Master director Ridley Scott's (Alien, Gladiator) 'Final Cut' of his moody, darkly elegant, philosophical Sci-Fi classic is the subject of our first White Wall Cinema discussion group evening. Join us for a screening of this classic Sci Fi with an optional chance to stay on and discuss the film's many meanings in a relaxed informal […]
Famed counter-culture director Hal Ahsby who would go on to create a list of era defining classics including The Last Detail, Shampoo, Bound For Glory, Coming Home, and Being There, first rose to prominence with his unorthodox but heart-warming tale of two societal misfits. Both riotously morbid and joyously life-affirming it follows the friendship of […]
A deeply personal story from director James Gray (Ad Astra) the film depicts family life for a young Jewish boy growing up in early ‘80s QueensNew York. Caught between the cultural ideals of the '70s and the soon to be exploding '80s world of Reaganism, Armageddon Time is a much more subtle and fascinating tale […]
Michael Mann's sleekly romantic, emotional, hard hitting, epic Los Angeles crime saga, and first time face off between two acting giants in DeNiro and Pacino still stands as one of the great achievements of American cinema. A brilliantly crafted crime drama, Mann reaches into the heart of the inner lives of Lt. Vincent Hanna (Pacino) who […]
The great Ellen Burstyn hand-picked Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas, Shutter Island) to direct this brilliant and sensitive tale of Alice, a woman desperately trying to find her independence at age 35 with a young precocious son in tow. Thrust into the world of the mid 1970's American southwest to fend for herself, Alice is determined to […]
Kicking off our new ‘Black Cinema Goes Boom’ programming strand focusing on the explosion of early ‘90s popular black cinema is John Singleton’s tale of three childhood friends, Darrin, Tre and Ricky, living in a hotbed of gang violence in early 90s South Central L.A. The film is both a brilliant coming of age tale […]
SECRET MOVIE CLUB || Murder They Write - Not A Knives A Knives Out Mystery || For our NOT a Knives Out mystery film, we are providing the kind of drama, twisting plot, meta humour and delightfully dark fun you might expect. Deliciously macabre, both silly and clever and unexpected throughout this all time great cast […]
Perhaps lesser known than his younger brother Martin McDonagh (director of In Bruges, Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing Missouri, and The Banshees of Inisherin) John Michael McDonagh makes films that are equally fascinating and no less brilliant. His latest work The Forgiven can be said to be part of the current wave of extreme biting […]
+ OPTIONAL POST FILM DISCUSSION GROUP White Wall Cinema's discussion group returns! Join us for a screening of this restored celebrated 60s classic 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 understand […]
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 […]
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 […]
MUSIQUE ET TOILE 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 […]
MUSIQUE ET TOILE 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 […]
MUSIQUE ET TOILE 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 […]
MUSIQUE ET TOILE 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. […]
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 […]
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. […]
SECRET MOVIE CLUB || 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 […]
+ PRINCE 'DEEP CUTS' DJ SET 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 […]
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 […]