Silver Screen
Photo: Keith Pattison
Don’t be retiring! Silver Screen is Tyneside Cinema’s daytime film club for the over 60s. Members get tickets for these special shows for just £3.00, including refreshments, introduction and discussion. Membership is FREE. Sign up today, just call 0845 217 9909 or email the Box Office.
Silver Screen members get discounts in the Tyneside Coffee Rooms too. Book now – call 0845 217 9909.
See our Learning, Engagement and Development section for Cinema Memories, a digital storytelling project for the over 60s.
Silver Screen
Dir. Ben Affleck. USA 2007. 1hr 54mins.
Monday 14 July, 12.50pm
A film remarkable for three reasons. First it is the film that the studios held back from release because of its sensitivity over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Second because it marks the directorial debut of Ben Affleck, and third because it is absolutely brilliant.
A little girl has disappeared in Boston. When two young private detectives are hired to take a closer look at the case they soon discover that nothing about it is what it seems…. Based on the novel by Dennis Lehane, the acclaimed author of Mystic River (screening Sunday 13th July), Gone Baby Gone is a morally complex, utterly gripping piece of modern-day moviemaking that suggests a glittering future for Affleck behind the camera. Trust us, do not miss!
“A superior, haunting thriller of abduction, deception and ethical dilemma” Empire
Silver Screen
Dir. Billy Wilder. USA 1960. 2hrs 5mins.
Monday 28 July, 12.15pm
Here in a brand–new digital print, Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine star in Billy Wilder’s glittering evergreen comedy about lowly insurance clerk CC ‘Bud’ Baxter, working his way up the corporate ladder by loaning out his apartment to philandering executives – until, that is, his boss brings the lovely Fran Kubelik back to his flat….
“Diamond-sharp…a brilliant performance from Lemmon” Time Out
Silver Screen
Dir. James Marsh. UK 2008. 1hr 30mins.
Monday 11 August, 2.00pm
This is edge-of-the-seat stuff! Man On Wire is the story of tightrope walker Philippe Petit’s daring and entirely unauthorized, illegal, high-wire walk between the World Trade Center’s twin towers in 1974. His stunt was considered “the artistic crime of the century”, and this gripping film follows the chain of events from planning to the point that Petit handed himself into the police, with the high wire walker himself narrating the story. Prepare to be dazzled.
“Absolutely thrilling” The Times
