All the films for our season 2006/07. Click on image for details.
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Separate Lies
Sep 7, 2006 - Corn Exchange
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Me and You and Everyone We Know
Sep 14, 2006 - Plaza
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A Common Thread
Sep 28, 2006 - Corn Exchange
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Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
Oct 5, 2006 - Corn Exchange
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Transamerica
Oct 12, 2006 - Plaza
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Pierrepoint
Oct 19, 2006 - Plaza
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Favela Rising
Oct 26, 2006 - Corn Exchange
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Tsotsi
Nov 2, 2006 - Corn Exchange
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Army in the Shadows
Nov 9, 2006 - Corn Exchange
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Bombon El Perro
Dec 7, 2006 - Corn Exchange
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The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Jan 11, 2007 - Corn Exchange
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The Constant Gardener
Jan 18, 2007 - Plaza
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Lemming
Jan 25, 2007 - Corn Exchange
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The Squid and The Whale
Feb 1, 2007 - Plaza
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Paradise Now
Feb 8, 2007 - Corn Exchange
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Caché
Feb 22, 2007 - Corn Exchange
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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Mar 8, 2007 - Plaza
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Seducing Doctor Lewis
Mar 22, 2007 - Corn Exchange
Separate Lies
Sep 7, 2006 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Julian Fellowes
Year: 2004
Country: UK/USA
Run Time: 85 mins
The season opens with an acute study of English moral and class divides, gradually revealed by the consequences of a hit-and-run accident in a small country town. Julian Fellowes provides a stylish and witty screenplay, and his assured direction draws faultless performances from his perfectly cast actors.
A: 77
B: 49
C: 12
D: 3
E: 0
Overall: 85.5
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Sep 14, 2006 - Plaza.
Director: Miranda July
Year: 2005
Country: USA/UK/Japan
Run Time: 91 mins
As the all-embracing title suggests, this independent film is a web of interconnected stories of relationships. Set in a Los Angeles suburb, it explores, wittily and whimsically, the foibles of residents of all ages and inclinations. All the quirkiness you would expect from a multi-media artist turned director
A: 21
B: 46
C: 28
D: 10
E: 7
Overall: 64.3
A Common Thread
Sep 28, 2006 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Elonore Faucher
Year: 2004
Country: France
Run Time: 88 mins
This beautiful French film observes the evolving relationship between a mother grieving for her child and an isolated pregnant young girl who is initially hesitant at the prospect of giving birth herself. An optimistic and sensitive film that is as delicate as the intricate needlework for which they share a passion
A: 46
B: 48
C: 20
D: 1
E: 1
Overall: 79.5
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
Oct 5, 2006 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Marc Rothemund
Year: 2005
Country: Germany/France
Run Time: 120 mins
Sophie Scholl was a member of the White Rose student group committed to exposing the Nazi regime's crimes against humanity. The film is based on original transcripts and its title allows no doubt about the outcome of her interrogation and trial. A claustrophobic yet uplifting tribute to courage and conscience.
A: 72
B: 32
C: 40
D: 0
E: 1
Overall: 89.9
Transamerica
Oct 12, 2006 - Plaza.
Director: Duncan Tucker
Year: 2005
Country: USA
Run Time: 103 mins
Oscar nominated Felicity Huffman stars as a transsexual preparing for surgery who discovers she has a son in jail. Masquerading as a missionary, she bails him out and as they travel together across America, she becomes increasingly prim and maternal towards her surly and manipulative son. Funny and touching but never sentimental
A: 52
B: 69
C: 13
D: 3
E: 0
Overall: 81
Pierrepoint
Oct 19, 2006 - Plaza.
Director: Adrian Shergold
Year: 2005
Country: UK
Run Time: 90 mins
Timothy Spall gives an outstanding performance as Pierrepoint, Britain's most prolific public executioner, whose moral certainties in his role as the state's serial killer are undermined by the scale of his work following the Nuremberg trials and by the increasingly passionate campaign to abolish hanging.
A: 70
B: 53
C: 9
D: 0
E: 0
Overall: 86.6
Favela Rising
Oct 26, 2006 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Matt Mochary
Year: 2005
Country: USA
Run Time: 80 mins
An inspirational film that documents the evolution of the Brazilian band AfroReggae into a social movement and a local education project whose community work has helped improve the lives of thousands of residents of Rio's favelas (slums) by providing an alternative to a culture of drugs and violence.
A: 30
B: 53
C: 22
D: 5
E: 0
Overall: 74.5
Tsotsi
Nov 2, 2006 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Gavin Hood
Year: 2005
Country: UK/South Africa
Run Time: 94 mins
A young and predatory tsotsi (Soweto slang for ghetto thug) is forced to control his anger and violence when he accidentally steals a baby as well as a car. This Oscar-winning South African film traces his gradual reassessment of his attitudes to other people
A: 84
B: 45
C: 4
D: 1
E: 0
Overall: 89.6
Army in the Shadows
Nov 9, 2006 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Year: 1969
Country: France/Italy
Run Time: 136 mins
Based on the personal memories of French Resistance members and their activities and methods, Army in the Shadows focuses on courage, trust and betrayal. Melville's restrained and unsentimental direction reinforces the suspense and the tragedy inherent in the moral dilemmas faced daily by the freedom-fighters
A: 40
B: 42
C: 23
D: 2
E: 1
Overall: 77.3
Bombon El Perro
Dec 7, 2006 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Carlos Sorin
Year: 2004
Country: Argentina/Spain
Run Time: 97 mins
The life of a jobless mechanic in the desolate flatlands of Patagonia, struggling to survive Argentina's economic collapse, is transformed by the gift of a pedigree dog which supposedly has potential as a stud. A dry and delightful dog movie that is definitely not for children.
A: 13
B: 42
C: 19
D: 4
E: 0
Overall: 70.5
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Jan 11, 2007 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Jacques Audiard
Year: 2005
Country: France
Run Time: 107 mins
A tense and involving thriller whose anti-hero is torn between the desire to use the musical gifts inherited from his late mother to develop a career as a concert pianist, or drifting into his father's life of violent crime in the underworld of Paris. As the key audition approaches, the pressures build.
Like Molla's previous film Harry, He's Here to Help (shown in the 2002 season), Lemming mixes suspense and satire to bizarre and disturbing effect. A bourgeois couple's life takes a surreal and deadly turn when the boss and his wife - the menacing Charlotte Rampling - come to dinner.
A: 29
B: 62
C: 35
D: 2
E: 2
Overall: 71.9
The Squid and The Whale
Feb 1, 2007 - Plaza.
Director: Noah Baumbach
Year: 2005
Country: USA
Run Time: 81 mins
The domestic bliss of a Brooklyn family in the 1980s is rapidly replaced by bitterness and insecurity. This convincing drama treats the familiar theme of a family break-up and its impact on adolescent children with sympathy and humour, yet remains sharp and uncomfortable
A: 36
B: 59
C: 35
D: 4
E: 1
Overall: 73.1
Paradise Now
Feb 8, 2007 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Hany Abu-Asad
Year: 2005
Country: France/Germany/Netherlands/Israel
Run Time: 90 mins
Two Palestinian suicide bombers face moral and emotional dilemmas when a young woman discovers their plans just before the mission. As time runs out, the conflict between their personal feelings and their political and religious objectives becomes intolerable. A topical and highly charged thriller
A: 40
B: 31
C: 15
D: 3
E: 0
Overall: 80.3
Caché
Feb 22, 2007 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Michael Haneke
Year: 2004
Country: France/Austria/Germany/Italy
Run Time: 118 mins
The season's third French thriller is a tense and unnerving study of guilt and denial at a personal level, set against the background of national guilt for the French occupation of Algeria. A perfect middle-class couple fall to pieces as the realisation that they are under secret surveillance develops into genuine threats.
A: 25
B: 36
C: 26
D: 5
E: 2
Overall: 70.5
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Mar 8, 2007 - Plaza.
Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Year: 2005
Country: USA/France
Run Time: 121 mins
The body of the murdered Melquiades Estrada is buried twice, first in the desert and then by the authorities in a pauper's grave. Motivated by a sense of injustice, Melquiades' best friend Pete resolves to find his killer and force him to transport the body back to Mexico. An exceptionally moving and surprisingly funny film.
A: 43
B: 40
C: 24
D: 1
E: 0
Overall: 78.9
Seducing Doctor Lewis
Mar 22, 2007 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Jean-Francois Pouliot
Year: 2003
Country: Canada
Run Time: 108 mins
This Sundance Film Festival award-winning film is the beguiling and funny story of the ragtag community on a tiny, impoverished island who will do anything they can to persuade a young Montreal-based doctor to live in their town in order to get a much needed factory. But will they end up going too far?