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Join your community of local film fans, bringing you iconic classics, cult hits & electrifying new releases, on the big screen! Next screening 15 June

16/06/2026

Massive screening to round out our Spring Season - welcome everyone who came to see SOLARIS, and thanks for supporting your local independent cinema community!

64% of last night's audience rated this slow-burning sci-fi epic as either Very Good or Excellent. Speaking to many of you afterwards, it seems you were moved by the themes of memory, loss and nature, the cosmic love story, the 'haunted house in space' atmosphere (years before Alien, Event Horizon or Moon), or maybe just the sight of a cosmonaut in monogrammed pyjamas.

🍬 As always, you rated the film through the medium of sweets - at the end of each screening, we like to hang out for a chat about the film, and rate it by chucking a sweet into a tin - here’s the results:

Poor: 2%
Average: 11%
Good: 23%
Very Good: 38%
Excellent: 26%

Giving Solaris a cosmic score of 3.75 out of 5! 🍬🍬🍬🍬

🍿 Thanks to the wonderful team for hosting our recent screenings!

🎥 Next up: after a short summer break we'll be back with more exciting screenings from September!

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See link in bio to join the club - free entry to all our amazing films, starting from just £15!

15/06/2026

TONIGHT: the sci-fi masterpiece SOLARIS.

🚀 An astronaut journeys to a strange new world - where he meets his wife. Except she died years ago...

🍿💿🥤 Join us in the upstairs bar from 7.15pm to meet your fellow film fans, collect membership cards and browse the free DVD library. At 8.15 we kick off with the usual ads/trailers, a brief intro and then into the action.

🍬🍬🍬🍬 After the film, stop by the bar to tell us what you think, using our unique Worthing Film Club Sweet-Based Star Rating System! 🍬🍬🍬🍬

SOLARIS (1972)
⑫ Rated 12
⏱️ 2h 47m

📅 Monday 15th May 2026
📍 Connaught Studio, Union Place, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 1LG
🍿 Grab your snacks and drinks downstairs, and join us upstairs in Fraser's Bar from 7.15pm
📍 Film programme starts at 7.45pm

Free entry for members - sign up from just £15! See our website to join the club.

🎟️ Non-members welcome - tickets £8 (concessions £6.50/£6) from the Connaught
Please note all non-members must purchase a full-price ticket from the Connaught box office.

Parking is available:
🚗 on street around Worthing
🚗 at the Civic Quarter multi-storey car park (entrance on Richmond Road, between the library and the county court - it's slightly hidden so look for blue P parking signs)
🚗 at the High Street multi-storey (entrance on High Street)

And remember, this is part of our Spring season of unmissable films. We show regular monthly screenings so even if you can't make it tonight, check out our upcoming programme - after a short summer break we'll be back with more amazing films in September!

13/06/2026

Just ahead of Monday’s WFC’s screening of Andrei Tarkovsky’s celebrated sci-fi milestone Solaris from 1972 - can we take a moment to sing the praises of Steven Soderbergh’s reimagining of Solaris from 2002. On its arrival audiences were puzzled and distinctly underwhelmed by this art house existential sci-fi film that was being sold as a romance in space with heart throb of the day George Clooney. But over the years the film has been reevaluated and now is seen as a stellar effort in its own right. Does it measure up to the original? Watch it and decide. Time out wrote:

‘Hazarding another movie inspired by Stanislav Lem’s novel might seem folly when Tarkovsky’s 1972 version still boasts cult appeal, but Soderbergh’s movie beats its predecessor in virtually every respect. It’s not only richer and more rigorous, philosophically, than the Russian’s woolly musings, it also has an emotional force barely there in Tarkovsky. More significantly, it’s probably the finest, certainly the most stylish, sci-fi film in years. Clooney and McElhone are both immensely impressive. He’s a psychotherapist Chris Kelvin, sent to the Prometheus space station to investigate strange, sinister occurrences; she’s his wife Rheya, dead for years but now rejoining him, as if drawn by his guilty memories, while he and two surviving, possibly crazy crew members orbit the mysterious planet Solaris. Soderbergh uses this story to trace tangled links between time, memory, desire, fear and freedom of will, even as these connections are complicated by the fact that Rheya is a sentient copy of herself. Scripted, shot, directed and edited by Soderbergh with his customary intelligence and assurance, this is perhaps the most ambiguous and cerebrally sophisticated Hollywood movie in nearly three decades.’

The film also boasts a fantastic score by Cliff Martinez - there is a delicate, ethereal quality in the soundtrack that captures the loneliness and isolation of space and provides a eerie haunting feeling for the psychological intensity of the film. We will be playing it (technology willing) in Fraser’s Bar on Monday.

See you on Monday 15/6 for Solaris (1972)
Connaught Cinema 7.45pm

12/06/2026

All welcome to this. Connaught Cinema Ödül Bozkurt

11/06/2026

Just back from seeing Savage House Connaught Cinema. ‘Set in 18th century England during the pox outbreak and Jacobite uprising, Sir Chauncey and Lady Savage blindly pursue a better life. Their pursuit is filled with ironic decadence and bloodshed. A darkly satirical exploration of class and power.’
Mark Kermode quite correctly described it as a cross between ‘The Draughtsman Contract, The Young Poisoners Handbook, The Favorite, The Crown and Saltburn with a little bit of Barry Lyndon’. And if that combo doesn’t peak your interest I don’t know what will!
It won’t linger much with you when you leave the cinema but while it’s on it’s a big b***y and lurid fun way to spend 114 minutes. Richard E. Grant and his acting excesses are used to great effect while Claire Foy does a sterling job as his long suffering and snobby wife.
On till next week.

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10/06/2026

There are a few more chances to see Backrooms and Obsession at and .

These are independent movies that for the first time this century have claimed the no. 1 and 2 spots at the summer box office. And the really remarkable thing is that the main audience for these two films has been the under 35s. This year’s earlier The Drama also successfully tapped into that younger demographic. And gratifyingly these are films - especially Backrooms and The Drama - that are redefining genres and are dealing with complex ideas and not supplying easy answers. Anything that brings young folks back to the cinema - where films are meant to be experienced - is to be celebrated and especially so when they are films that are thought provoking and intriguing while tapping into the anxieties and disquiet of the present. I hope it’s a sign of a new generation driving the future of interesting and innovative cinema.

Check Connaught’s and The Dome’s websites for details.
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09/06/2026

★★★★★ "If 2001 is the intellect, the mind, the more mathematically precise and optimistic of the two, then Solaris is the messy heart of inextricably entangled emotions" Slant

★★★★★ "Profoundly beautiful and disturbing" Los Angeles Free Press

★★★★★ "No 6 best sci-fi and fantasy film of all time" The Guardian

Join us for the all-time classic SOLARIS.

📅 Monday 15th June 2026
📍 Connaught Studio, Union Place, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 1LG

🍿 Grab your snacks and drinks downstairs, and join us upstairs in Fraser's Bar from 7.15pm

📍 Film programme starts at 7.45pm

Free entry for members - sign up from just £15!

🎟️ Non-members welcome - tickets £8 (concessions £6.50/£6) from the Connaught

05/06/2026

Music fills the big screen this weekend AudioActive Worthing is showing two dynamite movies that celebrate great tunes and amazing performances:

💥 One of the greatest ever concert films, SUMMER OF SOUL
💥 The classic youth rebellion film, QUADROPHENIA

They're screening on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th June, as part of Worthing Festival Fringe.

Check out AudioActive Worthing for links to get your tickets!

02/06/2026

If you love: epic sci-fi masterpieces... mesmerising cinematic experiences... world cinema classics you've been dying to tick off your must-watch list...
..then join us for SOLARIS on the big screen.

📅 Monday 15th June 2026
📍 Connaught Studio, Union Place, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 1LG
🍿 Grab your snacks and drinks downstairs, and join us upstairs in Fraser's Bar from 7.15pm
📍 Film programme starts at 7.45pm

Free entry for members - sign up from just £15!

🎟️ Non-members welcome - tickets £8 (concessions £6.50/£6) from the Connaught

28/05/2026

Anyone up for a uniquely groovy film happening in Chichester in the next few days? Well you might want to pop over to Chichester Cinema for special screenings of MODESTY BLAISE and BARBARELLA. Both will be screened in 35mm and accompanied by a very special talk by Hugo Frey to mark the publication of ‘The Look of the 1960s: Barbarella and the Pulp Pop Comics’. The book explores the zany time when avant garde comics became international movies. There will also be contributions from John Coldstream on Dirk Bogarde in ‘Modesty Blaise’ and Patrick Hargood, son of Losey’s stills photographer.

Modesty Blaise - 30/5 at 13.15pm
Barbarella - 1/6 - 20:00pm
5/6 - 20:15

See website for details.

Enjoy 🎞️ ❤️

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