FROM 8 February 8 Bradford’s Pictureville Cinema is screening films at The Studio next to the Alhambra, while the main cinema is temporarily closed. Pictureville Presents is a programme of classic and cult cinema and films rarely shown on the big screen.
Featured film seasons will include Cinema Unbound: The Creative World of Powell + Pressburger; Rebel Women, documentary films about trailblazing women; Saturday morning Kids’ Club; From Stage to Screen, a series of films reflecting the unique location of the Alhambra Theatre; screenings in collaboration with Bradford Queer Film Festival; and Love Is, celebrating love on screen throughout February.
The specially curated film programme will officially begin on Thursday, February 8 with a matinee of Powell and Pressburger’s I Know Where I’m Going (1945) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) followed by opening night screenings of Black Narcissus (1947), introduced by Reader in Cinema History at Manchester Metropolitan University Dr Andrew Moor and documentary Tish (2023).
Here we’re looking back at some classic films made in and around the district.
Tom Courtenay and Bingley actor Rodney Bewes on the set of Billy Liar in Bradford (Image: Newsquest)
William Mervyn as the Old Gentleman on the set of The Railway Children at Keighley and Worth Valley Railway (Image: Newsquest)
Vanessa Redgrave takes a rest on the set of Yanks, filmed in Ilkley, in 1978 (Image: Newsquest)
Timothy Dalton as Heathcliff on the set of Wuthering Heights, 1970 (Image: Newsquest)
On the set of 1978 film Yanks, a wartime romance starring Richard Gere and Vanessa Redgrave, filmed in Ilkley (Image: Newsquest)
Tony Danza having a laugh on set of 1987 film Wall of Tyranny in Little Germany (Image: Newsquest)
The cast of The Railway Children filming at Oxenhope Station in 1970 (Image: Newsquest)
Ian Ogilvy on set as Edgar Linton in Wuthering Heights (Image: Newsquest)
An atmospheric scene for 1970 film Wuthering Heights near Blubberhouses (Image: Newsquest)
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