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“Moving to Wivenhoe?” they said? “You’ll be bored out of your brain by the end of the first month.”

Ahem.

And so another month, another set of dates comes my way for @wivmovingimage, the independent community run cinema. I’ve spent the first part of the morning feeding the dates of the schedule into the calendar for the Wivenhoe Forum [um, you have joined, haven't you? Please do; please share some local knowledge and dialogue...]

So yeah, this Wivenhoe social life is starting to become something of a full time occupation. Boredom is a state of mind, as the Mother in Law once scowled at me before polishing off the last of the Christmas chocolates. With Moving Image and the many fine social groups around the town, and yep, my mind is in a rather nice place right now.

And so with a big bashing of the cinematic gong (steady the buffers) - hot off the press and here comes the early spring schedule for Moving Image. The two venues remain - Philip Road down towards lower Wivenhoe for the more mainstream schedule, and then Monday evenings up at the splendour of the Lakeside Theatre, @Uni_of_Essex.

Moving Image films at Philip Road Centre:

Sat 5th Feb at 7.30 pm Made in Dagenham

Sat 19th Feb at 7.30 pm The Leopard

Sun 20th Feb at 3.00 pm Family Film, The Fantastic Mr Fox

Sat 5th March at 7.30 pm, Another Year

Sat 19th March at 7.30 pm, Winter’s Bone

Sun 20th March at 3.00 pm Family Film, Despicable Me

Moving Image films at Lakeside Theatre:

Mon 14 Feb 7.00 onwards A Matter of Life and Death - members / guests only

Mon 21 Feb at 7.30 pm Went the Day Well

Mon 28 Feb at 7.30pm Army of Shadows

Mon 14 Mar at 7.30 pm Ivan’s Childhood

Made in Dagenham stands out for me - a film all about Essex, screened in Essex. Fantastic Mr Fox will no doubt pull the family crowd in on the afternoon of 20th February.

All films are open to members and guests, apart from the member’s only Valentine’s Day love in at the Lakeside. Annual membership for Moving Image is a bargain £5, giving you a penny-pinching £3 admission on the night. Non-members pay £4.

Meanwhile, my one-man campaign to bring the legend that is, um, Purple Rain, to downtown Wivenhoe continues.