Film Night Programme - Summer 2023
Pelham Hall is pleased to announce the Summer 2023 Film Night programme - three strong titles which we hope you’ll enjoy!
Friday 19th May: LIVING [12A] 102 mins – Drama
When Mr Williams (Bill Nighy), a buttoned-up bureaucrat in 1950s London, is diagnosed as terminally ill, he decides that he would like to achieve something for once, instead of just endlessly pushing paper. A group of ladies has come into the Public Works office, asking to have a hazardous area in their neighbourhood transformed into a children’s playground. With nothing to show for his decades of service, the formerly ineffectual Mr Williams makes it his personal mission to push the job through before he dies.
Why see it? For a heart-breaking performance by everybody’s favourite Bill Nighy.
More information (including trailer) can be found here.
Friday 16th June: A MAN CALLED OTTO [15] 126 mins – Comedy/Drama
Otto is a curmudgeonly widower with staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People think him bitter, and he thinks they are idiots. His well-ordered, solitary world gets a shake-up one November morning with the appearance of new neighbors, a chatty young couple and their two boisterous daughters, who announce their arrival by accidentally flattening Otto’s mailbox with their vehicle.
What follows is a heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unlikely friendships, and a community's unexpected reassessment of the one person they thought they had figured out.
Why see it? It’s a film about kindness, friendship and community. And it stars Tom Hanks too!
More information (including trailer) can be found here.
Friday 21st July: SHE SAID [15] 129 mins – History/Drama
Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star as New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who together broke one of the most important stories in a generation - a story that shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood, and impelled a shift in American culture that continues to this day.
Why see it? It’s a gripping story that kicked off the whole #MeToo movement.
More information (including trailer) can be found here.
All films are shown upstairs in Pelham Hall (directions) in the bar area on the second Friday in each month. Doors open at 7.15 pm and films start at 7.30 pm prompt. There is a £5 per head entry fee, payable on the door (cash or card). The bar will be open too and an interval is scheduled part-way through each film too.