The Bigger Picture

FREE CHRISTMAS FILM! The Bigger Picture film club will be showing ?Bringing Up Baby' at 8pm on Thursday, 13 December 2018, at the Ivy House. Now recognised as one of the best-ever pre-war screwball comedies and starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn (it was written as a vehicle for her), it matches a palaeontological nerd (Grant) with a scatterbrained heiress (Hepburn) Add in a tame leopard (Baby), a McGuffin of a search for a missing dinosaur bone (and an additional escaped wild leopard) ? and a lot of wisecracks (some ad-libbed), and you have comedy gold. A truly funny and uplifting film. Director: Howard Hawks USA Running time: 102 minutes. Cert: U We say ? this is not the only thing the public got wrong in 1938 ? but where we didn?t get peace in our time we did get laughter. A truly funny and uplifting film. ALL TICKETS ARE FREE, but as space is limited and demand is high please go to www.thebiggerpic.co.uk to reserve a seat. If you can't make the screening please cancel online to give others the opportunity to attend. Location: THE IVY HOUSE 40 Stuart Road Nunhead London SE15 3BE

The Bigger Picture film club will be showing ?Miles Ahead? (2015) at 8pm on Thursday, 27 September 2018, at the Ivy House. This story of a ?metaphorical? meeting in 1979 between legendary jazz musician Miles Davis (Don Cheadle) and Rolling Stone?s fictional Dave Bradon (Ewan McGregor) is set at the moment when Davis? career appears eclipsed. The story purports to tell of a frenzied search for a missing tape of Davis? newest numbers (after 5 musically arid years), but is an excuse to review his personal and musical story. The narrative arc is as eclectic as a jazz solo, weaving back on itself. The story is somewhat chaotic, but the music is amazing. Director: Don Cheadle USA Running time: 100 minutes. Cert: 15 We say: This may seem like a weird caper movie (the sort that Davis might have liked to be in himself), but the man and his music transcend that. A soundtrack to die for! Film at 8pm. Tickets ?7 from WeGotTickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/446182 The Bigger Picture website: http://www.thebiggerpic.co.uk/ The Bigger Picture Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thebiggerpic/ Location: THE IVY HOUSE 40 Stuart Road Nunhead London SE15 3BE

The Bigger Picture film club will be showing ?The Big Sick? (2017) at 8pm on Thursday, 26 July 2018, at the Ivy House. Written by its (loosely-based) real life protagonists (Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani) and starring one of them (Kumail Nanjiani), this tells of a fledgling Pakistani stand-up in America who has a relationship with a white woman (Zoe Kazan plays Emily), who he meets through an audience heckle in Chicago. He does not tell his immigrant Muslim family, who wish him to have an arranged marriage. When he admits to Emily these pressures (and that he cannot see a permanent relationship evolving), she leaves him. However, she then falls very seriously ill (the Big Sick of the title), and Kumail finds himself working with (and frequently against) her parents (the excellent Holly Hunter and Ray Romano) to support her as her conditions worsens. Director: Michael Showalter USA Running time: 120 minutes. Cert: 15 We say: It?s a ?Rom Com? which is really romantic and really funny. Which so many actually aren?t. Film at 8pm. Tickets ?7 from WeGotTickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/426309 The Bigger Picture website: http://www.thebiggerpic.co.uk/ The Bigger Picture Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thebiggerpic/ Location: THE IVY HOUSE 40 Stuart Road Nunhead London SE15 3BE

Tickets will be available on the door tonight, 28 June 2018, for ?Nocturnal Animals?. The film starts at 8pm at the Ivy House.

Tickets are available on line now for 'Nocturnal Animals': https://www.wegottickets.com/event/426308

The Bigger Picture film club will be showing ?Nocturnal Animals? (2016) at 8pm on Thursday, 28 June 2018, at the Ivy House. With Nocturnal Animals you get two films for the price of one. The first film (reality) tells of Los Angeles art dealer Susan, divorced and remarried, whose novelist first husband Edward sends her his new novel, together with an invitation to dinner. Susan is becoming estranged from her (brute of a) second husband, and as she reads the novel, elements remind her of her first marriage to Edward whose pet name for her, Nocturnal Animal, is also the book?s title. The second film is the novel as it plays out in her head, with her real first husband as its chief protagonist. As the ?second? film ? a western revenge tragedy - unfolds, so do her fond (and not so fond) memories of her first marriage and its downfall. Jake Gyllenhaal plays the first husband and novel ?hero?, with Amy Adams the art-dealer wife. Director: Tom Ford USA Running time: 116 minutes. Cert: 15 We say: this is a modern, award-winning film with strong leads and direction, with a suitably enigmatic and post-modern conclusion. Film at 8pm. Tickets ?7 from WeGotTickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/426308 The Bigger Picture website: http://www.thebiggerpic.co.uk/ The Bigger Picture Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thebiggerpic/ Location: THE IVY HOUSE 40 Stuart Road Nunhead London SE15 3BE

The Bigger Picture film club will be showing ?The Party? (2017) at 8pm on Thursday, 26 April 2018, at the Ivy House. Janet (Kristen Scott Thomas) hosts a party to celebrate her new promotion to Shadow Minister for Health, with a few close friends, many of them rather closer to each other than she knows. A (very) black comedy; as new twists in relationships are revealed or hinted at, it becomes clear that this celebration is far better watched than participated in. Timothy Spall (playing her husband, where still waters may, or may not, be running exceedingly deep) excels as usual, as does the remainder of the cast in a very theatrical film (good lines, fast dialogue, provokes thought). Director (and writer): Sally Potter UK Running time: 71 minutes. Cert: 15 We say: - the dialogue in this film positively crackles. Film at 8pm. Tickets ?7 from WeGotTickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/426303 The Bigger Picture website: http://www.thebiggerpic.co.uk/ The Bigger Picture Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thebiggerpic/ Location: THE IVY HOUSE 40 Stuart Road Nunhead London SE15 3BE

The Bigger Picture film club will be showing ?The Wages of Fear? (1953) at 8pm on Thursday, 22 March 2018, at the Ivy House. Classed in many ?top 10 of all time? action films, and unique in winning the Golden Bear in Berlin and the Palme D?Or at Cannes in 1953, this is the story of four desperate men who take on an almost impossible challenge. Set in a South American backwater, where a possibly exploitative (US) oil company ?owns? the community, an oil well-head fire can only be extinguished by explosives. The four are eventually hired (the job is too dangerous for regular company employees) to drive unstable nitro-glycerine (which should be kept refrigerated for stability) in unrefrigerated trucks across impossible roads. For once the ?antagonist? is nature, circumstances and fate (and the men themselves, not exactly saints) rather than some wicked opponent. This is a seat-clenching film, and, despite the unattractiveness of the protagonists (even Yves Montand, playing Mario, a Corsican playboy who treats his lover badly cannot be said to be a good guy), you cannot help but care for their fates. The narrative arc of the film was good enough to be re-made twice (by Howard W Koch in 1958 and William Friedkin (The Exorcist) in 1977) for the American market ? but, because the original suggested that the US oil company was exploiting its workforce and the environment, this was never that popular in the US. Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot. France & Italy Running time: 131 minutes. Cert: PG We say: This film may start slowly as it scene sets, but the pace accelerates as the tension and peril mount. Very obviously a European-made film, it takes no prisoners. One of the cinema greats. Film at 8pm. Tickets ?7 from WeGotTickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/426302 The Bigger Picture website: http://www.thebiggerpic.co.uk/ The Bigger Picture Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thebiggerpic/ Location: THE IVY HOUSE 40 Stuart Road Nunhead London SE15 3BE

The Bigger Picture film club will be showing ?Love & Friendship? (2016) at 8pm on Thursday, 22 February 2018, at the Ivy House. Inspired by Jane Austen?s epistolary novel 'Lady Susan' (c1794), Kate Beckinsale stars as the still relatively young, but widowed, Lady Susan Vernon, attempting to arrange ?good? (in terms of status and finance) marriages for both herself and her teenage daughter Frederica, currently at a boarding school that Lady Susan cannot afford. Here, at least, we are on familiar Austen territory but we soon cross out of that as Lady Susan?s forward manner and disregard of convention leaves her a racy and scandalous heroine very different from the staid and constrained heroines of the wider-read Austen cannon. Lady Susan is excluded from the Manwaring estate (her affair with her host precipitating this) and descends on Churchill, the house of her somewhat disapproving brother-in-law. There she takes up with the brother of her brother-in-law?s wife, to the dismay of his parents, who are well aware of her (lack of) reputation. Meanwhile her daughter runs away from school, is expelled and appears with a follower of her own. After that things become complex, with more deceit, exposure, near escapes and strange coincidences. A strong cast who can handle period comedy and farce includes Stephen Fry as the dreary husband of Lady Susan?s almost equally racy friend and confident, James Fleet and Gemma Redgrave. Whit Stillman manages to place a modern knowingness into a well handled period setting, and despite a plot which is tissue thin, this film manages to delight. Filmed mainly in Ireland (you can?t find the late eighteen century in England nowadays at the price). Director: Whit Stillman Ireland, France, Netherlands Running time: 90 minutes. Cert: U We say: It is the Austen for people who don?t think they like Austen, but also for those who do. Whit Stillman has only made 5 feature films in 26 years, Why? Film at 8pm. Tickets ?7 from WeGotTickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/426299 The Bigger Picture website: http://www.thebiggerpic.co.uk/ The Bigger Picture Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thebiggerpic/ Location: THE IVY HOUSE 40 Stuart Road Nunhead London SE15 3BE

The Bigger Picture film club will be showing ?Il Posto? (1961) at 8pm on Thursday, 16 November 2017, Upstairs at East Dulwich Tavern. Domenico and Antonietta are two suburban Italians searching for "a job for life" from a big city corporation. After a bizarre screening process made up of written exams, physical agility exercises, and interview questions such as "Do you drink to forget your troubles??, they get menial jobs. The film ends as Domenico ponders his fate from behind his tiny desk at the back of the small windowless room, listening to the sound of the mimeograph machine as it runs off carbon copies next to the manager's desk. "A long-standing favourite with those who have been lucky enough to see it. Its innocent young hero from the Milan suburbs gets a job as a junior clerk in a big company in the city, and Olmi?s wonderfully observant and sensitive record of his experiences ? and his shy romance with a sweet co-worker ? charts the pointlessness and boredom of the world of modern corporate work with a fine, sympathetic balance of the grotesquely sad and the ruefully comic. It?s a brilliant, lovable piece of work. " Philip Horne, Telegraph Director: Ermanno Olmi Italy 93 minutes Cert U We say: Nominated by Paul, our film expert, who feels that this film by the great Italian social realist Ermanno Olmi deserves to be better known. Bar opens from 7pm. Film at 8pm. Tickets ?7 from WeGotTickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/390768 The Bigger Picture website: http://www.thebiggerpic.co.uk/ The Bigger Picture Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thebiggerpic/ Location: Upstairs at East Dulwich Tavern 1 Lordship Lane London SE22 8EW Rail: East Dulwich; Buses: P13, 37, 185, 176, 40, 484

Tickets will be available on the door tonight for ?Les Demoiselles De Rochefort?. We're showing the film at 8pm, 19 October 2017, Upstairs @ East Dulwich Tavern.

Here's a trailer for ?Les Demoiselles De Rochefort?: You can buy your tickets online!

The Bigger Picture film club will be showing ?Les Demoiselles De Rochefort? (1967) at 8pm on Thursday, 19 October 2017, Upstairs at East Dulwich Tavern. Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. In this musical, Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poet and a painter. He is doing his military service. Simon, who owns a music shop, left Paris one month ago to come back to the place where he fell in love 10 years ago. They are looking for love, looking for each other, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close. They sing and dance in the streets, a euphoria intended by the director. Director: Jacques Demy France 125 minutes Cert U We say: Cited as one of the inspirations for La La Land with its primary coloured costumes and dancing in the streets, this musical is unapologetically feelgood. A summer confection as light and brightly coloured as tissue paper with Catherine Deneuve and Gene Kelly and music by Michel Legrand. What?s not to love? Bar opens from 7pm. Film at 8pm. Tickets ?7 from WeGotTickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/390767 The Bigger Picture website: http://www.thebiggerpic.co.uk/ The Bigger Picture Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thebiggerpic/ Location: Upstairs at East Dulwich Tavern 1 Lordship Lane London SE22 8EW Rail: East Dulwich; Buses: P13, 37, 185, 176, 40, 484

Tickets will be available on the door tonight for our film 'Lust, Caution'. It starts at 8pm, Upstairs at East Dulwich Tavern.

Here's the trailer for 'Lust, Caution':