The Little Theatre Cinema

• 2012
• Denmark/Norway/UK
• 115 min
• 15

• Directed by: Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous, Christine Cynn

Powerful documentary about Indonesian death squads.

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• 1994
• Australia
• 104 min
• 15

• Directed by: Stephan Elliott
• Written by: Stephan Elliott
• Cast: Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Bill Hunter

Two transvestites and a transsexual team up for a trip across the Australian outback for a drag show in Alice Springs. Serious issues pop up from time to time, but the emphasis is on the camp humour of the in-bus bitchiness and outrageous musical set pieces.

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• 2013
• Netherlands
• E

• Cast: André Rieu

The virtuoso violinist returns again to his hometown for a huge open air concert, broadcast live via satellite.

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• 2013
• US
• 108 min
• 15

• Directed by: Richard Linklater
• Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick

The third part of Linklater's long-running saga examines the couple's feelings as they face early middle age.

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• 1995
• US
• 101 min
• 15

• Directed by: Richard Linklater
• Written by: Richard Linklater, Kim Krizan
• Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy

American inter-railer Hawke and French student Delpy are the strangers on a train who strike up a chance conversation and spend a night wandering around Vienna. The actors give career best performances while director Linklater veers into Eric Rohmer territory with a funny, sweet and fundamentally wise movie.

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• 2004
• US
• 80 min
• 15

• Directed by: Richard Linklater
• Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff

Following on from 1994's Before Sunrise, this second part of Linklater's saga reunites the pair in Paris.

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• 2013
• US
• 118 min
• 15

• Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
• Cast: Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Rob Lowe

Soderbergh goes for his sabbatical on a high, with this sparkling account of the relationship between flamboyant pianist Liberace (Douglas) and his much younger lover Scott Thorson (Damon). The two leads are outstanding, and with wonderful cameos from Lowe, Reynolds and Aykroyd it's a surprisingly tender and poignant film.

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• 2013
• UK
• 109 min

• Directed by: Tony Britten
• Written by: Tony Britten
• Cast: John Hurt, Alex Lawther, Mykola Allen, Bradley Hall

A tribute to the great British composer's life, pieced together from archival footage and docudrama.

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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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• 2011
• Belgium
• 115 min

• Directed by: Geoffrey Enthoven
• Cast: Charlotte Timmers, Roos Van Vlaenderen, Robrecht Vanden Thoren

Three twenty-something men embark on a wine tour of Spain with the desire to lose their virginities. Although one is blind, one is paralysed and one has a brain tumour, they refuse to let anything stand in their way.

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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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• 1949
• US
• 114 min

• Directed by: King Vidor
• Cast: Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey

Architect Howard Roark is under immense pressure to conform to the popular demands of the ecomomy and his personal and professional life, as he tries to maintain his individual artistic integrity.

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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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• 1968
• Italy
• 180 min
• 15

• Directed by: Sergio Leone
• Cast: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach

During the American Civil War, a trio of mean gringos squabble over hidden loot. Most people remember the Morricone score from this Leone extravaganza, but the degree of directorial stylisation (just count the number of times extreme close-ups fill the screen) make it a remarkable effort all round. Third and last of the Dollars trilogy starring Eastwood.

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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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• 1963
• UK/US
• 104 min
• U

• Directed by: Don Chaffey
• Written by: Beverley Cross
• Cast: Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Honor Blackman, Gary Raymond

Totally brill adventure yarn as our hero Jason sets out to retrieve the legendary golden fleece and is helped by a number of the gods on Olympus along the way. Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion effects remain among the best of his career, most notably the final conflict with an army of skeletal soldiers.

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• 1962
• US
• 126 min
• 12A

• Directed by: John Frankenheimer
• Written by: George Axelrod (screenplay), Richard Condon (novel), John Frankenheimer
• Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, James Gregory, Leslie Parrish

Brilliant political satire-cum-thriller in which Harvey plays a Korean war hero who is brainwashed by Communists and becomes a pawn in the sinister mission planned for his homecoming.

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• 2010
• US
• E

• Directed by: Mary Zimmerman
• Cast: Renee Fleming, Lawrence Brownlee, Bruce Ford

Rossini's opera version of the myth of a woman who seduces and enchants men into her island prison.

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• 2011
• US

• Directed by: David McVicar
• Cast: Patricia Racette, Sondra Radvanovsky

Set in 15th century Spain, this is a horrifying tale of abduction, murder and torture.

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• 2012
• US
• 185 min

• Cast: Natalie Dessay, Matthew Polenzani, Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Verdi's opera about the passionate, consumptive Violetta, broadcast live from The Met Opera in New York.

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• 2013
• US
• 110 min
• U

• Directed by: Dan Scanlon
• Cast: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Jennifer Tilly

This prequel to Monsters, Inc. explores the tumultuous relationship between Mike and Sulley when they met at the University of Fear.

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• 2012
• US
• 107 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Joss Whedon
• Written by: William Shakespeare, Joss Whedon
• Cast: Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Fran Kranz, Nathan Fillion

Shakespeare's spiky, witty, problematic play is the grandparent of the modern romcom, and Whedon's version is no stunt: he's been conducting private readings of it for years. The actors are experienced and adept (with Acker a particular pleasure as Beatrice) and it's realised with simplicity, elegance and emotional directness.

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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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• 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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A live screening of a mixed programme of five ballets from the choreographer.

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• 2012
• UK
• 105 min

The Royal Ballet performs Frederick Ashton's delightful 1959 version of this chipper two-act comic ballet, whose title translates as The Wayward Daughter.

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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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• 2012
• UK
• 133 min

• Directed by: John Eliot Gardiner
• Cast: Dimitri Platanias, Ekaterina Siurina, Vittorio Grigolo

Verdi's great tragic opera, in which a court jester seeks bloody revenge on his dissolute master, the Duke of Mantua, for the abduction of his daughter.

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• 2013

A live screening, direct from the Globe in London, of Shakespeare's play that's about either a mouse-like creature or a headstrong woman. One or the other.

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• 2013

Some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some are actors bringing you Shakespeare's 1601 comedy live from the Globe in London.

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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
• UK
• 100 min
• 15

• Directed by: Christopher Menaul
• Cast: Dominic Cooper, Emily Browning, Dan Stevens

Melancholic melodrama about the pre-WW I love triangle between artists Alfred Munnings (Cooper) and Florence Carter-Wood (Browning), and Gilbert Evans (Stevens). Aimed squarely at the Downton Abbey crowd, it's hardly unconventional but handsomely shot, with a rousing performance from Cooper and a heartfelt one from Browning.

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• 1974

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• 2012
• US
• 96 min

• Directed by: Jacob Rosenberg
• Cast: Danny Way, Rob Dyrdek, Travis Pastrana

A documentary look at the life and legacy of pro skateboarder Danny Way.

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• 1961
• US
• 152 min
• PG

• Directed by: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
• Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris

Romeo And Juliet revisited against a background of New York gangs. Great songs, classic film.

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• 1989
• US
• 95 min
• 15

• Directed by: Rob Reiner
• Written by: Nora Ephron
• Cast: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby

Thoughtful sex comedy has Crystal (Harry), Ryan (Sally) and Reiner on top form, with highly entertaining results. Nora Ephron's witty screenplay intelligently ponders the possibility of male/female friendship with or without romance, and guess which side wins … Annie Hall for the late 1980s, with now-famous faked orgasm.

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