Welcome to the Magic Lantern Film Club - dedicated to the celebration of the moving image and the enchantment of the audience.
See what we’ve screened in the past, what we’ve got coming up and add your ideas to our Screenings wishlist. Keep in touch with what we’re doing by signing up to be a member. You’ll also be able to attend our film showings.
We aim to create a screenings programme of rare, unusual, well-loved - just plain good! – films across Sheffield, usually in S7 and around, but wherever we can find suitable venues.
We love cinema and the chance to show films that you might not normally get to see. We also love a celebration and an opportunity to make links with other groups. We have so many ideas – Sci-fi, Bollywood, and Chinese cinema seasons, psychedelia, 1950s musicals and film noir, and what about some Desert Island film screenings?? – but not enough time!
But if there’s anything you’d like to see and want to suggest as part of our programme, do let us know. The audience is all part of the experience.
what a great idea! Best luck!
Thanks Barbara! We look forward to seeing you at a screening. Keep in touch and spread the word.
I also think it’s a LOVELY idea! Have you heard of the Kinema in the woods? It’s a cinema, on it’s own, in the woods in Boston in Lincolnshire. It would make a great pop-up venue. Also I used to live right next door to the Hyde Park cinema in Leeds. Another good venue. Then there’s Grassington festival… Anyway, just a thought. Keep up the good work. Film suggestion, ‘Top Hat’ with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. They just don’t make ‘em like that anymore.
Thanks for your enthusiasm. Kinema in the woods sounds amazing…there are some fabulous venues / cinema projects dotted around the north, perhaps we need to draw up a map! And organise some outings….??
Excellent idea. How about ‘Top Hat’, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers?
Wonderful! It would have to be a fancy dress screening, tap shoes optional….
Your ideas sound very exciting, especially as they will be ongoing. I know of other great cinema events, but they tend to be one-offs. In particular, I remember a magical summer evening in Glasgow. A giant screen was put up in the middle of a street. People stood around watching on all sides and the atmosphere was great. That sort of outdoor event really pulls a community together. But I know you would probably need the council to agree!! Talking of unusual films, and psychedelia – The Monkees are on a comeback tour and their trippy film ‘Head’ is something most people would never have the chance to see, especially in the company of like-minded others.
Like it! On a hot summer night with giant lava lamp type projections and patchouli incense in the air…..
Hi there,
We’re launching a new weekly film programme on Sheffield Live on August 6th, if you’d like to keep us up to date with what you’re showing and when, please keep us posted either via Twitter(@slamdunkcinema), the Slam Dunk Cinema page on Facebook or by email (slamdunkcinema@live.co.uk).
Thanks,
Marvellous! We’ll be in touch…..
Greetings Magiclanterns,
I found out about the club just recently.
Went for my first film last week (midnight cowboy).
Loved the film, loved the experience.
Thanks for being there.
Hope to become a regular.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. (Sorry…couldn’t help it!)
Well….nobody’s perfect! (We could start a correspondence consisting of great last lines…)
Thank you for your support, it was great to have you there – we love our regulars, they’re a big part of the whole experience so do come back again soon.
Hasta luego!
I wasn’t using Casablanca’s, but “Black cat, White cat” by Emir Kusturica ( got’cha!) Sorry again!
Oooh! Clever! We must show some Kusturica – and someone else has asked for Time of the Gypsies – so thanks for the reminder!