Our Christmas screening is the 2019 adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel, directed by Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) and starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh and Eliza Scanlen as the four March sisters.
Faithful to the original and well-loved story, Gerwig’s adaptation brings in some contemporary energy, with a storyline that follows Jo March as she reflects back on her life.
Dir: Greta Gerwig Cert: U 135m
Tickets: £5 / £2 under 18s - available on the door.
Sharp, funny and based on a true story, we follow career criminal Forrest Tucker, who escapes from prison at the age of 70, eluding the FBI and enchanting the public.
Starring Robert Redford, this light-hearted, touching and funny take on a cops-and-robber story is a great final film for the cinema icon.
Dir: David Lowery Cert: 12A 93m
Tickets: £5 / £2 under 18s - available on the door.
Daniel Day Lewis stuns in his final performance in this film by writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza, Boogie Nights).
Set in glorious 1950s post-war London, Phantom Thread follows Reynolds Woodcock, a renowned dressmaker at the centre of British fashion at the time. A well-known bachelor, his ordered life is shaken up when he falls in love with a waitress who becomes his muse.
Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson Cert: 15 130m
Tickets: £5 / £2 under 18s - available on the door.
Focusing on two Cornish fishermen, Bait is a truly original and beautifully shot drama.
An experimental British hit, it deals with the tensions between locals and tourists against the backdrop of second homes, short-term lets and gentrification in a small fishing village.
Dir: Mark Jenkin Cert:15 89m
Tickets: £5 / £2 under 18s - available on the door.
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, isolated from society, devoted but unconventional father Ben (Viggo Mortensen) dedicates his life to transforming his six young children into extraordinary adults.
When tragedy strikes the family they are forced to leave their wilderness paradise and begin a journey into the outside world that challenges Ben’s idea of what it means to be a parent and brings into question everything he has taught his family.
Dir: Matt Ross Cert: 15 118m
Tickets: £5 / £2 under 18s - available on the door.
This Oscar-winning film stars Frances Dormand as Fern, whose change in circumstances sees her transition to become a modern-day economic nomad, living out of her van and travelling the roads of America’s Midwest to follow the work.
As we accompany Fern on her journey, we meet some of the other characters who make up her new community.
Dir: Chloé Zhao. Cert: 12A 107m
Tickets: £5 / £2 under 18s - available on the door.
*Please note, due to the timing of the Anstruther Harbour Festival, this month the cinema will be on the 2nd Sunday of the month*
Based on a true story, hardened journalist Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys) is asked to write a profile of America’s beloved children’s entertainer Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks).
We watch as his cynicism is gently worn down by Mister Rogers’ consistently kind, hopeful, forgiving and loving worldview.
Dir: Marielle Heller Cert: PG 109m
Tickets: £5 / £2 under 18s - available on the door.
Frank Capra’s acclaimed and stunning Oscar-winning comedy sees a spoilt heiress on the run from her overbearing millionaire father.
Crossing paths with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable), he promises not to turn her in if she provides him with an exclusive story. It is not long before the pair fall in love.
Dir: Frank Capra Cert: U 105m
Tickets: £5 / £2 under 18s - available on the door.
Written and directed by the talented Taika Waititi, this comedy-drama stars Roman Griffin Davis as ten-year-old Hitler Youth member, Jojo Betzler.
Jojo’s discovery that his mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in the attic sets off a string of events that forces him to question his ideological beliefs and reconsider his choice of imaginary friend.
Dir: Taika Waititi Cert: 12A 108mTickets: £5 / £2 under 18's - available on the door.
Directed by Armando Iannucci and starring Dev Patel in the title role, this is an energetic and witty romp, which takes unapologetic liberties with Dickens’ semi-autobiographical novel, David Copperfield.
We follow the twists and turns of fortune, from birth to infancy, through adolescence to adulthood, as the good-hearted David Copperfield navigates Victorian England in a tale of kindness and wickedness, poverty and wealth.
Dir: Armando Iannucci Cert: PG 119m
Tickets: £5 / £2 under 18s - available on the door
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