The films all start at 8:00pm on Mondays in the Hazlitt Arts Centre.

The membership prices for our 60th season of 12 films are:
Single - £24.00
Couples - £42.00
Concessionary - £19.00

13 September 2010
The Men Who Stare At Goats
USA/UK 94 mins Cert: 15

In the wake of the Vietnam war, the US military commissioned a group known as the New Earth Army to look into psychic warfare, investigating abilities such as walking through
walls, affecting distant objects by willpower and even killing enemies with a lethal stare. This star-studded comedy based on Jon Ronson’s novel looks at what they were up to by the time of the first Gulf War. And remember: more of this is true than you would believe.

27 September 2010
Nordwand (North Face)
Germany/Austria/Switzerland
127 mins Cert: 12A

Two young German climbers set out to be the first to climb the North Face of the Eiger. This being 1936, Hitler himself is taking a keen interest and with competition from two Austrian
climbers, there is considerable pressure to produce authentic German heroes in the run-up to the Olympics. This gripping movie features climbing footage that rivals ‘Touching the Void’
for edge of the seat entertainment.

11 October 2010
Bright Star
UK/Australia/France
119 mins Cert: PG

John Keats met Fanny Brawne when she was 18 and he was 23, and thus began one of the great love affairs of English literature. Director Jane Campion allows the action to unfold at
a natural pace, filling the screen with memorable images, and there are fine
performances from Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw as the lovers whose
doomed relationship defined Keats’ most creative period.

15 November 2010
El Secreto de sus Ojos
(The Secret in Their Eyes)
Argentina/Spain 127 mins Cert: 18

The unexpected winner of this year’s Oscar for Best Foreign Film tells the story of a retired criminal investigator who meets up with a judge he knew years ago, when they were both
working on a brutal rape and murder case. He is convinced more than ever now that there was a miscarriage of justice. This engrossing story captures the confusion and corruption of
Argentina in the 1970s.

22 November 2010
Un Prophete (A Prophet)
France/Italy 154 mins Cert: 18
(Start time 7:45).

Jacques Audiard’s critically acclaimed movie is the violent and uncompromising tale of a young man sentenced to six years imprisonment, and the brutal regime
he encounters there. The transformative effect of prison is graphically shown as the antihero develops and matures from bullied new boy to respected hard man. N.B.
This film comes with an MFS health warning for protracted scenes of violence.

13 December 2010
A Single Man
USA 99 mins Cert: 12A

A Single Man tells of a day in the life of George, a professor of English in 1960s Los Angeles, whose lover Jim died in a car crash some eight months previously. This beautifully shot debut film by fashion designer Tom Ford features Colin Firth, superb as the
bereaved academic failing to find meaning and purpose in his life, and the always excellent Julianne Moore as his best friend who finds solace in a
bottle of gin.

10 January 2011
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
UK 115 mins Cert: 15

For a few short years in the late 70s, Ian Dury lit up the British post-punk music scene with his own knowing, idiosyncratic brand of rock. Featuring a mesmerising performance from Andy Serkis as the troubled star, this is a totally convincing, warts-and-all account of how Dury, institutionalized in his early years after contracting polio, became an unlikely workingclass hero.

24 January 2011
Myrin( Jar City)
Iceland/Germany/Denmark
93 mins Cert: 15

This gripping police procedural is inspired by a real-life controversy that began when Iceland put the genetic details of its entire population on computer. The unflappable Inspector
Erlendur investigates the murder of a suspected paedophile which opens a can of worms involving a recent disappearance and a 30-year-old rape case. And that’s just the beginning.

For further information please contact Francois-Yves Belver on 01622 672307, visit www.maidstone-film-society.org.uk or call the Hazlitt Arts Centre Box Office on:
01622 758611.