Film Unit: Rediscover Cinema

There's only left till our next film after the Easter break!

You can now buy tickets in advance online for our screenings at TicketSoc.

On Thursday the 29th of May we are hosting a special event entitled Chaplin's Firsts - An Evening with Neil Brand, a special screening of some of Chaplin's short films with a live improvised piano score.

Our new suggestions page is now open for next semester. Please give us your suggestions!

Blue Is the Warmest Colour

Friday 2nd May

1930

Director: Abdellatif Kechiche

Starring: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Catherine Salée

Running time: 179 mins

Language: French with subtitles

Certification: 18

Admission: £2.50

Adele's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

American Hustle

Saturday 3rd May

1530 1930

Director: David O. Russell

Starring: Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, Christian Bale

Running time: 138 mins

Language: English

Certification: 15

Admission: £2.50

A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld, who along with his equally cunning and seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso. Di...more

Frozen

Sunday 4th May

1230

Director: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee

Starring: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff

Running time: 102 mins

Language: English

Certification: PG

Admission: £2.50

Young princess Anna of Arendelle (Kristen Bell) dreams about finding true love at her sister Elsa's (Idina Menzel) coronation. Fate takes her on a dangerous journey in an attempt to end the eternal winter that has fallen over the kingdom. She's accompanied by ice delivery man Kristoff, his reindeer ...more

Her

Sunday 4th May

1530 1930

Director: Spike Jonze

Starring: Olivia Wilde, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara

Running time: 126 mins

Language: English

Certification: 15

Admission: £2.50

In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theordore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and roma...more

Plan 9 from Outer Space

Friday 9th May

1930

Director: Edward D. Wood Jr.

Starring: Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Duke Moore

Running time: 79 mins

Language: English

Certification: PG

Admission: £3.50

In California, an old man (Bela Lugosi) grieves the loss of his wife (Vampira) and on the next day he also dies. However, the space soldier Eros and her mate Tanna use an electric device to resurrect them both and the strong Inspector Clay (Tor Johnson) that was murdered by the couple. Their intenti...more

Dallas Buyers Club

Saturday 10th May

1530 1930

Director: Jean-Marc Vallee

Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto

Running time: 117 mins

Language: English

Certification: 15

Admission: £2.50

Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug taking, women loving, homophobic man who, in 1986 was diagnosed with full blown HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.