My Best Friend
The Namesake
Black Book
Whisky
Infamous
Jindabyne
Tell No One
Golden Door
Climates
Lost Embrace
Days of Glory
A Prairie Home Companion
The Caiman
After the Wedding
AGM and The Page Turner
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Francois is a wealthy antique dealer, who has
everything. However, he discovers at a dinner that according to those
present nobody likes him. Taunted, he agrees to a wager to produce a
genuine friend in ten days or lose a valuable vase. A wonderfully
warm-hearted comedy by Patrice Leconte and starring Daniel Auteul.
Dir: Patrice Leconte,
France 2006. 95 mins (subtitles)
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Barely-acquainted newlyweds, Ashoke and Ashima,
leave Calcutta to start a new life in New York. There they start a
family and the two children grow up as Americans, however the
differences between the generations leads to conflict and
misunderstanding. A wonderfully observed, and touching story of family
and change in the New World.
Dir: Mira Nair, India/USA
2006.
122 mins
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This is a fast-moving and heart-racing WW2 drama,
set in Holland 1944. A young Jewish woman seeking the betrayers of her
parents, joins the Resistance, and starts a perilous affair with a Nazi
officer. Director Paul Verhoeven racks up the tension to make this a
gripping movie.
Dir: Paul Verhoeven,
Holland 2006. 146 mins (subtitles)
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October
Whisky (15)
Taciturn Jacobo, owner of a sock factory and still
single, decides to enlist his forewoman to act as his wife, when his
brother and wife pay him a rare visit from Argentina. This is a
beautifully under-stated comedy, subtle and warm-hearted. Lovely stuff!
Dir: Juan Rebella,
Uruguay/Argentina 2004. 99 mins (subtitles)
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A very fine but very different film about Truman
Capote and the dark story of his life leading up to the Kansas murders,
and his book “In Cold Blood”. Sharply scripted, the excellent cast
includes Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock and Daniel Craig.
Dir: Douglas McGrath,USA
2006. 133 mins
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Mature, brooding ambitious thriller from Ray
Lawrence (Lantana) combining a
stately style with powerful acting. The dense satisfying tale uses the
discovery of a dead Aboriginal body in the river to dredge up issues of
race, gender and family.
Dir: Ray Lawrence,
Australia 2006. 124 mins
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A superior twisty-turny thriller in which a man’s
life is turned upside-down, and buried secrets unearthed, when he
discovers that his murdered wife may still be alive. The film’s action
set pieces are brilliant, frantic and nerve-wracking. Kristin Scott
Thomas stars in this superb adaptation of a novel by American writer
Harlan Coben.
Dir: Guillame Canet,
France 2006. 130 mins (subtitles)
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A sweeping, handsomely staged three-part saga of an
Italian emigrant family, and the voyage from Italy to America via Ellis
Island. Golden Door is a happy throwback to the heyday of European art
cinema. Awarded Silver Lion, Venice 2006.
Dir: Emanuele Crialese,
Italy/France/Germany 2006. 118 mins (subtitles)
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Nuri Ceylan’s Climates examines three seasons in the
life of lecturer and photographer Isa and traces the break-up of his
relationship with girlfriend Bahar. It’s a tale of what it is like to
be living and loving in Istanbul, the director’s home city. “The best
film of the year so far”. Time Out
Dir: Nuri Ceylan, Turkey
2006. 101 mins (subtitles)
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Set in a Buenos Aires galleria, this superb comedy
places David, a Jewish shopkeeper at the centre of a garrulous group of
fellow storeowners, who reveal facts about the father he never knew.
Full of acute observations, ranging from the gently satiric to
surprisingly poignant.
Dir: Daniel Burman,
Argentina 2004. 99 mins (subtitles)
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Rachid Bouchareb’s epic war movie highlights the
important part Arab and North African troops played in the liberation
of France, and their sorry treatment afterwards. It is an effective,
thoughtful and stirring film, and an important account of
institutionalised human warfare.
Dir: Rachid Bouchareb,
Morocco/France 2006. 123 mins (subtitles)
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After a lifetime in film, director Robert Altman
bows out gracefully with a warm backstage comedy, centred on Garrison
Keillor’s live radio show. The film is coloured by deaths and
farewells, and enhanced by a star cast, including Meryl Streep and
Kevin Kline.
Dir: Robert Altman, USA
2006. 105 mins
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Moretti’s new feature is a striking combination of political satire as
well as a comic look at aspects of the Italian film industry, and
offers scathing insights into Berlusconi’s controversial premiership.
Moretti’s mastery of cinema makes it a striking, original and amusing
film.
Dir: Nanni Moretti, Italy
2006. 112 mins (subtitles)
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A Copenhagen billionaire demands a rendezvous in
Denmark with a Mumbai-based aid worker as the condition for a massive
donation to his Indian orphanage, but there is a price to pay. A
poignant and intimate drama about family relationship and human frailty.
Dir: Suzanne Bier,
Denmark/ UK 2006. 124 mins (subtitles)
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4 June
Annual General Meeting at 7pm
followed
at 8pm by:
This stylish, subtle and highly-assured film
concerns a piano student whose ambitions are dashed when distracted by
the behaviour of a test juror. Years later she has the chance to take
her revenge? This witty film is beautifully shot and a meticulous piece
of work.
Dir: Denis Dercourt,
France 2006. 85 mins (subtitles)
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Programme
for 2007/2008 This is the 39th Season with a
programme of 15 films from ten different countries. All film nights
are Wednesdays. Programme starts at 8pm.