LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA 15
8pm  Friday 23 May 2008

8pm  Saturday 24 May 2008

8pm  Sunday 25 May 2008

3pm  Monday 26 May 2008
Based on the novel by Gabriel García Marquez, the film tells the story of a love triangle spanning 50 years, from 1880 to 1930.   Shot on location in Cartagena, Marquez’s Colombian home town, it is an aesthetic cinematic experience, a beautifully crafted period piece, which perhaps lacks Marquez’s signature style of magical realism. (2007 USA 139 mins)   more

REDACTED 15
8pm  Monday 26 May 2008
A flawed but compelling and disturbing ‘fictional documentary’ based on the true events surrounding the murder of a 14 year old girl and her family by US soldiers.   The story is pieced together from different ‘sources’: a soldier’s video-diary, a French documentary, insurgent internet sites and the film comments on the modern forms of media covering the war as well as the soldiers’ acts.  (2007 USA / Canada  90 mins)  more

THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES PG
5pm  Tuesday 27 May 2008

5pm  Thursday 29 May 2008

2pm  Saturday 31 May 2008

2pm  Sunday 1 June 2008

2pm  Saturday 7 June 2008

3pm  Sunday 8 June 2008
When Jared and his family move into a creepy old mansion, they find themselves sharing it with a magical world populated by goblins, ogres and trolls.   Based on the books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, this is an exciting fantasy adventure – though younger children may find some scenes frightening. (2007 USA 96 mins)  more

27 DRESSES 12A
8pm  Friday 30 May 2008

5pm  Saturday 31 May 2008
Serial bridesmaid Jane (Heigl) has her kind heart put to the test when her seductive and spoiled sister breezes into town and steals her final chance of happiness with her boss, George.   From the writer of The Devil Wears Prada, this is a witty, old-fashioned romantic comedy which, like all the best comedies, works out for the best in the end.  (2008 USA 107 mins)  more

JUNE 2008

THE ORPHANAGE 15

El Orfanato
8pm  Saturday 31 May 2008

8pm  Sunday 1 June 2008
When a woman returns to the orphanage that was her childhood home, her young adopted son claims to see ghosts and then mysteriously disappears.   Rueda gives a luminous performance as the grief-stricken mother who will go to any lengths to find her child.   This debut feature by Bayona is a truly haunting movie that will send chills up and down your spine.  (2007 Mexico / Spain  105 mins  Spanish - subtitled)  more

THE COUNTERFEITERS 15

Die Fälscher
5pm  Sunday 1 June 2008

8pm  Monday 2 June 2008
Winner of this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Bear at Berlin, this is a fictionalised account of a true story.  Anti-hero Sorowitsch is a Jewish concentration camp inmate, recruited by the Nazis to forge vast quantities of sterling and dollars to undermine the Allies' economies.   A fascinating movie about moral choices made in terrible life-and-death circumstances.

(2007  Austria / Germany  98 mins  German / Russian / English / Hebrew - subtitled)  more

SON OF RAMBOW 12A
8pm  Friday 6 June 2008

5pm  Saturday 7 June 2008

8pm  Saturday 7 June 2008
Hertfordshire 1982. 10 year old Will Proudfoot is forbidden to watch television by his Plymouth Brethren mother.   At school he gets involved with troublemaker Lee Carter who inducts Will into the world of Sylvester Stallone’s First Blood. The boys decide to make their own version.   Warmly nostalgic, beautifully observed; sharp and wry in equal amounts.  (2007 France / UK  96 mins)  more

PERSEPOLIS 12A
8pm  Sunday 8 June 2008

8pm  Monday 9 June 2008
A beautiful and truly original animated film, the like of which you may never see again.   Adapted by Satrapi from her own graphic novels, this is the autobiographical story of how she lived through the hopes of the Iranian Revolution in Tehran and was then sent to study abroad “in safety” during the Iran-Iraq war.   Funny and feisty – if you want to be inspired, see this.

(2007  France / USA  97 mins  B&W  French / English / Persian / German - subtitled)  more

HAPPY-GO-LUCKY 15
8pm  Friday 13 June 2008

5pm  Saturday 14 June 2008

8pm  Saturday 14 June 2008

5pm  Sunday 15 June 2008
British director Leigh is back three years after Vera Drake with one of his most entertaining and life-affirming films. In the central role of a free-spirited primary school teacher, Hawkins is a tour-de-force, all bright colours and sunshine as she cycles her way around her London life.  Essentially a comedy, there are bleaker moments in which Poppy’s compassion is a lesson in life. (2008 UK 118 mins)  more

STEP UP 2 THE STREETS PG
2pm  Saturday 14 June 2008

2pm  Sunday 15 June 2008
In the sequel to 2006's Step Up Andie, a working class white girl, is kicked out of her otherwise black street-dancing crew after accepting a dance scholarship.  At dance school she forms a rival crew which  stages public dance "pranks" to get  itself noticed.   Like Fame, Flashdance and of course Step Up, it's a story of dance triumphing over adversity with exhilarating choreography and plenty of tight abs! (2008 USA 98 mins)  more

OVERLORD 15
8pm  Sunday 15 June 2008

8pm  Monday 16 June 2008
This film won the Silver Bear in Berlin when it was originally made back in 1975 but it has since disappeared: over the years it has grown into one of cinema’s lost masterpieces.   At last re-released, Overlord is an impressionistic study of the D-Day landings as experienced by a young British soldier.   Using archive footage from the Imperial War Museum, Cooper has melded this together with dramatised scenes to produce a movie of startling beauty.  (1975 UK 85 mins B&W)  more
The Monday screening will be introduced by Toby Haggith from the Imperial War Museum’s Film and Video Archive.

SHINE A LIGHT 12A
8pm  Friday 20 June 2008

8pm  Saturday 21 June 2008
Shine a Light may be the closest you’ll ever get to the Rolling Stones.   Martin Scorsese, a long-standing Rolling Stones fanatic, filmed the band at the Beacon Theatre in New York last September.   Growing out of a script project that Scorsese and Mick Jagger had been working on for eight years, the result is a remarkable document, a living, breathing, rock'n'roll portrait.  (2008  USA / UK  122 mins)   more

NIM’S ISLAND U
3pm  Saturday 21 June 2008

2pm  Sunday 22 June 2008

2pm  Saturday 28 June 2008

3pm  Sunday 29 June 2008
Anything can happen in the imagination of a young girl living on an isolated island with her scientist father.   But when he goes missing, she begins a mysterious communication with the reclusive author of the novel she's reading and each must draw courage from the novel’s adventurous hero.   Based on the book by Wendy Orr and Kerry Millard, this is a comical and inspirational adventure fantasy. (2008 USA 96 mins)  more

THE KITE RUNNER 12A
5pm  Sunday 22 June 2008

8.15pm  Sunday 22 June 2008

8pm  Monday 23 June 2008
Twelve-year-old Amir is growing up in 70s Afghanistan.   His father’s servant’s son, Hassan, is also his best friend and they do everything together.   After winning the annual kite running championship, Amir witnesses Hassan being attacked but doesn’t help him.   Their friendship collapses as Afghanistan descends into mayhem.   Amir escapes to the States only to be given the chance to redeem himself years later.   Khaled Hosseini’s beautifully written novel has been lovingly recreated for the screen by Forster.
(2007  USA  128 mins  English / Dari / Pashtu / Urdu / Russian – part subtitled)  more

LEATHERHEADS PG
8pm  Friday 27 June 2008

5pm  Saturday 28 June 2008

8pm  Saturday 28 June 2008
Reminiscent of 1940’s screwball comedies, this witty romantic comedy is set in 1920s in the early days of US professional football.   Clooney plays the captain of a failing team who tries to boost the game’s profile by hiring a rising college star (and war hero), only to watch the golden boy fall for his fiancée Lexie, a spitfire newswoman.   Clooney must fight for his team and to get his girl. (2008 USA 113 mins)  more

THE CONFORMIST 18

Il Conformista
8pm  Sunday 29 June 2008

8pm  Monday 30 June 2008
Bertolucci’s darkly layered masterpiece about an Italian man who succumbs to fascism, and who travels abroad to arrange the assassination of his former teacher, now a political dissident.   A powerful psychological thriller and one of the most breathtakingly stylish films ever made, paving the way for Scorsese and Coppola. (1970  Italy / France / Germany  113 mins  Italian / French / Latin - subtitled)  more