Movie Nights

Our Movie Nights are always very popular, running every 2nd Tuesday of the month. 

Doors open at 7.00pm, as does the bar with the film commencing at 7.30pm.

Tickets are £6.00 on the door - PFF film entry see below

Our next presentations are:      

PURBECK FILM FESTIVAL - SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE

Thursday 23rd October

PURBECK FILM FESTIVAL - BRASSED OFF

Tuesday 28th October

PHILOMENA

Tuesday 11th November

Judi Dench plays Philomena, now an elderly woman who has been searching for her son for 50 years.  When she became pregnant, her father sent her to a convent in Ireland where she was forced to work in the laundry.  The nuns gave her son up for adoption without giving Philomena a chance to say goodbye. She kept her lost son a secret from her family for nearly fifty years.

Steve Coogan plays Martin Sixsmith, a journalist who has recently lost his job as a government adviser. He is approached at a party by the daughter of Philomena who suggests that he write a story about her mother. Though Sixsmith is initially reluctant to write a human-interest story, he meets Philomena and decides to investigate her case.  The story heads to Ireland, then the US and back again to the convent in Ireland.

 See the trailer here:  Philomena trailer

THE LADY IN THE VAN

Tuesday 9th December

In 1970, writer Alan Bennett moves into a wealthy suburb of Camden. Soon afterwards, he meets Miss Mary Sheppard (the incomparable Maggie Smith), an irritable, eccentric, unsanitary, and religious homeless woman living in an old Bedford van, who squats outside multiple houses in Bennett's street of Gloucester Crescent. Social workers frequently check in with her, and other neighbours on the street frequently bring Miss Shepherd presents or food.

One day, a couple of youths scare Miss Shepherd, shaking the van and yelling at her, which causes her to wake from a nightmare she was having of a long-ago traffic accident. The incident with the boys worries Alan, so he mentions at a meal with neighbours an idea to let her park in his drive. Though initially hesitant, a wealthy neighbour buys her a new van, and Miss Shepherd moves into his driveway, where she proceeds to stay for 15 years.

For a different sort of trailer, including the real Alan Bennett, click here:
The Lady in the Van