rediscovering the big how Stratford Picturehouse is set to give classics and gems an outing at full size and resolution in April + May

by Jon Massey

Stratford Picturehouse is encouraging audiences to come to big screen showings of classics and gems with its ReDiscover season. The cinema is set to screen a selection of films – namely American Honey, The Lighthouse, The Last Black Man In San Francisco, The Florida Project and The Farewell – on dates in April and May to appeal to fans of cerebral film.

The feature that caught our eye, however, was The Lobster – a deeply strange black comedy that’s set for a showing on the big screen on May 19 at 2.30pm.

Yorgos Lanthimos’ absurdist flick follows Colin arrell and Rachel Weisz as they attempt to na igate a societ fixated on the virtues of couplehood.

Much of the action takes place at a last chance saloon hotel where singletons must pair up to avoid the peculiar fate of being transformed into an animal.

Here individuals desperately thrash around trying to identify similarities in others to use as the basis for a trial relationship.

Con ersel a group of loners act as prey for the hotel guests to round up as well as a resistance group – banding together with the exact opposite iew of how society should be, essentially that all relationships are wrong and should be shunned.

While horrific in its scope The

Lobster is a powerful satire on the way we structure our societies and the beliefs we hold about who should and shouldn’t be allowed to couple up.

It’s also a beautifully shot, austere film that deser es a performance at maximum si e and resolution.

Times vary for the showings, which take place between Apr 23 and May 28 at Stratford Picturehouse. Tickets cost £8. Go to picturehouses.com for more information

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Where? Cart And Horses Stratford

SING | Karaoke Night

Croon along to your favourites at the pub where Iron Maiden rst played. Apparently there will be a special prize for the best costume, so dress up. May 6, 9pm, free, cartandhorses.london

Where? Stratford Picturehouse Stratford

FILM | UKAFF: Whispers Of A Storm

Set in the cyclone-devastated villages of Odisha in 2019, this lm follows a photographer hoping to make their name from capturing the disaster. May 9, 8pm, £8, picturehouses.com

Where? Theatre Royal Stratford East Stratford

STAGE | Ballet Black: Pioneers

Now in its 21st year, Casa Pancho presents Then Or Now and Nina: By Whatever Means in a double bill of classical ballet, artistry and activism. May 10-20, 7.45pm, from £10, stratfordeast.com ash back

This is Alexa Ryan-Mills, a designer who is creating a garden in celebration of the arrival of Sadler’s Wells East in Stratford, which is set to go on show at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in May with plants going to School 21 alexaryanmills.co.uk

Scan this code to read our interview with Alexa and nd out more about her project at wharf-life.com want more? @wharfwhispers