Juniper Cinema

Screening classic films from a bygone era or Contemporary films worth appreciating again on the big screen in our Victorian Gin Parlour.

Free Popcorn, Sharing Nachos £6
Table reservations available for £15 which includes bottle of wine & large nachos.

You can hire the Juniper Cinema for your own private viewing including waitress service - just ask for more information.

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Best Picture Oscar 1970’s

1st - The Godfather (1972)
Marlon Brando and Al Pacino star as Vito Corleone and his youngest son, Michael.  It is the late 1940s in New York and Corleone is a "godfather” the head of a Mafia family.  Michael, a free thinker who defied his father by enlisting in the Marines to fight in World War II, has returned a captain and a war hero having long ago rejected the family business.  After saving his father from a second assassination attempt; Michael persuades his hot headed eldest brother, Sonny, and family advisors that he should be the one to exact revenge on the men responsible. Once Michael has been groomed as the new don, he leads the family to a new era of prosperity, and then launches a campaign of murderous revenge against those who once tried to wipe out the Corleones, consolidating his family's power and completing his own moral downfall.

8th- The Sting (1973)
Redford plays Depression-era confidence trickster Johnny Hooker, whose friend and mentor Luther Coleman is murdered by racketeer/gambler Doyle Lonnegan.  Hoping to avenge Luther's death, Johnny begins planning a "sting" -- an elaborate scam -- to destroy Lonnegan.  He enlists the aid of "the greatest con artist of them all," Henry Gondorff who pulls himself out of a drunken stupor and rises to the occasion. Hooker and Gondorff gather together an impressive array of con men, all of whom despise Lonnegan and wish to settle accounts on behalf of Luther.

15sh - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Playing crazy to avoid prison work, manic free spirit Randle P. McMurphy is sent to the state mental hospital for evaluation. There he encounters a motley crew of mostly voluntary inmates, including cowed mama's boy Billy and silent Native American Chief Bromden presided over by the icy Nurse Ratched.  Ratched and McMurphy recognize that each is the other's worst enemy: an authority figure who equates sanity with correct behavior, and a misfit who is charismatic enough to dismantle the system simply by living as he pleases. McMurphy proceeds to instigate group insurrections large and small, ranging from a restorative basketball game to an unfettered afternoon boat trip and a tragic after-hours party with hookers and booze. Nurse Ratched, however, has the machinery of power on her side to ensure that McMurphy will not defeat her. Still, McMurphy's message to live free or die is ultimately not lost on one inmate, revealing that escape is still possible even from the most oppressive conditions.

22nd - Rocky (1976)
Rocky Balboa a Philadelphia boxer a once-promising pugilist, Rocky is now taking nickel-and-dime bouts and running strong arm errands for local loan sharks to survive.  Even his supportive trainer, Mickey has given up on Rocky. All this changes thanks to Muhammad Ali-like super-boxer Apollo Creed with the Bicentennial celebration coming up, Creed must find a "Cinderella" opponent for the big July 4th bout -- some unknown whom Creed can "glorify" for a few minutes before knocking him cold.  For Stallone, this was a make-or-break opportunity -- just like Rocky's million-to-one shot with Apollo Creed.  Rocky is an old-fashioned fairytale brilliantly revamped to chime in with the depressed mood of the '70s

29th -Annie Hall (1977)
Woody Allen's romantic comedy follows the up and down relationship of two mismatched New York neurotics. Jewish comedy writer Alvy Singer ponders the modern quest for love and his past romance with tightly-wound WASP singer Annie Hall.  The twice-divorced Alvy knows that it's not easy to find a mate when the options include pretentious New York intellectuals and lifestyle-obsessed Rolling Stone writers, but la-di-dah-ing Annie seems different.  Originally entitled Anhedonia (the inability to enjoy oneself),  Annie Hall blended the slapstick and fantasy from such earlier Allen films as Sleeper (1973) and Bananas (1971) with the more autobiographical musings of his stand-up and written comedy, Allen and co-writer Marshall Brickman skewered 1970s solipsism, reversing the happy marriage of opposites found in classic screwball comedies.