Our next film night presented in conjunction with The Wordsworth Trust.
Bright Star (2009) – Drama based on the three-year romance between 19th century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, which was cut short by Keats’ untimely death at age 25.
Thorney How has expanded upon its usual Saturday night screenings and created a brand new custom film programme. Together with The Wordsworth Trust, we have selected the very best of films to celebrate the 18th Century English Romantic Poets. The programme will be shown over the course of a couple of months and will be accompanied by light discussion about the literary figures by a member of the team at The Wordworth Trust.
We invite you to watch (film only ticket price £5.00) whilst sat by our wood burning stove and what could be better than a serving of hot supper stew and chunky slice of bread for an extra £6.50 or perhaps a drink from the bar….
Films will be starting from 5pm, the event finishing at around 8.30pm.
Lord Byron, Genius or Maverick or both – ‘Byron was the ideal of the Romantic poet, gaining notoriety for his scandalous private life and being described by one contemporary as ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/byron_lord.shtml
Director: Julian Farino
Starring: Stephen Campbell Moore, Oliver Milburn and Michael Elwyn
Thorney How has expanded upon its usual Saturday night screenings and created a brand new custom film programme. Together with The Wordsworth Trust, we have selected the very best of films to celebrate the 18th Century English Romantic Poets. The programme will be shown over the course of a couple of months and will be accompanied by light discussion about the literary figures by a member of the team at The Wordworth Trust.
We invite you to watch (film only ticket price £5.00) whilst sat by our wood burning stove and what could be better than a serving of hot supper stew and chunky slice of bread for an extra £6.50 or perhaps a drink from the bar….
Films will be starting from 5pm, the event finishing at around 8.30pm.
Thorney How has expanded upon its usual Saturday night screenings and created a brand new custom film programme. Together with The Wordsworth Trust, we have selected the very best of films to celebrate the 18th Century English Romantic Poets. The programme will be shown over the course of a couple of months and will be accompanied by light discussion about the literary figures by a member of the team at The Wordworth Trust.
We invite you to watch (film only ticket price £5.00) whilst sat by our wood burning stove and what could be better than a serving of hot supper stew and chunky slice of bread for an extra £6.50 or perhaps a drink from the bar….
Films will be starting from 5pm, the event finishing at around 8.30pm.
Our next programme of films will feature films that celebrate the 18th Century English Romantic Poets. Presented in conjunction with The Wordsworth Trust.
Join us once a month for four film screenings, December through to March, on Sunday evenings from 5pm. Tickets include supper and discussion.
Thorney How has expanded upon its usual Saturday night screenings and created a brand new custom film programme. Together with The Wordsworth Trust, we have selected the very best of films to celebrate the 18th Century English Romantic Poets. The programme will be shown over the course of a couple of months and will be accompanied by light discussion about the literary figures by a member of the team at The Wordworth Trust.
We invite you to watch the following films (film only ticket price £5.00) whilst sat by our wood burning stove and what could be better than a serving of hot supper stew and chunky slice of bread for an extra £6.50 or perhaps a drink from the bar….
Films will be starting from 5pm, the event finishing at around 8.30pm.
The films will be screened on our big 3.5m screen at Throney How from 5pm on the following dates:
16/12/2012‘Pandaemonium’ (12) – (2000)
The series kicks off with a film about Grasmere’s very own William Wordsworth and the breakdown of his relationship with best friend and fellow poet; Samuel Coleridge.
Director: Julien Temple
Starring: Linus Roache, John Hannah and Samantha Morton
Avengers Assemble (2012) – The Avengers (original title), 143 min – 12A
Director: Joss Whedon
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson
Genres: Action
Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. brings together a team of super humans to form The Avengers to help save the Earth from Loki and his army.
Note: This is our last Saturday night film this year! We are working with the Wordsworth Trust to host a series of Romantic Literature related film events in December to March
Nick Fury is director of S.H.I.E.L.D, an international peace keeping agency. The agency is a who’s who of Marvel Super Heroes, with Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When global security is threatened by Loki and his cohorts, Nick Fury and his team will need all their powers to save the world from disaster.
92% Tomatometer – Review on Rotten Tomatoes
‘With a script that never forgets its heroes’ humanity and no shortage of superpowered set pieces, The Avengers lives up to its hype — and raises the bar for Marvel at the movies.’
Review by Peter Bradshaw – The Guardian, Thursday 3 May 2012
‘Joss Whedon’s ensemble comic-book outing has a sparkling script and a tremendous villain…….
It’s an enjoyably absurd and absurdly enjoyable extravaganza, both delirious and surrealist.’
Film starts 8.30pm – free admission Joining us for food – please book ahead
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)- 127 min, 12 Cert
Director: Rupert Sanders
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
In a twist to the fairy tale, the Huntsman ordered to take Snow White into the woods to be killed winds up becoming her protector and mentor in a quest to vanquish the Evil Queen.
You know the story…..
Snow White, imprisoned daughter of the late king, escapes just as the Magic Mirror declares her the source of the Evil Queen’s immortality. The Queen sends her men, led by a local huntsman, to bring her back. But upon her capture, the huntsman finds he’s being played and turns against the Queen’s men, saving Snow White in the process. Meanwhile, Snow’s childhood friend, William, learns that she is alive and sets off to save her.
While it offers an appropriately dark take on the fairy tale that inspired it, Snow White and the Huntsman is undone by uneven acting, problematic pacing, and a confused script.
Film starts 8.30pm – free admission Joining us for food – please book ahead
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) – 124 min, 12A
Director: John Madden (Shakespeare in Love)
Starring: Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson and Dev Patel
Genres: Comedy | Drama
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways.
A group of British retirees decide to “outsource” their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel, they arrive to find the palace a shell of its former self. Though the new environment is less luxurious than imagined, they are forever transformed by their shared experiences, discovering that life and love can begin again when you let go of the past.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel isn’t groundbreaking storytelling, but it’s a sweet story about the senior set featuring a top-notch cast of veteran actors.
Film starts 8.30pm – free admission Joining us for food – please book ahead
X-Men: First Class (2011)- 132 min, 12A
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Stars: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
In 1962, the United States government enlists the help of Mutants with superhuman abilities to stop a malicious dictator who is determined to start world war III.
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto’s Brotherhood and Professor X’s X-MEN.
With a strong script, stylish direction, and powerful performances from its well-rounded cast, X-Men: First Class is a welcome return to form for the franchise.
Film starts 8.30pm – free admission Joining us for food – please book ahead
The Hunger Games (2012)- 142 min
Director: Gary Ross
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to the death on live television, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister’s place for the latest match.
In a dystopian future, the totalitarian nation of Panem is divided between 12 districts and the Capitol. Each year two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal retribution for a past rebellion, the televised games are broadcast throughout Panem. The 24 participants are forced to eliminate their competitors while the citizens of Panem are required to watch. When 16-year-old Katniss’s young sister, Prim, is selected as District 12’s female representative, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She and her male counterpart Peeta, are pitted against bigger, stronger representatives, some of whom have trained for this their whole lives.
Review by Peter Bradshaw The Guardian, Thursday 22 March 2012
The Hunger Games is a very enjoyable futurist adventure, presented with a compelling, beady-eyed intensity…. this is supremely effective entertainment. There’s a tang of satire in this televised survival-contest thriller that allows it to outrun the Twilight comparisons.
Film starts 8.30pm – free admission Joining us for food – please book ahead
Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) – 119 min
Hauru no ugoku shiro (original title)
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Genres: Animation | Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Romance
When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking home.
A love story between an 18-year-old girl named Sofî, cursed by a witch into an old woman’s body, and a magician named Hauru. Under the curse, Sofî sets out to seek her fortune, which takes her to Hauru’s strange moving castle. In the castle, Sophie meets Hauru’s fire demon, named Karishifâ. Seeing that she is under a curse, the demon makes a deal with Sophie—if she breaks the contract he is under with Hauru, then Karushifâ will lift the curse that Sophie is under, and she will return to her 18-year-old shape.
Review – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, Friday 23 September 2005
Miyazaki’s films require a conscious investment of attention; you have to immerse yourself in them, and soon you will find yourself floating, buoyed up by his gentleness, his visual exuberance, and his unshowy intelligence and emotional literacy. It is a lovely film for all ages.
Film starts 8.30pm – free admission Joining us for food – please book ahead
