'Nice Girls Didn't Go To The Academy!' Cinemas of Brighton tour
2024-09-06 17:00 - 18:30, 2024-09-13 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/London) | Duke of York’s Picturehouse, Preston Road, Brighton and Hove, Brighton and Hove, BN1 4QF, United Kingdom
Step back in time with The Usherette and discover the lost and lasting cinemas of Brighton on this guided tour.
Join The Usherette as she leads you through the town, evoking the Golden Age of the Silver Screen. The tour begins at the Duke of York’s Picturehouse and ends at Pinello restaurant approximately 6.30pm. Pinello was formerly the Pandora Gallery, where the first films to be shown outside London were screened in 1896.
Supper at Pinello (formerly known as the Melrose) is optional – please book a table directly
Pinello restaurant

Meet outside the Duke of York’s Picturehouse, Preston Circus, Brighton.
Free but booking essential.

Do The Right Thing
2024-09-12 18:00 - 20:30 | Fabrica, Duke Street, Brighton and Hove, Brighton and Hove, BN1 1AG, United Kingdom
Presented by Fresh Perspectives

Do The Right Thing / 1989 / 2hrs / Rated 18 It’s the hottest day of the summer. You can do nothing, you can do something, or you can…
Over the course of the hottest day of the year in New York City, a pizza delivery boy navigates through racial, generational, and class conflicts as tensions intensify and reach their boiling point around a pizza joint in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.
Spike Lee’s polemical masterpiece is a dissection on humanity, told through comedy and tragedy. The compelling characters, dialogue, and vignettes provide insightful storytelling which has lasting power and relevancy.
This project is possible with support of the BFI Film Audience Network, awarding funds from the National Lottery in order to bring this project to more audiences across the UK

DANCE DOUBLE BILL: Girl Walk// All Day (2011) + Hairspray (2018)
2024-09-19 18:00 - 22:30 | Fabrica, Duke Street, Brighton and Hove, Brighton and Hove, BN1 1AG, United Kingdom
Fabrica and Filmspot present a dance double bill as part of Scalarama 2024 this September. Two cult films to make you want to cut some rug, as day turns to night!
First screening at 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm): Girl Walk// All Day, 2011
Girl Walk//All Day is directed by Jacob Krupnik, is a high-energy unconventional dance film, set to Girl Talk’s 2010 mash up album, ‘All Day’. The movie follows three dancers as they transform New York City into their stage, breaking free from everyday routines to explore themes of freedom and self-expression. Bursting with creativity, it captures the spirit of youth, adventure, and the power of music to bring people together. This film is a visual feast, inspiring viewers to see the world around them as a canvas for their own moves and to embrace life with unbridled enthusiasm and spontaneity. Filmed guerrilla style on the streets of New York, and originally released in short ‘chapters’ on YouTube, this is a rare opportunity to see the completed film on the big screen.

Second screening at 9pm (doors open at 8:30pm) – Hairspray, 1988
Hairspray, directed by Scalarama darling, John Waters, is a fun, vibrant film set in 1962 Baltimore. It follows Tracy Turnblad, a plucky teenager with big hair and even bigger dreams, who lands a spot on a local TV dance show. Tracy becomes an overnight sensation, challenging the status quo with her unique style and progressive views on racial integration. The movie is a lively mix of dance, music, and comedy, highlighting important themes like self-acceptance and social justice. With its catchy tunes and colourful characters, ‘Hairspray’ offers an entertaining yet meaningful look at a pivotal time in American history.
The screening includes projections by Level 3 Animation & Illustration students at East Sussex College in Lewes.

All Of Us Strangers
2024-09-23 20:00 - 21:45 | The Old Market, 11A Upper Market Street, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 1AS, United Kingdom
All of us hurt. All of us hope. All of us love.
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbour Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.
“After an impressive body of work, Andrew Haigh levels up even further, with a flawless film that reaches for the stars, and gets there. It aches and shimmers” – Alex Godfrey, EMPIRE
Doors: 7.15pm
Film: 8.00pm

12 Angry Men
2024-09-24 20:00 - 21:45 | The Old Market, 11A Upper Market Street, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 1AS, United Kingdom
A suggestion from one of our TOM’s Film Club audience members. Life is in their hands – Death is on their minds!
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors’ prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
“Thoroughly engaging, there is nothing dated or corny in Reginald Rose’s intensely knowing screenplay and Lumet’s energetic direction” – Ian Nathan, EMPIRE
Doors: 7.15pm
Film: 8.00pm

HEARTS OF DARKNESS: A FILMMAKER'S APOCALYPSE
2024-09-24 20:00 - 21:45 | Wagner Hall, Regency Road, Brighton and Hove, Brighton and Hove, BN1 2RU, United Kingdom
Doors: 7.30pm Film: 8.00pm
With the impending release of The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola’s self financed 120 million dollar potential masterpiece / disaster-piece Megalopolis, and it’s accompanying discussion / bizarre controversy surrounding it’s production, we take a look back at the king of all madcap Coppola productions with this remarkable film documenting the sheer insanity surrounding the production of Coppola’s undoubted 1979 masterpiece, Apocalypse Now.
Combining archival footage shot by Francis Coppola’s wife Eleanor and interviews shot later with those involved in the making of the film such as Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, George Lucas, John Milius, & Martin Sheen, ‘Hearts of Darkness’ delves into the psyche of an artist on the edge as Coppola wrestles with his famed uncompromising artistic vision in the face of a $31 million dollar (easily $200+ million in today’s money) production of staggering technical and physical complexity.​
Filmed in the forests of Philippines, the production deals with everything from severe shooting conditions and cast and crew problems, to life threatening illnesses and natural disasters, all in pursuit of Coppola’s mad undefinable vision of a Vietnam war epic that has become both the textbook example of late 70s filmmaking excess, as well as one of the towering achievements of America’s golden age of modern cinema.
Truly one of the great films about filmmaking, the descent into near madness for Coppola is fascinating to watch as he chases his vision and nearly loses all sense of reality in an up river journey into the jungle almost as bizarre and wild as the ones experienced by the characters in the actual film.
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Also available is a discounted joint ticket for this screening and our November 29th screening of ‘American Movie’, a profoundly funny and beloved cult documentary about a young filmmaker with no less ambition but far less money (approximately $3000) attempting to shoot a horror film in mid 90s Wisconsin, only to a face a series of hopelessly hilarious setbacks.

OUT: Will & Harper
2024-09-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Duke’s at Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 1UN, United Kingdom
When Will Ferrell finds out his close friend of 30 years is coming out as a trans woman, the two decide to embark on a cross-country road trip to process this new stage of their relationship in an intimate portrait of friendship, transition, and America.

Backbeat (35mm) + Q&A
2024-09-25 19:00 - 21:30 | Duke of York’s Picturehouse, Preston Road, Brighton and Hove, Brighton and Hove, BN1 4QF, United Kingdom
Join us after the screening for a Q&A with director Iain Softley.
In 1960, close friends Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff) and John Lennon (Ian Hart), along with bandmates Paul McCartney (Gary Bakewell), George Harrison (Chris O’Neill), and Pete Best (Scot Williams), move to Hamburg, Germany, in search of success. Their tireless performing schedule and charismatic sound quickly put the Beatles on the road to stardom. But as Stuart falls in love with Astrid (Sheryl Lee), a local photographer, he realizes his commitment to the band isn’t as strong as he thought.

Psychomania
2024-09-26 18:00 - 20:30 | Fabrica, Duke Street, Brighton and Hove, Brighton and Hove, BN1 1AG, United Kingdom
Everybody dies, don’t they? But some come back… how do the dead come back, mother?

Psychomania is a quintessential example of British B-movie sleaze. Byronic biker gang leader Tom (Nicky Henson) lives in a glam-rock Gothic mansion with his psychic mother (Beryl Reid) and her butler (George Sanders), and yearns to discover the secret of immortality. When he finds it hidden in a locked room in the house, he returns from the dead in a suicidal ritual, and convinces his acolytes to follow his example and form an invincible army of juvenile delinquent motorcyclists. Can the police and Tom’s mother protect the country lanes and suburban streets of Surrey from this undead menace?
With a mixture of folk horror, black humour, flower power and teen melodrama, Psychomania is an utterly bonkers 70s genre flick with an enduring cult following. Have you been initiated yet?

Forbidden Planet (1956)
2024-09-28 17:00 - 18:45 | Duke’s at Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 1UN, United Kingdom
In the 23rd century, a spacecraft travels to the distant planet Altair IV to discover the fate of a group of scientists sent there decades earlier.
When Commander John J. Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and his crew arrive, they discover only two people: Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon) and his daughter, Altaira (Anne Francis), who was born on the remote planet. Soon, Adams begins to uncover the mystery of what happened on Altair IV, and why Morbius and Altaira are the sole survivors.

DRIVE AWAY DYKES
2024-09-30 20:00 - 21:45 | Wagner Hall, Regency Road, Brighton and Hove, Brighton and Hove, BN1 2RU, United Kingdom
Doors: 7.30pm Start: 8.00pm​

Yes, that’s right, we are using the original title. Drive Away Dykes or as it was stupidly re-christened by the movie studio, Drive Away Dolls is the product of legendary director Ethan Coen (who with brother Joel, created the likes of Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O’ Brother Where Art Thou?, No Country For Old Men and many more) working with producing partner Tricia Cooke, doing what a Coen does best, a superlative comedic crime caper.
When the free spirited Jamie (Margaret Qualley – Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Poor Things) breaks up with her girlfriend (Beanie Feldstein – Ladybird, Booksmart) she decides it’s time to take her demure (possibly uptight) housemate Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan – Hala, Bad Education) on a road trip to Tallahassee. But things do not go as planned when the two inadvertently get tangled up in a ludicrous criminal plot that involves everyone from Pedro Pascal to Colman Domingo to Matt Damon. This quickfire little gem of a star studded queer road trip movie combines both that familiar off beat Coen Brothers feeling we all know and love as well as delivering a fresh, slickly delivered, cheerfully trashy B-movie vibe, with lots of goofiness and lots of sex.
