The Fleapit Cinema Club

elcome to Season Ten. Back in 1996 we tested the water with a trial screening of an apt WBritish comedy from 1936 about the trials and tribulations of a local cinema and we kick of our anniversary season with a brand new print of The Smallest Show on Earth . In those intervening ten years, The Fleapit has established itself as one of the most successful cinema clubs of its type thanks, above all else, to the fantastic support of our Members. To celebrate, we are presenting our longest ever season – no fewer than 32.5 hours of wide ranging cinematic entertainment from the last 100 years. Along the way, you can enjoy no fewer than six new prints, and even a foray into 1950’s 3D kitsch – complete with those red and green glasses. We have also added two Sunday screenings allowing us to show a couple of films that are too long to show on a regular Friday: a glorious new print in Cinemascope of Dr Zhivago and Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet – which uses the uncut First Folio text.

Enjoy the season and thank you again for your support. The Fleapit Cinema Club Westerham Hall Quebec Avenue, Westerham, Kent. Doors and bar open 7:30PM Main Feature starts 8:00PM unless otherwise indicated. THE SEASon AT A GlAnCE The Smallest Show on Earth 22 nd September’06 The Wicker Man 6th october’06 Whatever Happened to Baby Jane 20 th october’06 The Red Violin 3rd november’06 A Bout de Souffle 17 th november’06 Kinky Boots 8th December’06 Creature from the Black lagoon & Dark Star 5th January’07 odd Man out 19 th January’07 Dr. Zhivago (Sunday Matinée) 28 th January’07 Pierrepoint 2nd February’07 les Choristes 16 th February’07 Hamlet (Sunday Matinée) 25 th February’07 Silent night* 2nd March’07 Young Frankenstein 16 th March’07 Frida 30 th March’07 The Wizard of oz 13 th April’07 *See programme for details Tickets for Members’ Guests are £3.50 payable on the door. Seats are allocated on a first come, first served basis. As a Film Club, we are not bound by the classification system of the British Board of Film Censors. We leave it to the personal judgement of parents and guardians to decide if a film is suitable and will gladly give additional information on any of the films being shown. For further information please contact: Mark Mountjoy on 01959-561501 [email protected] www.fleapit.info The Fleapit Cinema Club

Tenth Season September 2006 - April 2007 Revenge of the Creature - 3D 5/1/07 1955. USA. 82 min. B&W. Director: Jack Arnold Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning Unashamed and unapologetic B-movie schlock finally makes it to The Fleapit in the first of our Sci-Fi double bill – complete with 3D glasses. Are you brave enough to find out what the poster ment by “Centuries of passion pent up in his savage heart!”? Dark Star 1974. USA. 83 min. Colour. Director: John Carpenter Brian Narelle, Andreijah Pahich, Carl Duniholm, Dan O'Bannon John Carpenter’s directorial debut (which he started while still at Film School) is a parody of Kubrick's, 2001 and follows four hippyish techno-nerds in their mission through deep space to destroy planets and ward off boredom. When their weapons system malfunctions, they are forced to negotiate with a talking bomb. other highlights include an imaginative struggle between a crew member and an inflatable pet alien and a cryogenically-frozen captain whose brain is preserved on computer for the purpose of consultation. A good script and surprisingly effective special effects make this the Sci-Fi film for people who don’t like Sci-Fi.

Odd Man Out 19/1/07 1947. UK. 111 min. B&W. new Print Director: Carol Reed James Mason, Robert Newton, Fay Compton, Cyril Cusack This screening rights a terrible wrong – since we started, we have never shown a James Mason film, so what better than a brand new print of the entertaining chase movie that made him a star. Mason is I.R.A. operative Johnny McQueen newly broken out of jail and on the run. Idealism then forces him out of hiding to raise money for the I.R.A. a cause in which he believes so strongly and he decides to rob a bank. The hold-up goes wrong and Johnny is seriously wounded. Staggering through the streets of Belfast, he meets a succession of people who either want to help him or turn him over to the authorities… Mason's intricate, psychological performance is among the best of his career and the film also presents an interesting take on 1940’s northern Ireland – the latter being the subject of some criticism. Dr. Zhivago Sunday Matinée - 3:00pm 28/1/07 1965. UK. 197 min. Colour. new Print, Scope Director: David Lean Omar Sharif, Geraldine Chaplin, Julie Christie, Alec Guinness, Julie Christie This must be the perfect Sunday afternoon film- especially in a new Cinemascope print which does justice to its legendary scenery and cinematography in a way that no television or plasma screen can hope to do. Indeed, Russia in winter has never looked more alluring. neither have omar Sharif or Julie Christie. one of the most popular love stories ever made, Doctor Zhivago was nominated for 10 oscars and won 5, loosing out in the Best Picture stakes to The Sound of Music. But if you simply want to let your Sunday lunch settle, you can always drift away to ‘lara's Theme’. Pierrepoint 2/2/07 2006. UK. 94 min. Colour. Director: Adrian Shergold Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Cavan Clerkin, The excellent Timothy Spall takes on the complex and compelling role of Albert Pierrepoint, the last hangman. As a youth, Pierrepoint was discouraged from pursuing the family career by his mother who believed that that the horrific line of work pushed his father drink and an early grave. But Albert is undeterred and rises to the upper echelon of his profession thanks to his speed and unwavering humanity. Eventually he is asked to hang the convicted nazis at nuremberg but just as he is earning respect and admiration so his increasingly troubled conscience begins to take hold…This is one of the most compulsive and engaging British films of recent years and, at 94 minutes, shows Hollywood that you don’t necessarily need two hours plus to tell a story. Les Choristes (The Chorus) 16/2/07 2004. France. 97 min. Colour. Director: Christophe Barratier Jacques Perrin, Gérard Jugnot, Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Marie Bunel This Gallic confection is delightfully simple and simply delightful and, because the French don’t do sentimental, it is gratifyingly schmultz free. Successful conductor Pierre Morhange returns home when his mother dies and finds of a diary kept by his old music teacher. It takes him back to the late '40s when he attended a dreary boarding school presided over by a strict headmaster but a teacher organises a choir and Pierre's musical talents are discovered… The Red Violin (Il Violino Rosso) 3/11/06 1998. Canada/Italy. 150 min. Colour. Director: Francois Girard Greta Scacchi, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Flemyng, Sylvia Chang This fascinating, sumptuous and intensely romantic film traces the path of the eponymous instrument from its creation in 17th century Cremona to its arrival in a modern day Canadian auction house via Austria and China. Each vignette of the instrument’s life is shot to reflect both that time and that place, giving the film a wonderful sense of the passing of history. But, at heart, it is really a hymn to the universal hunger for beauty, exquisitely realised. Made when he was only 35, it brought Director Francois Girard to deserved international attention.

A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) 17/11/06 1960. France. 90 min. B&W. Director: Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger The first feature film directed by Jean-luc Godard and one of the seminal films of the nouvelle Vague, it tells the story of Michel Poiccard, a small-time gangster on the run, and Patricia Franchini, an American who sells the International Herald Tribune on the boulevards of Paris. It uses all the tricks of the nouvelle Vague: location shooting, improvised dialogue and a loose narrative form along with Godard’s characteristic jump cuts, deliberate ‘mismatches’ between shots and references to the history of cinema, art, and music. But what makes it so entertaining is its ultra-cool swagger, amoral outlook and sheer energy. Both a loving pastiche of film noir and an exuberant slap in the face of Hollywood convention.

Kinky Boots 8/12/06 2005. UK. 106 min. Colour. Director: Julian Jarrold Joel Edgerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sarah Jane Potts, Jemima Rooper This off-beat and warm-hearted British comedy, based on a true story, reveals an original, if decidedly niche, way of saving a failing shoe factory – get into fetish footwear! Though on paper their inventive scheme to save the factory may sound too outrageous to be true, stranger things have happened in the world of business and if it doesn't break them, it may just transform them into the richest footwear manufacturers in all of England… Hamlet Sunday Matinée - 3:00pm 25/2/07 1996. UK. 242 min. Colour. Director: Kenneth Branagh Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, Brian Blessed, Derek Jacobi, Kate Winslet, Richard Briers, Billy Crystal, Judi Dench, Gérard Depardieu, John Gielgud, Charlton Heston, Jack Lemmon, John Mills, Timothy Spall, Robin Williams, Ken Dodd Branagh took his opportunity to film the unexpurgated text of the First Folio with his trademark enthusiasm - and one of the most eclectic all-star casts ever conceived. The result raised a few eyebrows among the highbrow but it remains a supremely watchable and entertaining film and a unique opportunity to experience the unexpurgated glory of the greatest play yet written in English.

Silent Night VI 2/3/07 We once again welcome Stephen Horne as our accompanist. Rescued from an Eagle’s Nest 1907. USA. 7 min. B&W. Director: J. Searle Dawley D.W. Griffith, Henry B. Walthall, Miss Earle, Jinnie Frazer A classic melodramatic chase and rescue yarn from 100 years ago as lumberjacks set out to retrieve a young child snatched by an eagle! The Pullman Bride 1917. USA. 20 min. B&W. Director: Clarence G. Badger Gloria Swanson, Mack Swain, Chester Conklin, Laura La Varnie This enjoyable slapstick comedy was Swanson’s ninth film and her last with Mack Sennett. Good fun. The General 1927. USA. 75 min. B&W. Director: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton Buster Keaton, Marion Mack This story of a kidnapped train (based on a true event from the American Civil War) is Buster Keaton’s finest hour, blending romance, action and comedy in a showcase for his prodigious dexterity, impeccable comic timing, and expressive body language. Keaton’s insistence on authenticity and and his eye for explosive set pieces gives the film a sense of scale rarely seen in the silent era. one of the greats. The Smallest Show on Earth 22/09/06 1957. UK. 75 min. B&W. new Print Director: Basil Dearden Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers, Bernard Miles, Leslie Phillips In this feel-good comedy, Jean and Bill are married and Bill is scraping a living as a struggling writer when they receive a telegram informing them that Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business - a cinema in Sloughborough. They pack their bags and travel to Sloughborough expecting to sell the cinema for a princely sum. However, the cinema is not quite what they had hoped for – it’s falling apart, can only afford to show terrible B-movies and is run by comically incompetent staff who seem to have worked there forever. If they are to sell the cinema, they are going to need a plan…

The Wicker Man 6/10/06 1974. UK. 97 min. Colour. new Print Director: Robin Hardy Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland Since its release, when it passed by unnoticed, this allegorical chiller has achieved the rare success of going from cult favourite to mainstream classic. Woodward turns in the performance of his career as the repressed policeman sent to a remote Scottish isle to investigate the disappearance of a young girl while lee is perfect as his pagan nemesis. Because it is set in more innocent times, it has retained its power to disturb as it remains easy for a modern audience to suspend disbelief and fully commit themselves to the unfolding nightmare – something that the makers of this year’s unnecessary remake should have understood.

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane 20/10/06 1962. USA. 132 min. B&W. new Print Director: Robert Aldrich Bette Davis; Joan Crawford; Victor Buono This extraordinary exercise in skillfully camp and Gothic terror pairs two of Hollywood's greatest ice queens as Vaudeville sisters. In youth Davis’ character was the star, but thirty years on it is Crawford’s who has made it to the A-list. Until, that is, she is crippled in a car accident caused by Davis who now looks after her purely to reek her jealous revenge… That what we see on screen mirrors Davis and Crawford’s off screen loathing for each other just adds another layer of palpable hatred. one of the few truly great black comedies - and certainly the creepiest. Rats for breakfast anyone? a t t h t w d p ‘ p d e l a a p n a i A S D 2 F B c f m P M o l a A G D 1 Y D 1 T i F K J h h h n a r a o n x l n r u f o i o l o o e 9 9 u r 0 a e e . r o e t b s i s i i r o f a a t n e r a

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