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Past Screenings
Tue
20
Feb
- Drama, Action, Sci fi
- UK & USA
- Colour
- 127 mins.
Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, V for Vendetta takes place in an alternate vision of Britain in which a corrupt and abusive totalitarian government has risen to complete power. During a threatening run in with the secret police, an unassuming young woman named Evey…
Tue
08
Jan
- Horror, Fantasy
- Germany
- B&W
- 83 mins.
A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire. Dreyer shrugs off conventional linear narrative and takes an experimental approach, plunging us into a waking nightmare that isn't so much black-and-white as it is misty…
Sun
11
Oct
In one of the truly great later Hitchcocks, James Stewart plays a retired cop with a terror of heights who's hired by Tom Helmore to follow his suicidal wife, Kim Novak. Stewart falls in love with the enigmatic blonde, but can't prevent her falling to her death.…
Tue
30
Nov
- Biographical drama
- UK/Fr/US
- Colour
- 134 mins.
The familiar tragic story of Vincent van Gogh is broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. The movie also provides a nice view of the locations which Vincent painted.
Mon
12
Aug
- Saudi Arabia/Germany
- Colour
- 98 mins.
Occasionally, we select a film from Eden Court Cinema's main programme which is appropriate to our seasonal theme, to give members an opportunity to see the film together and discuss it afterwards. This first film from a Saudi woman director is central to our Women Directors season…
Tue
30
May
- Drama / Thriller
- Australia
- Colour
- 108 mins.
Awe-inspiring, brutal and stunning, Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba, planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But, as his one night stretches to five, he plunges headlong,…
Tue
07
Aug
- Animation
- USA
- Colour
- 98 mins.
After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL-E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL-E has inadvertently stumbled…
Tue
05
Feb
- Animated documentary
- Israel/Germany/France/USA/Japan/Finland/Switzerland/Belgium/Austria
- Colour
- 86 mins.
During the first Lebanon War in 1982, film-maker Ari Folman served with the Israel Defense Force in Beirut. More than 25 years later, an encounter with a troubled former comrade stirs repressed memories of his tour of duty and prompts him to interview the men he…
Tue
15
Nov
- Drama
- UK/Italy
- Colour
- 98 mins.
Actor Tim Roth makes a stunning directorial debut with this distressingly believable story about incest in a close-knit family, dramatised by Alexander Stuart from his acclaimed novel. Young newcomers Freddie Cunliffe and Lara Belmont give supremely natural performances, while Ray Winstone portrays their abusive father as no Nil…
Mon
28
Nov
- Drama thriller
- UK/USA
- Colour
- 112 mins.
Our programme of Tilda's films was timed to coincide with Eden Court Cinema's screening of We Need To Talk About Kevin. We will be attending this screening and holding an informal discussion session in the café afterwards. PLEASE JOIN US. Lionel Shriver's 2003 novel took the form of a…
Tue
23
Jul
- Drama
- France
- Colour
- 100 mins.
Claire Denis returns to Africa for the first time since ‘Beau Travail’ for a mesmerising portrait of civil war, racial tension and one woman’s resistance to change in an unnamed, French-speaking African country. Isabelle Huppert lends her poetic resolve and earthy beauty to Maria, a woman trying…
Tue
20
Mar
- Drama
- UK
- Colour
- 131 mins.
Edward Albee's vitriolic stage portrayal of domestic blisslessness translated grainily and effectively to the screen. Taylor gives what is probably her finest performance as the blowsy harridan Martha, while Burton is not quite so hammy as usual as her angst-ridden college professor husband. The verbal fireworks that…
