Tansley Film

Thank you Tansley Village Hall.

Back to basics. Have posted these on our front and side windows today to help to publicise Sunday's innovative screening of ://www.facebook.com/events/1225920271889591 by Tansley Film to visitors and passers-by. Hope they get noticed.

It's here with us 3 days later! Please come to join 53 other people to savour this special opportunity. PRIMA FACIE (15) and Jodie Comer this Sunday 15th September. Please email [email protected] saying how many seats you would like and where you prefer to sit. £10 cash payable at the door.

Just 5 days to go to our debut with National Theatre Live screening the powerful PRIMA FACIE (15) starring brilliant Jodie Comer in her debut role at a theatre. To join us please visit tansleyfilm.org.uk/NTlive.html .

Bookings to see PRIMA FACIE (15) from National Theatre Live starring Jodie Comer (solo) are growing steadily. We have 46 now and hope to reach 60 by 15th September. Perhaps YOU can help us to reach that target. Please share to spread the word. Thank you.

We are looking forward to screening PRIMA FACIE (15) from National Theatre Live in 8 days' time. It's a powerful, emotional play with an outstanding performance by Jodie Comer. As our debut filmed play from National Theatre Live we hope that lots of people will join us to enjoy this exciting, special 114 minutes of drama on screen. Please visit http://www.tansleyfilm.org.uk/NTLIve.html for booking and cinema information. You can watch a trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLu7NgSq-e0 .

Tansley Film Home Tansley Film - Community Cinema. Tansley Film shows recent, top-rated films once per month in Tansley Village Hall.

Here's the Cast Sheet for PRIMA FACIE (15).

We have added extra information at the top of our website's home page (http://www.tansleyfilm.org.uk) telling people about coming to see National Theatre Live screenings with us. We have also provided the same information on a new page under the FILM PROGRAMME dropdown. In due course FIND TICKETS on NTLive.com will take people directly to the new page (http://www.tansleyfilm.org.uk/NTLIve.html) to tell people how to book seats to see filmed plays with us.

Great news! We are now listed on FIND TICKETS at ntlive.com, National Theatre Live's website for our screening of PRIMA FACIE (15) on 15th September.

The posters are up.

A street in the Czech Republic has been named after Sir Nicolas Winton, the hero of ONE LIFE (12A). You can watch the BBC News report here. Thank you to Sue Allen for telling us about this.

Czech street named after British man who saved Jewish children from N***s (Czech Republic) Nicholas Winton’s ‘Kinder’ return to Prague to honour man who organised rescue of 669 children.Other Sir Nicholas Winton stories are on this channel. ...

Booking for ONE LIFE (12A) opens on 25th September.

WICKED LITTLE LETTERS (15) was exceptionally well received tonight with audience exit feedback of 93% Good, 4% Neutral and 3% Bad.

Our cinema popped-up this afternoon thanks to our three helpers. We are using our new Panasonic DP-UB820 4K disc player for the first time for tonight's film WICKED LITTLE LETTERS (15) being screened to a full house of 78 people.

There's ONE seat left to see WICKED LITTLE LETTERS (15). Please email [email protected] if you would like it.

Booking opens by email to [email protected] at 8 am TOMORROW Wednesday 28th August to see the first film of our 17th season, WICKED LITTLE LETTERS (15) on 3rd September.

The posters are up!

Booking opens by email to [email protected] at 8 am TOMORROW Wednesday 28th August to see the first film of our 17th season, WICKED LITTLE LETTERS (15) on 3rd September.

Following a suggestion by one of our audience members, we are considering screening at least 6 plays per year that National Theatre records live at its theatres and distributes on Blu-ray disc through its National Theatre Live brand. This would be in addition to our traditional monthly screenings of recent, top-rated films on Tuesday evenings.

We would screen on Friday or Saturday or Sunday evenings, around once per month. Tickets would be £10, possibly available online only through TicketSource, enabling you to pick your seat and to pay with a payment card.

National Theatre Live's programme comprises around 10 plays per year. For example (only), the next play to be released to cinemas is a one-woman performance from Jodie Comer called Prima Facie (15), trailered at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLu7NgSq-e0 .

As this would be a very significant extra commitment for us, please email [email protected] saying whether you would be interested to see some of National Theatre Live's screened plays in our cinema and which of Friday or Saturday or Sunday evenings would be good for you. Thank you.

Prima Facie | Official Trailer - Back in Cinemas from 12 September | National Theatre Live -- Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/NationalTheatre Sign up to our monthly newsletter: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/register/nt-news Nation...

THE SENSE OF AN ENDING is a British film from 2017 that we didn't show. Chris watched it last night free with BBC iPlayer at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000hls0/the-sense-of-an-ending and rated it 7/10. Jim Broadbent is good as always. It's an interesting, mysterious and enjoyable film. You may wish to watch it (free) too.

"Tony Webster (Broadbent), semi-retired owner of a specialist photography shop, receives a mysterious legacy and finds himself contending with a past he had never thought that much about."

The Sense of an Ending Tony Webster, semi-retired owner of a specialist photography shop, receives a mysterious legacy and finds himself contending with a past he had never thought that much about.

Before showing WICKED LITTLE LETTERS (15) on 3rd September, we'll show our photo album of The Peak District taken in recent Septembers plus a preview of October's film ONE LIFE (12A). We look forward to welcoming everyone back. Booking opens in just 24 days by email to [email protected] .

It's not long now (while not wishing away the time) for our new season that we are all looking forward to bringing you.

It's probably a way off yet but a new film on our shortlist is SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE. It's a historical drama directed by Tim Mielants and adapted by Enda Walsh from the 2021 novel of the same name by Claire Keegan. It stars Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley, Emily Watson, Clare Dunne and Helen Behan.

It focuses on Ireland's infamous Magdalen laundries in which women who had committed no crimes were effectively imprisoned like slaves, with collusion by the state and the laundries' customers, and forced to work for no pay, as recently as 1996. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalene_Laundries_in_Ireland].

Tim Robey's 4-star review in The Daily Telegraph says it "is a tight-lipped Irish drama even more suffused with sadness than the log-line implies, and shouldered with hypnotic grace by a very special Cillian Murphy in his first post-Oppenheimer role."

Peter Bradshaw's 4-star review in The Guardian says "I was so rapt, so caught up in this film, that I wasn’t aware that it was going to be the ending until the screen faded to black. It is an absorbing, committed drama."

One of our two options for May 2023 was AFTERSUN. We did not screen it but you can watch it FREE now on BBC iPlayer at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m001w9pm/aftersun .

We have reduced our shortlist for 2nd May to TWO very different, well-rated films, TOP GUN: MAVERICK and AFTERSUN. If you might be in our audience that evening, please comment below (or reply by email to our invitation to vote) by Sunday 2nd April telling us the one that YOU would like to see with us.

1. TOP GUN: MAVERICK (our first film showable in 4K). (12A) UK release 27 May 2022. Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/top_gun_maverick rating 96% by critics and 99% by audience. Watch a trailer at https://youtu.be/g4U4BQW9OEk?t=6 .

Storyline: After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. He is called upon to train a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialised mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen. Facing an uncertain future, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his past and deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.

Scoring it 100% Robbie Collin of The Telegraph says "It’s crammed with images you didn’t know that you were desperate to see until the second you see them."

We say that this blockbuster has lots going for it with plenty of exciting aerial action (in real aircraft!) and a gripping story to bring the season to a lively end.

2. AFTERSUN. (12A) UK release 18th November 2022. Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/aftersun rating 96% by critics and 81% by audience. Watch a trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXKcWRu8K_U .

This British film won OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER and DIRECTOR for Charlotte Wells in this year's BAFTA Film Awards 2023. It won 6 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) including Best British Independent Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay. Some of the diction is hard to follow so we may enable sub-titles much of the time.

Storyline: At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum. As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. Twenty years later, Sophie's tender recollections that we see of their last holiday together become a powerful and heartrending portrait of their relationship, as she tries to reconcile the father she knew then with the man she didn't.

Scoring it 100% Clarisse Loughrey of The Independent says "For all that Aftersun can be described as gentle, contemplative and even beautiful, it’s also the kind of film that feels as if it’s teetering on the edge of a cliff."

We say that it's an observational, documentary-like story, incorporating home movie clips, with lots of dialogue between father and daughter. It has an unstated ending. Frankio Corio (as young Sophie) and Paul Mescal (as Calum) are excellent, natural and believable.

You can see lots of information about Tansley Film on its website www.tansleyfilm.org.uk, including its new FILM PROGRAMME, as it unfolds, (and last season's one too with the audience's ranking).

As you know, we have upgraded our 4K disc player to one from Panasonic that copes properly with long films. We will be using it for the first time from 3rd September. As a bonus, when we need subtitles it allows us to position them much further up from the bottom of the screen so that people at the back should be able to see them.

We are looking at upgrading our 4K (and Blu-ray) disc playback capability with the Panasonic UB820EB 4K disc player - https://www.panasonic.com/uk/consumer/home-entertainment/blu-ray-and-dvd/dp-ub820eb.html . As well as playing long 4K discs properly we will be able to reposition subtitles further up the screen so that they are easy to see from everywhere in the room. This would enable us to show subtitled films that are not/mostly not in the English language (e.g. Past Lives) or have poor diction if we choose to.

When we started in 2009 our entry charge for visitors was £4. Today, 16 years later, our charge is still only £4! That's owing to the popularity of our screenings, often with 70 or more at a film, the amazing value for money that Tansley Village Hall offers its customers (like us) and relatively low increases in licence and media costs.