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Wednesday 28 October 2009
When a young girl mysteriously disappears, Police Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward) travels to a remote island to investigate. But this pastoral community, led by the strange Lord Summerisle (a brilliant performance by the legendary Christopher Lee), is not what it seems as the devout Christian detective soon uncovers a secret society of wanton lust and pagan blasphemy. |
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Wednesday 24 June 2009
Director: Stanley Donen
Peter Cook's performance as an arrogant, spiteful Satan in this Faustian comedy set in Swinging London is the greatest of his film career. Cook also wrote the screenplay and his dark satire is most evident in his final speech, chillingly accurate in retrospect. |
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Friday 10 July 2009
Director: Mira Nair
This screening is a fundraiser. All profits going to the village of Gudalur in Southern India to construct a community building and provide water and sanitation for the Dalit community. |
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Wednesday 27 May 2009
Director: Frannie Armstrong
The Age of Stupid is the new four-year epic from McLibel director Franny Armstrong. Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance? |
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Wednesday 29 April 2009
Director: Terry Gilliam
If George Orwell had worked with Monty Python he might have envisioned a future as bleak and comical as this. |
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Wednesday 25 March 2009
Director: Juraj Herz
Juraj Herz’s The Cremator has been described in many ways - as surrealist-inspired horror, as expressionist fantasy and as a dark and disturbing tale of terror. |
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Wednesday 25 February 2009
Director: Aki Kaurismaki
Among Aki Kaurismaki’s most accomplished films, this extremely minimalist take on the universal misery that is unemployment and recession manages to discover hope even amongst the despair. |
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Wednesday 28 January 2009
Director: Michael Winner
Oliver Reed plays an advertising executive who, disenchanted with the superficiality of his work, smashes his desk and resigns from his job to return to his happier earlier existence in Swinging London. |
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Wednesday 17 December 2008
Director: Preston Sturges
This masterpiece is perhaps the finest movie-about-a-movie ever made. Hollywood director Joel McCrea, tired of churning out lightweight comedies, decides to make O Brother, Where Art Thou - a serious, socially responsible film about human suffering. |
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Wednesday 26 November 2008
Director: Miklós Jancsó
A profound influence on filmmakers from Sergio Leone to Béla Tarr, The Round-Up is widely acknowledged as a masterpiece of world cinema. Set in a detention camp in Hungary 1869, at a time of guerrilla campaigns against the ruling Austrians. |
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Wednesday 29 October
Director: Wim Wenders
A key film of New German Cinema, this marked the emergence of Wim Wenders as one of the most distinctive European filmmakers of the 1970s and is also widely accepted to be one of the director’s most poignant films. |
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Wednesday 24 September
Director: Peter Davis
The controversial winner of the 1974 Academy Award for Best Documentary, this courageous and startling landmark documentary unflinchingly confronts the United States’ involvement in Vietnam. |
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Wednesday 27 August
Director: Barney Platts-Mills
Bronco Bullfrog is the essential Mod culture film - set in the streets of East London with a cast of non-actors it focuses on a young man on the run from Borstal, dreaming of girls and criminal adventures which are unlikely ever to be. |
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Wednesday 23 July
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Part Luis Bunuel, part Sergio Leone, this bizarre, ultra-violent Western features a brutal, black-clad gunslinger who sets off on a murderous mission to challenge four Zen masters of gun fighting. |
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