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2016 / 2017 - Season 59
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 Saturday       24th September 2016
New registrations & refreshments         6.15pm 
AGM                                                          7.00pm         
Tracks                                    7.30pm
Australia -  2013  - 108 min
A true story of a girl making a solo trek across 1700 miles of sprawling Australian desert accompanied by only her dog and four unpredictable camels. Gorgeous cinematography.
SCORE: 93.3%
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Saturday           29th October 2016
Film 1


Tangerines                          6.00pm
Georgia - 2015 - 83 min
 During the 1992/93 war in Georgia, a farmer takes in
two wounded soldiers from opposite sides.  Their extended recovery period has an unexpected humanising effect that surpasses ethnic  divides.
SCORE: 93.4%

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A Walk in the Woods         7.50pm    USA - 2015 - 100 min                           
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S. He decides to reconnect with his homeland by hiking the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends - with hilarious results. 
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SCORE: 85.6%                                                   .....................................................................................................

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Saturday             26th November 2016
Film 1



Rams                                        5.45pm  
Iceland - 2016 - 90 min    
In a remote Icelandic farming valley, two brothers who haven’t spoken in 40 years have to come together in order to save what’s dearest to them - their sheep.
SCORE: 94.3%

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The Choir                              7.45pm
USA - 2014 - 103 min
The inspirational story of a rebellious young boy with a remarkable singing voice. After being sent to a prestigious music school, he is challenged by a demanding teacher.​
​SCORE: 84.3%
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Saturday    10th December 2016


Paddington                      6.30pm
UK - 2014 - 95 min
Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, a lonely bear meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven. It looks as though his luck has changed until this rarest of bears catches the eye of a museum taxidermist.
SCORE: 90%
                    Christmas Social from 8.15pm
                              Join us for free food and wine - non members welcome
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Saturday                28th January 2017

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Dr Zhivago                               5.45pm
UK/USA - Re-release 2015 - 200 min 
David Lean’s “Doctor Zhivago” is a classic film that will live on as long as there are films. It portrays life through the eyes of a Russian physician and poet who, although married, falls in love with a political activist’s wife.The film shows the hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.  There will be an interval during the film.​
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SCORE: 97.1%

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Saturday              18th February 2017
Film 1




Brooklyn                                 5.30pm
USA - 2015 - 107 min
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local boy. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
​SCORE: 90%

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Theeb                                     7.45pm

Jordan - 2014 - 100 min
In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming of age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination.​
​SCORE:89%
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Saturday                 25th March 2017
Film 1


​The Crow's Egg                    5.30pm
India - 2015 - 105 min      
Two children growing up in a slum, make a living stealing coal. They want nothing more in life than to try out a Pizza from the newly opened Pizza shop. Will they succeed? 
​SCORE: 85%


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 Eye in the Sky                  7.45pm

  UK - 2015 - 102 min
 When a top secret anti-terrorist operation escalates from ‘capture’ to ‘kill’, it causes an international dispute at the highest level when a nine-year -old girl enters the kill-zone.
SCORE: 94.3%
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Saturday                22nd April 2017
Film 1



​Love and Friendship           5.30pm
UK/Ireland - 2016 - 93 min
Set in the 1790s, a beautiful widow takes up temporary residence at her in-law’s estate playing matchmaker for her daughter - and herself too, naturally!
SCORE: 70%

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About Elly                         7.30pm
Iran - 2009 - 114 min
The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travellers.​
                                                                     SCORE: 73%
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Saturday                                           20th May 2017

TALK   
                                                                                      6.15pm

BAFTA Award Winning Director Michael Clifford
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​Unbroken                                 7.15pm
USA - 2014 - 132 min

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After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII. Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he’s caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. A true story. 
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 Saturday                24th June 2017
 
Bridge of Spies                   6.15pm
 USA - 2015 - 135 min

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to
defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Gary Powers.
SCORE 97%

                                      Followed by our end of season social
                                                              CAKE FEST!

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