| 2009/10 Season |
Wednesday, 28th April 2010 |
 | | EVERLASTING MOMENTS i15) Sweden Directed by Jan Troell. Screenplay: Niklas Rådström with Jan and Agneta Ulfsäter Troell.
Photography (Colour): Jan Troell and Mischa Gavrjusjov. Music: Matti Bye. Length: 110 mins.
With: Maria Heiskanen (Maria Larsson), Mikael Persbrandt (Sogfrid Larsson), Jesper Christensen (Sebastian Pedersen), Callin öhrvall (Maja 15-22), Nellie Almgren (Maja, 8 – 10), Ghita Nørby (Miss Fagerdal).
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Wednesday, 21st April 2010 |
| | A SINGLE MAN (12a) (USA) Directed by Tom Ford from a screenplay by David Scearce and himself from the novel by Christopher Isherwood. Photography (Colour): Eduard Grau. Music: Abel Korzeniowski. Length 101 mins.
With: COLIN FIRTH (George Falconer), JULIANNE MOORE (Charley), MATTHEW GOODE (Jim), NICHOLASD HOULT (Kenny), JON KORTAJARENA (Carlos).
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Wednesday, 14th April 2010 |
| | LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (Sweden/Norway, 2008) (15) WINNER OF THE CRITICS’ CIRCLE AWARD FOR BEST FOREIGN FILM OF 2009
“One of the best, most imaginative and resonant vampire stories I’ve seen” – Derek Malcolm, Evening Standard.
“Even to call it a vampire movie risks underselling what a gorgeous, romantic film it is.
Worth skating over thin ice to see and fall in love with. ***** - Daily Telegraph.
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Wednesday, 24th March 2010 |
| | ME AND ORSON WELLES (UK/USA, 2009) (12A) Chosen as one of the ten best films of 2009 by Philip French who picked the performance by Christian McKay as the performance by a male actor that he had enjoyed most in the year.
”Very good indeed. McKay’s Welles dominates every scene in which he stars” – Daily Telegraph.
“Witty screenplay, clever direction. **** - Derek Malcolm, Evening Standard.
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Wednesday, 10th March 2010 |
| | FROZEN RIVER (U.S.A., 2008.) Directed by Courtney Hunt from her own screenplay.
Photography (Colour): Reed Dawson Morano.
Music: Peter Golub and Shahzad Ali Ismaily. Certificate: “15”. Length: 97 minutes.
Leading Players: MELISSA LEO (Ray Eddy), MISTY UPHAM
(Lila Littlewolf), CHARLIE McDERMOTT (T.J.), MICHAEL
O’KEEFE (Trooper Finnerty), MARK BOONE JUNIOR (Jacques
Bruno), JAMES REILLY (Ricky), JOHN CANOE (Bernie Littlewolf),
MICHAEL SKY (Billy Three Rivers), GARGI SHINDE (Pakistani mother
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Wednesday, 24th February 2010 |
| | THE ROMANCE OF ASTREA AND CELADON France/Italy/Spain, 2006. Directed by Eric Rohmer from his
own screenplay based on the novel “L’Astrée” by Honoré d’Urfé.
Photography (Colour): Diane Baratier. Music: Jean-Louis Valéro.
Certificate: “12A”. Length: 109 minutes.
Leading Players: ANDY GILLET (Celadon), STEPHANIE CRAYENCOUR (Astrea),
CECILE CASSEL (Leonide), VERONIQUE REYMOND (Galatea),
SERGE RENKO (Adamas), ARTHUR DUPONT (Semire), RODOLPHE
PAULY (Hylas), ROSETTE (Sylvia), JOCELYN QUIVRIN (Lycidas,
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Wednesday, 24th February 2010 |
| | THE ROMANCE OF ASTREA AND CELADON (Cont.) France/Italy/Spain, 2006. Directed by Eric Rohmer from his
own screenplay based on the novel “L’Astrée” by Honoré d’Urfé.
Photography (Colour): Diane Baratier. Music: Jean-Louis Valéro.
Certificate: “12A”. Length: 109 minutes.
Leading Players: ANDY GILLET (Celadon), STEPHANIE CRAYENCOUR (Astrea),
CECILE CASSEL (Leonide), VERONIQUE REYMOND (Galatea),
SERGE RENKO (Adamas), ARTHUR DUPONT (Semire), RODOLPHE
PAULY (Hylas), ROSETTE (Sylvia), JOCELYN QUIVRIN (Lycidas,
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Wednesday, 10th February 2010 |
| | KATYN (Poland, 2007) Directed by Andrzej Wajda from a screenplay by Wladyslaw Pasikowski,
Przemyslaw Nowakoski and himself based on Andrzej Mularczyk’s
novel “Post Mortem” and the diary of Major Adam Solski.
Photography (Colour and ‘Scope): Pawel Edelman. Music: Krzysztof Penderecki.
Certificate: “15”. Length: 118 minutes.
Leading Players: MAJA OSTASZEWSKA (Anna), ANDRZEJ CHYRA (Jerzy), ARTUR ZMIJEWSKI
(Andrzej, the Captain), DANUTA STENKA (the General’s wife), JAN ENGLERT (the General),
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Wednesday, 27th January 2010 |
| | 12.08 EAST OF BUCHAREST (Romania/France, 2006) Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu from
his own screenplay. Photography (Colour): Marius Panduru.
Music: Grupul Rotaria. Certificate: “15”. Length: 89 minutes.
Leading Players: MIRCEA ANDREESCU (Emanoil Piscoci), TEODOR CORBAN
(Virgil Jderescu), ION SAPDARU (Tiberiu Manescu), MIRELA CLOABA (Mrs. Manescu),
LUMINITA GHEORGHIU (Mrs. Jderescu), CRISTINA CIOFU (Vali).
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Wednesday, 13th January 2010 |
| | LES QUATRE CENTS COUPS (France, 1959) Directed by François Truffaut from his own screenplay written
with Marcel Moussy. Photography (black and white /’Scope): Henri Decae.
Music: Jean Constantin. Certificate: “PG”. Length: 99 minutes.
Leading Players: JEAN-PIERRE LEAUD (Antoine Doinel), ALBERT REMY (Julien Doinel),
CLAIRE MAURIER (Gilberte Doinel), PATRICK AUFFAY (René), GEORGES
FLAMANT (Mr. Bigey), GUY DECOMBLE (‘Petite Feuille’, the French teacher),
JEANNE MOREAU (Woman with dog), JEAN-CLAUDE BRIALY (Man in street), PHILIPPE DE more |
Wednesday, 2nd December 2009 |
| | WENDY AND LUCY (USA, 2008) Directed by Kelly Reichardt from a screenplay by herself
and Jon Raymond based on the latter’s short story “Train Choir”.
Photography (Colour): Sam Levy. Certificate: “15”. Length: 80 minutes.
Leading Players: MICHELLE WILLIAMS (Wendy), WALTER DALTON (Security Guard),
WILL OLDHAM (Icky), WILL PATTON (Mechanic), JOHN ROBINSON (Andy).
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Wednesday, 18th November 2009 |
| | MODERN LIFE France, 2008. (Cont.) Directed by Raymond Depardon.
Photography (Colour and ‘Scope): Raymond Depardon.
Music: Gabriel Fauré. Certificate: “PG”. Length: 87 minutes.
With Marcel Privat, Raymond Privat, Alain Rouvière, Cecile Rouvière,
Amandine Valla, Michel Valla, Marcel Challaye, Gernaine Challaye and others.
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Wednesday, 18th November 2009 |
| | MODERN LIFE (La Vie Moderne) (France, 2008) Directed by Raymond Depardon.
Photography (Colour and ‘Scope): Raymond Depardon.
Music: Gabriel Fauré. Certificate: “PG”. Length: 87 minutes.
With Marcel Privat, Raymond Privat, Alain Rouvière, Cecile Rouvière,
Amandine Valla, Michel Valla, Marcel Challaye, Gernaine Challaye and others.
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Wednesday, 4th November 2009 |
| | ELEGY (USA, 2007) Directed by Isabel Coixet.
Screenplay: Nicholas Meyer based on the novel “The Dying Animal” by Philip Roth.
Photography (Colour): Jean-Claude Larrieu. Certificate: “15”. Length: 112 minutes.
Leading Players: BEN KINGSLEY (David Kepech), PENÉLOPE CRUZ (Consuela Castillo),
PETER SARSGAARD (Kenny Kepesh), PATRICIA CLARKSON (Carolyn),
DENNIS HOPPER (George O’Hearn), DEBORAH HARRY (Amy O’Hearn).
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Wednesday, 14th October 2009 |
| | IL DIVO (Italy/France, 2008) Directed by Paolo Sorrentino from his own screenplay.
Photography (Colour/black and white/’Scope): Luca Bigazzi.
Music: Teho Teardo. Certificate: “15”. Length: 118 minutes.
Leading Players: TONI SERVILLO (Giulio Andreotti), ANNA BONAIUTO (Livia Andreotti),
GIULIO BOSETTI (Eugenio Scalfari), FLAVIO BUCCI (Franco Evangelisti),
ALBERTO CRACCI (Don Mario), CARLO BUCCIROSSO (Paolo Cirino Pomicino),
FANNY ARDANT (French ambassador’s wife).
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Wednesday, 14th October 2009 |
| | IL DIVO (Italy/France, 2008.) (Cont.) Directed by Paolo Sorrentino from his own screenplay.
Photography (Colour/black and white/’Scope): Luca Bigazzi.
Music: Teho Teardo. Certificate: “15”. Length: 118 minutes.
Leading Players: TONI SERVILLO (Giulio Andreotti), ANNA BONAIUTO (Livia Andreotti),
GIULIO BOSETTI (Eugenio Scalfari), FLAVIO BUCCI (Franco Evangelisti),
ALBERTO CRACCI (Don Mario), CARLO BUCCIROSSO (Paolo Cirino Pomicino),
FANNY ARDANT (French ambassador’s wife).
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Wednesday, 30th September 2009 |
| | DEAN SPANLEY (UK/New Zealand/Cayman Islands,2008) Directed by Toa Fraser.
Written by Alan Sharp based on Lord Dunsany’s novel “My Talks with Dean Spanley”.
Photography (Colour): Leon Narbey. Music: Don McGlashan.
Certificate: “U”. Length: 100 minutes.
Leading Players: JEREMY NORTHAM (Henslowe Fisk), SAM NEILL (Dean Spanley),
BRYAN BROWN (J.J. Wrather), PETER O’TOOLE (Horatio Fisk),
JUDY PARFITT (Mrs. Brimley), ART MASLIK (Swami Prash), RAMON
TIKARAM (Nawab), DUDLEY SUTTON (Marriott).
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Wednesday, 16th September 2009 |
| | THE CLASS (ENTRE LES MURS) (France, 2008) Directed by Laurent Cantet from a screenplay by Robin Campillo, François Bégaudeau and himself inspired by Bégaudeau’s book.
Photography (Colour/’Scope): Pierre Milon and Catherine Pujol.
Certificate: “15”. Length: 130 minutes.
Leading Players: FRANÇOIS BÉGAUDEAU (François Marin),
FRANCK KEÏTA (Souleymane), WEI HUANG (Wei), AGAME
MALEMBO-EMENE (Agame), RACHEL REGULIER (Khoumba).
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| 2008/09 Season |
Monday, 27th April 2009 |
| | LEMON TREE (Israel/Germany/France) 2008 PG Directed by Erin Riklis from a screenplay by Suhia Arraf and himself. Photography (Colour): Rainer Klausmann. Music: Habib Shehadeh Hanna. Length: 106 mins.
With: HIAM ABBASS (Salma Zidane), RONA LIPAZ-MICHAEL (Mira Navon), ALI SULIMAN (Ziad Daud), DORON TAVORY (Israel Navon, Israeli Defence Minister).
Hiam Abbass is remarkable as the Palestinian widow who fights for her right to cultivate her property when the Israelis try to deny her on security grounds. A very human and involving story.
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Wednesday, 22nd April 2009 |
| | OF TIME AND THE CITY (UK,2008) OF TIME AND THE CITY (UK, 2008) (12A).
Directed by Terence Davies from his own screenplay. Photography (black & white and Colour): Tim Pollard. Goldman. Length: 74 mins. Narrated by Terence Davies.
This is Terence Davies’s greatly acclaimed return to cinema with a highly personal take on his home city, Liverpool, and on his own life during a period of great social change.
“The kind of documentary which deserves to stand among the best of its time ****” – Derek Malcolm, Ev more |
Wednesday, 1st April 2009 |
| | VALENTIN (Argentinian/Spain, etc. 2002) VALENTIN: Directed by Alejandro Agresti from his own screenplay. Photography (Colour): José Luis Cajaraville. Music: Paul M. Van Brugge. Length 82 mins. With: RODRIGO NOYA (Valentin), CARMEN MAURA (Grandmother), MEX URTIZBEREA (Rufo), JULIETTA CARDINALI (Leticia), ALEJANDRO AGRESTI (Vicente).
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Wednesday, 1st April 2009 |
| | WINGED MIGRATION (France/Germany, etc.2001) WINGED MIGRATION: Directed by Jacques Perrin from his own screenplay.
Photography (Colour): Pierre Bec and others. Music: Bruno Coulais. Length: 89 minutes.
Marking our 60th Anniversary we repeat the double bill which, although undermined by bad weather in 2005, nevertheless earned an 84.7% response for the Argentinian study of a 60s childhood and a 91.7% rating for the poetic French nature film.
WINGED MIGRATION: “One of the movies of the year” – The Independent.
“Such magical visuals... more |
Wednesday, 25th March 2009 |
| | WALTZ WITH BASHIR (Israel/France, etc, 2008) Directed by Ari Folman from his own screenplay. In Colour. Animation by Bridgit Folman Film Gang.
Music: Max Richter. Length: 90 mins. With the voices of interviewees Ori Sivan, Ronny Dayag, Shmuel Frenkel, Professor Zahava Solomon.
Ari Folman’s film from Israel portrays his own real life discovery of repressed memories linked to the war with Lebanon. Animation has rarely been used so powerfully and so seriously.
“Fascinating and often electrifying... extraordinary ****” – The Guardian. more |
Wednesday, 18th March 2009 |
| | THE VISITOR (USA,2007) Directed by Tom McCarthy from his own screenplay. Photography (Technicolor): Oliver Bokelberg.
Music: Jan A. P. Kaczmarek. Length: 106 mins. With: RICHARD JENKINS (Professor Walter Vale), HIAM ABBASS (Mouna), HAAZ SLEIMAN (Tarek), DANAL GURIRA (Zainab).
Oscar nominated Richard Jenkins is superb as a widower in his 60s re-engaging with life after a visit to New York has unexpected developments.
“Richard Jenkins gives a subtly nuanced, deeply moving performance. He’s magnificent” – Ph more |
Wednesday, 11th March 2009 |
| | THE ITALIAN (Russia, 2005) THE ITALIAN Russia, 2005. Directed by Andrei Kravchuk from a screenplay by Andrei Romanov.
Photography (Colour): Alexander Burov. Music: Alexander Kneiffel.
Certificate: “12A”. Length: 99 minutes.
Leading Players: KOLYA SPIRIDONOV (Vanya Solntsev), YURI ITSKOV (Director),
DENIS MOISEENKO (Koliyan), SASHA SIROTKIN (Sery),
MARIA KUZNETSOVA (‘Madame’), DIMA ZEMLYANKO
(Anton), DARIA LESNIKOVA (Mukhina), OLGA SHUVALOVA
(Irka), NIKOLAI REUTOV (Grisha).
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Wednesday, 11th March 2009 |
| | THE ITALIAN (Russia, 2005). The compelling tale of a Russian boy renouncing adoption by Italians and running away from an orphanage to seek out his own mother.
‘‘Finely crafted… gripping… sensitive to the hilt’ – Time Out.
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Wednesday, 25th February 2009 |
| | THE FALLEN IDOL (UK, 1948). Centred on a child in the French embassy in London, it’s this and not ‘The Third Man’, also directed by Carol Reed, which Graham Greene cited as the picture based on his own work that gave him the most satisfaction. ***** - Charlotte O’Sullivan, Evening Standard 2006. more |
Wednesday, 11th February 2009 |
| | DAN IN REAL LIFE (USA, 2007). Juliette Binoche delights in this American romantic comedy splendidly cast but sadly undervalued, possibly because it’s positive about family life!
‘Touching, tender and laugh-out loud funny’ – Total Film.
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Wednesday, 28th January 2009 |
| | EL VIOLIN (Mexico/Spain/France, 2006). This myth-like tale from Mexico about the need to oppose repression provides a wonderful showcase for 81 year-old Don Ángel Tavira who carried off a best actor prize at Cannes. ‘His face alone is worth a thousand words’ – Derek Malcolm, Evening Standard. more |
Wednesday, 28th January 2009 |
| | EL VIOLIN (Mexico/Spain/France, 2006) cont This myth-like tale from Mexico about the need to oppose repression provides a wonderful showcase for 81 year-old Don Ángel Tavira who carried off a best actor prize at Cannes. ‘His face alone is worth a thousand words’ – Derek Malcolm, Evening Standard. more |
Wednesday, 14th January 2009 |
| | COUS COUS (France 2007) COUSCOUS
(LA GRAINE ET LE MULET)
France, 2007. Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche from his own
screenplay. Photography (Colour): Lubomir Bakchev.
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Wednesday, 3rd December 2008 |
| | AZUR & ASMAR: THE PRINCES’ QUEST (France/Belgium/Spain/Italy, 2006). A new animated treat from Michel Ocelot (‘Kirikou and the Sorceress’) whose tales and fables blend breath-takingly beautiful images with deeply humane themes. ‘Sheer dazzlement’ – Nigel Andrews, Financial Times. more |
Wednesday, 19th November 2008 |
| | UNDER THE BOMBS (Lebanon/France/UK/Belgium, 2007). Echoing road movies like ‘Le Grand Voyage’, this remarkable film shot on location involves us in a personal drama played out against the background of war-torn Beirut. ‘Full of sharp detail and extremely moving’- Philip French, The Observer. more |
Wednesday, 22nd October 2008 |
| | REPRISE (Norway/Sweden, 2006). “Redolent of early Truffaut” wasVariety’s comment on this lively debut from Norway by Joachim Trier which honours French cinema of the sixties while questioning today’s arts world in which trends and celebrity can dominate over talent. more |
Wednesday, 15th October 2008 |
| | WE ARE TOGETHER (UK/USA, 2007). tbc Numerous awards confirm the uplifting quality of Paul Taylor’s memorable documentary about a South African children’s choir finding in music a way to aid an orphanage helping the needy in Natal. “A life-affirming testament to the power of music.” – The Times. more |
Wednesday, 1st October 2008 |
| | A MIGHTY HEART (USA/UK, 2007). Atmospherically shot in Karachi, Michael Winterbottom’s film starring a surprisingly impressive Angelina Jolie pays tribute to the journalist Daniel Pearl, a victim of our times. “Powerful. The movie is ultimately affirmative.” – The Observer. more |
Wednesday, 17th September 2008 |
| | THE EDGE OF HEAVEN (Germany/Turkey/Italy, 2007). Two countries, Germany and Turkey; two families whose lives become interconnected and two generations needing to come to terms. Fatih Akin’s thought-provoking drama is “passionate, ambitious and charismatically performed” (Daily Telegraph). For times see www.eastbournecurzon.net
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