MAIDSTONE FILM SOCIETY
SPRING SEASON
JANUARY - APRIL 2012 • HAZLITT (HIRE)
Films start at 8pm on Mondays in the Hazlitt Theatre. Membership prices for 12 films: Single - £24 Couples - £42.00 Concessionary - £19
SUBMARINE
21 November 2011 (UK/USA, 94 mins, CERT 15)
Fifteen year old Oliver Tate is a schemer. His current obsessions are to get a girlfriend, lose his virginity and at the same time save his parents ailing marriage by steering his mum away from an old flame who has just resurfaced in their lives. This debut feature from The IT Crowd’s Richard Ayoade is smart, funny and features some very believable teenagers.
CHICO & RITA
12 DEC 2011 (Spain/UK, 94 mins, Cert 15)
We haven’t shown many animated films over the years but Chico and Rita is a must-see. This tale of jazz, bebop and romance moves from 1940s Havana to Broadway and Hollywood as pianist Chico goes in search of a singer – the curvaceous Rita. Beautiful and largely hand-drawn, this is a lesson in how animation can convey real humanity and tell a great story at the same time.
FOUR LIONS
16 JAN 2012 (UK, 97 mins, Cert 15)
A serious satire on Islamic terrorists? Or comedy with suicide vests? Director Chris Morris has always delighted in pushing the boundaries of good taste and this debut feature film is no exception. Four British Muslims, ranging from the deluded to the inept, plan Jihad, all the time arguing and fighting with one another. Hilarious, but also quite scary.
BIUTIFUL
30 JAN 2012 (Mexico/Spain, 148 mins, Cert 15)
Uxbal’s life is a mess. Earning a meagre living as a go-between in the Barcelona criminal underworld, he tries hard to look after his sons and keep them away from a mother who is mentally unstable. He is also facing his own mortality in the form of terminal cancer. Javier Bardem delivers an enormously moving performance as the ordinary man whose quiet dignity shines through in everything he does.
L’ARNACOEUR (HEARTBREAKER)
6 FEB 2012 (France/Mexico, 105 mins, Cert TBC)
Heartbreaker is a French romantic comedy where the emphasis is firmly on comedy. Roman Duris plays Alex, whosebusiness is to break up couples – but only those he considers to be not really in love (he has high standards). He’s also deeply in debt to the mob, and he thinks his next job will solve all his problems. All he has to do is separate a wealthy heiress from her smug English fiancé. What could possibly go wrong?
ANOTHER YEAR
20 FEB 2012 (UK, 129 mins, Cert 12)
Tom and Gerri live in suburban contentment in North London. Their house has become a drop in centre where various lost souls come to unburden themselves. Mary, a work colleague of Gerri’s, is one of the more regular, and needy visitors. Another Year sees Mike Leigh once again exploring his most fertile subject matter – the quiet, sometimes happy, sometimes desperate lives of ordinary people.
L’ILLUSIONNISTE (THE ILLUSIONIST)
19 MARCH 2012 (BELGIUM, 80mins, Cert PG)
A French illusionist finds himself out of work and is of a dying breed of stage entertainers. He is faced to accept increasingly obscure assignments in fringe theatres, at garden parties and in bars and cafés. He finds himself performing in a village pub off the west coast of Scotland where he encounters Alice, a young woman, where their ensuing adventure changes both their lives forever.
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (PRECEDED BY THE AGM)
16 APRIL 2012 (USA, 107 mins, Cert PG)
One of the greatest films noir ever made, Double Indemnity features a story by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler, based on James M. Cain’s pulp novella. A femme fatale enlists the help of an insurance salesman to bump off her husband and cash in on a life insurance policy. ‘How could I have known that murder sometimes smells like honeysuckle?’ asks Fred MacMurray as the willing dupe who falls for Barbara Stanwyck’s lethal charms.
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For further information please contact:
Francois-Yves Belver on: 01622746078 or visit www.maidstone-film-society.org.uk
You can also contact the Hazlitt Box Office on: 01622 758 611
