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THE MOON BENEATH THE WATER (PG)

THE MOON BENEATH THE WATER

LA LUNA SOTT'ACQUA


A fresco with dreamlike atmospheres in Erto, a village devastated by the 1963 Vajont Dam collapse, torn between the desire for rebirth and the need to preserve the memory of a painful past.


Filmed over 10 years in the village of Erto on the Italian Alps, which survived the tragedy defined by the United Nations as "The biggest man-made disaster in time of peace". The Vajont Dam was the tallest in the world in 1963 and during the initial filling of the lake, a landslide caused a tsunami of water to overflow the dam in a wave of 250 metres that killed 2000 people. The dam itself remained almost completely intact. Erto was declared uninhabitable by the authorities, with two thousand inhabitants kicked out. Of these, one hundred returned, illegally occupying their homes, resisting, existing as a village. That was 1963. Today Erto still exists. Over the past 10 years, the director has followed the residents fighting to not be forgotten, including a disagreement on a controversial plan to instal a light-based art installation on the dam wall. This is a dreamlike documentary with the magnificent Dolomites as the lead character and the strength and pride of the Erto residents in strong support. (Subtitles)

Italy 2023 Alessandro Negrini 99m


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Saturday 23 Aug 202510:30 Book Now (Closed)

AMMONITE (15)

AMMONITE

Francis Lee’s sensational biopic of palaeontology pioneer Mary Anning reimagines her erotic encounter with a woman trapped in a stifling marriage.


It is odd to reflect that Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan had not featured in a film together before this one.  Ammonite unites them at last, with Winslet as palaeontologist Mary Anning, collecting specimens along Dorset’s Jurassic Coast. She is entrusted to care for Charlotte, the young wife of a wealthy tourist. Initially they clash but despite differences of class and personality a bond grows between them compelling the two women to determine the true nature of their relationship. Francis Lee also directed the bleak and beautiful ‘God’s Own Country in 2017. Expect suppressed emotions and scandal set against the rugged and magnificent southern coastline.

UK 2020 Francis Lee 120m


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Saturday 23 Aug 202511:00 Book Now (Closed)

SHUT UP AND DEAL! (cert-tbc)

SHUT UP AND DEAL!

JACK LEMMON ON SCREEN


It’s the centenary of one of the best loved Hollywood stars and this talk will celebrate his work.


100 years after the birth of Hollywood’s ultimate everyman, Jack Lemmon remains an irresistibly charismatic screen presence, with two Academy awards and a body of work including cinematic masterpieces and hefty television drama. Although best known for comedy classics like ‘Some Like it Hot’, he conveyed pathos and tragedy in even the most light-hearted of scenes. From early career turns in ‘Mister Roberts’ to the dark satire of ‘The Apartment’, and the desperate death of the American Dream in ‘The China Syndrome’ and ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’, he was always a dynamic force, elevating even the smallest of roles. To accompany the festival’s Jack Lemmon strand, join film writer and lifelong Lemmon fan, Hannah Gatward, for a discussion, including a range of memorable clips, on the rich and varied films of this sometimes-overlooked legend of the screen. As he said before every take: “It’s magic time”.

100m inc Q&A


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Saturday 23 Aug 202513:15 Book Now (Closed)

THE FLOOD (15)

THE FLOOD

LE DÉLUGE


Follows the last uncertain days of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette before they were executed.


1792. Louis XVI (Guillaume Canet), his wife Marie Antoinette (Mélanie Laurent), and their children have been arrested and imprisoned in the Tour de Temple, a sinister chateau in Paris, awaiting their trial. Far from the splendour of Versailles, they are isolated and vulnerable for the first time in their lives. Drawn from the diaries of Louis XVI’s personal valet Jean-Baptiste Cléry (played by Fabrizio Rongione), the film begins in the immediate aftermath of the 1792 insurrection that saw the Tuileries Palace stormed by armed revolutionaries and the monarchy abolished. Arrested, the royal family and their entourage arrive at the Tour du Temple, a large but sparsely appointed chateau in central Paris, where they are to be confined while their fate is determined. The deposed, imprisoned monarchs are mocked by whatever finery they have held onto, looking shrunken in their dirtied robes and increasingly unkempt wigs. With empathy and stirring performances from Canet and a blistering Laurent, this is a fascinating story from which modern France was born, told with a de-frilled austerity that feels decidedly new. (Subtitles)

France 2024 Gianluca Jodice 101m


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DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES (PG)

DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES

An alcoholic marries a young woman and systematically addicts her to booze so that they can share his "passion" together.


Joe Clay (Jack Lemmon) is a rising young public relations executive when he meets Kirsten Arnesen (Lee Remick), a pretty secretary, at a business party. Joe and Kirsten are both ambitious, and they are on the road to success when they fall in love and marry. Soon after, however, Joe coaxes Kirsten to begin drinking with him on a regular basis. The movie plays like an extended ad for Prohibition, three decades after it ended. There is a kind of nervy, self-loathing sycophant whom Jack Lemmon can play better than any other actor: he did it in ‘The Apartment’, and there is a harrowing variant in this film.

USA 1962 Blake Edwards 117m


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BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (U)

BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN

WITH PET SHOP BOYS SCORE


This is a special centenary edition of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary ‘Battleship Potemkin’ featuring the celebrated score by the British dup Pet Shop Boys.

 

A fixture in the critical canon almost since its premiere, Eisenstein’s film about a 1905 naval mutiny was revolutionary in both form and content. It is renowned for its dynamic compositional strength and editing of such frame-perfect precision that it’s hard not to be swept along. First revealed at a special outdoor screening in front of an estimated 25,000 in Trafalgar Square in 2004, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s score, performed with the Dresdner Sinfoniker and orchestrated by Torsten Rasch, blends electronic beats with orchestral grandeur to create a contemporary cinematic experience.

USSR 1925 Sergei Eisenstein 73m



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Saturday 23 Aug 202516:15 Book Now (Closed)

THE GOLDEN SPURTLE (PG)

THE GOLDEN SPURTLE

Once a year, contenders from around the globe descend on a picturesque village in the Scottish Highlands to compete for the title of World Porridge Champion. Amid intense rivalries, steaming bowls of porridge, and the lives of charming locals we see a living legacy unfold.


Dating back to neolithic times, few culinary traditions have survived as long as the hearty bowl of morning porridge. Each year the sleepy highland village of Carrbridge awakens with excitement as locals and competitors from around the globe vie for the honour of winning The Golden Spurtle in the World Porridge Making Championships. This deftly constructed crowd-pleaser is a film to nourish the soul. Its considerable charm and humour come from an appetising combination of lovably eccentric characters, a sharp-eyed camera, a playful, bustling score and the glorious Scottish countryside.  

UK/Australia 2025 Constantine Costi 75m


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Saturday 23 Aug 202517:00 Book Now (Closed)

PAUL & PAULETTE TAKE A BATH (15)

PAUL & PAULETTE TAKE A BATH

An unconventional romantic comedy in which a young American in Paris meets a French girl with a morbid curiosity about he darker sides of the city's history.


Paul (Jeremie Galiana) and Paulette's (Marie Benati) chance encounter on a Parisian boulevard sparks an unusual friendship that grows around a dark game; reenacting scenes of notorious crimes from bygone eras at the sites they occurred. As their morbid road trip approaches the more recent past it becomes more uncomfortable, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, but finding a surprising joy in the darker corners of humanity. British-French writer/director Jethro Massey uses the unique premise as a springboard to examine the impermanence of everything - even an infatuation between two people who seem destined for one another. Including a great soundtrack, this quirky film which premiered in the Venice Film Festival’s Critics Week last year, could just be a cult film in the making. (Some subtitles)

UK 2024 Jethro Massey 109m


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Saturday 23 Aug 202518:00 Book Now (Closed)

JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE (15)

JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE

JANE AUSTEN A GÂCHÉ MA VIE


A desperately single bookseller, lost in a fantasy world, finds herself forced to fulfil her dreams of becoming a writer in order to stop messing up her love life.


Agathe (Camille Rutherford), hopelessly clumsy yet charming and full of contradictions, finds herself in desperate singlehood. Her dream is to experience love akin to a Jane Austen novel and her ultimate aspiration is to become a writer. Instead, she spends her days selling books in the legendary British Bookshop, Shakespeare & Co, in Paris. Invited to the Jane Austen Writers' Residency in England, she must confront her insecurities to finally fulfil her ambition of becoming a novelist and put an end to wasting her sentimental life. Agathe, is an Elizabeth Bennet-type character in the shape of a Phoebe Waller-Bridge protagonist: she is lonely, depressed, a bit of an alcoholic and often facing an existential crisis. Full of delight and dry wit, together with a hint of the Richard Curtis rom-com, this is sure to be a crowd-pleaser. (Subtitles)

France 2024 Laura Piani 94m


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MULHOLLAND DRIVE (15)

MULHOLLAND DRIVE

After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.


A brunette (Laura Elena Harring) is left without memory after a car crash and wanders the streets of Los Angeles in a daze before being taken in by Betty (Naomi Watts), a wholesome Midwestern blonde who has come to the City of Angels seeking fame as an actress. Together, the two attempt to solve the mystery of the brunette’s true identity. This film has a hypnotic rhythm that could only be Lynch's, and it really draws you in - it is a bone fide masterpiece, an erotic, unsettling, darkly comic journey through the subconscious city of night. There is something endlessly fascinating about a film that prioritises questions over answers, stretching our expectations of what cinema can achieve while scene by scene also providing a richly fulfilling experience. ‘Mullholland Drive’ topped the ‘Best Film of the 21st Century’ poll as judged by BBC Culture.

France/USA 2001 David Lynch 147m


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