Films4Tenby: The Color Purple on 21st May

Films4Tenby will be showing the musical period drama film The Color Purple (2023, 141 mins, cert 12) at the De Valence on 21st May with the doors opening at 6:30 and the film starting at 7pm.

The film is based on the 1982 novel by Alice Walker and is the second big-screen adaptation after Steven Spielberg’s in 1985. The film tells the story of Celie, an African-American woman dealing with the hardships of living with an abusive husband in the American South in the early 1900s. Danielle Brooks received nominations for an Oscar/BAFTA/Golden Globe/SAG for her performance as Sofia and the late Louis Gossett Jr co-stars as Old Mister Johnson. As a musical, the film features 17 musical numbers.

Admission is £5 on the evening, £4 for Members, £10 for a Family of Four.

Films4Tenby: One Life on 7th May

Films4Tenby will be showing the poignant and emotional biographical drama One Life (2023, 110 mins, cert 12) at the De Valence on 7^th May with the doors opening at 6:30 and the film starting at 7pm.

The film is based on the true story of British humanitarian Nicholas Winton (played here by Johnny Flynn and Anthony Hopkins), who helped groups of Jewish children to flee German-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1938 prior to World War II. Helena Bonham Carter, Lena Olin and Jonathan Pryce co-star in supporting roles. Winton’s real-life daughter requested that Hopkins play her father and the film won the Peace Dove award in Berlin this year.

Admission is £5 on the evening, £4 for Members, £10 for a Family of Four.

COMING SOON….21^st May: The Color Purple

Films4Tenby: Asteroid City on 23rd April & Membership fees due

Films4Tenby will be showing the surreal and whimsical comedy/drama Asteroid City (2023, 105 mins, cert 12) at the DeValence on 23rd April with the doors opening at 6:30 and the film starting at 7pm.

The latest film from acclaimed director Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, The Grand Budapest Hotel), this is the story of a play about world-changing events disrupting a Junior Stargazer convention in a desert town in 1955 and is Anderson’s homage to the mythology of UFOs in the American Southwest during the postwar 20^th century.

The star-studded ensemble cast includes Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Steve Carrell, Matt Dillon, Willem DaFoe, Margot Robbie and a heavily-disguised Jeff Goldblum as the alien.

The film appeared on 15 critics lists of the best films of 2023 and won best production design at the Florida Film Critics Circle.

Admission is £5 on the evening, £4 for Members, £10 for a Family of Four.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS THE LAST FILM OF OUR 2023-24 SEASON AND MEMBERSHIP MONEY IS AGAIN DUE FOLLOWING THIS.

COMING SOON….7^th May: One Life, 21^st May: The Color Purple

Films4Tenby: Benediction on 9th April

Films4Tenby will be showing the biographical romantic drama Benediction (2021, 137 mins, cert 12) at the DeValence on 9^th April with the doors opening at the usual time of 6:30 and the film starting at 7pm.

The film stars Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi as war poet Siegfried Sassoon who was sent to a psychiatric facility for his anti-war stance and who had love affairs with several men, married, had a son and converted to Catholicism.

Admission is £5 on the evening, £4 for Members, £10 for a Family of Four.

COMING SOON….23rd April: Asteroid City, 7^th May: One Life, 21^st May: The Color Purple

Films4Tenby: The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain on 5th March

For Tenby St David’s Day Festival, Films4Tenby will be showing The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain (1995, 99 mins, cert PG) at the De Valence on 5^th March with the doors opening at 6:30 and the film starting at 7pm.

The film is based on the true story of Taff’s Well in Glamorgan and stars Hugh Grant as a 1917 pompous cartographer who arrives in a Welsh village to measure the height of its ‘mountain’. Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney, Ian Hart and Robert Pugh co-star.

Admission is £5 on the evening, £4 for Members, £10 for a Family of Four.

COMING SOON….19^th March: The Old Oak

Films4Tenby: The Little Mermaid on 13th February

Films4Tenby will be showing the Disney live-action remake of The Little Mermaid (2023, 135 mins, cert PG) at the De Valence on 13th February with the doors opening at 6:30 and the film starting at 7pm. 

The story is based on the 1837 Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale and stars Halle Bailey as mermaid princess Ariel who becomes fascinated with the human world after saving Prince Eric from a shipwreck, making a deal with the sea witch Ursula (the brilliant Melissa McCarthy) to walk on land. This is Disney’s second most expensive film and the tenth highest grossing film of 2023. The film won the Bulletin Awards film of the year.

Admission is £5 on the evening, £4 for Members, £10 for a Family of Four.

COMING SOON….5^th March: The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain, 19^th March: The Old Oak

Films4Tenby: The Great Escaper on 23rd January

Films4Tenby will be showing the final film in the decorated career of Michael Caine, The Great Escaper (2023, 96 mins, cert PG) at the De Valence on 23rd January with the doors opening at 6:30 and the film starting at 7pm.

The film is based on the true story of 89 year old British navy veteran Bernard Jordan who escaped his nursing home to attend the D-Day commemorations in 2014. The late Glenda Jackson co-stars as Caine’s wife.

Admission is £5 on the evening, £4 for Members, £10 for a Family of Four.

Films4Tenby: Oppenheimer on 9th January

For our first film of 2024, Films4Tenby will be showing Christopher
Nolan’s epic biopic Oppenheimer (2023, 181 mins, cert 15) at the De Valence on
9^thJanuary with the doors opening at 6:30 and the film starting at 7pm.

The film stars Cillian Murphy from Peaky Blinders as J Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, who developed the first ever nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project. The stellar supporting cast includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert
Downey Jr, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek,
Kenneth Branagh and Gary Oldman. This was the third highest grossing
film of 2023, the highest grossing World War II/biographical film and
has so far been nominated for eight Golden Globes.

Please note that because of the long running time this film is scheduled to end around 10pm.

COMING SOON….23rd January: The Great Escaper

Films4Tenby: Barbie on 19th December

As we come to the end of another year, Films4Tenby will be showing the biggest, boldest, pinkest film of the year Barbie (2023, 114 mins, cert 12A) at the De Valence on 19^th December with the doors opening at 6:30 and the film starting at 7pm.

Margot Robbie stars as Barbie with an excellent Ryan Gosling as the besotted Ken who leave Barbieworld and travel to the real world on a journey of self-discovery. While the visuals are bright and cheery and the story is full of humour, there is also an examination of modern gender politics and the current state of the patriarchy in the real world.

The film has become a genuine cultural phenomenon, grossing an incredible $1.5 billion at the global box office to become the highest grossing film of 2023, the highest by a female director and the highest ever from Warner Brothers. The fun and catchy soundtrack has been nominated for 11 Grammy awards.

Thank you so much to everyone that has attended our films in 2023 and we hope to announce our early 2024 releases shortly.

If there is something you would specifically like us to show, please let us know at the box office. A very happy new year to you all!

Films4Tenby: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry on 24th October

Films4Tenby will be showing the poignant drama The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023, 102 mins, cert 12) on 24^th October with the doors opening at 6:30 and the film starting at 7pm.

The film is based on the 2012 novel and stars Jim Broadbent as Harold, a retired pensioner who receives a letter from an old friend who is dying in a hospice and then decides to walk the length of England to visit her. Penelope Wilton co-stars as Harold’s wife Maureen.

Admission is £5 on the evening, £4 for Members, £10 for a Family of Four.

COMING SOON….31^st October: The Rocky Horror Picture Show