Blog: Uprock Narratives and Unknown Pleasures

I can't get over how many people pitch up to watch features screened by the Cheltenham Film Society . I trotted over to the Bacon Theatre on Tuesday to view, at the invitation of J, a Brazilian production, Linha de Passé and was stunned to witness throngs of gentlefolk flocking into the building. I genuinely believed there was something else on at the complex; I'm so used to watching films at Gloucester's Guildhall in an audience of twenty or so (on a good night) that I was thrown by such a multitude. About 250-300 cinema lovers attend [...]