The Space Cinema Club

This week's SNJ had a good little piece on The Space Cinema Club - it was set up five years ago to show good films locally - and apparently in that time they've shown 7,740 hours of cinema!

Photos: Nothing to do with cinema but a wee while back I saw this artist Madeleine Town who lives Bath way (but at one point she did try to move to this area but the house fell through )- anyhow I love her use of pastels so much that I ended up having one on my wall

Rick Vick of The Space Cinema Club, who lives just in the Whiteshill and Ruscombe ward (although I think he is moving) gave a good quote about cinema which I've copied here - indeed they make you want to book to go to the Cinema Club right now....

"I THINK good films are more than entertainment. They have the potential to change your life. There's something unique about the cinema experience that is missing from just sitting on the sofa at home and watching a DVD. The lights go down and there's the flickering screen. People get entranced by the moving image and properly pulled into the mystery of it. And the atmosphere can be incredible. Sometimes people sit there right to the end of the credits, because a film has really grabbed them."

"Commercial films tend to focus solely on the feel good factor, but the sort of films we show offer that plus a real element of catharsis. They can get your guts in a bit of a tangle. And they can be cleansing in a deep soulful sort of way."

The club's new season starts this Sunday with Into the Wild. Directed by Sean Penn, it's "an exquisitely shot and deeply felt eco-road movie exploring wanderlust and the human spirit".
Coming up at The Space Cinema Club are Singer (Quand J'Etais Chanteur) with Gérard Depardieu, The Kite Runner, Lust, Caution, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and Bamako. Films are shown on Sunday nights. Annual membership of The Space Cinema Club is £2 and tickets are £5 on the door. Doors open at 7.30pm and films begin at 8pm. For further information call 767576. See more here: www.the-space.org