THE Roxy is showing Faces Places on Thursday as part of the Ulverston cinema's film club. A Cannes Film Festival award-winner and Academy Award nominee, Faces Places marks a long-awaited return to filmmaking in the year of her 90th birthday for iconic filmmaker Agnès Varda, who with photographer JR travel around France in a special box truck equipped as a portable photo booth and travelling printing facility. Agnes - who died on March 29 - was one of the leading lights of France's French New Wave cinema era.
VUE Barrow is giving film fans the chance to mark the release of Avengers: Endgame in a special way. The latest in Marvel’s Avengers franchise, Endgame follows directly from the events in last year’s Avengers: Infinity War and those wanting to relive the events of Infinity War can see a screening on the evening of Wednesday, April 24, before being one of the first to see Avengers: Endgame when it's shown immediately afterwards at 12:01am on Thursday.
SCREENED at Zeffirellis at Ambleside on Monday, April 15 is the Blue Note Records: Beyond The Notes documentary which explores the unique vision behind the iconic jazz record label. Through rare footage, current recording sessions and conversations with BN artists, the film reveals a powerful mission and illuminates the vital connections between jazz and hip hop. Blue Note has been home to artists as Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane and Norah Jones.
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