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Past Screenings
Tue
07
Aug
- Colour
Reda, a young French-Moroccan guy and his old father drive from the south of France to Mecca in order for the father to do his pilgrimage. At first distant, they gradually learn to know each other.
Tue
16
Aug
- Comedy / Drama / Romance
- USA
- Colour
- 108 mins.
A young white woman (Katherine Houghton) brings her African-American fiancé (Sydney Poitier), home to meet her parents, played by one of Hollywood’s greatest duos; Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracey in their final film together. Made at a time when inter-racial marriage was still illegal in parts of…
Tue
14
Jun
- Film Noir
- USA
- B&W
- 87 mins.
This unsung minor masterpiece influenced everything from the work of Jean-Luc Godard to Bonnie and Clyde and Natural Born Killers. A stylish film noir from director Joseph H Lewis, it's about a smouldering femme fatale (Peggy Cummins in the role of her life) who leads the psychotic,…
Tue
01
May
- Drama
- Japan
- B&W
- 133 mins.
In a magnificent performance, Tatsuya Nakadai stars as Hanshiro Tsugumo, a down and out samurai who enters the home of a feudal lord requesting to commit honourable ritual suicide on his property. Suspected of simply fishing for charity, Hanshiro is told, in gruesome detail, the story of…
Tue
04
Jul
- Colour
Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
Sat
31
Oct
- Silent horror documentary
- Sweden
- B&W
- 102 mins.
This unique live performance combines the shadowy world of Benjamin Christensen's 1922 documentary/Fantasy/Drama of the history of Witchcraft in seven parts with mesmerising musical accompaniment by Stephen Horne (Piano, flute, accordion) and Tony Orrell (Percussion and electronics). Stephen HorneStephen has long been considered one of the world's…
Tue
04
Oct
- Colour
Documentary that chronicles how Francis Ford Coppola'sApocalypse Now (1979) was plagued by extraordinary script, shooting, budget, and casting problems--nearly destroying the life and career of the celebrated director.
Tue
29
Jan
- Colour
A dramatization of the real-life Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, in which a sheriff born into wealth attempts to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests.
