01, Dec

31, Jan

Mr Nice (18)
Dir: Bernard Rose
(UK 2010. 121 mins)
Howard Marks is an ex-teacher who became a drug smuggler and was once Britain’s most wanted man. As played by Rhys Ifans he’s also a Welshman in need of a haircut. Mr Nice (one of his aliases) is based on Marks’ autobiography, written after his release from prison. At Oxford he helps out a chum, which leads him almost casually into a globetrotting quest for marijuana involving the CIA, MI6, Mexican Secret Service, the IRA and the Mafia. Chloë Sevigny, David Thewliss and Omid Djalili head a top-notch supporting cast and the 60s-70s setting is so convincing you can almost smell it.
Friday 26th November at 7.45pm, Saturday 27th November at 10.45am, Monday 29th November at 2pm and 7.45pm, Tuesday 30th November – Thursday 2nd December at 7.45pm

The 1st UK Disability Film Festival Day
3rd December 2010

The UK’s leading disability arts and media organisation DASH, supported by ScreenWM, are proud to present the 1st UK Disability Film Festival on the International Day of Disabled People. All films are subtitled.

The Festival is additionally supported by Oska Bright, the Media Archive for Central England (MACE), The Eveson Charitable Trust, The Elmley Foundation and the BBC. Full details of all films are available on www.disabilityfilmfestival.eu or DASH’s website at www.dasharts.org

There are 4 screenings throughout the Day. Profits from ticket sales will go to Artshape (registered charity no 1023920)

11.30 – 1pm
The best of the learning disability festival Oska Bright. The programme of nine short films will be screened twice; the second time with the audio description played in the auditorium.
£2

2 – 4pm
The first national screening of the UKFC funded Disability short film project MAGIC HOUR; plus a selection of other shorts from around the UK and the world.
£2

5-7pm
The 1986 BBC film Raspberry Ripple, starring Faye Dunaway.
Free but tickets must be obtained from the box office in advance.

8 – 10pm
A selection of archive film from the MACE featuring The Leicester Cripples Guild of the 1920s and a fantastic short film about the Shortest Woman in the world who lived in Bromsgrove and drove an adapted Mini. Most of the films in the MACE collection on show here are from the ATV News Collection from between 1955 and 1975.
£2

SoulBoy (15)
Dirs: Hawa Essuman, Shimmy Marcus
(UK/Ireland 2010. 83mins)
Young Joe hates his boring life driving a van in 70s Stoke until Northern Soul enters his life. In pursuit of glamorous hairdresser Jane he discovers the all-nighters at the Wigan Casino and – despite initial ineptitude – gets his mate’s sister Mandy to make him over as a soul boy. Sadly just as he’s finally mastering the moves Jane’s dealer boyfriend introduces drugs to the club and everything spins out of control. Can Joe dance his way out of trouble and get the girl? An affectionately edgy portrait of a lost age with a killer soundtrack.
Saturday 4th December at 10.45am, Monday 6th at 2pm and 7.45pm, Tuesday 7th and Thursday 9th at 7.45pm

Burke and Hare (15)
Dir: John Landis
(UK 2010. 91 mins)
In 19th century Edinburgh, William Burke (Simon Pegg) and William Hare (Andy Serkis) are Irish immigrant chancers. Short of cash, they discover that the local Medical College needs corpses for dissection. It’s a lucrative market, but where are they going to find enough bodies? Bill Bailey, Tim Curry, Stephen Merchant, Jenny Agutter and Christopher Lee lend stellar support to this very black comedy from the director of The Blues Brothers, Animal House and An American Werewolf in London.
Friday 10th December at 7.45pm, Saturday 11th at 10.45am, Monday 13th at 2pm and 7.45pm, Tuesday 14th at 7.45pm (Film Society), Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th at 7.45pm.

Another Year (12A)
Dir: Mike Leigh
(UK 2010. 129 mins)
Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen) are a good-hearted professional couple in their 60s who live in North London. Leigh’s thoughtful, bittersweet comedy charts their highs and lows over the course of twelve months as they socialise with their not quite so happy-go-lucky family and friends.
Friday 17th December at 7.45pm, Saturday 18th at 10.45am, Monday 20th at 2pm and 7.45pm, Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd at 7.45pm

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (12A)
Dir: David Yates
(UK/USA 2010. Dur tbc)
In the darkest part of this epic tale Voldemort’s Death Eaters have seized control of the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts and are hunting for Harry, who is on a mission with his chums to find and destroy the Horcruxes. When Harry stumbles on the legend of the Deathly Hallows he realizes – if true – it could give Voldemort the ultimate power he seeks. Now on the verge of manhood, he must prepare himself for the ultimate battle with his deadliest enemy. Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th December at 10.45am, Friday 31st December at 4pm, Tuesday 4th – Thursday 6th January at 7.45pm

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (15)
Dir: Daniel Alfredson.
(Sweden/Denmark/Germany 2009. 148 mins)
Subtitled; original language Swedish
The final part of Stieg Larsson’s trilogy finds Lisbeth Salander in hospital recovering from a near-fatal bullet wound and awaiting trial for a triple murder. After her release from hospital – thanks to the efforts of her ex-lover Mikael Blomkvist – she targets the powerful enemies whose illicit business deals made her a prime suspect. On her journey towards justice, however, it is Lisbeth’s troubled childhood that ultimately calls the shots.
Friday 7th January at 7.45pm, Saturday 8th at 10.45am, Monday 10th at 2pm and 7.45pm, Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th at 7.45pm.

Gloucester Film Society presents
The Last Picture Show (15)
Dir: Peter Bogdanovitch
(USA 1972. 127 mins)
In 50s Texas Sonny and Duane are best friends drifting through their senior year at high school, dividing their time between the movies, football, and girls. In their stagnating small town everyone is leaving except their mentor Sam the Lion, owner of the café, pool hall and picture house. With time the boys’ simple delights of dating give way to the complications of coupling and their friendship is threatened as the war in Korea looms.
Tuesday 11th January at 7.45pm

London Boulevard (cert tba)
Dir: William Monahan
(UK/US 2010. Dur tbc)
Charlotte (Keira Knightley) is a reclusive movie star hiding out from the world in a Holland Park mansion. When she hires a London criminal (Colin Farrell) fresh out of prison to be her bodyguard and handyman he can’t believe his luck …until he finds himself on the wrong side of vicious gangster Gant (Ray Winstone).
Friday 14th January at 7.45pm, Saturday 15th at 10.45am, Monday 17th at 2pm and 7.45pm, Wednesday 19th and Thursday 20th at 7.45pm

The Secret in their Eyes (18)
El Secreto de sus ojos
Dir: Juan Jose Campanella
(Spain/Argentina 2009. 129 mins)
Subtitled; original language Spanish
In 70s Buenos Aires a pretty schoolteacher is raped and murdered. Young working-class investigator Benjamín doubts his collegue’s facile explanation and nails the real murderer whilst falling for irene, his posh new boss. But Argentina is sliding into dictatorship and the villain is useful to the police so Benjamin is forced to flee the city. Twenty-five years later he is writing a novel about the case. Returning to his old patch he visits Irene to uncover old secrets.
This edge-of-seat thriller’s examination of the search for justice and the centrality of memory earned it Best Foreign Language Oscar.
Friday 21st January at 7.45pm, Saturday 22nd at 10.45am, Monday 24th at 2pm and 7.45pm, Tuesday 25th (Film Society) Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th at 7.45pm

The American (15)
Dir: Anton Corbijn
(US 2010. 104 mins)
Jack (George Clooney) is a discreet, steely-eyed international assassin forced to disappear to a remote Italian town after an attempt on his life. Once there he takes an assignment to construct a gun for a mysterious female contact. The mountain air of the Abruzzi pleases him, as do his encounters with the parish priest and local whore, but as the weapon nears completion he finds reasons to doubt whether any of his contacts can be trusted.
Friday 28th January at 7.45pm, Saturday 29th at 9.45 am, Monday 31st at 2pm and 7.45pm, Tuesday 1st, Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd February at 7.45pm

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