All the films for our season 2015/16. Click on image for details.
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Of Horses and Men
Sep 10, 2015 - Corn Exchange
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Ida
Sep 24, 2015 - Corn Exchange
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'71
Oct 1, 2015 - Plaza
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The Patience Stone
Oct 8, 2015 - Corn Exchange
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The Salt of the Earth
Oct 22, 2015 - Corn Exchange
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Still Life
Nov 5, 2015 - Plaza
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Difret
Nov 12, 2015 - Corn Exchange
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Human Capital
Nov 26, 2015 - Corn Exchange
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The Homesman
Dec 3, 2015 - Plaza
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The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared
Dec 10, 2015 - Corn Exchange
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Me & Earl & the Dying Girl
Jan 7, 2016 - Plaza
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Stations of the Cross
Jan 14, 2016 - Corn Exchange
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Timbuktu
Jan 28, 2016 - Corn Exchange
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The Golden Dream
Feb 11, 2016 - Corn Exchange
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Tracks
Feb 18, 2016 - Plaza
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The Connection
Feb 25, 2016 - Corn Exchange
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Get On Up
Mar 10, 2016 - Plaza
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Marshland
Mar 24, 2016 - Corn Exchange
Of Horses and Men
Sep 10, 2015 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Benedict Erlingsson
Year: 2013
Country: Iceland
Run Time: 85 mins
The directorial debut of Icelandic actor, writer and stage director Benedikt Erlingsson, the film is formed of six interlocking fables of rural life. Each involves at least one horse and its human owner: two soulful beasts united against the blind cruelty of fate.
A: 23
B: 40
C: 27
D: 13
E: 8
Overall: 62.8
Ida
Sep 24, 2015 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Pawel Powlikowski
Year: 2013
Country: Poland
Run Time: 82 mins
It is 1962 in Poland and Anna is about to take vows as a nun when she learns from her only relative that she is Jewish. Both women embark on a journey to discover their family story and where they belong.
A: 47
B: 44
C: 12
D: 1
E: 0
Overall: 82.9
'71
Oct 1, 2015 - Plaza.
Director: Yan Demage
Year: 2014
Country: USA
Run Time: 100 mins
The film is set in west Belfast in the early years of the conflict. Gary, an English lad from Derbyshire who has joined the Parachute Regiment, is left behind by his retreating unit. He finds himself in a no-man’s-land where “the enemy within” appears to apply both to friend and foe. It is a world in which the authorities are running high-level informers and supplying arms to loyalist paramilitaries to maintain a deniable, proxy war.
A: 43
B: 24
C: 8
D: 3
E: 0
Overall: 84.3
The Patience Stone
Oct 8, 2015 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Atiq Rahami
Year: 2012
Country: Iran
Run Time: 102 mins
Golshifteh Farahani plays a beautiful but careworn woman in a ruined warzone, obediently tending to her wounded husband, who is in a persistent vegetative state after being shot in the neck. In life, he was a cruel and tyrannical husband, and his wife is now sensing that despite the crushing burden of caring for him, she has a euphoric kind of freedom in speaking her mind to his mute, unblinking quasi-corpse.
A: 32
B: 44
C: 24
D: 5
E: 1
Overall: 73.8
The Salt of the Earth
Oct 22, 2015 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Wim Wenders
Year: 2014
Country: France/Brazil
Run Time: 100 mins
Wim Wenders co-directed this documentary about Sebastião Salgado with the photographer’s son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, bringing “an outsider’s view” to a wealth of extant footage and photos. From stunning images of the gold mines of Serra Pelada to the horrors of famine in the Sahel and genocide in Rwanda.
A: 46
B: 20
C: 8
D: 3
E: 2
Overall: 83.2
Still Life
Nov 5, 2015 - Plaza.
Director: Uberto Pasolini
Year: 2013
Country: UK/Italy
Run Time: 111 mins
John May, a civil servant, has the thankless job of locating relatives of the recently deceased. To his superiors (and indeed everyone else), these poor unfortunates are just numbers, but John takes an all-too-personal interest in their passing.
A: 57
B: 42
C: 12
D: 0
E: 0
Overall: 85.1
Difret
Nov 12, 2015 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Zereseay Nerhane Mehari
Year: 2014
Country: Ethiopia
Run Time: 99 mins
Ethiopian director Zeresenay Mehari’s docudrama recounts a game-changing legal case from the mid-90s that involved a 14-year-old girl named Hirut (played by Tizita Hagere) who tried to plead self-defence after fatally shooting the man who abducted and raped her.
A: 57
B: 41
C: 12
D: 1
E: 0
Overall: 84.6
Human Capital
Nov 26, 2015 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Paolo Virzi
Year: 2013
Country: Italy
Run Time: 120 mins
stephen Amidon’s 2004 novel Human Capital has been transplanted from its original Connecticut setting to the prosperous environs of Milan. A cyclist is knocked down in a hit-and-run incident, uniting two families who have already drawn together by greed.
A: 31
B: 60
C: 25
D: 1
E: 0
Overall: 75.8
The Homesman
Dec 3, 2015 - Plaza.
Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Year: 2014
Country: France/USA
Run Time: 122 mins
After a brutal winter, three settlers’ wives have been driven mad by bereavement and financial ruin, and the parish priest needs someone to literally cart them back to a sanatorium in Iowa – the pioneer’s journey in reverse. The job requires a “homesman”: someone smart, strong and trustworthy, who can survive by himself for weeks on the trail. Except no man in town is up to the task so the homesman has to be a homeswoman. Mary Bee (Hilary Swank) grits her teeth and saddles up.
A: 33
B: 60
C: 17
D: 2
E: 1
Overall: 77
The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared
Dec 10, 2015 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Felix Herngren
Year: 2015
Country: sweden/Netherlands
Run Time: 114 mins
Based on the bestselling 2009 debut novel by Jonas Jonasson, the wildly whimsical narrative follows the misadventures of Allan Karlsson (Swedish comedy great Robert Gustafsson) who escapes from an old people's home just in time to miss his own centenary birthday party.
A: 31
B: 33
C: 24
D: 8
E: 4
Overall: 69.7
Me & Earl & the Dying Girl
Jan 7, 2016 - Plaza.
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Year: 2015
Country: USA
Run Time: 105 mins
Winner of the 2015 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award, ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL is the story of Greg Gaines (Thomas Mann), an awkward high school senior whose mum forces him to spend time with Rachel - a girl in his class (Olivia Cooke) with whom he hasn't spoken to since nursery school - who was just diagnosed with cancer.
A: 59
B: 41
C: 4
D: 0
E: 0
Overall: 90.8
Stations of the Cross
Jan 14, 2016 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Dietrich Brueggeman
Year: 2012
Country: Germany
Run Time: 110 mins
Though from the outside Maria lives in the modern world, her family and her heart are faithful to a Catholic radicalism that requires sacrifice and devotion at every turn. As she struggles to balance her own desires with the dictates of her family's faith, she makes ever more perilous sacrifices, attempting to please a God she worships unquestioningly in the pious hope of curing the autistic younger brother she adores.
A: 15
B: 33
C: 24
D: 13
E: 5
Overall: 61.1
Timbuktu
Jan 28, 2016 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
Year: 2014
Country: France/Mauretania
Run Time: 100 mins
The film shows life in a city under the control of violent Islamic fundamentalists. The main plot line involves a day-dreaming, music-loving herder who owns eight cattle. He is devoted to his wife and daughter but after his beloved cow is shot by a local fisherman, he becomes involved in a dispute with deadly consequences – one in which the fundamentalists' attempts at law enforcement backfire entirely.
A: 21
B: 37
C: 19
D: 9
E: 6
Overall: 65.7
The Golden Dream
Feb 11, 2016 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Diego Quemada-Diez
Year: 2013
Country: Mexico
Run Time: 110 mins
Diego Quemada-Diez's astounding and gripping debut feature is a piercing and poetic road movie that follows the fortunes of four Guatemalan teenagers on a dangerous journey across the Mexican border into America. Using improvisational techniques and non-professional actors, The Golden Dream has won critical praise world over.
A: 18
B: 51
C: 22
D: 5
E: 0
Overall: 71.3
Tracks
Feb 18, 2016 - Plaza.
Director: John Curran
Year: 2013
Country: Australia
Run Time: 120 mins
Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian (Mia Wasikowska) satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean. The journey, which spawned an article for National Geographic and a global bestseller, begins in April 1977 and lasts for nine arduous months.
A: 56
B: 32
C: 8
D: 0
E: 0
Overall: 87.5
The Connection
Feb 25, 2016 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Cedric Jimanez
Year: 2014
Country: France/Belgium
Run Time: 130 mins
Inspired by the same true-life events that informed William Friedkin's New York-based The French Connection, Cedric Jimenez lays out the Marseilles end of the battle against the heroin trade of the mid-’70s.
A: 51
B: 41
C: 12
D: 1
E: 1
Overall: 83.01
Get On Up
Mar 10, 2016 - Plaza.
Director: Tate Taylor
Year: 2014
Country: USA
Run Time: 139 mins
James Brown (Chadwick Boseman) takes us on a whistle-stop tour of his life, from struggling in poverty as Little Junior, to joining R&B group The Famous Flames, to becoming the world-famous Godfather of Soul.
A: 16
B: 36
C: 14
D: 3
E: 1
Overall: 72.5
Marshland
Mar 24, 2016 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Alberto Rodriguez-Libero
Year: 2013
Country: spain
Run Time: 105 mins
A pair of mismatched Spanish cops are on the trail of a serial killer in the aftermath of the fall of Franco. One‚ an old ally of the former fascist regime, the other an ambitious, young advocate of democracy.