Expect all the movie magic and immersive film screenings with The Galileo Open Air Cinema. They have set the stage this Summer for an astonishing evening out to experience the best movies from familiar favourites, cult classics and blockbusters under the stars.
Take the family, friends and kids along and come and witness the grand scale of the screenings. Featuring a range of movies to enjoy, it makes for a great picnic outing and is hosted among fantastic scenic spots from the rolling green banks of Kirstenbosch Gardens to other amazing venues too. Here are the top 10 movie releases screening at The Galileo this month:
Mrs Harris Goes To Paris
A movie that speaks the everyone’s heart, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is a 2022 historical comedy-drama film showing at The Galileo. A widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress and decides that she must have one of her own.
Cost: From R140pp, book via Webtickets
When: Thursday, 4 January 2024. Doors open at 6pm and movie starts at 8.30pm
Where: Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Gate 2, Rhodes Ave, Newlands, Cape Town
The Vow
The Vow is a 2012 romantic drama starring Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams. A car accident puts Paige in a coma, and when she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband Leo works to win her heart again.
The scenes of how they courted, became engaged and married at the Art Institute of Chicago and share a kiss under the Cloud Gate are interwoven with the present.
Cost: From R140pp, book via Webtickets
When: Saturday, 6 January 2024. Doors open at 5pm and movie starts at 8.30pm
Where: Knorhoek Wine Farm, Knorhoek Rd, R44, Stellenbosch
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption is a classic drama film based on the 1982 Stephen King novel. The film tells the story of banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), who is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murders of his wife and her lover, despite his claims of innocence.
Over the following two decades, he befriends a fellow prisoner, contraband smuggler Ellis “Red” Redding (Morgan Freeman), and becomes instrumental in a money laundering operation led by the prison warden Samuel Norton (Bob Gunton).
Cost: From R140pp, book via Webtickets
When: Thursday, 11 January 2024. Doors open at 6pm and movie starts at 8.30pm
Where: Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Gate 2, Rhodes Ave, Newlands, Cape Town
The Meddler
Up for something a bit more lighthearted at The Galileo? The Meddler is a good bet! An ageing widow from New York, Marnie (Susan Sarandon) is lonely and heartbroken. When her daughter, Lori (Rose Byrne), moves to Los Angeles, she follows along with the hope of restarting her life after her husband passes away.
Cost: From R140pp, book via Webtickets
When: Tuesday, 16 January 2024. Doors open at 6pm and movie starts at 8.30pm
Where: Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Gate 2, Rhodes Ave, Newlands, Cape Town
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian road comedy film. The plot follows two drag queens and a transgender woman, as they journey across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Springs on a tour bus that they have named “Priscilla”, along the way encountering various groups and individuals.
Cost: From R140pp, book via Webtickets
When: Wednesday, 17 January 2024. Doors open at 6pm and movie starts at 8.30pm
Where: Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Gate 2, Rhodes Ave, Newlands, Cape Town
Book Club: The Next Chapter
Get the girls together for an outing to The Galileo to catch Book Club: The Next Chapter. A sequel to Book Club 2018. The movie follows a new journey of four best friends as they take their book club to Italy for the fun girls’ trip they never had. Great female cast and showcases a bucket list adventure that is filled with fun, laughs and romance.
Cost: From R140pp, book via Webtickets
When: Thursday, 18 January 2024. Doors open at 6pm and movie starts at 8.30pm
Where: Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Gate 2, Rhodes Ave, Newlands, Cape Town
The Notebook
The Notebook is a romantic classic based on the 1996 novel of the same name. The film stars Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams as a young couple who fall in love in the 1940s. Their story is read from a notebook in the present day by an elderly man (James Garner), telling the tale to a fellow nursing home resident (Gena Rowlands).
Cost: From R140pp, book via Webtickets
When: Saturday, 20 January 2024. Doors open at 5pm and movie starts at 8.30pm
Where: Backsberg Family Wines, Franschhoek, Main Road, R45, Franschhoek
Everything Everywhere All at Once
One of the relatively newer releases screening at The Galileo is the Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once, a 2022 sci-fi adventure comedy film. When an interdimensional rupture unravels reality, a Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led. The film stars Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Stephanie Hsu and features the famous Jamie Lee Curtis.
Cost: From R140pp, book via Webtickets
When: Thursday, 25 January 2024. Doors open at 6pm and movie starts at 8.30pm
Where: Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Gate 2, Rhodes Ave, Newlands, Cape Town
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is an animated adventure film based on Nintendo’s Mario video game franchise. An Italian-American plumber named Mario travels through an underground labyrinth with his brother, Luigi, trying to save a captured princess. You can expect a thrilling adventure and references to the enchanting setting of Mario Bros game – familiar characters, gaming items and an all-round depiction of the imaginative world of Mario.
Cost: From R140pp, book via Webtickets
When: Friday, 26 January 2024. Doors open at 6pm and movie starts at 8.30pm
Where: Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Gate 2, Rhodes Ave, Newlands, Cape Town
The Lost King
The Lost King is a British biographical comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears. Join The Galileo for a mid-week screening of the story that follows Philippa Langley (Sally Hawkins), the woman who initiated the search to find King Richard III’s remains under a car park in Leicester. These were lost for over 500 years and her treatment by the University of Leicester in the claiming of credit for the discovery.
Cost: From R140pp, book via Webtickets
When: Wednesday, 31 January 2024. Doors open at 6pm and movie starts at 8.15pm
Where: Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Gate 2, Rhodes Ave, Newlands, Cape Town