Films

Friday November 13th 7:30 PM, Film - The Vampire in “A Fool There Was” Frank Powell, 1915, 66 mins, £10/5.

A Fool There Was is a 1915 American silent drama film produced by William Fox, directed by Frank Powell, and starring Theda Bara. Upon release, the film was long considered controversial for such risqué intertitle cards as "Kiss me, my fool!"

A Fool There Was is one of the few extant films featuring Theda Bara. It popularised the word vamp (short for vampire),which describes a femme fatale who causes the moral degradation of those she seduces, first fascinating and then exhausting her victims.

Sun December 7th 7pm, Opera Film John Adams - “The Death of Kinghoffer” 120 minutes. Free

The Death of Klinghoffer is an American opera, with music by John Adams to an English-language libretto by Alice Goodman. First produced in Brussels and New York in 1991, the opera is based on the hijacking of the passenger liner Achille Lauro by the Palestinian Liberation Front in 1985, and the hijackers' murder of a 69-year-old Jewish-American wheelchair-using passenger, Leon Klinghoffer.

The concept of the opera originated with theatre director Peter Sellars,[1] who was a major collaborator, as was choreographer Mark Morris. It was commissioned by five American and European opera companies, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music

We are currently developing a programme. Please contact us with suggestions or offers of help.

We aspire to organise an analogue festival in 35mm, starting with a Tarkovsky retrospective.

We are very open to screening films in the art centre using our digital projector. Please contact us if you would like to show a film.

Past screenings

Friday 7th 7pm Cristina Starr will present All That’s Left of You, a film by Cherien Dabis 146min, free. digital projection in the art centre.

All That's Left of You (Arabic: اللي باقي منك, romanized: Illī Bāqī Minnak) is a 2025 drama film produced, written and directed by Cherien Dabis, who also stars in it alongside Saleh Bakri, Mohammad Bakri, Adam Bakri, Maria Zreik, Muhammad Abed Elrahman, Sanad Alkabareti and Salah El Din. It follows a Palestinian family across three generations during the time spanning from the 1948 days of Nakba to the 2020s under Israeli occupation.[4]

The film had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on 25 January 2025.[5] It was selected as the Jordanian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards,[6] making the December shortlist.

Tuesday 10 June ‘26, 7:30pm Tony Hancock’s The Rebel.

Film screening at The Theatre, Chipping Norton.