Welcome to the FeckenOdeon’s second cinema.

This is where we present interesting, amusing and challenging movies that simply wouldn’t fit into our main theatre programme. This smaller cinema can seat 40 people in comfort and has a bar.

These are public performances - anyone can attend - but there are reduced prices and priority booking for existing FeckenOdeon subscribers.

Most of the shows are on Fridays - a great way to start a relaxed weekend!

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Roseanna’s not well. She might die at any moment. She tells Marcello, her devoted husband, that she must be buried in the village churchyard and Marcello promises that he will honour her wish. But.. there’s a problem. There are only four plots left... and after the local trapeze artist has a momentary lapse in concentration... there are soon only three. Marcello, a bar owner, devotes most of his time to making sure that nobody else dies.. And then there’s the Mafia...and the philandering bank manager and the skeletons on several closets and the body in the freezer....

For Roseanna - 1997 - Dir.: Paul Weilland - 1hr 38mins

1988. Melo (Uruguay), a small city on the border with Brazil, is getting ready for the visit of Pope John Paul II. Certain well-informed sources talk of 50,000 visitors. The locals, mostly poor, know what that means: 50,000 pilgrims will want to eat, drink and purchase souvenirs... Driven by enthusiasm rather than divine blessing, they hope to achieve at least a little material happiness. Beto, a small-time smuggler, reckons he’s found the best idea of all: “The Pope’s Toilet”, where thousands of pilgrims can spend a penny. This involves taking more of a risk and making more trips over the border. He puts his big dream of buying a motorcycle on hold. He even loses his most cherished possession, his bicycle, to achieve the key element of his temple of waste and wealth: the toilet bowl. But he’s determined to make it in time for the divine event.
 

It has to be admitted that we chose this film to coincide with the Pope’s State Visit to the UK. The fuss about the cost of policing that event pales into insignificance when you realise how important the 1988 tour was to the poor of South America. This is a gentle comedy with a hard centre!

Pilgrims need food, drink and... Toilets!

"El Bano del Papa" (2007) - Dir César Charlone, Enrique Fernández - 1hr 45mins

Tickets £4.50 (Members £3.50)

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There are no supernatural spooks in this stylish and compelling thriller from the ever controversial director Roman Polanski. The American title for the film is “The Ghost Writer” which, whilst more accurate, is less effective in evoking tension... and there’s plenty of that.

A ghost writer working on a former Prime Minister’s memoirs has been murdered. His replacement (played by Ewan McGregor) is summoned to the great man’s retreat in rain swept New England and soon finds that all is not what it seems.. or should be...

Based on the best selling book by Richard Harris, this is Polanski’s best work for years - and is certainly the one of the best thrillers of recent years.

Like Hitchcock, one of Polanski's strengths is his uncompromising direction of actors, whose job he sees as not to indulge their personal and creative vanities, but to serve his clear, pre-existing vision of the film. Coupled with a flawless eye for detail, and an absolute mastery of film technique Polanski's approach gets the best from everyone concerned.

“The Ghost” (2010) - Dir Roman Polanski - 2hrs 3mins

You’d be justified in thinking that this is an Italian black comedy. It’s stylish, set in Italy and has the ring of authenticity about it... but the character’s all speak in accented English and there’s something strangely familiar about it.... and then Trevor Peacock appears and the penny drops. Trevor is an English actor who plays Jim Trott (Yes, yes, yes, yes..no!) in The Vicar of Dibley. This is a British film. Most of the cast and crew are British and the director spent most of his career creating things like “Blackadder” and Mr Bean”... And yet it still seems convincingly Italian - and very black and very funny - a paradox if ever there was....