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Friday 20th February 8pm: The Third Man
Year of release: 1949 Running Time: 104 mins Rating: PG
An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna divided into sectors by the victorious allies, and where a shortage of supplies has lead to a flourishing black market. He arrives at the invitation of an ex-school friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job, only to discover that Lime has recently died in a peculiar traffic accident. From talking to Lime's friends and associates Martins soon notices that some of the stories are inconsistent, and determines to discover what really happened to Harry Lime.
Source: Mark Thompson, Oasis Icl. |
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Members' Choice
Friday 20th March 8pm: The Kite Runner
Year of Release: 2007 Running Time: 122 mins Rating: 12A With English subtitles
The Kite Runner is the film of the international bestselling book which tells the story of Amir, a well-to-do boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who is haunted by the guilt of betraying his childhood friend Hassan, the son of his father's Hazara servant. It is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the Taliban regime.
Source: Filmbank
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Friday 17th April 8pm: Once
Year of release: 2006 Running Time: 86 mins Rating: 15
You'd have to be churlish to take against John Carney's bracing, low-budget account of the personal and professional relationship that blooms between an Irish busker (Glen Hansard) and a Czech migrant (Marketa Irglova). It's a soulful valentine to music, friendship and the joys of honest hard graft, played out in the bedsits and recording studios of a deglamourised Dublin, and running to the kind of warm, easy rhythms that typified Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise. The film's unabashed romanticism might start to grate were it not for Carney's sharp feel for the impoverished circumstances of his main characters; the sense that, for all their flirty banter and boisterous singalongs, these people are pretty much clinging on by their fingertips. It's the grit that makes the pearl.
Source: Xan Brooks, Guardian. |
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Friday 15th May 8pm: Tais - Toi! (Shut Up!)
Year of release: 2003 Running Time: 85 mins Rating: 12A With English subtitles
Following in the same fine comic tradition of director Francis Veber’s previous hits, Le Placard / The Closet and Le dîner de cons / The Dinner Game, the plot relies heavily on cars, cell phones and sudden bursts of superhuman strength as Jean Reno and Gérard Depardieu repeatedly hop out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Quentin (Depardieu) is far too literal-minded to succeed as a crook. But what he lacks in intellect he makes up for in brute strength. Yet Quentin likes to talk the way most of us like to breathe (hence the title). Ruby ( Reno) on the other hand is the strong silent type who has managed to hide £15 million purloined from his rival before ending up in a cell with Quentin who mistakes Ruby’s silence for good listening skills. A great, completely one-sided friendship is born.
Source CineFile |
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Friday 19th June 8pm: Grow Your Own
Raffle prizes kindly donated by Tibbs Grocers
Year of release: 2007 Running Time: 101 mins Rating: PG
Down at the Blacktree Road Allotments the motley crew of Great British oddballs, headed by despotic former copper Big John and his browbeaten son Little John are suddenly faced with an influx of immigrants: garrulous Iranian doctor Ali and his family; Zimbabwean single mother Miriam; and most mysteriously of all, catatonic Chinese Kung Sang and his two plucky children.
Threatened by this intrusion to their little disunited kingdom, Big John enforces hardline allotment rules - all sheds painted the same colour, no al fresco eating - that if broken, can lead to expulsion. Naturally it's not just the newcomers who object to these Draconian measures, notably the cantankerous Kenny. But soon a bigger, all-encompassing danger rears up in the shape of a mobile phone company determined to install a mast on the allotment, eliminating at least one vegetable patch. And so the plots thicken.
A gentle, astute, life-affirming British comedy. Dig in.
Source: Leigh Singer, Film 4
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SPECIAL FREE SCREENING
Special Screening in partnership with Transition Town Newton Abbot
Free to members - donations requested from non-members
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Friday 3rd July 8pm: The Age of Stupid
Year of release: 2009 Running Time: 90 mins Rating: 12A
The terrifying documentary about climate change The Age of Stupid is the most imaginative and dramatic assault on the institutional complacency shrouding the issue. Pete Postlethwaite is our guide to the near future.
The year is 2055. Most of London is under water. Sydney is in flames. Las Vegas is being gently swallowed by the desert. The Archivist (Postlethwaite) lives alone in a concrete tower in the middle of the oily ocean somewhere around Norway with a museum collection of stuffed animals and priceless works of art. He sits in front of a transparent space-age screen and rifles through genuine newsreel clips, wondering why we failed to fight the 2degrees of global warming that pushed the planet beyond the critical point in 2015.
The power of this shameless campaigning film is that it gives dates and deadlines. It explores options and ideas. It names culprits, such as the businessman with dreams of providing dirt-cheap air travel to every man, woman, and child in India. It is witheringly sharp about the great and the good in rural England who would rather shoot their neighbours than allow them to erect a wind turbine.
The conclusion is probably spot-on: we are inches away from being the first species on the planet to knowingly kill itself off.
Source: TIMESONLINE
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Friday 17th July 8pm: Fear and Trembling
Year of release: 2003 Running Time: 103 mins Rating: 12A With English subtitles
A blackly humorous adaptation of Amélie Nothomb’s best-selling novel featuring extraordinary performances from Sylvie Testud and Kaori Tsuji. Alain Corneau’s sophisticated comedy tells the story of Amélie, a dreamy and romantic young French woman who returns to Japan - country of her birth - only to find herself overwhelmed by the mysterious and absurd machinations of the Japanese business world. Confounded by layer upon impenetrable layer of protocol, bewildered and frustrated by a closed and contemptuous system which ensures her steady and humiliating decline from translator to toilet attendant, caught up in a dangerous, seemingly unwinnable battle of wills with her beautiful and inscrutable superior Miss Mori, Amélie is tested to the limits of sanity before stumbling upon her own extraordinary means of liberation.
Source: www.cinefile.com |
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Friday 21st August 8pm: Kirikou and the Wild Beasts
Pre-screening performance by Dave Wood - musician, singer and songwriter, performing music inspired by Africa.
Year of release: 2005 Running Time: 75 mins Rating: tbc With English subtitles
Tiny boy hero Kirikou meets adventure in this stunning animation based on West African folk tales - the sequel to the hugely popular Kirikou and the Sorceress. Everyone has so much to learn from this wise and brave little hero! Experience storybook African village life and culture with beautiful backdrops, traditional music and an array of wild beasts.
Chicago International Children's Film Festival 2006 – Children's Jury Award (winner).
Source: www.kirikoulefilm.com
Plus: The Blacksmith (1922) - Buster Keaton
This Buster Keaton short showcases his talent for mechanical comedy. He's an assistant to a blacksmith, but when the blacksmith is arrested, Keaton's in charge. Customers come in with various problems with their horses or cars, and the solution Keaton invents for them (and the mayhem wrought upon them) is devilishly clever, not to mention laugh-out-loud funny.
Source: At-A-Glance Film Reviews
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*Special Screening by the English Riviera Tourist Board*
Thursday 17th September 7.40pm at Torre Abbey
Murder on the Orient Express
As part of the Agatha Christie Festival, the English Riviera Tourist Board is putting on an Open Air Cinema Screening of the 1974 classic Murder on the Orient Express. The screening will take place in the historic and atmospheric grounds of Torre Abbey on Thursday 17th September, at 7.40pm, tickets cost £3 per person.
Further details of the screening can be found at here.
All TFS members will be entitled to a £1 discount with proof of membership.
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Members' Choice
Friday 18th September 8pm: No Country for Old Men
Year of release: 2007 Running Time: 122 mins Rating: 15
In rural Texas, welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss discovers the remains of several drug runners who have all killed each other in an exchange gone violently wrong. Rather than report the discovery to the police, Moss decides to simply take the two million dollars present for himself. This puts the psychopathic killer, Anton Chigurh, on his trail as he dispassionately murders nearly every rival, bystander and even employer in his pursuit of his quarry and the money. As Moss desperately attempts to keep one step ahead, the blood from this hunt begins to flow behind him with relentlessly growing intensity as Chigurh closes in. Meanwhile, the laconic Sherrif Ed Tom Bell blithely oversees the investigation even as he struggles to face the sheer enormity of the crimes he is attempting to thwart.
Source: Filmbank. |
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Friday 16th October 8pm: Le Couperet (The Axe)
Year of release: 2005 Running Time: 122 mins Rating: tbc With English subtitles
Retrenched and out of work for two years, chemist Bruno Davert has had about all he can stand. His oldest son is in trouble with the law, his wife is subjecting him to
marriage counselling and he can’t seem to land a job even after numerous interviews. But when he hears of a paper factory that is apparently rolling in money, he devises a plan to secure a job with the corporation. Eliminate the competition!
Inspired by the novel from celebrated writer Donald E. Westlake, Costa-Gavras has
crafted a biting political satire on capitalism and corporate trends, presented as a
wonderfully dark comedy of middle aged desperation.
César Awards 2006: Best Actor - José Garcia (nominated), Best Writing (nominated). |
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Source: www.worldmovies.net |
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Friday 20th November 8pm: Calamity Jane
Film sponsored by Jim Stevens of Regent Style - Classic Men's Hairstyling 01626 778858
Year of release: 1953 Running Time: 101 mins Rating: U
This is a fine musical from an age of great musicals, which makes no pretence at being in any way historically accurate and concentrates instead on being good entertainment. Her outing as Calamity may have been Doris Day's finest performance - and certainly her most energetic. Howard Keel is a charming, if unlikely, Wild Bill. Although the plot is a simple one, the action never flags right up until the happy ending. All the songs are outstanding, not just the Oscar-winning 'Secret Love', and are performed with great joy and verve. 'Calamity Jane' is pure unadulterated fun.
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Please note: Due to unforseen circumstances we have had to change the date of this screening. This film will now be shown on Tuesday 1st December at 8pm with doors and refreshments at 7pm.
Tuesday 1st December 8pm: Pot Luck (L'auberge espagnole)
“Blissfully funny, terrifically intelligent and tender when you least expect it to be” David Denby” The New Yorker
As part of a job that he is promised, Xavier, an economics student
in his twenties, signs on to a European exchange programme (Erasmus) to gain a
working knowledge of the Spanish language. Promising that they'll remain close,
he says farewell to his loving girlfriend (Amélie's Audrey Tautou), then heads to
Barcelona. An English girl and her brother, a young woman from Belgium, an Italian, a boy from Denmark, a German and a girl from Tarragona all join him in a series of adventures that serve as an initiation to life. Pot luck is a wonderful film filled with bohemian ideas and absolute truth.
Raffle prize kindly donated by McGregor’s Cookshop – kitchenware china and glass
2 Lower Brook Street, Teignmouth 01626 879723
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