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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
