Thursday 5th July
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11:00
Tulpan (Film)
Sergei Dvortsevoy's amazing Cannes-winning comedy drama is set on Kazakhstan's bleak Hunger Steppe where Asa, a young sailor recently discharged from the Russian Navy, is living in a yurt with his sister Samal and her family. He is determined to become a shepherd and to marry a local woman but the only available single woman is Tulpan, who turns him down because his ears are too big. Can Asa change her mind and can he and Samal halt the increase in stillborn lambs in their flock?
Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy
Starring: Tolepbergen Baisakalov, Ondas Besikbasov, Samal Esljamova, Askhat Kuchencherekov, Bereke Turganbayev
(Widescreen, Subtitles, In Kazakh and Russian with English Subtitles, 2008, 12, 4 Star)
12:55
The Tall Men (Film)
Rousing action Western about a Civil War veteran who, with his brother Cameron Mitchell, agrees to crooked cattleman Robert Ryan's offer to be trail boss on a massive cattle drive from Texas to Montana. On the way they meet Nella from the Indians who decides to ride with them.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan, Cameron Mitchell, Juan GarcĂa, Harry Shannon
(Subtitles, 1955, U, 3 Star)
15:20
The Enemy Below (Film)
Robert Mitchum takes the lead as Captain Murrell, commanding an American destroyer in the North Atlantic and hunting down a German U-boat captained by a world-weary Von Stolberg. With David 'Al' Hedison, Theodore Bikel and Russell Collins.
Director: Dick Powell
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Curd JĂĽrgens, David Hedison, Theodore Bikel, Russell Collins, Kurt Kreuger
(Subtitles, 1957, PG, 3 Star)
17:15
The Ladykillers (Film)
Alexander Mackendrick's classic Ealing comedy stars Alec Guinness as the sinister, eccentric leader of a gang of crooks whose perfect crime meets its nemesis at the unwitting ha$$$ of Guinness's elderly landlady, played by BAFTA-winner Katie Johnson.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Starring: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner
(Subtitles, 1955, U, 4 Star)
19:05
Clueless (Film)
Amy Heckerling's high-school take on Jane Austen's novel Emma. Alicia Silverstone plays Cher Horowitz who, thanks to her rich lawyer daddy, has it all. She and her school friend Dionne decide to take new girl Tai under their wing and make sure she fi$$$ a date. They succeed, only to find that they've created a monster.
Director: Amy Heckerling
Starring: Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, Brittany Murphy, Stacey Dash, Donald Faison, Dan Hedaya
(Edited for Language, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1995, 12, 3 Star)
21:00
Babylon A.D. (Film)
Mathieu Kassowitz's science fiction film is set in a dystopian future where corporations rule the cities. Mercenary Toorop is hired by Gorsky to pick up a 'package' from Russia and deliver it, via Alaska and Canada, to the high priestess of a new religion in New York. The package turns out to be a young woman, Aurora, accompanied by a nun, Sister Rebeka. But as the journey progresses, Aurora demonstrates other-worldly powers and, for Toorop, what was simply a job becomes a quest for redemption, as he tries to guard Aurora from the various factions that either wish her harm or want to claim her powers for their own use.
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Starring: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, MĂ©lanie Thierry, GĂ©rard Depardieu, Charlotte Rampling, Mark Strong
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 12, 3 Star)
22:45
44 Inch Chest (Film)
Malcolm Venville's chamber revenge drama features a screenplay from the writers of Sexy Beast, Louis Mellis and David Scinto, and a stellar cast that includes Ray Winstone, Joanne Whalley, John Hurt, Ian McShane and Tom Wilkinson. When hard man Colin Diamond discovers that his wife Liz is having an affair with a young waiter and wants to end their marriage, he falls to pieces. This is more than his frie$$$ can bear to see and they rally to support him and come up with a plan to put things right again. Unfortunately for 'Loverboy', the waiter, as well as being splendidly foul-mouthed, Colin's frie$$$ are also terrifyingly, clinically brutal psychopathic gangsters. Their solution is to kidnap Liz's new love and encourage Colin to exact bloody revenge. With most of the action taking place in just one room, the stage is set for a character study master-class, and an uncertain end for Loverboy.
Director: Malcolm Venville
Starring: Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Dillane, Joanne Whalley
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 18, 3 Star)
00:25
Another Country (Film)
Director Marek Kanievska's debut is a biographical drama starring Rupert Everett as Guy Bennett, first seen in old age in his Moscow flat talking to American journalist Betsy Brantley about what made him become a spy for the Russians. The narrative then switches to Bennett's life at public school, where ruthless competitiveness and cruelty are the order of the day, and where the teenager learns his first lessons about what life holds in store.
Director: Marek Kanievska
Starring: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Michael Jenn, Robert Addie, Rupert Wainwright, Tristan Oliver
(Subtitles, 1984, 15, 4 Star)
02:10
Taxidermia (Film)
A bizarre, sometimes grotesque, film encompasses the lives of three generations, beginning with Csaba Czene as Morosgovinyi Vendel, a sexually frustrated orderly during the war, who relieves his tensions in the most outlandish, gross ways. The product of one of his liaisons is Balatony, a glutton who grows up to be a champion speed eater. He, in turn, produces a child, Balatony Lajoska, who becomes obsessed with taxidermy to such an unhealthy degree that he eventually practises his craft before the subject is fully dead.
Director: György Pálfi
Starring: Csaba Czene, Gergely Trócsányi, Marc Bischoff, István Gyuricza, Piroska Molnár, Gábor Máté
(In Hungarian/Russian/English with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2006, 18, 3 Star)