The name of the film society, Thornbury Picture House, was inspired by the former cinema (1919-1959) in Thornbury near Bristol , owned in its entire existence by members of the famous cricketing Grace family.
TPH is in its fifth year showing mainly foreign-language films once a month for an eleven-month season. The selection panel filters the list of some fifty nominations down to the final eleven titles using “a little-understood iterative transferable vote system, which curiously does tend to produce a balanced programme.”
The society has just fitted a brand new 16” screen in a former Wesleyan chapel donated to the town in 1888 by the local coalfield magnate Handel Cossham.
Membership, which costs £30 per annum, has been growing steadily over the last five years, and currently stands at just under 100 – “a good fit in our new premises.”
Website: thornburypicturehouse.org
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