The Eclectic Cinema is showing Good Night, and Good Luck. and The Manchurian Candidate on Monday 17th April 2023 at 6.00pm and 8.15pm.
Good Night, and Good Luck. (USA 2005 93min PG) is directed by George Clooney starring David Strathairn, George Clooney and Patricia Clarkson.
A film about the demise of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who in post-war USA conducted a campaign to root out communists from influential positions. By 1953, it seemed like a witch-hunt. Edward R. Murrow was a CBS television broadcaster who ran a number of critical pieces on his weekly news show. He was an important player in events leading to the Senate investigation of McCarthy that spelt the end of his reign.
The film cleverly blends the actors with archive footage of McCarthy himself. It was nominated for six Academy Awards and has won much critical acclaim. Watch the trailer here.
Tickets are available online here or alternatively you may telephone the box office on 01242 522852. They endeavour to operate the box office for personal and telephone callers from 10am – 4pm Tuesday – Friday and from 10am – 2.30pm on Saturdays, plus 90 minutes before a performance in the evening.
The Manchurian Candidate (USA 1962 126min 12) is directed by John Frankenheimer starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh and Angela Lansbury.
This is the original, not the remake! Laurence Harvey plays a Korean War veteran, brainwashed by communists and programmed to assassinate a US presidential nominee with a view to Soviet overthrow of the USA. US-Soviet relations were at a low point in 1962, when the film was released, with the Cuban Missile Crisis in October that year.
Angela Lansbury won a Golden Globe for best supporting actress, so this is also a nod to her passing, in October 2022. Watch the trailer here.
Tickets are available online here or alternatively you may telephone the box office on 01242 522852. They endeavour to operate the box office for personal and telephone callers from 10am – 4pm Tuesday – Friday and from 10am – 2.30pm on Saturdays, plus 90 minutes before a performance in the evening.
(These are being screened as a double bill and tickets are £7.50 for one film or £12.00 for two films).
Also, under a sponsorship scheme funded by CFS, we are able to offer a limited number of complimentary tickets for screenings by The Eclectic Cinema. Members of CFS will receive an email giving details of how to apply for tickets shortly before each of these screenings.