Seasons

Maverick Mondays

The Riverside joined the Film Hub South East Programming Group at the end of 2019 and started its new series of films entitled “Maverick Mondays” under this banner from February 2020. We all want to see big audiences for a wider range of cinema – British independents, foreign language films …

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Film Feast

A Food and Film Fusion … Film Feast is all about bringing communities together through a love of film, food and drink while at the same time celebrating the incredible array of local food and drink producers in our region. In the past our Film Feast Festival has showcased feature films …

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Music Monthly

Suffolk has such a rich and varied music scene that we wanted to do something to complement it, so once a month we will screen a music documentary or concert film. We are thrilled to be partnering with the following amazing people who represent some of the best indie music retailers, music folk and …

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6 for £6 each Christmas Films Season

From Gremlins to Its a Wonderful Life and Elf, we are screening some wonderful Christmas movies for everyone this December at The Riverside following the huge success of our "6 for Christmas" season the last two years. We thought this year we’d look to bring some yuletide cheer with a selection of …

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Meet the Author with Catherine Larner

Bestselling novelists, tv and radio stars, historians, politicians, sportspeople, or new and emerging writers, this wide-ranging programme of author visits is arranged and hosted by Catherine Larner, a freelance journalist and presenter who has been running book groups and events in the town since …

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Dreaming of Darkness: The Films of David Lynch

“I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.” Born in 1946 in Missoula, Montana, Lynch was raised in small-town America. After high school, he went to Boston to attend the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Then, following a stint in …

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Cinema on Screen

In June 2023 I attended the Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival in Bologna, a festival I have worked for since 2009, and saw two new documentary films in two days about cinemas - Scala!!! and Cinema Laika. It started me thinking about all the other incredible films out there about cinemas; both …

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West End Musicals

New season starting in September 2024 showcasing a selection of some of the biggest West End Musicals from the past few years!

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Royal Ballet & Opera

Since 2008, the Royal Opera House cinema programme has brought over 120 opera and ballet broadcasts to audiences across the globe. It now reaches more than 1,500 cinemas from the UK to New Zealand, bringing the best of our resident companies to the big screen. The Royal Ballet and Opera also …

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THERE ARE GREAT WOMEN ARTISTS

A male gallerist once asked art historian Linda Nochlin “Why have there been no great women artists?” In response, she wrote a groundbreaking essay of the same title in which she deconstructs this question to reveal the assumptions behind it, as well as the answer it furtively supplies: “There are …

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