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Join us in February for some extra-special screenings! We present two classic Valentine's day matinees, including Morocco starring the enchanting Marlene Dietrich in association with Eastbourne Rainbow, and Roman Holiday with Audrey Hepburn. 

Oscar nominees Tár (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Lead Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing), The Whale (Best Lead Actor, Best Supporting Actress and The Fabelmans (Best Picture, Best Production Design, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay) will also grace the Towner auditorium this month so stay ahead of the hype and book now!

From the radiant original novel by Roald Dahl, the tale of Matilda, a young girl coming to terms with her extraordinariness, has always been a surefire classic. Matilda The Musical is delightful, charming and expertly choregraphed with an energetic soundtrack bound to tug at some heartstrings. The cast includes Alisha Weir in the lead role and a beguilling Emma Thompson as Ms Trunchbull, clearly relishing in her villain era. 

For this Dementia Friendly screening, our house lights will be slightly raised to provide a more relaxed and comfortable setting. Everyone is welcome to attend, but we ask that you are mindful of the context and understand that people may need to regularly leave and return.

Wednesday 1 February, 2.00pm.

Looking for cheap and easy activities this half term? Matilda The Musical will also be screening as part of our Family Film offer, tickets only £3.00!

Tuesday 14 February, 11.00am

Wednesday 15 February, 11.00am

Starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper, Morocco is an ultra-sophisticated love story, drawing us in to a burgeoning romance between magnetic cabaret singer Amy Jolly (Dietrich) and womanising legionairre Tom Brown (Cooper). It only takes a shake of a tuxedo-clad leg for Mademoiselle Amy to hypnotise Tom with her captivating androgynous act in this sensuous relic of cinema that confronts and subverts femininity, sexuality and gender.

This film is presented in association with Eastbourne Rainbow, a social group for the 50+ LGBTQIA+ communities living in Eastbourne and the surrounding areas.

Tuesday 14 February, 2.00pm

Saturday 18 February, 11.00am

Power, ego and the heat of the spotlight are common themes in the realm of rise-and-fall celebrity drama films, but here barely scratch the surface of this tour-de-force. Nominated in five Oscar categories, Tár documents the torment of fictional composer and conductor Lydia Tár, plagued by intense and tumultuous attraction, haunted by imaginary voices and navigating the enormity of her own significance.

Cate Blanchett's performance of this controversial figure is complemented expertly by intense dramatic cinematography and brought back down to earth through scathing social commentary, bringing dynamics of power into question over those of gender and sexuality. 

Friday 10 February, 10.30am

Saturday 11 February, 1.00pm

Sunday 12 February, 4.00pm

Thursday 16 February, 1.00pm*, 7.00pm*

*Hard-of-hearing captioned

All The Beauty And The Bloodshed is an Oscar-nominated documentary revealing how Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler family, contributed to the 1990s opioid epidemic and how photographer Nan Goldin dedicated herself to holding them accountable. 

Goldin, whose work famously captured the complexity and courage of LGBTQIA+ subcultures and documented the HIV/AIDs crisis, passionately confronts the notorious financiers of the arts world in this thrilling exposé following her quest to target museums and call to question their allegiances.

Saturday 11 February, 4.30pm

Sunday 12 February, 1.00pm

Thursday 16 February, 4.15pm*

*Hard-of-hearing captioned

Steven Spielberg's semi-autobiographical love-letter to cinema is wonderfully self aware in its ability to have some fun and utilise the director's "anything-can-happen-if-you-believe" brand of storytelling while hitting some much more serious emotional beats.

Spielberg has always based his filmmaking on three elements; storytelling, character development and suspence, and achieves this beautifully in The Fabelmans, a story about a young boy growing as an artist, learning sometimes less-than-savoury secrets and getting to grips with the complexities of the people who surround but also inspire him. 

Friday 17 February, 1.00pm

Saturday 18 February, 4.30pm

Sunday 19 February, 1.00pm, 4.15pm

Thursday 23 February, 1.00pm*, 7.00pm*

*Hard-of-hearing captioned

Our new programme of films by Exhibition On Screen provides an in-depth look at a new artist every first Friday of the month at 11.00am. We still have a few tickets left for this month's I, Claude Monet so book now before they're gone!

Our next installment is David Hockney at The Royal Academy, featuring intimate and in-depth interviews with the artist and focusing on two blockbuster exhibitions held in 2012 and 2016 at the Royal Academy of Art in London.

Friday 3 March, 11.00am

Also screening this month:

Empire of Light (15)

Enys Men (15)

Free Chol Soo Lee (12a)

Babylon (18)

The Whale (TBC)

As always, the full programme can be seen on our website

Did you know that Towner Members get discounted cinema tickets, as well as unlimited free entry to ticketed exhibitions? Find out more about which sort of membership would suit you!