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CLASSIC CINEMA

Orson Welle's

CITIZEN KANE(U)

Welle's cinematic masterpiece returns to the BIG SCREEN.

Fri 5-March 8pm

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BAFTA Winner - Best adapted Screenplay

George Clooney in

UP IN THE AIR (15)

Sat 6-March 6:15pm

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Andy Serkis stars as punk legend IAN DURY

SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL (15)

Sat 6-March 8:30pm

Sun 7-March 7:30pm

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Meryl Streep in

IT'S COMPLICATED

(15)

Sun 7-March 5pm

 

 

 

FAMILY MATINEE

ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS 2

The Squeakquel (U)

Sun 7-March 3:15pm

 

 

 

 

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A sample of what's Coming Soon..

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THE ROAD

 

A PROPHET

 

Jean-Pierre Jeunet's (Amelie, Delicatessen)

MICMACS

 

 

BAFTA winner Colin Firth in

A SINGLE MAN

 

 

CLASSIC CINEMA

Powell & Pressburger's

THE RED SHOES

 

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CLASSIC CINEMA

Orson Welle's

CITIZEN KANE(U)

Welle's cinematic masterpiece returns to the BIG SCREEN.

Fri 5-March 8pm

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Directed by Orson Welles

 

Screenplay by Orson Welles & Herman L. Mankiewicz

 

Runtime: 2hrs

 

Starring:

Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris, Fortunio Bonanova, Gus Schilling, Philip Van Zandt, Katherine Trosper, Georgia Backus, Harry Shannon, Sonny Bupp, Buddy Swan.

 

First released in 1941, dazzlingly inventive, technically breathtaking, Citizen Kane reinvented the way stories could be told in the cinema, and set a standard generations of film-makers have since aspired to. An absorbing account of a newspaper tycoon's rise to power, Orson Welles' debut film feels as fresh as tomorrow's headlines.

 

CITIZEN KANE is Orson Welles's greatest achievement--and a landmark of cinema history. The story charts the rise and fall of a newspaper publisher whose wealth and power ultimately isolates him in his castle-like refuge. The film's protagonist, Charles Foster Kane, was based on a composite of Howard Hughes and William Randolph Hearst--so much so that Hearst tried to have the film suppressed. Every aspect of the production marked an advance in film language: the deep focus and deeply shadowed cinematography (from Gregg Toland); the discontinuous narrative, relying heavily on flashbacks and newsreel footage (propelled by a script largely written by Herman L. Mankiewicz); the innovative use of sound and score, and the ensemble acting forged in the fires of Welles's Mercury Theatre (featuring the film debuts of, among others, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, and Agnes Moorehead). Every moment of the film, every shot, has been choreographed to perfection. The film is essential viewing, quite possibly the greatest film ever made and, along with THE BIRTH OF A NATION, certainly the most influential.

 

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BAFTA Winner - Best adapted Screenplay

George Clooney in

UP IN THE AIR (15)

Sat 6-March 6:15pm

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Directed by:
Jason Reitman (Juno)

Starring:
George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey

 

Runtime: 1hr 50mins

 

Ryan Bingham's job is to fire people from theirs. The anguish, hostility, and despair of his "clients" has left him falsely compassionate, isolated and living out of a suitcase, and loving every second of it. When his boss hires arrogant young Natalie, she develops a method of video conferencing that will allow termination without ever leaving the office - essentially threatening the existence Ryan so cherishes. Determined to show the naive girl the error of her logic, Ryan takes her on one of his cross country firing expeditions, but as she starts to realize the disheartening realities of her profession, he begins to see the downfalls to his way of life.

 

Official film site: UP IN THE AIR

 

 

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Andy Serkis stars as punk legend IAN DURY

SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL (15)

Sat 6-March 8:30pm

Sun 7-March 7:30pm

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Dir: Mat Whitecross

 

Starring:

Andy Serkis, Naome Harris, Olivia Williams, Ray Winstone

 

Runtime: 1hr 55mins

 

Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll is the new film of the IAN DURY story starring Andy Serkis in the role of the punk legend. The film follows the rise to fame of IAN DURY following a personal battle with the debilitating disease polio, and the after effects of fame on his relationships . The title of the film is derived from the classic 1977 hit and the phrase that it spawned - "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll".

After years of slogging around the pub circuit, Ian Dury (Andy Serkis) ditches his band and forms the Blockheads to critical and commercial acclaim, but his sudden escalating success has a profound and damaging effect on those around him, not least his son, Baxter.

 

 

Official film site: SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL

 

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Meryl Streep in

IT'S COMPLICATED(15)

Sun 7-March 5pm

 

Dir: Nancy Meyers

 

Starring:

Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin

 

Runtime: 2hrs

 

A new comedy starring Meryl Streep directed by Nancy Meyers (Something's Gotta Give).

A divorced mother becomes "the other woman" in her ex-husband's life when the pair enter into an unexpected affair during an out-of-town trip. Jane has been divorced from Jake for a decade, is the mother of three grown children and owns a successful business. Since their divorce Jake has remarried a much younger woman. A chance encounter and a meal together ends up in a full blown affair between the two divorcee’s and Jake realises he’s been drawn into a most peculiar love-triangle. Is love sweeter the second time around, or should Jane and Jake just be happy with what they had, and finally move on with their lives?

 

Official film site: IT'S COMPLICATED

 

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FAMILY MATINEE

ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS 2

The Squeakquel (U)

Sun 7-March 3:15pm

 

Runtime: 1hr 25mins

 

Official film site: ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS 2

 

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