Season Nineteen Films (2024/25)
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5 November 2024
The Third Man
United Kingdom, United States (1950) 104 mins; Dir: Carol Reed; Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
3 December 2024
The Holdovers
United States (2024) 133 mins; Dir: Alexander Payne; Stars: Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England school remains on campus during Christmas break. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school's cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.
7 January 2025
One Life
United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Australia, United States (2024) 109 mins; Dir: James Hawes; Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Lena Olin, Johnny Flynn
Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
4 February 2025
Fantastic Fungi
United States (2019) 81 mins; Dir: Louie Schwartzberg; Stars: Brie Larson, Andrew Weil, Giuliana Furci
Fantastic Fungi is a descriptive time-lapse journey about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth that began 3.5 billion years ago.
4 March 2025
Gojira Minus One
Japan (2023) 124 mins; Dir: Takashi Yamazaki; Stars: Minami Hamabe, Munetaka Aoki, Ryunosuke Kamiki
Post-war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.
1 April 2025
Priscilla
Italy, United States (2024) 113 mins; Dir: Sofia Coppola; Stars: Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.
13 April (Sunday)
Paddington 3
United Kingdom, France, Japan, United States (2024) 103 mins; Dir: Dougal Wilson; Stars: Emily Mortimer, Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas
PADDINGTON IN PERU brings Paddington's story back to Peru, as he, and the Browns, visit his beloved Aunt Lucy. A thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through the Amazon and beyond.
6 May 2025
The Old Oak
United Kingdom, France, Belgium (2023) 113 mins; Dir: Ken Loach; Stars: Dave Turner, Ebla Mari, Claire Rodgerson
The future for the last remaining pub, The Old Oak, in a village of 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 Syrian refugees.
3 June 2025
Shirley Valentine
United Kingdom, United States (1989) 108 mins; Dir: Lewis Gilbert; Stars: Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, Julia McKenzie
Shirley is a 42-year-old bored Liverpudlian housewife who takes a holiday trip to Greece and meets a local man who bolsters her self-confidence. She evolves and transforms to the point that her husband doesn't even recognize her.