• Saturday 14 September:  Wicked Little Letters (2023,15) Comedy/Drama
  • Saturday 19 October: The Colour Purple (2023, 12A) Drama/Musical
  • Saturday 16 November: One Life (2023, PG) Drama/History
  • Saturday 14 December: The Holdovers (2023, 15) Comedy/Drama
  • Saturday 18 January: Anatomy of a Fall (2023, 15) Drama/Thriller

A big welcome back to Bampton Cinema at Bampton Memorial Hall!

“Wicked Little Letters” (Cert 15, 2023, 97 minutes):  It stars big names: Jessie Buckley, Olivia Colman and Timothy Spall.  It’s based on the real story of the Little Hampton letters scandal that rocked Britain in the 1920s, trolling in nineteen twenties style.  Pious Edith and fellow residents begin to receive letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities; their raucous neighbour Rose becomes the prime suspect.  It’s a slightly shocking (!) but really funny film, a period piece but only too relevant in today’s world. 

The Colour Purple: Based on Alice Walker’s powerful Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, this 2023 musical drama draws from the recent stage adaptation depicting black lives in the early 20th century American South. 

One Life: The true story of Sir Nicholas Winton, played by Anthony Hopkins, who rescued 669 children from the Nazis in the months leading up to World War 2 through the Kindertransport scheme, all the way from Prague, Czechoslovakia to Liverpool Street Station.  It was almost a forgotten piece of history until Esther Rantzen brought together dozens of “Kinder” and their families with Winton for a remarkable episode of “That’s Life” in 1988, movingly recreated in the film.

Here are the subsequent film dates for your 2025 diary: Saturday 15th February; Saturday 15th March; Saturday 12th April.  

Tickets will be on sale at Bampton Stores ​if you wish supper + film. Do please take advantage of the vegetarian option available as we are happy to provide for that.  Tickets are on sale at the door on the night for film only as usual.  It’s useful for us to have a contact list for those buying a supper ticket plus film and the shop will record that.

Adult meal + film: £12; U16 meal + film: £9.  Film ticket price, adult: £5; U16:£2.

As always, there is the bar courtesy of the village hall with the finest wines known to humanity, beers and soft drinks.  Supper is served at 6pm in Bampton Memorial Hall and the film starts at 7:30pm. Ice-creams at the interval with a new flavour added, mango sorbet and our familiar favourites: Just Jersey, Blackcurrant and Chocolate for only £2.

Call Hazel (713311) for any questions about cinema matters.

Bampton REMOTE cinema committee: Hazel, Mike, Sue and Dave


If the weather's wet or too hot, Cine North recommends a selection of latest films: All of the films are available across the digital platforms.