Towner Cine Club: Interstellar

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.

Christopher Nolan’s (Oppenheimer, Dunkirk, Inception) enthralling space epic is screening at Towner alongside Cecilia Fiona's exhibition Spirals Gathering, Time Breathing.

In a future Earth, a global crop blight is slowly rendering the planet uninhabitable. A brilliant NASA physicist, Professor Brand (Michael Caine) plans to save mankind by transporting its population to a new home via a wormhole. But first, Brand must send former NASA pilot Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and a team of researchers across the galaxy to find a planet that could be mankind's new home – and Cooper must leave his children, including daughter Murphy (Jessica Chastain) behind to do so.

Truly spectacular, a grand voyage of immense proportions, Interstellar must be seen on the big screen.

“A bold, beautiful cosmic adventure story with a touch of the surreal and the dreamlike” ★★★★★ Time Out

"What I love about this pairing with Cecilia Fiona’s exhibition is that it isn’t an obvious one on the surface. Yet, as you peel back both her work and Nolan’s film, both reveal a sort of cosmic generosity that feels genuinely special. If you’ve never seen it on a big screen, don’t miss it."