SWAFIELD & TRUNCH CINEMA CLUB – ‘The Holdovers’ PG 15 screening on 3rd May at St Nicholas, Swafield
SWAFIELD and TRUNCH CINEMA CLUB
We’re delighted to announce that St Botolph’s Trunch & St Nicholas Swafield have become National Theatre Live venues – bringing the best of British theatre to our local screens!
With NT Live you’ll always have the best seat in the house. Whether you’re watching Kit Harington go to battle in Henry V, or Phoebe Waller-Bridge delivering her solo tour de force in Fleabag, you’ll be at the heart of the action. You can watch a trailer here.
On May 3rd at 7pm in St Nicholas, Swafield we’ll be screening ‘The Holdovers’ PG 15
The tickets are £10 and the fish & chips will come from Roughton Fish Shop. The menu and prices are here. We need to place orders for Fish & Chips by lunchtime on 14th March.
Call or email Tim on 01692 402624 to book.
Please bring your own drinks and a cushion!
These NT Live events are run by the Trunch Group of Parish
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‘The Holdovers’ PG 15
★★★★ A masterclass in melancholy with Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph (Guardian)
Winner of best supporting actress at the Oscars
Sideways director Alexander Payne reunites with that film’s star 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, Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti); a bright, abrasive student, Angus (Dominic Sessa); and Mary (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), 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 in Alexander Payne’s terrific, bittersweet throwback to the classic American cinema of the 1970s.
It’s Payne’s finest film since Sideways (2004), and like it features a superb Giamatti performance as a stubbornly unlovable and difficult man. 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. But don’t approach The Holdovers expecting a cosy comfort blanket of a film. There’s a bracingly astringent bleakness under its surface layer of melancholy humour; a biting, sharp edge that counters the occasional lurch towards sentimentality.
The cinema tickets are £7 and the fish & chips will come from Roughton Fish Shop. The menu and prices are here. We need to place orders for Fish & Chips by lunchtime on 2nd May.
You can book on trunchcinema.com or call or email Tim on 01692 402624.
Pre-booked tickets can be collected on the door.
Please bring your own drinks and a cushion!
The cinema events are run jointly by Swafield Village Hall and the Trunch Group of Parishes.
Tim & Boris
Programme for Theatre and Cinema Screenings 2024
The first 3 (plus some Trunch Concerts) along with meals from Swash Nosh, can now be booked by telephoning 01692 402624
April 19th: The Motive & the Cue from the National Theatre
★★★★★ ‘A brilliant, compassionate new play’ (Financial Times)
★★★★★ ‘Immaculately directed by Sam Mendes’ (Times)
★★★★★ ‘Mark Gatiss gives the performance of his career’ (Telegraph)
★★★★★ ‘Smooth and sophisticated’ (WhatsOnStage)
1964: Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under John Gielgud’s exacting direction. But as rehearsals progress, two ages of theatre collide and the collaboration between actor and director soon threatens to unravel.
May 17th: Nye from the National Theatre
Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain’s welfare state and created the NHS. Confronted with death, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan’s deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life; from childhood to mining underground, Parliament and fights with Churchill.
Cinema Nights currently awaiting confirmation of dates from their distributors
Wicked Little Letters: a deliciously sweary poison-pen mystery
When the residents of Littlehampton start receiving letters filled with obscenities and hilarious profanity, Rose, a rambunctious Irish immigrant, is accused of the crime.
The Holdovers: a masterclass in melancholy with Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph
Nominated for 5 Oscars, with 120 award wins & 204 nominations
All proceeds are in aid of the renovations needed at St Nicholas, Swafield & St Botolph’s, Trunch.
Tim & Boris
