Malvern Cinema 100 Years

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FILM

To celebrate 100 years of Malvern Cinema we’ve created a programme of films taken from each of its ten decades.

There’s a choice of 26 iconic titles so don’t miss this rare opportunity to see them on the big screen.

All Seats £5

(Concessions £4) Members Discounts Apply

Apocalypse Now (1979) (15) 147 mins. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Starring Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen and Robert Duvall.

A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god. Loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness.

Sun 12th Nov 6.30pm

Chicken Run (2000) (U) 98 mins. Voices of Mel Gibson and Julia Sawalha. When a cockerel apparently flies into a chicken farm, the chickens see him as an opportunity to escape their evil owners …

Sat 11th Nov 11am (Relaxed Screening)

Clueless (1995) (12A) 97 mins. Starring Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash and Brittany Murphy. Rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school’s pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other.

Sat 11th Nov 5pm

Daughters of the Dust (1991) (12A) 112 mins. A languid, impressionistic story of three generations of Gullah women living on the South Carolina Sea Islands in 1902.

Fri 17th Nov 7pm Studio One

Do The Right Thing (1989) (18) 120 mins. On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate and bigotry smoulders and builds until it explodes into violence.

Wed 22nd Nov 7.45pm

Dr Strangelove (1964) (PG) 95 mins. Directed by Stanley Kubrick; Starring Peter Sellers. An insane American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.

Sat 18th Nov 7pm Studio One

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982) (U) 105 mins. A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet. Directed by Steven Spielberg.

Fri 10th Nov 7.45pm; Sat 11th Nov 2pm

Gregory’s Girl (1980) (PG) 91 mins. Directed by Bill Forsyth. Starring John Gordon Sinclair and Dee Hepburn. Gregory is a normal teen who is infatuated with a classmate. He must work to win her affection …

Mon 13th Nov 7.45pm; Tues 14th Nov 5pm

In Bruges (2008) (18) 107 mins. Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson.

Guilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, the last place in the world Ray wants to be …

Sat 11th Nov 7pm Studio One

King Kong (1933) (PG) 100 mins. A film crew captures a colossal ape whilst on location and brings him back to New York City …

Thurs 16th Nov 2pm

Labyrinth (1986) (U) 101 mins. Directed by Jim Henson; Starring David Bowie. Sixteen-year-old Sarah must solve a labyrinth to rescue her baby brother when he is taken by the Goblin King.

Fri 17th Nov 7.45pm; Sat 18th Nov 3pm

Marie Antoinette (2006) (12A) 123 mins. Kirsten Dunst stars in Sofia Coppola’s retelling of the story of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen.

Fri 17th Nov 4pm; Sun 19th Nov 6.30pm

Notorius (1946) (U) 102 mins. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant and Claude Rains. The daughter of a convicted Nazi spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of Nazi scientists in South America …

Fri 10th Nov 7pm Studio One

Orlando (1992) (PG) 94 mins. Starring Tilda Swinton. Based on the novel by Virginia Woolf. After Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world …

Mon 20th Nov 7.45pm; Thurs 23rd Nov 5pm

Parasite (2019) (15) 132 mins. Written and Directed by Bong Joon Ho. Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.

Tues 21st Nov 7.45pm

Phantom Thread (2017) (15) 131 mins. Starring Vicky Krieps and Daniel Day-Lewis. In 1950s London, a renowned dressmaker’s fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman …

Tues 21st Nov 4.30pm; Thurs 23rd Nov 2pm

Promising Young Woman (2020) (15) 113 mins. Directed by Emerald Ferrell; Starring Carey Mulligan. A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path …

Tues 14th Nov 7.45pm

Rashomon (1950) (12A) 88 mins. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai’s ghost and a woodcutter.

Sun 19th Nov 4pm Studio One

Safety Last! (1923) (U) 74 mins. Harold Lloyd’s iconic silent-movie romantic-comedy masterpiece. A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures. Centenary screening with musical score by Carl Davis.

Sun 12th Nov 6pm Studio One

Singin’ in the Rain (1952) (U) 103 mins. Starring Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor and Debbie Reynolds. In 1920s Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.

Sun 19th Nov 3pm; Tues 21st Nov 11am

Taxi Driver (1976) (18) 114 mins. Starring Robert de Niro and Jodie Foster. A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.

Wed 15th Nov 7.45pm

The Creator (2023) (12A) 133 mins. Against the backdrop of a war between humans and robots with artificial intelligence, a former soldier finds the secret weapon, a robot in the form of a young child Sat 11th Nov 7.45pm

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) (15) 100 mins. Directed by Wes Anderson. A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel’s glorious years under an exceptional concierge.

Thurs 23rd Nov 7.45pm

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) (PG) 95 mins. Starring Catherine de Neuve. A young woman separated from her lover by war faces a life-altering decision.

Thurs 16th Nov 5pm

The Wizard of Oz (1939) (U) 112 mins. Young Dorothy (Judy Garland) and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home …

Fri 10th Nov 4pm; Tues 14th Nov 11am

UP (2009) (U) 96 mins 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.

Sat 18th Nov 11am (Relaxed Screening)