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Festival Films at Nowhere Cafe Bar
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Dir. Paul Sng (UK 2024, 80mins PG)
Riveting portrait of superb but forgotten photographer of working-class Britain in the 70s, Tish Murtha.
As featured in this week's Guardian
Screening at NOWHERE CAFE BAR, HOLMFIRTH - limited seating, book online to secure your seat.
If you wish to eat at Nowhere prior to seeing the film, please book direct with Nowhere on 01484 246732 or via Nowhere, Holmfirth
In celebration of the HOLMFIRTH FESTIVAL OF FOLK, Holmfirth Film Festival is putting on an exhibition of its Brian Lawton Collection of Folk Photographs from 1960s Huddersfield – including John Martyn, the Incredible String Band, Tom Paxton, Joan Baez among many others - and from the 1970s/80s Holmfirth Folk Festivals - featuring performers, street parades and dancers. Are you there?
Drop into Nowhere Cafe Bar (Norridge Bottom) Cinema Lounge
Thursday 11am onwards (rolling exhibition throughout the day)
or come along to Bring Your Own Folk Vinyl Night from 6.30pm
Special night on the foundation of the subculture Modernists in the late 1950s which led to the explosion of MOD in the early 60s.
Screening of the UK’s celebrated Jazz Modernist TUBBY HAYES: A MAN IN A HURRY and JOHN SIMONS: A MODERNIST, a leading designer of the menswear which inspired MOD, and THE PLEBS, a MOD club in Halifax in the mid-1960s.
FREE EVENT BUT PLEASE BOOK ONLINE TO ENSURE A PLACE
Second part of the acclaimed sci-fi epic; spectacular, thrilling. . .
SCREENING AT NOWHERE BAR, Norridge Bottom, Holmfirth
Wednesday evening 29 May 6.30pm
ADMISSION FREE but book your ticket/seat below to ensure a place.
Cultural Voucher holders If you are 18 and living in HD9 but don't have a voucher yet, apply now. Your voucher offers free entry to all our films plus other events taking place across the Holme Valley over the coming year.
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Dir. Jonathan Demme (US 1984, 98mins PG)
Back by popular demand. Super 4K remastered and expanded concert with all the favourites. Probably… the best music film ever made.
Dir. Gyorgy Feher (Hungary 1991, 105mins 15)
The word ‘masterpiece’ is overused but this – almost unknown until its recent re-release - may actually be one. Astonishing black-and-white cinematography and images that linger long in the mind in a film-noir like no other.
Drop into Nowhere (Norridge Bottom), eat, drink and enjoy this afternoon of films by long-time local film-maker Mike Wade - recording and celebrating life in the Holme Valley with its characters, events and floods. Programme start times 2pm and 4pm.
This is a free event - however, if you'd like to make a donation to the film festival, you can do so by booking an advance place through the online ticket link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eduFWdheWZg
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Holmfirth Walking Festival presents: Wild
Dir. Jean-Marc Vallee (US 2014, 115mins 15)
Nick Hornby script, director at the height of his powers and an award-winning Reese Witherspoon as the divorcee who discovers herself when on a solo hike on the sensational Pacific Crest Trail. Powerful and emotional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn2-GSqPyl0
SCREENING IN TWO PARTS
Part 1 Monday evening 7 October (2 hours +)
Part 2 Tuesday evening 8 October (2 hours +)
Ticket price of £5 includes entry both evenings
Dir. Laura Citarella (Argentina 2023, 260mins 12)
Film of the year? Beguiling, mesmerising and totally mysterious. Six years in the making, this is an epic and unclassifiable tale of a man in search of someone who has apparently disappeared.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDPaCJvfw-Y
Dir. Christian Carion (France 2022 91mins 15)
A simple taxi ride across Paris turns into a deeply moving and profound meditation on life, age and friendship between a grumpy driver and the beloved 92-year- old French singer. Line Renaud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyuGbp6svpQ
Dir. Roddy Bogawa & Strom Thorgerson (UK 2023, 94mins 15)
Barrett biographer Rob Chapman introduces this excellent documentary by Hipgnosis on the early years (and best) of the UK’s most innovative and successful band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALajTTcXwZE
Dir. Patricio Guzman (Chile 2019, 84mins 12A)
Best documentary at Cannes and the final film of the trilogy we have screened. Masterful juxtaposition of the stunning beauty of the Andes and the political legacy left by the military dictatorship of President Pinochet of a Chile the director was forced to leave 40 years ago.
Dir. Carla J. Easton & Blair Young (Scotland 2024, 89mins 12)
Just released documentary on the women of Scottish pop music from the 60s to today. Engaging, revealing and funny account of the trail-blazing and visionary girl bands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOYYmM7e0sw
Dir. Wim Wenders (Germany 2023, 93mins PG)
Hypnotic and visually striking biographical portrait of the innovative German painter and sculptor, considered one of the important artists of our time, Anselm Kiefer.
Talk, Film & Photographs
Artists and campaigners, Andrew Darke and Jonathan Adamson (PLACE), on the removal of pylons from National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, including Dunford Bridge. “We believe that retaining and being able to access and have control over land that is not over-dominated by structures is crucial for our well-being, wildlife and the environment.” Photography, Tony Butterworth (Dunford Bridge).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mEAusCBgCs&t=25s
This event is free (or you may wish to make a donation to PLACE) but please book your ticket online to ensure a seat
Wilding
Dir. David Allen (UK 2023, 78mins PG)
Truly inspirational and acclaimed documentary on the young couple who bet on nature and ‘rewilding’ to save their failing 400-year-old family farm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wha__qRugTw
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