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2018 / 2019 - Season 61
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Saturday                   29th September 2018


                  New registrations & refreshments      6.15pm 
                  AGM                                                        7.00pm         

​Trash                                                7.30pm
2014 ​- Brazil - 114 min
Set in a South American slum, three children who make a discovery on a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the police and gangsters while trying to right a terrible wrong.
SCORE: 88%

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Saturday        27th October 2018

Film 1
​Bombshell                       6.00pm
2017 - USA - 88 min
 The Hedy Lamarr story. She created a name as one of Hollywood's top leading ladies but behind the glamour and sex appeal was a talented and underappreciated genius inventor.
SCORE: 82%


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​The Fencer                      8.00pm 2016 - Finland / Estonia / Germany - 99 min       
A champion fencer on the run from the Soviet secret service finds himself inspiring Estonian school children to take up the sport. His past, however, catches up with him and he must risk taking the children to Leningrad or put his own safety first. Winner: Best Foreign Film 2016
​SCORE:  97%                                           
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Saturday      24th November 2018

Film 1
Loving Vincent                 5.40pm 
2017 - Poland / ​UK / USA - 84 min    
The world's first ever fully painted full length movie. Using over 65,000 hand painted frames the film investigates the circumstances  of Vincent van Gogh's death.
SCORE: 88%

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​Remember                        7.55pm
2015 - Canada / Germany  - 94 min
An elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person he believes is responsible for the death of his family in Auschwitz, but his aim to deliver long delayed justice has surprising consequences.
SCORE: 87%

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Saturday                 15th December 2018

​The Best of Men                           6.45pm
2012 - UK - 94 min
Inspirational British drama starring Eddie Marsan as Dr. Ludwig Guttmann, the creator of the Paralympic Games. A Jewish man who managed to escape from Hitler's regime, Guttmann was at the
forefront of helping to physically rehabilitate British soldiers.

SCORE:  97%
  
       
Christmas Social from 8.15pm                                      Join us for free food and wine - non members welcome​
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Saturday                             26th January 2019

Far from the Madding Crowd              6.15pm
1967 - UK - 169 min 
In Victorian England wealthy Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors. John Schlesinger's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel.
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​SCORE: 93%
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Saturday        23rd February 2019

Film 1
Marvellous                         5.30pm
2014 - UK - 90 min
Based on a true story, Neil Baldwin, considered to have learning difficulties but with a zest for life, shrugged off his perceived ​limitations to live an incredible life and end up on the Queen's Christmas card list.
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SCORE: 93%

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​Frantz                                7.30pm
2016  - France / Germany - 113 min
In the aftermath of WWI a young German girl grieving the death of her fiancé meets a mysterious Frenchman who also visits her fiancé’s grave to lay flowers.
SCORE: 92% 
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Saturday             30th March 2019

​Film 1
​Land of Mine                     5.40pm
2015 - Denmark / Germany - 90 min      
Inspired by real events the film follows the dramatic story of teenage German prisoners who after WWII were forced to defuse and remove 2 million mines on the Danish coast with their bare hands and little training.
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​SCORE: 85% 


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 Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool                                              7.45pm
  2017 - UK / USA - 106 min ​ 
  The tragic life of Hollywood sensation Gloria Grahame who refused to bow to Hollywood sexism and was driven out. She finds love and a second life with a chaotic Liverpool family.
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 SCORE: 83% 
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Saturday                     27th April 2019

Film 1
​My Life as a Courgette           5.50pm
2017 - France - 66 min
Animation. After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.
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SCORE: 79% 

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​Man Called Ove                      7.30pm
2015  - Sweden - 116 min
An ill-tempered retiree spends his empty days enforcing community rules and then plans to end it all. A string of suicide attempts is thwarted by comically mundane interruptions and he begins to think life is worth living.
SCORE: 94% 
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Saturday                             18th May 2019

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he Age of Innocence                            7.10pm
1993 - USA - 139 min
Directed by Martin Scorsese. A tale of 19th Century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.

​SCORE: 83%
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82Saturday                      29th June 2018
 
Chocolat                     
​              6.15pm

2016 - France - 110 min
The rise and fall of Chocolat the first black circus clown in France who revolutionised the stagnant circus acts and conquered Paris with his exuberance and originality.
SCORE: 82%
       
                           
​                                     Followed by our End of Season Social
   

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