ChOC films and live shows We plan several months ahead, and we list films here as soon as we can. Do email secretary@chocfilms.info if you'd like to receive our monthly email newsletter, or to suggest films you would like us to show. Remember that our bar opens 45 minutes before the film. Many people come early to meet with friends and have a drink together. Our next film is... Sunday February 12  (2011) cert 12, 1hr 41mins  Winner of the Sundance Film Festival 2011, Senna is not just a tribute to perhaps the greatest racing driver ever, whose tragic death in a crash on the San Marino Grand Prix racing track in 1994 was watched live on television by 300 million people, but also witness to the emotions and complexities of the man behind the helmet. Add a brilliant background score that truly endorses what happens on screen, and this is a film not to be missed! A viscerally exciting and intellectually stimulating documentary. Philip French (Observer) Shattering in the gentlest way, edited with rare care, it's an affirmation of all the bonds Senna forged in his life - with his family, colleagues, the people of Brazil. To emerge unmoved is just about inconceivable. Tim Robey (Daily Telegraph) Coming soon ...
Sunday March 11  Jane Eyre(2011) cert PG, 2 hoursAn adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's novel about a governess who falls for the master of the house, only to make a shocking discovery.  Read the reviews in the Guardian and the Telegraph. Live entertainmentsMore to come! See our ChOClive page for a preview! Admission to all films £5 payable on the door. (Age 15 and under: £3 when the film's classification permits) Tickets can be purchased here, though there are normally plenty of seats available on the night. Our wine and beer bar opens at 6.45pm We welcome your suggestions for future films. In the past we've shown everything from classic comedies and Japanese animé to Oscar-winning blockbusters, and we were the first non-cinema venue in the UK to show Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth ... so we welcome new ideas just as much as we welcome new volunteers! For more information, call Jon Carpenter on 01608 238242, or email enquiries@chocfilms.info |  Tickets for most ChOC events are now available online. Note: unreserved seats (especially for films) are usually available on the night. If you do not book, arrive in good time! You can see a list of all bookable films and shows here (opens in a new window). Please note: • all seats are unnumbered. We will reserve what we consider to be good seats for you, but you are free to move to any seats that are vacant when you arrive. • a booking fee of 10% will be added to the cost of your seats when you pay online. This fee goes to the ticket agency and not to ChOC. • tickets are not refundable, though they may be transferred by arrangement with ChOC. • the online box office may close 24 hours before the film starts: tickets will still be available on the door unless otherwise stated on the box office website. |
'What
is magical about film is the place — where all together we sit in the
darkness, and all together we watch a dream, which is the film. It's a
dream we're all having together, with our eyes: and this is the magic,
to be all together, now.
Would it be as magical to sit in your drawing-room with a friend, or alone?'
Film director Bernardo Bertolucci speaking on Radio 4, 28 February 2008
