Electric Palace, Hastings | 50 Years of Punk + Director's Q&A + Hastings Punk Choir

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VHS Box Collaging Workshop

Sat 17 Oct

Afternoon workshop with artist Tiger-lily Martinez. Make a miniature scene or cinema inside a VHS cassette with the theme Coming of Age. Supported by the BFI, FAN and National Lottery, join the Electric Palace in celebrating this season's UK-wide spotlight on youth culture on screen! Beginner friendly - Materials and refreshments provided - 14s and under to be accompanied by an adult. Hands-on wo...

Labyrinth (Relaxed Screening)

Sat 17 Oct

You remind me of the babe! Bowie-meets-Henson in this wild and dark fairytale with plenty of twisty turns. Description written by Young Electrics: Labyrinth is a visually spectacular family favourite, featuring David Bowie in tights (he also created the dreamy soundtrack). The Goblin King (Bowie) sends 16-year-old Sarah through his labyrinth, filled with illusions and deceptions in order to ...

Hastings Bonfire Night - Cafe & Bar Opening

Sat 17 Oct

Join us for Hastings Bonfire Night, for cold or hot drinks and watch the procession from our prime position on the High Street. Hot chocolate and marshmallows for the kids, and wines, ales and our very own Electric Pale on sale til 9.30pm. Drink in our plush cinema surroundings or take-away for the evening's outdoor festivities. Either way we are the perfect spot to get close to the action on ...

Hastings Bonfire Night - Cafe & Bar Opening

Loving Karma

Sun 18 Oct

Loving Karma is the long-anticipated continuation of the Emmy Award–winning documentary Tashi and the Monk. Set in the remote Himalayan foothills of Arunachal Pradesh, India, this new director’s cut returns to the original tale while expanding on the extraordinary 12-year journey of Tashi—a lively young girl once among the most troubled children at the Jhamtse Gatsal Children’s Community. Throug...

Cry-Baby

Sun 18 Oct

John Waters pitches teen delinquent rockers against squares in this Elvis-spoofing, music-filled romance. With Johnny Depp, Ricki Lake and Iggy Pop. Waters’ second film after going legit with 1988’s anti-racist doo-wop masterpiece Hairspray, Cry-Baby sees DIY trash-merchant John Waters working on an even larger canvas. Set in 50s Baltimore it tells of the forbidden love between Cry Baby Walker...

Quadrophenia

Sun 18 Oct

Here come the mods! Teen scooter odyssey based on The Who’s double-album rock opera. A blistering benchmark of rock n’ roll cinema. The ultimate mods vs rockers clash starring Phil Daniels as the mod on an odyssey to Brighton. Featuring a cast of established and future stars, such as Leslie Ash, Philip Davies, Ray Winstone, Toyah Wilcox, Michael Elphick, Timothy Spall and Sting, and a monumental...

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Wed 21 Oct

Fishnets, fabulousness and absolute nonsense. Virgin or veteran, don't dream it—see it. Audience participation gloriously encouraged. Now also showing as a tribute to the incandescent Tim Curry, the core and heart of the film. Our annual foray into the world of Frank-N-Furter, the transvestite mad scientist from outer space who is about to unveil his greatest creation. Let's do the Time Warp aga...

Living for Kicks (Subtitled)

Thu 22 Oct

The rise of the teenager! Find teddy boys, coffee bars, pop stars and a Brighton and Liverpool frothing with late-50s/early 60s subcultures. BFI National Archive presents Living for Kicks. Step into the burgeoning British youth culture of the 1950s and 60s with this selection of excerpts from the BFI National Archive’s Associated-Rediffusion collection. Launched in 1955 as part of the fledgling ...

Bitter Christmas

Thu 22 Oct to Thu 29 Oct

Pedro Almodóvar’s very personal melodrama circles grief, loss and women’s creativity in a multi-layered, kaleidoscopic work. In 2004: After her mother dies, director Elsa (Bárbara Lennie) immerses herself in work. When a migraine forces her to stop, she travels to Lanzarote with a friend (Victoria Luengo) while her fireman/stripper boyfriend (Patrick Criado) stays behind. Desperate to break her w...

Revolution Anyone + Director's Q&A

Fri 23 Oct

RevolutionAnyone is a positive, timely documentary that says ‘yes we can’ change our society to better reflect the needs of all its citizens. With Jeremy Corbyn, Mhairi Black, Ken Loach and Gary Younge. STORM THE PALACE! is a set of political documentaries curated by Hastings’ BAFTA Award-winning Producer/Director Archie Lauchlan. “As a lecturer in documentary filmmaking, I would always start s...

13 Going on 30 + FREE Mocktail

Sat 24 Oct

Noughties body-swap story with Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo. Glittery, pink, and goofy! Jenna Rink wishes she could just grow up after being humiliated at her 13th birthday party — only to wake up as a 30-year-old fashion magazine editor. Join us for this coming of age body swap story that will remind teens what its like to be an adult, and adults what its like to be teens. With mocktails ...

Carrie - 50th Anniversary Screening

Sat 24 Oct

Boarding on Insanity + Director's Q&A

Sun 25 Oct

Many of our global leaders have been to boarding school. From Boris Johnson to Mark Zuckerberg, Rupert Murdoch to Richard Branson. The world is going through a crisis: war, environmental collapse and poverty. Could the world?s challenges be because some of the world?s political and business leaders are psychologically traumatised by boarding school? Boarding on Insanity explores the trauma that re...

The Virgin Suicides

Sun 25 Oct

Dreamy, mysterious, and stylish, Sophia Coppola’s ode to suburban teen angst has become a cult classic. Starring Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett and Kathleen Turner. Adapted from the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, Sophia Coppola masterfully captures adolescent longing, dreamy nostalgia, and the haunting mystery of youth. A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who live s...

How to Make a Monster

Sun 25 Oct

When a master monster make-up artist is sacked by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge. A self-contained sequel of sorts to American International Pictures’ previous hit films I Was a Teenage Werewolf and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, the tongue-in-cheek film is set almost entirely at a fictional movie studio. A mild attempt at satire on the movi...

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

Mon 26 Oct

Partly shot in Eastbourne, this noughties classic captures the rollercoaster agonies and ecstasies of adolescence, but above all, the push-and-pull of teen friendships. On the verge of turning 15, Georgia sets her sights on the new guy at school, “gorgeous sex-god” Robbie (a very young Aaron Taylor-Johnson), band member of the Stiff Dylans. Millennial cult favourite, this coming-of-age film is f...

Pride

Tue 27 Oct

The true, 80s-set story of the unlikely alliance between gay and lesbian activists and striking miners. Uplifting, smart and with sharp period detail. With Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton and Paddy Considine. In the summer of 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. But there’s an issue: the NUM appears to be reluc...

Human Traffic

Tue 27 Oct

Rocks

Wed 28 Oct

A young teenage girl struggles to take care of herself and her younger brother after being abandoned by their single mother. Shot naturalistically this earthy, bittersweet coming-of-age tale is heart-breaking and life-affirming in equal measure. 'Rocks', a Nigerian British girl may not be academic, but she’s a whizz with a make-up brush. When her troubled mum leaves her and her younger brother to...

Music Video Night

Wed 28 Oct

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Wed 21 Oct

Revolution Anyone + Director's Q&A

Fri 23 Oct

Boarding on Insanity + Director's Q&A

Sun 25 Oct

Linda Linda Linda 4K Restoration + Intro by Japanese Film Club

Sat 14 Nov

When their band breaks up three days before the annual festival at their Tokyo high school, three girls hastily form a new outfit with a Korean exchange student. They must work around the clock to learn two songs by their favourite punk group, navigating old and new allegiances along the way. Joyful, triumphant, funny, and, in a genre susceptible to cliches, very real. Japanese Film Club bring...

Linda Linda Linda 4K Restoration + Intro by Japanese Film Club

Loving Karma

Sun 18 Oct

Revolution Anyone + Director's Q&A

Fri 23 Oct

How to Make a Monster

Sun 25 Oct

Sheep, Actually

Fri 30 Oct

Baa! This month’s Knitflix screening is appropriately sheep-themed. From fleece to fashion house; the origins and journey of wool. Sheep Actually started with the first photo filmmaker Paul Wyatt ever took: a blurred sheep's nose on a school trip when he was just nine. This lifelong love of animals and a deep-seated curiosity to understand their lives drove Wyatt to make this film. It opens a ...

Fright night Halloween Special: The Evil Dead + Intro

Fri 30 Oct

Join us for a Fright Night Halloween Special! Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell’s gory, no-budget, shot on 16mm, classic was one of the original 'video nasties'. It’s a now-familiar story: five high schoolers in a woodland cabin for the weekend, summon demonic forces that possess them. Unpleasant, creepy and wince-inducing. The opening salvo to a long, cult horror franchise. ?? “Rites-of-passage vie...

Fright night Halloween Special: The Evil Dead + Intro

Beachcomber + Director's Q&A

Sun 1 Nov

Hastings' Aristotelis Maragkos' haunting and evocative tale of a sailor’s son who obsessively dreams of building a boat from scrap metal. Elias dreams of building a boat from scrap metal, chasing the shadow of his sailor father’s legacy. But as his creation crumbles, so does the myth he’s built around himself—forcing him to confront the fragile truth of who he really is. Hastings Own, Aristoteli...

Straight Talk: A Tribute to Dolly Parton

Sun 1 Nov

Dolly Parton was iconic in the truest sense of the word and, for many of us, her death at the age of 80 was a devastating blow. In parallel with her stellar musical career and life as a generous philanthropist, Parton was also an acclaimed actor. This month we remember her with a rare screening of Straight Talk, showing the sass and sweetness Dolly was so famous for off-screen. This romantic c...

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Where is Heaven?

Sun 1 Nov

Maverick soulmates Ged and Dave are on a mission through the winding lanes and hidden tracks of North Devon, to record the lives and experiences of people living without mains electricity. Where is Heaven is about life off-grid in Devon and an awful lot more. Gerard Bryan and David Rafique's award-winning film, captured over 10 years, shows not only the beauty of an often-harsh rural environment, ...

NAZA + Introduction

Fri 6 Nov

50 Years of Punk + Director's Q&A + Hastings Punk Choir

Tue 10 Nov

Fifty years on, punk’s core values of individuality, creativity, authenticity and freedom are more relevant than ever. Punk was never about the music - it is a way of life. With Hastings Punk Choir and Q&A with director Mark Sloper. This new documentary traces the explosion of punk on London’s Kings Road and is an authentic insider account of punk’s evolution and legacy, created by the artists a...

50 Years of Punk + Director's Q&A + Hastings Punk Choir

VHS Box Collaging Workshop

Sat 17 Oct

Labyrinth (Relaxed Screening)

Sat 17 Oct

Cry-Baby

Sun 18 Oct

Quadrophenia

Sun 18 Oct

Living for Kicks (Subtitled)

Thu 22 Oct

13 Going on 30 + FREE Mocktail

Sat 24 Oct

Carrie - 50th Anniversary Screening

Sat 24 Oct

The Virgin Suicides

Sun 25 Oct

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

Mon 26 Oct

Pride

Tue 27 Oct

Labyrinth (Relaxed Screening)

Sat 17 Oct

Living for Kicks (Subtitled)

Thu 22 Oct

Bitter Christmas

Thu 22 Oct to Thu 29 Oct

Whispers in the Woods (Subtitled)

Thu 10 Dec

Lynx, deer, owls and three generations of nature-lovers. A mesmerising journey into the wild, where patience, instinct and family rule. Celebrated wildlife photographer Vincent Munier invites us into the heart of the Vosges forests. It is here Vincent’s father Michel, a naturalist, taught him everything. Now, it is time for them to pass on this wisdom to Vincent’s son, Simon. Three perspectives,...

50 Years of Punk + Director's Q&A + Hastings Punk Choir

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VHS Box Collaging Workshop

Sat 17 Oct

Labyrinth (Relaxed Screening)

Sat 17 Oct

Hastings Bonfire Night - Cafe & Bar Opening

Sat 17 Oct

Loving Karma

Sun 18 Oct

Cry-Baby

Sun 18 Oct

Quadrophenia

Sun 18 Oct

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Wed 21 Oct

Living for Kicks (Subtitled)

Thu 22 Oct

Bitter Christmas

Thu 22 Oct to Thu 29 Oct

Revolution Anyone + Director's Q&A

Fri 23 Oct

13 Going on 30 + FREE Mocktail

Sat 24 Oct

Carrie - 50th Anniversary Screening

Sat 24 Oct

Boarding on Insanity + Director's Q&A

Sun 25 Oct

The Virgin Suicides

Sun 25 Oct

How to Make a Monster

Sun 25 Oct

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

Mon 26 Oct

Pride

Tue 27 Oct

Human Traffic

Tue 27 Oct

Rocks

Wed 28 Oct

Music Video Night

Wed 28 Oct

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Wed 21 Oct

Revolution Anyone + Director's Q&A

Fri 23 Oct

Boarding on Insanity + Director's Q&A

Sun 25 Oct

Linda Linda Linda 4K Restoration + Intro by Japanese Film Club

Sat 14 Nov

Loving Karma

Sun 18 Oct

Revolution Anyone + Director's Q&A

Fri 23 Oct

How to Make a Monster

Sun 25 Oct

Sheep, Actually

Fri 30 Oct

Fright night Halloween Special: The Evil Dead + Intro

Fri 30 Oct

Beachcomber + Director's Q&A

Sun 1 Nov

Straight Talk: A Tribute to Dolly Parton

Sun 1 Nov

Where is Heaven?

Sun 1 Nov

NAZA + Introduction

Fri 6 Nov

50 Years of Punk + Director's Q&A + Hastings Punk Choir

Tue 10 Nov

VHS Box Collaging Workshop

Sat 17 Oct

Labyrinth (Relaxed Screening)

Sat 17 Oct

Cry-Baby

Sun 18 Oct

Quadrophenia