Christmas Show - New Date & Location

Arrangement for the Christmas film show have changed due to the problems at Broughton Hall. The classic 1968 comedy, The Odd Couple, staring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, will now be on 30th December (not 29th) in Skirling Village Hall. Doors open at 7:30pm with the film starting at 8pm.

Bright Star - Sunday 5th December

Jane Campion's Bright Star, is an affecting and deeply absorbing story of the three-year romance between poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne.

The screening is in Broughton Village Hall, doors open at 7:30pm, main film at 8:15pm. Guest are welcome and can pay on the door.

Any late news will be here -

**********At the time of writing this (Saturday 6pm) the film show will go ahead as planned *****

Sunday 7th November - Tricks (Sztuczki)

The November film show on 7th November is in Broughton Village Hall, doors open at 7:30, with the main film starting at 8:15.
Blending comedy and magical realism, Tricks (Sztuczki) is an engaging and warm-hearted film from Poland that follows the efforts of six-year-old Stefen to re-unite his family.
Elk , is a smart 18-year-old working in a bar in a small Polish town and hoping that her growing command of Italian will get her a secretarial job in a big new corporation. She is always having to look after her annoying kid brother Stefek, who has nothing to do in the summer holidays but lope around getting under everyone's feet, ruin Elka's chances of getting her job and hang around when her boyfriend shows up, hoping to take her off for a ride on his motorbike. When he's not just being irritating, Stefek likes hanging around the local train station, and it is here, where some business people take a cigarette break while changing trains, that Stefek spots the man who seems to him to be the father who deserted the family many years before. So he embarks on a series of "tricks" to get this man to stick around long enough to make contact with his mother, and these are either little challenges to fate, or wiles which might actually delay his departure.

Director Jakimowski taps into his own childhood for this engaging and warmly authentic slice of life drama which results in a beautiful little film that really gets under the skin.

Membership for the season, at £18, is still available and guests are welcome to pay on the door (£6).

Summary of films for 2010-2011

The community cinema in Broughton starts its new season next month. 2009 was a great year for British Films and three of the best will be screened, starting with The Education on 9^th October. BAFTA winning Carrey Mulligan gives an astounding performance in this funny and poignant coming-of-age drama. It’s reminiscent of the great kitchen sink dramas of the 1960’s and rated by many critics as one of the best films of the year. Other British films being shown are Bright Star and The Ghost Writer. Bright Star is a drama based on the romance between John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Considered by many to be Jane Campion’s best film yet, it has a heartfelt quality that irresistible draws in the viewer. Roman Polanski creates a slow-burning and elegant political adventure in The Ghost Writer. Scottish actor Ewan McGregor stars as the Prime Minister’s biographer in this exciting thriller which manages to combine the elegance of Hitchcock with the cynicism of Polanski.

Blending comedy and magical realism is Tricks (Sztuczki), an engaging and warm-hearted film from Poland that follows the efforts of six-year-old Stefen to re-unite his family. Mid-August Lunch (Pranzo di Ferragosto), is an Italian film about a cash-strapped middle-aged man living in Rome with his imposing and demanding elderly mother. It is a wonderfully patient and delicately observed film that is a warm and witty homage to older people. It's an unusual movie that triggers sales of cordon bleu recipe books and Le Creuset cookware but the latest Meryl Streep film, Julie & Julia, is having just that effect. Based on the bestselling memoir of a woman in a dead-end job who comes up with a deranged personal assignment: to cook all 524 recipes in legendary American Chef and writer Julia Child's classic book in the space of one year, Julie and Julia is a celebration of how to live life to the full by the joy of food and cooking.

Membership is just £18 (£30 for a couple) for all six film, plus shorts and including a glass. Guests, who can pay on the door, are always welcome. Join at any show or for further information call Joe (01899 830551) or Mark (01721 720910) .

Programme for 2010-2011

Oct. 9th (Saturday) An Education (2009, Lone Sherfig)
Nov. 7th (Sunday) Sztuczki (Tricks) (2007, Andrzej Jakimowski)
Dec. 5th (Sunday) Bright Star (2008, Jane Campion)

Dec. 30th at Skirling - The Odd Couple (1968, Gene Saks) *

Jan. 29th (Saturday) Julie and Julia (2009, Nora Ephron)
Feb. 26th (Saturday) The Ghost Writer (2010, Roman Polanski)
Mar. 26t (Saturday) Pranzo di ferragosto (Mid-August lunch) (2008, Gianni Di Gregorio)

Broughton Village Hall
Doors open at 7:30pm, shorts at about 8pm, main film at 8:15pm

* Christmas special, club fund raiser - admission charge for members and guests.

Summer Break

We are on our summer holidays.

Back in the autumn.


BCS new website-
http://sites.google.com/site/broughtonchoralsociety/

Sat 10th April - 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. Funny, touching and unlikely in every sense, this is among Loach's most enjoyable films.

Looking for Eric will be screened on Saturday 10th April in Broughton Hall. Doors open at 7:30pm, shorts at about 8pm, main film at 8:15pm. Guests welcome.

SUNDAY 7th March

Rural Wales is the setting for Sleep Furiously, showing on 7th March.

Quietly observing the inhabitants of the sleepy hamlet of Trefeurig, the film builds a poetic picture not only of what stands to be lost through thoughtless modernisation, but how rapidly whole ways of life are being eroded. The film has received almost universal critical acclaim being called “entertaining and lovely", "quiet, off-beat, tender poetry", “unusually tender and eccentric” and “the most beautifully elemental documentary film to have emerged in Britain in over a decade”.

Review by The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw

Trailer

Please note that the film is on Sunday not Saturday as originally planned.