Film fans are looking forward to a year packed with cult favourites, classic movies, and the best that the contemporary film world has to offer at Rochester Kino.

Back for 2016 at a new venue – the Brook Theatre in Chatham – the film collective organises screenings twice a month, offering chances to see films on the big screen that aren’t normally screened at commercial cinemas.

This week brings the film Blow Up to the theatre on Wednesday at 7.30pm. A London photographer seems to find something very suspicious in the shots he has taken of a mysterious beauty in a desolate park.

As always, the showing will begin with a brief talk before the film, which will be followed by an optional, informal group discussion over refreshments.

Upcoming highlights include The Man Who Fell To Earth, if only because it stars the late, great David Bowie – whose recent death has somehow given a new precious value to everything he ever made.

What better way to bring Bowie back for two and a half hours, than to watch him on the big screen as a humanoid alien who comes to Earth on a mission to take water back to his drought-stricken home planet?

May brings another highlight in the form of Oscar-nominated blockbuster The Revenant, with its tale of an 1820s frontiersman fighting for survival.

Some light relief might be required after that, and the following month’s film Youth, could be just the ticket.

Michael Caine stars as a retired conductor on holiday with his daughter and his film director best friend in the Alps when he receives an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip’s birthday. Sounds like top stuff.

And don’t miss Ghostbusters in March!

This year at Rochester Kino:

Blow Up. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966. Wednesday, January 27, 7.30pm

45 Years. Andrew Haigh, 2015. Wednesday, February 10, 7.30pm

Wings of Desire. Wim Wenders, 1987. Wednesday, February 24, 7.30pm

Ghostbusters. Ivan Reitman, 1984. Wednesday, March 16, 7.30pm

Brooklyn. John Crowley, 2015. Wednesday, March 30, 7.30pm

Fargo. Coen Brothers, 1996. Wednesday, April 13, 7.30pm

Carol. Todd Haynes, 2015. Wednesday. April 27, 7.30pm

The Man Who Fell To Earth. Nic Roeg, 1976. Wednesday, May 11, 7.30pm

The Revenant. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, 2016. Wednesday, May 25, 7.30pm

Le Mepris. Jean Luc Godard, 1963. Wednesday, June 16, 7.30pm

Youth. Paolo Sorrentino, 2016. Wednesday, June 29, 7.30pm