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With a mixture of comedy and thriller films Oundle Cinema’s Autumn season is one not to miss. Films will be screened at our usual venue in the Stahl Theatre, West Street, Oundle. Doors open at 7.15pm for ticket sales and bar services. The programme commences promptly at 7.45pm.

ARRANGEMENTS FOR ADVANCE SALES OF TICKETS
Tickets can be booked in advance either by phone or in person, at the OUNDLE FESTIVAL OFFICE, 4 New Street, Oundle PE8 4ED, Tel: 01832 274734. Tickets cost £5,under-18s £3. Availability can be checked on film nights by telephoning 07840 732112 after 6.45pm (no voice or text messages).

TRANSPORT

Volunteer Action will be pleased to arrange lifts to and from screenings in Oundle. Call 01832 275433 Monday through Friday 9.30am - 12.30pm or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Sunday 9 September - The Artist (PG) Your chance to see the film that scooped all the 2012 Oscars! It is the height of silent era Hollywood and aspiring starlet Peppy Miller gets her big break when a chance photograph taken with the world’s biggest movie star, George Valentin, ends up on the cover of Variety.Set against the backdrop of a Tinseltown in transition from silent film to talkies - a whimsical love story emerges between the two as her star soars and his star fades. Reaching beyond what is essentially a romantic comedy, the film itself is in black and white, and silent - or almost silent. There are some spoken words and a continuous orchestral score by Ludovic Bource. It is shot entirely on location in Los Angeles and peppered with winks to films of the silent era. The relatively little known principal actors - to say nothing of now-famous Uggie the dog - ooze charm and an infectious sense of mischievous fun that have beguiled audiences world-wide.

Friday 14 September - Carnage (15) A sharply-observed comedy with a title that is entirely misleading! Adapted from the award-winning play ‘The God of Carnage’, this is a brilliantly-sustained one-scene comic drama which exposes the hypocrisy, double thinking and charmlessness of the modern bourgeoisie. The action takes place in real time, in the Brooklyn apartment of the Longstreets, whose son has been hit with a stick by another boy. The Longstreets have invited round the Cowans, the parents of the other child, to try to resolve the incident amicably. What starts out and almost ends as a civilised meeting rapidly descends, via coffee and whisky, into an ugly argument and very bad behaviour, as each character drops their guard to reveal what they’re really thinking. A very funny take on marriage, family, taste, success and every other subject that preoccupies the educated classes.

Friday 21 September - Headhunters- subtitles (15) At the centre of this film, based on Jo Nesbo’s eponymous novel, is Roger Brown, a diminutive man with expensive tastes (including his statuesque Nordic wife) and something to prove. Supplementing his income from corporate recruitment with a side-helping of art thievery, the appearance of a perfect ‘mark’ in the shape of Clas Greve proves too good to resist. But here Brown has drastically underestimated ex-military man Greve’s ability to bear a grudge.

From art world receptions to backwater outhouses, the film flips through a variety of tense set pieces, loops of double crosses, inventive violence and psychological second guessing. Shot in chilly blues - a must-see for thriller fans with a sense of humour and a penchant for Stieg Larsson and The Killing.

Sunday 14 October - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (12A) A stellar cast of vintage British actors, a plot centred on the health care dilemmas facing senior citizens filmed against a backdrop of Rajasthan in all its glorious technicolour beauty... this is an absolute must-see film for Oundle. Based on Deboragh Moggagh’s novel These Foolish Things, the film follows the fortunes of five characterful pensioners who gamble on the advantages of retirement in an idiosyncratic Indian hotel, run by an ambitious but totally inexperienced young man. Some have ulterior motives for their choice, others seem strangely unsuited to life abroad. A comedy with emotive issues at its core.

Friday 19 October - The Way (12A) Tom is a doctor who travels to France to collect the body of his son Daniel, who died while just starting the 800km Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, a trek familiar to millions of people. He decides to complete the journey himself, carrying his son’s ashes and distributing them on the way. On the trail he hooks up with a variety of pilgrims - a fat Dutch buffoon, a chippy Canadian chain-smoker and a loopy Irish writer. They walk up hills, meet lovable Latin folk, sleep in humble abodes, walk down dales and party with Gypsies. On the way they have their spats, but learn to bond. The result of all this is ... life-affirming!

There is a generational healing dimension that is mirrored in the partnering of Martin Sheen, the star, with his real-life son, Emilio Estevez, who both directs and plays his own fictional counterpart. As is often the case in such parables, it is the wise child who must teach his erring elder what is really what. Before Daniel departs for the Camino, he tips off Tom, his father: “You don’t choose a life - you live one.”

BRIGSTOCK
Friday 19 October - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (12A) - 7.30pm Brigstock Village Hall. Synopsis as above. Tickets £4 including free popcorn. Refreshments available. Enquiries to Alison Millen 01536 373028.

RINGSTEAD
Friday 28 September 7.45pm - Made in Dagenham (15) Ringstead Village Social Club. An account, often humerous, of how the strike by female workers at Ford’s factory led to equal pay legislation. Tickets £4 on the door. Contact 01933 460373. Bar available.