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Film Club at the Roxy, Brogden St, Ulverston (2026)

08/10/2026

📣 TONIGHT 📣

🎥 Please join us for our October film where we will be showing Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice (Eojjeol suga eopda)

🗓️ Thursday 8th October

🍿 Doors open 7:30pm film starts 8pm
🎫 Tickets £6 for members £7 for non-members.

Man-su (Lee Byung-hun), an award-winning veteran employee at a papermaking company, lives happily in his beloved childhood home with his wife Mi-ri and their children: Si-one, Mi-ri’s teenage son from a previous marriage, and Ri-one, an autistic cello prodigy. The company is bought out and Man-su is laid off after defending his fellow workers, but assures his family he will resume papermaking within three months. This black comedy shows his attempts as he embarks on a stream of deadly planning constantly teetering at the edge of disaster.

🏆 Winner – Best Film and Best Director, Blue Dragon Film Awards 2025
🥇 Winner – Best Film (International People’s Choice Award), Toronto International Film Festival 2025

Director: Park Chan-wook
Cast: Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Woo Seung Kim, So Yul Choi
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean (English subtitles)
Rating: 15
Running time: 139 minutes

What the critics said:

Reviews
“It starts out like an Ealing comedy-type caper then somehow morphs into something else: a portrait of family dysfunction, fragile masculinity and the breadwinner crisis, and the state of the nation itself.”
— Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rating: 4 out of 5.
“Park Chan-wook’s dazzling murder comedy is a masterclass in controlled chaos.”
— Jessica Kiang, Variety

29/09/2026

📣 NEXT WEEK 📣

🎥 Please join us for October film where we will be showing Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice (Eojjeol suga eopda)

🗓️ Thursday 8th October

🍿 Doors open 7:30pm film starts 8pm
🎫 Tickets £6 for members £7 for non-members.

Man-su (Lee Byung-hun), an award-winning veteran employee at a papermaking company, lives happily in his beloved childhood home with his wife Mi-ri and their children: Si-one, Mi-ri’s teenage son from a previous marriage, and Ri-one, an autistic cello prodigy. The company is bought out and Man-su is laid off after defending his fellow workers, but assures his family he will resume papermaking within three months. This black comedy shows his attempts as he embarks on a stream of deadly planning constantly teetering at the edge of disaster.

🏆 Winner – Best Film and Best Director, Blue Dragon Film Awards 2025
🥇 Winner – Best Film (International People’s Choice Award), Toronto International Film Festival 2025

Director: Park Chan-wook
Cast: Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Woo Seung Kim, So Yul Choi
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean (English subtitles)
Rating: 15
Running time: 139 minutes

What the critics said:

Reviews
“It starts out like an Ealing comedy-type caper then somehow morphs into something else: a portrait of family dysfunction, fragile masculinity and the breadwinner crisis, and the state of the nation itself.”
— Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rating: 4 out of 5.
“Park Chan-wook’s dazzling murder comedy is a masterclass in controlled chaos.”
— Jessica Kiang, Variety

10/09/2026

If you’re joining us for the screening tonight you might be interested to know an interesting fact about The Secret Agent. The film has a huge 60+ cast of characters with speaking lines. And the director was keen to make even the smaller characters feel like real people rather than extras. There’s also an actress (Tania Maria) who absolutely steals the show in a few scenes and she only started acting at 72 and has no formal training! Sounds like she’s become quite the cult hero in Brazil.

📣 TONIGHT 📣

🎥 Please join us for our first screening of this season where we will be showing The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto)directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho.

🗓️ Thursday 10th September

🍿 Doors open 7:30pm film starts 8pm
🎫 Tickets £6 for members £7 for non-members.

The film transports the audience to the oppressive atmosphere of 1970s Brazil. Marcelo, a university researcher, finds himself a marked man after refusing to allow corrupt officials to steal his department‘s research to enrich themselves. Fleeing to his hometown, he seeks refuge among political dissidents and an underground resistance network while trying to arrange an escape with his young son.

🏆 Winner – Best Director and Best Actor, Cannes Film Festival 2025
🏆 Winner – Best Foreign Language Film, Critics Choice Awards 2026
🏆 Winner – Best Motion Picture Non- English Language, Golden Globes 2026

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho Cast: Wagner Moura, Tânia Maria, Alice Carvalho, Robério Diogenes, Udo Kier Country: Brazil  Language: Portuguese (English subtitles) Rating: 15 Running time: 161 minutes

What the critics said:

“A kaleidoscopic riot that quickly becomes a gear-shifting masterpiece. For all its showmanship, exquisite period details and flashy Tarantino-style denouement, Filho’s film never loses its profound emotional ache.”
— Kevin Maher, The Times

08/09/2026

🎥 Please join us this Thursday for our first screening of this season where we will be showing The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto)directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho.

🗓️ Thursday 10th September

🍿 Doors open 7:30pm film starts 8pm
🎫 Tickets £6 for members £7 for non-members.

The film transports the audience to the oppressive atmosphere of 1970s Brazil. Marcelo, a university researcher, finds himself a marked man after refusing to allow corrupt officials to steal his department‘s research to enrich themselves. Fleeing to his hometown, he seeks refuge among political dissidents and an underground resistance network while trying to arrange an escape with his young son.

🏆 Winner – Best Director and Best Actor, Cannes Film Festival 2025
🏆 Winner – Best Foreign Language Film, Critics Choice Awards 2026
🏆 Winner – Best Motion Picture Non- English Language, Golden Globes 2026

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho Cast: Wagner Moura, Tânia Maria, Alice Carvalho, Robério Diogenes, Udo Kier Country: Brazil  Language: Portuguese (English subtitles) Rating: 15 Running time: 161 minutes

What the critics said:

“A kaleidoscopic riot that quickly becomes a gear-shifting masterpiece. For all its showmanship, exquisite period details and flashy Tarantino-style denouement, Filho’s film never loses its profound emotional ache.”
— Kevin Maher, The Times

02/09/2026

🎥 NEXT WEEK🍿

Please join us for our first screening of this season where we will be showing The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto)directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho.

🗓️ Thursday 10th September
🍿 Doors open 7:30pm film starts 8pm
🎫 Tickets £6 for members £7 for non-members.

The film transports the audience to the oppressive atmosphere of 1970s Brazil. Marcelo, a university researcher, finds himself a marked man after refusing to allow corrupt officials to steal his department‘s research to enrich themselves. Fleeing to his hometown, he seeks refuge among political dissidents and an underground resistance network while trying to arrange an escape with his young son.

🏆 Winner – Best Director and Best Actor, Cannes Film Festival 2025
🏆 Winner – Best Foreign Language Film, Critics Choice Awards 2026
🏆 Winner – Best Motion Picture Non- English Language, Golden Globes 2026

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho Cast: Wagner Moura, Tânia Maria, Alice Carvalho, Robério Diogenes, Udo Kier Country: Brazil  Language: Portuguese (English subtitles) Rating: 15 Running time: 161 minutes

31/08/2026

📣NEW PROGRAMME 2026/7 Sept-Jan 📣

Send to a friend and get some cinema dates in your diary!

The Secret Agent 10th September
No Other Choice 8th October
Rose of Nevada 12th November
The Last Viking 10th December
DJ Ahmet 8th January
Orwell: 2+2=5 11th February
On The Sea 11th March
My Father’s Shadow 8th April
Sorry Baby 13th May
La Grazia 10th June

All films start promptly at 8pm
Annual membership £8 (concessions £5)
Members £6 per film, non-members £7

21/08/2026

It’s that time of year again where memberships are up for renewal and we’re on the lookout for new members to join us! 🍿❤️

🎥 Did you know the Film Club is run by volunteers, supported by the incredible The Roxy Cinema and funded entirely by member subscriptions?

If you want to support the film club and the cinema and continue to help us bring excellent world cinema to Ulverston then becoming a member is the perfect way to do so. The good news is we’ve made it easier than ever for you to join, please click on the link in our stories and see how.

Film Club at the Roxy is a non-profit-making venture. It was formed in 1989 by a small group of Ulverston film enthusiasts, inspired by the late Gwyneth Walker. We retain the club’s original aim to show recent quality films from around the world – films you do not often find in mainstream cinemas – to a South Lakeland audience.

11/06/2026

📣 TONIGHT 📣

🎥 Please join us tonight for our last screening of this season where we will be showing Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value.

🎫 Tickets £6 for members £7 for non-members.
🍿 Doors open 7:30pm film starts 8pm

What the critics said:

“This layered family-centric drama has an ability to find fresh angles on sentiments you’d think cinema would have exhausted by now.”

- Peter Debruge, Variety

“Like life, it is both sad and side-splittingly funny, strange and imperfect. In its precise understanding of modern life and its persistent questioning of it, it’s everything contemporary cinema ought to be.”

- Radhika Seth, British Vogue

04/06/2026

🎥 Please join us next Thursday 11th June for our last screening of this season where we will be showing Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value.

🎫 Tickets £6 for members £7 for non-members.
🍿 Doors open 7:30pm film starts 8pm

The neglected and estranged daughters of once respected film director Gustav have no choice but to deal with him after their mother’s death, when they realise his name is still on the deeds of their much-loved family home. Their father has written an autobiographical screenplay about his own mother that he hopes will be his comeback film. He tries to cast his actress daughter Nora but she refuses, so he chooses an eager young Hollywood actress – this sets the stage for some very complex family dynamics set against the backdrop of the fading family home, an appropriate metaphor for the worn-out bond between father and daughters.

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