Film Club

Our Film Club represents a fun, friendly and sociable night out, meeting regularly to watch some great movies on a big screen in our Parish Hall on Towers Avenue. Entry is free and all are welcome. Tables and chairs are arranged so everyone can sit in comfort and enjoy any food and drink they might bring along.

On Friday 31st October at 7pm Film Club will be showing the film of Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, released in 1952 and directed by Anthony Asquith, with a stellar cast of Michael Redgrave, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood, Michael Denison, Margaret Rutherford, Dorothy Tutin and Miles Malleson. It’s a story about the thrill and danger of being an impostor in the pursuit of love, about the absurdities of social pretension, illusion and delusion; with an unequalled wit and repartee it manages to skewer every precious social and cultural shibboleth, from love to class to art and money, and make you laugh out loud while it’s doing it. WH Auden described the play as “a pure verbal opera”, and an ensemble of brilliant performers capture to perfection Wilde’s elevation of shallowness to a dazzling, intoxicating art form. (And who would have thought the word “handbag” could be so lethally deployed…?)

The Holy Name Film Club has been running for a number of years now. Ian and I thank everyone who has come to see a film with us, it has been a great pleasure spending the evening with you to watch some fantastic films. Entrance is free and everybody is welcome, so why not come along and see a great film?

While new box office hits can be seen at the local cinema, our Film Club provides us with the opportunity to see on a big screen both classic films one has seen before but also all sorts of enjoyable films, mainstream and more obscure and of every era, of which one might not be aware. And with the company of friends and the opportunity to indulge yourself with any food and drink you might want to take along for yourself during the showing, it represents a fun, sociable and thoroughly enjoyable evening.

Martin Wheeler