WEDNESDAY night is film night at Peebles Eastgate Theatre and the November playlist features new work by several of the world’s finest directors and actors, including Ken Loach and Martin Scorsese, Kathy Bates, Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine and Leonardo de Caprio.
Building community is the subject of the latest (and, he says, possibly last) film by Director Ken Loach as he focuses on whether very different people living in, and having to share, one place can come together to create the future of the last remaining pub in their village. The Old Oak (cert 15) is on Wednesday November 8th.
The following week, on Wednesday 15th, The Great Escaper (cert PG) tells a very different and true life story as Michael Caine becomes octogenarian Bernie Jordan. The war veteran who “escaped” from his care home in 2014 to join fellow veterans on a beach in Normandy.
Spanning just 48 hours, Bernie’s adventure also marks the culmination of his 60 year marriage to Irene (the Academy, Grammy and Tony award winning Glenda Jackson). It celebrates their love with an eye to the lessons we can all learn from this extraordinary generation.
On Wednesday 22nd the focus swings to four different generations of women living in a hard-knocks community in outer Dublin - frenzied, fast and loose and yet also deeply soulful.
They share both a dream – to visit the miraculous Lourdes in France – and a cheeky and rebellious Priest. A riotous local raffle night makes the dream possible. The Miracle Club (cert 12A) is joyous, uplifting, hilarious and aspirational – it is an invitation to meet heroines (starring Laura Linney, Kathy Bates, Maggie Smith and Agnes O’Casey) all just as funny, messy, vocal and flawed as ourselves.
The last of the four November films is Killers of the Flower Moon (cert 15). Martin Scorsese’s gripping account of a desperate and shocking episode in 1920s US history features towering performances by Robert De Niro, an against-type Leonardo DiCaprio and a magnetic Lily Gladstone. It tells of the destruction of the Native American tribe the Osage Nation in a calculated plan to steal their natural resources.
All four films begin at 7.30pm. Tickets are £10 (£6 for under 16s and £25 for families of four cert permitting). Available now from Eastgate Theatre box office on 01721 725777 or online www.eastgatearts.com
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