Jill Craigie Cinema

• 1929
• Sweden/UK
• 1h 28min
• PG

• Directed by: Anthony Asquith
• Cast: Norah Baring, Uno Henning, Hans Adalbert Schlettow

Dark thriller about a barber, his frightening obsession with the local manicurist, and the murderous consequences when she rejects him.

• 77%

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• 2017
• UK
• 1h 29min

• Directed by: Clio Barnard
• Cast: Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley, Sean Bean

Alice (Wilson) goes back to the scene of her childhood trauma after 15 years, to lay a claim to the Yorkshire farm that was promised her, but her brother Joe (Stanley) insists it should go to him. Barnard’s third feature features a superb performance from Stanley and a deeply affecting one from Wilson as the gutsy, damaged Alice.

• 57%
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Book launch featuring talk and reading from the author Dr Ben Smith.

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• 2016
• Ireland/Netherlands/France/US
• 1h 32min
• U

• Directed by: Whit Stillman
• Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Stephen Fry

Lady Susan Vernon (Beckinsale) is penniless, selfish and keen to marry off her nelfected daughter to the nearest wealthy dolt, but she's also smart, witty and beautiful. Stillman gives a wickedly droll adaptation of Jane Austen's short novel, choicely acted by the whole ensemble.

• 64%
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• 2017
• UK
• 1h 41min

• Directed by: James Marsh
• Cast: Rachel Weisz, Colin Firth, David Thewlis

The true story of Donald Crowhurst (Firth), a weekend sailor who persuaded an investor to build him a yacht so that he could enter a round-the-world yacht race, with disastrous consequences. Firth does brave and moving work as Crowhurst falls apart under the stress, but the conclusion is unconvincing.

• 60%
• 60%

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Collection of short films by Alexis Kirke on the topic of quantum multiverses.

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• 1988
• UK
• 1h 32min
• 15

• Directed by: Bernard Rose
• Written by: Matthew Jacobs
• Cast: Charlotte Burke, Jane Bertish, Samantha Cahill

Nightmare fantasy about transgressing worlds.

• 68%
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British author and naturalist Mark Cocker discusses the influence of dusk-gathering birds in nature.

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