The
film examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple
in the holy city of Varanasi. It focuses on a relationship between one of the
widows, who wants to escape the social restrictions imposed on widows, and a
man who is from the highest caste and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
Awards Best foreign film at the New York Film
Critics Circle in 1955. In 2007 Time
Magazine placed Les Diaboliques on their list of top 25 Horror films.
Friday 20 September 8pm
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL 2012
A
desperate group of English pensioners abandon their homeland, enticed by
advertisements for The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, in Jaipur, India. They find
the hotel falls somewhat short of the romantic idyll promised, but are
gradually won over by the ever-optimistic young manager Sonny.
Director John Madden
Actors Bill Nighy, Maggie
Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Judi Dench, Dev Patel
Awards The film was nominated as the Best
Motion Picture (musical or comedy) and Judi Dench was nominated for the Best
Actress in the Golden Globe Awards.
Friday 18 October 8pm
A SIMPLE LIFE 2012
The
film centres on the moving relationship between an ageing servant and her
employer, now a successful film producer. When the servant's health starts to
deteriorate, the tables are turned and her employer slowly transforms from the
detached single man to the devoted carer.
Awards A Simple Life won a number of awards
at the 2011 Venice Film Festival.
Friday 15 November 8pm
WINTER’S BONE 2010
17
year-old Ree Dolly embarks on a mission
to find her father who has mysteriously disappeared leaving the family
penniless. Ree tracks him through the woods of Missouri in order to save the
house from repossession and secure her family's future.
Awards The documentary was nominated for an
Academy Award in the Best Documentary category in 2004 and the film won the
International Film Critics Award at the 2004 San Francisco International Film
Festival.
Friday 17 January 8pm
SAVING GRACE 2000
Grace
Trevethan's idyllic life in Cornwall is turned upside down by her husband's sudden
death, a mountain of debt and the prospect of losing her beautiful house. Grace
decides to put her green fingers to work. With a little prompting from her
under-employed gardener, Grace swaps her prize winning orchids for marijuana
with unexpected results.
Director Nigel Cole
Actors Brenda Blethyn, Martin Clunes, Bill
Bailey, Leslie Phillips, Diana Quick, Phyllida Law
Awards 1 Golden Globe nomination for Brenda
Blethyn in 2001
Friday 21 February 8pm
THE RETURN 2004
Two
teenage Russian boys live with their mother in a remote Russian town. One day
their lives are shattered by the re-appearance of their father after a 10 year
absence. But. Is the man really their father? Why has he come back after so
many years?
Director Andrey
Zvyagintzev
Actors Vladimir
Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko,
AwardsNominated for
the Best Foreign Language Film in the 2003 Golden Globe Awards.
INTOUCHABLES 2012
The
true story of a relationship between a wealthy Parisienne quadriplegic and his
carer. The carer, a young black man from a poor area of the city where his life
was lacking direction forms a bond with his employer across the divide of
disability, wealth and race.
