THE EGERTON FILM SOCIETYClick here for forthcoming screenings |
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| Established in 2000 and showing its first film in January 2001, the Egerton Film Society is open to anyone over the age of sixteen. The current annual membership fee is £6, with concessions (£4) for pensioners and full-time students. Screenings are usually held on the last Thursday in the month (except July and August), with occasional special screenings and lectures at other times. A licensed bar is available at each performance. Our films are shown in the Egerton Millennium Hall using high-quality widescreen DVD video projection and Dolby EX 5.1 Surround Sound. | Members, their guests, and members of the public can be admitted to the film screenings, subject to the discretion of the Committee. Admission to performances is usually priced at £4.00 for all members and £5.00 for guests/non-members. Season Tickets are available. Programmes are published and circulated to all members twice each year. All members who wish to do so receive e-mail reminders about the current month’s film. |
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The Society is run in association with the Egerton Telecottage by a Committee which is elected at the Annual General Meeting, usually held in September. For membership applications enquiries, telephone Richard King on 01233 756592 THE COMMITTEE |
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We always welcome new volunteers, to help with setting up the hall, manning the bar, putting up posters (particularly if you live somewhere other than Egerton) and assisting with clerical and technical duties. Thanks to everyone who helps with this already. Do, please, come along (and volunteer, if you can), for we really do need your help and support for the Egerton Film Society to continue to flourish. We look forward to seeing you. |
| Spring Programme (2022) |
| Please note: trailers are provided by third parties, and we have no control over the content (including advertisements) which may be displayed. |
| Thursday 24th February 2022 7.00pm for 7.30pm The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) This fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece follows the life of David Copperfield as he navigates a chaotic world to find his place within it. (119 mins) |
| Thursday 31st March 2022 7.00pm for 7.30pm Judy (2019) Renee Zellweger captures the very essence of the legendary Judy Garland in this biographical drama. (118 mins) |
| Thursday 28th April 2022 7.00pm for 7.30pm Balloon (2018) This German thriller set in 1979, based on a true story, follows the Strelzyk and Wetzel families who, longing for a better life, develop a daring plan to escape the GDR to the West. (125 mins) |
| Thursday 26th May 2022 7.00pm for 7.30pm Limbo (2021) Set on an impossibly bleak and beautiful Scottish island, this story is of a group of refugees from Syria and elsewhere – all single men with no families – who have been relocated to this remote setting with a bare-minimum subsistence allowance. (103 mins) |
| Thursday 2nd June 2022 7.00pm for 7.30pm Special Event to celebrate HM The Queen’s 70th Jubilee A Royal Night Out (2015) On VE Day, 8th May 1945, a young princess ventured out from her palace to join the celebrating crowds. On her return she wrote in her diary: “Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly, Pall Mall, walked simply miles. Saw parents on balcony at 12.30am – ate, partied, bed 3am!”. (97 mins) |
| Thursday 23rd June 2022 7.00pm for 7.30pm In conjunction with Egerton Music Festival A Night at the Opera (1935) The much-loved Marx Brothers, Groucho, Chico and Harpo, are directed by Sam Wood, in a hilarious story set around the high-society world of opera. (96 mins. B&W) |
| Autumn Programme (2021) |
| Thursday 27th January 2022 7.00pm for 7.30pm Green Book (2018) Based on true events, director Peter Farrelly’s comedy-drama won many accolades, including the Oscar for Best Picture in 2019. The story, set in the early 1960’s, is of a working-class Italian-American bouncer from the Bronx (Viggo Mortensen) who is hired to drive a black world-class classical and jazz pianist, Dr Don Shirley, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South |
| Thursday 16th December 2021 7.00pm for 7.30pm Miracle on 34th Street (1947) In this wonderful Christmas classic, Kris Kringle (a splendid Edmund Gwenn) becomes Macy’s in-store Santa Clause but then claims he is the real thing, |
| Thursday 25th November 2021 7.00pm for 7.30pm Charade Gorgeous Audrey Hepburn and debonair Cary Grant sparkle in this classic, which has been called ‘the best Hitchcock film he never made’. |
| Thursday 28th October 2021 7.00pm for 7.30pm Nomadland |
| Thursday 14th October 2021 7.00pm for 7.30pm Spitfire The story of the fighter plane and pilots that helped win the Battle of Britain in World War II |
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Thursday 30th September 7.00pm for 7.30pm Dream Horse AGM Dream Alliance is an unlikely race horse bred by small-town Welsh bartender Jan Vokes. With no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream in the hopes he can compete with the racing elites. |