Rook Lane Blog

August 31, 2023

Screening of Dylan Howitt’s documentary The Nettle Dress followed by Q&A

February 13, 2018

Join Architecture Club for a screening of this acclaimed documentary.

October 2, 2017

This screening is being organised by Fair Housing for Frome, a community group running a campaign during 2017 to raise awareness of, and seek solutions to, the housing crisis in Frome. The screening will be followed by a […]

April 5, 2017

PRISON (FÄNGELSE) The new season of films at Rook Lane Chapel. Join us for a classic shown the best way. Ingmar Bergman’s cinematic experiment, made early in his cinematic career, holds a mirror to the film-making process:  following […]

October 28, 2016

Hal Hartley’s reinvention of small-town life and the loves and ambitions of an out-of-kilter younger generation is peopled with intriguingly unconventional stock characters interacting not quite predictably and is a joy to watch.

September 20, 2016

Two children make an epic journey through a muted but astonishing landscape.

September 20, 2016

This atmospheric and satirical study of moral bankruptcy is played out on the sleazy side of the tracks in small-town post-war Germany. Fassbinder’s film is a garish and flamboyant cautionary tale with a wonderfully abandoned performance by Barbara Sukowa in the title role.

March 24, 2016

Set in a tiny, remote village in the Argentinean mountains, the film gets its narrative from the growing friendship between a shepherd boy and a teacher from the city.

March 21, 2016

This Tehran-based road movie features a journey, but the route is somewhat circular and unfulfilled and the end unconventional. “A beautiful and emotionally complex meditation on life and death”,

March 21, 2016

The story of a woman’s chance encounter with the man she believes shattered her life 15 years earlier. A tense triangle of revenge and retribution that takes place in a single night and questions how trauma may be addressed and reconciliation may be found.