Film Club: Wilding
7.30PM drinks 8PM performance starts. Entrance by donation on the door
Wilding is a 2023 British documentary film directed by David Allen, about Charlie Burrell, Isabella Tree and their rewilding project Knepp Wildland in West Sussex. The film is based on Tree's 2018 book of the same name, a memoir and an account of the ecology of the countryside.
The pair own 3,500 acres and since 2001 have been engaged in an “experiment” to make the estate both biodiverse and profitable. Basically, they’ve allowed the animals and the vegetation to take care of themselves, and it’s pleasant, as well as eye-opening, to watch jays, beavers, diving pigs and a heroic swarm of butterflies do their thing.f
Film Club: The Critic
7.30PM drinks 8PM performance starts. Entrance by donation on the door
An extravagantly malicious theatre critic who strikes fear into the thespians of 1930s London, Jimmy Erskine (Ian McKellen) is known for many proclivities, but mostly for his savagery. So when the paper’s new owner threatens his job at the Daily Chronicle, Jimmy’s response is as vicious as that of a cornered honey badger in a cravat. A vulnerable starlet (Gemma Arterton), a lovelorn newspaperman (Mark Strong) and even Jimmy’s live-in “secretary”, Tom (Alfred Enoch), are all collateral damage in his machiavellian scheme.
McKellen is by far the star of the show, and you can tell he’s having a great time essentially playing an exaggerated version of himself. Leftlion
Film Club: The Holdovers
7.30PM drinks and a complimentary mince pie! 8PM performance starts. Entrance by donation on the door
Director Alexander Payne reunites with Paul Giamatti for a 70s-set tale of a boarding school’s Christmas holiday left-behinds that’s as achingly sharp as it is funny. A cantankerous, unpopular teacher, a bright, abrasive student, and the school’s head cook and a recently bereaved mother, find themselves forced to spend the winter holiday together in an otherwise empty New England elite academy.
A Christmas movie, complete with an atmospheric dusting of snow and a selection of fussy a cappella school-choir carols, it’s about finding family where you least expect it. (Guardian)
Film Club: Dune 2
Entrance by donation on the door. 7:00 doors and bar, 7:30 film starts.
Live Music - Bladerunner
CANCELLED. Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances this event has had to be cancelled. We hope to host the band at a future date.
Harvest Festival
Service followed by lunch
Come along and enjoy Food and Fellowship
Led by David Bidnell
Cash Bar
Film Club: Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
7.30PM drinks 8PM performance starts. Entrance by donation on the door
his simply wonderful film was last year the first Oscar-nominated film to emerge from the remote country of Bhutan. A young teacher, Ugyen, dreams of moving to Australia, where he wants to make a living playing his guitar and singing. But before his visa is granted, he finds himself posted to the remote village of Lunana, high up in the Himalayan glaciers. Ugyen is initially perplexed by the customs and superstitions of the isolated yak herding community he is sent to join, and disheartened by their lack of basic amenities such as electricity, paper or even a blackboard. The enthusiasm of his young students and the unassuming warmth of the villagers soon work their magic however and he finds himself
Film Club: The End We Start From
7.30PM drinks 8PM performance starts. Entrance by donation on the door
The all-conquering Jodie Comer turns in another terrific performance in this too-close-for-comfort sci-fi.
Film Club: Anatomy of a fall
7.30PM drinks 8PM performance starts. Entrance by donation on the door
The closer we look, the less we know in Justine Triet's masterful, Oscar-winning Anatomy of a Fall, an eerily riveting courtroom thriller that examines the line where truth becomes fiction and fiction becomes truth. When Sandra Voyter (a transfixing Sandra Hüller), a writer who turns the material of her life into autofiction, is put on trial for the suspicious death by defenestration-or was it suicide?— of her husband, it opens up an inquiry that will turn a troubled home inside out. Criterion
Despite Everything, Price Still Includes Biscuits
Tickets £15
Email gvillagehall@gmail.com or contact Rhona (01347 811428) or Tricia (01347 810978)
With original songs, topical stories and Jewish humour, Naomi Paul performs a comedy-cabaret with theatre, storytelling and audience engagement at its centre. Using her Jewish background she takes the audience on a surreal journey: from Birmingham to the Balkans via lingerie shops and libraries. She has been praised for her comic timing and clever storylines. Sometimes poignant, always funny and ultimately uplifting, this show explores everything from the personal to the political. And of course, it also includes a ‘biscuit’ break!
Age guide 14+
Around the World in 80 Minutes presented by Other Lives Productions
Other Lives Productions present an evening of facts, fun and fast-paced theatre including their adaptation of
Jules Verne's classic novel.
Film Club - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Join us for January’s film night - bar opens at 7:30, film at 8:00. Entrance by donation on the door.
