The Grand Budapest Hotel

Showing as part of Intentionally Wes Anderson – a retrospective celebrating one of cinema's most beloved filmmakers, ahead of his latest film, The Phoenician Scheme, showing at HPPH from Fri 23 May.

On Saturday 17th May, The Grand Budapest Hotel will be screening as part of a double-bill alongside Moonrise Kingdom. Individual tickets are required for both screenings.

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Gustave H, a concierge who works at a famous European hotel, must prove his innocence when he is framed for a murder. In the process of doing so, he strikes up a great friendship with a lobby boy.

Burden of Dreams

Cast members drop like flies, a prop ship is trapped in the rapids, and director Werner Herzog makes impossible demands. Burden of Dreams is a riveting account of the crazed shooting of Fitzcarraldo, with unhinged star Klaus Kinski, and Herzog haranguing hundreds of indigenous people to pull a 320-ton steamship over a small mountain.

Chicken for Linda

Linda and her mother's relationship hasn't quite been the same since her father passed away. After another squabble, her mother Paulette tries to make it up to Linda by promising to cook her favourite meal - chicken with peppers, just like her dad used to make. But with a general strike closing shops across Paris, finding ingredients for this simple dinner quickly leads to a hilarious series of events that spirals out of control, as Paulette does everything she can to keep her promise and find a chicken for Linda.

Quentin Blake's Box of Treasures: Snuff & Jack and Nancy

Snuff (2024, 26min)

Village knight Sir Thomas Magpie, well known for both his generosity and love of flamboyant hats, despairs that his clumsy page Snuff will ever learn the tricky skills he needs to one day be a knight himself. However, when four thieves threaten to raid a local bootmaker’s shop, Snuff has a clever idea to outfox the villains and save the day. His reward? His very own horse and fancy hat, just like a proper knight!

Jack and Nancy (2024, 26min)

Junior Brother

Carefully pushing the boundaries of what modern Irish folk can look and sound like, Junior Brother is an idiosyncratic, challenging, and richly lyrical singer/songwriter from Co. Kerry. His much-anticipated third album, The End, is officially announced and due to arrive on September 5th via Strap Originals, a label forged with love by Pete Doherty of The Libertines.

Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo, a foreigner obsessed with building an opera house in his Peruvian town decides that to make his dream a reality he needs to make a killing in the rubber business, so he hatches an elaborate plan: with the help of his loyal crew and an indigenous tribe, Fitzcarraldo will journey up the rivers of the Amazon with his steamship, to realise his dreams.

Fanny Lumsden

Fanny Lumsden, an 2 x ARIA and 8-time Golden Guitar winner, is changing how things are done. Fresh off her debut UK performance at Glastonbury, where she played to a packed crowd, and a successful, sold-out UK & IE tour, Fanny is hitting the ground running with the release of her highly anticipated fourth album, HEY DAWN.

Stick In The Wheel

Stick In The Wheel’s work is rooted in traditional music and song, informed by the modern electronic music that grew out of their hybrid East London heritage. This radical East London duo are known for their intense live shows exploring the raw holler of folk, electronica, spoken word and intricate rustic dobro guitar.

Nicola Kearey and Ian Carter make full-force reworkings of centuries-old work-songs, speaking to contemporary issues of class, using multi-layered sonic palettes to deeply reflect hidden histories, told with a razor-sharp authenticity.

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