All the films for our season 2009/10. Click on image for details.
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Dean Spanley
Sep 10, 2009 - Corn Exchange
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Doubt
Sep 17, 2009 - Plaza
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O'Horten
Sep 24, 2009 - Corn Exchange
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Fugitive Pieces
Oct 8, 2009 - Corn Exchange
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The Visitor
Oct 15, 2009 - Plaza
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The Edge of Heaven
Oct 22, 2009 - Corn Exchange
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Katyn
Nov 5, 2009 - Corn Exchange
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Man on Wire
Nov 12, 2009 - Plaza
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Anything for her
Nov 26, 2009 - Corn Exchange
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Caramel
Dec 10, 2009 - Corn Exchange
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Jules et Jim
Jan 14, 2010 - Corn Exchange
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Encounters At The End Of The World
Jan 21, 2010 - Plaza
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Somers Town
Jan 28, 2010 - Corn Exchange
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I've Loved You so Long
Feb 4, 2010 - Plaza
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The Pope's Toilet
Feb 11, 2010 - Corn Exchange
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Lemon Tree
Feb 25, 2010 - Corn Exchange
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The Wrestler
Mar 11, 2010 - Plaza
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Emma's Bliss
Mar 25, 2010 - Corn Exchange
Dean Spanley
Sep 10, 2009 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Toa Fraser
Year: 2008
Country: UK/NZ/Cayman Islands
Run Time: 100 mins
The season opens with a warm, funny and eccentric Edwardian comedy with a few gentle truths about family, death and faith beneath its fanciful reincarnation plot. Peter O'Toole gives a wickedly dry performance as an old man with little time or affection for his son.
A: 32
B: 58
C: 30
D: 8
E: 0
Overall: 72
Doubt
Sep 17, 2009 - Plaza.
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Run Time: 104 mins
Meryl Streep stars as a discliplinarian nun in charge of a Catholic school in the Bronx in 1964. When she becomes suspicious that the liberal priest is paying undue attention to the school's first black student, she is determined to expose the truth and force him to leave. A powerful tale of the consequences of blind moral justice.
A: 54
B: 56
C: 15
D: 2
E: 1
Overall: 81
O'Horten
Sep 24, 2009 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Bent Hamer
Year: 2007
Country: Norway/Germany/France
Run Time: 90 mins
Retired after 40 years of tedious work, O - the abbreviation for the common Norwegian first name gradually becomes as eccentric as his name suggests to English ears. His increasingly irrational and bizarre behaviour is described with sympathy and deadpan humour in a warm and humane comedy.
A: 19
B: 54
C: 29
D: 5
E: 3
Overall: 68
Fugitive Pieces
Oct 8, 2009 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Jeremy Podeswa
Year: 2007
Country: Canada/Greece
Run Time: 104 mins
Anne Michael's award-winning and best-selling novel focuses on a writer struggling to come to terms with the horrors of his childhood in war-time Poland, including his sister's mysterious disappearance. This powerful adaptation explores the effects of his traumatic past on his emotions and relationships in the present.
A: 52
B: 49
C: 14
D: 1
E: 0
Overall: 83
The Visitor
Oct 15, 2009 - Plaza.
Director: Tom McCarthy
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Run Time: 104 mins
The Visitor is a gentle and beautifully observed character study of a melancholy American professor whose quiet and dull life is slowly changed by meeting two lively illegal immigrants living in his New York flat. Another excellent film by the director/writer of The Station Agent.
A: 82
B: 54
C: 8
D: 0
E: 0
Overall: 88
The Edge of Heaven
Oct 22, 2009 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Fatin Akin
Year: 2007
Country: Germany/Turkey
Run Time: 116 mins
The lives of six people are interwoven in a complex drama of elaborate coincidences set in Germany's Turkish immigrant community. Beautifully acted and compelling, the film explores the relations between the host and immigrant communities, the tensions between first and second-generation immigrants and the wider political issues.
A: 33
B: 67
C: 26
D: 0
E: 0
Overall: 76
Katyn
Nov 5, 2009 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Year: 2007
Country: Poland
Run Time: 118 mins
At the age of 82, Wajda, a central figure in Polish cinema since the '50s, tackles the national and personal tragedy of Katyn, the massacre of thousands of Polish officers, including the director's father, in 1940 on Stalin's orders. A powerful and sombre memorial to the victims.
A: 57
B: 37
C: 15
D: 3
E: 0
Overall: 83
Man on Wire
Nov 12, 2009 - Plaza.
Director: James Marsh
Year: 2007
Country: UK
Run Time: 94 mins
An exhilarating documentary, based on a combination of memoir and reconstruction, Man on Wire brings to life not only Philippe Petit's incredible feat - walking across a tightrope between the twin towers in 1974 - but also the months of meticulous planning that preceded it.
A: 34
B: 31
C: 8
D: 1
E: 0
Overall: 83
Anything for her
Nov 26, 2009 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Fred Cavaye
Year: 2009
Country: France
Run Time: 97 mins
This tense and atmospheric film describes, in flashback, a husband's increasingly desperate attempts to free his wife who has been arrested for a murder she did not commit. Another in the recent rich vein of fast-paced French thrillers such as Tell No-one and The Beat That My Heart Skipped.
A: 65
B: 65
C: 16
D: 2
E: 1
Overall: 82
Caramel
Dec 10, 2009 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Nadine Labaki
Year: 2007
Country: France/Lebanon
Run Time: 95 mins
A charming romantic comedy set in a Beirut beauty parlour, this story of five women's relationships and anxieties derives particular interest from its setting against a background of a restricted society. Through Caramel, the director shows that a different life exists in Lebanon behind the civil unrest.
A: 18
B: 53
C: 32
D: 8
E: 2
Overall: 67
Jules et Jim
Jan 14, 2010 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Francois Truffaut
Year: 1962
Country: France
Run Time: 105 mins
Truffaut's third film, beautifully photographed in black-and-white widescreen, tells the story of two close friends - both writers, one German, one French - both in love with the charismatic, destructive Catherine between 1912 and the mid-1930s. A cinematic classic – romantic, playful and bittersweet
A: 19
B: 45
C: 31
D: 13
E: 3
Overall: 64
Encounters At The End Of The World
Jan 21, 2010 - Plaza.
Director: Werner Herzog
Year: 2007
Country: USA
Run Time: 101 mins
In Antarctica, a group of scientists is gathered in the harsh and isolated conditions of the last great wilderness to escape from civilisation and to explore the nature of life and the threats to its future. Werner Herzog's remarkable documentary illuminates the issues through stunning images and perceptive narration.
A: 51
B: 41
C: 18
D: 5
E: 1
Overall: 79
Somers Town
Jan 28, 2010 - Corn Exchange.
Director: shane Meadows
Year: 2008
Country: UK
Run Time: 70 mins
An engaging film set in contemporary London, which features a great comic performance by the teenage star Thomas Turgoose, as Tommo, a runaway from Nottingham. On arrival in London, Tommo makes friends with Marek, a Polish immigrant and they both develop a crush on a local French waitress Maria.
A: 34
B: 56
C: 36
D: 9
E: 0
Overall: 72
I've Loved You so Long
Feb 4, 2010 - Plaza.
Director: Phillippe Claudel
Year: 2008
Country: France/Germany
Run Time: 117 mins
In this engrossing film, Kristin Scott Thomas stars as a former doctor who has been released from prison after 15 years. She goes to live with her sister and gradually reintegrates into both family and society, eventually allowing herself to tell her side of the story about her mysterious past.
A: 117
B: 26
C: 4
D: 1
E: 0
Overall: 94
The Pope's Toilet
Feb 11, 2010 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Enrique Fernandez/Cesar Charlone
Year: 2008
Country: Uruguay/Brazil/France/Spain
Run Time: 98 mins
A small-time smuggler in a poverty-stricken Uruguayan village decides to make his fortune by building a 5-star loo for the use of the Pope and his entourage on a brief visit in 1988. A sweet and tender comedy, enriched by shrewd observation and excellent acting.
A: 21
B: 56
C: 33
D: 3
E: 1
Overall: 70
Lemon Tree
Feb 25, 2010 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Eran Riklis
Year: 2008
Country: France/Germany/Israel
Run Time: 106 mins
A Palestinian widow's lemon grove, her sole source of income, is deemed a threat to national security when the Israeli defence minister moves in next door. As she fights back, this brave and honest film exposes the brutal forces of oppression facing people on both sides of the conflict in the West Bank.
A: 85
B: 40
C: 8
D: 2
E: 0
Overall: 88
The Wrestler
Mar 11, 2010 - Plaza.
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Run Time: 109 mins
Both Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei won BAFTAs for their excellent performances in this film about an ageing wrestler trying to come to terms with life outside the ring after suffering a heart attack, but facing the temptation to return to the spotlight.
A: 15
B: 23
C: 19
D: 9
E: 7
Overall: 60
Emma's Bliss
Mar 25, 2010 - Corn Exchange.
Director: sven Taddicken
Year: 2006
Country: Germany
Run Time: 99 mins
Emma's Bliss is a touching story of two outcasts; a contented and self-contained pig farmer and a terminally ill second-hand car salesman who literally crashes into her Eden. The two polar opposites learn to respect each other in a kind of fairy tale told with wit and visual imagination.