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Past Screenings
Tue
08
Aug
- Drama
- Sweden
- Colour
- 92 mins.
Autumn Sonata was the only collaboration between cinema's two great Bergmans: Ingmar, the iconic director of The Seventh Seal, and Ingrid, the monumental star of Casablanca. The grand dame, playing an icy concert pianist, is matched beat for beat in ferocity by the filmmaker's recurring lead Liv…
Tue
17
Apr
- Drama / Romance
- UK
- Colour
- 110 mins.
Sarah Polley's excellent Canadian movie stars Julie Christie as Fiona (Oscar nominated), an Alzheimer's patient in a retirement home who, to her husband's dismay, begins a platonic love affair with a male patient. It is an affecting and thought-provoking meditation on the nature of dementia and memory…
Wed
01
Oct
- Colour
Comedy drama starring Marianne Sägebrecht, CCH Pounder and Jack Palance. After a row with her husband, a German tourist is stranded at a run-down motel in the wilds of Arizona. Overcoming her distaste for the dust and the coffee, Jasmin discovers a new life with the motley…
Tue
10
Jan
East Germany, 1980. Barbara Wolff is a young doctor who has applied for an exit visa from the GDR and, as punishment, has been transferred from her prestigious post in Berlin to a small pediatric hospital in the country. She must weigh her absolute dedication to her…
Tue
06
Jun
- B&W
Sergei Eisenstein's landmark silent historical drama. In 1905 the crew of an armoured ship lying off Odessa are offered rotten, worm-ridden meat to eat. Then all hell breaks loose, sparking a revolt against the tsarist regime.
Sat
31
Oct
- Ghoulishness!
- live event
- Colour
- live event mins.
Don't forget to dress up! There are prizes to be won including a Halloween Goody Bag and Family Cinema Pass for the best junior Fancy Dress - and for the best senior costume a Three-Film Pass for two adults to the Inverness Film Festival, November 4th –…
Tue
17
Aug
Translating Herman Melville's Billy Budd from the 18th-century Royal Navy to the modern Foreign Legion, Claire Denis has produced a simmering study of petty tyranny, fatuous duty and homoerotic repression. Spurning the barked histrionics of American boot camp pictures, Denis uses stylised audiovisual rhythms to convey the…
Tue
28
Apr
- Colour
Affecting biographical drama that chronicles the eventful life of gay Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas, starring Javier Bardem and Johnny Depp. Born into poverty, Arenas joins Castro's revolutionary forces, is later falsely imprisoned on sex-abuse charges, and eventually becomes a writer in exile in the USA.
Tue
05
Mar
- Documentary
- China
- Colour
- 85 mins.
The dehumanising impact of coal mining is laid bare in a Chinese documentary whose stunning images speak louder than words. Travelling around the vast, verdant steppes of Mongolia, the film-maker discovers a paradise soon to be lost to the open cast coal mining that devours the land.…
Tue
06
Feb
- Comedy, Drama
- USA
- 130 mins.
Hailed as a genius for his simplistic approach to life, an aging simplistic gardener called Chance (played by Peter Sellers in a perhaps career best performance) with a childlike naïveté rises, by accident, into the game of politics. The man is soon presented as a possible Presidential…
Sun
06
Mar
- Colour
Drama starring Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin and Emmanuelle Béart. A famous but inactive artist is inspired by his friend's beautiful mistress to finish an abandoned painting. However, his work creates tension among those around him.
Tue
05
Jan
- Drama
- USA
- B&W
- 172 mins.
Winner of 7 Oscars including Best film, Best Director, Best Actor and second only to Gone With the Wind at the box office at the time of its release, William Wyler's timeless story of three World War II veterans returning to their small home town reveals a…
