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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…
Sun
06
Sep
- Drama
- Czech Republic
- Colour
- 206 mins.
Directed by Agnieszka Holland (Europa, Europa; In Darkness and episodes of iconic TV series; The Wire, The Killing and House of Cards), Burning Bush portrays the experiences of student protesters, the police and the media following the 1968 Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Drawing on personal experience, Holland…
Tue
28
Mar
- Colour
Drama, set during the Second World War, starring Eric Portman and Sheila Sim. Three wartime pilgrims on their way to Canterbury discover that the girls in a quiet Kent village are frightened to go out at night because of a mysterious man who pours glue in their…
Tue
08
Feb
- Colour
Biographical drama starring Nigel Terry, Sean Bean and Tilda Swinton. Tuscany, 1610: controversial artist Michelangelo Caravaggio recalls his life from his deathbed as he is nursed by his faithful mute friend Jerusaleme. Caravaggio's hallucinatory memories take him back to his early days as a struggling painter in…
Tue
19
Mar
- Drama
- USA
- B&W
- 102 mins.
The timeless story of Rick Blaine, a cynical world-weary ex-patriate who runs a nightclub in Casablanca, Morocco during the early stages of WWII. Despite the pressure he constantly receives from the local authorities, Rick's cafe has become a kind of haven for refugees seeking to obtain illicit…
Tue
16
Sep
- Comedy
- Australia
- Colour
- 81 mins.
A hugely enjoyable and endearing Australian comedy from Director Rob Sitch (The Dish) about a working class tow truck driver Darryl Kerrigan and his family who are very happy living next to Melbourne airport. When plans for airport expansion threaten the family home, they decide to fight…
