Electric Palace, Hastings | The Man Who Fell to Earth 50th Anniversary

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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...

Straight Talk: A Tribute to Dolly Parton

Where is Heaven? + Director's Q&A

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, ...

Super Nature (Subtitled)

Thu 5 Nov

* A love letter to nature created on Super 8 film created by collaborators across the world. Ed Sayers threw out a (seemingly) simple brief. To film nature on old-school Super 8 cameras. The result is an eye-popping, visceral, poetic and very personal mediation on the wild world. Enjoy shots of all manner of flora and fauna, ranging from coral reefs to high deserts, close-up of the tiniest bugs ...

Microbudget Film Workshop

Thu 5 Nov

Join director Matt Harlock (American: The Bill Hicks Story) for a practical, micro-budget filmmaking workshop, followed by a screening of his darkly comic new thriller-horror Blockhead (ticketed separately). Matt will take you behind the scenes of how Blockhead (FrightFest, Encounters) was made in just 14 days - raising the money, casting, through scheduling and shooting, to festivals and creating...

Blockhead + Danny Horn & Director's Q&A

Thu 5 Nov

A failing novelist believes his muse appears to him in the form of a drunk, psychotic decorator. As his novel takes shape, his life spirals into violent chaos, but might his next book be a masterpiece? Starring Hastings' Danny Horn and Joe Sims (Broadchurch, Dr Who). "Mesmerising - wonderful to watch", The Hollywood News "Sophisticated - will leave you stunned", Sci-fi Now "Haunting, memorable...

Labyrinth 40th Anniversary

Fri 6 Nov

Family Fridays screening: includes FREE workshop (at 4pm) led by teacher and animator Silas Money. This month we will be making Monster Finger Puppets you can take home and use to ward off evil Jareth! 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 fav...

NAZA + Introduction

Fri 6 Nov

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

Sat 7 Nov to Sun 8 Nov

A quiet, queer icon, Mary Oliver writes poems that are beloved across the globe. This dazzling film is rooted in her language and the landscapes that shaped her writing. Celebrated across the spectrum, by liberals and conservatives, atheists and believes, nature-lovers and city dwellers, Mary Oliver’s poems serve as solace and affirmation. She’s beloved by young people, shared widely on social med...

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

Super Nature (Relaxed Screening)

Sat 7 Nov

National Theatre Live: Golden Boy

Sat 7 Nov

Josh O’Connor (The Crown, Challengers) leads the cast in this searing revival of Clifford Odets’ knockout American classic. 1930s New York, at the height of the Depression. Joe Bonaparte is a gifted young violinist with a future in music, until a chance at fame and fortune lures him into the brutal world of professional boxing. He must confront what he’s willing to sacrifice, who he’s willing to...

Saving Private Ryan

Sun 8 Nov

Spielberg’s visceral WW2 epic is gruelling, but with a human, emotional core. Gripping, uncynical and ultimately uplifting. As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Invoking its Sole Survivor Policy, the US military devises a plan to pull Private Ryan (Matt Damon) out of combat and send him safely back to t...

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

The Invite (Subtitled)

Thu 12 Nov

Olivia Wilde stars and directs this dark dinner-table comedy starring Seth Rogan, Penelope Cruz and Edward Norton. Surprised to learn his wife, Angela, has invited their wall-shaking upstairs neighbours, Pina and Hawk, over for dinner, East Bay music associate Joe braces himself for an uncomfortable evening. After all, it's a done deal; Angela has planned everything down to the last detail and e...

Super Nature + Q&A

Thu 12 Nov

A love letter to nature created on Super 8 film created by collaborators across the world. Ed Sayers threw out a (seemingly) simple brief. To film nature on old-school Super 8 cameras. The result is an eye-popping, visceral, poetic and very personal mediation on the wild world. Enjoy shots of all manner of flora and fauna, ranging from coral reefs to high deserts, close-up of the tiniest bugs to...

Withnail & I (Interactive)

Fri 13 Nov

A pre-Traitors Richard E Grant and Paul McGann are two 'resting' actors who go on holiday by mistake. Expect drinks service, quote-a-long lines and goodie bags! London, 1969 - two unemployed and unemployable actors, Withnail and Marwood, fed up with damp, cold, piles of washing-up, mad drug dealers and psychotic Irishmen, decide to leave their squalid Camden flat for an idyllic holiday in the co...

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

Nova '78

Sun 15 Nov

Resurrected through UK-led archival restoration, NOVA 78' shows never-before-seen footage of the legendary New York convention where William Burroughs, Patti Smith, Zappa, Ginsberg and more collided in an explosion of ideas, art and rebellion. Part of Poetry on Screen curated by Chris McKenna.

The Man Who Fell to Earth 50th Anniversary

Sun 15 Nov

David Bowie stars as a stranded alien (no, not much of a stretch) in Nicolas Roeg’s enigmatic sci-fi cult classic. Roeg’s unclassifiable film turns 50 this year and we celebrate with a special 4K screening of this sci-fi cult classic. David Bowie plays the role of Jerome Newton, an alien coping with unfamiliar Earth culture. Jerome’s knowledge of advanced technology is put to good use creating...

The Man Who Fell to Earth 50th Anniversary

Madness: Take It or Leave It 4K Restoration

Sun 15 Nov to Fri 20 Nov

Following the early years of the ska-pop national treasures, this sly, vividly atmospheric docu-comedy is insouciantly gonzo. Originally released in 1981, this new 4K restoration of Madness’ self-authored origin tale is both goofily innocent and sharply authentic. Shot wonkily on the streets of north London, in all their gritty, grey, late-70s authenticity, this is the tale of lads in sticky reh...

Madness: Take It or Leave It 4K Restoration

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Withnail & I (Interactive)

Fri 13 Nov

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

Sat 14 Nov

Rocky III & Rocky IV Double Bill (+ Interval)

Sun 13 Dec

Going two rounds with Stallone, Mr T and Dolph Lundgren. Knockout! The Electric Palace Cinema presents two rounds of classic boxing with a one-two punch screening of Rocky III and Rocky IV. Sylvester Stallone returns to the character who made him famous in these wildly successful and hugely entertaining sequels. Rocky III starts with the Italian Stallion as world champion, so famous his likene...

Rocky III & Rocky IV Double Bill (+ Interval)

Beachcomber + Director's Q&A

Sun 1 Nov

Straight Talk: A Tribute to Dolly Parton

Sun 1 Nov

Where is Heaven? + Director's Q&A

Sun 1 Nov

NAZA + Introduction

Fri 6 Nov

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

Sat 7 Nov to Sun 8 Nov

Saving Private Ryan

Sun 8 Nov

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

Tue 10 Nov

Super Nature + Q&A

Thu 12 Nov

Nova '78

Sun 15 Nov

The Man Who Fell to Earth 50th Anniversary

Sun 15 Nov

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

Sat 7 Nov to Sun 8 Nov

Fences

Sun 22 Nov

Denzel Washington and Viola Davis reprise their Tony-winning Broadway roles in this tense, 50s-set tale of sports and familial relationships. Troy Maxson makes his living as a sanitation worker in 1950s Pittsburgh. Maxson once dreamed of becoming a professional baseball player, but was deemed too old when the major leagues began admitting black athletes. Bitter over his missed opportunity, Troy ...

Selma + Introduction

Sun 29 Nov

Facing racism and violence, Martin Luther King Jr. leads a protest in Alabama that culminates in a historic march from Selma to Montgomery. Starring David Oyelowo, Oprah Winfrey, Cuba Gooding Jr and Tim Roth, this biopic charts the tumultuous three-month period in 1965 when Luther King Jr led the fight to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The campaign culminated in ...

Finding Fela

Thu 10 Dec

Jazz pioneer, politically potent performer, and gleefully unconventional. Fela Kuti’s life in the spotlight. Finding Fela tells the story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s life, his music and his social and political importance. He created a new musical movement, Afrobeat, using the genre to express his revolutionary political opinions against the dictatorial Nigerian government of the 1970s and 1980s. ...

Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint (Subtitled)

Thu 17 Dec

A British-all-star cast relish this story of an awkward, Christmas-hating man strong-armed into helping a retirement home’s chaotic production of A Christmas Carol. John Bradley is Aubrey Flint, a reclusive model soldier painter with a lifelong hatred of Christmas, who is sentenced to community service at Willow Lodge, a retirement home on the brink of closure. Reluctantly roped into assisting...

Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint (Subtitled)

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (+ Interval)

Fri 18 Dec to Sun 20 Dec

How Cold War politics, colonialism and jazz intertwined in 1960s Congo. All set to a syncopated, driving beat. Set during the final months of the revolutionary Congolese politician Patrice Lumumba’s life, Grimonprez’s documentary, anchored by the rhythm of American jazz, forensically investigates the incendiary politics of the nascent Democratic Republic of Congo in 1960. In doing so, it reveals...

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (+ Interval)

Elf

Mon 21 Dec to Tue 22 Dec

A joyous, jaunty, laugh out loud Christmas film for all the family. A festive essential! Buddy (Will Ferrell) is different from all Santa's other elves. For one thing, he's "a cotton-headed ninny muggins" when it comes to making toys. For another, he's 6'3". And the real clincher: he's human! So one special December, Buddy sets off on a holiday adventure to New York City in quest of his real dad....

Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint

Mon 21 Dec

It's a Wonderful Life 80th Anniversary Screening

Mon 21 Dec to Thu 24 Dec

Sentimental, a little dark, but enormously heartwarming, it’s not Christmas until a bell rings in Bedford Falls. Can you believe it's 80 years old? We screen this film every year because we love it! It's A Wonderful Life is one of the most popular and heartwarming films ever made, but made with an unflinching eye. Jimmy Stewart is the owner of a money lending company that for years has been help...

It's a Wonderful Life 80th Anniversary Screening

The Muppet Christmas Carol

Tue 22 Dec to Wed 23 Dec

A wholesome, emotional, joyfully magic take on the classic tale, with frogs, pigs and great songs! And Michael Caine’s greatest role. Why do we love The Muppet Christmas Carol so much? Perhaps Michael Caine’s performance; straight as a die, "like I'm working with the Royal Shakespeare Company,”. Or maybe it’s the wholesomeness. Kermit as a hard-working Bob Cratchit, the bickering rat bookkeepe...

Labyrinth 40th Anniversary

Fri 6 Nov

Home Alone + Booby Trap Christmas Card Making Workshop

Fri 4 Dec

Mum forgets Kevin. Kevin booby-traps the house. Two burglars wish they’d picked literally any other Christmas address. The film that made a megastar of Macauley Culkin, and with an atypical comic turn by Joe Pesci, this is a confident, funny, and very Christmassy classic. With booby-trap Christmas card workshop.

Home Alone + Booby Trap Christmas Card Making Workshop

Home Alone (Relaxed)

Tue 22 Dec

Super Nature (Subtitled)

Thu 5 Nov

Super Nature (Relaxed Screening)

Sat 7 Nov

The Invite (Subtitled)

Thu 12 Nov

Nova '78 (Subtitled)

Thu 19 Nov

The Odyssey (Subtitled) + Interval

Thu 26 Nov

At last! See the epic fantasy film as Nolan intended; on a medium-sized screen (with very good, home-made cake)! The screening will include an interval. IMAX screenings might still be sold out, but the Electric Palace has seats to spare. Grab a freshly made coffee, pint of beer and some home-made cake, and settle in. Christopher Nolan’s epic fantasy is an adaptation of Homer's ancient Greek ta...

Father Mother Sister Brother (Subtitled)

Thu 3 Dec

Jim Jarmusch’s all-star portmanteau flick showcases tense family relationships and emotionally distant parents. With Tom Waits, Charlotte Rampling and Cate Blanchett. This triptych shines a spotlight on the awkwardness of parent-and-grownup-child relationships, and the guilt, sadness and — sometimes — closeness involved. The three dramas take place in the US, Dublin and Paris, with a cult, all-s...

Father Mother Sister Brother (Subtitled)

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,...

Whispers in the Woods + Intro

Sun 13 Dec

Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint (Subtitled)

Thu 17 Dec

Wicker (Subtitled)

Thu 31 Dec

When an ostracised fisherwoman commissions a woven husband, chaos and outrage ensure. With Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgard. On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbors, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker. In an otherwise conservative town, this unconven...

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Beachcomber + Director's Q&A

Sun 1 Nov

Straight Talk: A Tribute to Dolly Parton

Sun 1 Nov

Where is Heaven? + Director's Q&A

Sun 1 Nov

Super Nature (Subtitled)

Thu 5 Nov

Microbudget Film Workshop

Thu 5 Nov

Blockhead + Danny Horn & Director's Q&A

Thu 5 Nov

Labyrinth 40th Anniversary

Fri 6 Nov

NAZA + Introduction

Fri 6 Nov

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

Sat 7 Nov to Sun 8 Nov

Super Nature (Relaxed Screening)

Sat 7 Nov

National Theatre Live: Golden Boy

Sat 7 Nov

Saving Private Ryan

Sun 8 Nov

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

Tue 10 Nov

The Invite (Subtitled)

Thu 12 Nov

Super Nature + Q&A

Thu 12 Nov

Withnail & I (Interactive)

Fri 13 Nov

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

Sat 14 Nov

Nova '78

Sun 15 Nov

The Man Who Fell to Earth 50th Anniversary

Sun 15 Nov

Madness: Take It or Leave It 4K Restoration

Sun 15 Nov to Fri 20 Nov

Withnail & I (Interactive)

Fri 13 Nov

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

Sat 14 Nov

Rocky III & Rocky IV Double Bill (+ Interval)

Sun 13 Dec

Beachcomber + Director's Q&A

Sun 1 Nov

Straight Talk: A Tribute to Dolly Parton

Sun 1 Nov

Where is Heaven? + Director's Q&A

Sun 1 Nov

NAZA + Introduction

Fri 6 Nov

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

Sat 7 Nov to Sun 8 Nov

Saving Private Ryan

Sun 8 Nov

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

Tue 10 Nov

Super Nature + Q&A

Thu 12 Nov

Nova '78

Sun 15 Nov

The Man Who Fell to Earth 50th Anniversary

Sun 15 Nov

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

Sat 7 Nov to Sun 8 Nov

Fences

Sun 22 Nov

Selma + Introduction

Sun 29 Nov

Finding Fela

Thu 10 Dec

Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint (Subtitled)