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The Oswestry Film Society programme will appear on this site once films are scheduled. Keep checking back to find out what's being screened and when, and please come out and support us.
Thank you to our long-term hosts in Oswestry, the Kinokulture cinema. We have now moved just round the corner to the Hermon Chapel Arts Centre. You can check out their own varied range of music and arts events at their separate website, www.hermonarts.org.uk
WED May 1st 2024, 7.30pm, at Hermon Chapel
Vantage Point (12A) - 90 mins
Vantage Point is a gripping and unusual action-thriller. What makes it stand out is its narration style: it's like watching one big action sequence from different perspectives. The film is also full of explosions, car chases and everything a fan of the genre would wish for. A US president is on the receiving end of an assassination attempt while at an international summit. The gimmick is that the movie is composed of the same chaotic 11-minute period being shown over and over from the vantage points of different people, including a secret service agent (Dennis Quaid), a tourist (Forest Whitaker) and a TV producer (Sigourney Weaver). Nobody's point of view contradicts anyone else's; but Quaid has to piece together what's been seen - and what's not been seen. And how refreshing to see a commercial film that tries something structurally and procedurally different.
Wed May 15th 2024, 7.30pm
Slumdog Millionaire (12A), at Hermon Chapel - 120mins
Can you get a more punchy feel-good yarn?
Fifteen years on from sweeping the board at the Oscars, Slumdog Millionaire remains an exhilarating ride on the wild side - a feel-good tale about a Mumbai street kid directed so energetically by Danny Boyle.
Dev Patel in his film debut stars as 18 year old Jamal from the Mumbai slums, who surprises everyone by answering questions correctly on the Indian-Hindi version of TV's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Before the decisive and final show, he’s hauled in by the police and roughly interrogated, as no-one from the authorities to the television producers can notion a slum-boy winning the big prize.
Flashbacks show how he got there in a storyline that has you rooting for life’s lowliest.
Winning eight Oscars, including best film (the same at the BAFTAs), Slumdog Millionaire is 100% worth your celebrating its 15th anniversary by seeing, perhaps revisiting, this top-notch, colourful whirlwind on the big screen
Temporarily postponed
Capernaum (15) - 108mins, subtitled
Survival on the streets of Beirut: Capernaüm ("Chaos") tells the story of Lebanese boy Zain as he journeys from gutsy, streetwise child to a hardened 12-year-old "adult" fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, and surviving through his wits on the streets. Here he meets migrant worker Rahil, who provides him with food and shelter as Zain takes care of her baby son in return. But when she is picked up by police, he has to head off back to the streets, taking the baby with him – and is confronted by some terrible choices. Later he takes his parents to court, to protest against the path of life they led him down. Capernaum was nominated for a best foreign language Oscar, and this heart-wrenching film has received a host of other accolades.