Get ready with your folding chairs, rugs, air beds, and picnic for a superb outdoor cinema experience this summer with Portsmouth Film Society.
This year’s season of summer films launches on Friday 7th June with a free family show voted for by the public for the D-Day 75 celebration. Screening starts at 7.00 pm. The following evening, Saturday 8th June, the D-Day film Darkest Hour (2017), with an Oscar-winning performance by Gary Oldman, will be shown at Canoe Lake. Directed by Joe Wright, who made Atonement, another film with a wartime setting, it also stars Kristin Scott Thomas as Churchill’s wife Clemmie. Local MP, Stephen Morgan, will give the opening talk.
This year’s season of summer films launches on Friday 7th June with a free family show voted for by the public for the D-Day 75 celebration. Screening starts at 7.00 pm. The following evening, Saturday 8th June, the D-Day film Darkest Hour (2017), with an Oscar-winning performance by Gary Oldman, will be shown at Canoe Lake. Directed by Joe Wright, who made Atonement, another film with a wartime setting, it also stars Kristin Scott Thomas as Churchill’s wife Clemmie. Local MP, Stephen Morgan, will give the opening talk.
Chairman of the Society, Cecelia Young, says: “We are very proud to show outdoor cinema in Portsmouth. Last year our events were very popular because the weather was kind to us. We hope it will be the same again. We are also giving free tickets to seafront residents for Darkest Hour (8th June at Canoe Lake) and The Greatest Showman (29th June at the Bandstand). Also, if we make a profit this summer from the Sunset Openair Cinema, we are going to make a contribution to painting of the benches in Canoe Lake Park and the Rose Gardens”.
‘Stephen Morgan MP will be pleased to join us at this event. He has worked alongside Portsmouth Film Society since being elected and is supportive of our work. With a grandfather who left Southsea on his 17th birthday to be part of Operation Overlord, he’s proud Portsmouth is the national home to the D-Day 75 commemorations and delighted to be joining fellow local people at the screening of the Darkest Hour”.
Showing at Cumberland House Museum Garden on Saturday 15th June is Top Gun (1986), the film that shot Tom Cruise to superstardom. He and director Tony Scott were united in a love of speeding machines, in this case planes as authentically shot and close to the action as the United States Navy would allow. They joined forces again for Blue Thunder. Tom Cruise as Maverick, Kelly McGillis as Charlie, and Val Kilmer as Iceman, will once more take your breath away…
The first of the summer’s three musicals will be Grease (1978), being shown on Southsea Pier on Saturday 22nd June. Directed by Randal Kleiser, this most energetic celebration of summer lovin’ stars John Travolta as Danny, Olivia Newton John as Sandy, and Stockard Channing as Rizzo. A sing-along with karaoke precedes the film.
Last summer’s most popular film is back: The Greatest Showman (2017) will be free when screened on Saturday 29th June at the Bandstand. Directed by Michael Gracey, The Greatest Showman stars a singing Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum, with Zac Efron, Michelle Williams and Rebecca Ferguson giving fine support. A sing-along precedes the film.
As part of the Bygone Festival the Society is presenting a free screening of Stanley Kubricks’s celebrated war film Paths of Glory (1957) on Saturday 6th July at Inn on the Beach, Hayling Island. Produced by its star Kirk Douglas, Paths of Glory is, like All Quiet on the Western Front, an ultimately moving depiction of incidents in the First World War. As well as reflecting on war, we remember director Stanley Kubrick whose work is now being celebrated at the Design Museum in London. The film also features Ralph Meeker, Adolph Menjou and Christiane Kubrick (the director’s billed as Susanne Christian).
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), the biopic directed by Bryan Singer, and featuring the Oscar-winning Rami Malick as Queen’s frontman Freddie Mercury, will be shown on Saturday 13th July on South Parade Pier. Includes an introductory tribute to Freddie Mercury. No doubt the pier will rock! This event is sold-out already.
The original Mamma Mia! (2008) film will be screened also on South Parade Pier on Saturday 26th July. Directed by Phyllida Lloyd, the cast is headed by Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Julie Walters and Colin Firth singing their way through many ABBA hits, as a young bride-to-be searches the songs to find her father. Come along wearing 70s hippy costumes!
A Surprise Screening will follow on Saturday 27th July.
‘Stephen Morgan MP will be pleased to join us at this event. He has worked alongside Portsmouth Film Society since being elected and is supportive of our work. With a grandfather who left Southsea on his 17th birthday to be part of Operation Overlord, he’s proud Portsmouth is the national home to the D-Day 75 commemorations and delighted to be joining fellow local people at the screening of the Darkest Hour”.
Showing at Cumberland House Museum Garden on Saturday 15th June is Top Gun (1986), the film that shot Tom Cruise to superstardom. He and director Tony Scott were united in a love of speeding machines, in this case planes as authentically shot and close to the action as the United States Navy would allow. They joined forces again for Blue Thunder. Tom Cruise as Maverick, Kelly McGillis as Charlie, and Val Kilmer as Iceman, will once more take your breath away…
The first of the summer’s three musicals will be Grease (1978), being shown on Southsea Pier on Saturday 22nd June. Directed by Randal Kleiser, this most energetic celebration of summer lovin’ stars John Travolta as Danny, Olivia Newton John as Sandy, and Stockard Channing as Rizzo. A sing-along with karaoke precedes the film.
Last summer’s most popular film is back: The Greatest Showman (2017) will be free when screened on Saturday 29th June at the Bandstand. Directed by Michael Gracey, The Greatest Showman stars a singing Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum, with Zac Efron, Michelle Williams and Rebecca Ferguson giving fine support. A sing-along precedes the film.
As part of the Bygone Festival the Society is presenting a free screening of Stanley Kubricks’s celebrated war film Paths of Glory (1957) on Saturday 6th July at Inn on the Beach, Hayling Island. Produced by its star Kirk Douglas, Paths of Glory is, like All Quiet on the Western Front, an ultimately moving depiction of incidents in the First World War. As well as reflecting on war, we remember director Stanley Kubrick whose work is now being celebrated at the Design Museum in London. The film also features Ralph Meeker, Adolph Menjou and Christiane Kubrick (the director’s billed as Susanne Christian).
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), the biopic directed by Bryan Singer, and featuring the Oscar-winning Rami Malick as Queen’s frontman Freddie Mercury, will be shown on Saturday 13th July on South Parade Pier. Includes an introductory tribute to Freddie Mercury. No doubt the pier will rock! This event is sold-out already.
The original Mamma Mia! (2008) film will be screened also on South Parade Pier on Saturday 26th July. Directed by Phyllida Lloyd, the cast is headed by Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Julie Walters and Colin Firth singing their way through many ABBA hits, as a young bride-to-be searches the songs to find her father. Come along wearing 70s hippy costumes!
A Surprise Screening will follow on Saturday 27th July.
Check Portsmouth Film Society’s websitewww.portsmouthfilmsociety.org.uk for details nearer the date. All films, except Darkest Hour (D-Day film starting at 7.30 pm), start at 9.30 p.m. Doors open at 8.00 p.m.
Ticket prices for open air screenings are £8 each and £6 for those under 16 years old.
For all the latest news and screenings, visit: www.portsmouthfilmsociety.org.uk
Follow PFS on Facebook and on Twitter @Portsmouthfilms
Ticket prices for open air screenings are £8 each and £6 for those under 16 years old.
For all the latest news and screenings, visit: www.portsmouthfilmsociety.org.uk
Follow PFS on Facebook and on Twitter @Portsmouthfilms
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