Newbury venue shapes new film season to reflect community feedback
The Corn Exchange has a new season of film programmed to reflect community feedback.
With more relaxed, family and dementia-friendly screenings, this new programme fits with the Corn Exchange’s wider community work to make the arts accessible for all.
Following feedback from audiences in a recent film survey, the Corn Exchange has increased the number of subtitled screenings, which will take place weekly on Wednesday evenings and Thursday afternoons.
The popular Ageing Creatively Film Club will take place monthly on a Thursday morning, and each week on Tuesdays there will be a morning Parent & Baby screening, followed by an afternoon Silver Screen for over-60s.
They have also increased their family cinema offering, and there will be monthly Tots Cinema screenings for pre-schoolers on a Thursday morning and weekly Family Film and Craft screenings on Saturday mornings.
In addition to regular relaxed screenings of family films, there will be a monthly relaxed screening on a Thursday morning, and dementia-friendly screenings will take place monthly on a Thursday, with a new programme of films selected in conjunction with participants who are living with dementia and their family members or carers.
Highlights in the new season include the romantic comedy Rye Lane, the Oscar-nominated animation Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition and the adaptation of Rachel Joyce’s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, which stars Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton.
This season will also see screenings of Loving Highsmith, which is voiced by Gwendoline Christie and portrays the life of author Patricia Highsmith and Dance Craze – a thrilling documentary about the British ska scene.
This programme of film went on sale to members on Friday, March 31 and on general sale today (Thursday, April 6).
Still to come in the current season, Fashion Reimagined, a documentary looking at the environmental impact of the fashion industry; the screen adaptation of Alan Bennett’s Allelujah, starring Judi Dench,
Derek Jacobi and Jennifer Saunders; God’s Creatures which features Emily Watson and Oscar-nominee Paul Mescal as mother and son; and Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom which is set in the extraordinary and rarely shown on screen Bhutanese mountains.
Family films over the Easter holidays include Epic Tails, Chicken Run and How to Train Your Dragon.
The cinema is also available to hire for private screenings or birthday parties on a Sunday morning.
From April there will be a change in opening hours and films will be shown Tuesday to Sunday as the main Corn Exchange building will be closed to the public on a Monday.
For more information please visit https://cornexchangenew.com/about/cinema
