The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Interactive)
Fri 16 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...
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...
Revolution Anyone + Director's Q&A
Fri 23 Oct
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 students’ 3-year courses by saying that if we acknowledge cinema’s unparalleled capacity to affect people, then it follows that a factual story told on film – with the potential to eclipse any fiction you ...
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...
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 + Director's Recorded Intro
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...
Climate of the Hunter
Thu 15 Oct
Book all 4 Independent Visions films and get the 4th one free when using the Independent Visions Loyalty Card! Strong direction and an arresting sense of visual style make this vampire love triangle, lo-fi flick a treat for fans of off-kilter horror. This is the 37th no-budget film by Oklahoma musician-turned-filmmaker Mickey Reece. Also known as “the Flyover Fassbinder” or “the Backwoods Bergm...
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...
Revolution Anyone + Director's Q&A
Fri 23 Oct
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 students’ 3-year courses by saying that if we acknowledge cinema’s unparalleled capacity to affect people, then it follows that a factual story told on film – with the potential to eclipse any fiction you ...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
The Civil Dead
Thu 19 Nov
Book all 4 Independent Visions films and get the 4th one free when using the Independent Visions Loyalty Card! Clay is a loner photographer who enjoys a mundane life with his artist wife Whitney in Los Angeles. After Whitney advises Clay, who has been creatively stagnant and unemployed for months, to go out and be productive while she’s out of town and not to “just lay in the living room and drin...
Northern Soul: Still Burning
Tue 1 Dec
A docu-celebration of the high-kicking, amphetamine-fuelled dance scene that flourished in the UK in the 1970s. Thumping! Bring your talc. This music and dance movement has weaved and transformed itself musically and culturally through the decades, yet remains as vibrant and relevant today as when it first evolved. The scene revolved around Wigan Casino's legendary all-nighters, which brought so...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
Nothing Scheduled
The Christophers (Subtitled)
Thu 15 Oct
Steven Soderbergh pits Ian McKellen against Michaela Coel in a dark comedy about art, criticism and forgery. Julian Sklar (McKellen) was once a star of London’s 1960’s and 70’s pop art explosion, but he hasn’t painted in decades and has been broke for years. Desperate for an inheritance, his two estranged children hire Lori, an art restorer and former forger (Coel), to pose as a prospective ass...
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 ...
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
From iconic director Pedro Almodóvar (All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Volver) comes a rich, reflexive melodrama investigating the mysteries of creativity and the fluid boundaries between reality and fiction. 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 he...
