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Lemon Tree (G) 116 mins |
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9 October 2008 |
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Drama |
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Eran Riklis |
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Hiam Abbass, Doron Tavory |
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(Hebrew with English subtitles)
Based on the true story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemontree field when the new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down. |
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Wizard of Oz (G) 98 mins |
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9 October 2008 |
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Musical |
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Victor Fleming |
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Judy Garland, Frank Morgan |
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When Dorothy's neighbor threatens to take away her precious dog, Toto, Dorothy runs away from home. Attempting to return, she and her house are caught in a twister and blown to the Land of Oz. Dorothy must escape by following the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City, where the great Wizard of Oz can help her return to Kansas. Along the way, Dorothy meets the heartless Tin Man, the brainless Scarecrow, and the courage-less Cowardly Lion, each of whom hopes that the Wizard can offer him what he lacks. [1939. Black & White/ Colour]
[Standard/ 'Academy' Aspect Ratio (1.37:1)]
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Body Of Lies (MA 15+) 138 mins |
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9 October 2008 |
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Drama |
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Ridley Scott |
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Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe |
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A CIA operative is sent to Jordan to track a high-ranking terrorist. The spy is aided by the head of Jordan's covert operations in an uneasy alliance that leads to cultural and moral clashed between the men. |
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Young @ Heart (PG) 117 mins |
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16 October 2008 |
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Documentary |
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Stephen Walker |
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Jim Armenti, William E. Arnold Jr., Joe Benoit, Helen Boston, Louise Canady |
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Over the last 25 years, there has existed a group of senior citizens living in Northampton, Massachusetts, who refuse to let age and ill health get them down. Young@Heart is a documentary based on the lives of the current singing group of 24 senior citizens, brought to the big screen by British filmmaker, Stephen Walker, who saw their performance in London. Young@Heart is not your ordinary singing chorus, because they sing rock, punk, disco, and the average age is 81 with the oldest being 92 years old. The documentary follows the group over a six-week rigorous rehearsal schedule, plus practicing at home for an upcoming sold-out concert in their home town. |
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Now Voyager (PG) 117 mins |
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16 October 2008 |
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Romance |
Director: |
Irving Rapper |
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Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid |
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Tale of an introverted and frightened woman, long crushed by her domineering mother, who visits a psychotherapist to cure her emotional problems. As a result, she undergoes a dramatic transformation, becoming a confident, exciting, and attractive woman. Desperate for the love she has never experienced, she begins a relationship with a married man -- and becomes very attached to his shy, troubled daughter. [1942. Black & White]
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Burn After Reading (MA 15+) 106 mins |
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16 October 2008 |
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Comedy |
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Ethan Coen, Joel Coen |
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Brad Pitt, George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand |
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A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it. |
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Brideshead Revisited (PG) 143 mins |
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23 October 2008 |
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Drama |
Director: |
Julian Jarrold |
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Matthew Goode, Thomas Morrison, Anna Madeley |
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Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War. |
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Women, The (TBA) 100 mins |
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23 October 2008 |
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Genre: |
Thriller |
Director: |
Diane English |
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Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Candice Bergen, Bette Midler and Jada Pinkett Smith |
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Diane English, the creator of 'Murphy Brown', has gathered an exceptional cast for the remake of George Cukor's 1939 classic. 'The Women' is about friends and mothers and daughters. It's about breaking up and finding your way back. It's about reinventing yourself. It's about walking through fire for what you believe in. It's about Women. |
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Nights in Rodanthe (PG) 97 mins |
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6 November 2008 |
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Drama |
Director: |
George C. Wolfe |
Cast: |
Richard Gere, Diane Lane |
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Adrienne Willis (Lane) retreats to the tiny coastal town of Rodanthe to tend to a friend's inn for the weekend. Here she hopes to find the tranquility she so desperately needs to rethink the conflicts surrounding her — a wayward husband who has asked to come home, and a teenage daughter who resents her every decision.
Dr. Paul Flanner (Gere), the only guest at the inn, is not on a weekend escape but rather is there to face his own crisis of conscience.
With a storm closing in, the two turn to each other for comfort and, in one weekend, set in motion a romance that will change their lives.
Based on the bestselling novel by Nicholas Sparks. |
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Quantum of Solace (TBA) |
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19 November 2008 |
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Genre: |
Action |
Director: |
Marc Forster |
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Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Gemma Arterton |
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Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 (Craig) fights the urge to make his last mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M (Dench) interrogate Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) who reveals the organisation which blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.
In a minefield of treachery, murder and deceit, Bond allies with old friends in a battle to uncover the truth. As he gets closer to finding the man responsible for the betrayal of Vesper, 007 must keep one step ahead of the CIA, the terrorists and even M, to unravel the sinister plan and stop the mysterious organisation.
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Australia (TBA) |
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26 November 2008 |
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Genre: |
Drama |
Director: |
Baz Luhrmann |
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Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman |
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Luhrmann's film is set in northern Australia prior to World War II and centers on an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a huge cattle station. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man (Jackman) to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier. |
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