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10.1.12

Little White Lies

23.1.12

Sick City

25.1.12

Donnie Darko

07.2.12

Midnight Cowboy

22.2.12

Delicatessen

 06.3.12

Oranges and Sunshine

14.3.12

Submarine

03.4.12

Che Part 1

04.4.12

Che Part 2

18.4.12

Last Picture Show

 01.5.12

 Short Films

 16.5.12

 TBA

  23.5.12

  Let The Right One In

13.6.12Cave of Forgotten Dreams  
 19.6.12TBA

   
 

Little White Lies - 10th Jan, QMT

(15), 2011, France, English Sub Titles

Director: Guillaume Canet
Starring: Francois Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Benoit Magimel

Review

Trailer

Every year Max  a successful restaurant owner invites his family and friends to his beautiful beach house.  But this year true feelings and the little white lies start to surface. Are the French the only people who make this type of film anymore? Sometimes a bit indulgent but it seems to be a love it or hate it type of film.  Stars Marion Cotillard oscar winner for La Vie En Rose.

 

Sick City - 23rd Jan, QMT

Director: Murray Kerr, 2011. Nepalese, English Sub Titles

Starring: Sar Lamaa, Arpana Thapa, Jayawanda Lama, Binod Paudel, Radha Lamshal.

Winner Best Nepali Film 2010. Tickets £2

 

Review

Murray Kerr is a film maker from Hitchin who lives and works in Nepal. He's in Europe visitng the Danish Film Institiute and wanted to screen his latest film in his home town.  Happy to help.

Sick City is a high octane adrenaline charged ride into the dark heart of Katmandu.  Shot entirely on location, set between sunset and sunrise, this is a gritty realistic depiction of life on the edge through the eyes of a young hustler called Krishna.  Depending on his instincts to survive he is quick to act yet slow to think.  Is this his fatal flaw, can he avoid his destiny?

Murray Kerr will introduce the fim and answer questions after the showing.

 




 

Donnie Darko - 25th Jan, CFA

(15), 2001, USA

Director: Richard Kelly

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell

 

Review

 

Just occasionally we decide to show a cult film on the big screen. So now is your chance to see this one.

A brilliant mix of black humour, horror, time travel and love story.  Troubled teenager Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) is plagued by visions of a giant, evil rabbit, predicting the end of the world.

But this is not the stereotyoical film making associated with this genre in any sense.  You'll be left wondering...

 

Info

 Midnight Cowboy - 7th Feb, QMT

(18), 1969, USA

Director: John Schlesinger Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles

 

Info

New Hollywood was a period in the late sixties when new, younger actors and directors came to the fore bringing a new realism and a diferent style to the films made by the old Hollywood studios.

 

 Delicatessen - 22nd Feb, CFA

(1991), France

 Info

 A post apocalypse black comedy!

 

Sick City - 23rd Jan, QMT

Unique chance to see some film making from Nepal and meet the Director, who's from Hitchin.

Venues:

The Studio QMT at The Queen Mother Theatre Walsworth Road (QMT)

The Centre for the Arts,(CfA) North Herts College, Willian Road

Tickets are £5 on the door. Film starts at 8pm, Doors and Bar open 7.30pm.

The current programme covers 3 themes:

Contemporary focuses on the best of recent films that don't get shown for long locally, if at all, and includes 3 British productions.

New Hollywood revisits 3 films from a period of the same name which introduced fresh new actors, directors and approaches to the major studios - Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, John Voight, Karen Black, Peter Bogdanovitch, Schlesinger to name a few.

European has 2 French films and follows the trend for all things scandinavian with a Swedish vampire movie - (is there such a thing?).

Also in the mix are a couple of documentaries, some cult films.!

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