[Stronsaylimpet] Screen Machine visit 25/26 November!

[Limpet editor]

My mistake - 25/26 Nov in 2026!!

Bruce Fletcher BSc FIAP, Editor, Stronsay Limpet
www.stronsaylimpet.co.uk

On 30/10/2025 14:08, Limpet editor wrote:
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>   **SCREEN MACHINE VISITS STRONSAY 25/26 NOVEMBER!**
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> Screen Machine Monthly Newsletter 30/10/25
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>
> **SM3 Update**
> **We've almost reached our fundraising target!**
>
> It’s been a while since we’ve offered an update on Screen Machine 3, 
> but we now have multiple pieces of good news to share.
>
> Through the combination of a £150,000 grant from the Anne Duchess of 
> Westminster Fund, £10,000 from William Grant Foundation, £5,000 from 
> Islay and Dunlossit Trust, an anonymous donation of £10,000, and 
> offers of further donations following a recent fundraising event in 
> Edinburgh, we are now very close to reaching our target. We have also 
> managed to reduce the overall costs of the project to £1.5m thanks 
> to conversations with our suppliers and better-than-expected exchange 
> rates.
>
> Toutenkamion are continuing to build the new machine in France, and it 
> remains on schedule for delivery in the summer of 2026. We're focusing 
> on securing the remaining pledges and grant offers, and creating a 
> Resilience Fund to ensure SM3 can be properly maintained as it endures 
> Scotland’s single-track roads, ferries, and variable weather.
>
> We’d like to thank everyone who has contributed to Save Our Screen 
> Machine. Your belief in our service and support to keep it going is 
> what has brought us this far, almost to the finish line!
>
> If you've yet to donate or would like to make a further contribution, 
> we’d be very grateful.
>
> Click here to donate 
> <https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-our-screen-machine>
>
> **Audience Panel**
> **Tell us what you would like to see on Screen Machine**
>
> Would you like to join our Audience Panel?
>
> Have a say on the films that Screen Machine brings to you. Sign up to 
> join the Audience Panel and several times per year we will send you a 
> survey asking you what you'd like to see. The first in several years 
> is planned to go out tomorrow, so click the link below to sign up now 
> if you'd like to be included!
>
> Click here to join the Audience Panel 
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> **Upcoming visits**
> **We have a schedule right through to the end of 2025**
>
> Screen Machine in Westray in 2022. Credit: Iain MacColl
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> Tickets are currently on sale for seven locations:
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> Tighnabruaich - 31 October & 1 November
> Lochgilphead - 2 to 5 November
> Port Ellen - 7 to 9 November
> Mallaig - 11 to 13 November
> Lochaline - 14 & 15 November
> Fort Augustus - 16 to 18 November
> Tomintoul - 19 & 20 November
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> We now have a schedule right through to the end of 2025, and we're 
> delighted to say it includes a visit to Orkney. With thanks to 
> Pentland Ferries and Orkney Ferries for their help in making our visit 
> possible.
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> Newtonmore - 21 to 23 November
> Stronsay - 25 & 26 November
> Westray - 27 to 30 November
> Sanday - 1 to 4 December
> Shapinsay - 5 & 6 December
> Golspie - 9 to 11 December
> Lairg - 12 & 13 December
> Millport - 20 & 21 December
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> We aim to get these on sale in the coming weeks. We're also working to 
> finalise our schedule for the start of 2026, and we will aim to get 
> these on sale by early December. As always, please keep an eye on our 
> schedule <https://www.screenmachine.co.uk/schedule/> to see when we 
> might next be near you.
>
> Click here to buy tickets <https://www.screenmachine.co.uk/>
>
> **Programme**
> **Learn about the latest films**
>
> Priya-Rose Brookwell and Dominic McLaughlin in //Grow//. Copyright: 
> Cinema Live
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> We have added several new films to our programme, a few of which have 
> already had their Screen Machine premieres. Click each film's title to 
> watch its trailer.
>
> Our current family film is /**Grow**/ <https://youtu.be/Jbfl-n50f8U?>, 
> a wonderfully warm British comedy filmed in Scotland. It's about 
> Charlie Little, a young girl with a special connection to plants. When 
> she goes to live with her no-nonsense aunt Dinah, she decides to enter 
> the local pumpkin growing contest. But competition is fierce, and as 
> Charlie and Dinah's pumpkin grows, so does their bond. Called /**“a 
> delightfully daft and incredibly charming family film”**/ by Movies We 
> Texted About, it stars Priya-Rose Brookwell as Charlie and features 
> many recognisable faces, including Golda Rosheuvel, Nick Frost, Joe 
> Wilkinson, Jane Horrocks, and Jeremy Swift.
>
> Learn about the life of Tourette's spokesperson and Galashiels local 
> John Davidson in the uplifting and inspirational Scottish biopic /**I 
> Swear**/ <https://youtu.be/oeWqQN3snCU> (the trailer contains strong 
> language). It traces the difficulties John faced as a teenager and 
> young adult when there was little understanding about the condition. 
> Full of heart and humour, Time Out describes it as, /**“Empathetic, 
> funny and myth-busting”**/. Featuring a lauded performance by Robert 
> Amarayo, it contains strong, and at times humorous, language throughout.
>
> In /**One Battle After Another**/ <https://youtu.be/feOQFKv2Lw4>, 
> Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a paranoid ex-revolutionary who must 
> reunite his old team when his daughter is kidnapped by his old 
> nemesis, played by Sean Penn. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, this 
> action thriller adapted from Thomas Pynchon's novel 
> //Vineland// features plenty of humour, and also stars Benicio del 
> Toro, Regina Hall, and Teyana Taylor. Empire called it /**“A 
> stone-cold, instant classic”**/.
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> If you fancy a bit of a fright, you might want to watch /**The 
> Conjuring: Last Rites**/ <https://youtu.be/bMgfsdYoEEo?>, the latest 
> film in the terrifying series. Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson return 
> as paranormal investigators Lorraine and Ed Warren, who try to help a 
> family being haunted by a malevolent entity, which may be a demon 
> connected to Lorraine and Ed's past. Based on a true story from 1980s 
> Pennsylvania, The Times described it as /**“suitably shiver-inducing”**/.
>
> Premiering next weekend is the musical biopic /**Springsteen: Deliver 
> Me from Nowhere**/ 
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQXdM3J33No> starring Jeremy Allen 
> White as The Boss himself. Rather than charting Springsteen's whole 
> life and career, this film focuses on the time he spent tackling his 
> personal demons, which resulted in Nebraska, considered one of his 
> best albums. Also starring Stephen Graham as Springsteen's father, The 
> Wrap calls it /**“A bracing and moving antidote to beefed-up, heavily 
> fictionalized rock biopics”**/.
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> **Relaxed screenings**
> **Watch a family film in an adapted environment**
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> We have three relaxed screenings of /**Grow**/ 
> <https://youtu.be/Jbfl-n50f8U?> currently on sale.
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> **Lochgilphead**, 5.30pm on Sunday 2 November
> **Mallaig**, 5.30pm on Wednesday 12 November
> **Fort Augustus**, 5.30pm on Sunday 16 November
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> The adaptations for these screenings include reduced capacity, 
> captions, medium lighting, and more. You can read about relaxed 
> screenings in full on our website by clicking here 
> <https://www.screenmachine.co.uk/relaxed-screenings/>.
>
> We plan to do more relaxed screenings for future visits. Click here 
> <https://mailchi.mp/screenmachine.co.uk/relaxed-screenings-mailing-list> if 
> you would like to receive our newsletter about relaxed screenings.
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> **The Curse of the Were-Rabbit**
> 2005 (U) 76 mins
> Available on BBC iPlayer for 12 days 
> <https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00gd1rn/wallace-gromit-the-curse-of-the-wererabbit>
> Days before the annual vegetable growing competition begins, Wallace 
> and Gromit must try to find a giant rabbit that is destroying 
> allotments and vegetable patches.
>
> **Edward Scissorhands**
> 1990 (12) 108 mins
> Available on BBC iPlayer for 25 days 
> <https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001gdny/edward-scissorhands>
> Johnny Depp stars as the eponymous Edward, an unfinished humanoid with 
> scissors for hands who moves in with a suburban family and falls in 
> love with their daughter, played by Winona Ryder.
>
> **The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent**
> 2021 (15) 107 mins
> Available on Channel 4 for 11 days 
> <https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-unbearable-weight-of-massive-talent>
> Action comedy starring Nicholas Cage as himself, who is be the guest 
> of honour at the birthday of a billionaire (Pedro Pescal). But when 
> the CIA turns up things start to get out of hand.
>
> **The Menu**
> 2022 (15) 103 mins
> Available on Channel 4 for 25 days 
> <https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-menu>
> Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Nicholas Hoult star in this black 
> comedy horror about a chef inviting selected guests to a private meal, 
> but nothing is as it seems.
>
> **Thank you for reading, please donate, and we'll catch up**
> **with you at the end of November!**
>
> **Screen Machine is supported by Creative Scotland and Screen Scotland.**
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> If you need any further information please email 
> info at regionalscreenscotland.org
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> For more information on how films are certificated visit the British 
> Board of Film Classification (BBFC) website www.bbfc.co.uk 
> <https://www.bbfc.co.uk>
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