{"id":1264,"date":"2019-06-10T19:53:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T19:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2025-06-28T19:32:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T19:32:57","slug":"film-club-june-2019-quartet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/film-club-june-2019-quartet\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Club &#8211; June 2019 &#8211; &#8220;Quartet&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Friday evening, 14th June 7:30pm<\/strong>&nbsp; <em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018Quartet\u2019 <\/strong><strong>(2013)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dustin Hoffman directs this comedy drama adapted by writer Ronald Harwood. Beecham House is a retirement home with a difference: it specifically caters for former artistes including opera singers Cissy (Pauline Collins), Reginald (Tom Courtenay) and Wilf (Billy Connolly).&nbsp; The three still take part in an annual concert to celebrate the birthday of composer Giuseppe Verdi.&nbsp; But this year things are complicated by the arrival of the fourth member of their quartet, Jean (Maggie Smith), a die-hard diva who also happens to be Reginald&#8217;s ex-wife. Theatrical temperaments and old hostilities flare as the dramatic foursome fuss, flirt and flounce their way through rehearsals, adhering&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; emphatically to that old showbiz adage, &#8216;the show must go on&#8217;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Doors open 7pm, film start 7.30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Free admission, tea &amp; coffee; bring your own popcorn!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/Quartet-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/Quartet-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/Quartet-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/Quartet.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday evening, 14th June 7:30pm&nbsp; \u2018Quartet\u2019 (2013) Dustin Hoffman directs this comedy drama adapted by writer Ronald Harwood. Beecham House is a retirement home with a difference: it specifically caters for former artistes including opera singers Cissy (Pauline Collins), Reginald (Tom Courtenay) and Wilf (Billy Connolly).&nbsp; The three still take part in an annual concert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Phone_number(s)":"","email_address":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-pages","category-events"],"mb":[],"mfb_rest_fields":["title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1266,"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwbchurches.org.uk\/stanley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}