Taking Woodstock
Man & Nature Week The End of the Line
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Director Rupert Murray Documentary UK 2009 / Colour / 1hr 30m
Friday 4 & Saturday 5 December / 8pm Sunday 6 December / 3pm Monday 7 December / 7.15pm Tuesday 8 & Wednesday 9 December / 5pm Thursday 10 December / 2pm & 8pm
The first major feature documentary film revealing the impact of overfishing on our oceans and the effects of our global love affair with fish as food.
Director Ang Lee Cast Imelda Staunton, Emile Hirsch USA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 59m
Vanishing of the Bees
In 1969 interior designer Elliot returns from Greenwich Village to the Catskills to help his parents turn around their dying motel. It seems a futile task until Elliot hears that a neighbouring town has revoked its licence for a 'hippie' music festival. He contacts the organisers and three weeks later his mother is packing twelve guests to a room as half a million people descend on his neighbour's farm for the relocated event. 40 years since the landmark festival encapsulated the dreams of a generation, this gently funny and good-hearted film is very much a personal story. While the festival happens mostly offscreen, we see Elliot's relationship with his family and himself changing forever. A sense of history is evoked through nice asides, such as TV coverage of the moon landing, and stylistic choices including the use of split screen in some sequences. But mostly it comes through the characters themselves.
Monday 30 November / 5pm
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Tuesday 1 December / 5pm Director George Langworthy, Maryam Henein Documentary UK 2009 / Colour / 1hr 37m The apiary science mystery known as ‘Colony Collapse Disorder’ describes how bees are disappearing all over the planet and no one knows why. Vanishing of the Bees unfolds as a dramatic tale of science and mystery, illuminating this extraordinary crisis and its greater meaning about the relationship between humankind and mother earth.
The Cove
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Wednesday 2 December / 5pm Director Louie Psiholoyos Documentary USA 2009 / Colour / Subtitles / 1hr 32m A band of activists led by former dolphin trainer Richard O’Barry travel to Taiji, Japan to expose the hidden story of how thousands of dolphins originally captured for the world’s marine parks end up slaughtered annually for food and profit in a sheltered cove. This is a tense and harrowing piece of guerrilla eco-journalism.
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Weekend Music Special Sat 5 - Sun 6 December Enjoy a weekend of folk including meals, accommodation, real ale tasting and tickets to see Taking Woodstock and BBC Folk Award winner Chris Wood in concert. See p.29 for info.
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