Michaelmas 2009
Inglourious Basterds
Brad Pit romps around killing Nazis, lots of them,
in Quentin Tarantino's gory and silly
return to cinema.
7.30pm & 10pm, Sunday 11th October
153 mins
If....
The first in our Thursday evening season of films by
acclaimed British director Lindsay Anderson. Mick Travis
(Malcolm McDowell) finally snaps and mounts an armed
insurrection against his oppressive public school. A hilarious
and often surreal social satire; this is Anderson's best loved
and most well known film.
9pm, Thursday 15th October
111 mins
Brüno
Sacha Baron Cohen's most recent (but by no means
his least controversial) feature length cringe comedy
starring his gay-Austrian-supermodel-turned-television-presenter
alter ego: Brüno.
7.30pm & 10pm, Sunday 18th October
81 mins
Star Trek
JJ Abrams' reboot of the classic Star Trek franchise
features James T. Kirk's rise to captaincy of the newly
commissioned USS Enterprise. This sci-fi thrill ride will
entertain both Trekkies and newcomers.
7.30pm & 10pm, Sunday 25th October
127 mins
The Hangover
Three friends wake up after a bachelor party in
Las Vegas, with splitting headaches and no memory of
the previous night, to find the groom missing the day
before his wedding. Hilarity, of course, ensues.
7.30pm & 10pm, Sunday 1st November
100 mins
O Lucky Man!
Continuing our Thursday evening Lindsay Anderson
season 'O Lucky Man!' is the second in the loose 'Mick Travis
Trilogy' although a standalone film in its own right.
Malcolm McDowell once again resumes the mantle of Mick
Travis who is now a coffee salesman learning how to deal
with the disillusionments of adult life.
9pm, Thursday 5th November
183 mins
GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Using bleeding-edge covert military technology, the
elite G.I Joe team take on the corrupt arms dealer, Destro,
and the mysterious Cobra organisation. Fantastically over-the-top
escapism; ideal for a bit of week five catharsis.
7.30pm & 10pm, Sunday 8th November
118 mins
Brittania Hospital
The third film in our Lindsey Anderson season and the
last Mick Travis film, (again, a standalone film in
its own right) 'Britannia Hospital' is a black comedy
set in an oddly allegorical hospital.
9pm, Thursday 12th November
116 mins
District 9
Effortlessly encompassing the just plain silly to
sublime, District 9 is a technically brilliant, action packed,
funny and gutwrenching film. This tale of an alien apartheid
in Johannesburg has all the promise of a science-fiction
classic. It is amasterful directorial debut fromPeter
Jackson's protégé Neill Blomkamp.
7.30pm & 10pm, Sunday 15th November
112 mins
This Sporting Life
Lindsay Anderson's first film, 'This Sporting Life'
stars Richard Harris as a successful rugby player,
whose life is not going quite so smoothly off the field.
9pm, Thursday 19th November
134 mins
Fish Tank
A gritty new Film from Academy Award winning
director Andrea Arnold. It tells the story of
fifteen-year-old Mia (Katie Jervis) whose life changes
drastically when her mum's enigmatic new boyfriend moves
in. Winner of a Jury prize at Cannes, and hailed as the best
British film of the year, 'Fish Tank' offers a starkly realistic
portrayal of life in a broken and impoverished landscape.
7.30pm & 10pm, Sunday 22th November
124 mins
The Hide
This low-budget film showed last year in London to wide
critical acclaim. We are lucky enough to get a showing of it
on its tour of the art-house and student cinemas of the UK. It
is a brooding, tense and beautifully shot two-hander.
9pm, Thursday 26th November
83 mins
Up
Another masterful film from Pixar, 'Up' is an exciting,
hilarious, and heartfelt adventure impeccably
crafted and told with wit and depth. Uplifting.
7.30pm & 10pm, Sunday 29th November
96 mins