What’s on
Upcoming events at The Exchange, Twickenham.
June 2018
Twickenham Cinema Club Presents: Get Out
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A young couple arrange to ‘meet the parents’ for the first time in what seems like ‘post-racial’, liberal America, with a story that unwinds into a modern horror story. With an outstanding performance from Daniel Kaluuya, this film has been described by The Guardian as ‘a rollercoaster ride into a very American nightmare'. Is the title ‘Get Out’ a threat or a warning? Come and watch it to find out…. -Doors open 6.45pm, film starts 7.30pm. -Tickets can be booked…
Richmond Film Society Presents ‘The Florida Project’
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USA (2017) Set over one summer, the film follows the lives and adventures of a group of young children living in a budget motel near Disney World, whose often transient residents live a hand-to-mouth existence. It focuses, in particular, on a fearless, hyper-active and ebullient little six-year old girl, Moonee, and her loving but dissolute young mother, who is little more than a child herself. Whilst it addresses serious issues facing those living on the margins, the film is, at…
July 2018
The Lego Movie
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The LEGO Movie follows Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. Tickets: £6/£4 (concs) Details: Director(s): Phil Miller Runtime: 100 Certification: U Production Year: 2014 Distributor: Warner Bros.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
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A weird inventor, Caractacus Potts, invents an amazing flying car, which drives by itself. It takes him and his family to Vulgaria, where the sinister buffoon Baron Bomburst kidnaps the car. The baron has made children illegal, and Caractacus and Co. have to try and rescue the children of Vulgaria in this classic children's story. Tickets: £6/£4 (concs) Details: Director(s): Ken Hughes Runtime: 144 Certification: U Production Year: 1968 Distributor: United Artists
August 2018
Inside Out
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After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school. Tickets: £6/£4 (concs) Details Director(s): Ronaldo Del Carmen, Pete Docter Runtime: 94 Certification: U Production Year: 2015 Distributor: Disney
Moana
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Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast South Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped – and no one today knows why. From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes “Moana,” a sweeping, CG-animated adventure about a spirited teenager who sails out on a daring mission to prove herself a master wayfinder and fulfil her ancestors’ unfinished quest. During her journey, she meets the once-mighty demi-god Maui,…
Mary Poppins
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A magic nanny comes to work for a cold banker's unhappy family. Tickets: £6/£4 (concs) Details Director(s): Robert Stevenson Runtime: 95 Certification: U
September 2018
Richmond Film Society Presents ‘A Fantastic Woman’
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Richmond Film Society Presents ‘A Fantastic Woman’ Chile (2017) Richmond Film Society’s 56th Season opens at The Exchange with the 2018 Foreign Language Oscar winner, 'A Fantastic Woman'. Marina, a young transgender woman finds herself viewed with suspicion by both the authorities and blood relatives when her older lover dies unexpectedly. She is traumatised but this is just the beginning of her troubles as she tries to deal with the legal and familial fallout following his death. Instead of being…
Resilience: The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope
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RESILIENCE is an award-winning one-hour documentary that chronicles the birth of a movement to disrupt intergenerational cycles of violence, addiction and disease. Since implementing “trauma-informed” policies and practices, some communities in America have seen drastic reductions in rates of everything from dropping out of school to teen pregnancy, youth suicides and domestic violence. In Washington state, youth suicides down 59%, domestic violence incidents down 27%, youth arrests for violent crime down 66%. In San Francisco a whole school approach to…
Dignity, Mental Well-being and Disability: Screening of the Film ‘Summer in the Forest’
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Dignity, Mental Well-being and Disability: Presents screening of ‘Summer in the Forest’ In collaboration with Las Casas Institute, Oxford and L’Arche UK’ Public Reception including pre-show discussion and drinks from 5:30pm in The Exchange Conservatory. Speakers include: Kathleen Boyle, Francis Campbell, Richard Keagan-Bull, Amy Merone, Jean Vanier (by video link, and Randall Wright. Screening of the film 'Summer in the Forest' at 6:30pm in The Exchange Theatre. SUMMER IN THE FOREST invites us to abandon the…