Showing Films Worth Seeing...

ABOUT THE FILMS

This summer’s season features seven films, the last two of which are being screened as part of the Oundle International Festival. Of the three British films, one is set in John Keats’ England, one in the pre-WW2 era and the last in the Liverpool of John Lennon’s youth. From the USA, the renowned ‘Avatar’ employs spectacular CGI effects, while Meryl Streep and Steve Martin entertain in the comedy ‘It’s Complicated’ and the Coen Brothers also enter the world of comedy with ‘A Serious Man’. The only continental European film to be included in this season, ‘Vier Minuten’ from Germany, is guaranteed to mesmerise with its taut struggle between violence and musical creativity. We hope you will enjoy the season.

ABOUT OUR CINEMA PROGRAMMES

AT THE STAHL THEATRE
Six of the seven films will be screened at our usual venue in the Stahl Theatre, West Street, Oundle.

AT THE QUEEN VICTORIA HALL
For the film ‘Avatar’, we will be returning to the refurbished Queen Victoria Hall, some 47 years after it last functioned as the Victoria Cinema – the first municipal cinema to open in England after the war.

On film nights in both venues, doors open at 7.15pm for ticket sales and bar services. The programme commences promptly at 7.45pm.

Tickets £5, under-18s £3, can be bought or reserved in advance at the Customer Service Bureau (formerly Tourist Information Centre), 14 West Street, Oundle (tel: 01832 274333), commencing from 11 April.

Ticket availability can be checked on film nights by telephoning 07840 732112 after 6.45pm (please note that this number does NOT receive voice or text messages)

IN THE VILLAGES

Details of the Outreach activity in nearby villages are given on the outreach page, click here.

TRANSPORT
Volunteer Action can organise lifts to and from Oundle or to any of the villages, if transport is a problem.
For more information ring Volunteer Action on 01832 275433
Monday - Friday 9.30am - 12.30pm
or email volunteeraction.oundle@virgin.net

b o x o f f i c e

Customer Service Bureau
14 West Street, Oundle
01832 274333

Stahl season

Bright Star (12A)

There are films, usually simple films, which engage with a depth and power that is disproportionate to their bones. This film, based on the last creative years of Keats’ life, is one such. Jane Campion captures the fragile yet deep relationship that developed between him and Fanny Brawn, his neighbour’s daughter. … [more]

A Serious Man (15)

1960s west coast America. A film infused with the ratty and humorous portrayal of Jewish lives spinning apart. It’s a portrayal drawn from the Coen brothers’ own adolescence. It is a look at suffering – in the words of the Jefferson Airplane soundtrack – of ‘when the truth is found to be lies and all hope within you dies’ … what then? … [more]

Glorious 39 (12A)

The veracity of a possible alternative history of Britain in the Second Wold War has always attracted dogged commentators. Churchill’s eventual triumph against the appeasers, as against Hitler, was never universally expected or hailed. … [more]

Avatar (12A)

As the camera sweeps over Pandora, the lush and green world of the Na’vi, Jake (played by Sam Worthington) wakes up in a hospital to find that his brother, who had been prepared for a secret mission to Pandora, has died. Jake is offered his brother’s place. He accepts and so begins a film that deals with issues of energy crisis, war, truth, love, native rights. … [more]

It’s Complicated (15)

And it is complicated, but extremely funny. This is Meryl Streep (Jane), in great form, playing the other woman to her former husband – Alec Baldwin, now married to Lake Bell. A comedy about memory and desire. And among the middle-aged! Streep and Baldwin seem to have had a great relationship both out of and in bed. … [more]

Nowhere Boy (15)

John Lennon’s childhood...... A spirited teenager, curious, sharp and funny, growing up in the shattered city of Liverpool. Two extraordinary sisters tussle for his love – … [more]

Vier Minuten (15)

In a German prison Jenny, a teenage girl, incarcerated for murder and filled with both hatreds and a great talent for the piano, is befriended by an aged pianist. Having discovered the girl’s terrible secret and her dreams, she decides to piano competition. … [more]