Corn Exchange Newbury announces a new season of film which has been programmed to reflect
community feedback. With more relaxed, family and dementia-friendly screenings, this new programme
fits with the Corn Exchange’s wider community work to make the arts accessible for all.
Following feedback from audiences in a recent film survey, the Corn Exchange has increased the
number of subtitled screenings, which will take place weekly on Wednesday evenings and Thursday
afternoons. The popular Ageing Creatively Film Club will take place monthly on a Thursday morning, and
each week on Tuesdays there will be a morning Parent & Baby screening, followed by an afternoon
Silver Screen (for over-60s).
They have also increased their family cinema offering, and there will be monthly Tots Cinema screenings
for pre-schoolers on a Thursday morning and weekly Family Film and Craft screenings on Saturday
mornings. In addition to regular relaxed screenings of family films, there will be a regular monthly
relaxed screening on a Thursday morning, and dementia-friendly screenings will take place monthly on
a Thursday, with a new programme of films selected in conjunction with participants who are living with
dementia and their family members or carers.
Highlights in the new season include the romantic comedy Rye Lane, the Oscar-nominated animation
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition and the adaptation of Rachel Joyce’s
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, which stars Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton. This season will
also see screenings of Loving Highsmith, which is voiced by Gwendoline Christie and portrays the life of
author Patricia Highsmith and Dance Craze – a thrilling documentary about the British ska scene. This
programme of film will go on sale to Members on Friday 31st March and on general sale on Thursday 6th
April.
Still to come in the current season, Fashion Reimagined, a documentary looking at the environmental
impact of the fashion industry; the screen adaptation of Alan Bennett’s Allelujah, starring Judi Dench,
Derek Jacobi and Jennifer Saunders; God’s Creatures which features Emily Watson and Oscar-nominee
Paul Mescal as mother and son; and Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom which is set in the extraordinary
and rarely shown on screen Bhutanese mountains. Family films over the Easter holidays include Epic
Tails, Chicken Run and How to Train Your Dragon.
The cinema is also available to hire for private screenings or birthday parties on a Sunday morning. From
April there will be a change in opening hours and films will be shown Tuesday to Sunday as the main
Corn Exchange building will be closed to the public on a Monday. For more information please visit
https://cornexchangenew.com/about/cinema.
