All the films for our season 2004/05. Click on image for details.
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Together with you
Sep 9, 2004 - Corn Exchange
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Mystic River
Sep 20, 2004 - Plaza
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Osama
Sep 23, 2004 - Corn Exchange
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Spellbound
Oct 7, 2004 - Plaza
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The Barbarian Invasions
Oct 14, 2004 - Corn Exchange
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Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter ....and Spring
Oct 28, 2004 - Corn Exchange
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The Officer's Ward
Nov 11, 2004 - Corn Exchange
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The Station Agent
Nov 20, 2004 - Plaza
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The Leopard
Nov 25, 2004 - Corn Exchange
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Elling
Dec 16, 2004 - Corn Exchange
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Winged Migration
Jan 13, 2005 - Corn Exchange
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American Splendour
Jan 20, 2005 - Plaza
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Kitchen Stories
Jan 27, 2005 - Corn Exchange
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House of Sand and Fog
Feb 3, 2005 - Plaza
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Springtime in a Small Town
Feb 10, 2005 - Corn Exchange
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In this World
Feb 24, 2005 - Corn Exchange
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Touching the Void
Mar 10, 2005 - Plaza
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Belleville Rendezvous
Mar 24, 2005 - Corn Exchange
Together with you
Sep 9, 2004 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Chen Kaige
Year: 2002
Country: China
Run Time: 118 mins
A young violinist is brought by his father from a remote village to Beijing to become a professional violinist. Based on real events, the tale of his changing fortunes is told with charm and sensitivity by Chen Kaige - the director of Farewell my Concubine - and underlined with a perfectly judged score
A: 44
B: 51
C: 23
D: 1
E: 2
Overall: 77.7
Mystic River
Sep 20, 2004 - Plaza.
Director: Clint Eastwood
Year: 2003
Country: USA/Australia
Run Time: 137 mins
Two terrible crimes, committed years apart, put pressure on the relations between three childhood friends - one the investigating detective, another the father of a murder victim. Sean Penn and Tim Roberts won Oscars for their performances in Clint Eastwood's taut mystery.
A: 35
B: 42
C: 21
D: 6
E: 6
Overall: 71.4
Osama
Sep 23, 2004 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Siddiq Barmak
Year: 2003
Country: Afghanistan
Run Time: 83 mins
In the Afghanistan, where women cannot appear in public without a male companion, a demure 12-year old girl reinvents herself in order to work. survive and support her family. This first post Taliban feature film delivers tense and complusive viewing.
A: 43
B: 58
C: 24
D: 7
E: 1
Overall: 75.4
Spellbound
Oct 7, 2004 - Plaza.
Director: Jeffrey Blitz
Year: 2002
Country: USA
Run Time: 96 mins
As enthralling as any fiction, this documentry follows eight children, drawn from every corner of the US, through the preparations for, and then the agonies and ecstasies of, a knock-out spelling bee in Washington DC. Although the mood is cheery, this is, in the end, a competition with only one winner.
A: 17
B: 56
C: 30
D: 12
E: 1
Overall: 66.4
The Barbarian Invasions
Oct 14, 2004 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Denys Arcand
Year: 2002
Country: Canada/France
Run Time: 99 mins
A group of French-Canadian friends are re-united at the bedside of the terminally ill Remy, thanks to the machinations of his filthy-rich son. Denys Arcand's comedy - Best Foreign Language film at the 2004 Oscars - is dark and nostalgic, but nevertheless witty and optimistic.
A: 56
B: 50
C: 9
D: 0
E: 0
Overall: 85.2
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter ....and Spring
Oct 28, 2004 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Kim Ki-Duk
Year: 2003
Country: S Korea/Germany
Run Time: 103 mins
This Korean gem is set in a tiny monastry floating on a beautiful lake, where an elderly monk teaches his apprentice the ways of Buddha. The film follows the novice's passage through sexual awakening to spiritual enlightenment, over the four seasons of the year. Wisdom. humour and peace in a spectacular setting.
A: 42
B: 52
C: 22
D: 5
E: 0
Overall: 77.1
The Officer's Ward
Nov 11, 2004 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Francois Dupeyron
Year: 2003
Country: France
Run Time: 131 mins
Set in France during and after the first World War, this is the story of a young officer who is horribly maimed in battle and sent to the 'Officers Ward' to recuperate. While sketching his rehabilitation with subtlety and grace, Dupeyron focuses on the prejudice with which the outside world treats the disfigured.
A: 38
B: 33
C: 13
D: 2
E: 1
Overall: 80.2
The Station Agent
Nov 20, 2004 - Plaza.
Director: Thomas McCarthy
Year: 2003
Country: USA
Run Time: 88 mins
This understated independent masterpiece centres on a train obsessed dwarf, drawn out of his solitude by inheriting a derelict station where a handful of other damaged and lonely characters are washed up. Its an oblique comedy that slyly subverts the conventional image of the Hollywood hero.
A: 96
B: 10
C: 6
D: 0
E: 0
Overall: 95.1
The Leopard
Nov 25, 2004 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Luchino Visconti
Year: 1961
Country: US/Italy
Run Time: 205 mins
A new print of Visconti's gorgeous epic account of Lampedusa's novel - a great film of a great book. It charts the relationship between the private lives of a princely Sicilian family and the republican forces of change sweeping through Italy. A beautifully designed and photographed costume drama.
A: 39
B: 39
C: 20
D: 3
E: 0
Overall: 78.2
Elling
Dec 16, 2004 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Peter Naess
Year: 2001
Country: Norway
Run Time: 88 mins
In this eccentric buddy movie, Elling and his room-mate Kjell Bjarne are released from their institution to a city-centre flat, supposedly on the route to social rehabilitation. It's a comedy of dysfunctional manners that neither judges nor condescends, but engages our empathy.
A: 56
B: 31
C: 8
D: 0
E: 0
Overall: 87.6
Winged Migration
Jan 13, 2005 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Jacques Perrin
Year: 2001
Country: France/Germany/Spain/Italy
Run Time: 89 mins
The first of the season's two documentaries covers one of the Earth's great miracles and mysteries, bird migration. Outstanding camerwork, shot mainly on the wing, produces some stunning images of a complex and improbable phenomenon.
A: 59
B: 46
C: 17
D: 4
E: 0
Overall: 81.7
American Splendour
Jan 20, 2005 - Plaza.
Director: shari Springer Berman
Year: 2003
Country: USA
Run Time: 101 mins
One of the freshest American films in years, American Splendour brings to the screen a funny and touching account of Harvey Pekar's successful attempt to make something of his life by transforming his humdrum daily experiences into a best-selling series of comic-strip books.
A: 23
B: 51
C: 35
D: 7
E: 6
Overall: 66
Kitchen Stories
Jan 27, 2005 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Bent Hamer
Year: 2003
Country: Norway/Sweden
Run Time: 91 mins
On a project to carry out research into home efficiency in 1950's Norway, a middle-aged scientist arrives in an isolated town to monitor the kitchen routines of an elderly farmer. A compassionate bitter-sweet fable of an unlikely friendship, infused with warm-hearted humour.
A: 17
B: 54
C: 33
D: 5
E: 2
Overall: 67.8
House of Sand and Fog
Feb 3, 2005 - Plaza.
Director: Vadim Perelman
Year: 2003
Country: USA/UK
Run Time: 124 mins
Essentially a fraught and poignant dispute over a family house in California, from which recovering alcoholic Kathy is wrongfully evicted for non-payment of a property tax. Sir Ben Kingsley - nominated for an Oscar - is an Iranian exile whose acquisition of the house cheaply at auction leads to tragedy.
A: 43
B: 41
C: 9
D: 2
E: 0
Overall: 82.9
Springtime in a Small Town
Feb 10, 2005 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Tian Zhuangzhuang
Year: 2002
Country: China/HK/France
Run Time: 114 mins
A doctor visits and old friend - now in poor health - whose wife recognises him as her former lover. She is torn between loyalty to her husband and feelings for his friend. Tian said of his remake of the 1948 classic: I am dedicating my version to the memory of China's film- making pioneers
A: 7
B: 44
C: 35
D: 11
E: 7
Overall: 57.9
In this World
Feb 24, 2005 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Year: 2002
Country: UK
Run Time: 90 mins
A timely and highly accomplished account of two Afghan refugees' attempt to get to the UK overland. Its camerwork and factual detail give it the feel of a documentary, yet at the same time it packs a powerful dramatic punch.
A: 26
B: 34
C: 13
D: 3
E: 1
Overall: 76.3
Touching the Void
Mar 10, 2005 - Plaza.
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Year: 2003
Country: UK/USA
Run Time: 106 mins
Oscar-winning documentary maker Kevin Macdonald's absorbing and visually spectacular adaptation of Joe Simpson's best-selling book, is the true story of two British mountaineers who faced death while climbing a treacherous Andean peak. It's a gripping tale of ordinary men coping with extraordinary circumstances.
A: 87
B: 15
C: 5
D: 0
E: 0
Overall: 94.2
Belleville Rendezvous
Mar 24, 2005 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Sylvan Chomet
Year: 2002
Country: France/Canada/Belgium
Run Time: 77 mins
This is a Gallic riposte to Disney and Pixar - an inventive and hilarious fantasy loosely based on the national obsession with cycling and packed with grotesque parody and comic detail. Frenchness in concentrated form.