Get out of the house on the third Wednesday evening of each month and enjoy films on the big screen with us!

The Drill Hall Film Society screens classic films at an affordable price in comfortable tiered seating in our air-conditioned theatre. Grab a delicious snack and beverage from the bar, and be part of our lively film discussions after each show.

Become a Film Society subscriber for just $75 and gain entry to 11 films/year (or $60 if you’re a Drill Hall Theatre Company associate member). Casual guest rates cost $10/film.

Renewals due in July.

Contact Peter on [email protected] for more information or to become a member.

Wednesday January 21st @ 7pm

Hugo, an enchantment from movie history lover Martin Scorsese, is very entertaining, serious, beautiful, wise to the absurdity of life and in the embrace of a piercing longing. The movie is based on the children’s book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick, a relative of movie producer David O. Selznick.

The movie involves a lonely, melancholic orphan, Hugo (Asa Butterfield), who in the early 1930s tends all the clocks in a Parisian train station. Seemingly abandoned by his uncle, the station’s official timekeeper, Hugo lives alone, deep in the station’s interior, in a dark, dusty, secret apartment that was built for employees. There, amid clocks, gears, pulleys, jars and purloined toys, he putters and sleeps and naturally dreams, mostly of fixing a delicate automaton that his dead father, a clockmaker (Jude Law), found once upon a time. The automaton is all that remains of a happy past.

Hugo finds himself on an adventure involving the station’s toy-store owner and his goddaughter, Isabelle. A beloved, wanted child, she brings Hugo into her life, which is how he discovers that the cantankerous shopkeeper with the white goatee and sad, watchful eyes is Georges Méliès (Ben Kingsley) himself.

A magician turned moving-picture pioneer, Méliès began his new career after seeing one of the first public film projections in Paris in 1895. Méliès enthralled audiences with fantasies and trick films like our recently screened A Trip to the Moon (1902). The final sequences of the movie brings to life the fantastic life of George Méliès.

We invite you to bring children to this PG rated film for FREE.