once again joining with regular collaborators like Dern (Blue Velvet / Wild At Heart) as well Justin Theroux (Mulholland Drive), Harry Dean Stanton (Wild At Heart) & Grace Zabriskie (Twin Peaks) David also brings in the likes of Jeremy Irons and Julia Ormond plus a collection of star cameos. Uncompromising and masterful, Inland Empire is a deep, seductive, troubling and confrontational whirlwind of a film that will confound and beguile you throughout.

DOORS: 5.40pm*

START TIME: 6.10pm*

RUN TIME: 180 mins

CERT: 12 (Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult)

White Wall Cinema: RETURN TO OZ
2025-03-28 19:20 - 22:30
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This wonderfully creepy kids classic still lives rent free in the minds of all who saw it in their youth. Forget Arianna Grande, this is the ONLY truly WICKED adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s Oz novels.

When the mother (Piper Laurie of Twin Peaks fame) of the young Dorothy Gale (played by the one and only Fairuza Balk from The Craft) fears her daughter is too disturbed by her memories/visions of the imaginary world of Oz, she takes her for psychological experimentation. Dorothy manages to escape to Oz, only find a vain witch and evil king have turned the yellow brick road to rubble, and left the Emerald City a pile of ruins. Determined to save the day she, with the help of some new friends like Billina, Tik-Tok, Jack Pumkinhead and The Gump, heads off to rescue her old friends the scarecrow, the tin man and the lion.

Given the awesome reputation of the original Wizard Of Oz film, spin-off adaptations were inevitable, but from The Wiz to Wicked no other Oz movie will ever quite achieve the cult status of this bizarre, brilliant and often dazzling creation that all adds up to the most wonderfully unexpected sequel to the 1939 MGM classic. Ingenious production design and irresistible nightmarish special effects combine to create a fantastic voyage that is burned into the psyche of every 80s kid and still stands today as a joyously creative and stylish take on the world over the rainbow.

DOORS: 7.20pm*

START TIME: 7.50pm*

RUN TIME: 113 mins

CERT: PG (Under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult).

White Wall Cinema: DOGFIGHT
2025-04-06 18:40 - 22:00
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Nancy Savoca’s criminally underseen 1991 film is an ineffably bittersweet portrait of youth in the 1960s, starring two of cinema’s brightest and most underserved talents in the late great River Phoenix (Stand By Me, My Own Private Idaho) and the wonderful Lili Taylor (Mystic Pizza, Six Feet Under).

When hot headed, Vietnam-bound marine Eddie Birdlace (River Phoenix), brings aspiring San Francisco folk singer Rose (Lili Taylor) as his date to a pre-shipping out to war ‘Dogfight’ party (a cruelly misogynistic party where men compete to bring the most unattractive dates they can find), things seem destined for disaster. But what begins as a night to forget unexpectedly develops into something far more meaningful.

Featuring music by folk legends Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Pete Seeger, Dogfight captures the miracle of human connection whilst gently prodding at notions of societal roles and the assumptions we make about others, all played out between two vividly drawn and beautifully acted characters (critics have argued Taylor more than deserved an Oscar nomination here). The film also gracefully subverts ideas surrounding machismo, patriotic duty, and the very meaning of America itself.

Finally seeing a renaissance in recent years Nancy Savoca’s Dogfight is a forgotten gem that deserves its new status as an undiscovered classic, that, whilst imbued with a light touch by its director, will non the less stay with you long after the credits roll.

DOORS: 6.40pm*

START TIME: 7.10pm*

RUN TIME: 93 mins

CERT: 15 (under 16s must be accompanied by an adult)

White Wall Cinema: EMPIRE RECORDS
2025-04-18 19:00 - 22:30
GOOD FRIDAY SPECIAL EVENT

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Easily THE Most 90s movie ever made, the definitive cult classic and enduring fan favourite coming of age comedy-drama Empire Records comes to White Wall Cinema for a special Good Friday event.

A joyous depiction of 90s teen culture Empire Records follows a group of misfit employees at a Delaware record store (the shop itself is enough to inspire waves of 90s nostalgia) who find they have to band together to save their indie record store from a corporate takeover. Filled with teenage life problems, romances and laughs, Empire Records features a brilliant ensemble cast of fresh faced young stars including Liv Tyler (Lord of The Rings), Renée Zellweger (Bridget Jones), Robin Tunney (The Craft), Rory Cochrane (Dazed & Confused / Argo), Debi Mazar (Goodfellas / Entourage) plus a legendary and unforgettable turn from Maxwell Caulfield as washed up pop-star Rex Manning (Say No More Mon Amour)!

The film is chock full of classic 90s tunes, as such we will be spinning some of our own on the night ahead of screening time (including some pre-film big screen music videos of the era), so come early and grab a drink. On that note we will be serving a special coctail inspired by the legend Rex Manning himself and we will be opening up our beer garden for the first time this year. Plus if you fancy dressing up in your best 90s Empire Records inspired garb we might well give out a best dressed award. That plus much more at this special Good Friday special screening event. You are off work so no excuses, but either way, ‘Damn the man, save the Empire’!

DOORS, DJ & DRINKS FROM: 7pm*

SCREENING START TIME: 8.05pm*

FILM RUN TIME: 90 mins

CERT: 12 (Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult)

White Wall Cinema: THE KEEP + THE FOG
2025-04-20 21:00 - 2025-04-21 01:30
LATE NIGHT DOUBLE BILL – BANK HOLIDAY SUNDAY (NO WORK MONDAY!)

White Wall Cinema’s first ever late night screening we have twinned two supernatural horror classics, one hard-to-find, long lost gem by one of cinema’s coolest directors, and one much loved favourite by a horror master which we will sync up the time and date of the story with the actual time and date of the screening for extra spookiness!

The night begins with a super special screening of the long lost recently unearthed 1983 Michael Mann (Miami Vice, Heat, Collateral, Manhunter) film The Keep. Hard to find and rarely screened, this fabled holy grail of cinema follows a group of Nazi soldiers who occupy a small village in the Carpathian Mountains during World War II, only to find the fortress they are so keen on setting up camp in wasn’t built to keep them out, but was actually constructed to keep something evil in!

This will be followed by an all time classic from legendary horror director John Carpenter’s (Halloween, The Thing, They Live, Escape From New York). The Fog is the spooky tale of a small Californian coastal town celebrating it’s centenary which marks not only the 100th anniversary of the town, but also of a supernatural fog that descended following a mysterious ship wreck in the area. This unearthly fog now returns bringing with it dangerous spectres hell-bent on seeking retribution.

Please Note: There will be a short interval between the films but patrons will only be able to enter prior to the start of the first film..

*Please note – doors open at 9pm in advance of screening time in order to give patrons extra time to enjoy safely purchase food & drink, take a look at our archive movie store and to allow gradual entry to your seats in a safe and easy way. Please try to allow extra time to get seated prior to the performance start time of 9.30pm. There will usually be no admittance from 20 minutes after the films stated start time. No hot food or alcohol from outside the premises is allowed. All alcoholic drinks consumed on the premises must be purchased from the bar as per the conditions of the venue’s licence.

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DOORS: 9pm*

START TIME: 9.30pm*

RUN TIME: 96 mins + 90 mins

(Event End Approx 1.10am)

CERT: 18

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White Wall Cinema: DIDI
2025-04-24 19:20 - 22:30
The trick of Sean Wang’s brilliant debut film Didi is that it is both a coming of age movie for anyone who’s ever been a teenager, as well as being a deeply accurate portrait of what it was like for the first generation that grew up online. In what feels like a spiritual sequel to Jonah Hill’s ‘Mid90s’ and a prequel to Bo Burnham’s ‘Eighth Grade’, 2008 is depicted with heartfelt and deadly accuracy as young Didi grows up in a world of Facebook & MySpace whilst still facing the timeless agonies of being a teenager.

Sublimely written and performed, Didi boasts a brilliant lead in the shape of its young lead Izaac Wang, who must learn to navigate the tricky teenage questions of understanding your cultural identity, how to flirt with girls, how to skateboard, and how to get along with your mother, (played here beautifully by the marvellous Joan Chen of Twin Peaks fame).

Living with his sister, mother and (the director’s own real-life) grandmother, Didi’s life reflects both a highly personal statement from director Sean Wang, but also an extraordinarily moving and universal portrait of the joy and chaos of being 13 whilst trying to be cool. Tender, funny, and painful Wang’s film is a triumphant and definitive portrait of a very recent bygone era that gives us a wonderfully salient insight into the past, the present and the future of teenage life.

DOORS: 7.20pm*

START TIME: 8pm*

RUN TIME: 91 mins

CERT: 15 (Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult)

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White Wall Cinema: THE FRENCH CONNECTION
2025-04-29 19:30 - 22:30
Winner of 5 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor for the late great Gene Hackman (Unforgiven, Mississippi Burning, The Conversation, The Royal Tenenbaums) we pay tribute to this titan of the acting world at the peak of his powers. Extraordinarily directed by the also recently departed William Friedkin, the no-nonsense genius who also gave us classics like The Exorcist, The Boys In The Band, Cruising, To Live and Die in L.A. and Sorcerer, The French Connection is a landmark film featuring a towering performance from Hackman and the best car chase sequence ever committed to celluloid.

When rough and tumble cop Jimmy ‘Popeye’ Doyle (Hackman) and his partner Buddy ‘Cloudy’ Russo (Roy Scheider – Jaws) stumble upon a narcotics ring in early 70s New York the obsessive Doyle sets about busting it up and taking down the smugglers bringing in heroine from Marseille. Realistic, fast-paced and uncommonly smart it ushered in a new gritty era of cinema that would lead to the greatest ever era of American films.

Repeatedly listed in the American film institutes top 100 movies of all time, this neo-noir masterpiece has influenced everyone from Akira Kurosawa to Steven Spielberg to David Fincher. Garnering more than 20+ major film awards (including the aforementioned 5 Oscars) The French Connection is a keystone of American cinematic culture and a big screen must for movie fans of all stripes, as well as being a fitting tribute to one of America’s greatest all-time screen actors, Gene Hackman.

DOORS: 7.30pm

START TIME: 8.10pm

RUN TIME: 104 mins

CERT: 18

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White Wall Cinema: DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN
2025-05-09 19:50 - 22:30
40TH ANNIVERSARY

Celebrating 17 years of Brighton’s favourite 80s party and the city’s longest running weekly club night (Every Saturday at Green Door Store) ‘It Is Still 1985’ is marking both their own longevity and the fact that the year they are named after (1985) is now exactly 40 years ago by teaming up with us at White Wall Cinema to create a new movie club for 2025 that screens a selection of movies celebrating their 40th anniversary on a limited number of select dates across this year.

A bonafide member of the first wave of American 80s-era independent filmmakers, Susan Siedelman was just coming down from the success of her first film ‘Smithereens’ (the first American independent film to be selected for competition at Canne) a gritty and humorous look at New York’s Bohemian post-punk music scene, when she stumbled upon her next film and truly captured pop culture lightning in a bottle. Against the studios wishes she refused a who’s who list of stars lined up for the film’s lead roles opting instead to cast two unknowns in the shape of Rosanna Arquette and Siedelman’s neighbour at the time Madonna. Arquette of course would go on to be a major movie star (credits include Scorsese’s After Hours, Besson’s The Big Blue, Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and Cronenberg’s Crash) but it was Madonna, still exuding the hyper cool of New York street fashion, cool in a way that only a newly minted popstar on the verge of mega-fame can be, that set audiences alight in 1985.

DOORS: 7.50pm*

START TIME: 8.30pm*

RUN TIME: 104 mins

CERT: 15 (Under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult).

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White Wall Cinema: Oliver Stone's THE DOORS
2025-05-25 18:30 - 22:30
THE FINAL CUT – 4K REMASTER – VAL KILMER TRIBUTE

Please note. Doors for this event are 7pm when we will be starting the evening off early with drinks and a DJ playing a selection of mid 60s to early 70s tunes to get you in the mood in our beer garden.

Perhaps the most remarkable acting performance in a biopic in the history of cinema, the recently departed Val Kilmer truly embodies the legendary Doors frontman Jim Morrison in this sensational new cut and 4k remaster, from renowned director Oliver Stone.

Already a voice of cinematic counter culture writing such scripts as Midnight Express and Scarface, as a director Stone would re-define Americas vision of itself through popular cinema, documenting key moments in the countries checkered history with films like Salvador, Platoon, Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July, JFK, Natural Born Killers and more. The Doors sits right in the centre of this legendary run of cinematic masterpieces and captures all sides of the mythology of a cultural icon who has perhaps more than anybody else come to define our understanding of the word ‘ rockstar’.

A true ode to the 60s and The Lizard King that sat atop it, this spectacularly entertaining kaleidoscopic journey through the era is underpinned by Kilmer’s breathtakingly uncanny performance and aided by an exceptional supporting cast that includes Meg Ryan (When Harry Met Sally…), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet) Frank Whaley (Field Of Dreams), Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill 1&2), and even a real life rock star in Billy Idol.

​Spectacular concert scenes, brilliant production design recreations of legendary 60s locations and Stone’s trademark lyrical version of history all add up to an intoxicating thrill-ride through the short but eventful life of Morrison that absolutely demands big screen viewing thanks to Stone’s highly cinematic eye and Kilmer’s astonishing performance.

DOORS, DRINKS, DJS FROM: 6.30pm*

START TIME: 8.10pm*

RUN TIME: 138 mins

CERT: 18

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White Wall Cinema: SUMMER ARCHIVE SALE
2025-06-07 12:00 - 18:00, 2025-06-08 12:00 - 18:00
A special weekend long event, we open the White Wall Cinema archive for a massive sell off of films from our collection, with over 1000 Blu-Ray and DVD bargains to choose from as well as a selection of film poster art.

Plus our special cinematic soundtrack beer garden where you can grab a drink and take in the summer sun whilst enjoying a selection of songs hand picked from our favourite movie soundtracks. Come for a browse and stay for a beer!

Doors: Midday – 6pm

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White Wall Cinema: VHS FEST NIGHT 1 - THE LOST BOYS
2025-06-20 19:00 - 22:30
Join us for VHS Fest, a special three night film festival celebrating films that represent the classic era of VHS video. Each night you can take a stroll through our life size VHS rental store, indulge in some retro gaming, have a drink in our beer garden (with our VHS era playlist) and then enjoy a cult classic film from the era on the big screen. Tickets for individual nights are available as well as a discounted festival ticket for all three nights (nights two and three revealed soon).

Night one of VHS Fest sees us take a trip to 80s Santa Clara, California. When a newly divorced mother and two sons move to the coastal locale, it’s only a matter of time until the town’s local teen vampire biker gang attempt to recruit one of the family. It’s then up to younger brother Sam and his two friends from the local comic book store to save the day.

Campy, gothic and cool with a rocking 80s soundtrack​​, The Lost Boys is a key touchstone of 80s pop culture and still the best teen screen vampire gang ever assembled (apologies to Twilight & Buffy). The stacked cast of 80s icons include Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland, & Dianne Wiest (on the verge of winning her Oscar) all under the spell of ace cinematography from Michael Chapman, who by this point in his career had already shot Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and the iconic Michael Jackson ‘Bad’ music video for Martin Scorsese (not to mention Paul Schrader’s ‘Hardcore’ , Hal Ashby’s ‘The Last Detail’ the 70s Invasion of The Bodysnatchers remake). Imbued with director Joel Schumacher’s bold, vividly coloured visual style, ace production design and frenetic energy, it deserves nothing less than to be enjoyed on the big screen in this new 4K remaster.

​​​​​The iconic teenage horror comedy is fun from start to finish and the perfect way to kick off a weekend of VHS classics.

DOORS: 7pm*

START TIME: 7pm*

LAST ADMISSION: 8.40pm

FILM RUN TIME: 97 mins

CERT: 15

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