AUTUMN PROGRAMME 2024
Rififi 12
France | 1955 118 minutes
9 September 2024 MONDAY 19:30
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DIRECTED BY
Jules Dassin
STARRING
Jean Servais|Carl Möhner|Robert Manuel
In the ABC of Cinema, D is for Jules Dassin, US-born actor, writer, producer and director.
In Rififi, Tony, an ageing jewel thief, just out of prison, is persuaded to take on another job, which he enlarges into a much more audacious and lucrative robbery. The theft itself is the centrepiece of the film, showing how the thieves enter the premises and work together to evade the security system and break the safe. With no dialogue or music, this half-hour scene is probably the most famous heist sequence in film history.
Despite a very low budget, Dassin produced a heist movie par excellence, also reckoned to be one of the best examples of French film noir. And it won him the Best Director Award at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.
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16 September 2024 MONDAY 19:30
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30 September 2024 MONDAY 19:30
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7 October 2024 MONDAY 19:30
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28 October 2024 MONDAY 19:30
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The Innocents 12A
UK | 1961 | 100 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Jack Clayton
STARRING
Deborah Kerr|Peter Wyngarde | Megs Jenkins
With the spooky season upon us, it’s a good time to screen this adaptation of the Henry James ghost story The Turn of the Screw.
The narrative follows Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) as she applies to become the governess of Flora and Miles, orphans under the guardianship of their uncle. Miss Giddens must take full responsibility for the children and the uncle is not to be troubled with any problems. The previous governess, it transpires, died suddenly in circumstances not entirely clear.
To the inexperienced Miss Giddens the children behave oddly and seem unusually secretive. She is soon aware of voices and the apparitions of a man and a woman, with whom the children seem to be communicating. But is this paranormal activity or the hyperactivity of Miss Giddens’ sexually repressed mind?
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Gravity 12
USA/UK | 2013 | 91 mins
11 November 2024 MONDAY 19:30
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DIRECTED BY
Alfonso Cuarón
STARRING
Sandra Bullock|George Clooney
The film
opens in the endless expanse of space during routine maintenance by a Space
Shuttle crew: the confident, easy-going Kowalski (George Clooney) and the nervous,
inexperienced Stone (Sandra Bullock). A voice from Mission Control
reports that an unrelated missile strike on a satellite has created a
field of debris orbiting the Earth at lethal speed. They are hit, severed from
their safety tethers, sent careering into the blackness and left to find a way
to get home.
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The Passenger 15
Italy | 1975 | 126 minutes
18 November 2024 MONDAY 19:30
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DIRECTED BY
Michelangelo Antonioni
STARRING
Jack Nicholson|Maria Schneider
We screened an earlier Antonioni film last year as the first instalment of The ABC of Cinema. That was Red Desert (1964), starring Monica Vitti and Richard Harris. The theme of alienation pervades Antonioni’s films. In the earlier film it was Monica Vitti alienated from modern life; in The Passenger it is Jack Nicholson.
Nicholson plays a washed-up war correspondent who takes the unusual step of adopting the identity of a dead man. Complete with the passport and appointments schedule of the deceased, the life of a correspondent becomes more purposeful, exciting … and dangerous. Along the new road taken, Nicholson is joined by Maria Schneider, and together they take a trip into the unknown through (red) desert country – a road-trip to disaster.
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25 November 2024 MONDAY 19:30
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2 December 2024 MONDAY 19:30
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Tokyo Godfathers 12
Japan | 2003 | 88 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Satoshi Kon
An unusual
offering for Christmas: an anime from Satoshi Kon. The narrative is set just
before Christmas time in Tokyo. Three homeless people search for presents in
the city’s piles of garbage and find a new-born baby discarded amongst the
rubbish. The three have banded together as a ‘found family’ to support and
protect themselves. They are Gin, a male alcoholic, Hana, a transgender woman,
and Miyuki, a teenage girl who has run away from home. The baby they name
Kiyoko, from the Japanese translation of Silent Night. The story follows
them on their adventures as they search for the baby’s real mother, adventures
that are filled with incredible coincidences, even miracles.