This year's Festival runs from November 12th until December 6th, including two titles appearing in the Leeds International Film Festival. The complete programme is presented on the LPFF webpages. There are twelve events, both feature titles and documentaries, and art/activity events. Happily, several of the screenings are at the Hyde Park Picture House. These include two much anticipated new works from Palestinian and Arab film-makers. In the coming week there is a screening of Palestine 36 (2025); it is already sold out but there are further screenings of the feature in December.

The Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF2025) starts today with Richard Linklater's Blue Moon as one of the opening films at the Picture House. As well as the festival screenings, Bugonia and The Choral are also showing in the regular Picture House programme. Other festival highlights included the free breakfast screenings of Holiday and Roman Holiday, It Was Just An Accident, Die My Love, Rental Family, Sentimental Value, The Secret Agent, Game + Q&A and the Night Of The Dead all-nighter returns. Four our First Thursday meetup we'll be getting together in the bar around 8pm after the screening of…

Showing as part of their reRun strand, the Picture House presents Wong Kar-wai’s esteemed masterpiece, In the Mood for Love. Set against a smoky, rain-soaked 1960s Hong Kong, the lives of neighbours Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen become quietly entwined after discovering a shared betrayal. What unfolds is a visually sublime, temporal meditation on desire, longing and human connection, and an aching love letter to a Hong Kong that no longer exists. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the film’s release. A quarter-century on, it is enduringly beloved and celebrated not only as a landmark in Asian cinema, but as one of the greatest films ever made.

Last Thursday I caught the showing of the lurid, controversial and oh so millennial work that is Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers as part of the Guilt-free Pleasures season at the Picture House. Having never seen the film in cinemas before, I was eager to revisit it in all of its neon-clad glory. The existing cult following of Spring Breakers has seen a revival in recent years thanks to the pop culture phenomenon that was Charli XCX’s BRAT - a conceptual dance album that echoes the film’s motifs of party culture - and the track Spring Breakers that appeared on its deluxe edition last summer.

Harrogate Film Society is looking back on 70 incredible years of its own history in a position where it now has its highest-ever membership.

Spoiler warning for Fire Walk With Me and Twin Peaks (TV Series) Enveloping totality: the scalding heat of violence tears open the moment. In simultaneity, violence is birthed and combusts, an eclipsed instant of creation and destruction. White-hot, flashing and brazen, shattering the present into fractals of unspooled being. In these still frames of bloodied frenzy, a scream speaks manifestation to the unutterable presence of evil.

Monday 8 September 7pmCommunity Space Upper Floor of Hyde Park Picture House Unfortunately there was not a quorum for our Annual General Meeting on the 10th of August so we will be holding a short Special General Meeting on Monday 8th September at 7pm to formally approve the recommendations made at the AGM. As per our constitution the quorum will be the number of people attending after 15 minutes rather than a set figure.

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