Monthly Film Club
Depot’s Book to Film Club is a relaxed and open space to talk about books and movies. With classics, horror, and sci-fi on the shelf, there’s something for everyone to get their reading glasses on for.
Each month there will be a screening of a different film based on a book followed by a guided, friendly and informal discussion led by bibliophile and cinephile, Rory. You don’t need to be a professor in literature or Mark Kermode, you just need a free morning once a month to have an easy going chat about books and films over a nice cup of tea! All are welcome.
Too Much: Melodrama Special Edition
How Green Was My Valley
Certificate U
Part of Too Much: Melodrama on Film
This screening will include an introduction and a small programme of short films exploring the history of coal mining in Britain and lending a bit of Welsh colour to John Ford’s black and white classic, with musical accompaniment by Harry Hayes.
Short Film Programme: The Greatest Menace we have Ever Known (2 mins), Happy Result (1 min), People Will Always Need Coal (1 min), Land of Song (5 mins).
Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change.
At the dawn of the 20th century, a miners’ strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn’t want to rock the boat.
Meanwhile, Huw’s eldest sister, Angharad, pines for the new village preacher, Mr. Gruffydd.
‘Captures an idyll of youth that has been lost to the corrosive practices of modern business’ – Richard Brody, The New Yorker
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