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CULT & CLASSICS

A selection of strange and familiar pleasures
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Crash​​

David Cronenberg
Canada  ·  1996

Highly controversial on its original release, Cronenberg’s provocative satire about a group of sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists remains as unsettling as it is mesmerising.

“Evokes a kinky, modern-day re-birth of some ancient Cult of the Dead” –
Adrian Martin

​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

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The Wicker Man

Robin Hardy
UK ·  1973 

This folk horror classic follows a devoutly Christian policeman (Edward Woodward) whose search for a missing girl on a remote Scottish island is led astray by the pagan-worshipping inhabitants.


“Pure, brilliant, spine-tingling fun… a knockout!” – Boston Globe

​Screening times, review and trailer >>

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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

Frank Tashlin
USA ·  ​1957

Former animator Frank Tashlin brings cartoonish exuberance to this wild satire of ’50s mores, as a put-upon ad-exec attempts to wrangle a glamorous movie star for a lipstick commercial. With Tony Randall and Jayne Mansfield.

“Hilarious literally from the first frame” – Chicago Reader

​​Screening times, review and trailer >>
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House of Bamboo

Samuel Fuller
USA  ·  1955

Sam Fuller's CinemaScope feature relocates hard-boiled noir to Tokyo, to explore the shifting post-war relationship between America and Japan.

“The most visually lush film that the great action director ever made… a riot of color, local and otherwise” – J Hoberman, NY Times


​​Screening times, review and trailer >>

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The African Queen 

John Huston
USA  · 1951

Shot on location in the Congo, this wartime romance teams Hollywood leading lights, Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, in a hazardous riverboat adventure.

“A film that has everything – adventure, humor, spectacular photography and superb performances” – TV Guide

​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>
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Ace in the Hole 

Billy Wilder
USA ·  1951
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Kirk Douglas plays a cynical newsman who stumbles on a potentially career-making story in Billy Wilder’s acidic and unflinching examination of journalistic ethics.

“An uncompromising masterpiece” – Guardian

​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>
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Nightmare Alley

Edmund Goulding
​USA ·  ​1947

The hauntingly strange world of a travelling carnival is the setting for this moody melodrama about a charlatan spiritualist and his fall from grace (recently remade by Guillermo Del Toro).

“Gripping, exciting and suspenseful… Tyrone Power in the very best performance of his career” – Hollywood Reporter

​​Screening times, review and trailer >>

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