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Riverside Screening: Dream Screen UK, 2008

As the sun sets and dusk settles over the landscape, Dream Screen lulls us downstream and delves into our collective unconscious. Take a journey into the twilight world of dreams, sleep and...

  • 19:30 @ Grantchester Meadows

Running the Sahara James Moll, USA, 2008

In 2006, an international expedition team of three men undertook a quest never before attempted by man: to run across the Sahara. Making its way from village to oasis to nomadic settlement, the...

  • 13:15 @ Arts Picturehouse

White Heat Raoul Walsh, USA, 1949

One of the greatest gangster movies of the post-war period, WHITE HEAT’s influence can be found in countless other classics of the genre. James Cagney turns in perhaps his greatest role as Cody...

  • 12:45 @ Arts Picturehouse

CFC: Frankenstein, The Gothic and The Horror Film James Whale, USA, 1931

James Whale drew on stylistic references to German Expressionism for his 1931 film based on Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel FRANKENSTEIN. Chief make-up artist Jack Pierce’s design of the...

  • 10:00 @ Arts Picturehouse

Blue & Ostia Derek Jarman, Julien Cole, UK, 1993

A film at the very limit of what cinema is and can be – and, as a result, a remarkable incarnation of the most essential qualities of the medium – Jarman’s final work is both a startlingly...

  • 15:15 @ Arts Picturehouse

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Mervyn LeRoy, USA, 1932

Based on the true story of Robert E Burns, Mervyn LeRoy’s film tells the story of Sgt James Allen a WWI veteran unwittingly caught up in a robbery and wrongly sentenced to 10 years in a brutal...

  • 17:30 @ Arts Picturehouse

Strength and Honour Mark Mahon, Ireland, 2007

STRENGTH AND HONOUR is a story of hope and love, sacrifice and devotion, set against the violent underground world of bare-knuckle boxing. It tells the story of an Irish-American boxer, Sean...

  • 20:00 @ Arts Picturehouse

Captain Blood Michael Curtiz, USA, 1935

A swashbuckling adventure, CAPTAIN BLOOD stars Errol Flynn as Dr Blood, convicted of treason and sold into slavery. Dr Blood leads a mutiny of the slaves on a Spanish ship and under his leadership...

  • 22:30 @ Arts Picturehouse

La Rabbia Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giovanni Guareschi, Italy, 1963

In 1963 newsreel producer Gastone Ferranti commissioned Marxist Pier Paolo Pasolini and conservative Giovannino Guareschi to each make a one hour document about the state of things as they saw it....

  • 17:45 @ Arts Picturehouse

Preserve (Rezerwat) Łukasz Palkowski, Poland, 2007

After his girlfriend throws him out, photographer Marcin Wilczyński moves into the Praga district of Warsaw, the "preserve" of the title, infamously dilapidated and inhabited by drunks and...

  • 10:15 @ Arts Picturehouse

Best of Screen East Digital Shorts Jon Dunleavy, Jason Cuddy, Iain B Macdonald, Justin Coleman, Ian Claxton, UK, 2008

Screen East’s Digital Shorts is a short film scheme in partnership with the UK Film Council. Each year emerging talent get the opportunity to make a fully funded short film using digital...

  • 16:00 @ Arts Picturehouse

Algeria, Unspoken Stories Jean-Pierre Lledo, France, 2007

In 1962 Algeria gained its independence, after 132 years of French colonisation ended in a bitterly violent war. Thus began one of the largest migrations in human history, as a million...

  • 19:45 @ Arts Picturehouse

Time Crimes (Los Cronocrímenes) Nacho Vigalondo, Spain, 2007

A new house, and a new life for Hector and his wife – until he goes out into the woods, lured by the sight of a naked woman through his binoculars, and is suddenly attacked by a man with a swathe...

  • 23:15 @ Arts Picturehouse

International Shorts 2: Lost and Found Hsin-I Tseng, Greg Ivan Smith, Jose Pablo Gonzalez, Paul Negoescu, Aparna Kapur, Jeremy Sing, Various, 2008

Globalisation conjures up images of bustling urban metropolises but this collection of shorts from around the world reveals the international language of cinema. Our second programme deals with...

  • 15:30 @ Arts Picturehouse

Double Bill: She Should Have Gone to the Moon & Faceless Manu Luksch, Ulrike Kubatta, UK/USA & UK/Austria, 2007

SHE SHOULD HAVE GONE TO THE MOON (CFF PG) Director: Ulrike Kubatta. UK/USA 2007. 58 mins. A unique blend of interviews, archive material and stylised dramatic sequences, this documentary tells...

  • 13:00 @ Arts Picturehouse

A Streetcar Named Desire Elia Kazan, USA, 1951

Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden and Kim Hunter were all awarded oscars opposite Marlon Brando (nominated) in Elia Kazan’s hothouse adaptation of the Tennessee William play which he had originally...

  • 18:00 @ Arts Picturehouse

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures Jan Harlan, USA, 2001

An exploration of the life and work of the man acknowledged as one of the greatest auteur filmmakers of all time, this documentary by Jan Harlan draws on a huge store of interviews and...

  • 18:00 @ The Junction

Traces of the Trade Katrina Browne, USA, 2008

In the documentary TRACES OF THE TRADE, filmmaker Katrina Browne discovers that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine cousins retrace the...

  • 20:30 @ Arts Picturehouse

Full Metal Jacket UK, 1987

Spare, harrowing and visceral, Kubrick's Vietnam movie starts with a group of marines undergoing basic training on Parris Island. It then jumps to the fighting in Saigon and Hue during the Tet...

  • 21:00 @ The Junction

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