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January 2010 Is Anybody There? 2009 95 min. Cert 12A, with Michael Caine, Bill Millner, Anne-Marie Duff, David Morrissey. In the rest home run by his parents, the reclusive, death-obsessed Edward finds a kindred spirit in Clarence, the curmudgeonly, retired magician who begrudgingly takes up residence there.. |
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February 2010 Morris -a Life with Bells On 2009 Cert 12 100min, with Derek Jacobi, Greg Wise, Ian Hart and Harriet Walter. A heartwarming comedy shot in documentary format that follows the fortunes of one of the leading Morris teams in the country, Millsham Morris, and in particular those of its avant garde leader, Derecq. |
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March 2010 Piccadilly 1929 92 min. , with Anna May Wong, Jameson Thomas, Gilda Gray, and featuring Charles Laughton. "Seething with sexual and racial tension, this is a sumptuous showbiz melodrama starring Anna May Wong as ShoSho, a maid in a London nightclub whose exotic dance routines make her the focus of erotic obsession and jealousy". Piccadilly is accompanied by a live soundtrack from ‘Wurlitza’, a five piece band from St Germans, www.wurlitza.co.uk , which specialises in adding live soundtracks to films. |
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April 2010 Creation 2009 108 min. Cert PG-13 , with Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Northam, Toby Jones. The story of Charles Darwin as he struggles to find a balance between his revolutionary theories on evolution and the relationship with his religious wife, whose deeply held creationist faith contradicts his work. |
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May 2010 The Reader 2008 120 min. Cert 15, with Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Jeanette Hain Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial. |
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June 2010 84 Charing Cross Road 1986 99 min. Cert U, with Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Maurice Denham. This moving, romantic drama chronicles the twenty years of transatlantic correspondence between the New York writer and Mr Frank Doel of Marks & Co., antiquarian bookshop, t 84 Charing Cross Road, London. A relationship unique and untouchable, built on mutually held taste, interest and consideration. |
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