Parasite, Bong Joon-ho, 2019
Towner Cinema, Towner Art Gallery
Devonshire Park College Road Eastbourne BN21 4JJ
This month’s cinematic delights include an exciting array of new releases, an International Women’s Day screening celebrating Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison, and a visit from director Simon Sheridan for a Q&A following his documentary Everything: The Real Thing Story.
Tickets are selling fast so we recommend booking early to avoid disappointment!
New releases
Parasite, Bong Joon-ho, 2019
We’re kicking off March with the must-see cinema sensation Parasite (6 to 12 March), a tale of wealth, greed and class that swept its way through this year’s Oscars – winning Best Picture (the first non-English language film ever to do so), Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Film.
This is followed by 1917 (14 to 19 March), winner of seven BAFTAs including Best Film and Best Director. In a race against time, two young WWI British soldiers must cross enemy territory to deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.
In Dark Waters (21 to 26 March), a gripping drama based on a shocking true story, Mark Ruffalo is on top form as a tenacious attorney who uncovers a secret that connects multiple unexplained deaths to one of the world’s largest corporations and risks everything to expose the truth.
Then, romance and art entwine in Portrait of a Lady on Fire (28 March to 2 April). This sumptuous new masterpiece from Céline Sciamma (Tomboy, Girlhood) is a heartbreaking period drama, stunningly told with a distinctly modern feminist energy.
‘A masterpiece… devastatingly unforgettable.’ – Indiewire
International Women’s Day
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
8 & 12 March
We’re celebrating International Women’s Day 2020 with the critically acclaimed new documentary Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am. The film offers an artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the legendary, Nobel Prize winning author of iconic novels such as Beloved, The Bluest Eye and Jazz.
‘It reminds us how long she had to wait for the recognition she so richly deserved.’ – The Wall Street Journal
Special Event
Everything: The Real Thing Story + Director Q&A
Saturday 28 March
Director Simon Sheridan will join us for a Q&A following his documentary Everything: The Real Thing Story about the ‘other four lads from Liverpool’, Britain’s first million-selling funk and soul band, The Real Thing.
Against a backdrop of racism and social and political turmoil, The Real Thing were the first all-black British band to hit #1 in the pop charts. After five decades, they remain the true pioneers of British soul. For the very first time they tell the incredible story of a career spanning almost half a centuary.
Everything: The Real Thing Story, Simon Sheridan, 2019
Screen Classics
A Streetcar Named Desire
Saturday 14 March
Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh star in Elia Kazan’s legendary adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ play, A Streetcar Named Desire, restored and re-released this year by the BFI. The film is famed for the unruly power of Brando’s performance, an early expression of the ‘method’ style of acting that would have a marked influence on American cinema over the coming decades.
This screening will be introduced by Dr Michael Lawrence, Head of Film Studies, University of Sussex.
A Streetcar Named Desire, Elia Kazan, 1951
The Cult Film Club
Robocop
Thursday 19 March
The Cult Film Club present Robocop. In a dystopian and crime-infested Detroit, a policeman killed in the line of duty returns to the force as a chrome-plated, indestructible, crime-fighting cyborg haunted by submerged memories.
Introduced by The Cult Film Club’s Dr Adrian Smith.
Robocop, Paul Verhoeven, 1987
Eastbourne Film Society
For Sama
21 & 26 March
An intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war, For Sama is a love letter from a young mother to her daughter. The film tells the story of al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria, as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama while cataclysmic conflict rises around her.
Introduced by Eastbourne Film Society’s Chair, Mansel Stimpson.
For Sama, Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts, 2019
Cinema Bar
Our cinema bar opens 45 minutes before each screening. Come for a drink before the film, or enjoy a drink and a snack in the comfort of the auditorium during the film.
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