Now that we are in lockdown again, reopening the Playhouse and showing films is not something that is going to happen imminently. While we wait to resume our in-cinema screenings, we have moved on to the next phase of our [cont'd.]
Some of you will have seen that Cheltenham Playhouse’s bid for £50,000 in Culture Recovery Fund money to help it through the pandemic was rejected. With no income from its own shows, the theatre has been eating into its scant [cont'd.]
FILM OF THE WEEK In Gone Girl (2014), an unhappy husband comes into his house to find a glass coffee table smashed and his wife missing. In the days that follow, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) becomes the principal suspect in [cont'd.]
A good response to Kuessipan, our second CFS Online film, which received an appreciation score of 77.9 per cent. Some comments: Really interesting and I really liked the poetic nature. A beautifully crafted, heartfelt film. Brilliant film. Thank you for [cont'd.]
Our first CFS Online film, System Crasher, received an excellent reception, with an appreciation score of 93.4 per cent. Some comments: Good and not an easy.view…a real CFS film…. I’ve just withdrawn my fostering application!! Wow! What a young actress! [cont'd.]
A heartening response to The Perfect Candidate, which scored an overall appreciation figure of 81.85 per cent, based on 62 responses to our Google form. Some of your comments: Perfect choice for the pre-Xmas film – not ‘grim’ but equally [cont'd.]
The Guilty was very well received. An overall appreciation score of 93.36 per cent puts it into the top 15 of the films we have shown in the last 20 years or so. Some of your comments: A clever idea [cont'd.]
You might enjoy this. Oracles in Sepia is a powerful short film assembled out of archive footage and some snatches of spoken word. It illustrates changes in British life from approximately the last war through to our contested and conflicted times. [cont'd.]
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