Our 26th Year continues on Sunday 14 September with the Oscar winning A Real Pain - and it is a comedy! As IMDb describe it - "Mismatched cousins reunite for a tour through Poland to honour their beloved grandmother, but their old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history"
Our new season of films is getting closer! The autumn season films are now booked (including 5 films voted for by the members), the brochure is at the printers and can be downloaded from the web.
The films are all on the Alhambra website ready to book - where you can also join the club if you want - We so hope you do. It is still only £10 and you still get to see any or all club films for £6 each; We are keeping the non-member prices in line with the Alhambra prices, so that will give you a saving of £4.50 for every film you see; so not just great films but a bargain too!
We hope that you will want to see many of the films and that our 26th Year continues as a memorable one for us all - don't forget to tell your friends about us!
It seems very appropriate that the weather is so lovely at the moment; we can all go outside and enjoy it while there are no club movies to see! We hope you have enjoyed the year; we feel that it was a good one with some great films, and certainly a fantastic 25th Film Festival last month.
Many of the films went on to win BAFTAs or even Oscars and many more appeared in the BFI's best films of the year list. It is also a good sign that so many club-type films are now winning awards worldwide.
Thanks to everyone who has helped keep the show running over the year, whether you were on the committee, running front of house, running the Festival or helping on it. An especial thanks to Ian Payne for directing all the great festivals we have had in his time and to Julia Vickers for stepping forward to run the next ones! A special thanks should go the Rennie family for all their years giving the club a home, and to Jonathan and Graham for taking on the responsibility for our future. Thanks all!
So that is it from us. The emails will be back in mid summer with a list of films for next season for members to choose from, and the Sunday night shows will start again in September. If you are looking for something to see meantime, keep your eye on the Alhambra website - they will keep showing films for you every week.
Have a great summer, everyone!
"It’s an elegant film, reckoning empathetically with an extremely complex topic" - Little White Lies
“Starts out as an odd couple story but evolves into something more complex and satisfying: a film about tradition, gender roles and family tensions.” - Wendy Ide, Observer