“Come out of your shell” is the strapline to June’s wildcard movie, The Memoir of a Snail. This Australian film is the Oscar-nominated and uplifting reminiscence of a childhood-trauma survivor (and now snail collector) told using stop-motion animation, with themes strictly for adults. (I fear it won’t find an audience, but please prove me wrong. I’d love to show more world cinema.)
The Penguin Lessons, starring Steve Coogan, a teacher adopted by a penguin; Mr Burton, a biopic of the early years of Wales’s greatest actor; Bonhoeffer, Pastor, Spy, Assassin, a thriller/biopic of a pacifist caught up in a plot to assassinate Hitler; and Last Breath, the tense true story of a diving trip that goes wrong are more typical Community Cinema fare. All are modest productions but have pleased audiences in their limited releases elsewhere.
A Minecraft Movie starring Jack Black is the opposite; big budget, hated by critics, but a bit of a party! The Amateur is also mainstream and an enjoyable night out with guns and chases, and a plot involving the CIA and an ordinary guy taking revenge for his wife’s murder. That may sound familiar, but somehow the writers keep it fresh. But if you like your spy stories to have more plot, then come to Black Bag with Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett playing married spies keeping secrets from everyone, including themselves.
Our ‘recorded live’ screenings continue with the Best Musical of the noughties, Billy Elliott, with music by Elton John; and National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire, ‘Quintessential Theatre’ from Tennessee Williams, with Gillian Anderson at her very best.
Finally, there is Flow, a post-apocalyptic animation that speaks louder than words: an Oscar-winner that deserves to be seen in the immersive world of cinema and is well worth coming out to the Barn to see.
For more details, see our website, flyers and weekly emails. Please view the trailers on YouTube and book online on https://barntheatre.org.uk/barncinema or phone 01285 648255, or email boxoffice@barntheatre.org.uk
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