Trent Bridge Film Festival, Nottingham
Visitors to Trent Bridge come out disappointed at least 50% of the time, probably more, but not on this occasion. The cricket ground has realised that, with its 160 sq m outdoor screen (the largest in Europe, they say), it’s a perfect venue for outdoor cinema. A screening of the Royal Opera House’s La Bohème drew 3,000 last year; this special Father’s Day event (or summer solstice event, if you prefer) should be even more popular. On screen, it’s crowd-pleasers all round. There’s a lunchtime screening of the utterly unhateable Paddington for families, with Grease in the evening for older viewers. And in between, free to Grease ticket holders, there is the rollicking, Errol Flynn-led The Adventures Of Robin Hood – still one of the most exciting action movies ever made, with local flavour and covert class revolt to boot.
Trent Bridge, Sun
Picturehouse Central, London
London’s arthouse lovers have never had it so good. Earlier this year we got the Curzon Bloomsbury; now Picturehouse unveils its new flagship. The technology on the four screens is state-of-the-art, and the building itself is pretty smart, too, replacing the 1980s tat of the Trocadero and restoring the buildings’ Victorian grandeur. Content-wise it’ll be a mix, taking in not just documentaries (such as dance music doc Better Living Through Circuitry) and art, indie and world cinema but blockbusters, too.
Live Stand Up + Tremors, Bristol
A comedy evening of two halves. First it’s live stand-up with six fresh comics: Phil Jerrod (winner of best debut at this year’s Leicester comedy festival), Joe Sutherland, Jenny Collier, local lad Luke Sargeant, Phil Cooper and Anna Dominey. And that should get you in the mood for the main feature, 1990 comedy-horror Tremors, in which Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, country singer Reba McEntire and other incongruously well-armed residents of Perfection, Nevada (population 14) defend themselves against tentacled subterranean “graboids”. It’s like Jaws without the water. Or the budget. But it’s a cult classic nonetheless. In the Tremors spirit, “redneck couture” is recommended, we’re told.
Cube Cinema, Sat
Everyman Music Festival, London & Birmingham
Glastonbury exiles could always turn to this music-film event, combining new releases with special guests and live sounds at events across the Everyman chain. There are world premieres of two Vice-made documentaries: Hip Hop In The Holy Land (2 Jul), in which Mike Skinner meets Israeli and Palestinian rappers; and The Redemption Of The Devil (1 Jul), in which Eagles Of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes makes a surprising change of direction towards the priesthood. Skinner and Hughes will both give Q&As, as will ex-Beta Band member John Maclean after his feature debut Slow West (Wed), and Denny Tedesco, director of doc The Wrecking Crew (2 Jul), on the unknown musicians who backed scores of 1960s hits. And there’s subject-appropriate live music before screenings of Whiplash and Amy.
Various venues, Wed to 3 Jul
