BIFA has launched its very first Cinema of the Year award, supported by Kia and voted for by cinemagoers.
Scotland’s only silent film festival, HippFest is thrilled to unveil the lineup for its 2025 Taste of Silents season - an entertaining interlude ahead of the main festival in March.
Kaiju lovers, assemble: a special screening of both the 1954 version of Godzilla plus Godzilla Minus One/Minus Colour will take place at the Hippodrome Cinema, Bo’ness
This month’s blog was written by Mariana Bracho Escalante. Mariana is originally from Cancun Mexico but moved to Scotland in 2022 and has made Falkirk her home for the last two years. Mariana has worked with refugees and asylum seekers for the last ten years and she now works for Falkirk Council as a Refugee Resettlement Worker. She has lived in Spain, Mexico, Palestine, England and now Scotland. She loves to travel, read and has a deep love for films. To coincide with our screenings of the Disney-Pixar animation Coco (2017) at the Hippodrome on 26th and 27th October, we invited Mariana to write a blog piece about the Day of the Dead tradition from her home-country, so central to the film. Mariana is also creating a special Day of the Dead altar at the Hippodrome which you can see when you visit in the days leading up to the screenings and you can even take up Mariana’s invitation to make your own addition to the altar.
In anticipation of our upcoming ‘Lord of the Rings screenings’ we invited local independent cinema fan, Nicholas Shearer, to write this month’s guest Hippodrome blog post. Nic is a Data Ethicist from Falkirk who specialises in software development and data projects. He likes his cinemas like he likes his films - with lots of character!
The informal event has been planned around the showing of a new film – Much Ado About Dying (cert. 15) – and will be facilitated by members of the teams at Falkirk Health and Social Care Partnership, Falkirk and Clackmannanshire Carers’ Centre and Strathcarron Hospice.
The Kid is a 1921 American silent comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, and features Jackie Coogan as his foundling baby, adopted son and sidekick. This was Chaplin's first full-length film as a director. It was a huge success and was the second-highest-grossing film in 1921. Now considered one of the greatest films of the silent era, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2011.
Get on board! We have organised a Taste of Silents shuttle bus between Linlithgow train station and the Hippodrome (pre-booking essential, journey time approx. 15 mins.) to help you travel to Bo’ness on public transport.
Clarence Brown directs a smouldering love triangle drama for the ages in this steamy tale of tragic romance starring a trio of silent era screen icons: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert and Lars Hanson (aka Lars Handsome!)
Get on board! We have organised a Taste of Silents shuttle bus between Linlithgow train station and the Hippodrome (pre-booking essential, journey time approx. 15 mins.) to help you travel to Bo’ness on public transport.
Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.
10 years has passed since a fire broke out in Paris, leaving only a mask behind - As the love story continues in Coney Island, NY, The Phantom's undying love has grown for the soprano singer, Christine Daae.
Antonio Salieri envies Mozart whom he believes to be a great musician. Having come to the conclusion that Mozart receives divine assistance in his compositions, Salieri turns against God.
Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Theo and Ivy: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. However, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentments soon emerge when Theo's career nosedives and Ivy's own ambitions take off.
Hamilton: An American Musical is a sung-and-rapped-through biographical musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Reformed criminals Mr. Wolf, Mr. Snake, Mr. Piranha, Mr. Shark and Ms. Tarantula are trying very hard to be good. However, they soon find themselves hijacked into a high-stakes heist that's masterminded by a new team of delinquents they never saw coming -- the Bad Girls.
Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Theo and Ivy: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. However, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentments soon emerge when Theo's career nosedives and Ivy's own ambitions take off.
Get on board! We have organised a Taste of Silents shuttle bus between Linlithgow train station and the Hippodrome (pre-booking essential, journey time approx. 15 mins.) to help you travel to Bo’ness on public transport.
To mark the 100th anniversary of this visionary and controversial film, the Hippodrome presents this special screening with live accompaniment by Scottish improvisational ensemble S!nk, acclaimed for their immersive and explosive soundscapes.
Get on board! We have organised a Taste of Silents shuttle bus between Linlithgow train station and the Hippodrome (pre-booking essential, journey time approx. 15 mins.) to help you travel to Bo’ness on public transport.
Laura Jesson, a jaded suburban wife, meets Dr Alec Harvey while on a shopping trip to a nearby town. Their relationship develops through mixed emotions and difficult choices
Laura Jesson, a jaded suburban wife, meets Dr Alec Harvey while on a shopping trip to a nearby town. Their relationship develops through mixed emotions and difficult choices
Get on board! We have organised a Taste of Silents shuttle bus between Linlithgow train station and the Hippodrome (pre-booking essential, journey time approx. 15 mins.) to help you travel to Bo’ness on public transport.
Buster Keaton is at his hilarious best in this buddy comedy… co-starring Brown Eyes the cow!
Get on board! We have organised a Taste of Silents shuttle bus between Linlithgow train station and the Hippodrome (pre-booking essential, journey time approx. 15 mins.) to help you travel to Bo’ness on public transport.
Director Rupert Julian’s 1925 film version of The Phantom of the Opera starring Lon Chaney ranks among the greatest horror films of the silent era.
A group of unsuspecting people get trapped in an old farmhouse after the dead unexpectedly rise from the grave and seek the living as food.
We are delighted to reprise the online presentation of Neil Brand: Key Notes! A high-speed voyage into the art of silent cinema accompaniment presented by the world’s foremost proponent of this specialised artform.
Event as part of the West Lothian Film Festival.
Event as part of the West Lothian Film Festival.
Event as part of the West Lothian Film Festival
When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, Sir William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England.
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