Date/Time
Date(s) - 01/05/2025
19:30 - 21:15
Location
Electric Palace cinema, Hastings TN34 3ER
William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill
Entertainingly, delightfully pretentious documentary about the eminently likeable and engaging nonagenarian actor, ‘singer’ and most recently, space traveller, William Shatner.
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
96 mins / 2023 / USA
An intimate portrait of William Shatner’s personal journey over nine decades on this Earth, You Can Call Me Bill strips away all the masks he has worn to embody countless characters, and reveals the man behind it all. From make-believe starship captain to a real-life rocketman, William Shatner has led one of the most unique and best-lived lives on the planet.
And while the actor William Shatner may be recognisable around the globe, the man behind the masks is even more interesting than the iconic roles he’s played. He has lived long and prospered. Now 93 years old (though looking like a slip of a lad of 70), William Shatner shares his wit and wisdom in a new documentary that is basically an audience with the great man. Sitting alone in a huge darkened warehouse space, he rambles on uninterrupted with often very funny anecdotes. Shatner is undoubtedly charismatic, and a decent raconteur. He’s often entertaining, if not always necessarily in the way he intended!
A few decades ago, our Marketing Director, Annie, adored the programme TJ Hooker, in which Shatner played the eponymous TV detective. Aged 9, she wrote him a fan letter, fixing a 13p stamp to an envelope simply marked ‘William Shatner, Universal Studios, America’. A couple of years later Annie received a reply with a signed photo!
“Shatner is such a giant — not just of science-fiction, but pop culture in general — and at 93 years old, he’s lived one hell of a life. It’s a pleasure to hear him talk so openly and honestly about it” – Empire Magazine
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