Main Feature Commences at 7.45pm
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| Tuesday 29 January |
Atonement |
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Tuesday
11 March 2008 |
Day Watch |
Dir: Joe Wright/UK-France
2007
130 minutes/Cert 15
 It all starts on one hot, sultry, fateful day in 1935 on
the Tallis family’s country estate. 13-year-old Briony accuses her older sister’s lover of a crime he did not commit and dramatically alters the course of all their lives. With Keira Knightley and James McAvoy as the tragically separated wartime lovers, this is a lavish and enthralling screen adaptation of one of Ian McEwan’s
most famous works and a powerful and moving exploration
of desire, guilt and forgiveness. |
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Dir:
Timur Bekmambetov/Russia 2006
132 minutes/Cert 15
Subtitled
 The
second in Bekmambetov’s groundbreaking fantasy trilogy,
this is the sequel to Film Theatre favourite Night Watch
- a sprawling tale of supernatural forces battling on the
streets of modern-day Moscow which has all the furious
energy and devilishly inventive style of the original.
Having survived from the first film, dishevelled anti-hero
Anton Gorodetsky (Konstantin Khabensky) finds himself in
further trouble: his teenage son has been kidnapped and
the world itself seems on the brink of apocalypse... |
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| Tuesday
5 February 2008 |
Eastern Promises |
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Tuesday
18th March 2008 |
Assassination
of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford |
Dir: David Cronenberg /UK-Canada-USA
2007
100 minutes/Cert 18
 Following
the death of a 14-year-old girl during childbirth, London
midwife Anna Khitrova (Naomi Watts) sets out to investigate
the teenager’s mysterious past. Cronenberg’s
startling and visceral follow-up to A History of
Violence features another mesmerising performance
from Viggo Mortensen, this time as the mysterious mob
enforcer Nikolai Luzhin - part of the sinister and brutal
world of the ‘vory v zakone’, the Russian
crime syndicate that Anna discovers now working in the
capital. |
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Dir:
Andrew Dominik/USA 2007
160 minutes/Cert 15
 As
his gang and legend begin to fragment, train-robber and
bandit Jesse James (Brad Pitt) is a haunted - and hunted
- man. He can feel his death approaching, but can he foresee
that fringe gang-member Robert Ford (Casey Affleck) will
be the man to pull the trigger? Andrew Dominik’s
epic frontier tale about America’s most notorious
outlaw and his unlikely assassin is a western as stately,
beautiful and meditative as they come. |
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| Tuesday 12 February 2008 |
Control |
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Tuesday
8 April 2008 |
No Country for
Old Men |
Dir: Anton Corbijn/UK-Australia-Japan 2007
122 minutes/Cert
15
 Control is
music photographer Corbijn’s
long-awaited biopic of Ian Curtis, lead singer with post-punk
band Joy Division, who committed suicide in 1980 on the
eve of their first American tour. With a masterful, almost
unsettling performance from Sam Riley in the lead role,
this merges Corbijn’s ice-cold black-and-white
images with a superb soundtrack from one of the UK’s
most influential and iconic groups. Highly recommended.
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Dir:
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen/USA 2007
122 minutes/Cert 15
 Based
on Cormac McCarthy’s best-selling novel, this modern-day
western has good ol’ boy Moss (Josh Brolin) stumble
across a satchel containing $2 million, the fallout of
a drug deal gone horribly wrong. Moss escapes with the
satchel but soon finds himself pursued by unstoppable hired
killer Chigurh (Javier Bardem in an unforgettable performance)
intent on reclaiming the money. With fine support from
the likes of Tommy Lee Jones and Kelly Macdonald, this
is a haunting evocation of burnt-out lives in a sun-parched
landscape. |
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| Tuesday
19 February 2008 |
The Counterfeiters |
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Tuesday
15 April 2008 |
Lust, Caution |
Dir: Andrew Dominik/USA
2007
160 minutes/Cert 15
Subtitled
 By
1945, the German Reich had over 130 million in forged English
banknotes ready to flood the Allies’ economies and fill their own depleted
war coffers. It was an audacious - and doomed - plan and The Counterfeiters
tells the remarkable and compelling true story of master forger Salomon Sorowitsch
(Karl Markovics), a survivor of Sachsenhausen prison camp and one of a handful
of its inmates unwillingly dragged into what was one of the largest counterfeiting
operations in modern history. |
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Dir:
Ang Lee/USA-China-Taiwan-Hong Kong 2007
157 minutes Cert 18
Subtitled
 1943,
Japanese-occupied Shanghai: Jiazhi (an impressive debut
from Wei Tang) is a young woman caught up in a resistance
plot to kill Mr Yee (Tony Leung), the ruthless head of
Shanghai’s secret police. But after she infiltrates
his household, she finds herself inexplicably drawn towards
him, putting her mission and her life in jeopardy. A beguiling
and seductive espionage thriller from the creator of Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon and winner of last year’s Gold
Lion award at the Venice Film Festival.
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| Tuesday
26 February 2008 |
Rescue Dawn |
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Tuesday
29 April 2008 |
The Diving Bell
and the Butterfly |
Dir: Werner Herzog/USA 2006
126 minutes/Cert 12A
 As
a young boy German-born Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale)
dreamed of being a pilot. And by 1966 he had become
one, serving with the U.S. Navy - only to be shot down
over enemy territory at the very beginning of the Vietnam
War. His capture, torture, escape and rescue in the jungles
of Laos provide the backdrop to this inspiring real-life
story of raw courage and survival against the odds, based
on the director’s own highly-regarded 1997 documentary,
Little Dieter Needs to Fly.
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Dir:
Julian Schnabel/France-USA 2007
112 minutes Cert 12A
Subtitled
 In
1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby (played by Mathieu Amalric),
a successful fashion magazine editor, became completely
paralysed, except for the use of his left eye. With little
chance of recovery, he set out to slowly narrate - to blink
- his memoirs, partly for posterity, but mostly for himself,
letter by letter and word by word. An eloquent and visually
stunning recreation of Bauby’s highly acclaimed autobiography
Le scaphandre et le papillon, winning Schnabel the Best
Director award last year at Cannes. |
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| Tuesday
4 March 2008 |
I'm
Not There |
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TICKET
PRICES AND MEMBERSHIP FEES
All Stafford Film Theatre
presentations take place from 7.30pm in the Gatehouse Theatre
with the main feature commencing at 7.45pm.
A membership
card or single ticket must be shown to gain admittance
to a film presentation. Membership is not obligatory
and tickets may be purchased at the door.
- Full Season Membership £46.00
(£35.00conc) - 22 films
- Half Season Membership £30.00
(£25.00 conc) - 11 films
- Single Showing Tickets £5.00
(£3.50 conc) per film
For further information,
call Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on 01785 254 653 or visit
the website www.staffordfilmtheatre.co.uk |
Dir:
Todd Haynes/USA-Germany 2007
135 minutes/Cert 15
 Todd
Haynes’ unconventional journey into the life and
mind of Bob Dylan features a range of actors all cast as
the legend himself, from Christian Bale and Richard Gere
to even Cate Blanchett! Each inhabits Dylan in key moments
of his life, from the public to the private to the fantastical,
weaving together a rich and colourful portrait of the ever-elusive
American icon. Featuring a superbly eclectic soundtrack
of Dylan covers from the likes of Iron and Wine, Sonic
Youth, Antony and the Johnsons and Calexico. |
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