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Programme January - June 2010

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This season, The Club has introduced a set of three themed films,
indicated by the coloured symbol. This season's theme is "prejudice"

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Saturday 9th January

The Boat That Rocked

In the late 1960s, American radio stations blasted rock and roll 24 hours a day. But... in the home country of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the only way to hear their music was to tune in...to a boat. Richard Curtis (Notting Hill, Love Actually) tells the incredible story of a band of rogue DJs who captivated British radio listeners in the 60s, playing the music that defined a generation, whilst boldly defying the government that tried to shut them down.

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2009 - UK - Cert.15 - dir. Richard Curtis

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Saturday 30th January

theme logo Gran Torino

Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighbourhood. Kowalski is a grumpy, toughminded, unhappy old man who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbours; a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino car he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbour Thao, a Hmong teenager under pressure from his gang member cousin, tries to steal his Gran Torino, Kowalski sets out to reform the youth.

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2008 - USA - Cert.15 - dir. Clint Eastwood

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Saturday 20th February

Coco Before Chanel

Several years after leaving an orphanage, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing increasingly popular hats. When she falls in love with English businessman Arthur Capel further opportunities open up, though life becomes ever more complicated.

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2009 - France - Cert.12 - dir. Anne Fontaine

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Saturday 13th March

Easy Virtue

Between the wars, the Whittaker's estate is sinking. Only the iron will of Mrs. Whittaker staves off bankruptcy while she awaits her son John's return from the continent. To her dismay he brings a bride, an American widow who races cars. The bride, Larita, thinks she and John will visit the estate and then go to London, where he'll work and she'll race. However, John is ‘to the manor born’ and mother is nothing if not a master planner and manipulator. Soon it's all-out war between mother and bride, with John's father, a burnt- out veteran of the Great War, in the bride's corner.

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2008 - UK - Cert.PG - dir. Stephan Elliott

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Saturday 24th April

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A drama based on the true story of a Palestinian widow, who must defend her lemon grove when a new Israeli Defence Minister moves in next door, threatening to have the grove torn down for security reasons. Taking her case to the Israeli courts, she is assisted by an ambitious young lawyer. A romance, forbidden within the society in which she lives, blossoms. Can it last? A story of prejudice, fear, love and one woman’s determination to have her voice heard against all the odds. This film was made with the support of the Israeli Film Council.

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2008 - Israel - Cert. PG - dir. Eran Riklis

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Saturday 15th May

Babette's Feast

In 19th century Denmark, two sisters live with their father, the pastor of a small Protestant church. Later a French refugee, Babette, arrives and begs for shelter, committing herself to work for them as maid, housekeeper and cook. After their father dies, the sisters decide to hold a dinner to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth. Babette implores the sisters to allow her to prepare the meal. Although secretly concerned, the sisters allow her to do so. Babette then prepares the feast of a lifetime …

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1987 - Denmark - Cert.U - dir. Gabriel Axel

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Saturday 5th June

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Joseph Fiennes plays James Gregory, a South African prison- guard moulded by his upbringing during apartheid. It is his destiny to guard a black man, who will bring him to question everything he knows and believes, a man who would show the world that forgiveness and peace may achieve much more than war and violence. This questioning and reappraisal of his beliefs and attitudes, will lead Gregory to his own persecution, tragedy and ironically, a life long friendship with the man he was ordered to guard… Nelson Mandela.

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2007 - Germany - Cert. 15 - dir. Bille August

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Saturday 26th June

Welcome to the Sticks

Caught red-handed trying to scam an inspector, a french postal administrator is immediately banished to the distant, unheard of town of Bergues, in the far north. Leaving his wife and child behind, the deflated man leaves for his frightening destination, a dreadfully cold place inhabited by hard-drinking, unemployed rednecks, speaking an incomprehensible dialect called Ch'ti. How will he fare…? What sticks…? Considered one of the best comedy films ever, upon release this movie attracted 20 million cinema-goers in France, second only to Titanic.

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2008 - France - Cert.12 - dir. Dany Boon

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