50 years ago Martin Scorsese transformed the cinematic landscape with this incendiary New York thriller that gave voice to the lonely nocturnal souls that populate the city's underbelly.

Robert DeNiro gives a towering performance as the isolated ex-marine turned late night cabbie Travis Bickle, alongside Cybill Shepherd the unfortunate object of his desire, Jodie Foster the 12 year old streetwalker he's fixated on rescuing and Harvey Keitel as the filth he believes is his duty to cleanse. Growing more desperate and detached Travis' sense of place and purpose steadily warps into a final shocking confrontation.

Peter Mullan gives a brilliant, bittersweet performance in Seán Dunn’s feature debut, a black comedy about ageing, identity and the grey area between history and fantasy.

Local historian and widower Kenneth (Mullan) works in Arberloch visitors’ centre as a tour guide, dressing up as the town’s most notable historical figure, Sir Douglas Weatherford, an 18th century philosopher and inventor who Kenneth proudly claims as his ancestor.

But when the village becomes the base of a big-budget fantasy TV show, ‘The White Stag of Emberfell’, the visitor centre is transformed into an Emberfell experience, and Weatherford becomes a triviality. With the show’s costumed fans descending on the town, Kenneth’s sanity crumbles as the traditions he holds dear are casually dismissed – and his crisis takes an even darker turn as he becomes fixated on the show’s handsome star, Oscar Sorenson.

Our performance on Wednesday July 8th will feature a post film Q&A with the films writer and producer, Justine Waddell. In collaboration with FORUM Books Corbridge. 

Based on Virginia Woolf’s funniest novel and filmed in the North-East, Night & Day is an un-romantic comedy about the passionate astronomer, Katharine Hilbery who does everything she can to avoid romantic love and marriage.

Fun and contemporary in tone, this refreshing film showcases an ensemble of humorous performances against the ravishing backdrop of London in 1910, advances in science and technology and crumbling Edwardian patriarchy.

“dreamy adaptation reaches for the stars”

★ ★ ★ ★ - The Guardian