If you're signed up to one of our courses, we recommend you check this page on a regular basis for any relevant updates.
We'll use this page to announce dates and times of introductory sessions for Talk Cinema courses, film titles for each Talk Cinema course, any potential room changes, and any other information we, or our tutors, think will be helpful to you.
If booking a place on one of our courses, please read our Code of Conduct below:
Let’s Get Physical: Film Curation, Restoration and the Shelf Life of Cinema
Tutor: Rich Johnson
Even since the ‘father of film’, Thomas Edison, and Pathé started selling film projectors for home use in 1912, the true ‘ownership’ of film (and its respected shelf life) was still 70 years away when video distributors realised the potential in film fanatics building their own libraries. The nostalgia of this period is unrivalled. Via the golden age of the home video market – during the DVD boom of the noughties – a niche market would survive and focus on the restoration of film, lost in the hinterlands and limbo of film rights and distribution. This one-off course explores the history of home cinema and the all-important boutique labels that have helped keep physical media alive.
TALK CINEMA: EVENING (THURSDAY)
TUTOR: ANDREW GRAVES
The introductory session for Talk Cinema - Evening will take place at 7.30pm on Thursday 9 May 2024 in the Studio.
Once the film to be discussed is announced on the noticeboard you can go online (or obtain your ticket from the Box Office) and choose whichever date and screening time suits you best. The group meets in person together every fortnight to discuss the film viewed.
Talk Cinema Film Credits
Enter the code talkcinema when prompted during check-out to apply one of your FIVE credits. This is one word, in lowercase.
(If you booked for yourself and one other person, TEN credits will be applied under your name, and so on.)
Please find below a list of film choices for this course (updated weekly):
- First film: La Chimera
- Second film: Hit Man
- Third film: The Dead Don’t Hurt
- Fourth film: Freud's Last Session
- Fifth film: Kinds of Kindness
Discussion session on the following dates:
Week 1 – Introductory meeting Thu 9 May
Week 2 – Discussion session – Thu 16 May
Week 3 – Film: Hit Man
Week 4 – Discussion session – Thu 30 May
Week 5 – Film: The Dead Don’t Hurt
Week 6 - Discussion session – Thu 13 June
Week 7 – Film: Freud's Last Session
Week 8 – Discussion session – Thu 27 June
Week 9 - Film: Kinds of Kindness
Week 10 - Discussion session - Thu 11 July
I WAS A TEENAGE SURFER ZOMBIE FROM MARS: A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO CULT CINEMA
TUTOR: ANDREW GRAVES
Our I Was a Teenage Surfer Zombie from Mars course will take place in the Studio for 10 weeks from 7pm-8.30pm, every Tuesday evening from Tuesday 7 May 2024.
There is no session Tue 11 June; final session is Tue 16 July
Presentations from each week will be posted here following the course session.
I Was a Teenage Surfer Zombie from Mars Preview Notes
BEGINNING SCREENWRITING
TUTOR: KEITH ALLOTT
Our Beginning Screenwriting course will take place in the Library for 9 weeks commencing Monday 13 May 2024, 6.30pm-9pm.
8 teaching weeks + final networking session on Wednesday 17 July
No session on Bank Holiday Monday 27 May or Monday 24 June.
Due to some unforeseen electrical work, Broadway Cinema will be closed for the whole day on Monday 24th June 2024.
The revised dates are as follows:
Session 5: Mon 17 June
Building closure
Session 6: Mon 1 July
Session 7: Mon 8 July
Session 8: Mon 15 July
Final Networking Session: Wed 17 July
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH - ON SCREEN
TUTOR: KENTON HALL
Our Patricia Highsmith - On Screen course will take place in Screen 2 for 8 weeks from 2pm-4pm, every Wednesday from Wednesday 8 May 2024.
Presentations from each week will be posted here following the course session.
1970S CINEMA: THE REBIRTH OF HOLLYWOOD
TUTOR: ADAM PEPPER
Our 1970's Cinema: The Rebirth of Hollywood course will take place in the Library for 10 weeks from 7-8.30pm, every Thursday evening from Thursday 9 May 2024.
Presentations from each week will be posted here following the course session.
ITALIAN CINEMA REFRAMED: REVISTING PAST & PRESENT
TUTORS: NICK DAVIE AND VALENTINA ANANIA
Our Italian Cinema Reframed: Revisiting Past & Present course will take place in the Studio for 10 weeks from 7-8.30pm, every Monday evening from Monday 13 May 2024.
No session on Bank Holiday Monday 27 May or Mon 24 June
Presentations/notes from each week will be posted on the following Google Drive following the course session:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hoVxhX7SoJsZSSLzLLu6x9vFC5c9py9I?usp=drive_link
Due to some unforeseen electrical work, Broadway Cinema will be closed for the whole day on Monday 24 June 2024.
The revised dates are as follows:
Session 5: Mon 17 June
Building closure
Session 6: Mon 1 July
Session 7: Mon 8 July
Session 8: Mon 15 July
Session 9: Mon 22 July
Session 10: Mon 29 July
Italian Cinema - Wk 1
OLD HOLLYWOOD: TOUGH GUYS AND MAD DAMES
TUTOR: RICH JOHNSON
Our Old Hollywood: Tough Guys and Mad Dames course will take place in the Studio for 10 weeks from 7-8.30pm, every Wednesday evening from Wednesday 8 May.
Presentations from each week will be posted here following the course session.
FILM SCHOOL
TUTOR: KEITH ALLOTT
Our Film School course will take place in the Library for 9 weeks on Wednesday evenings from Wednesday 22 May 2024, 6.30-9pm.
8 teaching weeks + final networking session in week 9
TALK CINEMA: AFTERNOON (MONDAY)
TUTOR: ANDREW GRAVES
The introductory session for Talk Cinema - Afternoon will take place at 2pm on Monday 3 June 2024 in the Studio.
Once the film to be discussed is announced on the noticeboard you can go online (or obtain your ticket from the Box Office) and choose whichever date and screening time suits you best. The group meets in person together every fortnight to discuss the film viewed.
Talk Cinema Film Credits
Enter the code talkcinema when prompted during check-out to apply one of your FOUR credits. This is one word, in lowercase.
(If you booked for yourself and one other person, EIGHT credits will be applied under your name, and so on.)
Due to unforeseen building works, the schedule of sessions has been adjusted as follows:
Please find below a list of film choices for this course (updated weekly):
- First film: The Dead Don’t Hurt
- Second film: Kinds of Kindness
- Third film: Film: Fly Me to the Moon
- Fourth film: Film Twisters
Discussion sessions will take place on the following dates:
- Week 1 – Introductory meeting Mon 3 June
- Week 2 – Discussion session – Mon 10 June The Dead Don’t Hurt
- Week 4 - Discussion session – Mon 8 July Kinds of Kindness
- Week 6 – Discussion session – Mon 22 July Fly Me to the Moon
- Week 8 - Discussion session – Mon 5 August Twisters