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                     All films are shown on Friday’s at 7.30pm, unless otherwise stated

2010/11 Film Programme:

15 Films from September 17^th, 2010

     Individual, Joint & Senior Citizen Memberships

     Get a Season Ticket – see all 15 films for £30 (or less)

     New Members Always Welcome

     Advance booking available for guest tickets (£4 & £3

        Phone 01506 823142 for more details or fill in the form overleaf to sign up for a season ticket

SEASON TICKETS

£30 Individual       £52 Joint

£28 Senior Citizen      £48 Joint Senior Citizen   

Programme: September to December 2010

September 17^th  JULIE & JULIA                                                                   USA              2009         12        118 mins

Julia Child (Meryl Streep) and Julie Powell - both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.

October        1^st THE GHOST                                                          France/Germany/UK  2010         15        128 mins  

An unremarkable ghost-writer (Ewan McGregor) has landed a lucrative contract to redact the memoirs of Adam Lang, the former UK Prime Minister. Lang gets embroiled in a major scandal with international ramifications that reveals how far he was ready to go in order to nurture UK's "special relationship" with the USA. The ghost-writer gets unmistakable signs that the turgid draft he is tasked to put into shape inexplicably constitutes highly sensitive material. Directed by Roman Polanski.

                    8^th  THE HURT LOCKER                                                           USA              2008         15        131 mins

When US Army Sergeant First Class Will James joins Bravo Company in Iraq, they have a month or so left in their tour of duty. He's a bomb disposal expert and to say that James loves what he does doesn't quite capture the emotional high he experiences when he gets to do what he does best. For his fellow squad members however, they just want to survive the few days of duty they have left.

                  22^nd  THE LAST STATION                                                          USA              2009         15        121 mins

In 1910, acclaimed Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, in the later stage of his life, works rather than a writer but as the leader of the Tolstoyan Movement, whose basic tenets are brotherly love and world peace through pacifism, and a denouncement of material wealth and physical love. Chief amongst the movement's wants is the deeding of all Tolstoy's writings to the people so that after his death it will become public domain. Cast includes James McAvoy, Helen Mirren and Christopher Plumber.

November    5^th  GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES                             USA              1953          A          91 mins

Lorelei and Dorothy are two lounge singers on a transatlantic cruise, working their way to Paris, and enjoying the company of any eligible men they might meet along the way.

                  19^th AN EDUCATION                                                                  UK               2009         12        100 mins

In the early 1960's, sixteen year old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in the London suburb of Twickenham. Everything that Jenny does is in the sole pursuit of being accepted into Oxford. Jenny's life changes after she meets David Goldman, a man over twice her age. Jenny slowly learns more about David and specifically how he makes his money. Jenny has to decide if what she learns about him and leading such a life is worth forgoing her plans of higher education at Oxford.

December    3^rd SHUTTER ISLAND                                                           USA              2010         15        138 mins

It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Hospital. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply.

                  10^th  MICMACS (Micmacs à tire-larigot)                                  France            2009        12A       105 mins

Video store clerk Bazil has had his life all but ruined by weapons of war. His father was killed by a landmine in Morocco and one fateful night a stray bullet from a nearby shootout embeds itself in his skull. Losing his job and his home, Bazil wanders the streets until he meets a band of eccentric junkyard dealers. He constructs a complex scheme for revenge that his newfound family is all too happy to help set in motion.               

Programme: January to April 2011

January       7^th  HAIRSPRAY                                                               USA/UK                   2007         PG     117 mins

Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad and her best friend Penny Pingleton audition to be on The Corny Collins Show and Tracy wins. But when scheming Amber Von Tussle and her mother plot to destroy Tracy, it turns to chaos. John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer and Christopher Walken co-star.

                   21^st  DOUBT                                                                         USA                     2008         15      104 mins

Set at a Catholic school in the Bronx, it centres on a nun (Meryl Streep) who grows suspicious when a priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) begins taking too much interest in the life of a young black student. Is she being overly protective or not protective enough?

February      4^th  CRAZY HEART                                                          USA                     2009         15      112 mins

Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can't help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician.

                  18^th   INVICTUS                                                                     USA                     2009        12A    134 mins

The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.

March          4^th  SURPRISE FILM

                  18^th  ME AND ORSON WELLES                                          UK/USA                   2008                  114 mins

In November 1937, high school student and aspiring thespian Richard Samuels takes a day trip into New York City. On this trip, Richard stumbles across the Mercury Theatre and meets Orson Welles, who, based on an impromptu audition, offers Richard an acting job as Lucius in his modern retelling of Julius Caesar. Richard, having seen Welles' behaviour, has to decide if acting in this production is worth it at any cost.

April             1^st  THE ILLUSIONIST & AGM (7pm)                              UK/France                 2010                    90 mins

Details the story of a dying breed of stage entertainer whose thunder is being stolen by emerging rock stars. Forced to accept increasingly obscure assignments in fringe theatres, garden parties and bars, he meets a young fan who changes his life forever.