Future Programme

Never before, but nearly, have we put on such a recent film. After all, we try to cover the great directors from all decades. But this, set before and after the fall of the Wall, about the westernizing, East German intelligentsia versus one man in the Stazi, is soul-searing. Those who haven't seen it remain deprived. You now have a last chance on the big screen: you will not regret it.

In a new print, this is our first film about ballet, that minority sport. Much more, this is Powell and Pressburger (the Archers) again, in the superb film which was shown again at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009. VFG: “Magical.”, 5*. TOFG: “... in texture, it's nothing like the British cinema had ever seen ...”.

In the 1830s, deep in Dorset, poorly paid farm workers tried to form a union. We know them as the Tolpuddle Martyrs. This is their story, grippingly and sympathetically told.

Mexico, and revolution on quite a different scale. This film is about three sisters and their very different fates over a period of 40 years. It is also about food, sex and violence, not necessarily in that order.

Have you even heard of this? Albert Finney plays the imperious and impossible Shakespearian actor; Tom Courtenay, his dresser. TOFG: "An accomplished film ... animated by two gigantic performances."

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