Programme for Autum/Winter 2010

Monday 27th September: Kind Hearts and Coronets - An Ealing Studio classic, Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) is a deft and dark Edwardian comedy with Alec Guinness in superb form as he plays eight different members of the D'Ascoyne clan.
(Tom Hendry will lead a discussion on the impact of Ealing Studios on the revival of British cinema after the Second World war)

Monday 25th October: Bridge on the River Kwai - Multi-Oscar winning, based on the true story of the building of a bridge on the Burma railway by British prisoners-of-war held under a savage Japanese regime in World War II, The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) is one of the greatest war films ever made and stars Alex Guinness and William Holden..
(Special note: This session will be run by Tony Fuller whose father served in Burma and survived the horrors of these times)

Monday 29th November: Shakespeare Wallah - Director James Ivory based his black-and-white 1965 film, Shakespeare Wallah, about a struggling English troupe of Shakespearan actors touring India, on an actual theater company called Shakespeariana. The familiar Merchant Ivory theme of misplacement within a society is here in full force. The film, starring Felicity Kendal, Shashi Kapoor and Madhu Jaffrey, explores the dichotomy between the two worlds: Old British rule versus an independent India as well as the world of staged theater versus the newer medium of film.

Monday 20th December: Local Hero - A Texas oil company attempts to buy out a Scottish fishing village for a refinery, and the result is utter confusion. To make matters more complicated, one of the town's least prominent citizens owns a strategic piece of property which he refuses to sell. A warm, acclaimed, 1983 comedy, starring Burt Lancaster, Peter Capaldi, Fulton Mackay and Jenny Seagrove, from writer-director Bill Forsyth (Gregory’s Girl).

You do not need to be a member of the cinema club to come along - any member of ACIP is welcome to view and discuss foreign and classic films. Some of the films may be available to borrow if you missed the show.