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Dir: Joe Wright UK 2005 2hrs 7mins Starring: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen
Dir: Michelangelo Frammartino ITALY 2010 1hr 28mins Starring: Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpardo
PRIDE & PREJUDICE (U)
LE QUATTRO VOLTE THE FOUR TIMES (U)
A film without dialogue that brilliantly connects the four states of life – human, animal, vegetable, and mineral – into a spiritual revelation.
Thurs 1 2.30pm
Thurs 1 - Sun 4 5pm, 8pm
Tues 6
2.30pm
2.30pm
Jane Austin’s glorious tale of a head-strong young woman and an apparently hard-hearted man whom love transforms gets a rare big screen outing. Partly shot in Stamford. Literature at Lunchtime talk at 12.30pm with Dr Jane.
Dir: Lee Tamahori UK 2011 1hr 48mins Starring: Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier, Raad Rawi
Dir: Terrence Malick USA 2011 2hrs 19mins Starring: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain
THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE (15)
THE TREE OF LIFE (12A)
Nothing less than an attempt to film the very meaning of existence. Malick’s award-winning epic features a history of the universe and family life in 1950s Texas. Ambitious, astonishing and very moving.
Wed 7 Thurs 8
5pm 8pm
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (12A)
When weedy WW2 underdog Steve Rogers gets injected with Super Soldier Serum he becomes Captain America. Marvel comic’s answer to Hitler’s super villains. Guaranteed explosive special effects.
A powerful true story about the relationship between Saddam Hussein’s evil son Uday and the man who was forced to act as his body double leaves few depravities unrecorded.
THE GUARD (CERT.TBC) Dir: John Michael McDonagh IRE 2011 1hr 36mins Starring: Brendan Glesson, Don Cheedle, Liam Cunningham
5pm 8pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 5pm
Fri 23 Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tues 27
2.30pm, 8pm 5pm 5pm 8pm
Fri 23 Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26
Sat 10 Mon 19
2.30pm 2.30pm
SUPER 8 (12A)
BRIDESMAIDS (15)
5pm, 8pm
5pm, 8pm 5pm, 8pm
ZOOKEEPER (PG) Dir: Frank Coraci USA 2011 1hr 42mins Starring: Kevin James, Rosario Dawson, Leslie Bibb
Mr Popper is a slick New York businessman but when he inherits six penguins his life and his family are turned upsidedown. Funny and wonderfully silly.
Dir: J J Abrams USA 2011 1hr 52mins Starring: Elle Fanning, Amanda Michalka, Kyle Chandler
Dir: Paul Feig USA 2011 2hrs 2mins Starring: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Chris O’Dowd When her best friend asks the luckless Annie to be her maid of honour all hell breaks loose as Annie and her oddball bridesmaids create chaos all the way to the wedding. Sat 10
5pm 8pm 2.30pm, 5pm 5pm, 8pm
Mon 26 Tues 27 Thurs 29 Fri 30
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Sat 24
A group of zoo animals decide to break their code of silence in order to help their lovable zookeeper find love. And boy – can these animals talk.
IN A BETTER WORLD (CERT.TBC)
After filming a stupendous train crash on their Super 8 camera a group of children gradually realise that something very strange is taking over their town. From the creator of Lost.
THE SALT OF LIFE GIANNE E LE DONNE (CERT.TBC)
SARAH’S KEY ELLE S’APPELAIT SARAH (12A)
Mon 19 Wed 21
In a sleepy town in Galway the local policeman, or Guard, finds himself working with an FBI agent to stop a huge drugs deal. If you enjoyed In Bruges, you’ll love The Guard.
COWBOYS & ALIENS (12A) Dir: Jon Favreau USA 2011 1hr 58mins Starring: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde Arizona, 1873. Out of the desert a stranger stumbles into the tough town of Absolution, only to be followed soon after by spaceships from another planet! Hugely enjoyable.
MR POPPER’S PENGUINS (PG) Dir: Mark Waters USA 2011 1hr 34mins Starring: Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Angela Lansbury
Dir: Joe Johnson USA 2011 2hr 5mins Starring: Chris Evens, Hugo Weaving
Sat 3
Sun 4 2.30pm Mon 5 5pm Tues 6 8pm
Dir: Gianni Di Gregorio ITALY 2011 1hr 30mins Subtitled Starring: Gianni Di Gregorio, Valeria De Franciscus
Dir: Gilles Paaquet-Brenner FRA 2010 Subtitled Starring: Kristen Scott-Thomas, Mélusine Mayance Alternating between the Nazi round-up of Jews in 1942 Paris and the present day, two women are enmeshed in a struggle to save a child. A moving and heart-wrenching drama.
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Fans of 2008’s Mid-August Lunch can return to the same gently comic world as the middle-aged hero tries to find a mistress despite the world and literally his wife, standing in the way.
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Dir: Susanne Bier DEN 2010 1hr 59mins Subtitled Starring: Mikal Persbrandt, Trine Dryholm Winner of the Best Foreign Film at last year’s Oscars this is an absorbing and genuinely compelling story of two teenage boys learning to cope with troubled parents and complex emotions.
SELF MADE Dir: Gillian Wearing UK 2010 1hr 23mins Starring: Sam Rumbelow
Thurs 29 7.30pm £5 (students FREE)
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The final programme in this series of British Artists film features the new feature length work by Turner prize winner Gillian Wearing. Self Made is at once documentary, artwork, social experiment and performance project .
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OCTOBER Sun 2 Mon 3 Tues 4 Wed 5
Sun 2 Mon 3 Tues 4 Wed 5
2.30pm 5pm 8pm 5pm
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THE SKIN I LIVE IN LA PIEL QUE HABITO (CERT.TBC)
PART OF ONE WORLD WEEK WASTELAND (PG)
Dir: Pedro Almodóvar SP 2011 1hr 57mins Subtitled Starring: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya
Dir: Lucy Walker/Karen Harley BRA/UK 1hr 39mins
This typically luscious melodrama from Pedro Almodóvar focuses on a tragedy haunted plastic surgeon and his invention of indestructible skin. But what woman can he test it on?
Sat 22
ONE DAY (12A)
THE LAVENDER HILL MOB (U)
PERFECT SENSE (CERT.TBC)
Dir: Lone Scherfig USA 2011 1hr 48mins Starring: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess
Dir: Charles Crichton UK 1951 1hr 21mins Starring: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James
Based on David Nicholls’ bestselling novel. Two graduating students, Dexter and Em, spend the night together and are then shown on one day each year, sometimes together, sometimes not...
A meek bank clerk steals some gold bullion and smuggles it disguised as miniature Eiffel Towers! A 60th Anniversary digital make-over of one of Ealing Studios most memorable films.
Dir: David Mackenzie UK/GER 2011 1hr 32mins Starring: Eva Green, Ewan McGregor, Connie Nielson
Sun 23
An origin story in the true sense of the word, set in present day San Francisco, where man’s own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy. The best science fiction film of the year.
Sun 23 5pm Mon 24, Tues 25 5pm, 8pm Wed 26 5pm Thurs 27 8pm Fri 28, Sat 29 5pm
Dir: Herbert G Ponting UK 1924 1hr 48mins
Dir: Douglas McGrath USA 2011 RT.TBC Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Christina Hendricks, Pierce Brosnan Allison Pearson’s book about the trials and tribulations of a working mum with a husband and two kids gets a transatlantic make-over but loses none of its humour.
An astonishing documentary of Captain Scott’s attempt to reach the South Pole in 1912, this meticulous restoration with a new musical score shows the courage and the tragedy of a great ambition. Fri 18
2.30pm, 5pm
THE SMURFS (U)
JANE EYRE (PG)
Dir: Alexander Mackendrick UK 1949 1hr 22mins Starring: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood
Dir: Raja Gosnell USA 2011 1hr 33mins 2D Starring: Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Hank Azaria, Katy Perry
Dir: Cary Fukunaga UK 2011 2hrs Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbelinder
When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world and into ours. Tues 25 - Fri 28 2.30pm
Fri 18 8pm Sun 20 2.30pm, 8pm Mon 21 8pm Tues 22 5pm
There have been around 20 film versions of Charlotte Brontë’s brooding tale of secrecy, madness and love and this latest fairly smoulders as a lowly governess becomes the master’s wife.
TREACLE JR (15)
MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON (CERT.TBC)
DRIVE (CERT.TBC)
Dir: Jamie Thraves UK 2010 1hr 20mins Starring: Aiden Gillen, Tom Fisher, Riann Steele
Dir: Stéphane Brizé FRA 2011 1hr 41mins Subtitled Starring: Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Kiberlain, Aure Atika
THRILLER Dir: Nicolas Winding Refn USA 2011 2hrs Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Ron Perlman
Tom is successful but one day he inexplicably walks out on his family and comes to London to live rough. Then he meets motor-mouth man-child Aiden and certainties take a curve into the unknown. Sun 9 5pm
Wed 26 8pm Thurs 27 5pm Fri 28 8pm
Discreetly drawn and elegantly photographed, Mademoiselle Chambon gives a French workingclass love triangle the Brief Encounter treatment when a private tutor is hired by a family.
THE KING’S SPEECH (12A)
THE HEDGEHOG - LE HÉRISSON (12A)
Dir: Dir: Tom Hooper UK 2011 1hr 48mins Starring: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter
Dir: Mona Achache FRA 2009 1hr 40mins Subtitled Starring: Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic
One of the best British films of recent years, The King’s Speech is a model of dramatic story-telling, fine acting and richly observed history. See it again on the big screen.
A heart warming story about an 11-year old girl with a death-wish whose life is transformed when she meets an elegant neighbour and the grumpy concierge who cleans her Parisian apartment.
Mon 10 2.30pm
Sat 29 8pm Sun 30 5pm
Sun 20 5pm Mon 21 2.30pm, 5pm Tues 22 8pm
A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a criminal wheelman discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist goes wrong. High octane cinema of the finest order.
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (CERT.TBC) Dir: Lynne Ramsay UK/USA 2011 1hr 50mins Starring: Tilda Swinton, John C Re illy, Ezra Miller Fri 25 Sat 26 Sun 27 Mon 28 Wed 30
2.30pm, 5pm, 8pm 5pm, 8pm 5pm, 8pm 8pm 5pm
The mother of a teenage boy who went on a high school killing spree tries to deal with her grief and feelings of responsibility by writing to her estranged husband.
ATTENBERG (CERT.TBC)
KIND HEARTS & CORONETS (U)
JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (CERT.TBC)
Dir: Athina Rachel Tsangari GR 2010 1hr 35mins Subtitled Starring: Ariane Labed, Giorgos Lanthimos
Dir: Robert Hamer UK 1949 1hr 46mins Starring: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson
Dir: Oliver Parker UK 2011 RT:TBC Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Rosamund Pike
When a poor relative of the Duke of D’Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him, a sublime comedy classic is the result.
It’s been seven years since the hapless spy Johnny English, first appeared but his stupidity is as perfect as ever. Now he’s trying to save the Chinese prime minister.
Marina lives in a soulless Greek town thinking she ought to learn more about sex as her dad succumbs to cancer. Her friend Bella could teach her but then she meets a handy businessman. Wed 12 5pm, 8pm
Sat 26 2.30pm Sun 27 2.30pm
Sun 30 2.30pm
Dir: Tomas Alfredson UK/FR 2011 RT:TBC Starring: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, John Hurt MI6 veteran George Smiley is brought out of retirement to track down a traitor during the Cold War. An all-star cast brings enormous weight to this stunning adaptation of John le Carré’s classic.
MELANCHOLIA (CERT.TBC)
NOVEMBER
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (CERT.TBC)
Dir: Lars von Trier DEN/SWE/FRA 2011 2hrs 16mins Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland
Mon 31 Oct Tues 1 Wed 2 Thurs 3
2.30pm, 5pm, 8pm 5pm, 8pm 8pm 5pm
An awesome combination of apocalypse and heartbreak. Melancholia follows a woman, her family and friends as a planet heads directly for the Earth. Visually and emotionally jaw-dropping.
Film Classifications Universal.
Suitable for all.
ARRIETTY (PG)
MEEK’S CUT OFF (PG)
FAMILY ANIMATION Dir: Hiromasa Yonebayashi JAP 2010 1hr 34mins Voiced by: Luke-Allen Gayle, Tom Holland
Dir: Kelly Reichardt USA 2010 1hr 44mins Starring: Michelle Williams, Paul Dano
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A fascinating feminine take on the all-male Western. Meek’s Cut Off tracks a wagon train of three families lost in the wilderness whose only hope is to follow a captured Native American.
12 Advisory. for children under 12. Children May be unsuitable .
Based on the children’s classic novel The Borrowers, this latest hand-drawn animation from the famous Studio Ghibli involves the meeting of two worlds; the human and the tiny community of the borrowers.
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Dir: Mike Cahill USA 2011 1hr 32mins Starring: Brit Marling, William Mapother
Not only one of Pixar Studio’s greatest animations Wall-e also carries a terrific plea for regeneration and a better world.
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ANOTHER EARTH (CERT.TBC)
Dir: Andrew Stanton USA 2008 1hr 38mins Voiced by: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin
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Wed 2 5pm Thurs 3 8pm
PART OF ONE WORLD WEEK WALL-E (U)
Sat 22 2.30pm
THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE (U)
I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT (CERT.TBC)
WHISKEY GALORE! (PG)
2.30pm
Sat 15 2.30pm Sun 16 5pm
While an epidemic spreads across the country, robbing people of their senses (smell, hearing, etc) a love affair develops between a scientist and a chef. Perhaps passion can resist the inevitable.
Tues 15 8pm Wed 16 5pm
2.30pm
A wartime cargo ship carrying 50,000 bottles of whiskey founders off the coast of a Scottish island. The race is then on to swipe as much booze as the islanders can manage.
Fri 14 2.30pm, 5pm, 8pm Sat 15 5pm, 8pm Sun 16 2.30pm Mon 17 5pm, 8pm Wed 19, Thurs 20 5pm, 8pm Sat 22 5pm
During the Chilean coup of 1973, Mario, an aging clerk at the city morgue, falls for a burlesque dancerwho mysteriously disappears along with thousandsof others. Will Mario ever find her again?
Tues 15 5pm Wed 16 8pm
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Dir: Rupert Wyatt USE 2011 1hr 46mins Starring: Tom Felton, James Franco, Andy Serkis
Sun 9
Dir: Pablo Larrain CHILE 2010 1hr 38mins Subtitled Starring: Marcelo Alonso, Alfredo Castro
Jadim Gramacho, near Rio de Janeiro, is the world’s largest landfill site. American artist Vik Muniz went there and created collages of recyclable material. An uplifting and transforming experience.
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (12A)
Sat 8 5pm, 8pm Sun 9 8pm Mon 10 5pm, 8pm
POST MORTEM (15)
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