Cinema on your Doorstep

Coming to our Screen soon 
Ruskin Community Cinema has announced its programme of films through to Easter - see below.

Tonight we offer two shorter films for the price of a longer one. Albert’s Memorial - 12 Certificate - stars David Jason and David Warner and was made for television in 2009. It is a black comedy about two old soldiers stealing and transporting the body of a former comrade in order to bury him in Germany where they all fought together in World War II.

To complete our evening we have invited local members from Transition Sutton to show us how they are using film to promote the work and achievements of "transition communities" like Sutton. Transition objectives include finding grass roots alternatives to the use of expensive  oil stocks. We will be screening an impressive professional documentary about transition communities.

Saturday 10 March at 7.30pm - doors open at 7.00pm

Amy

Our Certificate PG film tells the remarkable story of the 1930s aviatrix Amy Johnson. At a time when women aspired to be no more than wives or typists, she flew across the world in a tiny biplane, shattering records as she went and becoming an international celebrity. Our film is also a portrait of this complex woman whose tempestuous marriage to fellow aviator, Jim Mollison, brought her both joy and grief. Harriet Walter from Sense and Sensibility stars as Amy in this relatively unknown 1984 "made for television" film.

Our Film for Holy Week - Tuesday 3 April at 7.30pm - doors open 7.00pm

The Way
 

Our Film for Holy Week stars Martin Sheen as an American doctor who comes to France to collect the remains of his son killed in the Pyrenees while walking the Camino de Santiago or The Way of St James. To understand his son better, he embarks on the 800km historical pilgrimage route himself and soon meets others from around the world all looking for greater meaning in their lives. Many members of our regular audience have recommended this film to us. Certificate 12.