APRIL 2024 FILMS

Wednesday 10th April 2024 (FREE Vintage Matinee)

THE MALTESE FALCON

In this film-noir classic, hard-boiled San Francisco private eye Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) is a man with questionable morals but unquestionably good at what he does. One day, Spade is approached by Miss Wonderly (Mary Astor), a woman who offers him considerable money in exchange for the protection of her safety from a man named Floyd Thursby. What follows is a series of murders, corruption and uncertainty all tied up in a classic web of mystery and deceit and leading to one particular MacGuffin: a prized Maltese falcon statuette.

  • DATE: Wednesday 10 April 2024
  • GENRE: Crime| Film Noir|Mystery
  • YEAR: 1941
  • CERTIFICATE: PG
  • DURATION: 1hr 40m
  • LANGUAGE: English
  • DOORS OPEN: 1.00pm
  • PROGRAMME BEGINS: 1.30pm
  • ADMISSION: FREE

REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE

Friday 22nd April, 2024

Please note that  ‘ONE LIFE’ replaces the previously scheduled film ‘THE DIG’ due to difficulty obtaining a licence. We apologise for this change in the programme and there should be no other changes this year.

ONE LIFE

The true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton (Anthony Hopkins & Johnny Flynn), a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis. Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria, living in desperate conditions with little or no shelter and food, and under threat of Nazi invasion. He immediately realized it was a race against time. How many children could he and the team rescue before the borders closed? Fifty years later, it’s 1988 and Nicky lives haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England; always blaming himself for not doing more. It’s not until a live BBC television show, ‘That’s Life’, surprises him by introducing him to some surviving children – now adults – that he finally begins to come to terms with the guilt and grief he had carried for five decades.

  • DATE: Friday 26 April 2024
  • GENRE: Biography|Drama|History
  • YEAR: 2023
  • CERTIFICATE: 12A
  • DURATION: 1hr 49m
  • LANGUAGE: English
  • DOORS OPEN: 7.00pm
  • PROGRAMME BEGINS: 7.30pm
  • ADMISSION: £5.00

BAR AND REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE

PLEASE NOTE: Only members need to reserve tickets by emailing
lildfc@btinternet.com or me.stephen@yahoo.co.uk