Tag archives for Electric Palace
From the Ecclesiastical to the Educational
VICTORIA KINGHAM Joseph Stannard loves music and he loves film. When he isn’t carrying out his duties as deputy editor of long-running music magazine The Wire, he is investigating the…
The Special Effects of Ben Wheatley
Toby Bula-Edge A full house came out in force to see Ben Wheatley’s new film Bulk at the Electric Palace on Thursday 14. The screening was accompanied by a Q&A…
Andrew Kötting at the Electric Palace
This weekend, Electric Palace present an Andrew Kötting weekend, a celebration of films by the Hastings-based, internationally recognised filmmaker and artist. Andrew shares a studio with his daughter Eden on…
Power Station: Community Energy Film Comes to Electric Palace
Local community benefit society Energise Sussex Coast is bringing the must-see documentary Power Station to the Electric Palace cinema in Hastings this month. The screening, which will be taking place…
Getting Your Flicks Fix
ELIZABETH ALLEN When I moved ‘down from London’ to Hastings twenty years ago, I found much to enjoy and cherish. But, oh, did I miss my weekly fix of cinema:…
Hastings Rocks to the Dark Side
TOBY BULA-EDGE and VERA BELL A shift is happening at Hastings Rocks International Film Festival: a shift into the scary, the anxiety-ridden and the dystopian. Their call for entries is…
‘Tis the Season to be Scary
SAM SCHOFIELD Halloween is fast approaching, and consequently scary movie season is upon us. One of the best of these, still, is John Carpenter’s 1978 classic: Halloween. Set in the…
Electric Blue Velvet
EBM HUMPHREYS Last weekend I was excited as hell to be seeing David Lynch’s as-yet-unseen-by-me Blue Velvet, on the big screen at Electric Palace in the High Street. Despite impulse-buying…
January Films
EBM Humphries If you thought you were full to the brim with Christmas films and box-set binges and couldn’t possibly consume another minute of moving pictures, wait till you see…
Tymon Dogg Lights Up Electric Palace
PETE DONOHUE reviews the biggest small gig of the summer Walking into our Old Town fifty-seater, independent cinema music venue and bar for this extraordinary gig was like arriving at…
ARTS DIARY
CENERENTOLA 2023 The Barefoot Opera Production of La Cenerentola (Cinderella) is on tour this year. The initial date is 27 July at St John The Evangelist Church, Pevensey Road, St…
ARTS DIARY
It’s a Steal Fine artist and illustrator Robin Elliott-Knowles has a new exhibition Everyday Stolen Artefacts – at The Nest – High Street, Old Town until 27 October. He says…
ARTS DIARY
THE GOLD MACHINE The acclaimed writer Iain Sinclair and the director Grant Gee have created an extraordinary, award-winning film, The Gold Machine, which will have its first Sussex screening at…
Electric Palace Seeks Funding After Closure
The Electric Palace cinema announced immediate suspension of screenings last week and launched a crowdfunder appeal on the GoFundMe portal to save it from permanent ; Within 48 hours over…
FILM REVIEW
First Cow Review by Jamie Sellers What springs to mind when you think of buddy movies? The Odd Couple? Butch and Sundance? Thelma and Louise? Maybe one of those modern…
FILM REVIEW: After Love
By Jamie Sellers Had cinemas been open to capacity all year, a movie like After Love – Kent-born writer-director Aleem Khan’s intriguing drama – would certainly have garnered more attention…
South Coast Film Festival
On the 15th and 16th August, we saw the first South Coast Film Festival take place in Hastings Old Town. It’s an independent celebration and examination that will run annually…
Arts Diary
Glitterbug A fundraiser screening of Derek Jarman’s Glitterbug – a lovingly compiled montage of Jarman’s Super 8 footage fused with a multitextured Brian Eno score, posthumously assembled by his friends.…
Bette Davis Supports Ethiopian Dance Centre?
Over at the Electric Palace, Glenys Jacques is hosting a fantastic weekend to kick off October, with a performance of Bette Davis On The Edge on Saturday 5th and then…
Celebrating Bloomsday In Hastings Old Town
By LUCY BRENNAN SHIEL On 16 June, 115 years ago, Leopold Bloom got up, had breakfast, started wandering the streets of Dublin, and finally encountered Stephen Dedalus. In his famous…
Theatre
BY THOMAS DALDRY Although it’s often under the radar, Hastings has a thriving theatre scene. It is stocked with a wealth of venues, projects and professional theatre makers that operate…
Joan, Babs and Shelagh too, A tribute to Joan Littlewoo
Gemskii in character in front of Littlewood's statue HIP talks to Gemskii, the one-woman force behind Conscious Theatre and Glenys Jacques of Electric Palace about this production, coming soon…