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WINTER PROGRAMME 2025
Unforgiven 15
USA | 1992 130 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Clint Eastwood
STARRING
Clint Eastwood|Gene Hackman|Morgan Freeman
20 January 2025 MONDAY 19:30
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Tickets £8.00|£5.00 (under 26) CONCESSION NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE
Clint Eastwood has a roster of over forty films as director, in many of which he also stars. He’s particularly associated with the Western genre, and Unforgiven won Best Picture at the Oscars in 1993. Eastwood plays Will Munny, a former killer, now reformed so as to focus on raising a family with his young wife. But she has recently died, so to secure his family’s future, Will is persuaded to turn bounty-hunter again. The bounty has been raised by the women of a brothel, one of whom has been violently attacked by two men from out of town.
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The Florida Project 15
USA | 2017 111 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Sean Baker
STARRING
Brooklynn Prince| Bria Vinaite| Willem Dafoe
27 January 2025 MONDAY 19:30
GREEN ROOM BAR
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The scene is the Magic Castle Inn, a motel next door to Walt Disney World. Halley and her six-year-old daughter Moonee share a room there, the mother getting by working as a stripper. Moonee and her friends enjoy unruly and imaginative fun over the summer, pretty much unsupervised. All the while the janitor (Willem Dafoe) keeps a supportive eye on his diverse residents. Many of the actors are first-timers, from whom Sean Baker has drawn the most moving and memorable performances. (And Baker’s latest film Anora won the 2024 Palme d’Or at Cannes!)
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Dreams PG
Japan/USA | 1990 119 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Akira Kurosawa
STARRING
Akira Terao|Mitsunori Isaki|Martin Scorsese
10 February 2025 MONDAY 19:30
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Dreams is mesmeric, challenging, and unique: one of the final films of the legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, in which he presents a visualisation of eight of his recurring dreams. With themes such as death, guilt, fear, and nuclear fallout, each vignette, comes across like a mystical folk tale of old. Although the screenplay was penned entirely by Kurosawa, the production was a collaborative effort, also involving George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Films like Dreams echo through the generations, transcending linguistic, economic and geographical barriers.
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Dance Craze 12A
UK | 1981 91 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Joe Massot
FEATURING
The Specials|Madness|Bad Manners|The Bodysnatchers
The Selecter|The Beat
17 February 2025 MONDAY 19:30
GREEN ROOM BAR
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Dance Craze documents the phenomenon of 2-tone – the music genre that swept through the UK music scene at the start of Thatcher’s Britain, blending Jamaican ska and reggae with punk rock and new wave. No ‘talking heads’, just live music, filmed in 1980 at various gigs around the country, from Aylesbury to Sunderland. There are performances by various bands in the 2-tone fold, including The Specials and Madness. We’ll do our best to turn the Green Room Bar into a House of Fun - with seating more cabaret than theatre, an open bar and even a small dance floor.
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Mr Klein 12
France/Italy | 1976 123 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Joseph Losey
STARRING
Alain Delon|Jeanne Moreau|Michael Lonsdale
24 February 2025 MONDAY 19:30
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We bid a final farewell to Alain Delon - French actor, who died last August, aged 88 - with a screening of Mr Klein. Set in occupied France, 1942, Delon plays an art dealer taking advantage of the wealthy French Jews keen to sell artworks to finance their escape. Seemingly, Mr Klein the art dealer is not Jewish, but seemingly there is another Mr Klein, who is certainly Jewish, is wanted by the police, but cannot be traced. The mystery of these two Mr Kleins and their identities moves in Kafkaesque fashion towards tragic consequences.
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Call Me by Your Name 15
USA/Italy/France | 2017 132 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Luca Guadagnino
STARRING
Armie Hammer | Timothée Chalamet | Michael Stuhlbarg3 March 2025 MONDAY 19:30
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This
film brought its Italian director international acclaim, which has continued
since with his two 2024 releases Challengers and Queer. The
screenplay was written by James Ivory based on a book by André Aciman. It’s a
coming-of-age romantic drama in which Elio (Chalamet), 17-year-old son of an
archaeology professor, develops an attraction to Oliver (Hammer), a 24-year-old
graduate, who is spending the summer with the family in Lombardy as an
assistant to Elio’s father (Stuhlbarg). The film was a great critical and
commercial success, and James Ivory was honoured with an Academy Award for Best
Adapted Screenplay.
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Love Lies Bleeding 15
USA/UK | 2024 104 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Rose Glass
STARRING
Kristen Stewart | Katy O’Brian | Ed Harris5 March 2025 WEDNESDAY 19:30
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For fans of Kristen Stewart, a great addition to her filmography: an erotic thriller set in New Mexico. She plays Lou, manager of a run-down, out-of-town gym with a diverse iron-pumping clientele. When Jackie appears, Lou is immediately attracted and offers help for her new client to prepare for a body-building competition in Las Vegas. Soon they are sharing more intimate moments. The thrills begin as they are drawn closer to Lou’s unstable and criminal family. From the British director of St Maud, this is Rose Glass’s second film and really should not be missed!
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We Need to Talk about Kevin 15
UK/USA | 2011 112 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Lynne Ramsay
STARRING
Tilda Swinton|John C. Reilly|Ezra Miller
17 March 2025 MONDAY 19:30
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Lynne Ramsay's psychological thriller, and a masterly adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s book, examines the parent-child bond between first-time mother, Eva (played by Tilda Swinton), and her unplanned son, Kevin. Ramsay uses a non-linear structure, following two timelines simultaneously. One precedes, the other follows, and they merge with an event so serious that it has re-shaped the family’s lives. By teenage, Kevin is Ezra Miller, whose behaviour has developed from irritatingly mindless to intentionally manipulative. His mother is the main object of Kevin’s vindictiveness. Meanwhile, sound design, colour palette and editing help the audience enter Eva’s troubled mind.
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Fanny and Alexander 15
Sweden | 1982 188 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Ingmar Bergman
STARRINGBertil Guve | Pernilla Allwin | Ewa Fröling
24 March 2025 MONDAY 19:30
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As a follow-up to our presentation of Summer with Monika (1952), we now screen Ingmar Bergman’s later, and perhaps greatest film. Based partially on Bergman’s own childhood, it tells the story of the theatrical Ekdahl family, who live in pleasant chaos in their large family home. The focus is on Alexander, highly imaginative son of Oscar and Emilie, who is very drawn to the ideas of theatre and story-telling. But happiness is cut short by Oscar’s sudden death and Emilie’s remarriage to an authoritarian bishop, who believes Alexander’s imagination must be curbed.