Josh O’Connor (The Crown; Challengers) leads the cast in this searing revival of Clifford Odets’ knockout American classic.

1930s New York, at the height of the Depression. Joe Bonaparte is a gifted young violinist with a future in music, until a chance at fame and fortune lures him into the brutal world of professional boxing. He must confront what he’s willing to sacrifice, who he’s willing to become and how to find his place in a world that demands he choose a side.

Brought to life with a live string quartet and filmed live from the Almeida Theatre, Olivier Award-winner Sam Yates (Vanya) directs this propulsive drama exploring ambition, identity, and the high price of success.

In a remote Spanish town, the free-spirited and independent Carmen declares that any man she loves should beware. She seduces the respectable police officer Don José, who goes against the wishes of his mother and the woman who loves him to abandon everything in favour of a life of danger with Carmen. But she soon grows bored of his possessiveness and turns her attention to the toreador Escamilo, causing Don José’s jealousy to erupt in a flurry of violence that will have catastrophic consequences.

23-year-old Owen works as a sound engineer at a student union bar at the fictional Manchester City University. One night he meets a girl and finds himself falling for her. Abruptly, the girl leaves, giving him her first name, "Emily", and her phone number. The next morning, Owen tries to text Emily, only to find that she missed a digit in her number. Mocked by his older brother Matt, Owen sets about finding Emily.

Meanwhile, third-year psychology American student Emily Raine – a different Emily to the one Owen met – is under pressure to finish her thesis, a good mark on which will grant her allow her to retain her visa status whilst also giving her a prestigious job in Manchester. Her hypothesis is that love is a kind of madness and a vestigial evolutionary impulse. Owen comes to her class seeking Emily and when she meets him and learns of his search, she decides he is the perfect case study to base her thesis around.

Despite ethical concerns from her professor and flatmates, Emily befriends Owen under the pretense of helping him find Emily, leading to a series of misadventures. When Owen hits a brick wall while searching for Emily, she encourages him to continue and even goes to far as to provide him with a list of email address for every Emily on campus. Owen proceeds at her urging to anonymously email every Emily registered at the university, leading to controversy. Student Union President Emily Thewlis, an outspoken wannabe feminist, begins a campaign against the anonymous emailer, known as "Email Guy". Owen shocked but trying to do right and redeem himself agrees to go on a student podcast to speak about his quest to find Emily. During the interviews Owen admits that he hacked the email server to get the email list (to protect Emily Raine). Just as the interview is almost a disaster, Owen performs a song he wrote for the missing Emily, which unexpectedly goes viral.

In an era of great change and great beauty emerged the character of James McNeill Whistler. Considered by some to be one of the great innovators of 19th century art, he was a contemporary of the Impressionists, much admired by Van Gogh and Manet. Boldly experimental and famously witty, Whistler disrupted the strict conventions of Victorian society in pursuit of a new cult of beauty, creating “art for art’s sake” and earning himself a place in the history of great art. He found a parallel between painting and music, and entitled many of his paintings “arrangements”, “harmonies” and “nocturnes”, emphasizing the importance of tonal harmony in his work.

His most famous painting, Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (1871), commonly known as Whistler’s Mother, is a revered and often parodied portrait of motherhood. It is arguably one of the most famous paintings in history and this film will unveil the artist behind the art.

Tate Britain is now holding the first major retrospective of Whistler in three decades. This blockbuster exhibition promises to reawaken the world to just how important Whistler is to art history, uniting world-famous masterpieces with rarely seen works. Exhibition on Screen will bring these stunning works and the incredible story behind them to cinemas around the world while the exhibition is still running, bringing this truly global artist to a global audience. This will be an unmissable chance to get to know this visually spectacular artist and the influence he has had on those who followed.

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Wicked Little Letters is a 2023 British period black comedy mystery film directed by Thea Sharrock, written by Jonny Sweet and starring Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan, Joanna Scanlan, Gemma Jones, Malachi Kirby, Lolly Adefope, Eileen Atkins and Timothy Spall. Based on the Littlehampton libels of the early 1920s, it follows an investigation into the anonymous author of numerous crudely insulting letters sent to the residents of the seaside town of Littlehampton.

Saint-Saëns’s spectacular take on the biblical hero of legendary strength and the seductive Philistine whose beauty overpowers him, returns in the Met’s larger-than-life production starring Clay Hilley, Aigul Akmetshina and Quinn Kelsey.

Saturday Coffee Mornings every month in Pembridge Parish Hall

Join us for coffee/tea, home made cakes, meet the neighbours for friendship and a chat

Sponsored this month by St. Mary’s Church