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 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 | Soundtrack To A Coup D'Etat | It was 1960 at the United Nations when the Global South ignites a political earthquake. Musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumumba, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s first post-independence prime minister. Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s colour bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup. Constructed entirely from archive footage the film entwines Jazz and decolonization in an historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War . Featuring Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, Nina Simone, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus providing the soundtrack and Malcolm X, Nikita Khrushchev, and many more providing the eye-opening world-politics of the cold war era. |
| Monday 13/1/25 | On Becoming A Guinea Fowl (12A) | A woman drives through the inky Zambian night, joyful and resplendent in fancy dress. Her car slows as she discovers a body on the road, the corpse of her uncle, Freddy. So begins several days of mourning, with Shula’s family insisting on a grand funeral. Yet Shula refuses to grieve. As she is asked to store more family secrets, is heaped with duties and uncovers the truth of her uncle’s life, something stirs in her, stalking through the long grass and ready to warn of the predators that lurk there. Reality has a lightly shifting surface under which the past lingers, ready to rise up and swallow us at any time.. A story about reclaiming one’s power and creating new bonds of solidarity, this is one of the most sophisticated films to emerge from the #MeToo era. |
| Monday 20/1/25 | The Universal Theory | Amongst the towering landscape of the Swiss Alps, a gifted young physicist meets an elusive pianist – one who knows things about him that he’s never told another living soul. Before he knows it, his curiosity traps him inside a mind-bending metaphysical web of murder and mystery. Set in 1962, against the backdrop of Cold War tensions and a world of paranoid conspiracy, the secrets that lie beneath the mountains are slowly revealed as his investigations deepen and the gripping truth is revealed. |
| Monday 27/1/25 | How To Make A Million Before Grandma Dies (12A) | After his grandmother Amah is diagnosed with terminal cancer, the lackadaisical M moves in to care for her. How noble – but his newfound devotion isn’t altruistic; really, he hopes to secure her multi-million-dollar fortune. Unfortunately, it turns out it’s harder to win his shrewd grandmother’s favour than he thought… Plus, he’s only one in a number of interested parties. A box office sensation in Thailand, Pat Boonnitipat’s irresistible feature debut is a proven tearjerker (it went viral after users of social media began a trend of videoing themselves crying after watching the film). But the film is not as sentimental as it sounds and while providing an insight into Thai culture and draws us into a family with universally recognisable dynamics. This is a journey to redemption story with wit and heart. |
| Monday 3/2/25 | Vermiglio | details soon |
| Monday 10/2/25 | Nickel Boys | detailes soon |