To save paper, cut costs and give us flexibility in selecting films at short notice, we no longer produce printed programmes. All of our films are listed on the Buxton Opera House Cinema website as well as our own. If you’d like to receive a weekly alert for our Monday film please subscribe to our newsletter.
Here is our diary – we update it as soon as new films are confirmed. You won’t find a more varied and interesting programme anywhere!
| Monday 11/11/24 | The Battle for Laikipia (12A) | Unresolved historical injustices and climate change raise the stakes in a generations-old conflict between Indigenous pastoralists and white landowners in Laikipia, Kenya, a wildlife conservation haven. This is a film that demonstrates how present conflicts cannot be extricated from the baggage of the past. “Brilliant …” ★★★★ The Guardian, ★★★★ The Financial Times, ★★★★ The Observer |
| Monday 18/11/24 | The Goldman Case (12A) | November 1975, Paris. The appeal hearing of Jewish far-left activist Pierre Goldman is set to begin. Sentenced to life imprisonment for four armed robberies, one of which resulted in the death of two women, Goldman pleads not guilty to the murder charges. The massively covered court proceedings transform Goldman into a romantic figure and a hero of the intellectual left, even as the relationship with his young attorney Georges Kiejman frays. Ever the agitator for his ideals, the elusive and mercurial Goldman throws his own trial into chaos, risking a death sentence. The Goldman Case paints a psycho-pathological portrait of a militant revolutionary, but also of a society torn apart by patterns of racism and injustice that are still virulent today. |
| Monday 25/11/24 | No film | venue not available |
| Monday 2/12/24 | The Crime Is Mine (15) | Here’s something for those that say that we never show comedies! Set in 1930s’ Paris, the film is a loose adaptation of the 1934 play Mon crime by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil. Aspiring but penniless actor Madeleine shares a flat with client-chasing lawyer Pauline. Madeleine is accused of murdering theatre producer Montferrand who had tried to rape her. She appoints Pauline as her lawyer and together they make the trial a symbol of men's oppression of women. But this is only the start in a film that has been described as Ozon’s most delightful film yet – a wicked and fun romp but with a touch of serious comment on sexual politics. |
| Sunday 8/12/24 | Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers | 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. |
| Monday 9/12/24 | The Nettle Dress (12) | 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. Due to the main feature’s length an additional short film may be included in the programme. |
| Monday 16/12/24 | All We Imagine as Light (15) | This is the first film from India to compete in the main Cannes Film Festival competition since 1994, and it won the Grand Prix this year. On the one hand the film is a drama about three strong women who work together as nurses and, on the other hand, it’s an homage to the night-time, frantic yet romantic ‘city of dreams’ Mumbai when people feel the urges they displace during daylight hours. Prabha is straight-laced and yearns for her husband who works in Germany. Outgoing Anu is having a secret affair with a Muslim boy. One day, Prabha and Anu receive a modern rice cooker from an unknown sender… ‘A glorious film’ The Guardian, ‘A gorgeous achievement in every way’ The Telegraph, 'Few films have ever so beautifully captured the lonesome romance of Mumbai after dark' Variety |
| Monday 23/11/24 | no screening | |
| Monday 30/12/24 | no screening | |
| Monday 6/1/25 | tbc |