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August Quick View - click on film for full film details:
August Films
 
DATE FILM TIME (pm)
Tue 26 Mamma Mia! - sold out 6.00 + 8.15
Wed 27 Mamma Mia! 1.00
Wed 27 Mamma Mia! - sold out 6.00 + 8.15
Thu 28 Couscous (15) - sold out 6.00
Fri 29 + Sat 30 The Escapist (15) 7.30
Sun 31 Great Expectations 5.30
 

 

 
Tues 26 - 6.00 + 8.15pm – sold out. Wed 27 - 1.00, Wed 27 - 6.00 + 8.15pm – sold out.
Mamma Mia! (tbc) – Dir. Phyllida Lloyd
UK USA 2008, 1h50m

Mamma MiaIrresistible romantic comedy, based on the hit West End musical and set on a sun-soaked Mediterranean island. Amanda’s wedding day is fast approaching, and naturally she wants her father to give her away. But who is her father? Her mother (Meryl Streep) says it’s either Piers Brosnan, Colin Firth or Stellan Skarsgård.

Will Amanda find true happiness on her wedding day? All set to Abba’s most memorable hits – light-hearted summer fun

Bring a Baby : Wednesday 27 August at 1pm

Cast: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Julie Walters - top of page
Thu 28 Aug (6.00)
Couscous Le Graine et Le Mulet (15) – Dir. Abdellatif Kechiche
France 2007, 2h31m, 15 French with English subtitles

CouscousAn affectionate and intimate portrait of 21st century France that can’t be missed, ‘Couscous’ is the energetic and good-humoured story of Mr. Slimani, a tired, divorced sixty-year old, who each day drags himself to a shipyard job in the Mediterranean port of Seté.

With his dreams of opening a fish restaurant on a rundown boat in the harbour seemingly out of reach of his meagre salary, his world suddenly changes when redundancy offers him the chance to make his dreams a reality….

Cast: Habib Boufares, Hafisa Herzi - top of page
Fri 29 – Sat 30 Aug (7.30)
The Escapist (15) – Dir Rupert Wyatt
1h42m

Aging prisoner Frank has spent 14 years inside, but when he gets word that his daughter is dangerously ill he is determined to escape by gathering around him an equally single-minded crew. With a number of stunning innovations on the prison-break movie template ‘The Escapist’ is a genuinely enthralling ride to freedom.

Cast: Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes - top of page
Sun 31 Aug (5.30)
Great Expectations – Dir. David Lean
UK 1946, B&W, 1h58m

BFI logoDavid Lean is one of the most popular and well-known British filmmakers. To mark the centenary of his birth this year, the David Lean Foundation has generously funded the restoration of ten titles, all made in Britain in the 1940s and early 50s. This period saw Lean’s greatest achievements, with his work focussing more on the lives of ordinary people and the sensibilities of the era compared with the later epics.

Great ExpectationsUndoubtedly one of the finest Dickens adaptations, ‘Great Expectations’ is studded with memorable setpieces, from young Pip’s hair-raising encounter with Magwitch in the graveyard to the eerie Gothic fantasy world of Miss Havisham.

The Oscarwinning team of cinematographer Guy Green and production designer John Bryan bring Dickens’ settings to vivid, indelible life.

Cast: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Alec Guinness - top of page
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