Towner Cine Club: Don't Look Now

Towner Cine Club is a chance for you to catch classic films back on the big screen, all presented with an introduction by Henry Jordan. Whether it’s arthouse oddities, cult classics, old favourites or new discoveries, we’ll be showing something exciting every month at Towner Cinema.

Henry Jordan works at Towner as a Duty Manager and helps with the day-to-day operations of the cinema, as well as hosting Towner Cine Club. He studied English and Film Studies at University of Exeter, which included a study abroad year that he took at University of South Florida in Tampa, USA. During Henry’s time at university, he discovered his core fields of interest, among them para-cinema, surrealism and anti-literature.

Before Towner, Henry worked at the Arts Picturehouse in Cambridge, where he was a regular host for their sell out quiz nights and hosted a Q&A with Dame Pippa Harris for her film Empire of Light. He also was a regular on the Cambridge Film Show, has been published in The Quietus and still writes for The Quite Nerdy Blog, his blog about pop culture that has been running since 2014.

Nicolas Roeg’s (Performance) Don’t Look Now is a timeless horror masterpiece. Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie are married couple John and Laura Baxter, recovering in chilly, off-season Venice after a terrible tragedy while John directs the restoration of a crumbling church. But Laura, transfixed by the visions of a local psychic, can’t move on, and despite his protestations, even her more rational husband keeps seeing a familiar figure all over the elegantly decaying city. 

Intimate and powerfully naturalistic, innovatively edited by Roeg, Don’t Look Now is a fantastically atmospheric occult thriller with one of the greatest endings in horror history. 

"I love the emotional unpredictability of this film and how it shifts imperceptibly from the beautiful to the tragic, all on its way to a darkly twisted finale whose brilliance it would be cruel to spoil."