Aldeburgh Cinema

Contact
Susan Harrison
Phone: 01728 452996
email : web@aldeburghcinema.co.uk

Tickets and Bookings

	Normal Screenings	Children Matinees
Adult	£ 5.50	£ 4.50
OAP	£ 4.75	£ 4.00
Club Member	£ 4.50	£ 4.00
Child	£ 3.50	£ 3.50

Box office opens 30 minutes before the start of the film

Film Certificate Categories

U	Suitable for all ages
12A	Children under 12 must be accompanied by a responsible adult
PG	Parental Guidance recommended
15	Persons 15 and over only
18	Persons 18 and over only

The English Tradition

Each session £10.00
Season tickets (all five sessions) £45.00

Contact the Box Office for booking details

The Cinema
The auditorium was built before 1920, the exhibition gallery and foyer are part of an 18th century house and opens onto a delightful walled garden of an earlier date. Once a year the cinema holds its annual Film Documentary Festival which in the past have included discussions with leading film makers The Cinema which is open all year, is one of the few independent cinemas still remaining in the country. Purpose-built, it seats 286 in modern comfort and boasts the latest technology. Including a Dolby sound system incorporating digital with surround speakers and a loop induction system for the hard of hearing. Current releases are shown daily in the evening.
The Auditorium is available for hire. Also it is fully equipped as a lecture hall and has video projectors and radio microphones available for this purpose.

The Gallery
The exhibition Gallery holds exhibitions by leading and local artists and is also available for meetings and private parties. Situated on the first floor, the gallery is a pleasant setting for sculptures, potter and pictures due to the ambience of natural light that is found within. Hireable at an hourly rate for other activities, exhibitions can be booked weekly - starting on Friday through to the following Thursday. The exhibition area is thirty-two feet by twenty feet and contains a concord spot lighting track, blackout blinds and can seat fifty people. Public liability insurance is covered by the Cinema but it is the responsibility of the hirer to provide any additional insurance for exhibits and any other personal property they may have brought onto the premises.
Accessible from both the Cinema Foyer and the Gallery is a small sheltered, courtyard garden. The garden is available to exhibit garden sculpture, statues, furniture or any other item that may benefit from a sun filled location.
Local Links

wrapCD
- CDs just up the road

Britten Pears website

Interesting Film sites:

film.guardian.co.uk/
www.rottentomatoes.com/
www.bbc.co.uk/film
www.bbfc.co.uk/

General Info

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Where do you find Aldeburgh and the cinema?

Address	51 High Street Aldeburgh Suffolk IP15 5AU
Phone:	01728 452996
Fax:	01728 454026
email	web@aldeburghcinema.co.uk

Opening times:
Cinema	Mon - Fri 10.00am - 12.00 noon for advance booking
Gallery	depends on Exhibition - see Gallery details


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Aldeburgh is in Suffolk on the East coast

Cinema Club (all welcome)

For more about the Cinema Club and joining details - email Susan


	Founded in 1978 the main aim of the Cinema Club is to help provide a means to support the cinema by funding required purchases. In the past this has included updates to the technology within the auditorium so allowing us to maintain our high standards. A video library is available to members who also during the Winter months choose the Sunday Afternoon matinees. Current membership is over a thousand and growing. Members gain the following benefits: Reduced Admission. A monthly mailing of the Cinema Programme. Winter Matinees - selected by members. Access the the extensive video library. Outings to local theatres. A Winter and Summer Social event. Membership cost £15.00 per annum

		Showing times
	THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (U)	Sun 1st June	3.00pm

The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp (U) UK 1943 Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

The classic 1940s film that Winston Churchill tried to have banned,

(163 minutes)

Children's Matinees		Showing times

THE WATER HORSE: LEGEND OF THE DEEP (PG)	Sat 24th May Mon 26th May	3.00pm 3.00pm
THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES (PG)	Thur 29th May Sat 31st May	3.00pm 3.00pm

The Water Horse: Legend Of The Deep (PG) UK 2008 Director: Jay Russell

The Water Horse hatches out, makes use of a bathtub and other familiar accoutrements, paddles around the house generally creating chaos before turning into a very large and familiar monster. Youngsters - and their parents - will enjoy this tale of a lad whose encounter with a legend is set some time in the middle of World War II.
(112 minutes)
The Spiderwich Chronicles (PG) UK 2008 Director: Mark Waters.

Family entertainment when the twins, Simon and Jared, together with their sister and their mother move into the shabby Spiderwick Estate. Is this the place to find a fairy kingdom stuffed with unusual creatures? Well, it just might be ...
(124 minutes)

Fri 9th till Thurs 15th May 2008

Mike Leigh's
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (15)

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		Showing times
THE ORPHANAGE (15)	Fri 16th May (for one week)	7.30pm Mat Wed not Sat/Sun
LEATHERHEADS (PG)	Fri 23rd May (for one week)	7.30pm mat Wed
FLASHBACK OF A FOOL (15)	Fri 30th May (for one week)	7.30pm mat Wed

Fri 6th June ???
Happy-Go-Lucky (15) UK 2008 Director: Mick Leigh.

Showing the cheery side of Director, Mike Leigh (Vera Drake), a very recently released comedy with universal appeal. Sally Hawkins is the effervescent, energetic and ever-optimistic primary school teacher, Poppy. Central to the plot are the driving lessons she takes when her bike is stolen and her grouchy instructor who disapproves of her admirers. Poppy earned Hawkins (seen also in BBC's Persuasion) the Best Actress Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
(118 minutes)
The Orphanage (15) Spain 2007 Director: J A Bayona.

A classic horror movie which some might want to watch from behind their hand, or with covered ears if the slamming doors, atmospheric music and bumps in the night are an indication. On the other hand, those who enjoyed Pan's Labyrinth or relish a fit of the shivers will be riveted. Described as haunting, heart-breaking, moving and beautiful, the tale of the old house bought by a former resident and turned into an orphanage peopled also by a child's imaginary friends and unkindly spirits tells a tale of mother-love and the existence of 'the other side'.
(106 minutes)
Leatherheads (PG) US 2007 Director: George Clooney.

A romantic comedy, complete with delectable co-stars.'Dodge' Connelly (George Clooney), captain of The Bulldogs struggling pro football team, persuades Carter Rutherford (John Krasinski), a player with a heroic World War I record, to drop out of College and join the team as a crowd-pleaser. News hound Lexie Littleton (Renee Zellweger) is assigned to sniff out the reality behind Carter's wartime exploits, but the actual story turns into something quite different and involves her more intimately than she expects.
(114 minutes)
Flashbacks Of A Fool (15) UK 2008 Director: Baillie Walsh.

Joe Scott (Daniel Craig) is a Hollywood movie star, past forty. His career has peaked and addictions of all sorts have taken their toll. The funeral of his best friend in his English home town triggers flashbacks to significant event from his youth and, at the business end of the flashbacks, is Evelyn (jodhi May), overseeing his rite of passage to manhood. Not May's usual modus operandi, which is seriousness itself, and rather different from 007 for Craig, as well. Directed by Baillie Walsh and released in April.
(114 minutes)

Exhibition in Gallery

None Planned at Present

Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th May 2008

THE ENGLISH TRADITION

A celebration of three 20th century English composers
and the life of director Colin Graham OBE

Colin Graham (1931 - 2007)

Presented by Humphrey Burton and Tony Palmer
who will introduce four of his award-winning films on English composers.


Saturday 17th May (3 sessions) Session 1
	10.30 - 13.00	Tony Palmer and Humphrey Burton discuss Palmer's Access to the featured composers. Walton: Passacaglia for solo cello At the Haunted End of the Day Tony Palmer's 1980 profile of William Walton, (Winner of the Prix d'Italia).
Session 2
	15.00 - 17.00	Tribute to Colin Graham Conductor Steuart Bedford, talks about the life and work of the British director with Keith Grant and Rae Woodland. Includes rare archive films and Britten: Lachrymae for viola & piano.
Session 3
	19.30 - 21.45	Britten: Suite #1 for solo cello A Time There Was Tony Palmer's film of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, which won the Winner of the Prix d'Italia in 1979.


Sunday 18th May (2 sessions) Session 4
	14.30 - 17.30	The Burning Fiery Furnace / The English Tradition in performance A film documentary on Britten's second Church Parable followed by a concert of music by Britten, Walton and Vaughan Williams given by The Mastersingers and the Aldeburgh Madrigal Singers. (Conductor Christopher Bishop)
Session 5
	18.30 - 22.00	Tony Palmer and Humphrey Burton Q & A session Vaughan Williams: 2 songs O Thou Transcendent Tony Palmer's 2007 film profile of the life of Ralph Vaughan Williams,shown to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the composer's death.