Sat 1 Mar // 20:00 /

George and Thom's Film Quiz Night

Special quiz event night

Here’s another chance to test your movie trivia prowess against other teams of film fans at our hugely popular quiz night. We welcome back our hosts George and Thom - local filmmakers who act, sing and even dance some of the questions. You’re guaranteed a lively evening of movie-related mania that’s fun for everyone, whether you’re a film nerd or not. And the prizes are great, too! Book early to avoid disappointment: £16 per team of 4 (£4 per person). Visit us on Facebook and Twitter for some funny clips from last year’s quizzes. And you can also show your support for Thom's project Elephant for Elephant: https://www.facebook.com/elephantforelephant

Sun 2 Mar // 20:00 /

VOYAGE AU BOUT DU MONDE (VOYAGE TO THE EDGE OF THE WORLD)

Jacques Cousteau Season

Unrated / 92mins / Philippe Cousteau / 1976 / France, Subtitles

1975, on his ship ‘Calypso’, as well as in a submarine, Cousteau and his crew sail to Antarctica. They explore islands, reefs, icebergs, fossils, active volcanic craters, and creatures of the ocean never before seen. This was the first film to show underwater footage taken from the submerged inside of glaciers or icebergs. Captain Cousteau became one of the first explorers ever to dive beneath the waters of the frozen South Pole.

Thu 6 Mar // Thu 6 Mar // Fri 7 Mar // 11:00 /20:00 /

Blue Jasmine

PG-13 / 98mins / Woody Allen / 2013 / USA

Comedy drama starring Cate Blanchett, Peter Saarsgard and Sally Hawkins. Single, broke and suffering from a nervous breakdown, housewife Jasmine travels from New York to San Francisco to stay with her sister Ginger. While Ginger encourages her to become an interior designer, Jasmine’s snobbish outlook causes her to question her sister’s taste in men. Before she can find success in interior design Jasmine’s lack of funds force her to reluctantly take on a job as a receptionist, but when she encounters a diplomat who falls for her, she begins to find some hope. (Please note: Silver Screen price of £5 does not apply to any screenings other than the Thursday 11am show - evening screenings are all £6 and £7.)

Sat 8 Mar // 14:00 /

A Hundred Parts, A Hundred Faces: at the Jerwood Gallery

Rebecca E. Marshall speaks at the Jerwood about Michel de Montaigne and Self-Portrait in Film

Venue: Jerwood Gallery, Hastings Rock-a-Nore

Talk at the Jerwood Gallery by Rebecca E Marshall, (PhD candidate, Exeter University) 'Michel de Montaigne and Self-Portrait in Film.' Montaigne was one of the most influential writers of the 16th century, who tried to create an honest self-portrait including all the strengths, weaknesses, fears and joys of his daily life experiences. His fascinating and deeply human writing includes titles: ‘Of Age,’ ‘The Force of the Imagination,’ ‘Of Experience,’ ‘Of Dying,’ ‘Of Drunkenness,’ and ‘That We Taste Nothing Pure.‘ Considering Montaigne's attempt at honesty, including his own sense of uncertainty about the truth, Rebecca will talk about his work and look at techniques used by filmmakers to make self-portraits, a hard to define genre of moving image that sometimes falls between documentary and fiction. Screenings include: Jonas Mekas: 'As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty', 2000, (excerpt) Rebecca E Marshall, 'This That Happens', 1995-2013, excerpts from personal archive. Jonathan Caouette, 'Tarnation', 2003 (excerpt). Agnes Varda, 'The Gleaners and I' 2000 and 'The Beaches of Agnes' 2008, (excerpts). Chris Marker, 'Sans Soleil' 1983, (excerpt).

Sat 8 Mar // 20:00 /

Blue Jasmine

PG-13 / 98mins / Woody Allen / 2013 / USA

Comedy drama starring Cate Blanchett, Peter Saarsgard and Sally Hawkins. Single, broke and suffering from a nervous breakdown, housewife Jasmine travels from New York to San Francisco to stay with her sister Ginger. While Ginger encourages her to become an interior designer, Jasmine’s snobbish outlook causes her to question her sister’s taste in men. Before she can find success in interior design Jasmine’s lack of funds force her to reluctantly take on a job as a receptionist, but when she encounters a diplomat who falls for her, she begins to find some hope. (Please note: Silver Screen price of £5 does not apply to any screenings other than the Thursday 11am show - evening screenings are all £6 and £7.)

Sun 9 Mar // 20:00 /

Sans Soleil

A Hundred Parts, A Hundred Faces presents...

15 / 100mins / Chris Marker / 1983 / France, subtitles

A narrated journey through the thoughts, pictures and memories of a young female woman’s travels taking in Japan, Iceland and San Francisco. Visionary director Chris Marker brings this story to life with an idiosyncratic meditation on time and place, memory and image in our post-modern universe. With an introduction by Rebecca E Marshall looking at Marker’s exploration of how memory serves to constitute an individual’s sense of self and the collective process of forging an official version of history.

Thu 13 Mar // Thu 13 Mar // Fri 14 Mar // 11:00 /20:00 /

About Time

R / 118mins / Richard Curtis / 2013 / UK

At the age of 21, Tim is told an incredible family secret by his father: all the men in his family have the ability to relive their past. He can revisit any moment in his life to try things differently until he gets them perfectly right. He decides to use his special new gift to win the heart of the beautiful Mary, but finds that the course of true love can be hilariously difficult - even with the ability to try, try and try again. A witty, intelligent, charming film with surprising depth and heart starring Bill Nighy, Rachel McAdams & Domhnall Gleeson. (Please note: Silver Screen price of £5 does not apply to any screenings other than the Thursday 11am show - evening screenings are all £6 and £7.)

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Sat 15 Mar // 20:00 /

Walking Wounded: Return to the Frontline

Special event with Giles Duley

Multi-award winning photographer Giles Duley relocated from London to Hastings over a decade ago having spent his early career as a fashion photographer. He made a transition to hard hitting reportage embarking on secretive road trips to war zones. In February 2011, Giles was catastrophically injured working in Afghanistan. He has recently realized his ambition to return to Afghanistan on his  first major photographic assignment after sustaining his injuries, documented in this multi award-winning film. Giles will introduce the film and be available afterwards for a Q&A session. 50% of ticket money goes to the Mine Advisory Group.

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Sun 16 Mar // 20:00 /

About Time

R / 118mins / Richard Curtis / 2013 / UK

At the age of 21, Tim is told an incredible family secret by his father: all the men in his family have the ability to relive their past. He can revisit any moment in his life to try things differently until he gets them perfectly right. He decides to use his special new gift to win the heart of the beautiful Mary, but finds that the course of true love can be hilariously difficult - even with the ability to try, try and try again. A witty, intelligent, charming film with surprising depth and heart starring Bill Nighy, Rachel McAdams & Domhnall Gleeson. (Please note: Silver Screen price of £5 does not apply to any screenings other than the Thursday 11am show - evening screenings are all £6 and £7.)

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Wed 19 Mar // 20:00 /

Reality Street

A regular series of live readings and performances by poets, writers and musicians

Reality Street is a regular series of live readings and performances by poets, writers and musicians. Christopher Priest – Acclaimed author of several novels, including The Prestige, which was made into a major film in 2006, and winner of many awards, including the Arthur C Clarke Award and the James Tair Black Memorial Prize. Christopher Priest will talk about his work. Paul A Green – Writer of poetry, fiction and drama, including The Qliphoth, The Gestaltbunker and the occult/speculative  fiction sequence Beneath the Pleasure Zones, will read from his recent work. Trevor Watts (pictured) – The noted jazz/free improvising alto and soprano saxophonist, co-founder of the legendary Spontaneous Music Ensemble, and sometime collaborator with Archie Shepp, Steve Lacy and Don Cherry, will perform solo.

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Thu 20 Mar // Thu 20 Mar // Fri 21 Mar // 11:00 /20:00 /

The Selfish Giant

15 / 91mins / Clio Barnard / 2013 / UK

A contemporary fable about 13-year-old Arbor and his best friend Swifty. Excluded from school and outsiders in their own neighbourhood, the two boys meet Kitten, a local scrapdealer - the Selfish Giant. They begin collecting scrap metal for him using a horse and cart. Swifty has a natural gift with horses while Arbor emulates Kitten - keen to impress him and make some money. However, Kitten favours Swifty, leaving Arbor feeling hurt and excluded, driving a wedge between the boys. This tale of “a teen scrap scavenger goes at it like a supercharged Ken Loach – and packs in Bradford’s answer to Ben-Hur to boot” – The Guardian (Please note: Silver Screen price of £5 does not apply to any screenings other than the Thursday 11am show - evening screenings are all £6 and £7.)

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Sat 22 Mar // 20:00 /

Hastings Filmmakers' Night

Unrated / 90mins approx / Various / 2014 / UK

Following the success of last year’s Hastings Film Makers’ Festival, which celebrated an amazing programme of locally produced new films, this is a chance to see the latest work from this vibrant and innovative scene. Join us for a night to showcase new short films from local talents including Nichola Bruce, Mark French, Andrew Griffin, Richard Heslop, Roland Jarvis, Andrew Kotting, Rebecca E. Marshall, Janey Moffat, Nick Pilton, Nick Snelling, Toby Tatum and more. We will be presenting the première of Mark French and Richard Heslop's tribute to Derek Jarman on the anniversary of his death, and Janey Moffat's moving investigation into the lives of Afghan women. Nick Snelling will also be showing the third of his films made in the waters of the Channel, this time from Beachy Head. "All these locally sourced films represent the continuing culture of innovative film making from this south coast hotspot," says Mark French, who has programmed the event. Films will be presented with a Q&A from the directors.

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Sun 23 Mar // 20:00 /

Gojira

B Movie Fan Club

U / 96mins / Ishiro Honda / 1955 / Japan, subtitles

When American scientists start testing nuclear weapons, guess what happens? Yep, they awaken a 164 ft tall monster reptile with radioactive breath (we could have told them). And in true monster fashion it runs amok through Tokyo. Can it be stopped? Should it be killed?... No prizes for guessing the English tile for this classic monster rampage movie.

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Thu 27 Mar // Thu 27 Mar // Fri 28 Mar // 11:00 /20:00 /

Blue is the Warmest Colour

18 / 179mins / Abdellatif Kechiche / 2013 / France | Belgium | Spain, some subtitles

At 15, Adele doesn’t question it: girls go out with boys. Her life is changed forever when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself. Winner of the Palme D’or, this masterpiece will include a 10-minute interval. Please note: this film contains explicit scenes of a sexual nature. (Silver Screen price of £5 does not apply to any screenings other than the Thursday 11am show - evening screenings are all £6 and £7.)

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Sat 29 Mar // 20:00 /

Live interactive event: Choose your own documentary with Nathan Penlington

Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award Winner 2013

A found diary, a film crew and an incredible true story. Inspired by the Choose Your Own Adventure books of the 1980s, YOU determine Nathan’s fate in a unique and compelling interactive experience - part stand-up storytelling, part film documentary. By using keypads to vote, every twist and turn is in your hands. With over 1,500 paths and multiple endings, where will the story lead? Who can help you discover the truth behind the diary’s pages and the identity of its mysterious writer? You decide. This show won The Scotsman Fringe First Award 2013 at the Edinburgh Festival and was given multiple 5 star ratings across the press. Don’t miss it.

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Sun 30 Mar // 20:00 /

Cinema Paradiso

Mother's Day Simply Italian Special event

PG / 117mins / Giuseppe Tornatore / 1989 / Italy, Subtitles

A film that has captured the hearts and minds of audiences worldwide, this poignant tale of a young boy’s love affair with the cinema is a delight. It tells the story of Toto, a young boy who grew up fatherless in a small Sicilian village in the 1940s. Now a successful film director, he returns home for the funeral of Alfredo, the projectionist at the local cinema who introduced him to the magic of film. The kissing scene makes you cry just thinking about it! Book online and take your print-out to Simply Italian, Hastings between 5pm – 8pm on Sunday 30 March to get 10% off your meal. Call 01424 201202 to reserve a table before the show.

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