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 Who would have thought it possible that one day we would feel nostalgic for the presidency of Richard Nixon? All the President’s Men (1976) is about events leading up to the end of his regime, but [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.]
Well, this year’s documentary, Hail Satan?, was certainly cast into the fiery furnace near the bottom of our list of films, with an overall score of 60 per cent. That places it only 16 places above such favourites as The [cont'd.]
Our second film in our temporary home, Woman at War, received an appreciation score of 91.67 per cent, putting it in the top 30 of the films we have shown in the last 20 years. Some of your comments: “Another [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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