Warwick Arts Centre Cinema Sep & Oct 10

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To this we add new British movies, Tamara Drewe, bringing Posey Simmonds’ graphic novel to the big screen and a realisation of one of the seminal moments in industrial relations in Made In Dagenham and I am confident that you will find plenty to engage you.

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1960 was an extraordinary year for film, with the advent of the French New Wave, a number of European directors reaching their peak, British cinema shifting direction and a new approach to horror from three eminent film makers. The Film Talk in early November will be devoted to this phenomenon but in the build up, there is the opportunity to revisit a number of classic films including Jean Luc Godard’s Breathless and Fellini’s La Dolce Vita.

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Film Programmer Cover image: Tamara Drewe (p10)

Tornatore is a master of recreating memories and the sensations that accompany them. His eye for detail and the magic moment is on full display in a film that will remind many of his magnificent Cinema Paradiso.

Arguably the greatest of all of Eric Rohmer’s films, this enduring masterpiece combines the metaphysical and the physical to witty, erotic and psychologically astute effect.

Set over Christmas in ClermontFerrand, it focuses on an impetuous but indecisive, devoutly Catholic engineer whose determination to marry a girl he’s spotted in church is shaken when he’s introduced to a free-spirited and very desirable divorcee. This is a funny, sexy, even suspenseful drama about the necessity and the difficulty of making a choice, especially if it might shape our future.

Baaria

Add to this Winter’s Bone, the prizewinning American independent from this year’s Sundance Festival and a surprisingly dark satire starring Robin Williams, World’s Greatest Dad, both highlights from the Edinburgh International Film Festival and we have a broad and lustrous spectrum.

It is also the tale of a typical village and the entertaining dynamics of small-town life where everyone knows everyone else’s business.

Wed 1 & Thu 2 Sep Dir: Eric Rohmer France 1969 111mins subtitled Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Francoise Fabian

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It ranges from a frothy French summer comedy, Heartbreaker, with Romain Duris confirming his place as a major European heart throb; to The Girl who Played with Fire, part 2 of the Stieg Larsson crime trilogy, which began with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; to Oscar winning Argentine drama, The Secret in their Eyes.

Baaria is Giuseppe Tornatore’s lush and romantic reimagining of the path of one person, a Sicillian who grows, marries, has children, matures and ages, compiling a rich breadth of experience along the way.

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I feel that I have done my job well when I can offer a really broad range of excellent and thought provoking films that will take viewers places they will not have been before, so the current programme is rather satisfying.

Tue 31 Aug – Thu 2 Sep Dir: Giuseppe Tornatore Italy / France 2009 150mins subtitled Cast: Francesco Scianna, Margareth Made, Raoul Bova

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Fri 3 & Sat 4 Sep Dir: Dylan Goch & Gruff Rhys UK / Argentina / Brazil 2009 84mins some subtitles Cast: Gruff Rhys Welsh pop legend Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals) takes us on a pan continental road trip in search of his long lost Patagonian uncle, the poncho wearing guitarist Rene Griffiths.

In 1800 Gruff Rhys’ family split as Dafydd Jones took his young family to join the burgeoning Welsh community in Patagonia, South America. There was to be no contact between the families for almost a century when in 1974 Rene Griffiths arrived in Wales with his Latin infused Welsh love songs and became an overnight sensation.

Director Dylan Goch follows Gruff Rhys on a tour that takes in the theatres, nightclubs and desert teahouses of Wales, Brazil and the Argentine Andes as he discovers what became of his family, the Welsh Diaspora and its musical legacy.

Heartbreaker 15

No Impact Man 15

Meet Alex. He’s charming, funny, effortlessly cool, and most importantly, irresistible to women. He offers a professional service – to break up relationships. In just a few weeks, for a fee, he promises to transform any husband, fiancé or boyfriend into an ex.

A guilty New York liberal decides to practice what he preaches for one year. Turns off the electricity; stops creating rubbish; gives up TV, taxis and take-aways; becomes a walking, bicycling, composting, tree-hugging, polar bear saving, local food-eating citizen. All while taking his baby daughter and caffeine loving retailobsessed television-addicted wife along with him.

L’Arnacouer Fri 3 – Tue 7 Sep Dir: Pascal Chalmeuil France / Monaco 2010 105mins subtitled Cast: Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Julie Ferrier

Meet Juliette. She’s a young, beautiful, free-spirited and independent heiress, with a passion for shopping and fine wine. In ten days she’s due to marry the man of her dreams, much to her father’s disapproval.

When Alex is hired to break up this seemingly perfect couple he is thrown into an action-filled race against time in his own hilarious seduction ‘mission impossible’. This wildly funny and passionate tale is set to be the romantic comedy event of the year.

Sun 5 & Mon 6 Sep and Wed 27 & Thu 28 Oct Dir: Laura Gabbert & Justin Schein US 2010 93mins Cast: Colin Beavan, Michelle Conlin (as themselves)

This is an intriguing inside look into the experiment that became a national 03 fascination and media sensation, while examining the familial strains and strengthened bonds that result from Colin and Michelle’s struggle with their radical lifestyle change.

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Down Terrace 15

On a morning like any other a powerful business man, Stanislas Graff, is kidnapped outside his luxurious apartment building by a gang of thugs. From there begins a terrifying ordeal that will last for several weeks. Despite being tortured and humiliated Graff resists his captors. He accepts his fate without complaint.

Fresh from watching his son Karl being acquitted in court, family head Bill returns to his terraced home in Brighton with dangerous questions swimming around in his head.

Questions which will lead to violence, recrimination and murder. Who grassed him up to the police? How will top brass in London react to the recent downturn in profits from his criminal activities? And when will Karl finally get around to decorating the sitting room? By turns thrilling and funny, shocking and authentic, Down Terrace takes on themes of family, betrayal, immorality and cold-blooded rage.

Outside, his world is falling to pieces as details of his personal life are revealed. All he had managed to keep private; his affairs, his gambling debts, his shady dealings are exposed by the police investigation and media frenzy.

Friends and family begin to discover that the real Stanislas Graff may not be the man they thought they knew.

“A dark British Sopranos.” Little White Lies “… fusing the wry realism of Ken Loach with the blackly comic bloodlust of Ken Russell…”  Time Out

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“Attal’s depiction is physically brutal and emotionally convincing.” Variety

Fri 10 – Mon 13 Sep Dir: Ben Wheatley UK 2009 90mins Cast: Julia Deakin, Sara Dee, Robert Hill

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Tue 7 – Thu 9 Sep Dir: Lucas Belvaux France / Belgium 2009 126mins subtitled Cast: Yvan Attal, Anne Cosigny

Went the Day Well? PG

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When Churchill said we’d fight the Nazis on beaches, landing grounds, fields, streets and hills, he left out the church-yard, manor house, pub and village green. But in this stirring, startlingly violent (for its time) masterwork of World War II propaganda, that’s exactly where the plucky locals of Bramley End engage the enemy.

Inspired by a Graham Greene short story, this is a true hidden gem of our national cinema.

Went The Day Well?

Wed 8 & Thu 9 Sep Dir: Alberto Cavalcanti UK 1942 93mins Cast: Leslie Banks, Mervyn Johns, Elizabeth Allan

The Secret in Their Eyes 18

Frontier Blues 12A

Winner of the 2010 Best Foreign Language Academy Award.

In the northern frontier of Iran, director Babak Jalili mines absurdist humour and quiet pathos from the immutable routines of a group of men.

Benjamin Esposito (Darin), a recently retired criminal court investigator decides to try his hand at writing a novel based on an old case which has haunted him since 1974. As Esposito uncovers the devastation of the brutal crime on the victim’s family, he sets out to find the killer 25 years on.

Hassan is a Persian with Coke-bottle glasses whose only pal is his ever-present donkey. His uncle runs a clothing store whose items never seem to fit his shoppers. A Turkmen minstrel pines for the wife he lost 30 years ago.

El Secreto de Sus Ojos Fri 10 – Tue 14 Sep Dir: Juan Josée Campanella Argentina / Spain 2009 130mins subtitled Cast: Ricardo Darin, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago

Wed 15 & Thu 16 Sep Dir: Babak Jalali Iran / UK / Italy 2009 98mins subtitled Cast: Khajeh Araz Dordi, Mahmoud Kalteh, Abolfazl Karimi

Together, these characters go through the motions of living while preoccupied with escape. Against visually serene compositions and a plaintive score, Jalili teases out the intense longing hidden behind his characters’ stoic expressions, crafting a humane and drolly charming first feature that leaves an indelible impression.

“This spellbinder will sneak up and floor you. It’s that good.

A supremely intelligent and deeply touching thriller. Thunderously exciting!” Rolling Stone

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The Sec ret In Their E yes

“The unsolved murder of a young woman is at the root of this haunting, beautifully calibrated Oscar winner from Argentina.” Los Angeles Times

The Refuge 15

Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives but soon learns she’s pregnant. Feeling lost, she runs away to a house far from Paris on the French coast. With a mesmerising performance by Isabelle Carré, Francois Ozon’s latest film explores deep themes about death, life and love, set against the idyllic background of rural France.

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Le Refuge Tue 14 – Thu 16 Sep Dir: Francois Ozon France 2009 88mins subtitled Cast: Isabelle Carré, Louis-Ronana Choisy, Melvil Poupard 05

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L’Immortel Fri 17 – Sun 19 Sep Dir: Richard Berry France 2009 115mins subtitled Cast: Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Jean-Pierre Darroussin Whilst shopping in Marseilles with his young son, retired gangster Charley Mattei (Reno) is the target of a brutal assassination attempt in an underground car park.

Surviving, despite being shot 22 times, he recovers to exact violent revenge on those who left him for dead... but who were they?

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Inspired by a true story, and partially adapted from the 2007 novel The Immortal by Franz-Olivier Giesbert, Richard Berry’s gripping film dramatises a notorious episode in the life of infamous French ‘Godfather’, the legendary Marseilles gangland figure Jacques Imbert – famously known as ‘Jacky Le Mat’.

A slick, hardboiled piece of cinema, proving once again that Hollywood is not the only source of memorable action-packed entertainment.

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Fri 17 – Mon 20 Sep Dir: Shimmy Marcus UK 2010 82mins Cast: Marton Compston, Felicity Jones, Alfie Allen 1974. Power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the terraces. Flares, Chopper bikes and beer at fourteen pence per pint.

Joe McCain, 17 and restless, is bored with the flatline tedium of a life that seems like it’s going nowhere. Enter Jane, moving to the beat of a music that Joe’s never heard, a vision of loveliness who opens the door to a whole world of sound, movement and all-nighter dancing at The Wigan Casino – the home of Northern Soul! Swept along on this tide of pulsating dance and lust, Joe finally finds somewhere he belongs and the acceptance and true love he yearns for.

Shimmy Marcus’ stylish, vibrant and generous comingof-age tale captures, with infectious enthusiasm, the overwhelming attraction of being part of something – and the errors of judgement that can be born out of blind faith.

Angel, 15 years old: assault and car theft. Davis, 16 years old: possession of narcotics with intent to resell. Butch, 17 years old: assault on a police officer. The three are taken to a Youth Correctional Centre in Montana and placed under the authority and watch of Officer Goodyear, a strict but caring guard. But even so, they become the subjects of ruthless assaults by another inmate. The young men struggle to keep their bodies and spirits intact, but each act of violence swells ever more forcefully.

An electrifying cast delivers blistering performances packed with intensity and emotional punch that reveals the deficiencies of a well-intentioned but ultimately failing correctional system.

The Maid 15

Certified Copy 12A

Raquel, a bitter and introverted woman, has been the Valdés family’s maid for 23 years. One day, Pilar her mistress, hires another maid to help Raquel with her chores.

Raquel, feeling her place in the family threatened, drives the new arrival away with cruel psychological abuse.

This happens time and again until Pilar hires Lucy, a merry girl from the countryside who has never worked as a maid before. It is Lucy who finally breaks the barrier Raquel has erected around herself.

Award for Best Actress (Juliette Binoche), Cannes 2010.

La Nana Tue 21 & Wed 22 Sep Dir: Sebastian Silva Chile / Mexico 2010 97mins subtitled Cast: Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedon, Alejandro Goic

Winner of World Cinema Jury Prize and the World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Acting (Catalina Saavedra) at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

Copie Conforme Fri 24 – Thu 30 Sep Dir: Abbas Kiarostami France / Italy / Iran 2010 106mins subtitled Cast: Juliette Binoche, William Shimell

This is the story of a meeting between one man and one woman in a small Italian village in Southern Tuscany.

The man is a British author who has just finished giving a lecture at a conference. The woman, from France, owns an art gallery. This is a common story that could happen to anyone, anywhere.

A captivating film, Certified Copy marries post-modern reality games with mature romantic comedy in a single, playful and provocative package – Before Sunrise for grown-ups! “... an extraordinary film...”  Time Out

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Mon 20 – Wed 22 Sep Dir: Kim Chapiron France / Canada / UK 2010 91mins Cast: Adam Butcher, Shane Kippel, Mateo Morales

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A thoughtful but outrageous comedy - the story of a man that learns the things you want most may not be the things that make you happy.

Lance Clayton (Williams) dreamed of being a rich and famous writer, but has only managed to make it as a high school poetry teacher. Then, in the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the possibility of all the fame, fortune and popularity he ever dreamed of, if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got there. “... an original, brilliantly funny masterwork.

Robin Williams gives the best performance of the year in one of the best movies of the year.”

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The Illusionist PG

Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard, based on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s best-selling novel, must surely rate as one of the most sumptuously beautiful epics ever made. And this new digital restoration makes the experience yet more intense.

As cheeky, boisterous and witty as it is delicately drawn and beauteous to behold, Sylvain Chomet’s second feature film is a winner on every level.

Il Gattopardo Sat 25 & Sun 26 Sep Dir: Luchino Visconti Italy / France 1963 188mins Cast: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon

Set in 1860-62, during the turbulent period of Italian unification, it tells the story of an aristocratic Sicilian family threatened by the political upheavals, culminating in the 45 minute ballroom scene where we can see and feel a society in transition.

This gorgeous evocation of an era, filmed on location in Sicily, is stunningly photographed with a rousing score by Nino Rota.

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Fri 24 – Thu 30 Sep Dir: Bobcat Goldthwait US 2009 99mins Cast: Robin Williams, Daryl Sabara, Morgan Murphy

The Leopard PG

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L’illusionniste Fri 1 – Tue 5 Oct Dir: Sylvain Chomet UK / France 2010 90mins Cast: voices: Jean-Claude Donda, Edith Rankin

Our weary hero is an over-the-hill magician, complete with less-thanfriendly white rabbit; their adventures are based upon an unrealised script by the great Jacques Tati, the action of which Chomet transposed to Scotland after moving there in 2004.

Always in search of a paying gig, the illusionist treks from Paris to the Western Isles to Edinburgh – acquiring along the way, a young travelling companion who sincerely believes in his magical abilities.

“Delightful... thrilling... a love letter to Scotland and Edinburgh in particular.” Variety

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Flickan Som Lekte Med Elden Fri 1 – Fri 8 Oct Dir: Daniel Alfredson Sweden / Denmark / Germany 2009 130mins subtitled Cast: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre

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Hot on the heels of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo comes the next in this trilogy, The Girl Who Played With Fire.

The latest instalment sees Lisbeth Salander and crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist once again caught up in a brutal murder investigation. Having served his prison sentence, Blomkvist returns to Millennium intent on exposing a billion dollar sex trafficking ring.

When two of his researchers are murdered, Salander is framed for the murders and emerges as the police’s chief suspect. Unconvinced, Blomkvist attempts to track her down and find out the truth. But secretive hacker Salander goes on the run and soon stumbles upon secrets of her own past.

Rashomon 12A

Wed 6 & Thu 7 Oct Dir: Akira Kurosawa Japan 1950 89mins subtitled Cast: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, Rashomon is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice.

Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife.

A genuine classic of World Cinema, Rashomon is based on two stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and stars the inimitable Toshirô Mifune.

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Fri 8 – Sun 17 Oct Dir: Stephen Frears UK 2010 112mins Cast: Gemma Arterton, Tamsin Greig, Dominic Cooper

Tamara Drewe’s present-day English countryside – stocked with pompous writers, rich weekenders, bourgeois bohemians and a horny rock star – is a much funnier place.

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Based on Posy Simmonds’ beloved graphic novel of the same name (which was itself inspired by Thomas Hardy’s classic Far From The Madding Crowd) this wittily modern take on the romantic English pastoral is a far cry from Hardy’s Wessex.

When Tamara Drewe sashays back to the bucolic village of her youth, life for the locals is thrown upside down. Tamara – once an ugly duckling – has been transformed into a devastating beauty (with the help of some plastic surgery). As infatuations, jealousies, love affairs and career ambitions collide among the inhabitants of the neighbouring farmsteads, Tamara sets a contemporary comedy of manners into play using the oldest magic in the book – sex appeal.

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Set in the desolate Ozark mountain region of the central United States, this enigmatic thriller follows 17-year-old Ree Jolly on a desperate quest to save the family home after her drugdealing father skips bail. Subjected to the sheer menace of the uncompromising terrain and the brutality of her hostile neighbours, Ree embarks on a quest so dark and dangerous that it could ultimately threaten her life.

Winter’s Bone won the Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival as well as two further prizes at this year’s Berlinale.

“Suspenseful, surprising and subtle with as memorable and vivid a heroine as you are likely to see.”

The New York Times

Winter’ s Bone

Sun 10 – Thu 14 Oct Dir: Debra Granik US 2010 101mins Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Kevin Breznahan

Made in Dagenham 15

Fri 15 – Sun 24 Oct Dir: Nigel Cole UK 2010 113mins Cast: Sally Hawkins, Rosamund Pike, Miranda Richardson, Bob Hoskins Made in Dagenham stars the awardwinning Sally Hawkins (Happy-GoLucky, It’s a Wonderful Afterlife) as Rita O’Grady who is the catalyst for the 1968 Ford Dagenham strike by 187 sewing machinists which led to the advent of the Equal Pay Act.

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Working in extremely impoverished conditions and for long arduous hours, the women at the Ford Dagenham plant finally lay down their tools when they are reclassified as ‘unskilled’.

With a stellar cast including Rosamund Pike, Bob Hoskins, Rupert Graves and Miranda Richardson as Barbara Castle, this is a history lesson about the genesis of the 1970 Equal Pay Act as well as a heartwarming ensemble piece and a rare opportunity to see John Sessions giving his ‘Harold Wilson’.

Breathless PG

A Bout de Souffle Mon 18 & Tue 19 Oct Dir: Jean-Luc Godard France 1960 90mins subtitled Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger

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This classic film is being re-released to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form and sexy homage to the American film genres that inspired him as a writer.

With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, anything-goes crime narrative and effervescent young stars JeanPaul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, Breathless helped launch the French New Wave and ensured cinema would never be the same.

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Wed 20 & Thu 21 Oct Dir: Chris Smith US 2009 82mins Cast: Michael Ruppert (as himself) Meet Michael Ruppert, he predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter, From the Wilderness, at a time when most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial.

Director Chris Smith has already broken down the American dream into its component parts in previous films such as American Movie and The Yes Men – but never like this. Filmed in a basement 11 with lighting that recalls an interrogation, one man, Michael Ruppert, talks for an hour and a half about how not just the economy is collapsing, but society as a whole. The result is utterly transfixing, one of the most terrifying, hilarious, moving and thrilling documentaries ever made.

Metropolis PG

Fri 22 – Thu 28 Oct Dir: Bernard Rose UK 2010 121mins Cast: Rhys Ifans, Chloe Sevigny, David Thewlis

Mon 25 & Tue 26 Oct Dir: Fritz Lang Germany 1927 147mins Cast: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel

Howard Marks is a legend.

International drug trafficker, secret spy, natural born charmer. Marks’ counterculture fame was assured by the novel combination of his articulacy and charisma with the sheer insane scale of his lawbreaking.

Marks is perfectly portrayed by another shabby Welsh charmer, Rhys Ifans in this biopic. A vivid joyride through an unorthodox life, which doesn’t pretend to tell the unmediated truth but does present its protagonist’s flaws and foibles along with his finer qualities.

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Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece now with 25 minutes of lost footage.

The resurrection of Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent futuristic thriller follows the discovery in Buenos Aires two years ago of scenes that were thought lost forever on the cutting room floor.

Film historians say the restored version gives more depth and new meaning to the cult movie, set in a futuristic city-state where the ruling class amuse themselves in ‘pleasure parlours’ while the poor slave away underground.

Metropolis is seen as the mother of sci-fi movies, an inspiration for filmmakers such as George Lucas and Ridley Scott.

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Fri 29 Oct – Thu 4 Nov Dir: Edward McHenry and Rory McHenry UK 2010 tbcmins Cast: voices - Ewan McGregor, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Timothy Spall Winston Churchill hides out in lawless Scotland, as an all-star cast voices a radical alternative history of the Normandy landings.

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While the British army is assembled at Dunkirk, the Nazis execute a plan to drill under the English Channel and emerge in the heart of London.

All seems lost, a full invasion looms, and the retirement plans of beleaguered PM Winston Churchill have begun to look distinctly wobbly...

With terrifically detailed settings and figurines, this wonderfully eccentric and uncompromised labour of love takes merciless pot shots at every hackneyed cinematic exploitation of the iconography of World War II.

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Fri 29 Oct – Wed 3 Nov Dir: Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal France / US 2010 103mins some subtitles Cast: Orlando Bloom, Natalie Portman, James Caan, Bradley Cooper Since the birth of movies, New York has long been cinema’s dream city, immortalised on screen in hundreds of different ways in thousands of movies.

But now comes a fresh, diverse and unabashedly romantic window into the city – seen entirely through the eyes of love.

Directed by an eclectic group of some of today’s most imaginative filmmakers including Jiang Wen, Mira Nair, Yvan Attal, Natalie Portman, and Joshua Marston, New York, I Love You invites the audience into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love.

Following on the heels of the acclaimed Paris Je T’aime, this is the second episode of the Cities of Love series of collective feature films conceived by Emmanuel Benbihy.

The Fall of the House of Usher PG

La Chute de la maison Usher with live accompaniment by The Southwell Collective Sun 31 Oct £10 (£8) Dir: Jean Epstein France 1928 63mins Cast: Herbert Stern, Hildegarde Watson Jean Epstein’s mesmerising adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s famous story.

A man arrives at the eerie house of Roderick Usher, to find that Roderick is painting a portrait of his sick wife Madeleine – but the faster he tries to complete the picture, the more ill his wife becomes.

Epstein uses a variety of techniques including slow motion, superimposed images and expressionist sets to create a dreamy, chilling, surreal masterpiece.

The Southwell Collective writes and performs new music to accompany classic and archive silent films whilst remaining sympathetic to the original content.

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Sat 30 & Sun 31 Oct Dir: Federico Fellini Italy / France 1960 167mins Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg By turns vibrant and despairing, Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita is a soul-searching portrait of a celebrityobsessed culture, perhaps more relevant today than on its initial release in 1960.

Marcello Mastroianni stars as a fluffpeddling journalist caught up in the social whirl of the crème de la crème while slipping deeper into self-loathing.

But rather than wallow in cynicism, Fellini’s genius is characterised by a zest for life – albeit a tragically insatiable one – as he sprinkles dreamlike snapshots like glitter in the darkness. “… an awesome picture, licentious in content but moral and vastly sophisticated in its attitude and what it says.” New York Times

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A chance to spend the day exploring a particular theme of film guided by specialists in that field.

Film Talk: Kurosawa

Film Talk: 1960

by Alexander Jacoby, writer and lecturer on Japanese film Sat 16 Oct 11am – 3.30pm £8.50 (£6)

with Ian Haydn Smith, editor International Film Guide Sat 13 Nov 11am – 3.30pm £8.50 (£6)

Akira Kurosawa is known primarily for his epic samurai films, but he also worked ably with contemporary material, as in the remarkable thriller, Stray Dog, set against the backdrop of Occupation-era Tokyo.

In 1960, the world was changing from post war austerity and heralding a flowering of new young talent and a renaissance of older, established artists. This was the birth of the French New Wave, of British social realism and three extraordinary horror films which changed the face of cinema; Psycho, Les Yeux sans Visage and Peeping Tom. In this talk, writer and editor of the International Film Guide, Ian Haydn Smith reviews a unique year and introduces an exclusive screening of the newly restored print of one of British cinema’s most controversial films, Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom.

In this illustrated talk, Alexander Jacoby will set the film in its historical context, showing how it dramatises the situation of a recently defeated nation, and in the context of Kurosawa’s wider career, exploring the way in which the director’s other contemporary dramas and thrillers address issues relevant to the postwar Japanese experience.

Stray Dog PG Nora Inu Dir: Akira Kurosawa Japan 1949 122mins subtitled Cast: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune A film noir police thriller set in postwar Tokyo. A young detective’s desperate attempts to recover his stolen pistol which leads him into the depths of the city’s criminal underworld.

Peeping Tom 18 Dir: Michael Powell UK 1960 102mins Cast: Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey 50 years after its release, it’s hard now to appreciate the fury that greeted Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom. Although we can look at it more dispassionately now, Peeping Tom was then and still is, a highly disturbing film.

Give your opinion or pose questions for further debate on the film you have just seen in this series of postscreening discussions led by Julia Condon Jones.

Julia Condon Jones is a Film Studies teacher who has been leading the post screening discussion (in the frame) at Warwick Arts Centre for two years and invites you to come and have a chat about the film you have just watched (with her).

Everyone is welcome to talk about whatever issues the film has raised.

Baaria 15 Wed 1 Sep 6pm Rapt 15 Wed 8 Sep 6.15pm SoulBoy tbc Fri 17 Sep 6.30pm

Certified Copy 12A Wed 29 Sep 6.30pm Tamara Drewe 15 Fri 8 Oct 6.15pm

Winter’s Bone 15 Thu 14 Oct 6.30pm

Made In Dagenham 15 Mon 18 Oct 6.30pm

Mr Nice 18 Sat 23 Oct 6.30pm

No Impact Man 15 Wed 27 Oct 6.30pm

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Our regular movie events for you to enjoy as a family.

The Illusionist PG

Black Jack PG

Sat 9 Oct 1.30pm Cinema £4.50 (£2.50) Dir: Sylvain Chomet UK / France 2010 90mins Cast: voices: Jean-Claude Donda, Edith Rankin

Sat 20 Nov 2pm Cinema £4.50 (£2.50) Dir: Ken Loach UK 1979 110mins Cast: Jean Franval, Stephen Hirst

As cheeky, boisterous and witty as it is delicately drawn and beauteous to behold, Sylvain Chomet’s second feature film is a winner on every level.

Based on the novel by celebrated children’s author Leon Garfield, this children’s adventure film set in 1750s York was Ken Loach’s fourth feature.

The film’s witty dialogue and enchanting performances from its charismatic young cast led to the film being presented with the Critics Award at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.

Our weary hero is an over-the-hill magician complete with less-thanfriendly white rabbit; always in search of a paying gig. The illusionist treks from Paris to the Western Isles to Edinburgh – acquiring along the way a young travelling companion who sincerely believes in his magical abilities.

Accompanied by: Henry’s Cat: The Circus

Halloween Trick or Treat PG

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Sat 30 Oct 2pm Cinema £4.50 (£2.50) Join us for a spooky selection of classic witches, monsters, ghosties and ghoulies including tales from Simon and the Witch, Grotbags, Count Duckula and Rentaghost.

Dress to impress – or wear to scare!

A Halloween film feast not to be missed.

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West Midlands Film Hub Warwick Arts Centre and Screen WM have joined forces to create a Film Hub for the West Midlands. Come along to experience, understand, enjoy and even make movies.

Huge Frenchman Black Jack miraculously survives a hanging by the British authorities in Yorkshire and takes to the countryside in the company of Tolly, a teenage boy who is able to translate Black Jack’s odd speech into something comprehensible.

They join up with Belle, an aristocratic teenager who has escaped from the madhouse where her family had her imprisoned. Together, the three join a carnival.

how to find us

By Car On approaches to Coventry, simply follow the brown signs for Warwick Arts Centre. Once on the University of Warwick campus, head for car parks 6, 7 or 8. For the latest on the roads around Coventry visit: www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/travel

By Train Services run regularly from Birmingham, Leicester and London to Coventry from where we are a short taxi or bus ride away.

By Bus Regular bus services from Coventry, Leamington Spa and Kenilworth stop outside the Arts Centre. Centro Hotline: 024 7655 9559

booking information Telephone Bookings 024 7652 4524

CP = Car Park For Sat Nav our postcode is CV4 7AL

Online Bookings www.warwickartscentre.co.uk

Box Office Opening Times Mon - Sat 9.30am - 9pm Sun - 2.00pm - 8pm

Warwick Arts Centre is a resource provided by The University of Warwick.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following organisations:

Ticket Prices (unless otherwise stated) 40p per ticket booking fee applies

Full Price:

£6.50

Discounts:

£5.25*

Groups of 5+:

£4.75 each

Full Time Students, Under 16s, Registered unemployed: £4.25 University of Warwick students: £3.00 Weekday Matinees: £4.25 * 60+ in full-time retirement, Passport to Leisure holders

Brochure available in large print on 024 7652 4524

Warwick Arts Centre reserves the right to change the film programme without notice.

Please check our website or contact the Box Office for updated information.

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Michael Nyman Band

NYman with a Movie Camera & more Wed 20 Oct 8pm Butterworth Hall £19.50, £22.50

A captivating first half will consist of music from some of his unforgettable film scores, The Piano, The Draughtsman’s Contract and Prospero Books. This is followed

by NYman with a Movie Camera, a film by Nyman screened with a live performance of the complete score.