Harbour Lights Picturehouse

• 2013
• UK
• 106 min
• U

• Directed by: Ben Gregor
• Written by: Paul Gerstenberger
• Cast: Theo Stevenson, Akai Osei-Mansfield, Ashley Jensen

To save the youth centre, two kids look to the power of movement to raise funds in an ambitious dance show.

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• 1938
• US
• 97 min
• PG

• Directed by: Michael Curtiz
• Written by: Rowland Brown, John Wexley, Warren Duff, Ben Hecht (uncredited), Charles MacArthur (uncredited)
• Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, The Dead End Kids, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, George Bancroft

The classic gangster movie and with a message to boot. Two slum kids, Cagney and O'Brien, grow up together. One becomes a hood, the other a priest. The local kids look up to Cagney's glamorous, violent ways, but his childhood friend is on his case, pushing him down the path of redemption.

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• 1960
• US
• 125 min
• PG

• Directed by: Billy Wilder
• Written by: Billy Wilder, IAL Diamond
• Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Jack Kruschen

CC Baxter (Lemmon) sublets his bachelor pad to his philandering boss (MacMurray), only to regret it when Sheldrake gets designs on elfin elevator girl Miss Kubelik (MacLaine). Wilder and Diamond's breezy, sardonic approach to themes of infidelity and adultery ensure that the film shines as brightly as ever.

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• 1980
• US
• 153 min
• 18

• Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
• Cast: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, Harrison Ford, Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms, Albert Hall

Vietnam as 'the ultimate trip'. We follow US Army assassin Sheen downriver and deeper into the Heart of Darkness ruled over by Brando's mad Colonel Kurtz. Alternately pretentious and visually overpowering (the Valkyries helicopter attack, for example), the film's grandiloquent folly pierces right to the bone of the conflict.

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• Various

• Directed by: Various

A selection of prize-winning adventure and discovery films from the recent Kendal Mountain Festival.

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• 2012
• US
• 100 min
• 15

• Directed by: Jay Bulger
• Written by: Jay Bulger

Warts-and-all portrayal of the excess of former Cream drummer Ginger Baker, considered by some to be the world's best drummer.

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• 1966
• UK
• 81 min
• U

• Directed by: Gordon Flemyng
• Cast: Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, Ray Brooks

The Daleks hatch a plan to enslave humanity. Peter Cushing's second outing as the Doctor is action-packed and surprisingly scary.

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• 1965
• UK
• 82 min
• U

• Directed by: Gordon Flemyng
• Cast: Peter Cushing, Roy Castle, Jennie Linden

The Doctor's first big screen confrontation with his eternal nemesis.

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• 2012
• UK

• Directed by: Robin Ticciati, Michael Grandage
• Cast: Sally Matthews, Vito Priante

Mozart's classic opera is brought to the stage by the Glyndebourne festival, with incoming musical director Ticciati at the helm.

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• 1988
• Japan
• 94 min
• 12

• Directed by: Isao Takahata
• Cast: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi

Tragic Japanese animation about a young boy and his little sister's efforts to survive in World War II Japan.

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• 2013
• US/Australia
• 143 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Baz Luhrmann
• Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton

Luhrmann's typically exuberant take on the novel by F Scott Fitzgerald features DiCaprio as the titular millionaire.

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• 2009
• UK
• 60 min
• U

• Directed by: Jacob Schuh
• Cast: Voices of Helena Bonham Carter, James Corden, Robbie Coltrane

The cinema version of Julia Donaldson's clever and colourful book about a resourceful mouse and, of course, the terrible Gruffalo. Featuring a veritable feast of famous voices.

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• 2011
• UK/Germany
• 27 min
• U

• Directed by: Uwe Heidschötter, Johannes Weiland
• Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Shirley Henderson, Robbie Coltrane

Star-studded follow-up. A young Gruffalo goes in search of the Big Bad Mouse, despite warnings from her father.

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• 2012
• Denmark
• 99 min
• 15

• Directed by: Tobias Lindholm
• Written by: Tobias Lindholm
• Cast: Pilou Asbæk, Roland Møller, Søren

Thriller about the hijacking of a freighter in the Indian Ocean, as experienced by both the desperate ship's cook (Asbæk) and the ice-cool CEO (Malling), who negotiates with the pirates from his boardroom. Negotiations drag on for months, making for commendable realism and fine performances but also slowing the pace to a crawl.

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• 2013
• US/Canada

• Directed by: Zack Snyder
• Cast: Henry Cavill, Russell Crowe, Amy Adams

Snyder brings Superman back to life in this reboot written by Batman beginner David S Goyer.

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• 1969
• US
• 113 min
• 18

• Directed by: John Schlesinger
• Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight

Voight is the dim-witted Texan getting by in the Big Apple by acting as a gigolo for the rich ladies of New York, while Hoffman is the tubercular conman he befriends and helps through the cold winter in this seminal buddy movie, which helped both protagonists to major stardom in the early 1970s, set Schlesinger off on an intermittently successful career, and further shifted the censorship parameters of mainstream American film.

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• 2012
• US
• 130 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Jeff Nichols
• Written by: Jeff Nichols (screenplay)
• Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Shannon

McConaughey stars as a fugitive who enlists the help of two teenage boys to escape his pursuers.

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• 1988
• Japan
• 87 min
• U

• Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki
• Written by: Hayao Miyazaki
• Cast: Chika Sakamoto, Noriko Hidaka, Hitoshi Takagi

Gentle fantasy exploring rural Japan circa the 1950s as seen through the eyes of a pair of young girls who move to the country and discover the spirits of the forest.

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• 2013
• UK

• Directed by: Stephen Daldry
• Written by: Peter Morgan
• Cast: Helen Mirren

Mirren puts on a crown once more to play at being the Queen. Broadcast live from London's West End, The Audience finds HRH taking audiences with each of the twelve Prime Ministers of her reign in a play written by The Queen screenwriter Morgan.

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• 2012
• Belgium/Luxembourg/France/Switzerland
• 111 min
• 15

• Directed by: Joachim Lafosse
• Cast: Émilie Dequenne, Niels Arestrup, Tahar Rahim

Murielle (Dequenne), a young Belgian woman, is married to Mounir (Rahim), a Moroccan man adopted by a Belgian doctor (Arestrup); the pressures of the arrangement drive her to drastic actions. A gripping but restrained, detached and balanced portrait of a mother driven to murder.

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• 1963
• US
• 115 min
• PG

• Directed by: Blake Edwards
• Written by: Maurice Richlin, Blake Edwards
• Cast: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine, Claudia Cardinale

Bumbling Inspector Clouseau tries to catch a jewel thief in the comedy adventure with the famous theme music.

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• 2013
• UK
• 85 min

This live screening, hosted by British Museum director Neil MacGregor and others, looks at the Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition, and features films depicting how these Roman cities look today.

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• 2012
• Italy
• 115 min
• 15

• Directed by: Matteo Garrone
• Written by: Matteo Garrone
• Cast: Aniello Arena, Loredana Simioli, Nando Paone

Luciano (Arena) is a likeable Neapolitan fish-seller determined to make it onto the Italian version of Big Brother. More stylised than Garrone’s earlier Gomorrah, it’s a powerful metaphor for Berlusconi-era Italy, and Arena, a convicted former Mafia hitman who discovered acting in prison, is compelling.

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• 2013
• UK

Benjamin Britten's three-act opera depicting the relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex.

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• 2013
• UK

Rossini's opera based on the poem 'The Lady of the Lake', by Sir Walter Scott, performed by the Royal Opera House.

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• 1959
• US
• 120 min
• PG

• Directed by: Billy Wilder
• Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Joe E Brown, Pat O'Brien

Two impecunious male musicians inadvertently witness the St Valentine's Day Massacre and take refuge in Florida with Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopators, an all-female band. Brilliant, brittle, crackerjack farce with all concerned at a peak in their careers.

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• 2013
• US
• 129 min
• 12A

• Directed by: JJ Abrams
• Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana

When ex-Starfleet commander John Harrison (Cumberbatch) attacks Earth, the Enterprise crew pursues him. It's more of the same: funny, dramatic and exciting, and if it's not as fresh as the 2009 film, Pine and Quinto's squabbling bromance gives it heart, Pegg and Urban are excellent and Cumberbatch is thrillingly cold.

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• 2013
• UK

• Directed by: Shane Meadows

Meadows' documentary charts the eagerly anticipated return of the seminal Madchester band.

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• 1991
• US
• 129 min
• 15

• Directed by: Ridley Scott
• Written by: Callie Khouri
• Cast: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Brad Pitt, Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald

The buddy/road movie genres are turned on their heads as Sarandon and Davis grasp the steering wheel and head off leaving a trail of murder and mayhem in their wake. On one level, the film is the critical catalyst that had the feminists cheering and put the stars on the cover of Time magazine; just as importantly, it's an accessible piece of entertainment with excellent central performances.

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• UK

• Cast: Voices of Kate Harbour, Justin Fletcher, Louis Jones

The madcap adventures of the little sheep with a lot to learn.

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• 2012
• Denmark/UK/Greenland
• 80 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Sarah Gavron/David Katznelson

Documentary about the tiny settlement of Niaqornat in Greenland, home to just over 50 people. Director Gavron focuses on the inhabitants, creating a sensitive portrait of a disappearing culture, and while it isn't revelatory in content or style, it's considered and thoughtful.

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