Saturday September 13th 2008 6.30pm Grow Your Own 101 mins
Director: Richard Laxton Gardening, immigration and telephone masts provide the back drop to this entertaining English comedy/drama taht reflects on the changing shape of the English working clas with all it's eccentricities whilst making a subtle comment on immigration issues. Cast: Edie Marsan,Philip Jackson, Omid Djalili
  Saturday September 13th 2008 8.30pm Atonement 122 mins
Director: Joe Wright Written, directed and acted to perfection, we are swept on waves of humour, heartbreak and ravishing romance in a film that finely transforms the prose of Ian Mckewan's novel into images. In 1935 young Briony Tallis makes and accusation, the repercussions of which last for decades to come.

Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Keira Knightley


Saturday October 11th 2008 6.30pm Offside 93 mins
Director: Jafa Panahi After the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran women wre banned from sporting events. This film follows a group of Iranian girls in their attempt to enter Tehran's Azadi Stadium dressed as boys in order to watch a big football match. Using no professional actors the film's ironic humour provides for a comment on Iran today. Subtitles Cast: Sima Mobarak-Shahi, Shayesteh Irani
Saturday October 11th 2008 8.30pm Michael Clayton 119 mins
Director: Tony Gilroy Michael (Clooney) is a "fixer" for a New York law firm, covering up the deeds of clients. He is rotting in spiritual hell when he is given the toughest assignment, forcing him to examine himself for a conscience. Clooney gives a brilliant performance to produce a movie that intends to, and will, shake you. Cast: George Clooney, Tilda Swanson

Saturday November 15th 2008 6.30pm Before Sunrise 101 mins
Director: Richard Linklater A chance encounter on a train leads Jesse and Celine to spend fourteen brief hours together exploring the city of Vienna, each other and discovering mutual love. With realistic acting and a wonderful script, this film portrays exactly the way you would dream that you meet that special someone. And what makes it so true is that it is not even too fantastic to believe. This could be what would happen if you had been confident enough to strike up a conversation with that person you noticed by chance. Cast: Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
  Saturday November 15th 2008 8.30pm Before Sunset 80 mins
Director: Richard Linklater Nine years later the lovers from "Before Sunrise" are reunited in a chance meeting in Paris. Will world weariness have affected the youthful love from their first meeting or is their core essence still beating? Delpy and Hawke revive the fantastic on screen chemistry of the first film and are possibly the best on screen couple ever, and Linklater's direction may have provided one of the best endings Cast: Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke

  Saturday January 17th 2009 6.30pm Juno 86 mins
Director: Jason Reitman

Award winning Juno is a punky yet tender "dramedy" which has it all, including arguably the most promising actress, writer and director.

Sixteen year old Juno, finding herself pregnant, soon discovers that these nine months will not pass by without physical and emotional pain (for which her icy-exterior defence mechanism is no match) and that some grown-ups still want to be children.

Cast: Ellen Page. Jason Bateman
Saturday January 17th 2009 8.30pm The Lives of Others 137 mins
Director: Florian Henckle von Donnersmarck A magnificent and complex politcal thriller set in East Germany five years before reunification taht touches an emotional chord. All the performances are top-tier - Koch is a star in the making - but it is Muhe who leaves the deepest impression. Playing a robot of a man astonished to find is armour pierced by humanity, Muhe crafts a portrait as mesmerizing as it is memorable. Cast: Ulrich Muhe, Sebastain Koch, Martina Gedeck

Saturday February 14th 2009 7.30pm Casablanca 102 mins
Director: Michael Curtiz

A classic for Valentines day as Rick Blaine meets up with old flame Lisa Lund in Morrocco during World War II. She's with another man, but is that enough to makes him suppress his feelings for her? Does he love her enough to let go?

 

Followed by Valentines Day Party.

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman,Claude Rains

  Saturday March 7th 2009 6.30pm Born Into Brothels 85 mins
Director: R Kauffman and Zana Briski Oscar winner for best documentary, it follows the children of the prostitutes of Calcutta who are given cameras and start to see the world differently as they look through the lens at the world they inhabit. The picture they produce are morally encouraging and politically volatile revealing art to be an immensely liberating empowering force. Cast:
Saturday March 7th 2009 8.30pm Away From Her 110 mins
Director: Sarah Polley

A powerful and uplifting story of love renewed amid the ravages of old age. Julie Christie's outstanding performance as the sicty something woman whose memories of life with her husband are slowly eroded by Alzheimers will linger in the mind.

Cast: Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis.

 

Saturday April 18th 2009 7.30pm Annual General Meeting

Saturday April 18th 2009 8.30pm

Fear and Trembling 107 mins
Director: Alain Corneau All the action takes place in the office of the powerful Yumimoto Company, where Amelie gets a job as an interpreter. She soon realises she has no work, except to serve coffee. A mindboggling view into the "Japanese mind", it will make you laugh, cringe, learn and refuse to accept what appears obvious to those on the screen. Cast: Sylvie Testud, Kaori Tsuji

 

Saturday May 30th 2009 6.30pm

In the Shadow of the Moon 99 mins
Director: Dave Sington A wonderfully inspiring reminder of the achievements of the 60's space programme with new footage, interviews and a reminder of what the "right stuff" is all about. For ninety nine minutes get caught up in the spirit of the age again. Cast:
Saturday May 30th 2009 The Kite Runner 122 mins
Director: Marc Foster Based on the best selling boom by Khaled Hosseini, the film provides us with a peak at the ugliness of post-Russia invaded Afghanistan. The story follows young friends Amir and Hassan and the unknown bound they share, providing a story of honour, courage and loyalty inspite of the oppression of the Taliban Cast: Atossa Leoni, Shaun Toub

 


All films are now shown using state of the art DVD projection equipment
after extensive trials of other equipment