Rook Lane Blog

April 4, 2013

A unique insight into The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain since their ascent to the big time. This promises to be an evening of four-string fun, including the chance to play along to their just-released Live At Sydney Opera House film with on-screen musical notation!

March 4, 2013

The children of a war widow living in a houseboat on the river of the title in Osaka in 1950 befriend the son of a local restaurant owner. The film is set against industrial skyline, where the young friends stand in innocent defiance of the social circumstances which bear down upon them.

January 29, 2013

Drawn from Louis Malle’s own childhood experiences in the 1940s, this simple chronicle of childhood friendship is increasingly touched by and reactive to the events of the time in much the same way as its two protagonists encounter them.

January 29, 2013

An idiosyncratic musical set in Las Vegas in all its 4th July excess – perhaps not what might be expected of this director…

January 29, 2013

A Beijing family’s eye-view of daily life in China in the fifteen years leading up to the Cultural Revolution in 1966. The first in our latest series of Sunday night films at Rook Lane Arts.

January 3, 2013

Step out of the cold and into post-war Vienna for the Carol Read classic film starring Orson Welles. Tea and viennese confections will be served and those in film noir attire get discounted entry.

November 5, 2012

What Price Hollywood? One of the best behind-the-scenes looks at the old Hollywood studio system that was ever made.

October 19, 2012

A schoolgirl escapes from the many responsibilities thrust upon her by her demanding and tempestuous family life by immersing herself in a comic strip set in ancient Egypt.