Listings May - June for a great Friday night!
Fri May 22 - Trailer
Film-Vermiglio(15)(Italy)
8pm, Doors & Bar 7.30pm
In four seasons nature completes its cycle. A girl can become a woman. A belly can swell and become a creature.
One can lose the path that once led safely home, or cross seas toward unknown lands. In four seasons one can die and be reborn.
Vermiglio tells of the final year of the Second World War in a large family and how, with the arrival of a refugee soldier, by a paradox of fate they lose their peace at the very moment the world regains its own.
115 mins
Fri June 5 - Trailer
Film -Hamnet (12) -15 left
8pm, Doors & Bar 7.30pm
From Academy Award–winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, Hamnet tells “the powerful love story that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.”
Starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn, the film explores the emotional world of Shakespeare’s family and the grief surrounding the death of his son.
126 mins
Fri June 12
NTLive
2pm & 7pm - 30 left for 7pm
by John Millington Synge
directed by Caitríona McLaughlin
Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery.
Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer becomes a local hero and begins to win hearts, that is until a second man unexpectedly arrives on the scene…
Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Caitríona McLaughlin directs this darkly funny tale full to the brim with secrets.
Listings June - July for a great Friday night!
For Hitchin Festival listings tickets are also sold via the festival box office
Fri June 19
"Warsaw 44" (15)
Special event-Sold Out
7-9pm-Film
6.40pm-Talk
6pm-Doors & Polish snacks
Time for something different.
This year the Polish School ln Hitchin celebrates it’s fifteenth birthday.
The film “Warsaw 44”, made in 2014, by Jan Komasa is a culturally important film in Poland and is on the Polish A-level curriculum in the UK. It is about the Warsaw uprising in 1944 but as a film it helped to re-align the national conversation about this historic event.
Jan Komasa is an award winning director. His latest film “The Good Boy “ released this year stars Stephen Graham and is on our possibles list.
This is a modern war film with romance at its heart so expect some blood and violence but nothing more than you get on TV.
There will be an introductory talk to explain more about the historical context and the film’s significance.
Polish snacks will be served before the film and there will be time for Q&A at the end. Approximate timings are;
Doors and bar with snack from 6pm
Talk 6.40pm
Film 7pm
Q&A 9pm
Please note the earlier start time!
Fri July 10
for Hitchin Festival
Film 8pm
Doors & bar 7.30pm
Discover Lee Miller, the pioneering war photographer who documented the truth of the Nazi regime.
A Sky Original film starring Kate Winslet.
Lee follows Miller’s extraordinary journey from model to frontline correspondent, capturing some of the most iconic and harrowing images of WWII.
117 mins
Fri July 17
For Hitchin Festival
NTLive
2pm & 7pm
by Christopher Hampton
based on the novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
directed by Marianne Elliott
BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin.
Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont, they turn seduction into strategy and weaponise desire. But when their alliance collapses into rivalry, the battle between them threatens to destroy everyone in their path.
Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Marianne Elliott (Angels in America) directs this thrilling game of love, lies, and social warfare.
Fri July 24
For Hitchin Festival
Blue Road (15) 8pm
Doors & bar 7.30pm
This documentary portrait of Edna O’Brien, the groundbreaking Irish novelist whose life was marked by literary fame, controversy, exile, and artistic reinvention.
The film includes readings from her journals (voiced by Jessie Buckley) and contributions from writers such as Gabriel Byrne and Walter Mosley, tracing O’Brien’s journey from banned author to international icon.
100mins