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Tue
22
Jul
- Western
- USA
- Colour
- 159 mins.
William Wyler's epic Western stars Gregory Peck as retired sea captain Jim McKay who heads West to marry his fiancée Pat Terill (Caroll Baker), the spoiled daughter of a rich cattle baron. McKay soon becomes caught in the middle of a bitter feud between neighbouring ranchers. As…
Tue
17
Oct
- Colour
A failing Italian restaurant run by two brothers gambles on one special night to try to save the business.
Tue
22
Dec
Comedy drama starring Bajram Severdzan and Srdjan Todorovic. Matko, a petty criminal in present-day Yugoslavia, plans a train robbery, but it all goes wildly wrong and, to compensate his gangster partner, he agrees to marry off his son to the man's bad-tempered sister.
Tue
06
Feb
- Colour
Thriller starring John Travolta and Nancy Allen. Movie sound man Jack Terry records a car accident while working on a horror film. He manages to rescue the female passenger from a river, but cannot save the driver, who he later learns was a leading politician. When his…
Tue
30
Dec
- Drama
- Germany
- B&W
- 106 mins.
Marlene Dietrich introduced her theme song "Falling in Love Again" and shot to international fame on the strength of her performance as seductress Lola Frohlich in Josef von Sternberg's classic story of love and obsession. Strict Professor Immanuel Rath is outraged to discover that the boys in…
Tue
26
Oct
This is the most complete of David Lynch's films, made before his disturbing black vision of small-town American life veered into self-parody. The dark tone is set from the opening sequence, which starts with white picket fences and cheery firemen but ends with a man suffering a…
Thu
06
Sep
- Colour
This is the first in the seven-film documentary series The Blues, a Musical Journey: and the only instalment to be directed by the driving force behind it, Martin Scorsese. Tracing the progress and evolution of the music from Mali to the Mississippi, Scorsese never loses sight of…
Tue
27
May
- Second World War black comedy
- France
- Colour
- 110 mins.
At the start of World War II a cabinet minister (Gerard Depardieu) joins a movie actress, a novelist, a journalist, a petty criminal, a scientist and his assistant attempting to escape the Nazi occupation of Paris by feeing south to Bordeaux. Taking refuge at the Hotel Spendide…
Sat
31
Oct
- Classic horror
- USA
- B&W
- 75 mins.
Every monster needs a mate! Dr Frankenstein and his monster are very much alive this all-time Horror classic starring the iconic Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester as the bride and the most electric hairdo in cinema history! Full Programme attached - click on 'Film Notes,' above Audience comments:…
Tue
10
Feb
- Classic romantic drama
- UK
- B&W
- 82 mins.
When housewife Laura Jesson meets Dr Alex Harvey in a railway station café they are immediately drawn to each other. Both are already married but during the course of their weekly meetings they fall in love and must decide between passion and duty. Based on Noel Coward's…
Tue
02
Aug
- Comedy
- USA
- B&W
- 102 mins.
Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant are perfectly matched in one of the finest screwball comedies ever made. Palaeontologist David Huxley loses a dinosaur bone to a dog belonging to heiress Susan Vance who owns a baby leopard called Baby! When Baby is mistaken for a leopard that …
Tue
16
Apr
- Music documentary
- Germany
- Colour
- 100 mins.
Wim Wenders' superb Oscar-nominated documentary charts legendary guitarist Ry Cooder's 1996 visit to Cuba to meet some of the country's finest musicians, including Ibrahim Ferrer and ninety-year-old Compay Segundo, with a view to organising a once-in-a-lifetime concert at Carnegie Hall. There's a chance to see the veteran…
