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Yahoo
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Pictureville to host 'Epic Yorkshire' month to mark Yorkshire Day
Pictureville cinema is celebrating Yorkshire Day with a month-long 'Epic Yorkshire' film season. The cinema, at the National Science and Media Museum, will launch the season on Yorkshire Day (Friday, August 1). Epic Yorkshire is presented in partnership with Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture and also sees the launch of a new, illustrated 'City of Film' map. The free A2 foldout map, documenting Bradford's cinematic past, present, and future, is designed to facilitate self-led tours of the district's cinemas, community screening venues, and big screen experience locations. The map will be available from Pictureville and other participating venues from Friday, August 1. The opening weekend celebrations include free screenings of Yorkshire Film Archive: Social Cinema, a series of short films about social and political issues in the region. Epic Yorkshire (2025), a new narrated exploration of Yorkshire's landscape, will be presented on the curved Cinerama screen at Pictureville - which is billed as the only public venue globally to use the technology. Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread (2017), on 70mm film, and Sky Peals (2023) will be shown on the evening of Saturday, August 2. Audiences attending screenings on that Saturday will also receive special Yorkshire-themed "scran bags." The season continues throughout August with a programme of films including The Selfish Giant (2013), set in Bradford and inspired by an Oscar Wilde story; Emily (2022), about Emily Bronte; Wild Water (2023); and God's Own Country (2017). Pictureville's film education strand, CineSpotlights, will also adapt to the Epic Yorkshire theme. August's edition of CineSpotlights features an illustrated talk with writer, academic, and filmmaker Mark Goodall, exploring the lost history of Bradford's Cinecenta cinema. There will also be a screening of Charlie Bubbles (1967), the only film directed by Albert Finney and the first film to be screened at Bradford Cinecenta. Epic Yorkshire also sees the return of The Ceremony (2024), the debut feature by Bradford-born writer-director Jack King, following its world premiere at the 2024 Edinburgh International Film Festival. After a sellout gala screening hosted by Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, Pictureville will continue to screen The Ceremony from Friday, August 22. More information is available at
Globe and Mail
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Globe and Mail
The best summer movies of all time, according to our readers
To ring in the summer movie season, The Globe's film editor Barry Hertz put together a list of the 25 best summer films ever made, sure to get hearts pumping and bring a little bit of that movie magic back. But everyone has their favourite, and inevitably he missed some beloved flicks. From blockbusters to rom coms, you shared your favourite picks that didn't make our initial list. Here are some highlights, in our readers' own words. This is Spinal Tap, 1984: 'The Summer Movie has something especially to do with the Drive-in, so an honorable mention for the last drive-in movie I saw in a small upstate town's only surviving one, circa 1984. This is Spinal Tap may be the capstone for all the cheesy flicks that were fodder for that style venue, something to not see while you're working your best American Graffiti moves. Couldn't avoid it though, oh the horror!' - Chris Boeree, Las Vegas The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, 1968: 'Starring a fastidious deaf-mute brilliantly played by Alan Arkin and sweet, gawky Sondra Locke as a teen in the small-town South to whom he becomes a sounding board, (platonic) consoler in the storms of one adolescent summer, and – too late, she realizes – her first love. From a work by Carson McCullers, it opened in summer 1968. Poignant, funny and brilliantly acted (Arkin was nominated for a best actor Oscar), the movie's finale had my best friend and me, aged 15, sobbing uncontrollably in our seats for 15 minutes after the credits.' - Janet Gottlieb, Toronto Jaws, 1975: 'The movie captures horror so well, because while it comforts you in a setting of summer bliss, something terrifying lurks under the surface. It's my favourite summer movie and a classic!' - Victoria Hatt, Ottawa Ferris Bueller's Day Off, 1986: 'This is one I watch almost every summer, and have for decades. 'Long and sweltering July day, absolutely anything can happen' – this sentence could be used to describe the movie. Ferris, Cameron and Sloane take the day off from school and the world is their oyster. They go to a baseball game, they take Cameron's dad's fancy car for a joyride, enjoy a parade and relax by the swimming pool doing absolutely nothing. The movie is totally relatable and there's a certain nostalgia to it, a nostalgia that reminds you of simpler summer days. 'Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it' - just like the summer.' - Chris Kobryn, Kelowna, B.C. Wet Hot American Summer, 2001: 'I love Wet Hot American Summer. It is such a ridiculous movie, and it is like a time capsule of early 2000s up-and-coming comedians before they made it big.' - Rebecca MacDonald, Halifax Rock 'n' Roll High School, 1979: 'Executive production duties were handled by the king of B movies, Roger Corman, and like his entire canon, it's a low-budget romp that borders on brilliance because of its stupidity. Every teen trope is skewered and the level of energy never stops. The first scene with The Ramones, rolling into town in a convertible Cadillac while belting out I Just Wanna Have Something to Do, is one of the best rock videos ever filmed. The soundtrack outside of The Ramones is first rate, too, featuring Devo, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Alice Cooper, Nick Lowe and many more.' - Tom Bimson, Ottawa A Summer Place, 1959: 'Overwrought, hyper anxious, and totally irresistible. Whoever grew up with the theme song knows that it is one of the real sounds of summer. Viva Percy Faith!' - N. Russell, Toronto Booksmart, 2019: 'Literally smart gal-pal movie. Two studious soon-to-be grads with Ivy League aspirations learn that their devotion to studying may not get them ahead of their partying classmates. So with graduation around the corner they do the research.' - Peter Cech, Burnaby, B.C. Run Lola Run, 1998: 'At the time and today, it represents a kinetically visual smorgasbord of 'contagious and impulsive energy' fuelled by a simple dilemma. Toss in crime, love and desperation and you have the recipe, when well-acted, for a great movie, even if it's missing fake sharks, raptors or aliens. Every wrong turn leads to an outcome.' - Chris Sadler, Ontario The Graduate, 1967: 'With Dustin Hoffman as the eponymous anti-hero, Anne Bancroft as Clodia to his Catullus, and an unforgettable Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack. Saw it in the summer of 1967, the year that Canada turned 100 and I turned 21.' - Bill Atkinson, Edmonton My American Cousin, 1985: 'Hard to find, but so, so captures a summer in the Okanagan and the angst of growing up. This is a gem. I try not to watch it too often so it continues to be gold. As I grow older, I continue to find different levels of charm and irony. All Canadians (especially those who have lived in or visited the Okanagan) should watch this.' - Karl Larsen, Kamloops Four Weddings and a Funeral, 1994: 'My absolute favourite movie of all time. Have watched it many times and still laugh and cry at the same scenes. It is one of those rare movies that is well-scripted, not over-acted, and where all the actors have perfect chemistry. Again, it takes me back to when I was in my early thirties and surrounded by a small, but very close group of friends, and all the fun and sadness we shared before we slowly drifted away as life happened.' - Sunita Mehta, Scarborough, Ont. American Graffiti, 1973: 'A celebration of teenage summer, with an end-of-summer and end-of-innocence edge. Fun and bittersweet. Excellent ensemble performance. And what a soundtrack!' - Ken Cruikshank, Hamilton The Pink Panther, 1963: 'My mom is 92, and every summer for the past 62 years we have gone to Round Lake Ontario near Killaloe. Here we stay in a log cabin that has been in the same family for over 150 years. From the very first time you could view a movie on a television – which was likely the advent of Betamax – we watch The Pink Panther movies with Peter Sellers. Everyone laughs uproariously every single time we play them. Inspector Clouseau and his side kick Kato, Chief Inspector Dreyfus and the whole amazing series of running gags, plot twists and wonderful family oriented comedy that graces our movie nights, while the owls hoot, the waves roll in and the moon brightly shines.' - Charles Merredew, Merrickville, Ont. Twister, 1996: 'Though Canadian to the core, my maternal grandmother lived in southern Indiana. My family spent every summer holiday there until I was 19. I have great memories of her farm, and playing with cousins I saw only once a year. Also memorable were the summer storms, and the threat of tornadoes on those sultry, hot summer days. Twister did a terrific job of evoking that time in my life. Turning a weather event into an adventure/thriller film was a stroke of genius. Watching it in the summer, preferably on a steamy day, in the dark, brings back a jumble of childhood memories - Grandma's farm, family potlucks, fireworks, the drive-in, riding my bike, the list goes on. And for that reason Twister deserves to be included.' - Lois Morimoto, St. Catharines, Ont.
