All the films for our season 2010/11. Click on image for details.
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The Last Station
Sep 9, 2010 - Corn Exchange
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Bad Lieutenant
Sep 16, 2010 - Plaza
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Lourdes
Sep 23, 2010 - Corn Exchange
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Four Lions
Oct 7, 2010 - Plaza
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Mother
Oct 14, 2010 - Corn Exchange
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Conversations With My Gardener
Oct 28, 2010 - Corn Exchange
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The White Ribbon
Nov 4, 2010 - Corn Exchange
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The Hurt Locker
Nov 11, 2010 - Plaza
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Welcome
Nov 25, 2010 - Corn Exchange
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Le Concert
Dec 9, 2010 - Corn Exchange
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Broken Embraces
Jan 13, 2011 - Plaza
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Whatever Works
Jan 20, 2011 - Plaza
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London River
Jan 27, 2011 - Corn Exchange
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White Material
Feb 10, 2011 - Corn Exchange
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Frozen River
Feb 17, 2011 - Plaza
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The Secret Of Their Eyes
Feb 24, 2011 - Corn Exchange
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Looking for Eric
Mar 10, 2011 - Plaza
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Nowhere Boy
Mar 24, 2011 - Corn Exchange
The Last Station
Sep 9, 2010 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Michael Hoffman
Year: 2009
Country: UK
Run Time: 113 mins
The season opens with a historical drama set in the last year of Tolstoy's life and turbulent marriage, when his rejection of his title and material wealth and his plan to bequeath his work and property to the public domain trigger an inheritance battle with his wife.
A: 30
B: 77
C: 24
D: 6
E: 0
Overall: 73.9
Bad Lieutenant
Sep 16, 2010 - Plaza.
Director: Werner Herzog
Year: 2010
Country: USA
Run Time: 122 mins
Nicolas Cage gives a brilliant and deranged performance as a corrupt cop in post-Katrina New Orleans, whose cocaine addiction and mounting debts tempt him to join forces with drug dealers. Herzog's manic melodrama is part black comedy, part pulp crime thriller and wholly gripping.
A: 24
B: 36
C: 33
D: 11
E: 9
Overall: 63.2
Lourdes
Sep 23, 2010 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Jessica Hausner
Year: 2009
Country: Austria/Germany/France
Run Time: 99 mins
Christine travels to Lourdes on an organised tour, hoping for a miraculous cure for her MS and the pain and isolation it causes. This beautifully observed film is both a penetrating study of the spiritual tourism industry and a mystical inquiry, when what could be a miracle occurs.
A: 15
B: 50
C: 45
D: 11
E: 3
Overall: 62.7
Four Lions
Oct 7, 2010 - Plaza.
Director: Chris Morris
Year: 2009
Country: UK
Run Time: 101 mins
This black comedy follows an incompetent Sheffield terrorist cell as they push their dreams of glory to breaking point by plotting a suicide bomb attack on London. Chris Morris's debut feature film uses humour as a weapon in an absurd yet utterly plausible terrorist farce – both hilarious and alarming.
A: 15
B: 35
C: 27
D: 9
E: 7
Overall: 61.3
Mother
Oct 14, 2010 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Year: 2009
Country: south Korea
Run Time: 128 mins
When a mother discovers that her son, who suffers from learning difficulties, has been arrested for a young girl's murder, she obsessively sets out to track down the real killer and prove her son's innocence at all costs. An intelligent and unsentimental thriller from Korea that manages to be both tense and darkly comic.
A: 26
B: 57
C: 22
D: 9
E: 4
Overall: 69.5
Conversations With My Gardener
Oct 28, 2010 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Jean Becker
Year: 2008
Country: France
Run Time: 109 mins
A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country home of his childhood and strikes up an intimate and inspirational friendship with his gardener, a former schoolfriend. A beautifully crafted celebration of the pleasures and value of friendship and very French.
The Best Picture at the 2010 Oscars is an intense and affecting portrayal of elite soldiers with one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: disarming bombs in the heat of combat in Baghdad. A tense, fast-moving action movie focusing on the soldiers and their danger-freak sergeant, rather than the wider political issues.
A: 53
B: 32
C: 16
D: 5
E: 0
Overall: 81.4
Welcome
Nov 25, 2010 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Philippe Lioret
Year: 2009
Country: France/Belgium
Run Time: 109 mins
A young Kurdish migrant reaches Calais, hoping to be reunited with his loved one in London. Determined to swim the Channel, he is supported by a world-weary swimming instructor, to achieve his dream. This engaging film focuses on the personal relationship between the men against a background of refugee persecution.
A: 71
B: 51
C: 5
D: 1
E: 0
Overall: 87.5
Le Concert
Dec 9, 2010 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Year: 2009
Country: France/Italy/Romania/Belgium
Run Time: 123 mins
A famous conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, fired during the communist era for hiring Jews, decides 30 years later to perform in Paris with his former musicians, in place of the current Bolshoi Orchestra. Le Concert is a fast-moving beautifully shot comedy, a tale of passion bordering on obsession.
A: 72
B: 23
C: 5
D: 1
E: 0
Overall: 91.1
Broken Embraces
Jan 13, 2011 - Plaza.
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Year: 2009
Country: spain
Run Time: 127 mins
Almodovar returns with a beguiling story of a film director, caught up in a deadly love triangle, who loses both his sight and the love of his life in an accident. Improbable but intriguing, Broken Embraces weaves together diverse stories and viewpoints, past and present, into a complex, stylish and gripping melodrama.
A: 37
B: 51
C: 15
D: 4
E: 0
Overall: 78.3
Whatever Works
Jan 20, 2011 - Plaza.
Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2009
Country: USA/France
Run Time: 92 mins
Woody Allen returns to form with this little urban tale of absurdly neurotic New York relationships. A retired nuclear physicist and misanthrope represents Allen's alter ego and bitter mouthpiece, maintaining a remarkable lack of charm until he finds an unlikely companion in a runaway Southern belle. A classic of Jewish humour.
A: 53
B: 43
C: 15
D: 3
E: 0
Overall: 82
London River
Jan 27, 2011 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Year: 2009
Country: UK/France/Algeria
Run Time: 80 mins
Two strangers from different worlds - a French Muslim father and a very English Christian mother from Guernsey – band together to search for their children in the chaotic aftermath of the 7th July London bombings. A heart-breaking drama of suspicion, prejudice and paranoia, beautifully acted and directed.
A: 25
B: 53
C: 25
D: 8
E: 4
Overall: 68.9
White Material
Feb 10, 2011 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Claire Denis
Year: 2009
Country: France/Cameroon
Run Time: 100 mins
A French settler in West Africa desperately tries to save her family and her coffee plantation as racial conflict and violent civil war create chaos and terror. A beautiful and challenging study of colonial and family values, with a powerful and haunting performance by Isabelle Huppert as the “white material” of the title.
A: 14
B: 36
C: 41
D: 112
E: 3
Overall: 60.8
Frozen River
Feb 17, 2011 - Plaza.
Director: Courtney Hunt
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Run Time: 97 mins
A deprived Mohawk reservation on the frozen St Lawrence River provides the context for this exciting low-budget thriller about immigrant trafficking. Two decent mothers, struggling in desperate situations, become cautiously trusting partners in crime, risking disaster on thin ice as they try to make quick money.
A: 28
B: 58
C: 10
D: 2
E: 1
Overall: 77.8
The Secret Of Their Eyes
Feb 24, 2011 - Corn Exchange.
Director: Juan Jose Campanella
Year: 2009
Country: Argentina/Spain
Run Time: 130 mins
The winner of the 2009 Best Foreign Film Oscar merges a passionate love story with a crime thriller about a murderer who has escaped justice through a mix of police corruption and mysterious disappearance. The result is a lush, gripping and occasionally violent melodrama with a distinctive South American flavour.
A: 77
B: 27
C: 6
D: 0
E: 0
Overall: 91.1
Looking for Eric
Mar 10, 2011 - Plaza.
Director: Ken Loach
Year: 2009
Country: France/UK/Italy/Belgium/Spain
Run Time: 116 mins
An upbeat comedy about a football-mad postal worker whose dysfunctional home life is descending into chaos until he receives life coaching from his idol, the footballer-philosopher Eric Cantona. Ken Loach's socially conscious drama is leavened with wit, originality and fantasy.
A: 39
B: 42
C: 11
D: 1
E: 0
Overall: 82
Nowhere Boy
Mar 24, 2011 - Corn Exchange.
Director: sam Taylor-Wood
Year: 2009
Country: UK/Canada
Run Time: 98 mins
In 1955, John Lennon was a troubled 15 year-old, torn between his prodigal mother, Julia, and Mimi, the buttoned-up aunt who raised him. As he escapes into a new life of rock 'n' roll, the truth about his past leads to a tragedy he will never escape. A moving coming-of-age drama which faithfully captures the spirit of the age.