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May 2021
FILM: Bait (15)
Tickets on sale soon ! The second of the programme from The Bishop's Castle Film Society ★★★★★"...one of the defining British films of the decade. It’s war between the locals and tourists in a once-thriving Cornish fishing village in Mark Jenkin’s dreamlike masterpiece" The Guardian ★★★★★"A rare find that is a truly original feature by a British director. Bait ferments weighty social themes into cinema so intoxicating it changes your blood-alcohol levels" Empire Bait is a 2019 British drama film written and…
Find out more »Film Honeyland (12A)
Tickets on sale soon The 3rd film in the programme from: 2019 documentary drama about a woman utilises ancient beekeeping traditions to cultivate honey in the mountains of North Macedonia and return the natural balance in Honeyland. When a neighbouring family tries to do the same, it becomes a source of tension as they disregard her wisdom and advice. ★★★★ Beekeeper's life with a sting in the tale. In this terrific documentary shot in North Macedonia, a woman tending wild…
Find out more »FILM: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (15)
Tickets on sale 18th May Our forth film from the Bishop's Castle Film Society list: France, 1770. Marianne, a painter, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Héloïse is a reluctant bride to be and Marianne must paint her without her knowing. She observes her by day, to paint her secretly. ★★★★★"Mesmerised by the female gaze" The Guardian Full review ★★★★★"There are theme-park rides; there is cinema; there are…
Find out more »July 2021
Arts Alive Summer Festival: LIVE: Music, Theatre & Story Telling
LIVE WHALEBONE WITH JEAN ATKIN FOLLOWED BY OLI WILSON-DICKSON & DYLAN FOWLER Friday 9th July 7.30pm Arts Alive present a Winter Festival of stories and songs – featuring artists from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Friday evening 7.00 to 9.30pm. English Folk duo Whalebone are joined by poet Jean Atkin to perform 'Understories'. ‘Understories’ is a brush with the new folklore of Shropshire. Here are urban, and rural, myths and tales just out of living memory. They are the common…
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