Film - January

The Deep Blue Sea - Dir. Terence Davies, 12A, 98 mins

Monday 9th & Tuesday 10th January, 7.30pm
Tickets: £6.50, £5.00 (Conc.), £4.00 (Students)

Hester Collyer (Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz) leads a privileged life in 1950s London as the beautiful wife of high court judge Sir William Collyer (Simon Russell Beale). To the shock of those around her, she walks out on her marriage to move in with young ex-RAF pilot, Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston), with whom she has fallen passionately in love. Set in post-war Britain, this adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s classic play, THE DEEP BLUE SEA is a study of forbidden love, suppressed desire, and the fear of loneliness – but is at heart a deeply moving love story. Stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea, what - or whom - should Hester choose?

“In an age of hubbub, its patient elegance is a rare thing we should nurture.” (Empire)

Waltz With Bashir - Dir. Ari Folman, 18, 90 mins

Part of the Shifting Sands Event
Thursday 12th January, 7.30pm
Tickets: £6.50, £5.00 (Conc.), £4.00 (Students)

Ari Folman's animated documentary into the horrors of the 1982 Lebanon war. Despite a catalogue of international awards and nominations, as well as on-going popularity and success, it is officially banned in Lebanon.

Introduced by Andy Wyatt Programme Leader for Digital Animation, University College Falmouth.

"It's a blistering, powerful work." - Telegraph

"An extraordinary film" - Guardian

Restrepo - Dir. Tim Hetherington/Sebastian Junger, 15, 94 mins

Part of the Shifting Sands Event
Friday 13th January, 7.30pm
Tickets: £6.50, £5.00 (Conc.), £4.00 (Students)

Restrepo is a 2010 documentary film about the Afghanistan war, directed by American journalist Sebastian Junger and British/American photojournalist Tim Hetherington.

Restrepo was Tim’s directorial debut film that explores the year that Junger and Hetherington spent in Afghanistan on assignment for Vanity Fair embedded with the US Army in the Korengal Valley. It was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.

Screened as part of the Frontline Journalism – Shifting Sands event with special remembrance for Tim Hetherington who was killed in the same rocket attack in Misrata that severely injured Guy Martin.

Introduced by Kingsley Marshall, Award Leader for Film, University College Falmouth.

"Powerful, terrifying and soulful, this real-life Hurt Locker is an intimate, often brilliant insight into combat and comradeship." - Empire

"It is a scary, moving and troubling film." - Guardian

Tyrannosaur - Dir. Paddy Considine, 18, 92 mins

Monday 16th & Tuesday 17th January, 7.30pm
Tickets: £6.50, £5.00 (Conc.), £4.00 (Students)

Tyrannosaur is the debut feature film from award winning actor Paddy Considine (Dead Man's Shoes). Joseph, (Peter Mullan) a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction, is spiraling into turmoil. A chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah (Olivia Colman, Peep Show), a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship develops to reveal that Hannah is hiding a secret of her own, a secret with devastating consequences for both of them.

“Tyrannosaur is a fearsome debut” - Telegraph

"A great deal more than a misery memoir on film, this character study is as gripping as any hardboiled thriller, delivering emotional content that'll stay with you for a long time. Highly recommended." - Empire

Another Earth - Dir. Mike Cahill, 12A, 92 Mins

Tuesday 24th January, 7.30pm
Tickets: £6.50, £5.00 (Conc.), £4.00 (Students)
MONDAY'S SCREENING CANCELLED DUE TO DISTRIBUTION ISSUES

In Another Earth, Rhoda Williams (Marling), a bright young woman accepted into MIT's astrophysics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. A brilliant composer, John Burroughs (Mapother), has just reached the pinnacle of his profession and is about to have a second child. On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, tragedy strikes and the lives of these strangers become irrevocably intertwined.

“Another Earth's central performances and ideas all impress, as does its pulsing, electronic soundtrack.” - Telegraph

"At its best, it is original and affecting, and one of the best American independent efforts at this year." - This Is London

Music/Film

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - Dir. Robert Wiene, U, 55 mins
With live music from Seamas H. Carey and the Cinematic Ensemble
Saturday 28th January, 7.30pm

Following the sell-out success of the Silent Movie Night in October, Seamas H. Carey returns with The Cinematic Ensemble to present The Cabinet of Dr. Calligari.
Regarded as one of the most influential German Expressionist films, Robert Wiene's 1920 silent horror is said to of inspired Edward Scissorhands and introduced the 'twist ending' in cinema.

With a semi-improvised live score, expect an evening of madcap music from The Cinematic Ensemble, using instruments such as Theremin, Accordion, Cello, Electric Guitar, Drums, Hurdygurdy and Voice. It’s a night not be missed!

For adults and brave children...

Black Pond - Dir. Tom Kingsley/Will Sharpe, 15, 82 mins

Monday 30th & Tuesday 31st January, 7.30pm
Q&A following the the Tuesday sceening
Tickets: £6.50, £5.00 (Conc.), £4.00 (Students)

An ordinary British family are accused of murder when a stranger dies at their dinner table. Out walking his dog, Tom Thompson meets a disheveled man called Blake and invites him over for tea. Blake dies in the company of the dysfunctional Thompson family. Six months later, Tim, a friend of the Thompson daughters visits off-the-wall freelance therapist Dr Eric Sacks and the story of Blake and the Thompsons finds its way to the press.

The facts are bent and the details spun as the Thompsons become known to the public as ‘The Family of Killers’. Black Pond is an account of the events leading up to Blake’s death, intercut with scenes from the fateful therapy session between Tim and Sacks and talking head interviews in which the Thompsons try to justify their actions and clear the family name. Two-time BAFTA winner Chris Langham (Help, The Thick of It) is hilarious and heartbreaking as the bumbling Tom Thompson, who struggles to placate his neurotic wife Sophie and consistently fails to be a dignified father to his daughters, Jess and Katie. The inimitable Simon Amstell (Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Grandma's House) makes his film debut as sinister psychotherapist Dr Eric Sacks.

“Black Pond is really good: haunting, melancholy and strange.” - Guardian

"You get your money's worth of surreal quirk but also pleasingly awkward comedy in this plucky Britflick, the dark tale of a family who bury a complete stranger." - Telegraph