Autumn Season 2016
14th October - 27th December 2016
A wonderful mix of films old and new to inspire and delight
CHICK LIT
Friday, 14 October, 2016
Four guys, trying to save their local pub, adopt a female pseudonym and write a Fifty Shades style porno novel. With Miles Jupp, David Troughton, Dakota Blue Richards, John Hurt, Eileen Atkins, James Wilby. New British comedy by our old friend, local director Tony Britten.
Running Time:
96 minutes
Year of Release:
2016
Rated:
15
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FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS
Saturday, 15 October, 2016
Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant in the true story of a New York heiress who, despite a lack of singing ability, dreams of being an opera singer and performing in Carnegie Hall. Entertaining stuff.
Running Time:
111 minutes
Year of Release:
2016
Rated:
12A
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SEPARATE TABLES
Friday, 21 October, 2016
First rate production with David Niven, Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Wendy Hiller and Burt Lancaster in Terence Rattigan’s drama set in a Bournemouth hotel. bw
Running Time:
100 minutes
Year of Release:
1958
Rated:
PG
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LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP
Saturday, 22 October, 2016
Set in the 1790s, Kate Beckinsale as Jane Austen’s Lady Susan descends upon her in-laws’ estate and seeks a husband for her daughter. Good-looking period piece. With Chloe Sevigny and Stephen Fry.
Running Time:
82 minutes
Year of Release:
2016
Rated:
PG
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YELLOWBEARD
Friday, 28 October, 2016
Comic pirate romp, featuring the recovery of a treasure chest naturally, with a feast of comic talent including Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Peter Cook, Spike Milligan, Marty Feldman, James Mason, Michael Hordern, Madeleine Kahn, Beryl Reid and Susannah York.
Running Time:
96 minutes
Year of Release:
1983
Rated:
PG
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THE JUNGLE BOOK
Saturday, 29 October, 2016
Star voices of Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley and Scarlett Johansson in this new but excellent version of the Rudyard Kipling story with some of the best, original songs.
Running Time:
106 minutes
Year of Release:
2016
Rated:
PG
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GOLDEN YEARS
Friday, 4 November, 2016
Pensioners seek an unorthodox way to replace their vanishing pensions. Excellent comedy with Bernard Hill, Virginia McKenna, Simon Callow, Una Stubbs, Alun Armstrong and Sue Johnston. Written by DIY SOS presenter Nick Knowles.
Running Time:
96 minutes
Year of Release:
2016
Rated:
U
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OUR KIND OF TRAITOR
Saturday, 5 November, 2016
Gripping John Le Carre story featuring a university lecturer and his lawyer wife who inadvertently become involved with the Russian mafia whilst on holiday, and subsequently, MI6. With Ewan McGregor, Damien Lewis, Jeremy Northam, Mark Gatiss and Stellan Skarsgard.
Running Time:
108 minutes
Year of Release:
2016
Rated:
15
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OUR LITTLE SISTER
Friday, 11 November, 2016
Charming and beautiful Japanese tale of complex family events featuring three sisters and their half sister set against a fascinating backdrop of contemporary Japan and domestic life there. Elegantly directed by Hizokaru Koreeda. Japanese with subtitles
Running Time:
128 minutes
Year of Release:
2015
Rated:
PG
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THE GENERAL
Saturday, 12 November, 2016
Buster Keaton’s American Civil War story featuring his inventive escapades with a steam locomotive. WITH LIVE ORGAN ACCOMPANIMENT BY TOM HORTON. bw.
Running Time:
67 minutes
Year of Release:
1926
Rated:
U
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DELICATESSEN
Friday, 18 November, 2016
Surrealist black comedy directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet in their inimitable and visually inventive manner, both weird and wonderful to behold. French with subtitles.
Running Time:
96 minutes
Year of Release:
1991
Rated:
15
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THE MONEY MONSTER
Saturday, 19 November, 2016
George Clooney and Julia Roberts play a financial TV show anchorman and his producer. Live on air the intervention of a ruined, and armed, investor leads to a gripping drama played out in real time before a mass audience.
Running Time:
98 minutes
Year of Release:
2016
Rated:
15
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SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET
Friday, 25 November, 2016
Brad Pitt as Heinrich Harrer, in the true story of an Austrian mountain climber and surveyor who escapes British imprisonment in 1939 and gains access to the forbidden city of Lhasa where he befriends the Dalai Lama. With David Thewlis. Fascinating and visually enjoyable film.
Running Time:
136 minutes
Year of Release:
1997
Rated:
12A
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CATS
Saturday, 26 November, 2016
The London stage production of the celebrated Lloyd Webber musical based on the T.S.Eliot poems in “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats”. With Elaine Page and John Mills.
Running Time:
116 minutes
Year of Release:
1996
Rated:
U
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ME BEFORE YOU
Friday, 2 December, 2016
Set in Pembrokeshire, Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin in highly rated story of a relationship between a girl and a quadriplegic man based on the Jojo Moyes novel.
Running Time:
110 minutes
Year of Release:
2016
Rated:
12A
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BARAKA
Saturday, 3 December, 2016
Ron Fricke’s amazing series of images taken from 24 countries around the world. The word means “blessing” or “essence of life” and this amazing compilation certainly makes the point.
Running Time:
96 minutes
Year of Release:
1992
Rated:
PG
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MADELEINE
Friday, 9 December, 2016
David Lean film noir featuring Ann Todd in dramatic Victorian tale about a respectable middle class young woman who conducts a secret affair with a penniless Frenchman. 1950.101m. U. bw
Running Time:
101 minutes
Year of Release:
1950
Rated:
U
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SUNSET SONG
Saturday, 10 December, 2016
Terence Davies directs this visually stunning film of the Lewis Grassic Gibbon novel. in which the daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age before WW1. 2015 135m. 15
Running Time:
135 minutes
Year of Release:
2015
Rated:
15
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NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: NO MAN'S LAND
Thursday, 15 December, 2016
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in Harold Pinter’s comic tour de force. Doors open 6.45pm. All tickets £10.
Running Time:
150 minutes
Year of Release:
2016
Rated:
12A
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THE APARTMENT
Tuesday, 27 December, 2016
Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray in Billy Wilder’s great comedy featuring a company employee who lends his flat to his boss for extramaritals. bw