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35 Shots of Rum
(12A)
Widowed train-driver Lionel lives contentedly with his university student daughter Joséphine, and in their spare time they see friends from their apartment block, including one of his ex-girlfriends Gabrielle and the orphaned Noé.
Lionel, however, realizes that it’s time for Josephine to move on in her life.
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A Bunch of Amateurs
(15)
A fading LA action star (Burt Reynolds) finds himself caught between a rock and a Bard place after being duped into taking a gig as King Lear in Stratford, England. Problem is, this Stratford is not quite upon-Avon, but firmly placed in wet and muddy Suffolk. One-time Miss Moneypenny Samantha Bond is a firm but sweet director determined the play’s the thing in an undemanding comedy chosen for 2008’s Royal Film Performance. Also starring Imelda Staunton and Derek Jacobi.
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Adventureland
(15)
A comedy set in the summer of 1987 and centered around a recent college grad (Eisenberg) who takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
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Amelia
(TBC)
Ms. Earhart was the first woman to solo the Atlantic and was the first pilot, man or woman, to fly unaccompanied across the Pacific. In Amelia's attempt to be the first to fly around the world in an equatorial flight her life was tragically cut short with her mysterious and untimely disappearance over the South Pacific in 1937.
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An Education
(12A)
Author Nick Hornby turns from novels to screenplays with this talent-driven drama. Carey Mulligan (BLEAK HOUSE) stars as Jenny, a young woman full of promise and intent to study at Oxford. But meeting an older man leads Jenny to believe that she can learn things outside the classroom, casting doubt on her future plans. Also stars Alfred Molina, Rosamunde Pike and Emma Thompson.
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Australia
(12A)
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.
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Birdwatchers
(15)
Forced off their land a group of Guarani Indians get paid to pose as savages for passing tourists. Although they reclaim their land and one boy, who is training to be a shaman, starts a relationship with the rancher’s daughter they inevitably fall foul of the rancher’s prejudices. Through the story of two young boys caught between their father’s desire to continue to live the traditional way and their own desire for Nike trainers this sensitively explores the devastation the Indians face with their displacement from their land. Shot with a luminous, dreamy clarity and underscored by a lairy wit that cuts through any solemnity or pretentiousness this is a gripping account of the inevitable fall-out that occurs when two cultures collide.
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Brideshead Revisited
(12A)
Brideshead Revisited tells an evocative story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in the pre-WWII era. In the film, Charles Ryder becomes entranced with the noble Marchmain family, first through the charming and provocative Sebastian, and then his sophisticated sister, Julia. As Charles’ emotional attachment to the entire Marchmain clan deepens, however, he finds himself and his atheism increasingly at odds with the family’s ardent Catholic beliefs, rigidly enforced by the matriarch, Lady Marchmain. The rise and fall of Charles’ infatuations reflect the decline of a decadent era in England between the wars.
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Bright Star
(PG)
Finely crafted, terrifically well performed and subtly told tale about the forever-stalled relationship between John Keats and his Hampstead neighbour, Fanny Brawne who he was not able to marry because of his poverty. Refreshingly, the film is free of the hysterics so often associated with films about writers and deftly avoids the distractions that plague so many British period pieces. It’s also remarkable for its lightness of touch as Campion chooses to concentrate on her characters’ growing love and their frustration at not being able to be together through small gestures, moments and looks. Not so much a biopic than a well-focused, deeply affecting portrait of the poet and his muse at a particular time.
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Broken Embraces
(15)
A dazzling filmmaker and distinctive stylist, Almodovar crams everything he loves about the movies into the story of Harry, a filmmaker who’s been blind ever since a car accident that also claimed the life of his lover Lena. A joy to watch, it’s a tribute to Almodóvar’s careful scripting and the skills of the mesmerizing Cruz (and the rest of the cast) that the complex plot with its intricate fusion of disparate elements hangs together as well as it does. At heart it’s an optimistic film: despite his afflictions Harry embraces life. A film that makes you realise that no matter how bad things get, there’s always something to enjoy. There’s always cinema.
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Burma VJ
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Changeling
(15)
A mother's prayer for her kidnapped son to return home is answered, though it doesn't take long for her to suspect the boy who comes back is not hers.As she pushes authorities to keep looking, she learns that in Prohibition-era LA, women don't challenge the system and live to tell their story. Slandered as delusional and unfit, Christine finds an ally in activist Reverend Briegleb (John Malkovich), who helps her fight the city to look for her missing boy. Based on the actual incident that rocked California's legal system, Changeling tells the shocking tale of a mother's quest to find her son, and those who won't stop until they silence her.
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Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
(U)
Inspired by Ron and Judi Barrett's beloved children's book of the same name, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS follows inventor Flint Lockwood (voice of Bill Hader) and brainy weathergirl Sam... Inspired by Ron and Judi Barrett's beloved children's book of the same name, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS follows inventor Flint Lockwood (voice of Bill Hader) and brainy weathergirl Sam Sparks (voice of Anna Faris) as they attempt to discover why the rain in their small town has stopped while food is falling in its place. Meanwhile, lifelong bully Brent (voice of Adam Samberg) relishes in tormenting Flint just as he did when they were kids, and Mayor Shelbourne (voice of Bruce Campbell) schemes to use Flint's latest invention--a device designed to improve everyone's lives--for his own personal gain. Mr. T. voices by-the-books cop Earl Devereaux, and James Caan voices Flint's technophobe father, Tim.
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Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs (special screening)
(U)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (U) followed by animation workshop for young people.
Time 10.30am – 2.30pm
This event is presented by The Rural Media Company.
The Rural Media Company presents Young Shoots Saturday Screen: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (U) followed by an animation workshop
An exciting event that gives children aged 8-12 years, a chance to watch a great animation and then try it for themselves!
Tickets £2.00 for screening and workshop, £1.00 for screening only.
10.30 am – 12.00 noon
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (U)
12.00 – 12.30pm
Lunch (bring your own)
12.30pm – 2.30pm
Animation workshop led by Dan Brown of Mash Cinema.
Places on the workshop are limited so please phone Natalie at The Rural Media Company on 01432 344039 or email nataliep@ruralmedia.co.uk to book your place now.
Young Shoots is a pilot project run by The Rural Media Company, with funding from the UK Film Council’s Film: 21st Century Literacy initiative. The project seeks to increase access to film and filmmaking for young people in Herefordshire and this event is held in collaboration with Flicks in the Sticks.
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Coco Before Chanel
(12A)
Based on the book by Edmonde Charles-Roux entitled "L'Irreguliere", the film examines the life and career of renowned fashion designer Coco Chanel. The film stars Audrey ("AMELIE") Tautou playing Chanel and is directed by Anne Fontaine.
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Creation
(PG)
A psychological, heart-wrenching love story starring Paul Bettany as Charles Darwin, the film is based on "Annie’s Box," a biography penned by Darwin’s great-great-grandson Randal Keynes using personal letters and diaries of the Darwin family. We take a unique and inside look at Darwin, his family and his love for his deeply religious wife, played by Jennifer Connelly, as, torn between faith and science, Darwin struggles to finish his legendary book "On the Origin of Species," which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.
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Dorian Gray
(15)
Dorian Gray, a beautiful but naïve young man, arrives in Victorian London and comes under the influence of the charismatic corrupter Henry Wotton (Colin Firth) who introduces him to the seedier side of society. The latest version of Oscar Wilde’s classic morality tale of the man who sells his soul for the pleasures of eternal youth is darker than previous adaptations. But its contemporary themes - the celebration of celebrity, the obsession with youth and beauty, the pursuit of individual gratification above everything - make it bang-up-to-date.
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Doubt
(15)
John Patrick Shanley brings his play Doubt to the screen, in a story about the quest for truth, the forces of change, and the devastating consequences of blind justice in an age defined by moral conviction.
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Easy Virtue
(PG)
Noel Coward's 1924 comedy. Larita, an American girl-racer whose marriage to an English toff meets stiff opposition from his highly strung mother at the family's country estate. Colin Firth’s resigned father-in-law tries to keep the peace, but there’s no stopping the ladies when they get Coward's wit between their teeth in this thoroughly boffo adaptation. "What an absolutely fantastic film - I've rarely heard our village lot laugh and clap so much. An excellent evening"
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Enchanted April
(PG)
This lovely, 1991 adaptation of Elizabeth Von Arnim's novel has a superb cast and a tone so mellow you can feel your pulse get slower. Josie Lawrence and Miranda Richardson play a pair of unhappily married women who rent an Italian villa for a month, sharing the cost with a crusty Englishwoman (Joan Plowright) and a lonely aristocrat. Sun, rest, sinking into the green grass for long naps--they all have a soulful effect on the quartet, and then on the men in their lives who make a surprise visit.
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Fantastic Mr Fox
(PG)
With this animated adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic, director Wes Anderson moves from quirky films for adults, such as The Darjeeling Limited and The Royal Tenenbaums, to imaginative children's fare. The Fantastic Mr. Fox reunites Anderson with previous collaborators Bill Murray and Cate Blanchett, and it marks his first work with Oscar winner George Clooney.
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Fish Tank
(15)
Teetering dangerously between childhood and adulthood, Mia is a foul-mouthed 15 year-old simmering with resentment and quick to anger. Mia loves to dance and clearly yearns for better things, but the only pleasures on offer in her dreary Essex estate are alcohol and sex. When her mum’s latest boyfriend (Michael Fassbender from Hunger) complements Mia on her dancing we’re clearly heading into deep waters. Totally gripping and constantly surprising, with a sharp script and excellent performances all round, Arnold’s clear understanding of what drives teenage girls makes for a sensitive, imaginative, and credible portrayal of Mia’s inner life that suffuses her story with an enduring optimism.
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Frozen River
(18)
An excellent thriller with a big heart, taut script and fine performances this won two Oscar nominations – for Best Actress and Best Script. Left broke after her husband runs off with her savings, Ray Eddy (Leo) is desperate to put food on the table for her kids. So finds herself in partnership with Mohawk mum, Lila Littlewolf (Upham), who uses the cover of the Reservation to smuggle people across the iced-over St. Lawrence River between Canada and the USA. Both leads give outstanding performances as determined women hardened by their circumstances who are at odds with the world and each other.
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Glorious 39
(12A)
1939 is set between present-day London and the idyllic British countryside in the time before the beginning of the Second World War. At a time of uncertainty and high tension, the story revolves around the formidable Keyes family, who are keen to uphold and preserve their very traditional way of life. The eldest sibling Anne is a budding young actress who is in love with Foreign Office official Lawrence, but her seemingly perfect life begins to dramatically unravel when she stumbles across secret recordings of the anti-appeasement movement.
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Good
(15)
The rise of national socialism in Germany should not be regarded as a conspiracy of madmen. Millions of "good" people found themselves in a society spiralling into terrible chaos. A film about then, which illuminates the terrors of now.
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Goodbye Solo
(15)
Ramin Bahrani directs this drama set in the rural American South in which two men form an unlikely friendship that alters the course of both their lives. Senegalese cab driver Solo (Souleymane Sy Savane) has worked hard since his arrival in America to provide for his girlfriend and her young daughter. When William (Red West), a tough old man with a troubled past, hires Solo to take him to Blowing Rock, a notorious suicide spot, Solo befriends him in the hope of talking him out of ending his own life.
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Gran Torino
(15)
Clint Eastwood directs and stars in "Gran Torino" which marks his first film role since his Oscar-winning "Million Dollar Baby." Eastwood plays Walt Kowalski, an iron-willed veteran living in a changing world, who is forced by his immigrant neighbours to confront his own long-held prejudices.
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Harry Brown
(18)
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice. Starring Michael Caine
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Hurt Locker
(15)
The Hurt Locker presents an intense and unflinching portrayal of elite soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: disarming bombs in the heat of combat. When a new sergeant, James, takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, Sanborn and Eldridge, by recklessly plunging them into a deadly game of urban combat. James behaves as if he's indifferent to death. As the men struggle to control their wild new leader, the city explodes into chaos, and James' true character reveals itself in a way that will change each man forever.
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Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs
(U)
ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS has everything audiences loved about the first two films, adding even more comedy, action, and spectacular visuals. Our beloved heroes live on, with some memorable new characters thrown into the Ice Age mix.
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In Search of Beethoven
(U)
This highly entertaining and informative biography presents Beethoven as a working artist rather than a caricatured grumpy genius. It largely consists of sublime excerpts of his music, and, an extraordinary collection of eminent and articulate musicians, conductors and musicologists, all with their different accents and personalities sharing their enthusiasm in an accessible and illuminating way. But of course the real star of the show is the wonderful music; there is plenty of it, and its performed by some of the world’s greatest musicians with evident love and appreciation.
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In The Loop
(15)
A dark comedy about a US general (James "THE SOPRANOS" Gandolfini) and a British politician (Tom Hollander) who tries stop the UK Prime Minister and the US President from launching a war. This English political farce was directed by Armando Iannucci.
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Is Anybody There?
(12A)
Set in 1980s seaside England, this is the story of Edward, an unusual ten year old boy growing up in an old people's home run by his parents. While his mother struggles to keep the family business afloat, and his father copes with the onset of mid-life crisis, Edward is busy tape-recording the elderly residents to try and discover what happens when they die. Increasingly obsessed with ghosts and the afterlife, Edward's is a rather lonely existence until he meets Clarence, the latest recruit to the home, a retired magician with a liberating streak of anarchy.
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Julie & Julia
(12A)
Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron’s adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell’s Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme.
Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends...until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
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kolya
(12)
The perfect grouch has met his match. A five-year-old boy named Kolya...
Louka, a middle-aged Czech cellist is a skirt-chasing bachelor who enjoys a lifestyle free of responsibilities. When he finds himself strapped for cash, he agrees to a marriage of convenience. But after his new bride skips town, Louka is left to father her five-year-old Russian son, Kolya.
Neither could be more unhappy with their predicament, especially since they don't even speak the same language! It'll take time and patience for the cultural barrier between this unlikely father-son duo to fall, but when it does, an unbreakable bond forms in its place...
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La Vie En Rose
(12)
On stage she was a singing legend. But for Edith Piaf, life was the greatest performance of all… The extraordinary life of Edith Piaf; from the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and to love…
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Ladies in Lavender
(12)
When a semi-conscious young man washes ashore in a close-knit Cornish village, the daily rhythm of two sisters is disrupted. With Daniel Bruhl, Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. Directed and written by Charles Dance. Based on a short story by William J Lock.
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Last Chance Harvey
(12A)
New Yorker Harvey Shine (Dustin Hoffman) is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss that he has just one more chance to deliver, Harvey goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter's wedding... When in London Harvey strikes up a conversation with Kate (Emma Thompson), a slightly prickly, 40-something employee of the Office of National Statistics. The growing connection between the pair inspires both as they unexpectedly transform one another's lives.
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Let the Right One In (special YP film)
(15)
The Rural Media Company presents Young Shoots Saturday Screen: Let the Right One In (15) followed by horror filmmaking workshop.
Let the Right One In: Oskar, a bullied 12-year old, dreams of revenge. He falls in love with Eli, a peculiar girl. She can't stand the sun or food and to come into a room she needs to be invited. "LET THE RIGHT ONE IN" is a story both violent and highly romantic, set in the Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg in 1982.
A not be missed chance for 15-19 year olds to watch a great film and make their own scary short.
Tickets £2.00 for screening and workshop, £1.00 for screening only.
10.00 am – 12.00 noon
Let the Right One In (15)
12.00 – 12.30pm
Lunch (bring your own)
12.30pm – 4.00pm
Horror filmmaking workshop led by Dan Brown of Mash Cinema.
Places on the workshop are limited so please phone Natalie at The Rural Media Company on 01432 344039 or email nataliep@ruralmedia.co.uk to book your place now.
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Looking For Eric
(15)
Ken Loach, the director of "THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY" directs this Manchester-based film about a postman struggling to cope with his chaotic family while nursing a broken heart. The film is inspired by the life of footballer Eric Cantona, whose team, The Manchester United, won numerous trophies during his tenure
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Mid-August Lunch
(U)
The main character Gianni, played by director Di Gregorio himself, is in his 60s and still living with his mother. On the eve of the mid-summer Italian holiday of Ferragosto, Gianni is approached by a building manager and blackmailed into looking after his mother and aunt for two nights in exchange for forgiving certain debts. Soon after, Gianni's doctor friend asks if he too can leave his mother. The four women, each with their own strong personality, prove a handful, but Di Gregorio's approach is true to life, avoiding platitudes or exaggeration as he spins a warm-hearted, humorous saga.
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Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day
(PG)
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day is a heartfelt comedy from Bharat Nalluri, featuring Frances McDorman as Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, who finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job.
Struggling to find new employment, Miss Pettigrew finds herself caterpulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams). She soon becomes Delysia's confidant and personal aide and witnesses all the joys and indiscretions that thrive in this heady, high-society climate.
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Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
(U)
Tati’s creation is a treasure of comedic observation of bourgeoisie manners at the seaside. Monsieur Hulot, amiable and courteous but blessed with lolloping limbs, pipe and hat, became one of cinema's best-loved characters. Throwing himself into everything from a tennis match to a fancy dress party, Hulot is an accident personified - a gentle lunatic, unaware that his enthusiasms are forging a chain of disaster. While most of the gags are visual there are some excellent sound gags too. Unmissable!
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Moon
(15)
Superior sci-fi, full of bright ideas (how would you persuade your clone that you were the original?), with a killer lead performance from Sam Rockwell, this is funny, creepy and intriguing. At the end of a 3 year stint on the moon, Sam has definitely spent too much time alone and his mind is starting to play tricks with him. Set in an entirely plausible near future, Moon is an original, smart, inventive mystery with many a nod to classic sci-fi (2001, Solaris, Silent Running, Red Dwarf) that pulls off that rare treat of feeling very real and completely fantastic at the very same time.
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Morris: A Life With Bells On
(12A)
The English folk dance Morris is not just an innocent pub pastime involving hanky-waving and bearded men with staffs, it has its politics-laden, ultra-competitive side too. Under the auspices of the governing Morris Circle, dance troops throughout England compete against each other. The Millsham Morris troop and its avant-garde leader Derecq Twist is determined to achieve Morris perfection. "the sort of film that the British does best"
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Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War
(12A)
This is a poignant, warm and often funny story of an ordinary woman, who after being pushed around by others for most of her life finally decides to stand up for herself. Starring Pauline Collins (with echoes of Shirley Valentine) as Thelma, who has endured 30 years of a meaningless marriage. When her husband dies, she is pushed into a care home, where she acquires a band of strange new friends who look to her for help and assistance and these new responsibilities give her life a new purpose and meaning. Also starring John Alderton as the odious manager of the Rest Home.
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
(12)
The Coen brothers comic romp about three stumblebum convicts (including George Clooney) who escape to go on a quest for treasure and meet various characters while learning where their real fortune lies.
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Rumba
(PG)
A hysterical, distinctly non-PC, nearly silent comedy about two teachers who live for their weekends of Latin dancing. When they have a freak car accident, she loses a leg he loses his memory. Cue all sorts of silliness, the blackest of black comedy, and, some expertly choreographed mayhem that at its best is worthy of Buster Keaton or Jacques Tati. Featuring plenty of fancy footwork, and some of the best clowning and mime seen on film in recent years, Rumba leaves you with the feeling that life is a miracle to be enjoyed whatever happens
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Saving Grace
(15)
A small-town English widow, facing financial troubles after her husband's suicide, turns to agriculture of an illegal kind in Nigel Cole's sweet feelgood comedy starring Brenda Blethyn.
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Silent Comedy Classic with Live Piano Accompaniment
(Exempt)
Enjoy the pleasure of a live pianist playing alongside a Buster Keaton film and Laurel and Hardy in Big Business! A real treat. NOt to be missed!
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Skin
(12)
SKIN is one of the most extraordinary stories to emerge from apartheid South Africa: Sandra Laing is a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners (Sam Neill), unaware of their black ancestry, who raise their child as a "white girl". But from the age of ten Sandra is shunned by white society, thus begins Sandra's thirty-year struggle to reconcile her heritage and find acceptance in a society torn by race and politics.
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Sleep Furiously
(U)
Documentary-maker Gideon Koppel gently chronicles the slow decline of a Welsh farming community - the planned closure of the local school, the sheepdog trials, the cheery work of the WI and the rounds of the library van through the valleys. A sedate, unusual documentary, lushly shot to bring those rolling hills to life.
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Some Like It Hot
(U)
Billy Wilder's classic comedy stars Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as a pair of unemployed musicians who inadvertenly become witnesses to the St. Valentine Day's Massacre. To escape the wrath of the gangsters, Joe (Curtis) and Jerry (Lemmon) are forced to hit the road in drag, taking the only jobs available with an all-girl band bound for Miami. Enroute, both men fall for lead singer and blond bombshell Sugar Kane, (Marilyn Monroe), but are unable to fulfill their desires for fear of revealing their identity. Joe tries to get arounds this by adopting a third identity for seduction, that of a shy millionaire who sounds strangely like Cary Grant. Meanwhile Jerry has his own problems, fighting off the advances of Osgood E. Fielding, a real millionaire hypnotized by his/her charms.
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Somers Town
(12)
Tomo, just turned sixteen and released from social care, runs away to London from a lonely, difficult life in the Midlands. Marek, a Polish immigrant, lives with his father, who drinks with his friends most evenings after working on a construction site. Marek is a keen photographer, quiet and sensitive - he is not comfortable in his father's world.
Both struggle to make sense of their new world and a chance meeting in Somers Town, London, leads the two to form an unexpected partnership.
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State of Play
(12A)
Handsome, unflappable US Congressman Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck) is the future of his political party: an honourable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defence spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out. D.C. reporter Cal McCaffrey (Russell "American Gangster" Crowe) has the dubious fortune of both an old friendship with Collins and a ruthless editor, Cameron (Helen "The Queen" Mirren), who has assigned him to investigate. As he and partner Della (Rachel "Red Eye" McAdams) try to uncover the killer's identity, McCaffrey steps into a cover-up that threatens to shake the nation's power structures. Kevin ("Last King Of Scotland") Macdonald directs.
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Sunshine Cleaning
(15)
Once the high school cheerleading captain who dated the quarterback, Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams) now finds herself a thirty-something single mother working as a maid. Her sister Norah (Emily Blunt), is still living at home with their dad Joe (Alan Arkin), a salesman with a lifelong history of ill-fated get-rich-quick schemes.
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The Baker
(12)
Milo is a professional hit man living on the edge. When he fails to fulfil a contract for the first time in his career, he is forced to escape the city to avoid the wrath of his employers. He hides out in a remote rural village where the locals mistake him for the new baker. Forced to bake bread and cakes to maintain his cover, sparks start to fly with the beautiful local vet. He decides to start a legitimate new life as the village baker but with his past about to catch up with him, Milo soon discovers that you can't always have your cake and eat it.
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The Band's Visit
(12A)
An Egyptian band gets stranded in a nowhere Israeli desert town in "The Band's Visit," a warm and delightful take on cross-cultural relations that proves that sometimes a light touch is just what's needed to address serious topics. An audience charmer!
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The Bank Job
(15)
A cheerful, energetic, and completely entertaining movie, The Bank Job follows some small-time hoods who think they've lucked into a big-time opportunity when they learn a bank's security system will be temporarily suspended--little suspecting that they're being manipulated by government agents for their own ends. The result is that the movie doubles its pleasures: While the robbery itself has the usual suspense of a heist film, when the robbery is over the hoods find themselves being hunted by the police, the government, and brutal criminal kingpins who were storing dangerous information in a safety deposit box.
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The Boat That Rocked
(15)
In the late 1960s, American radio stations blasted rock and roll 24 hours a day. But in the home country of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the only way 25 million people could hear their music was to tune in…to a boat. Celebrated filmmaker Richard Curtis brings the incredible story of a band of rogue deejays who captivated British radio listeners in the ’60s, playing the music that defined a generation and boldly defying the government that tried to shut them down.
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The Class (Entre les murs)
(15)
French Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighbourhood.
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The Grocer's Son
(12A)
Prodigal son Antoine reluctantly returns from Paris to help run the family mobile shop and is gradually reintegrated into both his family and the local community. As he chugs round the beautiful French countryside supplying the elderly and infirm (local villagers turn in scene-stealing cameos), he discovers the joys of both family life and life in the country. A modest, feel-good comedy which paints an utterly convincing portrait of a disillusioned young man who discovers a brighter perspective on life.
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The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus
(12A)
Heath Ledger’s last film is one that only Terry Gilliam could have made, fabulously imaginative, visually stunning, but undoubtedly affected by Ledger’s death mid-filming. It deals with the power of the imagination and the importance of storytelling and has many wonderful scenes that will stay with you for a long time. The immortal Dr Parnassus travels the wastelands of Britain giving people the chance to experience their wildest dreams, but he’s made a deal with the devil who is on his tail determined to claim his prize.
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The Invention of Lying
(12)
Takes place in an alternate reality in which lying--even the concept of a lie--does not exist. Everyone--from politicians to advertisers to the man and woman on the street--speaks the truth and nothing but the truth with no thought of the consequences. But when a down-on-his-luck loser named Mark (Ricky Gervais) suddenly develops the ability to lie, he finds that dishonesty has its rewards. In a world where every word is assumed to be the absolute truth, Mark easily lies his way to fame and fortune. But lies have a way of spreading, and Mark begins to realize that things are getting a little out of control...
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The Men Who Stare At Goats
(15)
In this quirky dark comedy inspired by a real life story you will hardly believe is actually true, astonishing revelations about a top-secret wing of the U.S. military come to light when a reporter encounters an enigmatic Special Forces operator on a mind-boggling mission. A reporter (Ewan McGregor) delves into the world of psychic military regiments during the Iraq War. Starring George Clooney, Kevin Spacey, and Jeff Bridges.
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The Page Turner
(15)
Ten year-old Melanie has a special gift for the piano. But during her entrance recital for the Conservatory, she is distracted by the thoughtless behavior of Ar...iane, a well-known concert pianist. Melanie fails the exam and decides to give up the piano forever.
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The Reader
(15)
In postwar Germany, a young man name Michael (played by David Cross as a young man, and Ralph Fiennes as an older man) decades-long obsession with an older woman (Kate Winslet) runs headlong into a war crimes trial, where he learns an awful truth about her... Academy Award Winner for Kate Winslet.
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The Soloist
(12A)
the true story of an unlikely friendship to life in THE SOLOIST. An award-winning columnist with the Los Angeles Times, Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) ultimately becomes an advocate for L.A.’s homeless population when he meets Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx), a talented musician who's been playing a two-stringed violin while living on the streets and battling mental illness. Struck by Ayers’s passion for music, Lopez begins to write a series of columns about his new acquaintance while attempting to get him off the streets and playing music again.
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The Third Man
(PG)
Justly celebrated, visually stylish British thriller that was voted top British film of the 20th Century in the British Film Institute poll. A clever and original love triangle full of nightmarish suspense, treachery, betrayal, guilt and disillusionment, The Third Man charts post-war paranoia and corruption as a naïve American pulp writer chases the shadows of Harry Lime, an old friend turned black market drug-dealer, through the rubble-strewn streets of crumbling Vienna.
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The Time Travellers Wife
(12A)
The Time Traveller's Wife is based on the best-selling book about a love that transcends time. Clare (Rachel McAdams) has been in love with Henry (Eric Bana) her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together, even though she never knows when they will be separated.
Henry is a time traveler - cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline, skipping back and forth through his lifespan with no control. Despite the fact that Henry's travels force them apart with no warning, Clare desperately tries to build a life with her one true love.
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The Young Victoria
(PG)
The young Victoria focuses on the first, often turbulent, years of the monarch's rule - she became queen at 18 - and her legendary romance and marriage to Prince Albert. Devastated by her husband's death in 1861, she wore black for the rest of her life and remained largely secluded.
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Top Hat
(U)
Top Hat is perhaps the archetypal Fred n' Ginger movie, with a fantastic Irving Berlin score ("Cheek to Cheek", " 'Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails"), faultless Hermes Pan dance routines which show exactly why they were such a celebrated pair of toe-tappers, and a typically romantic plot.
Recently married Horace Hardwick persuades his friend Jerry Travers (Astaire) to follow his lead and find himself a wife. Dale Tremont (Rogers) lives in the room below Travers and is disturbed by his spontaneous song and dance routines. She goes to his room to complain: they meet; he gets up to all sorts of amusing tricks to be with her; numerous romantic duets ensue.
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Two Men Went To War
(PG)
Set in 1942 during World War II, this is eccentric but true tale (based on 'Amateur Commandos' by Raymond Foxall) begins at a backwater barracks, where Sergeant Peter King and Private Leslie Cuthbertson practice the art of dentistry. Faced by one rejection too many to see frontline duty, they decide to take matters into their own hands and set off on a mission, to engage in active combat on their own behalf in France against the Germans. Armed with weapons and dentistry equipment, of course, they must first cross the channel in secret. A charming film about two men desperate to live out their dreams.
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Up
(U)
A blend of exciting adventure, hilarious slapstick and tender drama, this is the story of a plump boy scout and a grumpy old man who finally fulfills his life long dreams of adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and floats away. On their journey they meet a deranged hunter in a giant airship, a vast pack of dogs whose thoughts are translated into English via hi-tech collars, and a giant purple pre-historic bird called Kevin. Endlessly inventive, utterly original and brilliantly crafted to appeal to old and young alike this may well be Pixar’s finest family feature yet!
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Very Annie Mary
(15)
Very Annie-Mary is a proudly Welsh film, celebrating the eccentricity of a small town in the valleys where the inhabitants certainly suffer deprivation but are by no means isolated from the outside world. They simply plough their own furrow. None more so than Annie-Mary herself, a 30-year-old woman trapped in gawky adolescence by the death of her mother and subsequent years of repression by her father, the Pavarotti-obsessed town baker (brilliant Jonathan Pryce). In a plot slightly reminiscent of Little Voice, she has lost her prize-winning singing voice, apparently forever.
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Wait Until Dark
(12)
Dim the lights, check the door's chain-lock, and brace yourself for a chiller as polished as the steel of Roat's blade.
Now two are left: Susy, recently blinded and still learning how to live in a sighted world, and Roat, a psychopathic killer. Roat wants a heroin-stuffed doll he thinks Susy has. All Susy wants is to survive.
Audrey Hepburn earned her fifth Academy Award nomination as Susy. Alan Arkin is pure evil as Roat, master of disguise and accents. Jack Weston and Richard Crenna co-star as his henchmen.
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Young @ Heart
(PG)
Sheer fun! This is an irresistible crowd-pleaser that shows the rejuvenating power of music. Young@Heart are a group of pensioners known for their joyful covers of Sonic Youth, Talking Heads, Bowie, Dylan and The Clash. The band has toured extensively, as one member drily notes, ‘from continent to continent, till I became incontinent’. Hearing them talk about music and coping with growing old is inspirational, but never too sentimental, making for a charming portrayal of old people who live life to the full. Who would have thought that a choir of 80 year olds singing rock songs could be so wonderful, so funny and at times truly devastating?
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