Sunday 8th December – 7.30pm

Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers (12A)

2024: UK
dir. David Bickerstaff

200 years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery, London is hosting the UK’s biggest ever Van Gogh exhibition. Van Gogh is not only one of the most beloved artists of all time, but perhaps the most misunderstood.
This film is a chance to reexamine and better understand this iconic artist. Focusing on his unique creative process, Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers explores the artist’s years in the south of France, where he revolutionised his style. Van Gogh became consumed with a passion for storytelling in his art, turning the world around him into vibrant, idealised spaces and symbolic characters.
Poets and lovers filled his imagination; everything he did in the south of France served this new obsession. In part, this is what caused his notorious breakdown, but it didn’t hold back his creativity as he created masterpiece after masterpiece. Explore one of art history’s most pivotal periods in this once-in-a-century show.

Please note that due to licensing restrictions, tickets for this film are £10/£7 children/students. Booking advisable.

Monday 9th December – 7.30pm

The Nettle Dress (12)

2023 UK
Dir. Dylan Howitt

Using methods that date back hundreds if not thousands of years, Allan Brown painstakingly finds, collects and prepares nettles to weave into a dress in memory of the partner he lost. This is slow cinema at its best: filmmaker Dylan Howitt filmed over the seven-year period it took to make the dress, the result is a short but engrossing, thoughtful and meditative document, not just of the practicalities of that journey but about time and memory.
Since its release it has been a word-of-mouth success with audiences and those of the programming team at Buxton Film who have seen it were bowled over.

As this is a relatively short film (68 mins) we’ll be adding a short to the programme.