Afternoon events, Film

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Return to Venice

The boy who inspired an iconic masterpiece returns to Venice as a grown man to unravel the mystery behind that chance encounter. A homage to Thomas Mann and Luchino Visconti. Suitable for ages 16+.

Purple Playhouse, Hove

Thu 23 May

£10 (£8) / 01273 917272

Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.

Fri 24 May

£10 (£8) / 01273 917272

Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.

Sat 25 May

£10 (£8) / 01273 917272

Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.

…and 6 more dates until 2 Jun

360 Cinema

The Soul Dome, a 360' inflatable cinema dome, has its inaugural appearance at Brighton Fringe. Totally immersive sensory ecstatic shows programmed to suit all age groups, with live and interactive elements. A family friendly event (i.e. suitable for all ages).

Jubilee Square, Brighton

Fri 24 May

£7 (£5) / 01273 917272

Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.

Sat 25 May

£7 (£5) / 01273 917272

Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.

Sun 26 May

£7 (£5) / 01273 917272

Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.

…and 7 more dates until 2 Jun

Confessions of a Justified Sinner Reconstructed

Untitled Projects and actor George Anton present an archive of Paul Bright's 1987 Scotland-spanning adaptation of the James Hogg novel.

Tramway, Glasgow

Sat 22 Jun

£14 (£10) / 0845 330 3501

Sat 29 Jun

£14 (£10) / 0845 330 3501

The Ultimate Kate Bush Experience

Shambush! attempt to set a world record and we need YOU! Dress like Kate in a red dress and join us on the South Downs to re-enact the classic Wuthering Heights video and find your inner Bush! Everyone welcome. For the love of Bush, join us! A family friendly event (i.e. suitable for all ages).

The South Downs National Park, Brighton

Sat 25 May

Free / 01273 917272

Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.

360' Cinema and Shows for Kids

For information on all shows please click here http://www.souldome.com/#!kids-360/c18ty Utterly Brilliant new kids shows! Using 360' immersive projection, we are delighted to present the stories of Pleebles, Freddie Fox, Queen Grandma, Space Unicorns, Intergalactic Galaxy trips and Underwater voyages. As well…

Jubilee Square, Brighton

Fri 24 May

£3.50 (£3) / 01273 917272

Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.

Sat 25 May

£3.50 (£3) / 01273 917272

Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.

Sun 26 May

£3.50 (£3) / 01273 917272

Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.

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Afternoon Tea Club

The club meets on the second Friday of every month to enjoy a cream tea and film screening. Details of films are available to members only. Annual membership costs £5; film screenings are free to members; cream teas are £2.50 each.

Curzon Knutsford

Mon 24 Jun

03305 001331

An Introduction to Thinking about Cinema

A series of discussions examining various aspects of cinema.

Summerhall, Edinburgh

Sat 25 May

£6 in advance / 0845 874 3001

The story.

Sat 1 Jun

£6 in advance / 0845 874 3001

The image.

Sat 8 Jun

£6 in advance / 0845 874 3001

The sound.

Sat 15 Jun

£6 in advance / 0845 874 3001

The acting.

Astronaut

  • Cast: Ewan McGregor

Ewan McGregor narrates as this documentary film puts test astronaut 'Chad' through his paces in a bid to discover what happens to astronauts in outer space.

INTECH Science Centre & Planetarium, Winchester

Fri 24 May

01962 863791

  • 15:30

Sat 25 May

01962 863791

  • 14:00

Sun 26 May

01962 863791

  • 14:00
…and 4 more dates until 30 May

BAFTA Shorts

  • UK
  • 108 min
  • Directed by: Various

BAFTA nominated short films and animations.

Ultimate Picture Palace, Oxford

Sat 25 May

01865 245 288

  • 16:00

Beckett on Film

Producer of the Beckett on Film project, Michael Colgan discusses the challenges in creating this extraordinary film collection.

The Hub, Edinburgh

Fri 30 Aug

£6 / 0131 473 2000

Part of Beckett at the Festival.

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The Best of Edinburgh Zombie Club Alldayer

The EZC celebrate their fifth birthday with a full day of diabolical cinematic oddities. The day opens with cannibals on the London underground in Death Line (1972); the visually inventive searingly bizarre Japanese ghost story Hausu (1977); Umberto Lenzi's Euromcrime shocker Rome Armed To The Teeth; gonzo prison action…

The Banshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh

Sun 2 Jun

Free / 0131 558 8209

  • 12:30

Burrell Family Films

A chance for families to gather round the big screen.

Burrell Collection, Glasgow

Sun 9 Jun

Free / 0141 287 2550

  • 14:00

Dance on Film Talk

Curator of Dance Odysseys films Nele Hertling shares her thoughts on dance on celluloid.

Edinburgh Festival Theatre

Mon 19 Aug

Free / 0131 473 2000

Part of Dance Odysseys.

The Emperor Jones; Today, I Must Sincerely Congratulate You; Rhyme ’Em to Death

Three pieces on video: The Emperor Jones is a video interpretation of The Wooster Group’s original stage production of Eugene O’Neill’s play; Today, I Must Sincerely Congratulate You is the Group’s 1991 metadocumentary of daily life in a fading performance troupe; and Rhyme ’Em to Death is a short black-and-white film…

Inspace, Edinburgh

Tue 13 Aug

£4 / 0131 473 2000

Part of Selections from the Wooster Group Archive.

Family Shorts

A special selection of family-oriented short films.

Burgh Hall, Dunoon

Sat 15 Jun

01369 703302

Part of Dunoon Film Festival.

  • 15:15
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Film Club Thursdays

Join us at Bowhill theatre for a family favourite film on the last Thursday of every month. See the website each month for chosen film.

Bowhill House & Country Park, Selkirk

Thu 30 May

£4.50 (Children £3.50) / 01705 22204

  • 14:00

Thu 27 Jun

£4.50 (Children £3.50) / 01705 22204

  • 14:00

Thu 25 Jul

£4.50 (Children £3.50) / 01705 22204

  • 14:00

Five Easy Pieces

  • 4 stars
  • 1970
  • US
  • 98 min
  • 15
  • Directed by: Bob Rafelson
  • Written by: Bob Rafelson, Adrien Joyce
  • Cast: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black

Rafelson's slow, honest, funny and painful study of familial alienation and ennui at a time of war (Vietnam) has been lovingly restored and is well worth revisiting or discovering anew.

Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Thu 6 Jun

0131 228 2688

  • 15:15

Forgotten Memories

This is a filmed documentary on Jirí Kylián’s life, way of thinking and most significant creations. Shot in 2011 in The Hague, Prague, Monte Carlo and Paris with Sabine Kupferberg dancing as Kylián rehearses some of his works. Film directed by Christian Dumais-Lvowski and Don Kent.

Edinburgh Festival Theatre

Fri 16 Aug

£4 / 0131 473 2000

Part of Dance Odysseys.

Mon 19 Aug

£4 / 0131 473 2000

Part of Dance Odysseys.

Geological Home Movies

Artist Ilana Halperin, whose exhibition The Library is currently running in the museum, curates a programme of films in which artists interact with geological processes (as she herself does). Artists include Joan Jonas, Seth Kelly, Allan McCollum, Takehito Shiina and a new work by Halperin herself.

National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

Sat 3 Aug

Free / 0300 123 6789

God's Teeth: A Choral Electronic Phantasm

Eclectic electric eulogies carry a beat that fluctuates from a pulse to a flutter, from a tick to a tock. The haunting voices of coruscating choristers drift on a swell of intricate electronica, sweetened by a sigh of strings. All of this is back lit by a cinematic collage of dances to the music of time. Suitable for ages…

Komedia, Brighton

Sat 1 Jun

£10 (£8) / 01273 917272

Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.

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The Green Table/Portrait of Mary Wigman

Choreographed in 1932, The Green Table is known as Kurt Jooss’s masterpiece. In this film of a performance in the 1960s by Folkwang Ballet, the dancers include a young Pina Bausch. Portrait of Mary Wigman: at the end of the roaring twenties Mary Wigman provoked a real revolution in the world of dance.

Edinburgh Festival Theatre

Sat 17 Aug

£4 / 0131 473 2000

Part of Dance Odysseys.

Sun 18 Aug

£4 / 0131 473 2000

Part of Dance Odysseys.

GYFF Shorts at GSFF

What do a young roadkill entrepreneur, a thirteen-year-old with a convicted felon pen pal and an eighty-four-year-old graffiti artist have in common? Find out in this unique collection of shorts that Glasgow Youth Film Festival’s Youth Team have curated specially for the Short Film Festival.

CCA, Glasgow

Wed 2 Oct

£8.50 (£6.50) / 0141 332 6535

Part of Glasgow Film Festival.

  • 13:15

Hijack Film

Hijack Family Fringe invites children & their adults to Dukes @ Komedia to discover the brilliance of film outside the blockbuster classics. Screening two films and a talk or workshop we’ll whet your appetite to some unfamiliar independent family films or those resurrected from yesteryear. See www.hijackhq.com for…

Komedia, Brighton

Tue 28 May

£7 (£6) / 01273 917272

Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.

Thu 30 May

£7 (£6) / 01273 917272

Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.

Histoire d'amour

European Premiere: An English teacher sees a woman on the underground and decides she will become his wife and the mother of his children. He takes over her life and when she tries to escape, all doors close before her. Once re-captured he abuses her again, over and over. Histoire d’amour explores a world where guilt and…

King's Theatre, Edinburgh

Sat 17 Aug

£12–£30 / 0131 473 2000

House/Lights

A video of a complete performance of the 1999 OBIE-winning collision of Gertrude Stein’s Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights with Joseph Mawra’s B-movie classic, Olga’s House of Shame. ‘Bedazzling … there’s nothing else like it around; it turns disorientation into a primary sensual pleasure, even as it raises terrifying…

Inspace, Edinburgh

Sun 11 Aug

£4 / 0131 473 2000

Part of Selections from the Wooster Group Archive.

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