2009/2010 Season

13th December
It’s a Wonderful Life
Frank Capra’s timeless classic a film you can watch over and over.

17th January
Age of Stupid 
An Archivist (Postlethwaite) lives alone in a concrete tower in the middle of the oily ocean somewhere around Norway with a museum collection of stuffed animals and priceless works of art. He sits in front of a transparent space-age screen and rifles through genuine newsreel clips, wondering why we failed to fight the 2 degrees of global warming that pushed the planet beyond the critical point in 2015. The Age of Stupid is the most imaginative and dramatic assault on the institutional complacency shrouding the issue. Pete Postlethwaite is our guide to the near future.

7th February
Cinema Paradiso
A famous film director returns home to a Sicilian village for the first time after almost 30 years. He reminisces about his childhood at the Cinema Paradiso where Alfredo, the projectionist, first brought about his love of films. He is also reminded of his lost teenage love, Elena, who he had to leave before he left for Rome.

21st February
Electra Glide in Blue 
The only film to be directed by the American rock musician, composer and record producer James William Guercio, this is one of the outstanding movies from the cycle of edgy police thrillers thrown up by the Vietnam war and the civil unrest of the early Sixties. Robert Blake is both amusing and affecting as a principled, pint-sized Vietnam veteran working as a motorcycle cop in rural Arizona ("Did you know me and Alan Ladd are exactly the same height down to the quarter inch?") and trying to retain his moral standards in a bad time.
His ambition is to become a detective and he gets involved in a murky murder investigation. It's a witty, ambivalent riposte to Easy Rider, a film to which it directly alludes. The magnificent photography is by the late Conrad Hall, winner of Oscars for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and American Beauty.