Cinema Book Club

Your hosts Charlene and Chelsea are delighted to bring you a #virtualcinemabookclub in podcast form!

You can listen on Spotify HERE or on Apple Podcasts HERE

Next up... She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Cantor and Megan Twohey

January 30th.

PODCAST EPISODES

Episode 25: To Kill A Mockingbird

Chelsea and Charlene revisit a classic book to film adaptation - Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. A book and film whose relevance has only grown over the decades but is it too saccharine for modern sensibilities? Let’s discuss.

Episode 24: Ghost World

A rare foray into comic book adaptation, Charlene and Chelsea discuss Terry Zwigoff’s cult favourite GHOST WORLD, adapted from Daniel Clowes’ comic of the same name - a peek into the weird and wonderful world of Enid Coleslaw as she and her best friend Rebecca navigate the tricky transition from high school to the world that awaits them.

Episode 23: Dracula

For the month of March, Charlene and Chelsea like to read something Irish so this year they've chosen Bram Stoker's Dracula and watching Francis Ford Coppola's divisive, gloriously gothic, 90's big screen adaption. There is much to swoon over. Joined by special guest horror expert, Producer Bren!

Episode 22: High Fidelity

This episode Charlene and Chelsea revisit one of their all-time top 5 favourite films; Stephen Frears' adaption of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity. Cinema Book Club explores the difference between the British, 90's set novel and the early 00's US-set film and a brief discussion of the more recent gender swapped TV series.

Episode 21: Valley of the Dolls

Charlene and Chelsea revisit one of their favourite adaptions - Valley of the Dolls, the 2967 film based on Jacqueline Susann's cult novel about fame, fortune, sex and drugs.

Episode 20: Dune 

Charlene and Chelsea delve into their thoughts on the book and the new film and a little bit about David Lynch's 1984 adaption.

Episode 19: The Devil Wears Prada

Charlene and Chelsea take a deep dive into the world of haute couture as portrayed in Lauren Weisberger's book and David Frankel's film adaption The Devil Wears Prada 

Episode 18: Zola

"Y’all wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.”
This episode Chelsea and Charlene discuss Zola, Janicza Bravo's big-screen adaptation of A'Ziah King's epic Twitter thread. This is our first ever discussion of a Twitter adaptation so we're pretty giddy!

Episode 17: Nomadland

This episode Chelsea and Charlene discuss NOMADLAND, Chloe Zhao's adaptation of Jessica Bruder's non-fiction book about the recent American phenomenon of older "houseless" van-dwellers and the economy that has sprung up around them.

Episode 16: Almost Famous

In our final "films based on articles" season we're back in the cinema for ALMOST FAMOUS. We’ll be reading Cameron Crowe's Rolling Stone article “The Allman Brothers Story: How Gregg Allman Keeps Band Going After Duane’s Death”, the article that inspired his screenplay about life on the road as a naiive teenager navigating the world of rock gods.

Read the article HERE.

Episode 15: The Bling Ring

Continuing our mini-season of films based on articles, this month Charlene and Chelsea are reading Nancy Jo Sales' Vanity Fair article The Suspects Wore Louboutins and watched Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring.

You can read the article HERE.

Episode 14: Saturday Night Fever

This month (and for the next three episodes) we're doing things a little differently. We read Nik Cohn's New York Magazine article Tribal Rites of The New Saturday Night and watched John Badham's seminal 70's disco classic Saturday Night Fever.

You can read the article HERE, it's a good read!

Episode 13: The Invisible Man

This episode Charlene and Chelsea read HG Wells' The Invisible Man and watched not only Leigh Whannell's 2020 adaptation but also James Whale's 1933 version and Paul Verhoeven's 1999 film Hollow Man.

While the main focus is the 2020 version Charlene and Chelsea trace the evolution of the story over the course of more than a century.

Episode 12: The Big Sleep

Charlene and Chelsea discuss Howard Hawks' adaptation of Raymond Chandler's sultry noir The Big Sleep.

We discuss what made Bogey and Bacall so smouldering and how film noir often transcends genre and how it has evolved throughout the decades. Enjoy!

Episode 11: Carol

This month we read Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt and watch Todd Hayne's wintry adaptation, Carol starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara as a wealthy socialite and a young department store worker whose immediate attraction takes them on a journey that changes them both forever.

We swoon over Cate. We swoon over Sarah Paulson. We swoon over costumes. We swoon over Patricia Highsmith. Basically just an hour of swooning.

Episode 10: The Exorcist

For Halloween we chose William Friedkin's adaptation of William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist. One of the most notoriously terrifying films ever, and banned in Ireland for 25 years. 

Charlene, Chelsea and special guest Bren Murphy (host of Under Your Bed podcast) discuss their thoughts on the book and film.

Episode 9: Little Women

This episode Chelsea and Charlene are reading and watch Little Women. While the focus is on Greta Gerwig's 2019 adaptation we also discuss Gillian Armstrong's 1994 version and it's hard to resist comparing Lauries.

Episode 8: THE HATE U GIVE

Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressure from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what's right.

We read Angie Thomas' timely book THE HATE U GIVE this month's book club. If you can't stay for the discussion check out the Cinema Book Club podcast here. 

Episode 7: Clueless

We're back!!

Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other.

“This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.” - Emma, Jane Austen. Amy Heckerling's classic film Clueless, brings a modern spin to Austen's book. 

Episode 6: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

To feel infinite - stand on the back of your pick-up truck and play our NEW PODCAST as loud as you can!!

Episode 5: The Colour Purple

This episode Charlene and Chelsea are reading Alice Walker's Pulitzer-winning novel The Colour Purple and watching Steven Spielberg's Oscar nominated adaptation.

Thank you to Bren Murphy for setting up as always and for editing the podcast. And thank you as always to Meagan Hyland for our artwork. And thank you, our listeners for your attention.

Episode 4: Call Me By Your Name

Bonus episode!

Charlene and Chelsea take a look back at previous Cinema Book Club discussion, Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name, based on the beloved cult novel by Andre Aciman.

Join us as we chat through our thoughts on this swoony summer romance novel and its sunny adaptation starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet.

Episode 3: The Social Network

This month, still socially isolated (sorry if there's tech issues!), Charlene and Chelsea were reading Ben Mezrich's novel The Accidental Billionaires and watching Aaron Sorkin's adaptation, The Social Network, directed by David Fincher.

We're joined by a very special guest, our friend and colleague Mark Byrne, our resident legal expert, who talks us through some of the interesting legalities explored in the film.

Join us as we chat through our thoughts on this fascinating adaptation and how much we'd enjoy a sequel or sequels to keep us up to date with the progress of Facebook over the past decade.

Episode 2: The Princess Bride

Charlene and Chelsea revisit one of their favourite previous Cinema Book Club adaptations, William Goldman's The Princess Bride. A classic for all the family, Goldman adapts his own novel into one of the greatest cinema adventures of all time. Directed by Rob Reiner and featuring one of most perfect ensembles ever ensembled, both the film and the book are examples of storytelling at it's most joyous!

Episode 1 - Mommie Dearest

Charlene and Chelsea discuss the notorious 1981 film adaptation of Christina Crawford's autobiography Mommie Dearest which focuses on her tumultuous relationship with her movie star mother Joan Crawford (played here by another Hollywood Legend, Faye Dunaway).

Special thanks to Bren Murphy for beautiful editing and basically being tech guru and to Meagan Hyland for our beautiful artwork! And thanks to our wonderful book clubbers who come to our monthly events in Light House Dublin and Pálás Galway and have kindly followed us online during the lockdown.

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  • A Haunting in Venice

    In post-World War II Venice, Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a seance, when one of the guests is murdered, it is up to the former detective to once again uncover the killer.


    Based…

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    Director: Kenneth Branagh

    Genre: Thriller,Drama

    Release Date: 15-Sep-2023

    Sun 01 Oct
    Mon 02 Oct
    Tue 03 Oct
    Wed 04 Oct
    Thu 05 Oct
  • Flora & Son

    Flora, a young mother living in Dublin, lost touch with aspiration long ago. She juggles a sustenance-necessitated child care job and a fraught co-parenting arrangement with her unkind ex as she tries to raise her son, Max. Flora and Max’s…

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    Genre: Drama

    Release Date: 23-Aug-2023

  • Toy Story

    A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room...

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    Director: John Lasseter

    Genre: Animation,Comedy

    Release Date: 29-Sep-2023

    Sun 01 Oct
    Wed 04 Oct
  • The Old Oak

    The future for the last remaining pub, The Old Oak in a village of the Northeast England, where people are leaving the land as the mines are closed. Houses are cheap and available thus making it an ideal location for…

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    Director: Ken Loach

    Genre: Drama

    Release Date: 29-Sep-2023

  • Ballywalter

    Ballywalter follows a university drop-out living with her mum and making money as an unlicensed minicab driver, who picks up a budding stand-up comic whose marriage has recently broken up...

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    Director: Prasanna Puwanarajah

    Genre: Drama,Comedy

    Release Date: 10-Jul-2023

    Sun 01 Oct
    Mon 02 Oct
    Tue 03 Oct
    Wed 04 Oct
    Thu 05 Oct
  • A Little Life

    Cinema release of the critically acclaimed theatre production of Ivo van Hove’s A LITTLE LIFE. Starring James Norton (Happy Valley) and following a sell-out West End run, the record-breaking production of the million-copy bestseller by Hanya Yanagihara will be released…

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    Director: Ivo Van Hove

    Genre: Event Cinema

    Release Date: 22-Jun-2023

    Sun 01 Oct
    Wed 04 Oct
  • Past Lives

    Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. 20 years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny...

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    Director: Celine Song

    Genre: Drama,Romance

    Release Date: 08-Sep-2023

    Sun 01 Oct
    Mon 02 Oct
    Tue 03 Oct
    Wed 04 Oct
    Thu 05 Oct
  • GFS: The Beasts

    French couple Antoine and Olga have fulfilled their dream of moving to the Galician countryside, setting up their own small farm. Their refusal to sell their land to developers has created tensions with local brothers Xan and Loren, who want…

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    Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen

    Genre: Drama,Thriller

    Release Date: 24-Mar-2023

    Sun 01 Oct
    Mon 02 Oct
  • Stop Making Sense

    Newly restored in 4K to coincide with its 40th anniversary, the 1984 film was directed by renowned filmmaker Jonathan Demme and is considered by critics as the greatest concert film of all time. Stop Making Sense stars core band members…

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    Director: Jonathan Demme

    Genre: Music,Documentary

    Release Date: 18-Jul-2023

    Sun 01 Oct
    Thu 05 Oct
  • Dumb Money

    Dumb Money tells the story of fortunes made and lost overnight in the David-vs.-Goliath GameStop short squeeze that may have changed Wall Street forever. It offers a scathing, funny and emotional portrayal of how a loosely affiliated group of amateur…

    read more

    Director: Craig Gillespie

    Genre: Biopic,Comedy,Drama

    Release Date: 22-Sep-2023

    Sun 01 Oct
    Mon 02 Oct
    Tue 03 Oct
    Wed 04 Oct
    Thu 05 Oct
  • The Exorcist (50th Anniversary)

    Celebrating its 50th anniversary, William Friedkin and Peter Blatty’s legendary reimagining of demonic possession as a battleground between the Church, science, and the Devil is a landmark horror film of the 1970s. Remembered for the iconic body horror effects of…

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    Director: William Friedkin

    Genre: Horror

    Release Date: 29-Sep-2023

    Mon 02 Oct
  • Persistence of Vision

    Screening as part of Galway Cartoon Festival.


    Striving to make the greatest animated film of all time, visionary animator Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) toiled for more than a quarter century on his masterpiece, only to have…

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    Genre: Documentary

    Release Date: 03-Oct-2023

    Tue 03 Oct
  • Oldboy 20th Anniversary

    After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days...

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    Director: Chan-Wook Park

    Genre: Action,Drama,Thriller

    Release Date: 02-Aug-2019

    Tue 03 Oct
  • Cinephile Paradiso: The Fall of the House of Usher

    This Halloween season, Cinephile Paradiso invites you to immerse yourself in a world of madness and mystery…


    Based on Edgar Allan Poe's gothic tale 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and masterfully directed by Roger Corman, House of…

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    Genre: Drama,Horror

    Release Date: 05-Oct-2023

    Thu 05 Oct
  • Parent & Baby: BlackBerry

    Every era has its visionaries, and ‘BlackBerry,’ co-written by Director Matt Johnson and Producer Matthew Miller, investigates the brilliance of the individuals that invented the world’s first smartphone. Recounting the Canadian company’s humble yet chaotic rise to market dominance, ‘BlackBerry’…

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    Director: Matt Johnson

    Genre: Biopic,Comedy,Drama

    Release Date: 06-Oct-2023

    Fri 06 Oct
  • Silver Screen: The Old Oak

    The future for the last remaining pub, The Old Oak in a village of the Northeast England, where people are leaving the land as the mines are closed. Houses are cheap and available thus making it an ideal location for…

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    Director: Ken Loach

    Genre: Drama

    Release Date: 29-Sep-2023

    Fri 06 Oct
  • Evangelion 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time

    The fourth and final installment of the Rebuild of Evangelion. Misato and her anti-Nerv group Wille arrive in Paris, a city now red from core-ization. Crew from the flagship Wunder land on a containment tower...

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    Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki

    Director: Mahiro Maeda

    Director: Katsuichi Nakayama

    Genre: Action,Animation,Drama

    Release Date: 06-Oct-2023

    Fri 06 Oct
    Sat 07 Oct
    Sun 08 Oct
  • Tarrac

    Aoife Ní Bhraoin returns home to Kerry help her father Brendan 'The Bear' Ó Briain recover from a heart attack. Over the summer, Aoife gets pulled back into the competitive world of rowing in traditional Naomhóg boats and becomes close…

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    Director: Declan Recks

    Genre: Drama

    Release Date: 08-Oct-2023

    Fri 06 Oct
    Sat 07 Oct
    Sun 08 Oct
  • BlackBerry

    Every era has its visionaries, and ‘BlackBerry,’ co-written by Director Matt Johnson and Producer Matthew Miller, investigates the brilliance of the individuals that invented the world’s first smartphone. Recounting the Canadian company’s humble yet chaotic rise to market dominance, ‘BlackBerry’…

    read more

    Director: Matt Johnson

    Genre: Biopic,Comedy,Drama

    Release Date: 06-Oct-2023

    Fri 06 Oct
    Sat 07 Oct
  • The Princess and the Frog

    When the free-spirited, jazz-loving Prince Naveen of Maldonia comes to town, a deal with a shady voodoo doctor goes bad and the once suave royal is turned into a frog. In a desperate attempt to be human again, a favour…

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    Director: Ron Clements

    Director: John Musker

    Genre: Animation,Comedy

    Release Date: 06-Oct-2023

    Sat 07 Oct
  • Hocus Pocus (30th Anniversary)

    After three centuries, three witch sisters are resurrected in Salem, Massachusetts on Halloween night, and it is up to two teenagers, a young girl, and an immortal cat to put an end to their reign of terror once and for…

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    Director: Kenny Ortega

    Genre: Comedy,Family,Fantasy

    Release Date: 29-Sep-2023

    Sat 07 Oct
    Sun 08 Oct
    Wed 11 Oct
  • Doggy Screening: WALL-E

    The highly acclaimed director of Finding Nemo and the creative storytellers behind Cars and Ratatouille transport us to a galaxy not so far away for a new cosmic comedy adventure about a determined robot called WALL-E. After hundreds of lonely…

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    Director: Andrew Stanton

    Genre: Animation,Family

    Release Date: 13-Jul-2008

    Sun 08 Oct
  • WALL-E

    The highly acclaimed director of Finding Nemo and the creative storytellers behind Cars and Ratatouille transport us to a galaxy not so far away for a new cosmic comedy adventure about a determined robot called WALL-E. After hundreds of lonely…

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    Director: Andrew Stanton

    Genre: Animation,Family

    Release Date: 13-Jul-2008

    Sun 08 Oct
  • Next Sohee

    South Korean writer-director July Jung’s second feature following A Girl at My Door (2014), is a powerful, brilliantly acted psychological drama inspired by real life events.


    Cheerful, dance-loving high school student Sohee (Kim Si-eun) starts an internship at…

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    Genre: Drama,Thriller

    Release Date: 08-Oct-2023

    Sun 08 Oct
  • GFS: Other People’s Children (+ short: Baby Steps)

    40-year-old teacher Rachel is content with her single life. Then she meets and falls for Ali, a divorced father with a 4-year-old daughter called Leila. As her relationship with Ali deepens, Rachel grows very attached to Leila – the little…

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    Director: Rebecca Zlotowski

    Genre: Comedy,Drama

    Release Date: 17-Mar-2023

    Sun 08 Oct
    Mon 09 Oct
  • Blade Runner: The Final Cut

    Visually spectacular, intensely action-packed and powerfully prophetic since its debut, Blade Runner: The Final Cut is director Ridley Scott's definitive cut of the film, including extended scenes and previously unseen special effects. In a signature role as 21st-century detective Rick…

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    Director: Ridley Scott

    Genre: Thriller,Sci-Fi

    Release Date: 23-Nov-2007

    Tue 10 Oct
  • EUNIC Short Shorts Film Festival 2023

    Action, comedy, animation, drama – expect this and more from Short Shorts from Europe Film Festival – a selection of European short films of eleven member countries of EUNIC Ireland. Let Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal,…

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    Genre: Festival

    Release Date: 26-Sep-2023

    Thu 12 Oct
  • TAYLOR SWIFT THE ERAS TOUR

    The cultural phenomenon continues on the big screen! Immerse yourself in this once-in-a-lifetime concert film experience with a breathtaking, cinematic view of the history-making tour. Taylor Swift Eras Tour attire and friendship bracelets are strongly encouraged!..

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    Director: Sam Wrench

    Genre: Music

    Release Date: 15-Sep-2023

    Fri 13 Oct
    Sat 14 Oct
    Sun 15 Oct
    Thu 19 Oct
  • The Miracle Club

    Ballyfermot, Ireland, 1960. A hard-knocks community in outer Dublin marches to its own beat, rooted in traditions of loyalty, faith and togetherness. There’s just one tantalising dream for the women of Ballyfermot to taste freedom and escape the gauntlet of…

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    Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan

    Genre: Comedy

    Release Date: 13-Oct-2023

    Fri 13 Oct
    Sat 14 Oct
    Sun 15 Oct
  • Lies We Tell

    An orphaned heiress is forced to embrace her family's dark legacy...

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    Director: Lisa Mulcahy

    Genre: Drama

    Release Date: 13-Oct-2023

    Fri 13 Oct
  • Friday the 13th Part III

    Our slow-burn watch of the Friday the 13th series continues with Part 3! Jason Voorhees returns and dons the infamous hockey mask for the first time, as a new group of campers arrive to spend the weekend at Crystal Lake...

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    Genre: Horror

    Release Date: 13-Oct-2023

    Fri 13 Oct
  • Frozen

    When the newly-crowned Queen Elsa accidentally uses her power to turn things into ice to curse her home in infinite winter, her sister Anna teams up with a mountain man, his playful reindeer, and a snowman to change the weather…

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    Director: Chris Buck

    Director: Jennifer Lee

    Genre: Animation,Comedy

    Release Date: 06-Dec-2013

    Sat 14 Oct
    Sun 15 Oct
  • The Room with Greg Sestero

    We're thrilled to welcome Greg Sestero back for a Q&A and live commentary to accompany a 20th anniversary screening of The Room – the nirvana of so-bad-it’s-good cinema. The endlessly quotable gift that keeps on giving, The Room stars its…

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    Director: Greg Sestero

    Director: Tommy Wiseau

    Genre: Drama

    Release Date: 04-May-2022

    Sat 14 Oct
  • Mean Streets

    A week before the release of his latest opus, Killers of the Flower Moon, we're celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the film that marked Martin Scorsese as a generation-defining filmmaker with this gritty portrait of 1970s New York City.

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    Director: Martin Scorsese

    Genre: Thriller,Drama

    Release Date: 14-Aug-2023

    Sat 14 Oct
  • GFS: The Invisible Life Of Euridice Gusmao

    In 1950s Rio de Janeiro, Eurídice (Carol Duarte), 18, and Guida (Julia Stockler), 20, are two inseparable sisters, who live under the close watch of their conservative father, Manuel (Antônio Fonseca). Eurídice ambition is to train as a professional pianist…

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    Director: Karim Aïnouz

    Genre: Drama

    Release Date: 15-Oct-2021

    Sun 15 Oct
    Mon 16 Oct
  • Killers Of The Flower Moon

    At the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world overnight. The wealth of these Native Americans immediately attracted white interlopers, who manipulated, extorted, and…

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    Director: Martin Scorsese

    Genre: Thriller,Drama,Historical

    Release Date: 20-Oct-2023

  • MET Opera: Dead Man Walking (Encore)

    Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir about her spiritual ministry to a condemned man. Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato stars as Sister Helen, alongside bass-baritone Ryan McKinny as death-row inmate Joseph De Rocher, in a haunting new staging by Ivo van Hove.…

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    Director: Ivo Van Hove

    Genre: Opera

    Release Date: 21-Aug-2023

    Sun 22 Oct
  • GFS: Rise (+ short film His Name is Scott)

    Presented with the support of the French Embassy and the Institut Français.

    Elise (Marion Barbeau), a ballet prima donna, believed she had a perfect life with a loving boyfriend and a successful career. However, one catastrophic night, her world…

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    Director: Cedric Klapisch

    Genre: Documentary

    Release Date: 31-Aug-2023

    Sun 22 Oct
    Mon 23 Oct
  • Doggy Screening: Frankenweenie

    When a boy's beloved dog passes away suddenly, he attempts to bring the animal back to life through a powerful science experiment.


    Bring your canine companions to this special dog friendly screening of Frankenweenie. There will be reduced…

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    Director: Tim Burton

    Genre: Animation,Comedy,Family

    Release Date: 19-Oct-2012

    Sun 29 Oct
  • Solve-Along-A Murder She Wrote

    Cult hit event Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote comes to town, with interactive screenings of classic Murder, She Wrote episodes. Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote is a unique and hilarious night featuring games, prizes and audience participation, with special permission from NBC Universal Television.

    June 19th Light…

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    Genre: Drama

    Release Date: 15-Apr-2023

    Sun 29 Oct
    Sat 16 Dec
  • Exhibition on Screen: Klimt & the Kiss

    The Kiss by Gustav Klimt is one of the most recognised and reproduced paintings in the world. It is perhaps the most popular poster on student dorm walls from Beijing to Boston.

    Painted in Vienna around 1908, the evocative…

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    Director: Ali Ray

    Genre: Documentary

    Release Date: 30-Oct-2023

    Mon 30 Oct
  • MET Opera: X The Life & Times of Malcolm X(Encore)

    Theatre luminary and Tony-nominated director Robert O’Hara oversees a potent new staging that imagines Malcolm as an Everyman whose story transcends time and space. An exceptional cast of breakout artists and young Met stars enliven the operatic retelling of the…

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    Director: Robert O'Hara

    Genre: Opera

    Release Date: 21-Aug-2023

    Sun 19 Nov
  • MET Opera: Florencia en el Amazonas (Encore)

    Sung in Spanish and inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s opera tells the enchanting story of a Brazilian opera diva who returns to her homeland to perform at the legendary opera house of…

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    Director: Mary Zimmerman

    Genre: Opera

    Release Date: 21-Aug-2023

    Sun 10 Dec
  • MET Opera: Nabucco (Encore)

    Ancient Babylon comes to life in a classic Met staging of biblical proportions. Daniele Callegari conducts Verdi’s exhilarating early masterpiece, which features the ultimate showcase for the great Met Chorus, the moving “Va, pensiero.” ..

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    Director: Elijah Moshinsky

    Genre: Opera

    Release Date: 21-Aug-2023

    Sun 07 Jan
  • MET Opera: Carmen (Encore)

    The Met begins the New Year with a vital new production of one of opera’s most enduringly powerful works. Acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell makes her Met debut, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to…

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    Director: Carrie Cracknell

    Genre: Opera

    Release Date: 21-Aug-2023

    Sun 28 Jan
  • MET Opera: La Forza del Destino (Encore)

    Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s grand tale of ill-fated love, deadly vendettas, and family strife, with stellar soprano Lise Davidsen as the noble Leonora, one of the repertory’s most tormented— and thrilling—heroines...

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    Director: Mariusz Trelinski

    Genre: Opera

    Release Date: 21-Aug-2023

    Sun 10 Mar
  • MET Opera: Roméo et Juliette (Encore)

    On 23 March, two singers at the height of their powers— radiant soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor sensation Benjamin Bernheim—come together as the star-crossed lovers in Gounod’s sumptuous Shakespeare adaptation with Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct one of…

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    Director: Bartlett Sher

    Genre: Opera

    Release Date: 21-Aug-2023

    Sun 24 Mar
  • MET Opera: La Rondine (Encore)

    Puccini’s bittersweet love story arrives in cinemas on 20 April, with soprano Angel Blue starring as the French courtesan Magda, opposite tenor Jonathan Tetelman as Ruggero, an idealistic young man who offers her an alternative to her life of excess.…

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    Director: Nicolas Joel

    Genre: Opera

    Release Date: 21-Aug-2023

    Sun 21 Apr
  • MET Opera: Madama Butterfly (Encore)

    Extraordinary soprano Asmik Grigorian tackles the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the loyal geisha at the heart of Puccini’s devastating tragedy. Tenor Jonathan Tetelman stars as the callous American naval officer Pinkerton, whose betrayal destroys her. ..

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    Director: Anthony Minghella

    Genre: Opera

    Release Date: 21-Aug-2023

    Sun 12 May

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