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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

Bitter Christmas

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...

Ish

Thu 29 Oct

Two 12-year-old best friends struggle with their relationship after a police stop and search. Set in Luton’s South Asian and Middle Eastern community, it’s a story of political and racial tension, loss and growing up. Written and directed by artist, musician and film-maker Imran Perretta and co-written by Enda Walsh (Hunger), Ish was shot in lustrous black and white by cinematographer Jermaine Ca...

Charlie Shaw's Revenge + Director's Q&A

Thu 29 Oct

Introducing another clown to the horror genre, this bloody, emotionally-charged slasher is packed with practical effects and dripping with suspense. A group of workers preparing for the re-opening of a remote adventure park on the brink of bankruptcy, find themselves stalked by a silent killer. Cut off from any form of rescue, the survivors must band together to fight for their lives. Cerys Knig...

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 viewin...

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Get Out

Sat 31 Oct

Blackity Black Halloween Double Bill Directed by Jordan Peele, this bold horror-comedy explores themes of white insecurity, slavery and the fetishisation of Black bodies. Daniel Kaluuya is the nice guy wary of meeting his white girlfriend’s rich, liberal family. With good reason. Creepy, funny, and merciless. “Is it too early to call this a modern genre classic?” BFI

Blacula

Sat 31 Oct

Blackity Black Halloween Double Bill An 18th century 'African' prince is transformed into a vampire while visiting Transylvania, 200 years later, he awakens in 1970s Brooklyn, New York. Part of the blaxploitation movement, starring the smooth William Marshall, and created by a Black director William Crain this 1972 horror is endearingly trashy, has costumes & facial hair to die for and was made fo...

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

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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 which this month will focus on making Monster Finger Puppets you can take home, and use to ward off Jareth evil! 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 f...

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...

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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...

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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

Rocky III & Rocky IV Double Bill (+ Interval and Quiz)

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 like...

Rocky III & Rocky IV Double Bill (+ Interval and Quiz)

Sheep, Actually

Fri 30 Oct

Fright night Halloween Special: The Evil Dead + Intro

Fri 30 Oct

Blacula

Sat 31 Oct

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

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

Rocks

Wed 28 Oct

Music Video Night

Wed 28 Oct

Ish

Thu 29 Oct

Charlie Shaw's Revenge + Director's Q&A

Thu 29 Oct

Get Out

Sat 31 Oct

Blacula

Sat 31 Oct

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. ...

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

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...

Nova '78 (Subtitled)

Thu 19 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 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

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)

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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Wed 28 Oct

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Wed 28 Oct

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Thu 29 Oct

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Fright night Halloween Special: The Evil Dead + Intro

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Get Out

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Blacula

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Beachcomber + Director's Q&A

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Straight Talk: A Tribute to Dolly Parton

Sun 1 Nov

Where is Heaven? + Director's Q&A

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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

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Super Nature (Relaxed Screening)

Sat 7 Nov

National Theatre Live: Golden Boy

Sat 7 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 and Quiz)

Sun 13 Dec

Sheep, Actually

Fri 30 Oct

Fright night Halloween Special: The Evil Dead + Intro

Fri 30 Oct

Blacula

Sat 31 Oct

Beachcomber + Director's Q&A

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Straight Talk: A Tribute to Dolly Parton

Sun 1 Nov

Where is Heaven? + Director's Q&A

Sun 1 Nov

NAZA + Introduction

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Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

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Saving Private Ryan

Sun 8 Nov

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

Tue 10 Nov

Rocks

Wed 28 Oct

Music Video Night

Wed 28 Oct

Ish

Thu 29 Oct

Charlie Shaw's Revenge + Director's Q&A

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