Culture
Let’s go to the movies!
'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
Digging into Winchelsea harbour
Leading academics shed light on the location and history of Winchelsea's long-lost medieval harbour at an exciting conference held in the town
Architects award for Kino
Rye's new Kino on Lion Street is attracting accolades, the latest of which is a prestigious RIBA architecture award
Out of the darkness – a masterpiece
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
The Mapp and Lucia we’ll never see
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
Let’s go to the movies!
Our weekly look ahead at films showing in Rye features the thought provoking 'Good Kill', the story of a Las Vegas fighter-pilot turned drone-pilot starring Ethan Hawke (pictured), who fights the Taliban via remote control for half of his day, then goes home to his wife and kids in the suburbs for the other half. Read on for reviews and links to trailers . . .
Let’s go to the movies!
Our weekly look ahead at films showing in Rye. Featured this week is ‘The Water Diviner' directed by and starring Russell Crowe. He plays an Australian farmer who in 1919, four years after Gallipoli, travels to Turkey to find his three missing sons. Read on for reviews and links to trailers . . .
Andy’s ‘Roadshow’ tearjerker
Andy McConnell, one of Britain's leading glassware experts who lives in Rye, turns antiques detective in two episodes of a new BBC2 series currently on our screens. Kleenex tissues, he says, are needed for the first programme he appears in - on Friday April 10 at 18:30
What goes on behind his scenes
Richard Adams's familiar townscapes peopled with characters we think we know are beloved of Ryers. In a talk to the Friends of Rye Art Gallery, the artist sketched out his earlier career, painting to order, which he abandoned to concentrate on his own distinctive style that is now so familiar to local people
Let’s go to the movies!
Our weekly look ahead at films showing at Rye Kino. Featured this week is Kenneth Branagh's enchanting new 'Cinderella' (pictured above). Watch Ella's fortunes change after meeting a dashing stranger! Read on for reviews and links to trailers . . .