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FILM FESTIVAL Enjoy gorgeous animated adventure The Polar Express at The Passenger Shed
IN PURSUIT OF
POPCORN A few fun Bristol Film Festival events to attend before 2018 draws to a close
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery On 2 November, Bristol Film Festival is hosting a night of immersive circus-themed screenings to coincide with the city museum’s current clown-based exhibitions. There’ll be live performers, an opportunity to sing along with smash hit The Greatest Showman (8pm) and a midnight movie in the shape of horror success IT, based on Stephen King’s novel (doors 10.20pm). Enter the museum after hours and be drawn into the magic in the awesome main hall.
Showtime: clowning around
Prepare your best Prime Minister moves à la Hugh Grant
The Station The fun continues with a Wickwar Wessex collaboration in the atmospheric former fire station on Silver Street. Enjoy Shaun Of The Dead zombie mayhem from 6.30pm on 8 November and a flight of flagship ales (plus bar snacks) to drink with the movie. The brewers will talk you through the tasting – just fetch your cricket bat, grab a lovingly crafted local beer and wait for all of this to blow over…
Rom-zom-com with aplomb
SS Great Britain To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the UK premiere of Titanic, the Festival is partnering with SS Great Britain on 18 November for a blacktie soirée on board the ship, bringing Kate, Leo and the crew thematically to life like never before. Guests will step aboard Brunel’s historic vessel, be greeted by the captain and serenaded on the Promenade Deck with live music from the Brunel Quartet during the drinks reception, before supper commences and the epic romance unfolds in the First Class Dining Saloon. Doors 5.30pm, tickets £37.50.
Shipshape and seaworthy (so we hope)
Passenger Shed The event pros at Hype have climbed on board with the festival to create – come on, in the sing-song voice of Gene Wilder – a world of pure imagination. Present your ticket at the gate, grab your free popcorn (if you’re a kid) and find the Passenger Shed transformed into ‘Wonkyland’. The fully-themed space will be showing festive and family classics including gorgeous animated adventure The Polar Express (23 December, 10am), Home Alone (3.15pm) and, later the same evening (6.30pm) Love Actually – prepare your best Prime Minister moves for the modern classic. On 27 December there’s a Frozen sing-along (11am) and 30 December offers up Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (11am) and When Harry Met Sally (6.30pm).
Winter Wonkyland
• bristolfilmfestival.com
38 THE BRISTOL MAGAZINE
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NOVEMBER 2018
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No 173
How about a New Year’s Eve-Eve viewing of When Harry Met Sally? Watch Kate, Leo and co on board the SSGB
See Charlie & The Chocolate Factory on 30 December