Goodbye, Dragon Inn - cinema projector
Goodbye, Dragon Inn - Photo by Lin Meng Shan

Vive Le Cinema!

Cinema Rediscovered 2026

Season

Please note : this season finished in

To mark our 10th edition, we thought it would only be appropriate to celebrate that place where we come together to share the emotional thrills and magic that only film can deliver. These four films have at their heart The Cinema: the essential space where film comes alive – sometimes with very real consequences (see Closed Circuit) - with an audience and the people who run them. 


Previous screenings & events in this season

Matinee

classified PG Vive Le Cinema!
A still from Matinee of a person in detailed red insect costume standing in a cinema with an audience watching a black-and-white film.
Please note: This was screened in
Film

B-movie director Lawrence Woolsey rolls into a Key West cinema with his new film Mant (half man, half ant - all terror) whilst the Cuban missile crisis cranks up nearby.

Closed Circuit

classified 15 Vive Le Cinema!
A still from Closed Circuit of a woman with dark curly hair wearing a brown jacket and pink collar shirt sitting indoors near a table with a patterned tablecloth.
Please note: This was screened in
Film

Fiction becomes reality for an audience quietly watching a matinee of a spaghetti western at their local cinema when suddenly one of the patrons dies…

A still from Closed Circuit of two men in a cluttered office, one sitting and one standing, surrounded by film reels, a vintage lamp, and posters on the wall.
Please note: This event took place in
Event

Join us before the screening of Closed Circuit (1978) in Cinema 2, for a murder mystery inspired by the film. This interactive event will be taking place in Waterside 1, and will pull details from the film, but without giving away whodunit!

Les Sièges de l’Alcazar

classified 15 Vive Le Cinema!
A photo of a man leaning over a cinema seat to talk to a woman.
Please note: This was screened in
Film

A humorous insider critique of 1950s Parisien cinephile scene by filmmaker, critic, and producer Luc Moullet who began writing for Cahiers du Cinéma at the age of 18 alongside figures like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut.  

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

classified 12A Vive Le Cinema!
A still from Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Please note: This was screened in
Film

Tsai Ming-Liang's poignant love letter to cinema is an exquisite, wryly funny and tender tribute to the experience of cinemagoing, to cinemas as spaces, and to the people in the audience and behind the scenes. 

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