WEDNESDAY 24th SEPTEMBER

Joe Strummer:

The Future is Unwritten

Cert: 15

123 mins. Ireland/UK (2007)

Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Johnny Depp, Matt Dillon, Mick Jagger, Bono, Joe Strummer

Joe Strummer was a punk icon, albeit an incongruous one; the son of a diplomat and public schoolboy who grew up to become the charismatic, fired-up, proletariat frontman of The Clash. Filmmaker Julien Temple ….. is no stranger to punk, but as a friend of Strummer, Temple had his camera trained on him since the early days, resulting in a staggering array of footage and a meticulously built portrait of the man and his work.”

BBCi - Films

WEDNESDAY 22nd OCTOBER

La Vie en Rose

Cert: 12A

Members' Choice Film

 
French/UK/ Czech Republic (2007)

Starring: Marion Cotillard, Gerard Depardieu

““The troubled life of French songbird
Edith Piaf, who died in 1963 at forty-eight,
had enough drama to fill a dozen movies.
Her upbringing in a brothel, followed by
bruising encounters with sex, booze and
drugs, created a voice that touched the
world”

Rolling Stone

WEDNESDAY 14th MAY

I’m Not There

Cert: 15

(outdoor screening at the Cricket Club)
135 mins. USA/Germany (2007)

Starring: Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale,
Richard Gere, Heath Ledger

Todd Haynes is a mischievous
visionary who puts the music and the
myth of Bob Dylan before us in I’m
Not There and dares us not to revel in
the troubadour’s poetic, contentious,
ever-changing essence. It’s a feast for
the eyes (and) the ears”
Rolling Stone magazine

WEDNESDAY 23rd APRIL

Control

Cert: 15

121 mins. UK/USA, Australia/Japan (2007)

Starring: Sam Reilly, Samantha Morton

Peter Bradshaw in the Times writes “It
is the best film of the year: a tender,
bleakly funny and superbly acted
biopic of Curtis, the legendary lead
singer of new wave band Joy Division,
who in 1980 committed suicide on
the eve of his first US tour… Control
is a film about England, about music, about loneliness and love;
there is melancholy in it, but also a roar of energy. I thought it
might depress me. Instead I left the cinema walking on air.”