New films on sale at Lighthouse
Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts, is pleased to announce the following new film titles on sale this week:
The Pebble and the Boy (15)
Friday 24, Saturday 25 September, Cinema, 5.45pm (Fri), 8pm (Sat)
A boy called John fires up his late dad’s Lambretta and travels from Manchester to Brighton to scatter his old man’s ashes. Featuring music by Paul Weller, The Jam and The Chords.
Candyman (15)
Friday 24, Thursday 30 September, Cinema, 8pm (Fri), 5.45pm (Thurs)
A ‘spiritual sequel’ to the 1992 horror classic that return to the now-gentrified Chicago neighbourhood where the legend began. Nia DaCosta directs.
Nomadland (12A)
Saturday 25 September, Cinema, 2.45pm
Frances McDormand in fully deserved Oscar-winning form as a woman in her 60s who loses everything and goes on the road in search of work as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
Here Today (12A)
Saturday 25, Tuesday 28 September, Cinema, 5.30pm (Sat), 1.30pm (Tues)
Billy Crystal stars in and directs this story of a veteran comedy writer who forms an unlikely partnership with a New York street singer that kicks the generation gap aside.
The Maltese Falcon (12A)
Sunday 26 September, Cinema, 5.30pm
John Huston’s film classic stars Humphrey Bogart as private eye Sam Spade stalked by a magnificent array of villains as he searches for a mysterious statuette.
The Champion of Auschwitz (15)
Wednesday 29, Thursday 30 September, Cinema, 5.15pm (Thurs), 8pm (Fri)
The story of pre-War boxing champion Tadeusz ‘Teddy’ Pietrzykovski who in 1940 arrives with the first transit of prisoners and the newly created Auschwitz concentration camp.
Oliver Sachs: His Own Life (15)
Wednesday 29 September, Cinema, 7.30pm
A month after receiving his fatal diagnosis in January 2015, the beloved doctor and writer who redefined our understanding of the brain and the mind, sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his New York apartment surrounded by family, friends and notebooks from six decades of work.
Reminiscence (12A)
Friday 1, Saturday 2, Tuesday 5 October, Cinema, 5.30pm (Fri), 2.30pm (Sat), 8pm (Tues)
Writer-director Liza Joy’s action thriller stars Hugh Jackman as a private investigator of the mind, navigating the darkly alluring world of the past to help his clients regain lost memories. Thandiwe Newton and Rebecca Ferguson co-star.
Annette (15)
Friday 1, Saturday 2, Wednesday 6 October, Cinema, 6pm
Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard as a stand-up comedian and an opera singer whose daughter has a surprising gift.
Summer of Soul (12A)
Saturday 2 October, Cinema, 5.15pm
Another chance to see director Questlove’s brilliantly absorbing film cut from footage shot at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival with stunning, previously unseen performances from Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Mahalia Jackson and Sly & the Family Stone among others.
Anthropocene – The Human Epoch (12A)
Tuesday 5 October, Cinema, 5.45pm
Following up Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and Watermark (2013), this cinematic meditation on the way human activity has reshaped the Earth reveals obscure sites of human destruction driven by the lust for material gain.
Herself (15)
Tuesday 5 - Thursday 7 October, Cinema, 1.30pm (Tues), 8pm (Wed), 5.45pm (Thurs)
Claire Dunne as the exasperated, struggling young mum who decides to build a safe home for herself and her two young daughters.
Misha and the Wolves (12A)
Thursday 7 October, Cinema, 8pm
The dramatic tale of a Holocaust survivor whose memoir took the world by storm until her publisher uncovers an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth.
The Alpinist (tbc)
Friday 8, Saturday 9, Thursday 14 October, Cinema, 5.30pm (Fri), 8pm (Sat, Thurs)
An intimate documentary portrait of legendary Canadian rock climber Marc-André Leclerc, a free-spirited soloist who was reluctant to let the film crew in on his pure vision of climbing as he attempts to redefine the possibilities of solo climbing.
Respect (12A)
Friday 8, Saturday 9, Tuesday 12, Wednesday 13 October, Cinema, 7.30pm (Fri), 5pm (Sat), 1.30pm (Tues), 7.45pm (Wed)
Following the rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church to a global superstar. Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker and Audra McDonald star.
The War Below (12A)
Saturday 9, Wednesday 13 October, Cinema, 2.30pm (Sat), 5.30pm (Wed)
et during WW1 when a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel beneath No Man’s Land and set bombs under the German lines to break the stalemate of the Battle of Messnines. Sam Hazeldine stars.
The Truffle Hunters (12A)
Sunday 10 October, Cinema, 5.30pm
Charming study of a handful of men search for rare, expensive and delicious white Alba truffles deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy.
Exhibition On Screen: Raphael Revealed
Tuesday 12 October, Cinema, 5.45pm
Exclusive access to the greatest exhibition ever held of work by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino to mark the 500th anniversary of his death – more than 100 of these drawings and paintings have been brought together for the first time.
Sweetheart (tbc)
Tuesday 12, Thursday 14 October, Cinema, 7.45pm (Tues), 5.30pm (Thurs)
An awkward teenager is dragged to a coastal holiday park by her ‘painfully normal’ family where she becomes unexpectedly captivated by a lifeguard named Isla.
Tickets go on pre-sale to Lighthouse Friends only from Wednesday 15 September and on general sale from Friday 17 September.
For details of Lighthouse Friends visit https://www.lighthousepoole.
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