March
Thu 28 February to Sat 1 March 7.45pm
Additional showings: Saturday 2pm and 4.45pm
THE KITE RUNNER (12A)
After
spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to
help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble. This harrowing drama has
been nominated for several prestigious awards.
USA, 2007 (subtitles), 128 mins
Reviews: :: The Guardian :: The Observer :: The Times ::
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Tue 4 March 7.45pm
Paranoid Park (15)
Gus
Van Sant returns with a typically intense drama about youth culture in America.
Based on the novel by Blake Nelson, this is the story of a teenage skateboarder
who accidentally kills a security guard at a skate park.
USA / France, 2007, 85 mins
Reviews: :: The Guardian :: The Observer :: The Times ::
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Thu 6 to Sat 8 March 7.45pm
No Country for Old Men (15)
Widely
tipped for Oscar success, the Coen brothers return to form with this tense
thriller, adapted from the novel by Cormac McCarthy. The Tex-Mex border country
frames the violence and mayhem that ensue in the pursuit of a bag of loot.
USA, 2007, 122 mins
Reviews: :: The Guardian :: The Observer :: The Times ::
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Tue 11 and Thu 13 March 7.45pm
4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (15)
The Palme d'Or winning drama is a nightmare of
social-realist suspense in the emergent Romanian New Wave cinema. 'Fierce,
horrifying and brutal - this story of an illegal abortion in communist Romania
is a masterpiece'. (Peter Bradshaw, 'The Guardian')
Romania, 2007 (subtitles), Dolby digital, 133 mins
Reviews: :: The Guardian :: The Observer :: The Times ::
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Fri 14 and Sat 15 March 7.45pm
IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH (15)
Paul Haggis' Oscar nominated follow up to
'Crash'. Tommy Lee Jones' Vietnam vet and former military policeman's
investigation into his son's disappearance after returning from Iraq leads to
some uncomfortable truths. 'It is a powerful, muscular film, and there is real
anger and fear at its heart'. (Peter Bradshaw, 'The Guardian')
USA, 2007, DTS, 121 mins
Reviews: :: The Guardian :: The Observer :: The Times ::
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Tue 18 March 7.45pm
HALF MOON (tbc)
A picaresque genre defying road movie from Bahman
Ghobadi, the writer-director of 'A Time for Drunken Horses'. Mamo a legendary
Kurdish folk musician living in Iran travels by bus with his sons to
Iraqi-Kurdistan to give a final concert celebrating their people's newfound,
post-Saddam freedom.
Iran/Iraq, 2007, (subtitles), 114 mins
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Thu 20 to Sat 22 March 7.45pm
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD (15)
Two brother's find themselves in a difficult
predicament when their attempt to knock off their parent's jewellery store goes
awry. 'Sidney Lumet's new film plays like a tortuous family melodrama caught up
in the spokes of a kinetic heist thriller'. (Samuel Wigley, 'Sight & Sound')
USA, 2007, DTS, 116 mins
Reviews: :: The Guardian :: The Observer :: The Times ::
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Tue 25 and Thu 27 March 7.45pm
CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR (15) 
Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Hanks
star in Mike Nichols' political satire about the blind meddling of a Texas
congressman in Soviet-era Afghanistan. 'Larger-than-life characters, memorably
funny lines, and a story totally unbelievable and yet almost entirely true',
(Anton Bitel, 'Film Four')
USA, 2007, DTS, 102 mins
Reviews: :: The Guardian :: The Observer :: The Times ::
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Fri 28 and Sat 29 March 7.45pm
BE KIND REWIND (12A)
In Michael Gondry's (the director of 'Eternal
sunshine of the spotless mind') new film Jack Black becomes the star of his
neighbourhood after a freak accident requires him to remake films including The
Lion King, Rush Hour, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, and Robocop for his
friend's video shop.
USA, 2007, DTS, 100 mins
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