The Trust runs Sunday night film screenings at 19:30 in Penicuik
Town Hall (doors open 19:00). Tickets are usually £4.00 (at the door
but also the day before at Saturday Open House).
 | January
10th The Third Man (1949) 104
min. |
| Orson Wells stars in a
black-marketeering and spy thriller set in Vienna in the wartime
aftermath of deprivation and as Cold War intrigues begin. This tense
atmospheric film won an Oscar for its superb photography and also left
us the haunting Harry Lime theme music. |
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| January
24th Manon des Sources (1983)
113 min. |
| In the sequel to the film shown
on November 29th, Jean de Florette's daughter Manon has grown up and
now herds goats in the hills above her father's farm. She discovers
the treachery that led to his death and wreaks a terrible revenge.
The aging Yves Montand playing the patriarch Papet is joined by a new
star Emanuelle Bèart in a wonderful evocation of peasant life in
Provence. |
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 | February
7th Frost/Nixon - The Moment of
Truth (2008) 122 min. |
| Dramatisation of the famous interview given by the disgraced
President Nixon to the young David Frost. With the producer John Birt,
the two are determined that Nixon will finally face up to the reality
of his misdemeanours. Subtitled 'The moment of Truth' it
recreates the epic battle. Nominated for five Oscars. |
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| February 21st
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
(1969) 116 min. |
| Muriel
Spark's sparkling story of a private girls school in 1930s Edinburgh
won Maggie Smith an Oscar as the mistress creating from her girls "la
crème de la crème". Images of personal liberation and the political
ferment of fascism vie for supremacy in the minds of teacher and
pupils. In the background is the awful reality of the Spanish Civil
War. |
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| March 7th
The Double Life of Veronique
(1991) 98 min. |
| In mysterious dream-like
sequences, the Polish master film maker Krzysztof Kieslovsky follows
the lives of two young women, one in Poland the other in Paris, who
never meet but share the same name and personal traits. Winner of the
Best Actress Award for Irene Jacob and two prizes for Kieslowsky at
the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. |
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 | March 21st
Be Kind - Rewind (2008) 102
min. |
| Black stars as a loveable loser
stuck in a life that's too small for his big dreams. But when by
mistake he erases all the tapes in a video shop where his best friend
works, he devises a plan to satisfy the store's few loyal customers by
re-making every film they decide to rent. When finally found out, the
fight to save the much loved but condemned building from the
demolition crew creates a zany one-of-a-kind comedy. |
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| April 11th
Twilight (2008) 122 min.
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| The books that launched screaming fits of
ecstasy over the love between Bella, a fragile human, and Edward
Cullen, a beautiful vampire who seeks to understand and love Bella
even as he insists she is safer away from him. Catching critics
off-guard Twilight went on to become an extraordinary
box-office success and initiate a cult genre of teenage vampire films.
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| April 25th
The Lives of Others (2006) 137 min.
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| Considered by many as the greatest film of
the decade and winner of the 2006 Oscar and 60 other awards worldwide,
The Lives of Others captures the horrifying detail of
surveillance and interrogation in 1980s East Berlin. A study of the
obsession of a meticulous middle-ranking Stasi officer with those he
spies on.
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| May 9th
Looking for Eric (2009) 116 min.
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| The extraordinary teaming up of the film
director Ken Loach and the footballer Eric Cantona created a sensation
at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Perhaps the real star is the
Manchester postman, another Eric, prone to self-doubt and depression
to whom his football idol appears like an apparition. In contrast to
The Wind that Shakes the Barley, this film will leave you
with a feel-good grin.
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| May 23rd
Amelie (2001) 122 min.
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| The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie
Poulain is an enchantingly gentle comedy set in the Abbesses district
of Montmartre. Amélie weaves little plots of magic and fantasy to
make the lives of those about her happier. Introducing the delightful
Audrey Tautou, and a supporting cast including childhood treasure and
garden gnomes, the film was nominated for five Oscars and some 51
other awards worldwide. |
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| June 6th
Golden Door (2006) 118 min.
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| A magical film that succeeds in
illustrating the humble and ordinary story of the escape from grinding
poverty in Sicily offered by emigration to the New World. There are no
mafia dons or violence; just the touching, real account of the risks
of leaving everything behind and the huge disadvantage of illiteracy
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| June 20th
Whisky Galore (1949) 82 min.
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| Islanders see to it that the 50,000 cases
of whisky on board the SS Politician, run aground off Eriskay, do not
fall into the wrong hands. Compton Mackenzie's comedy became a
much-loved Scottish classic from Ealing Studios. |
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