Film listings January 2016

LANSDOWN HALL

Sat 9th Seven Songs for A Long Life

This poignant new documentary about six people in a hospice finding their true voices provides a unique opportunity to change our experience of end of life. The film addresses the mismatch between our increasing scientific and medical capacity to maintain life after a terminal diagnosis, our rapidly snowballing average lifespan, and our anxiety around end of life. It also has cracking songs, and a touching sense of humour. Organised by Hawthorn Press. 7-9pm £7.50 available from Star Anise Arts Café or online at www.trybooking.co.uk/KQ  www.lansdownhall.org



LINE GALLERY

Weds 13th Pudding and Film Night: The Wickerman

Cult 1973 British Horror film starring Christopher Lee, which centres on the visit of Police Sergeant Neil Howie to the isolated island of Summerisle in search of a missing girl. Howie, a devout Christian, is appalled to find that the inhabitants of the island have abandoned Christianity and now practise a form of Celtic paganism…Cert 15 7pm/film starts at 7:30pm £5 for ticket + pudding & coffee/£3 ticket only

 

Weds 27th Pudding and Film Night: The Sleeper

A 1973 futuristic comic science fiction film, written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman, and directed by Allen. The plot involves the adventures of the owner (played by Woody Allen) of a health food store who is cryogenically frozen in 1973 and defrosted 200 years later in an ineptly-led police state.Cert 15 7pm/film starts at 7:30pm £5 for ticket + pudding & coffee/£3 ticket only