Portesham Picture Palace
Dear Friends:
Welcome to a season of films to be shown in the village hall, generally on the last Sunday of each month (please check) from September until May.
We are a not for profit organisation and any surplus funds from food etc will be fed back to the hall.
20th October 2024
"the DIG"
12A 112 minutes
Doors open at 18.00 for supper, if required.
Lights down at 19.00
PLEASE NOTE, SHOULD WE HAVE INSUFFICIENT TAKE UP WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CANCEL THE EVENT WITH A FULL REFUND
Price: GRATIS
A Supper of Beef Stew & Dumplings or vegetarian equivalent prepared, cooked & served by the good folk from The Kings Arms is available @ £10.00
+ £2.00 for Ice Creams
For further details and to reserve your seat, please contact Keith on 871925/07818032416 or email keith.brignell@sky.com
We much prefer payment for supper via BACS please to the picture palace account no 61852779 sort code 40.46.23
alternatively you can pay by card or cash on the day.
Thank you!
In May 1939, as Europe lurched towards war, amateur excavator/archaeologist Basil Brown, hired to dig up the huge mounds on Edith Pretty’s property in Suffolk, struck gold (literally). First, he came across the skeleton of an 88-foot ship dating to the Anglo-Saxon period. This was the first phase of what Sue Brunning, curator at the British Museum, has called “one of the most important archaeological discoveries of all time, certainly in British archeology but I would argue in the world.” The next phase was discovering the burial chamber within the ship, filled with a treasure trove of almost perfectly-preserved artifacts, made from gold and garnet: a stunning helmet, shoulder clasps, a golden belt buckle. Pretty donated the artifacts to the British Museum, where they sit to this day, known as the “Sutton Hoo find.”
Starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan & Lily James.
24th November
Although the main characters are fictionalized, the best selling author, Robert Harris and film have given Chamberlain a more sympathetic role in the build-up to World War II. Often deemed a coward for his "appeasement" of Hitler, some have taken the view that the Munich Conference was a stalling tactic to allow Britain to prepare for an inevitable war with Nazi Germany.
The film itself portrays the conference as a "best case, worst case" scenario. In the best case, Hitler would cease his planned invasion of Czechoslovakia. In the worst case, the letter of agreement would give Britain time to consolidate allies, rearm the military and perhaps get the United States involved.
It is Autumn 1938 and Europe stands on the brink of war. Adolf Hitler is preparing to invade Czechoslovakia and Neville Chamberlain's government desperately seeks a peaceful solution.
With the pressure building, Hugh Legat, British civil servant, and Paul von Hartmann, German diplomat, travel to Munich for the emergency Conference. As negotiations begin, the two old friends find themselves at the centre of a web of political subterfuge and very real danger.
22nd DECEMBER
A successful British van salesman decides to open a bank that uses local money to fund local enterprises. However, he soon fights an uphill battle as he tries to convince the elite London-based financial authorities to grant him a new bank license.