Liphook Millennium Centre

MANDELA LONG WALK TO FREEDOM 8pm Friday 2nd May 2014 True life drama Starring , Naomie Harris, this is the stirring, almost epic story of and his struggle against the apartheid regime. Very well told and of course utterly moving and unforgettable. Starring: Garth Breytenbach, Grant Swanby, Idris Elba, Mark Elderkin, Naomie Harris, Robert Hobbs, Terry Pheto, Theo Landey The Telegraph: ‘With the magnificent Elba to anchor it, the film gradually achieves a sort of grandeur, in the manner of the hero it depicts.’

TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE 8pm Friday 6th June 2014 Period drama BEST PICTURE OSCAR BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR The true story of Solomon Northup, an educated and free black man living in New York during the 1840's who gets abducted, shipped to the south, and sold into slavery. UK leading actor (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and UK director Steve McQueen and a now a very famous film indeed. Lupita Nyango won Best Supporting Actress for her role as the slave Patsy. Splendid performances too from Micheal Fassbinder, as the slave owner, Paul Giamatti and the ubiquitous Bendict Cumberbatch. : ‘Stark, visceral and unrelenting, 12 Years a Slave is not just a great film but a necessary one.’

THE INVISIBLE WOMAN 8pm Friday 4th July 2014 Victorian drama Ralph Fiennes stars in and directs this film about the secret and scandalous secret love of Charles Dickens. Quite superb visually, beautifully acted and with great appeal to Moviola’s core audiences. Starring: Felicity Jones, , Ralph Fiennes, Tom Hollander RogerEbert.com: ‘The film represents a formidable achievement for Fiennes as both actor and director.’

THE BOOK THIEF 8pm Friday 1st August 2014 Wartime Drama If the film is half as good as the novel, it will be a cracker! A wartime story told from ‘the other side’: Set in a small German town in a German working class family where the war and Nazism are facts of life over which the ordinary people have no control. A young foster child discovers the meaning of life through her obsession with books and reading (including ones rescued from Nazi bonfires). Emily Watson and Geoffrey Rush pay the parents. A wonderful story which should have wide appeal. Starring: Ben Schnetzer, Emily Watson, Geoffrey Rush, Hildegard Schroedter, Nico Liersch, Sophie Nélisse Variety: ‘The Book Thief has been brought to the screen with quiet effectiveness and scrupulous taste by director Brian Percival and writer Michael Petroni.’

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