Wagner Hall Brighton

White Wall Cinema presents: Sofia Coppola's SOMEWHERE
2023-06-30 18:30 - 22:30 (Europe/London) | 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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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: 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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Brighton Comedy Course - Graduation Night
2023-06-15 19:00 - 22:30 | Wagner Hall
DOORS: 7pm

SHOW: 8pm

INTERVAL (approx.): 9pm

SHOW END (approx.): 10.30pm

This funny lot of graduates have been working hard, writing their material and honing their performing skills to do their first stand-up gig on the 8 week beginners comedy course.

Every week we’ve been laughing at the material they’ve shared with the class. Their confidence levels, delivery and material are shaping up nicely for a great night of comedy.

Brighton Comedy Course has been delivering internationally acclaimed stand-up courses for over ten years.

Come along and support us. It’s going to be an amazing night!

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Pat Nevin: Football and How to Survive it - Book Launch
2023-06-13 18:30 - 21:00
The Chelsea, Everton, Scotland (and now BBC 5 Live) legend Pat Nevin joins us in Brighton to launch his new memoir, with a special In Conversation evening.

‘Football and How to Survive It’ is the follow-up to 2021’s acclaimed ‘The Accidental Footballer’ and traces Pat’s journey into a less glamorous side of football. From Tranmere to Kilmarnock, he plays some of the best football he’s ever played – but what happens when, in a strange twist of fate, Pat finds himself both player and Chief Executive of Scottish First Division club Motherwell?

It is an entertaining and revealing tale of a rarely-seen side of football, a book that celebrates the game in all its complex and confusing glory.

Pat will be in conversation with Brighton Talk Nights host Duncan Steer, whose previous guests have included musicians Nick Lowe and Baxter Dury, adventurer Emily Chappell and Tour de France star Steve Cummings.

There will be a chance to ask your own questions.

Doors: 6.30pm

Event: 7.00pm

Book Signing: 9.00pm

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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: 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: 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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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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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 | 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 | 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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BIF - Spring Market
2023-05-21 10:00 - 18:00, 2023-05-20 10:00 - 18:00
Brighton’s longest running illustration event returns with another market stuffed to the brim with talented artists!

BIF returns with another bumper crop of illustration-based good times! 60+ of the countries best makers and sellers will be under one roof selling art, clothing, ceramics, merch, comics and much more…

See you there!

Team BIF x

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Fringe 2023: The Choir with No Name
2023-05-14 15:00 - 16:00 | Wagner Hall
All Together Now!

As choirs emerged out of Covid lockdown, St. Paul’s Church opened their doors to Brighton’s Choir With No Name, a choir for people with lived experience of homelessness and marginalisation. Working together through restrictions and guidelines the church and CWNN made sure people’s voices could be heard once again. This Fringe we reunite to celebrate the joy of community and togetherness through the power of uplifting pop. Part gig, part workshop, this family-friendly concert is a joint production between CWNN and The Friends of St. Paul’s in a fundraising enterprise to support the continued work of the choir as well as keeping one of the oldest churches in Brighton safe for future generations to enjoy. Come sing, celebrate and sip tea (and cake!) – what better way to spend a Sunday afternoon?

Doors / Garden Open: 2.15pm

Concert: 3pm-4pm

Garden Close: 5pm

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Near Mint Record Fair
2023-05-07 11:00 - 16:00
Touching back down in our favourite seaside town for twenty twenty three, drawing on our signature brew of Independent Labels, Record Stores and Record Pushers, and soundtracked throughout the day by some heavy hitters…

We are extremely proud to announce one of New York’s finest Human Head are headlining the event, more news on their stock soon but it’s safe to say you do not want to miss this drop…

In addition: your favourite DJ’s favourite DJ, Mr Thing and the original Mature B-Boy DJ Format, are back selling records from their personal collections. If that wasn’t enough Brighton’s infamous Rarekind Records & Rob Life are selling their fantastic selections alongside other heavyweight traders.

Advance Registration £2

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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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White Wall Cinema Presents: A Night at Roxbury and Zoolander
2023-04-09 19:00 - 22:00
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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Brighton Astro: A Whistle-stop Tour of the Inner Planets
2023-04-06 19:00 - 21:00
Doors: 7.00pm

Event start: 7.30pm

Guest speaker William Joyce:

A guided tour around the inner Solar System reveals links between our planet and its siblings, with fascinating discoveries and new mysteries revealed by spectacular space missions.

This discussion provides a quick introduction to the nearest planets in our Solar System, presenting their characters, unique features, and comparisons with our own planet. Many fascinating aspects will be encountered, with plenty of spectacular imagery from recent space missions.

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Living the Menopause
2023-04-01 09:00 - 17:00
BRIGHTON WOMEN’S WELLNESS PRESENTS…

LIVING THE MENOPAUSE

A day dedicated to providing advice and information on how to manage the challenges of menopause through nutrition, lifestyle, yoga and hormone health. The event aims to offer a supportive environment for women to learn about the positive changes they can make in their lives during this phase.

MORNING WORKSHOPS

26 tickets will be available for the workshops, lunch and entrance to the speaker sessions in the afternoon.

9-10.30am and 11-12.30pmYoga for menopause session with Diana Dearle in the Main Hall.

9-10.30am and 11-12.30pmWorkshop with Jess of The WomanHood in Spire Room

12.30 – 13.30pmLunch in the Main Hall

AFTERNOON SPEAKERS

130 tickets will be available to arrive for the speaker sessions which include 2 talks with Q&As in the theatre space.

2-3pmTalk and Q&A with Karen Newby, Menopause Nutritionist and Author

3–3.30pmBreak for teas, mint waters, fruit, nibbles.

3.30-5pmTalk and Q&A with Dr Olivia Hum and Dr Zoe Schaedel

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£70.00 (plus booking fee) for All Day Ticket

Doors 9am for All Day Ticket HolderDoors 2pm for Afternoon Sessions Ticket Holder

White Wall Cinema Presents: THE SWIMMER(1968)
2023-03-22 19:30 - 22:00
+ 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 the myriad meanings of this unique piece of cinema.

Perhaps the most subversive film ever released by a major studio, Burt Lancaster stars as Ned Merril, a well off ad exec who one day notices a line of swimming pools running across the affluent stretch of Connecticut he calls home, leading all the way to his house. Seemingly on a whim Ned decides to swim home across them, leading to a series of unusual encounters with his neighbours. A highly surrealist look at the American Dream, the film is a David Lynch-like exploration of material wealth, morality, and the nightmarish truth behind the luxury playground of suburbia. Ahead of its time and still hauntingly powerful, currently being reappraised in the wider cinematic discourse, this one is ripe for a fascinating post film discussion.

DOORS: 7.25pm*

START TIME: 7.55pm*

RUN TIME: 117 mins

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

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The Lezzwood Players proudly present: Comedy of Lezzers or Much Ado About Muffin...or As You Dyke It
2023-03-18 19:00
Doors: 6.30pm

Performance: 7.30pm

Interval: 8.30pm approx.

Performance: 9pm

End: 10pm

Yes, – the Lezzwood Players are BACK!

As the nation celebrates 25 years since the historic reopening of the Shakespeare’s Globe theatre, who better to troll His Royal Bard-ness than Brighton’s very own purveyors of sapphic slapstick, the Lezzwood Players?! We are delighted to present a brand new, typically Shakespearean tale of lust, murder, magic, vegan rock buns and entirely implausible cases of mistaken identity…

Join us as we crush the crested codpiece of a cultural icon – and find answers to the questions that have eluded the experts for centuries such as…

Do ALDI offer two-for-one on Eye of Newt?

Should Romeo & Juliet have both swiped left?

Was poor Yorrick REALLY a lass?

How many Health & Safety Regulations did Puck breach?

The Lezzwood Players have been startling audiences in and around Brighton since 2012 with their sensational saucy satires of well-worn theatrical genres.

More about us at www.lezzwood.co.uk. For latest news, follow us on Facebook

NOTE: Adult Themes – Age Advisory 16+

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White Wall Cinema Presents: THE FORGIVEN
2023-03-17 19:30 - 22:00
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 satires of the wealthy kicked off by Parasite, and followed by the likes of Triangle Of Sadness, The White Lotus, The Menu and more. Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain (both outrageously excellent here) find themselves at the centre of a nasty incident on the way to a lavish party in the Moroccan desert hosted by two Londoners (Matt Smith and Caleb Landry Jones) for their vacuous and well heeled friends. What follows is a contemplative thriller stuffed with social commentary with a deliciously sardonic bent.

DOORS: 7.30pm*

START TIME: 8pm*

RUN TIME: 117 mins

CERT: 18

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White Wall Cinema Presents: "MURDER THEY WRITE - Not a Knives Out mystery"
2023-03-13 19:00 - 22:00
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 and director give you a quality alternative to the Knives Out film series and indeed Jessica Fletcher’s TV sleuth antics. Something of a hidden gem it’s one for those who love the thrills and spills of a murder mystery done properly. So take a chance on a mystery movie that is, in and of itself, a mystery. What will it be and more importantly, whodunit?

DOORS: 7.10pm*

START TIME: 7.40pm*

RUN TIME: 120 mins approx

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

|| 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: BOYZ N THE HOOD
2023-03-11 19:00 - 22:00
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 as well as a landmark study of those who are essentially living through wartime. Cuba Gooding Jr, Laurence Fishburne, Ice Cube, Angela Bassett and more star in this definitive classic that tackles race, relationships and gang tensions in what is a breathtakingly assured debut film by the then 23 year old John Singleton earning him an Oscar nomination for best director (the youngest ever person to be nominated for the award, and indeed also the first black person to be nominated as best director). Emotive, humurous, powerful and still highly relevant, Boyz N The Hood still stands as one of the keystones of black American cinema

DOORS: 6.30pm*

START TIME: 7pm*

RUN TIME: 112 mins

CERT: 15

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White Wall Cinema Presents: ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
2023-03-03 19:30 - 22:00
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 make a better life for herself despite the litany of (mostly male) obstacles standing in the way of her second chance. Straight after making Mean Streets, and right before Taxi Driver, Scorsese uses this unique moment in his career to carefully help Burstyn (then famous for her roles in The Last Picture Show and The Exorcist) take the lead in creating a performance that noted critic Vincent Canby of the New York Times defined as ‘appealing, tough, intelligent, funny, and bereft, all at approximately the same moment’ and earned Burstyn a Best Actress Oscar win. One of the few truly great female centred movies to come out of the defining era of 70s American cinema, Alice Doesn’t Live Her Anymore is one of the most rewarding, surprising and overlooked films by one of the world’s all-time great directors.

DOORS: 7.30pm*

START TIME: 8pm*

RUN TIME: 112 mins

CERT: 15

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SheSays: How to be a better badass boss!
2023-03-03 10:00 - 17:00
SheSays Brighton for International Women’s Day 2023 and Spring Forward Festival

Are you a woman working in digital, tech, or creative industries?

Come and join us for a whole day with our fantastic speakers, talking about their extraordinary journeys in work, business, and life.

We are celebrating International Women’s Day 2023!

Come and be inspired, make connections, and learn something new.

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White Wall Cinema Presents: HEAT
2023-02-24 18:50 - 22:00
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 whilst simultaneously trying to deal with a relationship breakdown with his wife (Venora) and daughter (Portman) attempts to track down career criminal Neil McCauley (DeNiro) and his high end heist crew.

For both lawbreakers and law-keepers Mann exquisitely depicts the effects of a life centred on crime, its toll on relationships and the mental and physical strain involved all wrapped up in a sophisticated and beautifully stylised police procedural and crime action concept aped by many in future decades (Heat’s stylisation is almost wholesale ripped off by Christopher Nolan in The Dark Knight).

A towering opera of a modern crime drama it exploits taught editing, and virtuoso performances to create a piece of brooding modernist cinematic conviction combining both a grand depth and artifice that has had an arguably greater impact on film and TV and even video games (Grand Theft Auto we are looking at you) than other creations of the era that featured the then more fashionable post-modern brash surface approach such as Pulp Fiction. This definitive remaster edition (overseen by Mann himself) with its astonishingly elegant cinematography and deeply affecting soundtrack is a must see on the big screen.

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DOORS: 6.50pm*

START TIME: 7.20pm*

RUN TIME: 170 mins

CERT: 15

LOCATION: Wagner Hall (Regency Road, Brighton)

White Wall Cinema Presents - ARMAGEDDON TIME
2023-02-20 19:15 - 22:00
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 than most coming of age dramas. Focusing not only on the personal trials and tribulations of growing up, the film also allows for nuanced ideas about how the experiences of youth, family, societal position and personal identity can shape adult life. Despite the film’s seemingly nostalgic setting it rejects rose-tinted cliché as Gray creates a film about his childhood as can only be understood with the benefit of hindsight. This is a film about the best intentions of a family and the values that defined an era. An especially brilliant Anthony Hopkins is joined by Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong in this exceptionally honest and engaging familial drama that comments on generational aspiration, societal advantage, personal morality and looks at what happens when our social ideals are tested.

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DOORS: 7.15pm*

START TIME: 7.45pm*

RUN TIME: 115 mins

CERT: 15

White Wall Cinema Presents - HAROLD & MAUDE - Alt. Valentine Special
2023-02-14 19:40 - 22:00
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 the young well to do oddball suicide-faking Harold who is suffocated by his wealthy family’s societal expectations and his new companion the equally kooky soon to be octogenarian Maude who offers a bohemian and generous vision of life that gently coaxes Harold away from his existence of alienation. Initially a box office flop it has blossomed into one of THE true all time cult classics beloved by audiences and influencing the likes of Wes Anderson, Judd Apatow and Sophia Coppola. With its dark humour and earnest sentiment combined with brilliant direction, superbly charming performances, societal commentary and iconic Cat Stevens soundtrack, Harold & Maude makes for perfect alternative Valentine’s day viewing.

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DOORS: 7.40pm*

START TIME: 8.10pm*

RUN TIME: 91 mins

CERT: 15
