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The Look France, 2011Perhaps more than any other woman, Charlotte Rampling epitomizes sexual liberation, from the swinging sixties when she was a young woman in fashionable Chelsea, to the attractive mature woman she... |
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Bernard Herrmann: Knowing the Score United Kingdom, 2011This year marks the centenary of the birth of film composer Bernard Herrmann, creator of some of the most powerful and instantly recognisable film scores in cinema history. Although best... |
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Mark Kermode: The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex UK, 2011Outspoken, opinionated and hilariously funny, leading UK film critic Mark Kermode returns to the stage with The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex to take us into the belly of the beast and ask: what... |
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Jos Stelling In Conversation Jos Stelling, Netherlands, 2011Jos Stelling, filmmaker, cinema owner, visionary. At the age of seven he was given a projector and started to show films to children in the neighbourhood, developing a profound passion for film. He... |
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The Tartan Terror: Hamish McAlpine in conversation United Kingdom, 2011<strong>Hamish McAlpine in conversation with Peter Bradshaw</strong> Few independent film distribution companies make a name for themselves - one that is remembered and recognised - but before... |
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Finding Nemo USA, 2003Marlin is a more than slightly paranoid Clown Fish who is extremely devoted to his young son, Nemo, the only survivor after a hungry shark swallowed up Nemo's mother and her other offspring.... |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl USA, 2003When Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) is kidnapped by Pirate Captain Barbossa, (Geoffrey Rush), Elizabeth’s childhood friend Wil Turner (Ben Wilson) is determined to rescue her. Finding an... |
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The Lido Picture Show Various, 2011Join us again for our annual family film event at Cambridge's renowned open-air swimming pool, with an exciting collection of shorts featuring a selection from the Disposable Film Festival, fresh... |
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Robin Hood USA, 1922The radiant Douglas Fairbanks launches into action in his role as the Earl of Huntingdon - better known as Robin Hood - champion of King Richard's people (Wallace Beery), in this silent epic... |
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Main Features
Ispansi (Spaniards) Spain/Germany, 2010Paula and Alvaro belong to opposite social and ideological classes. Turbulent times in their homeland have led to them being sent to the USSR, two of the 30,000 'war children' evacuated abroad in... |
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The Show Must Go On Nevio Marasovic, Croatia, 2010During a Big Brother style reality show set in the near future, a war starts and escalates towards nuclear confrontation, but the producer will do anything to hide it from the contestants. As the... |
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Tyrannosaur Paddy Considine, United Kingdom, 2010<strong>The Saturday screening is followed by a Q&A session with Paddy Considine</strong> Actor Paddy Considine impressed audiences at Sundance with this feature-length directorial debut,... |
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Age of Champions plus Water Lilies in Bloom United States, 2000Age of Champions follows senior athletes - a 100-year-old tennis champion, 86-year-old pole vaulter, pair of swimming brothers, and team of basketball grandmothers - all chasing gold medals at the... |
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The Yellow Sea Hong-jin Na, Korea (South), 2010Set pulses to pound in this bruising South Korean crime thriller compared by the Hollywood Reporter to A TOUCH OF EVIL. Full of some of the scrappiest on-screen fights since OLDBOY, Na Hong-jin?s... |
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Red State Kevin Smith, United States, 2011Cult writer-director Kevin Smiths (CLERKS) hotly anticipated tenth film is a unique and intense thriller. In Middle America, three horny teenagers travel to Coopers Dell after responding to an... |
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The Help United States, 2011Skeeter (Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives and their 1960s Mississippi town upside down when she decides to... |
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The Lion King (3D) Roger Allers, United States, 2011What could be better than talking, singing lions? Talking, singing lions in 3D of course! Nearly a decade since THE LION KING last appeared on the big screen, Disney's Oscar® and Golden Globe®... |
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Midnight in Paris Spain, USA, 2011In this romantic fantasy adventure Woody Allen indulges his passion for France's capital amid an exploration of the fallacy of nostalgia. When wealthy Hollywood scriptwriter Gil (Wilson) and... |
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Intimate Grammar Israel, 2010In Israel in the early 1960s, a new generation is growing up: the militant Israeli, the generation that will not go through another Holocaust. But Hindas son, Aharon, a sensitive eleven year old... |
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A Useful Life (La Vida Útil) & The Ultimate Survivor Federico Veiroj, Uruguay; UK, 2010A USEFUL LIFE (LA VIDA UTIL) (67 mins): A timely yet magical film for everyone who is working in or passionate about cinematheques. Jorge (played by Uruguayan film critic Jorge Jellinek) has been... |
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Resistance Amit Gupta, United Kingdom, 2011<strong>PLUS Q&A with Director Amit Gupta and Author Owen Sheers! (Tue 20 8.30pm)</strong> 1944: after five years of war a Nazi invasion lands on British soil. Within a month, half the country... |
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Sleeping Beauty Australia, 2011You will go to sleep: you will wake up. It will be as if those hours never existed. Death-haunted, quietly reckless Lucy is a young university student who takes a job as a Sleeping Beauty. In the... |
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Mademoiselle Chambon Stephane Brize, France, 2009After the international success of NOT HERE TO BE LOVED, Stéphane Brizé returns with this touching, softly-spoken portrait of two adults fighting to stop their carnal passions from spilling over... |
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Drive Nicolas Winding Refn, USA, 2011<strong>Plus Q + A session with filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn for the 4pm Monday Picturehouse screening</strong> Based on a short story by the neo-noir crime novelist James Sallis, DRIVE... |
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Romantics Anonymous Jean-Pierre Améris, France, 2011What happens when a gifted chocolate-maker with a lifelong case of uncontrollable shyness meets a similar case of total discomfiture? Director Jean-Pierre Améris is likely to offer the two a... |
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Atrocious Fernando Barreda Luna, Spain/Mexico, 2010In April 2010, the Quintanilla family travelled to their farmhouse in Sitges, Spain, for their summer vacation. Not keen on the countryside, siblings Christian and July started investigating the... |
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Albatross Niall MacCormick, United Kingdom, 2011Vivacious 17-year-old Emilia (Findlay) works at The Cliff House, run by a squabbling couple Jonathan (Sebastian Koch, from THE LIVES OF OTHERS), his wife Joa (Julia Ormond) and their children.... |
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I Don't Know How She Does It Douglas MagGrath, USA, 2011Based on critically acclaimed bestseller by Allison Pearson, I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT follows Boston-based working mother Kate Reddy (Parker) trying desperately to juggle marriage,... |
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Documentaries
Troubadours Morgan Neville, United States, 2011In the midst of the international social upheavals of the 1960s, a new style of songwriter was emerging. Defined by a tendency for brutal self-analysis and raw, open emotion, these songwriters... |
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The Look France, 2011Perhaps more than any other woman, Charlotte Rampling epitomizes sexual liberation, from the swinging sixties when she was a young woman in fashionable Chelsea, to the attractive mature woman she... |
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Britain Through a Lens & Humphrey Jennings Chris Durlacher, United Kingdom, 2011BRITAIN THROUGH A LENS (60 mins): The unlikely story of how, between 1929 and 1945, a group of tweed-wearing radicals and pin-striped bureaucrats created the most influential movement in the... |
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Cartography of Loneliness & Charcoal Burners Piotr Zlotorowicz, Spain; Poland, 2011<strong>Q + A session with filmmaker Nocem Collado</strong> CARTOGRAPHY OF LONELINESS (68 mins): Observing widows from India, Nepal and Afghanistan - countries with the highest population of... |
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Eggs For Later/Leap Before You Look/Boffin & Boffin Ed Blythe, Netherlands, 2011<strong>Q + A session with Marieke Schellart</strong> EGGS FOR LATER (50 mins): In this personal documentary director Marieke Schellart (35) reveals how she, as a single modern woman, struggles... |
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The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye Marie Losier, US/France, 2011Genesis Breyer P-Orridge has been a key figure of the underground music scene for over 30 years. A cult artist in pre-punk and post-punk groups Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, he is considered to... |
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My Long Distance Friend Carina Molier, Netherlands, 2011Since the age of 9, when she ran away from her home country of Zimbabwe, Og has lead a nomadic existence. Moving between countries and people, in an incredible tale that sees her falling pregnant... |
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The Ultimate Survivor & The Last Projectionist Philip Hind, United Kingdom, 2011<strong>Q + A session with filmmaker Philip Hind</strong> THE ULTIMATE SURVIVOR is director and writer Philip Hind's first solo project, an in depth look at one of Oxford's historic and unusual... |
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The Camera that Changed the World (62m)/Don't Look Back (96m) United Kingdom, 2011THE CAMERA THAT CHANGED THE WORLD: "The Camera That Changed The World" celebrates craftsmen and artists who built and handled the first portable cameras in the summer of 1960. Unfettered by the... |
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Bombay Beach Alma Har'el, USA, 2011Featuring choreographed dance numbers set against music composed by Zach Condon from the band Beirut and songs by Bob Dylan, rarely has there been a more freewheeling documentary. The protagonists... |
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Mann V. Ford Maro Chermayeff, Micah Fink, United States, 2011In the late 1960s a Ford Motors plant in Mahwah, New Jersey dumped toxic paint sludge. As the local Indian community's children played in this colourful waste little could they conceive of the... |
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Sound It Out & Analogue Kingdom United Kingdom, 2011SOUND IT OUT (74 mins): A cultural heaven in one of the most deprived areas in the country, Sound It Out Records is run by the drily philosophical Tom Butchart, whose wealth of knowledge helps... |
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A Boatload of Wild Irishmen Mac Dara O'Curraidhín, Ireland, 2011Written by Brian Winston Film Editor Chris Hainstock <strong>Q + A session with writer and co-producer Brian Winston</strong> Co-produced by the University of Lincoln, <a... |
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Blood in the Mobile Denmark/Germany, 2011<strong>Q + A session with Frank Piasechi Poulsen</strong> We love our cell phones and the selection between different models has never been bigger. But the production of phones has a dark,... |
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Taste the Waste Valetin Thurn, Germany, 2011In a world constantly battling against famine, TASTE THE WASTE presents an uncomfortable truth: 50 percent of all food is thrown away: every second salad, every second potato and every fifth loaf... |
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A Man's Story - Ozwald Boateng Varon Bonicos, United Kingdom, 2010A Mans Story profiles Ozwald Boateng, his design, his business, his personal life. Charismatic, glamorous, hard-working and very humanly flawed, Boateng's personal and professional triumphs and... |
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Calvet Dominic Allan, United Kingdom, 2011<strong>Q + A session with director Dominic Allen</strong> Calvet depicts the struggles of Jean Marc Calvet, now an artist with burgeoning international success, to come to terms with his past... |
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FC Chechnya & Fungus (Svamp) Fahad Mustafa, Austria; Sweden, 2011FC CHECHNYA (70 mins): FC Chechnya is a football club run solely by Chechen refugees and asylum seekers in Carinthia. Acting as a social support base and a means for psychological release during... |
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El Bulli Gereon Wetzel, Germany, 2011Kitchen king Ferran Adrià is serious about eating. He doesn't just sample and sip, he scoffs like Homer Simpson, and you can see for yourself in Gereon Wetzel's documentary EL BULLI: COOKING IN... |
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Beatboxing - The Fifth Element of Hip Hop & Ben Is Back Klaus Schneyder, USA; Israel, 2011BEATBOXING - THE FIFTH ELEMENT OF HIP HOP (55 mins): Under the name of Hip-Hop, behind Graffiti, DJing, Breakdancing and rapping, a fifth element emerged from the youth culture surrounding poor... |
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Gerhard Richter - Painting Corinna Belz, Germany, 2011Gerhard Richter, one of the most internationally significant artists of our times, granted filmmaker Corinna Belz access to his studio in the spring and summer of 2009 where he was working on a... |
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A Useful Life (La Vida Útil) & The Ultimate Survivor Federico Veiroj, Uruguay; UK, 2010A USEFUL LIFE (LA VIDA UTIL) (67 mins): A timely yet magical film for everyone who is working in or passionate about cinematheques. Jorge (played by Uruguayan film critic Jorge Jellinek) has been... |
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Street Kids United Tim Pritchard, United Kingdom, 2010<strong>Q + A session with director Tim Pritchard, the coach of the South-African team Biza Maldano and John Wroe from Momentum Arts</strong> Following the South African team, the Umthombo Young... |
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At Night, They Dance (La Nuit, Elle Dansent) Stephane Thibault, Isabelle Lavigne, Canada, 2011Life is not easy for Reda, aged 42, mother of seven with an eighth baby on her way, recently widowed. But she is a powerful and joyful force to be reckoned with ? especially when it comes to taking... |
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Eleanore and the Timekeeper & Our Ordered Lives Danièle Wilmouth, USA; UK, 2011ELEANORE AND THE TIMEKEEPER (76 mins): In a rural Pennsylvanian farming and logging community, Eleanore, aged 91, has been caring for her developmentally disabled son Ronnie for 64 years...... |
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The Last Projectionist Thomas Lawes, United Kingdom, 2011<strong>Q&A session with Director Thomas (Tom) Lawes</strong> Thomas Lawes' nostalgic documentary celebrates independent cinema tradition, showing how its renaissance is now a worldwide... |
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Gibraltar Ana Garcia, United Kingdom, 2011<strong>Q + A session with Anna Garcia</strong> Intertwining the history of her homeland with the story of her return there for her marriage, filmmaker Ana Garcia successfully brings together... |
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Henry Morris plus Faces of Harlow Peter Harmer, United Kingdom, 2011Young filmmakers from Sawston have recruited Peter Harmer of Stories - Projects in Film to help them commemorate the 80th anniversary of the opening of their school. The Village College was created... |
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The Greatest Movie Ever Sold United States, 2011 |
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The Bengali Detective United Kingdom, 2011<strong>Q + A session with director Phil Cox</strong> CFF are delighted to host the UK premiere of the Sundance and Berlin hit doc THE BENGALI DETECTIVE. This entertaining and moving film... |
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The Lulu Sessions S. Casper Wong, United States, 2011<strong> Q + A session with director Casper Wong after Wednesday 21 Sep screening at Queens Theatre, Emmanuel College</strong> WINNER Emerging Director Award (Asian American International Film... |
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Forks Over Knives Lee Fulkerson, United States, 2011Tracing the research of Dr. T. Colin Campbell, a nutritional biochemist, and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, a former surgeon, director Lee Fulkerson argues that heart disease, diabetes and even some forms... |
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The Forest Prince and The Pig Man & The Stranger USA; Australia, 2011THE FOREST PRINCE AND THE PIG MAN (71 mins): Interweaving a coast-to-coast hitchhiking trip with the underground history of bumming rides, documentary maker Craig Constantine thumbs a lift and... |
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Cane Toads: The Conquest 3D Mark Lewis, Australia, 2010In 1988, Mark Lewis brought us CANE TOADS: THE CONQUEST, highlighting the disastrous impact of a rather unpleasant amphibian on the fragile Australian ecosystem. Imported from Hawaii as a... |
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Contemporary German Cinema
The Silence Baran bo Odar, Germany, 2010A Bicycle found in a wheat field. A Missing Girl. Is history repeating itself? 23 years ago, a young girl named Pia was raped and murdered in this exact spot. Has the same thing happened now to... |
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Under Control Volker Sattel, Germany, 2011Coincidentally made just before the atomic catastrophe in Japan, UNDER CONTROL gives an exclusive and fascinating insight into nuclear power stations. Filmmaker Volker Sattel (AFTER EFFECT) would... |
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Burnout (Abgebrannt) Verena S. Freytag, Germany, 2011<strong>+ Q&A with Director Verena S. Freytag</strong> Berlin tattooist and single mother of three children, Pelin (Maryam Zaree) collapses when one day her problems grow into a mountain: her... |
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Anduni Samira Radsi, Germany, 2011Armenian Belinda feels at home in Germany, where she was born, lives and studies just like any other German girl her age. But when she loses her father, she is suddenly drawn into the traditional... |
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The Poll Diaries Chris Kraus, Germany, 2010In the summer of 1914I, a 14-year-old German girl returns to her home on the Baltic coast, a place uneasily shared by Germans, Russians and Estonians. While her morbid scientist father controls the... |
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If Not Us, Who? Germany, 2011Germany in the early 60s: a time of departure. Bernward Vesper, son of the Nazi writer Will Vesper, is rebellious. During the night, he slams the angry words into his typewriter that he wants to... |
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Above Us Only Sky Jan Schomburg, Germany, 2011One could say of Martha's life that it's well-balanced, fulfilling-happy. She enjoys her teaching job, has a group of loyal, loving friends and, above all, she has Paul. The man she loves and has... |
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Philipp Fabian Möhrke, Germany, 2010With oversized glasses on his narrow face and abundant sarcasm, Philipp lurches through a life that is not actually his own. At an age when people should be talking about plans for the future, he... |
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The City Below Christoph Hochhäusler, Germany, 2010Thanks to a chance meeting at a mandatory cultural event, Roland Cordes, 55, and a member of the board of a large bank, encounters the wife of a new employee: Svenja Steve, 33. There is an... |
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Revivals
Silent Running Douglas Trumbull, United States, 1972Bruce Dern stars as the caretaker of a greenhouse located on a space station. The Earth has been stripped clean of foliage, and the greenhouse contains the last remaining greenery from the planet.... |
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An American in Paris (RE) Vincente Minnelli, United States, 2011Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is "discovered" by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerrys art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already... |
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Tartan Films: A Tribute
Funny Games Michael Haneke, Austria, 1997One of the most shocking and unsettling films of the 1990s from director Michael Haneke (THE PIANO TEACHER, HIDDEN (CACHÉ)), FUNNY GAMES is an immensely powerful and brilliantly handled... |
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The Seventh Seal Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1957Endlessly imitated and parodied, Bergmans landmark THE SEVENTH SEAL retains its ability to spellbind the audience. Von Sydow stars as a 14th-century knight, Antonius Block, wearily heading home... |
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Irreversible Gasper Noe, France, 2000A remarkable, provocative and horrifyingly brutal portrayal of love and revenge from controversial director Gasper Noé (SEUL CONTRE TOUS). Starring off-screen husband and wife Vincent Cassel... |
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Wild Side (Donald Cammell's cut) United Kingdom, 2000<strong> Intro by Hamish McAlpine</strong> Bruno Buckingham (Walken) is an international money launderer who has need of the talents of Long Beach bank executive Alex Lee (Heche). But Alex... |
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Sympathy for Mr Vengeance Park Chan-Wook, Korea (South), 2002<strong>Q + A session with Hamish MacAlpine</strong> The first of Park Chan-wook's remarkable vengeance trilogy (with OLDBOY and LADY VENGEANCE) is as brutal a revenge movie as you're ever... |
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The Tartan Terror: Hamish McAlpine in conversation United Kingdom, 2011<strong>Hamish McAlpine in conversation with Peter Bradshaw</strong> Few independent film distribution companies make a name for themselves - one that is remembered and recognised - but before... |
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Hold The Front Page!
Citizen Kane Orson Welles, United States, 1941From the opening sequence, Orson Welles first film - the most famous debut in all cinema - is replete with stylistic tropes and flourishes which evoke the German cinema of the 20s and 30s. Long... |
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Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times United States, 2011<strong>Q+A session with director Andrew Rossi, journalist David Carr and Tony Earnshaw</strong> During the most tumultuous time for media in generations, filmmaker Andrew Rossi gains... |
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Ace in the Hole & Wakefield Express Billy Wilder, Lindsay Anderson, USA, 1951ACE IN THE HOLE (111 mins): Charles Tatum, a down-on-his-luck reporter, takes a job with a small New Mexico newspaper. The job is pretty boring until he finds a man trapped in an old Indian... |
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Veronica Guerin Joel Schumacher, United States, 2003Based on a true story, this is about the Irish journalist Veronica Guerin (Cate Blanchett), a reporter for The Sunday Independent, who exposed some of Dublins most powerful crime barons and drug... |
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Sweet Smell of Success Alexander Mackendrick, United States, 1957SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS was Mackendricks American debut, a rat trap of a film in which a vicious NY gossip hustler (Curtis) grovels for his Mr Big (Lancaster), a monster newspaper columnist who is... |
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Zodiac David Fincher, United States, 2007The true story behind the murders that many scholars believe to be the most perplexing series of unsolved crimes in modern history comes to the screen in chilling detail courtesy of Fincher (FIGHT... |
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire Val Guest, United Kingdom, 1961Through the eyes of British reporter Peter Stenning (Judd), we learn that both the US and the USSR have simultaneously set off nuclear explosions to test their efficiency. The twin blasts have... |
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The Front Page Billy Wilder, United States, 1974Hildy Johnson is the top reporter on a Chicago newspaper during the 1920s. Tired of the whole game hes determined to quit his job to get married. His scheming editor, Walter Burns, has other plans... |
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Tabloid Errol Morris, United States, 2010Casting aside the conventionality that characterised his earlier output, Errol Morris allows seasoned celebrity Joyce McKinney to speak for herself in this portrait fo a scandalous siren. In... |
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All the President's Men Alan Pakula, United States, 1976In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. He is surprised to find top... |
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Cambridge Family Film Festival
The Gruffalo Max Lang, United Kingdom, 2009Recently voted the nations favourite bedtime story, the magical tale of a plucky mouse who takes a walk through the woods in search of a nut is brought to enchanting life in an all-star adaptation... |
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To Infinity and Beyond! Various, United Kingdom, 2011Join Mr Benn, The Clangers, Ivor The Engine, and Bagpuss as they head up, up and away for exciting adventures in outer space. Mr Benn steps into the Fancy Dress Shop?s changing room and emerges as... |
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Nature's Way: Charlie and Lola and Tinga Tinga Tales Various, United Kingdom, 2007A special programme of three beautifully-crafted and gloriously-animated tales from celebrated children's television production company Tiger Aspect Productions. Charlie and Lola Autumn Special... |
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The Lion King (3D) Roger Allers, United States, 2011What could be better than talking, singing lions? Talking, singing lions in 3D of course! Nearly a decade since THE LION KING last appeared on the big screen, Disney's Oscar® and Golden Globe®... |
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Octonauts - Explore! Rescue! Protect! Darragh O' Connell, United Kingdom, 2010The Octonauts are a team of undersea adventurers who are always ready to dive into action! Their mission: to explore new underwater worlds, rescue amazing sea creatures and protect the ocean. Based... |
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Sprites 10 United Kingdom, 2011This dazzling selection of family-friendly shorts has been hand picked for the new digital generation by ondotzero - an international contemporary digital arts and design organisation. Let the... |
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Jos Stelling: A Dutch Master
The Pointsman Jos Stelling, Netherlands, 1986<strong>Q + A session with Jos Stelling</strong> When an elegant French woman steps of a train in the middle of the night, she finds herself not on a platform, but the middle of nowhere, yet... |
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Duska Jos Stelling, Netherlands, 2007The submission for Best Foreign Film Oscar 2008 from the Netherlands, DUSKA is the perfect Film Festival movie. Bob is a film critic who lives opposite his favourite cinema. He is now working on a... |
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No Trains No Planes Jos Stelling, Netherlands, 1999Like THE POINTSMAN, NO PLANES NO TRAINS is based on a book by Jean-Paul Franssens. It floats beautifully from the opening close-up of a butterfly on a plant to the final moments of the film - a... |
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Rembrant Fecit 1669 Jos Stelling, Netherlands, 1977An unusual and opulent portrait of the great painter, sketcher and etcher is Stelling's third film and continues a fascination with Dutch culture, using the imagery of early Dutch masters. From an... |
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The Illusionist (1984) Jos Stelling, Netherlands, 1984Blending fiction, reality, dream and illusion effortlessly THE ILLUSIONIST is the story of two brothers, one of whom pursues his ambitions, while the other is sent to a mental institution by their... |
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Jos Stelling In Conversation Jos Stelling, Netherlands, 2011Jos Stelling, filmmaker, cinema owner, visionary. At the age of seven he was given a projector and started to show films to children in the neighbourhood, developing a profound passion for film. He... |
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The Romanian New Wave
Occident Cristian Mungiu, Romania, 2002A rare chance to see the debut feature by Cristian Mungiu (who made the groundbreaking 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS starring Anamaria Marinca), which premiered in Cannes in 2002. This tragicomedy is... |
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Stuff and Dough Cristi Puiu, Romania, 2001STUFF AND DOUGH follows a young man who is given a suspiciously large amount of money and only four hours to deliver a bag of medical goods. Directed by Cristi Puiu (who went on to make the... |
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Niki and Flo Lucian Pintilie, Romania, 2003'NIKI AND FLO is a very dear film of mine. Maybe because it's my last film, in every way, or maybe, who knows, my first film in a different kind of accounting?' Angela and her husband have decided... |
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Romanian New Wave Shorts Various, Romania, 2011Strung Love May 1984. Viorel - a nerd from the smithing class of a communist industrial high-school - enters a rivet-production contest hoping to win the attention and affection of Ileana - a... |
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The Paper Will Be Blue Radu Muntean, Romania, 2000Set during the confusing night of 22 December 1989, when Ceausescu was about to fall after decades of harsh dictatorship. The original inspiration for the film was a tragic incident that received... |
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The Oak (Balanta) Lucian Pintilie, Romania, 1992THE OAK was made after a 20 year ban, in which Pintilie was not allowed to make films. In 1989, having just lost her father, Nela decides to go and teach in a small provincial town. There she meets... |
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Afternoon of a Torturer Romania, 2001"This was the first time I tried to make a film with the ambition of triggering a moral electroshock. (...) THE AFTERNOON OF A TORTURER is a film about the total incapacity of Romanians to confess... |
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Shortfusion
Short Fusion: Wrong Place, Wrong Time Germany; UK; France; USA; Australia; France/Germany, 2011<strong>Q + A with filmmakers Jan Seeman, Alex Hardy and Thomas Guerrier</strong> Summer Knows An accidental encounter between a young man and a couple turns into a game of light and shadow.... |
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Short Fusion: Wounds and Scars Israel; Mexico; Canada; Korea; Germany; UK, 2011<strong>Q + A session with Piers Thompson</strong> Written in Pencil An everyday train voyage slowly turns into a nightmare. The Well In the middle of the remote and rugged desert of... |
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Cartography of Loneliness & Charcoal Burners Piotr Zlotorowicz, Spain; Poland, 2011<strong>Q + A session with filmmaker Nocem Collado</strong> CARTOGRAPHY OF LONELINESS (68 mins): Observing widows from India, Nepal and Afghanistan - countries with the highest population of... |
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Age of Champions plus Water Lilies in Bloom United States, 2000Age of Champions follows senior athletes - a 100-year-old tennis champion, 86-year-old pole vaulter, pair of swimming brothers, and team of basketball grandmothers - all chasing gold medals at the... |
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Eggs For Later/Leap Before You Look/Boffin & Boffin Ed Blythe, Netherlands, 2011<strong>Q + A session with Marieke Schellart</strong> EGGS FOR LATER (50 mins): In this personal documentary director Marieke Schellart (35) reveals how she, as a single modern woman, struggles... |
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Sound It Out & Analogue Kingdom United Kingdom, 2011SOUND IT OUT (74 mins): A cultural heaven in one of the most deprived areas in the country, Sound It Out Records is run by the drily philosophical Tom Butchart, whose wealth of knowledge helps... |
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Short Fusion: Love, Lost and Found UK; Germany; Cape Verde/Germany, 2011<strong>Q + A session with Charlotte Boulay-Goldsmith</strong> The Man With the Stolen Heart A surreal tale about a Man who wakes up one day only to discover his heart has run away. Almost... |
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Short Fusion: Mad World UK; Ireland/Germany; Poland/UK; Luxembourg; Germany, 2011<strong>Fri 23 Sep 11pm Q + A session with Martin Bargiel</strong> <strong>Sun 25 Sep 1pm Q + A session with Martin Bargiel, producer Sophie Vickers, filmmaker Prasanna Puwanarajah</strong> A... |
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FC Chechnya & Fungus (Svamp) Fahad Mustafa, Austria; Sweden, 2011FC CHECHNYA (70 mins): FC Chechnya is a football club run solely by Chechen refugees and asylum seekers in Carinthia. Acting as a social support base and a means for psychological release during... |
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Beatboxing - The Fifth Element of Hip Hop & Ben Is Back Klaus Schneyder, USA; Israel, 2011BEATBOXING - THE FIFTH ELEMENT OF HIP HOP (55 mins): Under the name of Hip-Hop, behind Graffiti, DJing, Breakdancing and rapping, a fifth element emerged from the youth culture surrounding poor... |
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Eleanore and the Timekeeper & Our Ordered Lives Danièle Wilmouth, USA; UK, 2011ELEANORE AND THE TIMEKEEPER (76 mins): In a rural Pennsylvanian farming and logging community, Eleanore, aged 91, has been caring for her developmentally disabled son Ronnie for 64 years...... |
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Short Fusion: Dilating Time UK; Korea; Poland, 2011<strong>Q + A session with filmmaker Jon Stanford</strong> Nancy, Sid & Sergio When God and the Devil go on a rock climbing weekend in Wales, it?s down time ? a chance to call a temporary... |
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Short Fusion: Mad World UK; Ireland/Germany; Poland/UK; Luxembourg; Germany, 2011A Morning Stroll A New Yorker's daily encounter with a chicken plays out over 100 years with increasingly apocalyptic results. Air When all the air on the planet suddenly becomes unbreathable,... |
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The Forest Prince and The Pig Man & The Stranger USA; Australia, 2011THE FOREST PRINCE AND THE PIG MAN (71 mins): Interweaving a coast-to-coast hitchhiking trip with the underground history of bumming rides, documentary maker Craig Constantine thumbs a lift and... |
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Late Addition
The Woman Lucky McKee, United States, 2011From author Jack Ketchum (THE LOST, THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, RED) and director Lucky McKee (MAY) comes a scandalous tale of two extremes, a feral female force of nature and an abusive parent, on... |
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Jess + Moss Clay Jeter, United States, 2011Jess, age 18, and Moss, age 12 are second cousins in the dark-fire tobacco fields of rural Western Kentucky. Without immediate families that they can relate to, and lacking friends their own age,... |
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