Mildred Pierce + intro

What Veda wants, her mother - Mildred Pierce - provides. Even if Mildred must end her middle-class marriage, climb atop the male-dominated business world and marry a wealthy man she doesn't love. "I'll do anything," Mildred says in explaining her love for her daughter. But does anything include murder? From a novel by James M. Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity), Mildred Pierce is a classy murder mystery, a stylish film noir told from a woman's point of view. Joan Crawford's Mildred ended a two-year career slump, earned her a Best Actress Academy Award and revitalized her career. Just when you think you've got this nominee for five other Oscars including Best Picture figured out, along comes a shocking twist ending!

Join us for the launch of our classic cocktail club Silver Screen Sippers. Each screening includes an introduction plus complementary movie-star cocktail to go along with the film screening! (Standard tickets are available without a cocktail). Hosted by author, archivist and DJ, Jenny Hammerton.

Too Much: Melodrama on Film is a UK-wide celebration of exaggerated staging, score and performance to create the ultimate spectacle. Melodrama tells intimate and familial stories, a rare cinematic form that concerns itself with women's inner lives repeatedly dismissed by critics that found the outpouring of emotion "too much"and yet these films and the legacy of 'women's pictures' carry searing social commentary beneath a glossy veneer. Imperfectly feminist yet endlessly relatable, come to the cinema to reconsider what, if anything, is "too much".

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