THE END OF THE LINE WEDNESDAY 3 MAR 8PM Brand new documentary exploring the depletion of fish stocks around the world How to that shows that, given consumer and political action, the situation can be turned Our screenings take place in Forest Row Village Hall, Films in around. find us: RH18 5ES in the centre of the village. Director: Rupert Murray UK PG 90 min 2009

THE LEOPARD SATURDAY 6 MAR 8PM “A must-see… one of the most ravishing films ever, the greatest adaptation of a novel” You do not need to be a full member to come to a film. Forest Row The prince of Salina (Burt Lancaster), a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to Prices: Everyone welcome. preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily. Director: Luchino Visconti Italy PG 185 min 1963 Annual membership: £8/£6 (conc) 2009-10 THE PAGE TURNER FRIDAY 12 MAR 8PM Member’s admission to each film: £4/£3.50 (conc) When a young pianist’s ambitions are dashed during an audition by the Day membership (ie just turn up on the door): £5/£4 (conc) thoughtless behaviour of the chairwoman of the jury, she plans revenge when she later becomes the page turner for the same woman in this stylish psychological drama. Special prices apply to some screenings. Director: Denis Dercourt France 15 85 min 2006 TIMES AND WINDS FRIDAY 26 MAR 8PM All foreign language films are shown in their original language “a cinematic poem … and one of the best films of the year.” Peter Bradshaw,The Guardian with English subtitles. Earthy, honest portrait of the physical and emotional awakenings of three muslim teenagers whose lives are constrained by the rural and religious rhythms Doors open half an hour before each film. Come early for tea of their remote Anatolian mountain village. and cake! Director: Reha Erdem Turkey 15 111 min 2006 THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD WEDNESDAY 31 MAR 8PM Film screenings in Sussex A very funny true story that follows a couple of political activists as they infiltrate Telephone: 01342 823424 the world of big business and pull off outrageous pranks that highlight the ways Contact Sign up on our website for our email list Web: www.forestrowfilmsociety.org that corporate greed is destroying the planet. us: Director: Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno France/USA 12A 87 min 2009 to receive reminders for all our films. Email: [email protected] www.forestrowfilmsociety.org SUMMER HOURS FRIDAY 30 APR 8PM Our website also includes listings of all Sign up to our email list to get a reminder before each film. A beloved mother dies. Her children have to face the break-up of their home. cinemas within 20 miles of Forest Row and We do text message reminders too: see the website for details. A masterful film, starring Juliette Binoche, beautifully acted, simply hypnotic to of all film society screenings in Sussex, South See the website for listings of loads of other films in the area. watch, and deeply moving without being over-sentimentalised. Surrey and West Kent. Director: Olivier Assayas France 12A 98 min 2008 Available as an RSS feed Find us on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/frfs-fb CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY THURSDAY 6 MAY 8PM “It’s got it all -- lust, passion, romance and 14,000 jobs being eliminated every day. It’s a forbidden love, one that dare not speak its name. Heck, let’s just say it: It’s capitalism.” yellowfish design Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/forestrowfilms Director: Michael Moore USA NR 120 min 2009 We offer affordable services that are helping businesses grow. We now provide alongside our design services: Help with formulating persuasive messages ALICE IN THE CITIES FRIDAY 14 MAY 8PM The touching and hypnotic odyssey of a restless and lonely man who, by an - Planning to make the most of limited time and resources - Help to develop your business, unlikely twist of fate finds himself stuck with a little girl on a hopeless search what to aim for and what changes you may need to make. for a grand-mother whose address she doesn’t remember. A road movie with Find out more ... see our fresh website @ www.yellowfishdesign.co.uk Or Bebo: http://bebo.com/forestrowfilms a difference… Call Naphia Reggiani, small business/ marketing adviser on 07847 278 133 Call Lee Hannam, web/design on 07738 984 110 Cherry Blossoms Director: Wim Wenders Germany U 111 min 1975 [email protected] “a quiet, very beautiful film about the duality of love and death” See the web site for trailers and more about the films: www.forestrowfilmsociety.org Printed by identityprint.co.uk Philip French, COUSCOUS FRIDAY 18 SEP 8PM THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY FRIDAY 16 OCT 8PM THE LIVES OF OTHERS FRIDAY 11 DEC 8PM Welcome to the 2009-10 season of Slimane has just been made redundant. He buys an old boat, dreaming of “Haunting, searing and beautiful” Film Journal International “one of the most amazing films I have ever seen” Andrew Sarris,New York Observer turning it into a floating restaurant serving the best couscous, helped by his ex- The true story of the Elle magazine editor who suffers a stroke and has to live with An East German couple’s flat has been bugged by the secret police. This true story Films in Forest Row tended family. Tragic and comic flavour blend nicely in this succulent offering an almost totally paralysed body, only able to communicate with his left eye. exposes both the corruption and the possible redemption of the human spirit. Director: Abdel Kechiche France 15 154 min 2008 Director: Julian Schnabel France 12A 111 min 2007 Director: Florian Henckel-Donnersmarck Germany 15 137 min 2006

This is the biggest season of films ever in the village, thanks to our new digital ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD FRIDAY 2 OCT 8PM U-CARMEN E-KHAYELITSHA SATURDAY 24 OCT 8PM THE FOX AND THE CHILD SUNDAY 13 DEC 2.30PM equipment. We have a nice mix of events in the festival in early October, including the “far-out and unforgettable” Daily Telegraph “Works perfectly … hits the bull’s eye” Time Out Narrated by Kate Winslet, this charming follow-up to The March of the Herzog’s Oscar-nominated documentary made during Antarctica’s summer ever popular silent film with live music. A fantastic gritty version of Bizet’s great opera, set in a South African township, Penguins tells the story of a young girl and her friendship with a fox. when it never gets dark. A visually stunning film, with many funny moments; from the same company that created Son of Man. you can almost feel the cold coming out of the screen. Director: Mark Dornford-May South Africa 12A 127min 2006 We’re also trying out some Saturday night screenings, such as Burt Lancaster in The Director: Werner Herzog Germany U 101 min 2009 Director: Luc Jacquet France U 92 mins 2008 Leopard, Visconti’s great epic, and have some Sunday matinees for children. Animation Workshop Saturday 3 Oct 10.30-5pm LET’S TALK ABOUT THE RAIN FRIDAY 30 OCT 8PM CHERRY BLOSSOMS FRIDAY 8 JAN 8PM “Quite simply wonderful” Empire Transition Forest Row have worked with us again this year to include an exciting range of Sign up for a stop motion animation workshop on Foresters Green with “a quiet, very beautiful film about the duality of love and death” Philip French, The Observer animators Joseph Brett and Glen Zimmatore. Agathe, a busy feminist politician, returns to her rural home to help her sister after A beautifully moving tender tale of a long-married provincial German couple. With documentaries, so there really is something for everyone. their mother’s death. While there she agrees to be filmed for a documentary. A film echoes of Ozu, it leads to self-discovery after the pain of loss and separation. Get a time slot early on the day. Places limited. brimming with charm and humour which uncovers truths in everyday relationships. £2 per child. Director: Doris Dörrie Germany Colour NR 127 min 2008 You don’t have to be a member to come to a film – you can just turn up. And Director: Agnès Jaoui France 12A 110 min 2008 now, with the village hall’s comfortable chairs, fair trade tea and coffee and SHERLOCK JR SATURDAY 3 OCT 1PM IN TRANSITION THURSDAY 12 NOV 8PM ETRE ET AVOIR FRIDAY 22 JAN 8PM organic cake on offer as well, you really should come along! One of Buster Keaton’s most supremely inventive comedies, he plays a cinema This new film gives a sense of the scale of the emerging Transition Movement “It’s one of the very finest films you’re likely to see in a long time. Just beautiful.” Geoff Andrew, Time Out projectionist with ambitions to be a detective. With live music by Terry Davies. with stories of communities creating their own currencies, setting up their own In a small “single class” school in the Auvergne, thirteen children aged four to eleven All seats £3. pubs, planting trees, growing food and more. are taught by an inspirational teacher who patiently steers them towards adolescence. Director: Buster Keaton USA U 45 min 1924 Director: Emma Goude UK NR 90 min 2009 Director: Nicolas Philibert France U 104 min 2002

Friday evening Saturday evening SUSSEX FILMS SUNDAY 4 OCT 3PM WALTZ WITH BASHIR FRIDAY 13 NOV 8PM FIERCE LIGHT WEDNESDAY 3 FEB 8PM A collection of Sussex-related films from Screen Archive South East, including “an acid-trip down memory lane … an extraordinary film”Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian With stunning cinematography, a compelling soundtrack, and dramatic An astonishing animated documentary about the Sabra and Chatila Watery Trail (1930) following the course of the river Medway. and a Pathé stories of resistance and transformation, Fierce Light shows what is possible when Sunday matinees massacres during the 1982 war in Lebanon, in which Folman unravels the tortured Forest Row Festival newsreel, made when Harold Macmillan and president Kennedy visited Forest memories of his Israeli army comrades human beings, faced with a world in crisis, rise to their absolute best. Row. Part of the Mad Recycled Hatter’s Tea Party. Donations. Director: Ari Folman Israel 18 90 min 2008 Director: Velcrow Ripper Canada Colour NR 90 min 2008 Transition Forest Row THE MOVING PICTURE SHOW SUNDAY 4 OCT 6.30PM LA VIE EN ROSE SATURDAY 21 NOV 8PM THE EDGE OF HEAVEN FRIDAY 5 FEB 8PM Itinerant short films on Lower Road, including Daffy Duck, Popeye and Betty “This spectacular epic portraying the life of singing legend Edith Piaf and “Bold and exhilarating film-making”The Guardian Boop. Donations. powered by so many of her actual recordings is one of those rare cinematic happenings “A story about mothers and sons, fathers and daughters – and about hope as where every aspect of the production is done to perfection.” Film Journal International the last refuge we have as human beings” Fatih Akin. Director: Oliver Dahan France 12A 140 min 2007 Director: Fatih Akin Germany/Turkey 15 115 min 2008

KIRIKOU AND THE SORCERESS SUNDAY 11 OCT 2.30PM I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG FRIDAY 27 NOV 8PM THE CONSTANT GARDENER SATURDAY 13 FEB 8PM In this gorgeous animated film, tiny Kirikou lives in Africa and sets off on a “a deeply involving, beautifully acted and expertly constructed human drama” The Guardian A British diplomat in Africa tracking down his wife’s killers finds the trail leading quest to defeat the evil and scary witch who is destroying his village. In this acclaimed and intensely moving French drama Kristin Scott Thomas plays straight back to the Foreign Office in . Juliette, a broken soul on a long path to redemption. A gripping thriller starring and Rachel Weisz. Director: Michel Ocelot France U 74 min 1998 Director: Philippe Claudel France 12A 117 min 2008 Director: Fernando Meirelles UK/Germany 15 128 min 2005 Sponsors and Funders A FARM FOR THE FUTURE WEDNESDAY 14 OCT 8PM HOME THURSDAY 10 DEC 8PM WEST BEYROUTH FRIDAY 26 FEB 8PM Exploring the importance of oil in modern farming, this film has a passionate An ode to the planet’s beauty and its delicate harmony. Every image shows the Two guys, a girl and a Super 8 camera in a wonderful film of growing up in narrative centred on the director’s investigation to change her small family farm Earth’s treasures we are destroying and all the wonders we can still preserve. 1975, during the Lebanese civil war. to a low-energy enterprise. Donations. Narrated by Glenn Close. Donations. Director: Rebecca Hosking UK NR 48 min 2009 Director: Yann Arthus-Bertrand France NR 120 min 2009 Director: Ziad Doueiri Lebanon 15 110 min 1999

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