Great programming this month.
Very excited to see Wings of Desire on the big screen. And an excellent season of Melodrama is a must for all film fans! Catch the Shorts event at Purbeck Festival.
Bridport Arts Centre
Wings of Desire (1987)
Astonishing things happen and symbolism can only work by being apparent. For me, the film is like music or a landscape: It clears a space in my mind, and in that space I can consider questions. Chicago Sun-Times. Roger Ebert.
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
All That Heaven Allows is the fountain from which directors as disparate as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Todd Haynes, and John Waters have all drunk, marking it as the most influential of the 20-plus films Sirk directed during the 1950s. Slant Magazine. Eric Henderson.
Mildred Pearce (1945)
Impeccable, bleak gloss, with the supreme Crawford engineering the greatest comeback of them all. Mildred Pierce is one of the finest noir soap operas ever, with the queen of pathos shouldering the storm alone; her efforts snagged the golden statuette as 1945’s Best Actress. TV Guide Magazine.
McCullin (2012)
While the pictures have a stark power undiminished by the passage of time, it’s the photographer’s eloquent commentary that provides the film with its most moving moments. Hollywood Reporter. Frank Scheck.
Bridport Electric Palace
I Swear (2025)
I Swear is surely destined to be one of those break out British films that does stellar business and it deserves to be seen because it is both life affirming and uplifting. AnyGood Films. Simon Hooper.
Langham Wine Estate as part of Purbeck Film Festival
For something a little different a dinner and film on Saturday November 1st They are serving Camberwell Carrot!
Withnail and I (1987)
It had a miraculously literate script whose every line deservedly became a quotable classic and the film boasts a once-in-a-lifetime combination of perfect performances from Paul McGann and Richard E. Grant as the loafing actors heading for a terrible bucolic weekend, Ralph Brown as drug-dealing Danny and Richard Griffiths as predatory Uncle Monty. The Guardian. Peter Bradshaw.
