Programme Intro: January/February 2020
20 January 2020
2020. It perhaps feels this way with every new decade but 2020 very much feels like the future. Cinema often speculates about both near and distant futures. As such it becomes a neat way of...
20 January 2020
2020. It perhaps feels this way with every new decade but 2020 very much feels like the future. Cinema often speculates about both near and distant futures. As such it becomes a neat way of...
11 November 2019
One feels the burden of responsibility at times at Belmont Filmhouse. To listen to our customers and our members. To deliver quality cinema. To find creative ways to be accessible and socially...
11 November 2019
One feels the burden of responsibility at times at Belmont Filmhouse. To listen to our customers and our members. To deliver quality cinema. To find creative ways to be accessible and socially...
2 October 2019
At time of writing, Venice Film Festival has just kicked off. Although unfortunately not during the festivities, I was there recently. I can’t imagine a more perfect setting for it. Not unlike...
13 August 2019
It’s amazing to think that in the last intro I rather skited over Once Upon A Time... in Hollywood. It was released on the second last day of the July/August schedule. It’s not that it became an...
1 July 2019
The French plantation scene stays. That’s all we really needed to know. On 13 August we show the very Final Cut (probably, possibly) of Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece Apocalypse Now....
21 May 2019
In Yesterday, Richard Curtis imagines a world without The Beatles. Ed Sheeran exists. James Corden exists. And Richard Curtis would have to exist. Go figure. It becomes impossible to conclude...
10 April 2019
Johnny Cash is a convicted criminal ya bawbag!” is a striking, thoroughly Glaswegian line in WILD ROSE. You wonder – did Jessie Buckley shoot a man in Renfrew just to watch him die? The film...
27 February 2019
There’s a story currently circulating regarding a man, one Raphael Samuel, who is suing his parents for giving birth to him. He is 27, from Mumbai and is an ‘anti-natalist’ - meaning he did not...
18 January 2019
What does it mean, ‘to play against type’? Come January/February you may find many examples. Usually it’s motivated by the opportunity to hold aloft a small gold-plated statue, but there are...
28 November 2018
Often at Christmas there can be the tendency to be over-hasty. You’ll have long noticed those adverts for Xmas dinner in your local pub, that invasive jangling of bells at the department...
14 September 2018
I had a friend at school who used to say that Harry Dean Stanton had never been in a bad film. Even 15 years ago, that is quite the claim. Harry Dean Stanton has been in a lot of films. I’m not...
30 November 2017
As we head into November we are delivering a packed brochure, brimming and beaming with over 70 films (!), which will see us past Christmas and the New Year. There’s a present for everyone. Yes,...
Have a look at what's on to book a screening or event.
Still adding?
If you don’t want to view your Watch list right now, you can access your list anytime from your profile.