
The Christmas film, Guys and Dolls will be shown tonight. Please note the earlier than usual start time of 7:30pm.
Sat 5th Sept - Slumdog Millionaire FREE special
Sat 3rd Oct - The Pope’s Toilet (El baño del Papa)
Sun 8th Nov - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Sat 5th Dec - I’ve Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime)
Sun 27th Dec - Guys & Dolls CHRISTMAS Special
Sat 6th Feb - Age of Stupid
Sat 6th Mar - Sleep Furiously
Sat 10th Apr - Looking for Eric
Upper Tweed Community Cinema – from Slumdog to Ooh Aah Cantona
The new season at the club starts next month with emotionally stunning masterpiece Slumdog Millionaire, which for many people, was the film of the year. Don’t be put off by the hype surrounding this film, it really is a great movie; an old fashioned story that fizzes with excitement from start to finish. As a special opening offer, entry is free, with a collection for the charity Plan
Bouncing between moments of humour and gentle drama, The Pope’s Toilet from
November’s film on the 8th is Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona. It is a clever, sunny, frisky and extremely funny film starring Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Johansson as two American friends tempted into a romantic weekend with silver-tongued charmer Spanish painter Antonio (Javier Bardem).
December 5th sees the screening of the French film I’ve Loved You So Long. This top-of-the-range family melodrama, sparingly told and austerely framed, with grief and redemption, will have viewers thinking deep and long.
The Christmas special on 27th December takes us back to the 1950’s with the classic musical Guys and Dolls starring Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra and Jean Simmons.
Age of Stupid, being shown on 6th February, is set in 2055, in a world in which almost all life has ended on earth. Pete Postlethwaite stars as an archivist, who looks back to the early 2000s, seeing how we got to a state in which the environment caused the collapse of civilisation. Its use of science fiction is also both effective and emotional: it's as if director Franny Armstrong hopes that the future can come to the aid of the present. Bold, supremely provocative, and hugely important, her film is a cry from the heart as much as a roar for necessary change.
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The season finishes on 10th April with Looking for Eric. Ken Loach is not generally described as an all-round crowd-pleaser, but with his latest film, Looking For Eric, he’s produced a masterpiece. It tells the story of a depressed, dysfunctional postman with a problematic family that threatens to drag him into even deeper waters. An apparition in the form of 90’s cult French footballer Eric Cantona proves to be the emotional lift to get his life back on track. A heady mix of high comedy, gritty realism, and the nonlinear philosophy of Eric Cantona, this film is an offbeat clever and moving piece of cinema.
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