SPRING FILMS 2008 April - May
Tuesday 8th April - Tuesday 6th May 2008
Tue 8 April
2.30pm & 8pm
Death at a Funeral
Director: Frank Oz Germany /UK, USA 2007 101mins
Starring: Keeley Hawes, Rupert Graves, Daisy Donovan, Matthew Macfayden This madcap British comedy observes with jet-black humour the myriad outrageous calamities that befall an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when its patriarch dies an unexpected death. Soon, every complication imaginable - including the wrong corpse in the coffin, the accidental consumption of hallucinogenic drugs and the disclosure of the deceased's closet homosexuality - befall the grief-stricken mourners.
Tickets £5.00
Tues 15 April
2.30pm &08pm
Into the Wild
Director: Sean Penn USA 2007 140mins
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener
Freshly graduated from college with a promising future, 22 year-old Christopher McCandless instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure.
What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people. Was McCandless a heroic adventurer or a naïve idealist, a fearless risk-taker or a tragic figure who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature? Each strand of his journey is woven into Sean Penn's screen adaptation of Jon Krakauer's acclaimed bestseller, Into The Wild, which is as much about the insatiable yearning for family, home and connection as it is the search for truth and happiness.
Tickets £5.00
Fri 18 April
8pm
Bombs at Teatime
Directors: various UK 1940-1949 80mins
Starring: various
Take a trip back in time to the 1940s. As if fighting World War II wasn't hard enough, British people had to put up with years of rationing, baths taken in a couple of inches of water and frequent outbreaks of head lice… Bombs at Teatime is a portrait of domestic life in Britain throughout one of the most extraordinary decades of our history.
At times wry, affectionate and surprising, these rarely seen films from the BFI National Archive document a time of great austerity as Britain sought to retain its sanity in the shadow of war. This special screening is introduced by film historian Stewart Orr.
Tickets £5.00
Tues 22 April
2.30pm &08pm
Silk
Director: François Girard Canada/ France /Italy/ UK /Japan 2007 110mins
Starring: Sei Ashina, Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Alfred Molina Based on the beloved, best-selling novel by Alessandro Baricco, Silk is the story of Herve Joncour, a 19th Century French silkworm merchant who travels to Japan and begins a clandestine and forbidden romance with a mysterious and sensual woman.
Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve's wife Helene begins to suspect.
Tickets £5.00
Tue 6 May
2.30pm & 8pm
Earth
Directors: Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield Germany /UK 2007 96mins
Starring: Patrick Stewart as narrator
Five billion years ago an asteroid crashed into the Earth. The impact tilted the planet at an angle of twenty three and a half degrees. This cosmic accident created the world we know today. Using the Sun as a guide, we set out on an epic global journey. In the Arctic, a polar bear family wakes to the first sunlight of spring. Will they find food before the ice starts to melt? Half a world away, an elephant mother and her calf must share precious water with a pride of lions.
Will their uneasy truce last? For the final leg of the journey, we follow a humpback whale mother. She must keep her calf safe on their 6000 km migration to Antarctica. This remarkable breath-taking story is narrated by Patrick Stewart and filmed with high definition cameras to create an unforgettable journey through the changing seasons and daily struggle for life across our planet, from rarely seen stunning landscapes to the smallest details in the lives of our best loved, wildest and most elusive creatures.
Tickets £5.00