Tilda Swinton and Cate Blanchett will be in attendance
Glastonbury Palace Cinema has unveiled its line-up for this year’s edition of the festival and has a list of prestigious guests, Paul Mescal, Florence Pugh and Andrew Scott.
In a video revealing the programming with Radio 1’s Ali Plumb, EMPIRE’s Helen O’Hara and Bastille’s Dan Smith, a sponsor and supporter of the region, revealed that film screenings at the event included a combination of pre-screenings. Recent blockbusters, music documentaries, and screenings of old movies.
Some of the films featured include Despicable Me 4, Furiosa, Dune Part Two, All Of Us Strangers, Barbie, The Fall Guy, The Greatest Showman, Baby Driver and Shaun Of The Dead at the time of his twentieth birthday.
Guests on the occasion include Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, who will take part in a Q&A about Shaun Of The Dead; Wright will also provide his film Baby Driver.
Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott will reunite with director Andrew Haigh for a Q&A about his emotional film All Of Us Strangers, released earlier this year, while Florence Pugh will talk about Dune Part 2 before the screening.
Other visitors will come with Tilda Swinton, who will participate in a Q&A session for Only Lovers Left Alive and present her new film Problemist, while Cate Blanchett will talk about I’m Not There, the film that starred Bob Dylan.
Swinton and Blanchett also made an impression at Glastonbury last year, with Swinton joining Max Richter on the same level while Blanchett dancing on the same level as Sparks.
The first two episodes of the new Star Wars series The Acolyte will be screened, while Kneecap will talk about his new documentary. There will also be a special screening of Spinal Tap on the occasion of its 40th anniversary.
You can see a full on-stage appearance in the video below and check out the schedule. You can read a more detailed summary of all the films screened here.
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Glastonbury will return to Worthy Farm from June 26-30 this year, with Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA headlining.
The last tickets for this year’s party went on sale on April 21 and sold out in 20 minutes. The last batch consisted of tickets whose original buyers had not paid the balance by the deadline in early April.
Competition for price tickets has been fiercer than ever this year, with organiser Emily Eavis revealing that 2024 saw the “highest percentage of price ticket balances paid” since Glastonbury introduced the payment plan system.
Glastonbury 2024 will see the arrival of a new tier in the Shangri-La area, called Arrivals, which will bet on South Asian talent. Shania Twain will take on the coveted position of legends this year, while K-pop will make its festival debut with a performance through boy band Pledis SEVENTEEN on the Pyramid level.
With the big weekend just around the corner and the festival revealing the line-up for both one and both tiers and zones as the week approaches, check out the full list of artists shown so far here and when to expect at the set times.