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Programme: 2011-2012

Note that all screenings are on Mondays with the exception of January 5 - a Thursday.

There will be a "welcome to Harrogate Film Society" reception before the film on September 19, starting at 7pm.

There will be a members social event before the film on February 6, commencing at 7pm.   

Date  Title Origin
September 19  Heartbreaker France
 October 3 London River UK  France
October 17

Patagonia

UK  Argentina
October 31 Of Gods and Men France
November 14 Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky France
November 28 The Great White Silence UK
December 12 Winters Bone USA
January 5 (Thursday) Italian for Beginners Denmark
February 6 (pre-film social) You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger USA
February 20 The Big Picture France
March 12 Adrift Brazil
March 19 Monsters UK
April 2 (AGM) My Afternoons with Marguerite  (La tête en friche)   France

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 Date:   19 September            Title:  Heartbreaker

Director:  Pascal Chaumeil

Time/Country/Year: 105 minutes; France; 2010

Starring:  Romain Duris,  Vanessa Paradis,  Julie Ferrier.

Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so.

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 Date:.    3 October             Title:  London River

Director:  Rachid Bouchare


Time/Country/Year: 87 minutes; UK/France; 2009.

 Starring:  Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté, Francis Magee.

After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 terror attack on the city, two strangers come to discover their respective children had been living together at the time of the attacks.

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 Date:  17 October              Title:    Patagonia

Director:  Marc Evans

Time/CountryYear: ?; UK/Argentina; 2010.

Starring:  Matthew Rhys, Duffy, Nia Roberts.

 

Relating to the migration of some Welsh people to Argentina in the 19th century, two stories unfold simultaneously in the present day: one of a Welsh couple travelling in Patagonia and the other of an elderly grandmother and her teenage nephew travelling in Wales in search of her mother's farm.

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Date:     31 October           Title:      Of Gods and Men                  

Director:  Xavier Beauvois

Time/Country/Year: 122 minutes; France; 2010

Starring:  Lambert Wilson,  Michael Lonsdale.

 Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.

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 Date:      14 November        Title:    Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky                    

Director:  Jan Kounen

Time/Country/Year: 119 minutes; France; 2009.

Starring:  Anna Mouglalis, Mads Mikkelsen.

Paris in the early 20th century. The revolutionary dissonances of Igor's music parallel Coco's radical ideas to democratize women's fashion. When the two meet up, the attraction is electric.

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 Date:  28 November           Title:     The Great White Silence                       

Director:  Herbert Ponting

Time/Country/Year: 108 minutes; UK; 1924.

 

 Ponting, as official photographer, captured an extraordinary record of Captain Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole (1910-1913) and edited it into this silent feature film in 1924.The BFI has spent years beautifully restoring his footage and added a new score. Unique images that continue to fire the imagination.

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Date:   12 December              Title:     Winters Bone                   

Director:  Debra Granik

Time/Country/Year: 100 minutes; USA; 2010.

Starring:  Jennifer Lawrence,  John Hawkes,  Garret Dillahunt.

An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.

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Date: 5 January (Thur.)   Title: Italian for Beginners (Italiensk for begyndere)     

Director:  Lone Scherfig

Time/Country/Year: 112 minutes; Denmark; 2000.

Starring:  Anders W.Berthelsen,  Ann Eleonora Jorgensen.

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives.

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Date:   6 February            Title:     You Will Meet a Tall DarkStranger                   

Director:  Woody Allen

Time/Country/Year:. 98 minutes; USA; 2010.

Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin.

Two related married couples find their lives turned upside down by their unfulfilled longings. Their passions, ambitions, and anxieties lead them into trouble and out of their minds. 

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Date:   20 February          Title:         The Big Picture             

Director:  Eric Lartigau

Time/Country/Year 114 minutes; France; 2010.

Starring: Romain Duris,  Marina Fois,  Niels Arestrup.

Paul has everything he could want but when he finds out that his wife is cheating on him, a rush of blood provokes him into a fatal error. Can he get another shot at being himself and, at last, seeing the big picture?

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Date:   12 March            Title: Adrift  

Director:  Heitor Dhalia

Time/Country/Year: 97 minutes; Brazil; 2009.

Starring:  Laura Neiva, Vincent Cassel. 

 A French novelist takes his family for an extended vacation at a Brazilian beach house.  As the parents’ relationship explodes, the teenage daughter steps over the line into adulthood.

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Date:  19 March                Title:       Monsters                 

Director:  Gareth Edwards

Time/Country/Yaer: 94 minutes; UK; 2010.

Starring:  Scoot McNairy,  Whitney Able.

Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border.

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Date:   2 April (AGM)  Title: My Afternoons with Marguerite  La tête en friche

Director:  Jean Becker

Time/Country/Year: 82 minutes; France; 2010.

Starring:  Gérard Depardieu, Gisèle Casadesus.

From a random encounter on a park bench, an illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.  Both their lives are transformed.

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