COMING UP
To Catch a Thief 27.10.17 [PG]
To Catch a Thief is a 1955 American romantic thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. Based on the David Dodge novel, the film won an Oscar for Best Cinematography and was nominated for five further awards, including Best Costume Design and Best Written American Comedy. When a new wave of […]
The Levelling 24.11.17 [15]
Outstanding directorial debut set during the Somerset Levels floods of 2014. When a young man dies soon after inheriting the family farm from his dominant father Aubrey (David Troughton), his estranged sister Clover (Ellie Kendrick) returns home. Directed by Hope Dickson Leach (2016)
White Christmas 15.12.17 [U]
Army entertainers captain Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) and private Phil Davis (Danny Kaye) become successful Broadway producers who join a ‘sister act’ (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen) in a bid to save their former commander’s failing business. Directed by Michael Curtiz (1955)
Timbuktu 26.01.18 [12]
In this extraordinary French-Mauritanian drama, cattle herder Kidane lives with his wife and child near Timbuktu, which has come under the occupation of Islamist rebels. A work of intense anger that resonates with razor sharp wit and compassion.
Saturday Matinees
The Railway Children (DATE TBC)
The Railway Children is a 1970 British drama film based on the novel of the same name by E. Nesbit. The film was directed by Lionel Jeffries, and stars Dinah Sheridan, Jenny Agutter (who had earlier featured in the successful BBC’s 1968 dramatisation of the novel), Sally Thomsett and Bernard Cribbins in leading roles. The […]
101 Dalmatians (DATE TBC)
One Hundred and One Dalmatians, often abbreviated to 101 Dalmatians, is a 1961 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith. The seventeenth in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film was originally released to theatres on January 25, 1961 by Buena […]
Arrietty 04.08.12
Arrietty (entitled The Borrower Arrietty (借りぐらしのアリエッティ Kari-gurashi no Arietti) in Japan and The Secret World of Arrietty in North America) is a 2010 Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, written by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa and produced by Studio Ghibli, based on Mary Norton’s novel The Borrowers. The film tells the story […]
James and the Giant Peach 24.11.12
James and the Giant Peach is a 1996 British-American musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. It was produced by Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi. The film is a combination of live action and stop-motion animation. In the 1930’s, James Henry Trotter […]
DISTINCTION: BEST FILM PROGRAMMING
COMMENDATION: BEST SINGLE EVENT: The Passion of Joan of Arc with Mie Yanashita
– Film Society of the Year Awards 2016
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