Event Descriptor: Event Cinema

Dir. Tom Morris (2026)
Runtime: 165 mins

Shakespeare’s Othello rages to life like never before in a new production starring David Harewood, Toby Jones, Caitlin FitzGerald, Vinette Robinson and Luke Treadaway. Directed by Tony Award-winner Tom Morris with music by PJ Harvey, this epic story of manipulation, jealousy and toxic masculinity explores the darker side of power, rage and desire. Filmed live at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London especially for the big screen.

Screenings
Saturday 21 March, 6.20pm
Wednesday 25 March, 2.00pm

Dir. Graham Williamson (2025)
Runtime: 66 mins

Screening + Q+A with filmmaker Graham Williamson and John Grindrod

The suburbs are often portrayed as dull, conformist and hermetic. But with over 80% of the UK population calling these areas home, this playful yet empathetic compilation challenges enduring stereotypes by centring the experiences and eccentricities of their numerous residents. The development of these spaces, and the narratives surrounding them, has been captured over the past 100 years by early filmmakers, citizen journalists, amateur documentarians and, most recently, a growing charge of online moving image creators – all brought together here to reveal the multiple identities and realities underneath the cultural image.

This event is presented in partnership with Pooleyville as part of the BFI National Archive’s Our Screen Heritage programme, focused on reframing the public’s current and future relationship with the BFI National Archive and its collections. It is supported by the BFI Screen Heritage Fund, awarding National Lottery funding, and MK City Council.

Screening
Saturday 7 March, 2pm

Dir. Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte
Runtime: 178 mins

The Count of Monte Cristo (Le comte de Monte-Cristo) is a 2024 adaptation of the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas.

This screening is presented by Alliance Française MK

Showing
Saturday 14 March, 6pm

Alliance Française MK book club will be returning to MK Gallery on 14 April 2026, 5:30 – 7pm to discuss Alexandre Dumas’s Count of Monte Cristo (Le comte de Monte-Cristo). The session will take place in the Café and is free to attend. Second-hand copies of the book can be purchased from AFMK

Dir. Ivo Van Hove, 2026
Runtime: 180 mins

Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) feature in a five-star, triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s classic play, from visionary director Ivo Van Hove (A View from the Bridge).

One family, the heart of the American dream. When wartime delivers profits for Joe, it comes at a price when his partner is charged with criminal manufacturing deals, and his eldest son goes missing in action. Will peacetime bring peace of mind, or will he be confronted by the consequence of his actions?

Filmed live from the West End, Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You), Tom Glynn-Carney (House of the Dragon), and Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake) also feature in this disturbingly prescient play.

Showings
Saturday 18 April, 7.00pm
Wednesday 22 April, 2.00pm

Dir. Caitríona McLaughlin, 2026
Runtime: 150 mins

Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery.

Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer becomes a local hero and begins to win hearts, that is until a second man unexpectedly arrives on the scene…

Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Caitríona McLaughlin directs this darkly funny tale full to the brim with secrets.

Showings
Saturday 30 May, 7.00pm
Wednesday 3 June, 2.00pm

Dir. Marianne Elliott, 2026
Runtime: 150 mins

BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ classic novel from 1782, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin.

Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont, they turn seduction into strategy and weaponise desire. But when their alliance collapses into rivalry, the battle between them threatens to destroy everyone in their path.

Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Marianne Elliott (Angels in America) directs this thrilling game of love, lies, and social warfare.

Showings
Saturday 27 June, 7.00pm
Wednesday 1 July, 2.00pm

Dir. Stephen Daldry, 2013
Runtime: 180 mins

Returning to cinemas for the first time in over a decade, Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II in the Olivier and Tony Award® -winning hit production, directed by Stephen Daldry. For 60 years, Queen Elizabeth II met with each of her 12 prime ministers in a private weekly meeting.

This meeting is known as The Audience. From Winston Churchill to Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron, the Queen advised her prime ministers on matters both public and personal. Through these private audiences, we see glimpses of the woman behind the crown and witness the moments that shaped a monarch.

Peter Morgan’s Netflix phenomenon The Crown was based on this hit play that was captured live from London’s West End in 2013 and went on to become one of the most-watched NT Live productions.

Showings
Saturday 28 February, 7.00pm
Wednesday 4 March, 2.00pm

Dir. Thomas Kail, 2025
Runtime: 179 mins

The real-life of one of America’s foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Filmed live on Broadway from the Richard Rodgers Theatre with the original Broadway cast.

Screening

Saturday 27 September, 6pm

Dir. Rob Reiner, 2025
Runtime: 180 mins

An epic double feature, turned up to 11! See This is Spinal Tap and the latest film, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues in one night!

Spinal Tap, one of England’s loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour in This is Spinal Tap

SPINAL TAP is back! After a 15-year hiatus, David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls are drawn back together for one last concert. Documentary filmmaker Marty DiBergi returns to explore what the band members have been up to and immortalize the concert reunion. The film blends the same musical mayhem and satire that made the original a cult classic and features some fantastic rock cameos in the process. Will this concert be their triumphant return, or just another Stonehenge-sized catastrophe?

The features will have a 15 minute break between films.

Screening
Saturday 11 October, 6pm

Dir: Karin Bucher, Thomas Karrer, 2023
84 mins

The construction of the Indian planned city of Chandigarh 70 years ago saw Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier complete his life’s work. Born in a time of unrest, resettlement and the Partition of India, Chandigarh stands for progress and the newly emerged democracy. The film accompanies four people involved in culture and arts who live in the city, reveals universal connections and – in an atmospherically dense narrative – reflects on Le Corbusier’s legacy, utopian urban concepts and the cultural differences between East and West.

This screening is part of New City Dreaming a series of events produced by Pooleyville for Heritage Open Days 2025.

Taking place
Tuesday 16 September, 7pm