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Film Hub South West @filmhubsw.bsky.social · 1d

Coming to cinemas on World Mental Health Day, 10th October, The Road of Excess is a Made in Wales film that talks about toxic masculinity, mental health, addiction, fame and what happens when it’s gone.

Find out more:

The Road of Excess: The Whole Story - Film Hub Wales | Canolfan Ffilm Cymru

Coming to cinemas on World Mental Health Day, 10th October, The Road of Excess is a film that talks about toxic masculinity, mental health, addiction, fame and what happens when …

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Film Hub South West @filmhubsw.bsky.social · 2d

Join the next BFI FAN: EDI in Focus webinar to hear from @ALittleOutlook and Georgia Kumari Bradburn @stimscollective for an interactive session on creating welcoming events for neurodivergent audiences.

📅 Tuesday 21 October, 12 - 1pm
🔗 bit.ly/RelaxedScreenings

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Cinerama @cineramafilm.com · Aug 28

BFI announces Too Much - Melodrama on Film, a UK-wide celebration of emotion and heightened drama. #BFISouthbank #TooMuchSeason #Melodrama #classicmovies #cinema

BFI announces Too Much – Melodrama on Film, a UK-wide celebration of emotion and heightened drama

Too Much - Melodrama on Film will be presented by BFI Southbank and at venues across the UK, in partnership with the BFI Film Audience Network, from October to December 2025. The programme will feature highlights including All That Heaven Allows, Volver, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, and more. The BFI has announced a new season celebrating the vivid visual language, heightened dramatics and emotional pathos at the heart of film melodrama, inviting film audiences to follow their emotions.

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We Are Cult @wearecultonline.bsky.social · Aug 28

BFI announces TOO MUCH - MELODRAMA ON FILM, a major UK-wide season celebrating cinema’s biggest emotions and heightened dramatics from around the world! wearecult.rocks/bfi-presents...

BFI presents UK-wide season ‘Too Much - Melodrama On Film’! » We Are Cult

❉ More than 60 venues UK-wide will host events and screenings supported by the BFI Film Audience Network.

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We Are Cult @wearecultonline.bsky.social · Sep 1

#ICYMI BFI announces TOO MUCH - MELODRAMA ON FILM, a major UK-wide season celebrating cinema’s biggest emotions and heightened dramatics from around the world!
wearecult.rocks/bfi-presents...

BFI presents UK-wide season ‘Too Much - Melodrama On Film’! » We Are Cult

❉ More than 60 venues UK-wide will host events and screenings supported by the BFI Film Audience Network.

wearecult.rocks

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Glasgow Film Theatre @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social · Sep 1

Break down in tears, cause a scene, fall in love, feel something 💔

We're delighted to be part of BFI’s UK-wide season TOO MUCH: MELODRAMA ON FILM, a celebration of cinema’s biggest emotions from around the world: https://bit.ly/toomuchbfi

Book from Wednesday 17 September 🎟️

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Glasgow Film Theatre @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social · 21d

Surrender to the drama this Autumn 💔

Feel it all at GFT with Too Much: Melodrama on Film — a season of cinematic melodrama from the US, Europe & Asia - plus Queer Hollywood gems & a Tennessee Williams spotlight.

Screening this October and November. Book now via our website 🎟️

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Glasgow Film Theatre @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social · 14d

Leaves are falling, temps are dropping — and so is our October programme 🍂

🎬 Black History Month
🎃 Halloween chills incl. Frankenstein & The Descent
🎭 Too Much: Melodrama on Film
🔥 New releases + Scotland Loves Anime
❄️ It’s A Wonderful Life returns!

🎟️ On sale now!

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Film Hub North @filmhubnorth.bsky.social · 14d

We’re excited to unveil the bespoke projects we’re supporting as part of BFI FAN’s UK-wide melodrama season. From camp cinema takeovers in Blackpool to craft-along screenings in Newcastle, there’s so much for audiences to swoon at! Learn more: bit.ly/48tHLwH

Black and white image of a woman’s face, submerged in a cocktail glass with bright pink tears streaming down her face. Text reads: ‘Too Much: Melodrama on Film. Aunty Social – Chester, Blackpool, Preston; Daydream Cinema – Newcastle; Hyde Park Picture House – Leeds; HOME – Manchester; Showroom Cinema – Sheffield’. Film Hub North and BFI FAN logos to bottom right.

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Film Hub North @filmhubnorth.bsky.social · 13d

Northern cinema exhibitors, this is your last chance to get involved in BFI FAN’s Too Much: Melodrama on Film! Celebrate the visual excess and dramatic power of melodrama with a menu of key titles from UK distributors. Apply by Monday 29 September: bit.ly/4e1AO6J 🎥

Too Much: Melodrama on Film

Take part in a UK-wide season celebrating the visual excess and dramatic potency of melodrama in film

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Film Hub Midlands @filmhubmidlands.bsky.social · 8d

"You're just Too Much" is exactly what we want to hear this autumn!

As Midlands screens serve scandal, betrayal, and big feelings, as part of the BFI FAN Too Much: Melodrama on Film season

🔥It’s cinema turned all the way up

Find a screening near you
filmhubmidlands.org/toomuchmelod...

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Midlands Movies @midlandsmovies.bsky.social · 5d

QUAD in Derby is taking part in the BFI Melodrama season Too Much!

Films are screened each Sunday in Oct with discussions after & include UK-backed Black Narcissus, The Wicked Lady & Brief Encounter before heading off for more worldwide weepies

www.derbyquad.co.uk/melodrama/

Too Much! For These Isles! - BFI Melodrama Season Archives | Derby QUAD

View our latest season/festival: . See what the available times are for this event.

www.derbyquad.co.uk

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South West Silents @swsilents.bsky.social · 26d

Two Hollywood legends are coming to #Bristol in November and December 2025. As part of the #BFI’s Too Much Melodrama film season. #SilentFilm #FilmNoir

15/11/2025: Joan Crawford Double Bill: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

06/12/2025: Gloria Swanson Double Bill: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 19d

'Too Much' is SUCH a good title for a melodrama season

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Film Hub South West @filmhubsw.bsky.social · 2d

💔 From October-December at BFI FAN venues across the UK, get ready for TOO MUCH: MELODRAMA ON FILM.

Visit bfi.org.uk/too-much to find out what is screening near you... and don’t forget your tissues.

#Melodrama #TooMuch #BFIFAN

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WottonCinema @wottoncinema.bsky.social · 7d

The British cinema classic My Beautiful Laundrette (15) is 40 years old, and it's showing in Wotton-under-Edge on Sunday 5 October as part of our selection from this year's Cinema Rediscovered Festival. Here, writer Hanif Kureishi and director Stephen Frears look back.

‘It was a buddy movie – and then they kissed’: Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi on My Beautiful Laundrette at 40

We meet the director and writer of the classic gay romance for tea, cake and bubbles to talk about the movie that changed cinema – and the lives of everyone involved

www.theguardian.com

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Film Hub South West @filmhubsw.bsky.social · 5d

A new resource from Film Hub North defines some of the key terms used in applications and grants for capital-based sustainability funding.

It has been prepared by Georgia Ewington (MA in Film and Television: Research and Production, University of Birmingham).

Demystifying Terms 101

A glossary for sustainability funding

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Film Hub South West @filmhubsw.bsky.social · 7d

🎬 Bath Film Festival’s Q&A series opens with a legend… a Q&A with Ralph Fiennes!

🎟️ Get your tickets now and check out the rest of their amazing Q&A event line-up: filmbath.org.uk

#BathFilmFestival #FilmBath #RalphFiennes #QandA

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Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · 8d

Hey #Bristol! Keep an eye out for our two posters featuring Joan Crawford & Gloria Swanson for the BFI’s Too Much Melodrama season. Both are either #FilmNoir or #SilentFilm double bills.

Crawford Double Bill: ti.to/film-noir-uk...
Swanson Double Bill: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

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Film Hub South West @filmhubsw.bsky.social · 8d

From Oct-Dec, get ready to get emotional with TOO MUCH: MELODRAMA ON FILM.

In the coming months, at over 60 venues across the UK, audiences are invited to embrace the vivid visual language and heightened dramatics of melodrama... and feel something.

www.bfi.org.uk/too-much

Film Hub South West @filmhubsw.bsky.social · 8d

The latest BFI FAN: Accessible Cinema Bulletin - created by Access Consultant Charlie Little (Matchbox Cinesub) - is packed with news, unmissable events, and useful reads from across the UK’s film exhibition sector.

www.filmhubscotland.com/news/bfi-fan...

(also available as a PDF and Word doc)

Film Hub South West @filmhubsw.bsky.social · 9d

THIS WEEK: On 4 Oct at PRSC is 'Introducing Fragments', an evening of short films.

Featuring hard knock stories about hard times, told by filmmakers in the Bristol and South West area and encourage community engagement with local filmmakers.

www.lonewalkerproductions.com

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Film Hub South West @filmhubsw.bsky.social · 15d

The latest BFI FAN: Accessible Cinema Bulletin - created by Access Consultant Charlie Little (Matchbox Cinesub) - is packed with news, unmissable events, and useful reads from across the UK’s film exhibition sector.

www.filmhubscotland.com/news/bfi-fan... (also available as a PDF and Word doc)

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Film Hub South West @filmhubsw.bsky.social · 16d

As cinema admissions rise post COVID the focus has turned to young audiences (YA), with the industry recognising that young people are coming back to the cinema.

BFI FAN YA Champion Kirsten Geekie has collated research looking at what YA are looking for.

filmlondon.org.uk/film-hub-lon...

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Madeleine Probst @maddyprobst.bsky.social · 18d

L👀king forward to hearing from @warrenellis.bsky.social (in person 😮 ) this Sun 21 Sep 17:00 @wshed.bsky.social after a special showing of Ellis Park, the first doc from acclaimed Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel (The Order, Macbeth, Snowtown)

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