Bristol’s Ultimate Outdoor Cinema Guide 2018

The Greatest Showman is the new La La Land – official! That’s right: last year, organisers of outdoor cinema events were falling over themselves to enable punters to bellow along with the big Oscar winner in an open air setting. This year, it’s nowhere to be seen, having been usurped by that critic-defying musical biopic of P.T. Barnum. If you’re especially keen, you can catch four al fresco screenings of this one over the coming months.

The Luna Cinema is making its first foray into Bristol with three shows at Ashton Court. Cult Screens also returns to Bristol Zoo Gardens. These two exhibitors’ programmes comprise the usual rather unadventurous selection of crowd-pleasers – Dirty Dancing, Top Gun, The Goonies, etc – though Cult Screens has added The Shape of Water to its repertoire.

In collaboration with Sunset Cinema, Clevedon’s historic Curzon is putting on three outdoor screenings, including – you guessed it – The Greatest Showman. This one’s showing in Salthouse Fields, as is Spielberg’s Jaws. They’re also staging the first local al fresco screening of the chart-topping Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again over at Portishead’s open air pool.

Skinflints with nippers to entertain will also be delighted to find that We the Curious are staging free screenings of Rio and Ice Age in Millennium Square during August.

Follow the links below for further details, trailers and ticket links for all screenings and go here for our comprehensive film listings.