Side Cinema
Introduction
An accessible, 48 seat cinema on Newcastle upon Tyne's Quayside, showing great films and available for hire...
Amber opened Side Cinema in 1977. The seats were rescued from the Wallaw in Blyth and include rare doubles, suitable for socially-concerned snogging. Even without the romantic interest, however, it's one of those venues people fall in love with. Different programming strands are developed in conjunction with Side Gallery, Side Café, and a range of different groups. It can be booked, either on its own, or together with the café's beautiful upstairs room.
What's on in July
Murray Martin
July sees a fine season of films, For Murray, as we move towards the anniversary of his death last year. There are two of his all-time favourites, Jean Vigo's unmissable classic L'Atalante (Thu 3 Jul) and The Moon & the Sledgehammer (Thu 17 Jul), a wonderful documentary about a family in a wood in Sussex, made by his friend Philip Trevelyan. And there will be two of Amber's celebrated horsey features, Seacoal (Thu 10 Jul), the film that got Murray into horse culture and Eden Valley (Thu 24 Jul), a personal film in which he explored father/son relationships in the County Durham harness racing community of which he became so much a part. On Saturday 16 August we will be screening previews of The Pursuit of Happiness (2.30pm, 5pm & 7pm), which we were working on when he died - a documentary about a horsey family in Craghead, County Durham, which has become an exploration of a filmmaker who became part of the world he documented.
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