We held a very successful AGM before the showing of Honeyland on Tuesday 12th October and the committee were overwhelmed by and thank all the members present for their applause, cheering and standing ovation for all the effort needed to [cont'd.]
The Bacon Theatre have confirmed the arrangements that will be in place to ensure the safety of all those attending our coming season of films. These are detailed in the pamphlet below, with the main requirement being that entry will [cont'd.]
Our next film, Birds of Passage, will be screened at The Bacon Theatre on Tuesday 26th October 2021. Doors open at 19:00 with the film starting at 19.45. A reminder of the arrangements for the night, which have worked well [cont'd.]
Reactions to Honeyland Our fourth film, Honeyland from Macedonia, proved to be another great success with our members registering an overall appreciation score of 91.0%. Here are some of the comments received: Thought provoking and poignant. What a charming film! [cont'd.]
Reactions to Parasite Parasite proved to be yet another favourite with most of our members who turned out to see it (several for the second time – or more!) despite it already having been screened elsewhere. All but three of [cont'd.]
Reactions to Corpus Christi The second film of the season, Corpus Christi, another carried over from last year, proved even more successful with our members. Of the 93 responses, all but 4 were As or Bs with an overall appreciation score of [cont'd.]
Reactions to Portrait of a Lady on Fire The first film of the new season Portrait of a Lady on Fire proved to be a big hit with most of the audience, with the vast majority awarding it an A or a [cont'd.]
The aptly named final film of our foreshortened 75th season, The Farewell, proved to be another success for the reduced number of members who ventured out to see it at The Playhouse rather than watch football on TV. The film [cont'd.]
Two discount offers for members! YourScreen have just added another unmissable title to their current programme. Finnish comedy drama Games People Play until 31 Oct along with four other world cinema gems for you to enjoy. CFS members are now also [cont'd.]
The GPO Film Unit and The Avant – Garde ‘This is the night mail crossing the Border, bringing the cheque and the postal order…’,‘Nightmail’ (1936) – lecture by John Francis on Tuesday 9th November at 7.15pm in Jurys Inn, Gloucester [cont'd.]
Charlton Kings Film Society next film will be Calvary on Friday 29th October at 7.45pm. Fr James (Brendan Gleeson), a good Irish priest, is threatened in confession that he will be killed in a week. During the next seven days [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.]
You might enjoy this. Oracles in Sepia is a powerful series of short films 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 [cont'd.]
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