As part of Back at the Cottage, we're preparing for Halloween with a screening of The Shining!
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence while his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.
1980 · 15 · 2hr 26min
Prepare for Halloween with a Classics at the Cottage 35mm presentation of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho!
A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.
1960 · 15 · 1hr 49min
Classics at the Cottage will be getting in another nice mess at our second annual Laurel and Hardy Film Night!
The main feature will be Sons Of The Desert, plus three shorts - Two Tars, The Chimp and County Hospital.
When Stan and Ollie trick their wives into thinking that they are taking a medicinal cruise while they're actually going to a convention, the wives find out the truth the hard way.
Shifting from art film to documentary, Spell Reel re-animates the historic colonial archive to construct considered “cine-kinships” between past and present.
This event is a screening of two films, reflecting the work of Luta Ca Caba Inda (The Struggle is not Over Yet), an ongoing, experimental arts project, embarked on by a cine-collective involving artist Filipa César, and filmmakers, Sana na N’Hada and Flora Gomes, that seeks to digitise and re-animate the nearly destroyed archive of anti-colonial cinema shot in Guinea-Bissau during 1970s.
An evening celebrating women in surrealist silent film, performed with live music and discussion by Hoolan Ensemble
Hoolan Ensemble is a recently formed collective of musicians and composers dedicated to performing innovative and unusual contemporary music, and to collaborating with other art forms. Join them for an electrifying evening of live music and film inspired by the forgotten artistic achievements of women in early cinema.
This smash road trip from Oscar-winner Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men, Gravity) is a pivotal title in contemporary Mexican cinema.
Featuring Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna in what is arguably their breakout roles, Y tu mamá también follows a pair of horny teenagers from Mexico City from different classes who, after their girlfriends jet off to Italy for the summer, are bewitched by a gorgeous older Spanish woman (Maribel Verdú) they meet at a wedding.
Based on the books by Louise Rennison (and directed by Bend it Like Beckham's Gurinder Chadha), Angus Thongs follows 'perfect nutter' Georgia as she keeps a diary of the trials and tribulations of being a mid 2000s British teen.
A year after his passing, we’re proud to present Ryuichi Sakamoto’s last performance: an intimate and moving concert film featuring just him and his piano.
On 28 March 2023, legendary composer Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away. In the years before his death, Sakamoto could no longer perform, but in late 2022 he gave the world one final performance – this intimate concert film, movingly directed by his son.
Charles Burnett’s heart-warming romantic comedy sees two great actors pair off against each other with hilarious results.
A fable of King Mani Kongo's quest to find his daughter in Belgium, challenging his identity and navigating exploitation, presented by the Congolese Community of Leeds.
The Congolese Community of Leeds is excited to invite you to a special event featuring the acclaimed film Pièces d'Identités. This gathering is a wonderful opportunity for us to come together, enjoy a thought-provoking film, and engage in meaningful discussions about identity and belonging.