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RIVERSIDESTUDIOSCINEMA<br />
BLACK NARCISSUS<br />
DARATT<br />
SATURDAY 15 SEPTEMBER<br />
Double Bill<br />
CENTRAL STATION 15<br />
7.00PM<br />
(Walter Salles, Brazil, 1998) 113m<br />
subtitles<br />
PLUS<br />
SHERRYBABY 15 9.15PM<br />
(Laurie Collyer, USA, 2006) 96m<br />
Please see Friday 14 September<br />
for synopses.<br />
SUNDAY 16 SEPTEMBER<br />
Afternoon – Powell and Pressburger<br />
Double Bill<br />
THE RED SHOES U 2.00PM<br />
(Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger,<br />
UK, 1948) 136m. With Anton Walbrook,<br />
Moira Shearer, Marius Goring<br />
The ballet world of the late 40s. An<br />
impresario discovers a dancer and<br />
makes her a slave to her art, until a<br />
young composer turns up to offer<br />
her a lifeline back to reality.<br />
PLUS<br />
BLACK<br />
NARCISSUS PG 4.35PM<br />
(Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger,<br />
UK, 1947) 101m<br />
The story of the tensions amongst a<br />
group of Anglo-Catholic nuns in the<br />
Himalayas. An intensely stylised<br />
production and one of the most<br />
powerful melodramas in English<br />
cinema.<br />
8<br />
SUNDAY 16 SEPTEMBER<br />
Evening – Single Bill<br />
APOCALYPSE NOW –<br />
REDUX 15 7.00PM<br />
(Francis Ford Coppola, USA, 2001)<br />
202m. With Martin Sheen, Marlon<br />
Brando, Robert Duvall<br />
Coppola’s extended reworking of his<br />
1979 Vietnam film adds new scenes<br />
and a reworked sound mix. An<br />
American captain is sent up river<br />
on a mission to assassinate a<br />
renegade American colonel. This is<br />
filmmaking at the level of grand<br />
folly and extremely operatic in tone.<br />
MONDAY 17 SEPTEMBER<br />
Double Bill<br />
THE US VS JOHN<br />
LENNON 12A 7.00PM<br />
(David Leaf/John Scheinfeld, USA,<br />
2006) 90m documentary. With Yoko<br />
Ono, Walter Cronkite, Gore Vidal<br />
“The story of the real campaign to<br />
silence John Lennon by the FBI and<br />
Nixon’s government. The film justly<br />
celebrates Lennon’s bravery at this<br />
time and the wonderful music that<br />
came out of it.” – LONDON FILM<br />
FESTIVAL<br />
PLUS<br />
TAKING<br />
LIBERTIES 12A 8.50PM<br />
(Chris Atkins, UK, 2007) 105m<br />
documentary. Voices: David<br />
Morrissey, Ashley Jensen<br />
“British filmmaker Chris Atkins has<br />
tracked down a host of victims of<br />
the increased security measures<br />
introduced by New Labour, both preand<br />
post-9/11. Disturbing footage<br />
combines with amusing<br />
testimonies and commentary.” –<br />
ANNA SMITH, BBC<br />
TUESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER<br />
Double Bill<br />
GOODBYE<br />
LENIN! 15 6.00PM<br />
(Wolfgang Becker, Germany, 2003)<br />
121m subtitles. With Daniel Bruhl,<br />
Katrin Sass, Maria Simon<br />
1989. A staunch communist<br />
mother collapses with a heart<br />
attack and goes into a coma days<br />
before the Berlin Wall comes down.<br />
When she awakens eight months<br />
later the world has changed beyond<br />
recognition.<br />
PLUS<br />
THE LIVES<br />
OF OTHERS 15 8.20PM<br />
(Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck,<br />
Germany, 2005) 137m subtitles.<br />
With Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Muhe,<br />
Sebastian Koch<br />
This year’s Oscar winning Best<br />
Foreign Film focuses on the system<br />
of observation in 1980’s German<br />
Democratic Republic. A secret service<br />
agent is instructed to observe a<br />
successful dramatist and his longtime<br />
companion. Over time he<br />
becomes increasingly fascinated<br />
WEDNESDAY 19 SEPTEMBER<br />
Mahamet Saleh Haroun Double Bill<br />
ABOUNA 15 7.00PM<br />
(Our Father)<br />
(Mahamet Saleh Haroun,<br />
Chad/France, 2002) 81m subtitles<br />
“What you need to know is that this<br />
is one of the year’s best films, from<br />
anywhere. Beginning with the<br />
unannounced departure of an<br />
errant father, Haroun’s second<br />
feature follows the boys’ efforts at<br />
making sense of their lives in his<br />
absence.” – TIME OUT<br />
PLUS<br />
DARATT PG 8.40PM<br />
(Dry Season)<br />
(Mahamet Saleh Haroun,<br />
Chad/France/Belgium/Austria, 2006)<br />
95m subtitlesWith Abderamane<br />
Abakar, Ali Barkai, Khayar Oumar<br />
Defallah<br />
Chad, 2006. After a forty-year civil<br />
war the radio announces the<br />
government has just amnestied the<br />
war criminals. Outraged, Gumar<br />
Abatcha orders his grandson, Atim,<br />
who is sixteen, to trace the man who<br />
murdered his father and kill him,<br />
but things don’t go according to<br />
plan. Highly recommended.<br />
THURSDAY 20 SEPTEMBER<br />
3RD UK BRAZILIAN<br />
FILM FESTIVAL<br />
The 3rd UK Brazilian Film Festival<br />
has the intention of exposing the<br />
value and importance of promoting<br />
Brazilian cinema and also to<br />
propitiate the cultural exchange<br />
between different nations. It brings<br />
a unique opportunity to watch<br />
unreleased films to recognise the<br />
huge potential in Brazilian cinema.<br />
The program will be composed of<br />
nine Brazilian films and will also pay<br />
tribute to the Portuguese community<br />
with a dedicated selection of<br />
Portuguese films.
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