Hitchin Film Club - Coming Next:
Hitchin Festival In July
Note:Tickets for Festival films can be purchased in advance from the festival box office - SOLD OUT means there are no tickets available on the door.
Festival Box Office: 01462 453336
July 7th - Slumdog Millionaire - 8pm - SOLD OUT
There are tickets available for an extra showing at 5.30pm
A celebration of british film making which won 8 Oscars and has received 87 other awards!
Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire is the film equivalent of Usain Bolt's performance at the Olympics: funny, shocking, spectacularly turbo-charged. It takes your breath away at the same time as it makes you want to holler with joy or to grab the person next to you: "Yes!" Loosely adapted from Vikas Swarup's novel Q&A, the film is set in modern-day Mumbai. Like that city, it brims and overflows, chortles with multiplicity.
July 8th - Housewives Choice - 8pm - SOLD OUT
Restored documentaries from archives of the British Film Institute.
Not so long ago housewives had a number of very good reasons to be desperate. Not only did they have to look after their families in an age of depression, war and austerity, but they did so without the consumer durables that we now consider essential. With humour frequently in its sights, Housewives' Choice is a programme of films from the BFI National Archive that explores the lives of British housewives from the 1920s to the 1950s.
The programme includes documentaries, cinemagazines, propaganda films and adverts. It also features films by two of the women who helped to shape the British documentary movement of the 1930s and 40s – Ruby Grierson (1904-40) and Kay Mander (1915-).
July 15th - Woodstock - 7.30pm
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of this iconic event.
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the famous festival that started it all. Now it seems like there's a festival nearly everyday during the summer, but once there was only one. Strangely some of the bands from 40 years ago still appear at festivals now!. Definitely appearing will be: Richie Havens, Joan Baez, The Who, Sha-Na-Na, Joe Cocker, Country Joe anad the Fish, Arlo Guthrie, Crosby Stills and Nash, Ten Years After, John Sebastian, Santana, Sly and the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Canned Heat, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane. Bob Dylan didn't make it and played at the Isle of Wight festival 2 weeks later!
Big screen, big sound, like you never heard it before. And in our case, 3 hours of peace and music!
July 16th - Old Hitchin on Film - 7.30pm - SOLD OUT
Presented with Hitchin Historial Society, this is a chance to see archive film of life in Hitchin in the 50's and 60's. Hitchin Carnival at the Priory, Election Night, "The Story of Tilehouse Street" and much more...
Tickets £5. Bar opens 30 minutes before the performance.
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