All the films for our season 2012/13. Click on image for details.
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The Source
Sep 13, 2012 - Corn Exchange
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Carnage
Sep 20, 2012 - Plaza
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Poetry
Sep 27, 2012 - Corn Exchange
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Tyrannosaur
Oct 4, 2012 - Plaza
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Le Quattro Volte
Oct 11, 2012 - Corn Exchange
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A Separation
Oct 25, 2012 - Corn Exchange
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Incendies
Nov 1, 2012 - Corn Exchange
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Coriolanus
Nov 8, 2012 - Plaza
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Nostalgia for the Light
Nov 22, 2012 - Corn Exchange
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Midnight in Paris
Dec 13, 2012 - Corn Exchange
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Even the Rain
Jan 10, 2013 - Corn Exchange
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Wild Bill
Jan 17, 2013 - Plaza
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Where do we go now?
Jan 24, 2013 - Corn Exchange
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Senna
Feb 7, 2013 - Plaza
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Monsieur Lazhar
Feb 14, 2013 - Corn Exchange
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A Royal Affair
Feb 28, 2013 - Corn Exchange
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The Guard
Mar 7, 2013 - Plaza
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Romantics Anonymous
Mar 28, 2013 - Corn Exchange
The Source
Sep 13, 2012 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Year: 2011
Country: Belgium/Italy/France
Run Time: 135 mins
The long-suffering women of a remote Moroccan village, exhausted by the dangerous and back-breaking work of collecting water daily from the mountains, stage a sex strike in protest against their husbands' refusal to build a pipeline. A moving and visually stunning parable of the Arab spring.
A: 49
B: 55
C: 7
D: 1
E: 1
Overall: 83.2
Carnage
Sep 20, 2012 - Plaza.
Director: Roman Polanski
Year: 2011
Country: France
Run Time: 79 mins
Following a playground fight between two boys, in which one gets hurt, their two sets of parents get together to discuss how to deal with it. But the initially cordial meeting quickly turns into an emotional brawl. A brilliantly acted black comedy of bad manners, in turns extremely funny and painfully realistic
A: 38
B: 51
C: 15
D: 2
E: 1
Overall: 78.7
Poetry
Sep 27, 2012 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Lee Chang-Dong
Year: 2010
Country: south Korea
Run Time: 139 mins
When her surly teenage grandson is implicated in a schoolgirl's suicide, life becomes even more confusing for Mija, who has Alzheimer's. Her decision to enrol in a poetry class brings relaxation and a new view of her world, in this original, beautiful and wonderfully acted South Korean film.
A: 14
B: 44
C: 34
D: 8
E: 1
Overall: 65.3
Tyrannosaur
Oct 4, 2012 - Plaza.
Director: Paddy Considine
Year: 2011
Country: UK
Run Time: 92 mins
An ageing raging loner seeks refuge in a charity shop where he meets a woman using her volunteering as the shop's manager and her Christian faith to escape from her abusive husband. Their relationship develops unexpectedly and offers hope of a way out. A powerful and shocking film
A: 31
B: 23
C: 14
D: 5
E: 0
Overall: 77.4
Le Quattro Volte
Oct 11, 2012 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Michelangelo Frammartino
Year: 2010
Country: Italy/Germany/Switzerland
Run Time: 88 mins
The last days of an elderly goatherd in a remote Calabrian village provide the context for an extraordinary, intriguing and touching film documentary, drama and contemplation of man's place in the natural world. Preceded by a brief filmed interview with the director.
A: 11
B: 20
C: 25
D: 10
E: 6
Overall: 56.94
A Separation
Oct 25, 2012 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Year: 2011
Country: Iran
Run Time: 122 mins
A winner at the Berlin Film Festival, this riveting and fiercely intelligent film is a fascinating insight into life in contemporary Iran. It explores social, ethical and religious dilemmas in a gripping marital drama full of surprise developments and suppressed volatility
A: 53
B: 42
C: 14
D: 9
E: 1
Overall: 78.8
Incendies
Nov 1, 2012 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Year: 2011
Country: Canada/France
Run Time: 130 mins
Twins brought up in Canada gradually discover the devastating facts about the events in Lebanon that shaped the life of their recently dead mother, and their lives too. Family tragedy and civil war are intertwined in a gripping and brilliantly acted drama as the truth is gradually revealed.
A: 61
B: 22
C: 9
D: 0
E: 0
Overall: 89.1
Coriolanus
Nov 8, 2012 - Plaza.
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Year: 2011
Country: UK
Run Time: 122 mins
A powerful updating of one of Shakespeare's most challenging plays, performed with real vigour. Coriolanus is a general whose arrogance makes him inflexible and contemptuous of the people's demands. A gripping drama with a strong supporting cast including Vanessa Redgrave as his mother.
A: 36
B: 48
C: 21
D: 4
E: 3
Overall: 74.6
Nostalgia for the Light
Nov 22, 2012 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Patricio Guzman
Year: 2010
Country: France/Germany/Chile
Run Time: 90 mins
The Atacama desert in Chile, 10,000 feet above sea level and the driest place on earth, has ideal conditions for astronomy - but also for preserving bodies, including Pinochet's political prisoners. Astronomers scan the heavens while women search for their loved ones, in this beautiful but painful film.
The making of a film about Columbus provides the framework for a powerful and intriguing study of the exploitation of the weak by the strong: of native Americans by Europeans; of the natural environment by foreign companies; and of cheap local labour by the film's own director.
A: 71
B: 35
C: 4
D: 0
E: 0
Overall: 90.2
Wild Bill
Jan 17, 2013 - Plaza.
Director: Dexter Fletcher
Year: 2011
Country: UK
Run Time: 98 mins
Released from prison on parole, hard man Bill finds his sons abandoned. If he stays with them, he risks getting mixed up with his old gang. If he leaves, his younger son may well be sucked into his criminal world. High quality performances and a focus on family dynamics make for a warm-hearted and gritty drama.
A: 50
B: 40
C: 3
D: 0
E: 1
Overall: 87.6
Where do we go now?
Jan 24, 2013 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Nadine Labaki
Year: 2011
Country: France/Lebanon/Egypt/Italy
Run Time: 110 mins
This bittersweet comedy was a success at the Toronto Film Festival and Cannes. It is set in an isolated Lebanese village, inhabited by both Christians and Muslims. As the country is engulfed by civil war, the women plot together to protect the peace of their community by keeping the news of war from their men
A: 29
B: 51
C: 21
D: 10
E: 0
Overall: 72.3
Senna
Feb 7, 2013 - Plaza.
Director: Asif Kapadia
Year: 2010
Country: UK
Run Time: 106 mins
An intimate documentary recording the astonishing career of the charismatic and controversial Brazilian racing driver, Ayrton Senna - fascinating and thrilling, even for non-racing fans. As in a classic Greek tragedy, the hero surmounts every challenge before being destroyed by fate.
A: 39
B: 27
C: 15
D: 2
E: 0
Overall: 81
Monsieur Lazhar
Feb 14, 2013 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Philippe Falardeau
Year: 2011
Country: Canada
Run Time: 94 mins
When a Canadian primary school teacher kills herself, an inexperienced Algerian immigrant takes over and has to cope with the children's confusion and guilt, culture clashes among staff and pupils and his own uncertainty. A charming warm film which well deserved its Oscar nomination.
A: 77
B: 35
C: 5
D: 0
E: 0
Overall: 90.4
A Royal Affair
Feb 28, 2013 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Year: 2012
Country: Denmark/Sweden/Czech Republic/Germany
Run Time: 128 mins
A lavish and rewarding historical epic set in 18th century Denmark, based on an extraordinary true story. Teenage Caroline is to be married to the cruel and unstable King Christian VII, but falls in love with his advisor. Together they work to introduce much needed reforms.
A: 79
B: 43
C: 6
D: 2
E: 0
Overall: 88.3
The Guard
Mar 7, 2013 - Plaza.
Director: John Michael McDonagh
Year: 2011
Country: Ireland
Run Time: 96 mins
A wickedly dark comedy thriller, set in Ireland, about the pursuit of a drug-smuggling gang by an unlikely pair of investigators - a cynical local police sergeant and an uptight FBI agent - played brilliantly by Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle. Violent, foul-mouthed and riotously funny.
A: 27
B: 50
C: 26
D: 8
E: 5
Overall: 68.5
Romantics Anonymous
Mar 28, 2013 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Jean-Pierre Ameris
Year: 2011
Country: France/Belgium
Run Time: 78 mins
The shy owner of a chocolate factory and his equally inhibited new employee embark on a tentative and nerve-wracking courtship. A good old-fashioned romantic comedy - toe-curling yet hilarious - and as sweet, soft-centred and delicious as a Turkish Delight.