This week’s films as at Pontio in Bangor include
Dr. Who:Classic Movie Double Bill
The Railway Children Return
Critically acclaimed modern Welsh language horror film Gwledd (The Feast) (18)
Special offer: £5 tickets for all 2pm showings Monday-Wednesday.
Community events include Vertical Dance (Monday) and Free Kite making (Friday) and Kite Flying Festival (Saturday) in Solidarity with the people of Afghanistan
For more information and to Book for all events visit the Pontio website here: https://www.pontio.co.uk/
Cinema:
Dr. Who:Classic Movie Double Bill (PG)Top Gun Maverick (12A)
Gordon Flemyng, 1965/66, 167m (+10minute interval)
Cast – Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, Roy Castle,Ray Brooks
Sunday 14 August 2pm
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Summer Sci-Fi Treat! Experience the technicolour regenerated big screen 1960s classics DR. WHO AND THE DALEKS (1965) and DALEKS’ INVASION EARTH 2150 A.D. (1966) as a nostalgic and exciting bid screen double bill.
In DR. WHO & THE DALEKS the Doctor and his three young accomplices set forth on a quest through time and space. Their journey takes them to Skaro, a primitive world devastated by nuclear war and populated by two warring species, a peaceful tribe known as Thals and a life form heavily mutated by radiation, encased in protective machines, a merciless force of destruction known as The Daleks!
In the second film, DALEKS’ INVASION EARTH 2150 A.D the future of Planet Earth now belongs to The Daleks, but deep within the London Underground a group of resistance freedom fighters are planning an attack. Can The Doctor help them succeed?
The Railway Children Return (PG)
Morgan Matthews, 2021, 95m
Cast – Jenny Agutter, Tom Courtenay, Sheridan Smith
Friday 12 – Thursday 18 August
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
A sequel to the beloved family classic. This time we follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far away from home.
Hit the Road (12A)
Panah Panahi, 2021, 94m
Cast – Pantea Panahiha, Hasan Majuni, Rayan Sarlak
Monday 15 – Thursday 18 August
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
An award-winning Iranian film that demands to be seen. Humane, comic and wonderful in its innovative simplicity. A middle-aged couple and their two sons embark on a road trip across the Iranian countryside. Over the course of their journey, they bond over memories of the past, grapple with fears of the unknown and fuss over their sick dog.
THE AMERICAN FRIEND (15)
1977, Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz
Wednesday 17 August, 8.15pm
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
With the help of a brilliantly on-form Dennis Hopper, Wenders transforms Patricia Highsmith’s novel ‘Ripley’s Game’ into a gripping and exciting European noir crime classic.
Gwledd (The Feast) (18)
Welsh with English Subtitles
PREVIEW: Thursday 18 August with cast and crew, 8.15pm
Lee Haven Jones, 2021, 93m
Cast – Annes Elwy, Nia Roberts, Julian Lewis Jones
Thursday 18 – Thursday 25 August
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
The wait is over. Dinner is served. THE FEAST is a critically acclaimed modern Welsh language horror film that has been wowing festival audiences around the world over the past 12 months. Come and join us for a special premiere screening with cast and crew on the 18th of August.
Directed by Lee Haven Jones and written by Roger Williams this eco-themed folk horror sees a wealthy couple host a luxury dinner party in order to convince a neighbour to sell land to a local businessman. As a mysterious girl arrives at the house to be maid for the evening, things start to turn very strange and horribly sour.
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Community Events
Vertical Dance Kate Lawrence and Pontio presents Lunch on the Fly
Monday 15 August
This is a fun session in which you can have a go at vertical dance. Starting with an easy warm up, you will then try to stand on and jump off a vertical floor using waist harnesses. You will be guided through some simple positions, and then you will fly!
Wear comfortable clothing with snug layers around waist and top of legs.
Age: 16+
Limited capacity – space for 12 people only.
No experience necessary
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Fly With Me – Kite Making Workshop
Friday 19 August 10.30am + 2pm
PL2 Free but ticketed
An International Kite Flying Festival in Solidarity with the people of Afghanistan
Kite Flying
On Saturday 20th August 2022, BLAS, Pontio will the support of Pobl i Bobl will host a very special event. It’ll will be one year since the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, and Good Chance has organized an event where people from all around the UK and Europ will remember and preserve Afghan culture through the simple, joyful act of kite flying.
So we invite all the people of Bangor and beyond to bring your kites at 4:30 by the Caban outside Pontio, ready to raise our kites at 4:45
Don’t have a kite?
Come along to our kite making workshop with Manon Awst and Pobl i Bobl on Friday 19 August!
