REEL NOTES № 002 — The Wicker Man

REEL NOTES — The Screening Salon · № 002

One film, in full. The story first — then the picture, whole. Every Reel Notes evening opens with a forty-five-minute deep dive into the film — where it came from, how it was made, the myth and the meaning — before a single frame plays. Then the lights go down, the phones go away, and we watch it end to end. In a room of fifty-five seats, that isn't a screening. It's a salon.

Part of DARK MATTERS — Circle & Star's modern-gothic season, 14–31 October.

Side A · The Discussion — 7:00pm
The birth of folk horror · Paul Giovanni's pagan songbook · the cut that was lost and found. Not a lecture. Not trivia. The kind of talk that sends you into the dark seeing more than you did.

Side B · The Film — 8:00pm
The Wicker Man (1973) · Directed by Robin Hardy · The Final Cut · 94 minutes · Cert 15

A devout policeman flies to a remote Hebridean island to find a missing girl — and the islanders, all sunshine and song, swear she never existed. Britain's great folk horror: a musical, a mystery, and the role Christopher Lee called the best of his life.

★ The story first — a proper forty-five-minute talk before the picture
★ The Final Cut — the film as Robin Hardy meant it
★ 55 seats. Every one close.
★ Out by 10:30 — a school-night salon

The season pass: all four films of Volume One for £60 — one passcard, shown on the door, your seat held and reserved at every screening, and a goodie bag of good things to eat.

🚪 Doors 6:45pm · 🕖 Talk 7:00pm · 🎬 Film 8:00pm · Out by 10:30pm
📍 28 Heath Street, Hampstead, London NW3 6TE — thirty seconds from Hampstead tube
💷 £18 · 🪑 55 seats only

STEP IN. COME UP. BE PART OF THE STORY.