Coton Cinema provides an opportunity for local villagers to view recent and specialist films in their own village hall. It’s a great experience to walk to a local venue to watch films with friends.
4th Wednesday of every month
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Spring 2024 programme 7pm for 7:30 pm start
Tickets are £5 (cash or card) at the door, including refreshments (ice cream, tea or coffee).
Wednesday 22 May – The Holdovers
Wednesday 05 June – The Longest Day (special extra film for D-Day anniversary)
Wednesday 26 June – Anatomy of a Fall
Wednesday 24 July– The Lesson
Wednesday 22 May – The Holdovers 15 2 hrs 13 mins
With no family and nowhere to go over the Christmas holidays in 1970, unpopular classics teacher Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti) is stuck at school to supervise Angus, a bright teenager whose bad behaviour always threatens to get him expelled. Joining Paul and Angus is head cook Mary (Oscar-winner Joy Randolph) – an African American woman whose own son was recently lost in Vietnam. These three shipwrecked people form an unlikely Christmas family, sharing comic misadventures during two very snowy weeks in New England.
“The Holdovers is a consistently smart, funny movie about people who are easy to root for and like the ones we know. Its greatest accomplishment is not how easy it is to see yourself in Paul, Angus, or Mary. It’s that you will in all three.” Rogerebert.com
“The star gives an awards-worthy performance in this terrific period piece.” The Telegraph
“Hunham’s hero Marcus Aurelius once wrote, “Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing.” Take his advice and see this film.” Empire
Wednesday 05 June – The Longest Day PG 2 hrs 58 mins
Special screening for the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, the USA, Britain, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defences being established as part of the Reich’s Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes, they must be stopped on the beach. “For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day. The longest day.”
“The total effect of the picture is that of a huge documentary report, adorned and colored by personal details that are thrilling, amusing, ironic, sad. It makes no conclusive observation, other than the obvious one that war is hell and that D-Day was a gallant, costly triumph for the Allied forces, not for any one man. It is hard to think of a picture, aimed and constructed as this one was, doing any more or any better or leaving one feeling any more exposed to the horror of war than this one does.” New York Times, 1962
“The ambitious, huge-scale, documentary-style re-creation of the battle cannot fail to impress, and the movie is based solidly on a complex, intelligent screenplay which pulls in umpteen story strands and roles for half of the famous actors of the day. . . The difficulties of working on so large a canvas are obvious, but they are largely overcome by an incredible feat of organization and old-style professionalism, and producer Zanuck achieves his ambition in fashioning a good old-fashioned, entertaining war spectacular.” Derek Winnert, 2017
Wednesday 26 June – Anatomy of a Fall 15 2 hrs 30 mins
When her husband Samuel is mysteriously found dead in the snow below their secluded chalet, Sandra becomes the main suspect when the police begin to question whether he fell or was pushed. The trial soon becomes not just an investigation, but a gripping psychological journey into the depths of Sandra and Samuel’s complicated marriage. This film won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival
“A sparkling intellectual thriller that lingers for days.” The Telegraph
“At its center is a stunning performance from Sandra Hüller, possibly the best of the year.” rogerebert.com
“Justine Triet’s Cannes-winning tale of a writer dealing with her husband’s death is, simply put, one of the best movies about good marriages gone bad ever made.” Rolling Stone
Wednesday 24 July – The Lesson 15 1 hr 43 mins
Liam (Daryl McCormack), an aspiring young novelist, is hired to tutor the son of revered author J M Sinclair (Richard E Grant) and his art-dealer wife (Julie Delpy). However, he soon realises that Sinclair, his wife and their son all guard a dark past, one that threatens Liam’s future as well as their own. As the lines between master and protégé blur, class, ambition, and betrayal become a dangerous combination in this taut noir thriller.
“The seemingly psychotic JM is delivered deliciously by Grant, who uses his comedic ability and wide eyes to bounce from madness to melancholy. And McCormack is, once again, utterly hypnotic. With a character that could be plucked from Shakespeare, his performance as the tutor with a secret keeps you very curious indeed. Add in a tantalising score by Isobel Waller-Bridge and crystal-clear cinematography from Anna Patarakina, and this beautiful British film makes you want to open a bottle of red wine and a mature cheddar. And it will keep you intrigued to the final page.” The Sun
“This literary thriller is a master class in tension.” The Times
“McCormack, Grant and Delpy are a deliriously captivating group to watch.” The Independent
We look forward to welcoming you!
The Coton Cinema Team