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All About Eve
During 2008, film societies in the UK and around the world have been celebrating Bette Davis’s centenary. They’ve screened films from Jezebel to Now Voyager, from Dark Victory to Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. The Wimbledon Film Club has gone to huge effort to bring you Bette Davis signature performance in All About Eve, one
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In Bruges
Hiding out in the Belgian city of Bruges after a hit-job in London results in the accidental death of a child, gunman Ray (Farrell) and his mentor Ken (Gleeson) try to pass the time as they await judgement by their gang boss Harry (Fiennes). In a witty script, the pair discuss life and the nature
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Transamerica
Transamerica’s Bree, (Huffman), is a pre-operative transsexual who is forced to take a journey across America to bail out a son she didn’t know shed fathered. This multi-award winning film is director/writer Duncan Tucker’s first feature. He picks a tricky topic for his comedy drama. Transgender issues are not inherently funny, but critics, audiences and
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We Are Together
Pupils at the Agape School for AIDS Orphans form a choir and start to fundraise for their school when a disaster strikes. The film documents the choirs efforts to resuscitate plans to raise money for their cause and at the same time reveals the human stories of the pupils. We Are Together showcases the acapella
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Once
In this Oscar-winning film, Guy (Hansard) is a Dublin street musician. His music attracts an immigrant Girl (Irglova). She’s a musician too and plays for him on display piano in a music store. He repairs vacuum cleaners for a day job she’s got a Hoover that needs mending. Kismet. But she’s also got a canny
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A Pig’s Tale
When swine fever infects the Haitian black pig, American Aid steps in to help. The Americans set up a programme to eradicate the black pig population, both diseased and healthy animals. To help further the USA introduced huge American pigs, which as local people complained, needed better living conditions than Haitian people were used to.
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Slumdog Millionaire
Based on Vikas Swarup’s novel Q and A, Slumdog Millionaire tells the story of an orphan (Jamal) from the slums of Mumbai, a petty thief, imposter and survivor. At twenty he finds himself on a TV quiz show – he answers every question correctly and becomes a national hero. But is he a cheat? The
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Sequins Soca and Sweat
Sequins, Soca and Sweat, is the debut documentary by award-winning filmmaker Stephen Rudder. The film follows six Mas camps in the weeks leading up to Notting Hill Carnival and captures the unique atmosphere of camp life. It gives insight into the spectrum of participants ranging from the originators of the carnival tradition to the progressive
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Man On Wire
Early on an August morning in 1974, Philippe Petit, a French street performer and wire-walker focused the attention of New Yorkers as he crossed back and forth on a high wire strung 1350 feet up between the rooftops of the Twin Towers. Using contemporary interviews, archival footage and dramatic reconstructions the film tells the story
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Waltz With Bashir
This animated film depicts director Ari Folman’s search for lost memories of his experience as an Israeli soldier during the 1982 Lebanon War. Framed as an exercise in therapy, it consists of a series of interviews with his former comrades. As more memories come to the surface, Ari realises that his unit played a role
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