Programme Autumn and Winter 2006/2007

 


PERFORMANCES START AT 7:30PM
(Unless otherwise stated)

Venue: Hippodrome Theatre, Todmorden
(Fully Licensed Bar)

Please Check Website For Additional Screenings
 

Todmorden Silver Screen Community Group reserves the right to change the programme without notice 

Tickets bought in advance cannot be exchanged, nor refunds offered, unless an event is cancelled

 


 

Seducing Dr Lewis (12a)

September 24th

1 Hour 48 Minutes

(Subtitled)

Dir: Jean-Francois Pouliot

Seducing Dr Lewis chronicles   the chaos wreaked when a small, down on it’s luck town is seduced by having a big time manufacturing plant.  If you like Ealing comedies you’ll love this – a must see for everybody.

March of the Penguins (U)

TWO PERFORMANCES
3.00pm and 7.30pm

October 28th

1 Hour 20 Minutes

Dir: Luc Jacquet

Each winter alone in the pitiless ice deserts of Antarctica, deep in the most inhospitable terrain on Earth, a truly remarkable journey takes place as it has done for millennia.  Emperor penguins in their thousands clamber on to the frozen ice to begin their long journey.

3 Iron (15)

November 5th

1 Hour 35 Minutes

(Subtitled)

Dir: Kim Ki-duk

3 Iron is a love story of a most unconventional kind.  James Berardinelli reviews this romantic drama stating: “this enigmatic and in some ways maddening film has the power to haunt every viewer it reaches”

Pierrepoint (15)

November 19th

1 Hour 30 Minutes

Dir: Adrian Shergold

 

Starring Timothy Spall, Pierrepoint is the gripping and dramatic true-life story of Britain’s most prolific hangman, Albert Pierrepoint. 

Good Night & Good Luck (PG)

December 29th

1 Hour 33 Minutes

Dir: George Clooney

This dramatised account of the public struggle between revered newsman Edward R Morrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy unfolds against the tapestry of the turbulent 1950’s.

Grizzly Man (15)

January 21st

1 Hour 43 Minutes

Dir: Werner Herzog

BBC Film Reviews this film documentary - By the end of the film I was left with both a chilling story, but ultimately a beautifully engrossing one; a true story that concerns a man that actually lived his dreams.

Head On (18)

February 4th

2 Hours

(Subtitled)

Dir: Fatih Akin

European Film of the Year 2004 and Golden Globe winner this film depicts the results of an unlikely marriage of convenience in a full on, passionate, uncompromisingly honest manor. 

Separate Lies (15)

March 4th

1 Hour 26 Minutes

Dir: Julian Fellowes

A tale of love, lies and loyalty adapted from Nigel Balchin’s novel it’s an engaging melodrama in which a tragic death sets of a devastating chain of events

Tsotsi (15)

April 1st

1 Hour 34 Minutes

Dir: Gavin Hood

(Subtitled)

From South Africa, this riveting Oscar winning drama about a young thug about a young thug grips us with a fiercely intimate story and a lush, fable-like visual style. 

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