Showroom Classics

Showroom Classics is a strand focusing on rereleases of classic films and restorations of works once thought lost. Carefully curated by our programming team, the Showroom Classics selection will feature an incredibly wide range of films from the beginning of cinema through to the modern day, and will showcase not just the traditional classics, but also cult titles and underseen films which deserve a new audience.

Find out what's screening in glorious 35mm here.

Upcoming films & events

colonel blimp
Showroom Classics: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp U
English
One of the greatest British films of all time, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp returns to Showroom alongside the Martin Scorsese presented documentary Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger.
  • Fri 10 May
  • 14.45
  • Sat 11 May
  • 17.00
  • Sun 12 May
  • 14.45
  • Mon 13 May
  • 19.30
  • Tue 14 May
  • 12.00
  • Wed 15 May
  • 15.15
  • Thu 16 May
  • 16.40
tales of Hoffman eye opener
Showroom Classics: Tales of Hoffman U
English
Powell and Pressburger’s luminescent Technicolor comic opera Tales of Hoffman returns to Showroom alongside the Martin Scorsese presented documentary Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger.
  • Fri 10 May
  • 15.00
  • Sat 11 May
  • 14.15
  • Sun 12 May
  • 18.00
  • Mon 13 May
  • 14.00
  • Tue 14 May
  • 15.15
  • Wed 15 May
  • 12.15
  • Thu 16 May
  • 20.00
rome open city
Showroom Classics: Rome, Open City 12A
Italian with English subtitles
Roberto Rossellini’s landmark Italian neorealist film is a dramatic portrait of a city under occupation.
  • Fri 17 May
  • 14.30
  • Sat 18 May
  • 12.00
  • Sun 19 May
  • 15.45
  • Mon 20 May
  • 16.10
  • Tue 21 May
  • 20.25
  • Wed 22 May
  • 15.15
  • Thu 23 May
  • 18.25
Happy as LazzaroF-Rated
Showroom Classics: Happy as Lazzaro 12A
Showroom Cinema celebrates the May release of Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera by returning her beloved modern masterpiece, Happy as Lazarro.
  • Fri 17 May
  • 19.45
  • Sat 18 May
  • 14.30
  • Sun 19 May
  • 18.00
  • Mon 20 May
  • 13.30
  • Tue 21 May
  • 17.45
  • Wed 22 May
  • 12.15
  • Thu 23 May
  • 15.00
shallow grave
Showroom Classics: Shallow Grave 15
English
Directed by Academy Award-winner Danny Boyle, this is a savagely entertaining contemporary black comedy, which sees 3 cocksure twenty- somethings sharing a flat in Edinburgh getting more than they bargained for when they go in search of a new roommate.
  • Fri 24 May
  • 15.45
  • Sat 25 May
  • 13.30
  • Sun 26 May
  • 18.30
  • Mon 27 May
  • 18.15
  • Tue 28 May
  • 13.00
  • Wed 29 May
  • 20.45
  • Thu 30 May
  • 18.15
trainspotting
Showroom Classics: Trainspotting 18
English
A masterpiece of British cinema, Danny Boyle directs an unforgettable adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel about a group of young Edinburgh heroin addicts.
  • Fri 24 May
  • 18.00
  • Sat 25 May
  • 15.45
  • Sun 26 May
  • 20.45
  • Mon 27 May
  • 20.25
  • Tue 28 May
  • 15.30
  • Wed 29 May
  • 12.15
  • Thu 30 May
  • 20.45

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