It’s 2932. Ten-year-old Arco is frustrated. As the age limit for time travel is 12 he is unable to join his parents and older sister on their journeys. So, one night he takes his sibling’s time-travelling robe and finds himself in 2075, where he befriends young Iris. It doesn’t take long for his arrival to be registered, but Arco realises the journey home may not be as easy as he thought.

A riveting, joyful and rapturously colourful film, Arco was one of the nominees for this year’s Best Animation Academy Award.

An alien lands in Washington D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.

Adapted from a short story by Harry Bates, THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL delivered one of cinema’s most potent anti-nuclear warnings, and remains a powerful call for peace over the self-destructive futility of war.

Directed by multiple Oscar winner Robert Wise (WEST SIDE STORY, THE SOUND OF MUSIC) from a screenplay by Edmund H. North (PATTON), the film features an outstanding experimental score by Bernard Herman (PSYCHO, TAXI DRIVER), a serious-minded approach, compelling performances from an iconic cast, and the quasi-fascist robot enforcer, Gort!

Screening as part of our new season of films - PARANOIA AT THE RIVERSIDE