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This week's featured movie is 'The Woman in Gold' staring Helen Mirren, pictured above with Ryan Reynolds, the incredible story of a Jewish refugee who is forced to flee Vienna during World War II. Decades later, determined to salvage some dignity from her past, she takes on a mission to reclaim a Klimt painting the Nazis stole from her family. For details and previews of this and other movies showing in Rye over the next week follow the links...

Famous artist Paul Nash, who lived in Rye, Iden and Dymchurch at various times and was a war artist in both world wars, featured in a talk for the Friends of Rye Art Gallery on World War Two posters. Friends Chair Paddy Harvey reports

Rye Museum's talk last month on celebrated Shakespearean actress...

Ian Bowden, director of the Rye International Jazz Festival, held a party at Rye Retreat on Thursday April 30 to launch the Patron and Friend membership and event sponsorship programmes and announce some of the musicians who will appear at this year's spectacular event. Tony McLaughlin reports

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'The Imitation Game' starring Benedict Cumberbatch, pictured above, as cryptanalyst Alan Turing, returns to Rye tonight at the Rye Film Club. For details and previews of this and other movies showing in Rye over the next week, read Neale East

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Leading academics shed light on the location and history of Winchelsea's long-lost medieval harbour at an exciting conference held in the town

Rye's new Kino on Lion Street is attracting accolades, the latest of which is a prestigious RIBA architecture award

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Ridley Scott was unhappy with the original version of 'Blade Runner' when it was released in 1982. Critics were less than overwhelmed too. Now it's a cult movie. And at the Kino in Rye there are two chances to see Scott's 'Final Cut' version. Nick Taylor illuminates the film's themes and its influences

Rumour has it that the heroines who have introduced so many additional visitors to Rye and to the books by EF Benson will not themselves be returning. Allan Downend, who knows Mapp and Lucia well, reminisces on two remarkable characters and imagines what might have been