Sidney & Eden

Free entry! “The most poignant, disturbing and frighteningly real film about race relations ever made by a Black American filmmaker”: Do The Right Thing is the masterwork that cemented Spike Lee as a visionary force in US cinema. A slice-of-life hangout movie meets searing tragicomedy that follows communities clashing and combusting in the blistering heat of 1980s Brooklyn – it’s well and truly timeless. The Indie Classics Film Club returns Tuesday June 17th with a screening of Spike Lee’s magnum opus, DO THE RIGHT THING (1989).

Free entry! Lynch flips the true story of John Merrick into a daringly emotive parable of unrequited humanity for the ultimate Victorian Other. It’s perhaps the most potent ray of tender sentimentality in the nightmare king’s oeuvre - not to be missed from your period of mourning! Grindhouse Cinema Club Presents David Lynch Month: The Elephant Man FREE ENTRY!

Free entry! Lynch’s finest! Surreal melodrama and neo-noir fairytale unite in a disorienting sensory overload of severed ears, mechanical robins, and (of course) blood-red curtains - as baby-faced amateur sleuth Kyle McLachlan tumbles down the rabbit hole into the underbelly of American suburbia. Gindhouse Cinema Club Presents David Lynch Month: Blue Velvet FREE ENTRY!

Free entry! Disillusioned housewife abandons anaesthetizing family existence for a life of petty crime in this gritty, bleak and beautiful low-budget flick from actor/director Barbara Loden. Sadly her only feature film, Wanda is a low-key masterpiece delving into existential restlessness and the American nightmare. For our next event at the Indie Classics Film Club on Tuesday January 28th, we’ll be screening WANDA (1970), 7pm at the Sidney and Eden.

Free entry! An early offering from queer cinema trailblazer Todd Haynes at Sidney & Eden: part psychodrama, part social satire, Safe stars Julianne Moore as an 80s housewife trapped in a slow nightmare of insidious illness and suburban isolation. Provocative, uncanny and endlessly relevant. For our first event of 2025, we’ll be screening Todd Haynes’ SAFE (1995), 7pm at the Sidney and Eden pub on Tuesday January 7th.