Comedy Genius

Season

Please note : this season finished in Dec 2018

There’s nothing better than laughing together in the cinema so throughout December join us for a season of side-splitting comedies as we celebrate some of cinema’s best-loved works of comic genius.

Previous screenings in this season

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

12A Comedy Genius

Please note: This was screened in Dec 2018

Film

For those in need of a post-Christmas dose of anarchic Monty Python daring, the legendary comic group’s classic Arthurian hallucination is just the ticket as we embark on a sublimely irreverent and jaw-droppingly hysterical medieval quest.

Duck Soup

U Comedy Genius

Please note: This was screened in Dec 2018

Film

Filled to bursting point with gags and justly considered one of the top film comedies of all time, this anti-war, anti-nationalist satire is an incredible showcase of the talents of one of the greatest comedic teams in history - the Marx Brothers.

Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday

U Comedy Genius

Please note: This was screened in Dec 2018

Film

Holidays are never boring with the well-meaning but chronically accident prone Monsieur Hulot - Jacques Tati’s glorious comic masterpiece, which follows its lovable, gauche protagonist as he attempts to relax ‘en vacances’.

Sidewalk Stories

15 Comedy Genius

Please note: This was screened in Dec 2018

Film

A homage to Chaplin’s The Kid and arriving 20 years before The Artist, Charles Lane’s hilarious and near-silent black and white comedy has all the elements of the great silent comedies: physical grace, perfect timing and sly social commentary.

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

15 Comedy Genius

Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Please note: This was screened in Dec 2018

Film

Melding melodrama with screwball farce, this hilarious study of sexual mores was Pedro Almodóvar’s international breakthrough, securing his place at the vanguard of modern Spanish cinema.

Previous screenings in this season

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Duck Soup

Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday

Sidewalk Stories

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

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