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Past Screenings
Tue
04
Aug
- Colour
Drama starring Alex Descas and Mati Diop. Train driver Lionel has been raising his daughter Joséphine alone ever since she was a little girl, and they now share a life of cosy domesticity in a Paris flat. But when the now grown-up Joséphine becomes involved with a…
Thu
26
Nov
- Drama
- Italy
- B&W
- 132 mins.
Federico Fellini's Oscar-winning drama starring Marcello Mastroianni. A film director goes to a spa hotel to recuperate following his latest success, but he becomes confused when his peace is constantly disrupted by his producer and other colleagues who want to know how his next project, a sci-fi…
Tue
22
Mar
- Comedy, Romance, Drama
- Czech
- B&W
- 82 mins.
A tender and beautifully observed story about the impossible odds of young romance. A A working-class young woman in a grey industrial Czech town sleeps with one of the band members of a group from Prague. "You are a Mondrian, not a Picasso," he tells her. When…
Tue
05
Dec
- Drama
- France
- B&W
- 86 mins.
Jean-Luc Godard's celebrated first feature film starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. Speeding from Marseilles to Paris in a stolen car, Michel Poiccard is involved in a fracas with the police. Despite the danger, he lingers in the capital, held by his reckless attraction to an American…
Tue
15
Nov
- Crime Drama Romance
- USA
- B&W
- 94 mins.
“It ain’t polite, baby, but it’s what ya want.” The divine Norma Shearer stars as an independent-minded young society woman who has been trained by her defence attorney father (Lionel Barrymore) to live without restraint, and who grows trapped in a love triangle between the monied, kind…
Sat
31
Oct
- Horror!
- USA
- B&W
- 101 mins.
Based on a graphic novel, Iranian/US Director Ana Lily Amipour's film about a hijab-wearing, skateboarding female vampire who measures out justice to men who disrespect women has proved a favourite with film festival audiences around the world. Never seen an Iranian Vampire Spaghetti Western? Here's your chance!…
Tue
03
Nov
- Romantic fantasy
- UK
- 104 mins.
aka Stairway to Heaven Returning home from a bombing run, World War II pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) is shot down, making last radio contact with an American air controller, June (Kim Hunter) before bailing out and plunging into the sea. With his soul in limbo, a…
Tue
20
Dec
- Drama
- France, Italy
- Colour
- 155 mins.
Nineteen year-old Franco-Arab Malik El Djebena is sentenced to six years for a crime he says he did not commit. Caught between feuding prison gangs of Corsicans and Muslims, he is offered protection by Corsican mafioso César Luciani, but at a price. Tahar Rahim is a revelation…
Tue
13
Mar
- Drama / Mystery
- Iran
- Colour
- 123 mins.
An unhappily married couple break up in this complex, painful, fascinating Iranian drama by writer-director Asghar Farhadi, with explosive results that expose a network of personal and social faultlines. A Separation is a portrait of a fractured relationship and an examination of theocracy, domestic rule and the…
Tue
21
Mar
- Drama
- Italy
- B&W
- 120 mins.
A pimp finds himself without income so tries to lure a naïve girl into prostitution after his ‘employee’ is hurt and imprisoned. Originially a screenplay, Accattone 1961 is an Italian drama written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. In a story of pimps, prostitutes and thieves, peasant…
Mon
22
Jul
- Drama. Film Noir
- USA
- B&W
- 111 mins.
Ace in the Hole is a 1951 American film noir starring Kirk Douglas as a cynical, disgraced reporter who stops at nothing to try to regain a job on a major newspaper. it was the first time Billy Wilder was involved in a project as a writer,…
Tue
01
Apr
- Documentary
- Denmark/Norway/UK
- Colour
- 159 mins.
The filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love. The hallucinatory result is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass-murderers and…
