We are very excited to be hosting some virtual screenings over the next few months, starting with comedy drama Misbehaviour on Wednesday 7th April. Based on a true story, this warm and witty film is about a group of women who hatch a plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss World beauty competition in London.
We will be watching in our virtual screening room, where we can view the film and chat online together. The screening room must be accessed using a web browser on a laptop or computer (it won’t work on tablets or phones). You only need to book one ticket per device, so if you are watching with family or housemates on the same screen, you don’t need to purchase multiple tickets.
Tickets are offered on a sliding scale and start from £2 per household. We hope you can join us!
Misbehaviour – Wednesday 7th April @ 7.30pm
In 1970, the Miss World competition took place in London, hosted by US comedy legend, Bob Hope. At the time, Miss World was the most-watched TV show on the planet with over 100 million viewers. Claiming that beauty competitions demeaned women, the newly formed Women’s Liberation Movement achieved overnight fame by invading the stage and disrupting the live broadcast of the competition. Not only that, when the show resumed, the result caused uproar: the winner was not the Swedish favourite but Miss Grenada, the first black woman to be crowned Miss World. In a matter of hours, a global audience had witnessed the patriarchy driven from the stage and the Western ideal of beauty turned on its head.
This film has the option to switch on English subtitles.
Certification: 12A
Runtime: 106
Director: Philippa Lowthorpe
Cast: Jessie Buckley, Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Pain and Glory – Wednesday 21st April @ 7.30pm
Pain and Glory tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the void, the infinite void created by the incapacity to keep on making films. Pain and Glory talks about creation, about the difficulty of separating it from one’s own life and about the passions that give it meaning and hope. In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need he also finds his salvation.
This film is in Spanish with English subtitles.
Certification: 15
Runtime: 113
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, Asier Etxeandia
Important info about our virtual screenings:
- You will be emailed a link to the film with your unique access code and password on the day of the screening.
- The chat room will be open from 5.30pm. Please log in with plenty of time to ensure it works and join in the chat. You can test your set up before the screening to make sure it works. We highly recommend testing!
- You will need to use a laptop or desktop computer to log in and view the film. It will not play on smart TV’s, tablet devices such as iPads, Android tablets or mobile phones.
- You can sign into a second device (eg a phone or tablet) to join the online chat (your second device will run chat function only) but the film will only try to play on the first device you sign in with – if you log on to a phone or tablet first, it won’t work at all.
- Wireless ‘casting’ to TVs is not supported.
- Outputting to a TV via an HDMI cable is technically supported and something we recommend for your enjoyment. That’s how we will be watching at home!
- The film will start at the same time (7.30pm) for all audience members and cannot be paused (just like in the cinema).
- You must be in the UK to join the screening room.
- A minimum internet connection speed of 5Mbps is required for streaming.
- Internet Explorer is not a supported browser (we recommend Google Chrome)
- If you log out and back in again, for any reason, you may have to wait a minute or two before you can see the film while checks are concluded to ensure your credentials haven’t been shared.