The Unicorn Cinema has taken a break after its first successful run. In the meantime the ABCD Film Society have a film every Thursday evening at the Health and Wellbeing Centre, Audlett Drive.

Upcoming films can be seen at http://abfilms.org.uk/.

Doctor Strangelove was last week. This week is Force Majeure, a Swedish film that examines some of the angst of family life. On January 18 is Truffaut’s Les Quatre Cent Coups (The 400 Blows), possibly the best known French film of the post-war era. It will be introduced by Ann Miller, and is pictured above. Then on 25th January Taxi Tehran (made by Jafar Panahi) films people talking about life in Iran from the back of a Taxi.

Meanwhile, The Unicorn Theatre will be used for Aladdin, by the Abingdon Drama Club starting this Friday.

Then the Unicorn Cinema will be back with more films at the Unicorn from 22nd January.

I enjoyed how the staff dressed for the occasion. This was Paddington II, which I really enjoyed. It was even better than Paddington I.

The first film, shown to an invited audience at the Unicorn Theatre, was Murder on the Orient Express (2017). The experts behind bringing the cinematic experience to the Unicorn were the Regal Evesham team who were all dressed the part. They even had a couple of monks. The sound and pictures were as good as any cinema. The Abingdon people who helped make this happen were Iain Littlejohn, pictured in the background in this picture,

and Friends of Abingdon Civic Society chairman Bryan Brown who gave a speech.

Here are some of the audience who enjoyed this first viewing.

For more information see https://theunicorn.ac/

Murder on the Orient Express Official Trailer 20th Century FOX from Haris Zambarloukos on Vimeo.

The chance to experience cinema at the Unicorn is about to happen – ‘a modern cinema in a medieval setting’. The cinema at the Unicorn opens on Friday 29th December 2017. The program and website to buy tickets is at theunicorn.ac The project was delayed a little because of the need to sort out distribution rights for films at the new venue.

The installation of the equipment took place before Christmas, and a short film was shown successfully. There will be a full run through of a feature length film to trustees of the Friends of Abingdon to check all is working before the first full day on Friday.