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5th October 2008
The 49th Parallel (PG) Showing as part of Heritage Foundation's 'Cinema in Letchworth' theme. One of the stars, Laurence Olivier, lived in the Garden City as a child. The score is by Vaughan Williams. In Canada, five stranded U-Boat men try to escape to the US.
2nd November 2008 The Family Friend
(15) Moneylender preys on locals. Beautiful bride-to-be needs cash. He obliges but with strings attached...
16th November 2008 McCabe and Mrs.
Miller (X) "A fetching, diaphanous vision of what frontier life might have been," (Pauline Kael), starring Julie Christie and Warren Beatty.
7th December 2008 The Kite Runner
(12A) Novelist Amir has the opportunity to return to Afghanistan from San Francisco for the first time since childhood.
4th January 2009 The Conformist (15) What it takes to produce a fascist in 1938 Italy. Supremely visual tretment.
1st February 2009 Longing (15) A love triangle: one man and two women. Written and directed by a young woman (b. 1968) of new German cinema.
1st March 2009 Alice in the Cities
(U) A German journalist in America reluctantly escorts a small girl back to Germany. Excellent child performance.
15th March 2009 The Hoax (15) Con artist Clifford Irving pretends to have access to Howard Hughes. Subsequent autobiography not realised to be a hoax. Stars Richard Gere and Julie Delpy.
5th April 2009 Shadows (X) Racial tension (a black girl who can 'pass for white' is wooed by a white man until he finds out). Ground-breaking film whose 'improvisations' were highly rehearsed by the director. Jazz score by Charles Mingus.
10th May 2009 The Lady Vanishes (U) An old lady disappears on a train. Two young people investigate. Typical of the director's British period.
7th June 2009 The Counterfeiters (15) 30's Germany. Counterfeiter sent to Mathausen; forced to work for the Government designing fake bank notes. + AGM |
