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SPRING PROGRAMME 2025
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Quadrophenia 15
UK | 1979 120 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Franc Roddam
STARRINGPhil Daniels | Leslie Ash | Ray Winstone
7 April 2025 MONDAY 19:30
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Quadrophenia does a fantastic job
of evoking a time (1964), a place (England) and a cultural phenomenon (Mods
& Rockers). The plot revolves around a young Mod (Jimmy, played by Phil
Daniels), struggling to find his way in the world, and a clash between the two
warring clans one weekend in Brighton. Jimmy lives for three things: parties,
pills and his scooter – these he can rely on to take him away from the drudgery
of everyday life and the killjoys that are his job, his parents and the system.
With its soundtrack from The Who, this is an unmissable time-capsule of
pop-culture.
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Fear Eats the Soul 12A
Germany | 1974 93 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
STARRINGBrigitte Mira | El Hedi ben Salem
28 April 2025 MONDAY 19:30
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In the ABC of Cinema, we’ve reached F for Fassbinder, a dominant force in 1970s German cinema. Fear Eats the Soul, portraying the lot migrant workers in Munich and the racism that pursues them, still resonates today. Immigration is still a hot topic fifty years on.
Ali is a migrant from Morocco, in his 30s; Emmi is German, in her 60s, widowed and working as a cleaner. They meet in a bar; their relationship develops and they become close. But this is seen as outrageous, breaking the unwritten rule of segregation. Both suffer the consequences of prejudice before hope glimmers in the final act.
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Deep Red 18
Italy | 1975 127 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Dario Argento
STARRINGDavid Hemmings | Daria Nicolodi
12 May 2025 MONDAY 19:30
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Dario Argento established himself in the 1970s as Il Duce of giallo, a stylised form of Italian horror drenched in blood. Many international actors were featured and dubbed into Italian. In Deep Red the star is British actor David Hemmings, who had starred in Antonioni’s Blow-Up some years previously.
Hemmings plays Marc, a musician, who witnesses a grisly murder in the apartment block where he lives. Believing he has seen the murderer leaving the area, he turns amateur sleuth to solve the mystery. But, as the body-count rises, and he gets closer to the truth, he knows he may become the next victim.
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Ammonite 15
UK | 2020 117 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Francis Lee
STARRINGKate Winslett | Saoirse Ronan | Gemma Jones
19 May 2025 MONDAY 19:30
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Mary Anning was a 19th-century palaeontologist who made some important and celebrated discoveries around Lyme Regis. As a working-class woman, her work was air-brushed out of scientific history and recognition came only after her death. Almost nothing is documented about her life. In this film, the director has built a fictional drama around the few known facts. Anning (Kate Winslet) meets Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan), a wealthy woman staying in Lyme while her husband travels Europe. Charlotte becomes ill; Mary tends her, and the two become work-mates, friends, and lovers. It’s a fiction led by two accomplished actors, letting us also learn something about the importance of Anning’s scientific work.
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A Cottage on Dartmoor PG
UK | 1930 88 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Anthony Asquith
STARRINGHans Adalbert Schlettow | Uno Henning | Norah Baring
2 June 2025 MONDAY 19:30
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Anthony Asquith was a contemporary of Alfred Hitchcock. Both British, Hitchcock went to Hollywood, while Asquith stayed at home, making British films, like The Importance of Being Earnest (1952). Often literary adaptations, his films were sometimes regarded as uncinematic.
Not a criticism to be levelled against this film! Made at the tail-end of the silent era with a visual style reminiscent of Eisenstein or Lang, it’s a melodrama where love leads to obsession, to jealousy, and to murder, with a storyline that takes some unexpected turns. Faces and facial expressions are used to great effect: it’s surprising what nuances can be expressed without words.
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La Cage aux Folles 12
France/Italy | 1978 97 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Éduard Molinaro
STARRINGUgo Tognazzi | Michel Serrault | Rémi Laurant
9 June 2025 MONDAY 19:30
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This is the original, not the remake with Robin Williams. This is shorter and much funnier. It’s a farce set in a drag bar (La Cage aux Folles), run by a gay couple: Renato, the owner, and Albin, the star attraction. Albin suspects Renato of cheating on him with a younger man, but the reality is more complicated, leading to riotous confusion and shifting identities as the couple prepare for the wedding of the century. To say more would be to spoil the fun. So, ignore the criticisms of stereotyping and that not all the players are gay - just enjoy the campest of capers from nearly 50 years ago.
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Inside Llewyn Davis 15
USA | 2013 104 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Ethan & Joel Coen
STARRINGOscar Isaac | Carey Mulligan | John Goodman
16 June 2025 MONDAY 19:30
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We all now know a lot about another unknown folk singer trying to make it in New York, but what about Llewyn Davis? Although he’s fictional, there are connections with real-life singers of the 1960s, when this film is set. Being made by the Coen Brothers, it ticks the box of ‘dark comedy’, but it also features live folk performances. Oscar Isaac plays the title role, while Carey Mulligan is there in a supporting role, as is John Goodman, a stalwart of earlier Coen Brothers films. The film premiered at Cannes in 2013 and was awarded the Grand Prix. It later received numerous nominations for Oscars, BAFTAs and Golden Globes.
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DATES AHEAD
23 June 2025 MONDAY
8 July 2025 TUESDAY