Largs Film Society www.largsfilmsociety.co.uk
Programme Season 2016 – 2017
Regular screenings in the Valhalladrome in the Vikingar! on Fridays at 7.30pm 2016
2 September Youth (Italy/France/UK) 2015. Director Paolo Sorrentino. Comedy/ Drama. Stars Michael Caine & Harvey Keitel. A retired orchestra conductor is on holiday with his daughter and his film director best friend in the alps when he receives an invitation from the Queen to perform for Prince Philip's birthday. Oscar & Golden Globe Nominee. IMDB Rating 7.4 124 mins.
23 September The Salt of the Earth (USA/France/Brazil) 2014. Documentary/ Biography. Directors Juliano Ribeiro Salgado & Wim Wenders. The life and work of photographer Sebastiao Salgado who has spent forty years documenting deprived societies in hidden corners of the world. Oscar Nominee - Best Documentary Feature 2015. IMDB Rating 8.4 110 mins.
14 October The Usual Suspects (USA) 1995. Director Bryan Singer. Crime /Drama/Mystery. Stars Kevin Spacey & Gabriel Byrne. A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which begin when five criminals meet at a seemingly random police line-up. IMDB Rating 8.6 106 mins.
4 November Etz Limon - The Lemon Tree (Israel/Germany/France) 2008. Director Eran Riklis. Drama. Stars Hiam Abbas, Rona Lipaz-Michael & Ali Suliman. A Palestinian widow quietly tends her lemon groves on the West Bank until an Israeli politician moves in next door and wants the trees cut down as they are thought to be a security risk. The woman decides to fight him through the courts. IMDB Rating 7.4 106 mins.
25 November The Hudsucker Proxy (USA) 1994. Director Joel and Ethan Coen. Comedy/ Fantasy. Stars Tim Robbins, Paul Newman & Jennifer Jason Leigh. A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam. IMDB Rating 7.3 101 mins.
9 December Arsenic and Old Lace (USA) 1944. Director Frank Capra. Comedy. Stars Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane & Raymond Massey. A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in the family. IMDB Rating 8.1 118mins
Contact: Anita Macallan [email protected]
Patron: Earl of Glasgow
Largs Film Society www.largsfimsociety.co.uk
Programme - Season 2016– 2017
Regular screenings in the Valhalladrome in the Vikingar! on Fridays at 7.30pm
2017 6 January La Nana - The Maid (Chile) 2009. Director Sebastian Silva. Comedy/ Drama. Stars Catalina Saavedra, & Claudia Celedon . The story of how a maid called Raquel, who has worked for 23 years in one affluent Chilean household, rediscovers herself. Golden Globe Nominee 2010 - Best Foreign Language Film. IMDB Score 7.4 95 mins
27 January Black Narcissus (UK) 1947. Directors Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. Drama. Stars Deborah Kerr & David Farrar. After opening a convent in the Himalayas, five nuns encounter conflict and tension - both with the natives and also within their own group - as they attempt to adapt to their remote exotic surroundings. Winner of 2 Oscars. IMDB Score 8.0 110 mins.
17 February The Carer (UK) 206. Director Janos Edeleny. Comedy. Stars Brian Cox, Anna Chancellor & Emilia Fox. A retired Shakespearean actor struggles with illness that has left him cantankerous and isolated on his country estate. After alienating a host of caregivers, his daughter hires a new carer - a Hungarian refugee with acting aspirations of her own. IMDB Score 7.6 89 mins.
10 March 12 Angry Men (USA) 1957. Director Sydney Lumet. Drama. Stars Henry Fonda & Lee J Cobb. A dissenting juror attempts to prevent a miscarriage of justice by forcing his colleagues to reconsider the evidence. IMDB Score 8.9 96 mins.
7 April Theeb (United Arab Emirates) 2014. Director Naji Abu Nowar. Adventure/ Drama. Stars Jacir Eid Al- Hwietat & Hussein Salameh Al-Sweilhiyeen. In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War 1, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming-of-age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination. BAFTA Award Winner 2016 & Oscar Nominee. IMDB Score 7.3 100 mins.
28 April Oranges and Sunshine (UK/ Australia) 2010. Director Jim Loach. Drama/ History. Stars Emily Watson, Aisling Loftus & Stuart Wolfenden. Set in Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and re-unites the children involved - now adults living mostly in Australia - with their parents in Britain. Winner of 8 Australian Film Awards. IMDB Score 7.1 105 mins
5 May A.G.M. & Short Film.
Contact: Anita Macallan [email protected]
Patron: Earl of Glasgow