35mm Film

SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE
RELEASE DATE: 16/11/24
RATING:PG Low level coarse language
RUNTIME: 101mins
DIRECTOR: Nora Ephron
ACTORS: Bill Pullman, Meg Ryan, Rita Wilson, Tom Hanks, David Hyde Pierce

After his wife Maggie passes away, Sam Baldwin and his 8-year-old son Jonah relocate from Chicago to Seattle to escape the grief associated with Maggie’s death. Eighteen months later Sam is still grieving and can’t sleep. Although Jonah misses his mother, he wants his father to get a new wife despite Sam having not even contemplated dating again. On Christmas Eve, Sam (on Jonah’s initiative) ends up pouring his heart out on a national radio talk show about his magical and perfect marriage to Maggie, and how much he still misses her. Among the many women who hear Sam’s story and fall in love with him solely because of it is Annie Reed, a Baltimore-based newspaper writer. Annie’s infatuation with Sam’s story and by association Sam himself is despite being already engaged. But Annie’s relationship with her straight-laced fiance Walter is unlike her dream love life in the movie An Affair to Remember (1957).

FF: Paris Is Burning
RELEASE DATE: 24/11/24
RATING: M Low level coarse language, Adult themes
RUNTIME: 76mins
DIRECTOR: Jennie Livingston
ACTORS: Brooke Xtravaganza, André Christian, Dorian Corey, Paris Duprée, Pepper LaBeija, Willi Ninja

Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag ball scene. Made over seven years, Paris Is Burning offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion “houses,” from fierce contests for trophies, to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia and transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women—including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza—Paris Is Burning brings it, celebrating the joy of movement, the force of eloquence, and the draw of community.

LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL
RELEASE DATE: 06/12/24
RATING:R Medium level violence, Drug use
RUNTIME: 110mins
DIRECTOR: Luc Besson
ACTORS: Gary Oldman, Jean Reno, Natalie Portman, Danny Aiello

Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl, is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. Léon and Mathilda form an unusual relationship, as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin’s trade.

THE MATRIX
RELEASE DATE: 21/12/24
RATING:M Medium level violence
RUNTIME: 136mins
DIRECTOR: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
ACTORS: Joe Pantoliano, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss

Thomas A. Anderson is a man living two lives. By day he is an average computer programmer and by night a hacker known as Neo. Neo has always questioned his reality, but the truth is far beyond his imagination. Neo finds himself targeted by the police when he is contacted by Morpheus, a legendary computer hacker branded a terrorist by the government. Morpheus awakens Neo to the real world, a ravaged wasteland where most of humanity have been captured by a race of machines that live off of the humans’ body heat and electrochemical energy and who imprison their minds within an artificial reality known as the Matrix. As a rebel against the machines, Neo must return to the Matrix and confront the agents: super-powerful computer programs devoted to snuffing out Neo and the entire human rebellion.