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§ Monday 1st September • Auditorium
Monday Cinema: No Country for Old Men (15)
Ethan and Joel Coen 2007 122 minutes
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
The Coen Brothers’ drama won Academy Awards for them as directors, as well as for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Javier Bardem and Best Adapted Screenplay. Cormac McCarthy’s novel provides the source material for this study in human evil and its consequences. Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin star. “Many of the scenes are so flawlessly constructed that you want them to simply continue, and yet they create an emotional suction drawing you to the next scene. Another movie that made me feel that way was Fargo. To make one such film is a miracle. Here is another.” (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times)

§ Monday 8th September • Auditorium
Monday Cinema: The Orphanage (15)
Juan Antonio Bayona 2007 105 minutes
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
A classic ghost story with compelling modern references from screenwriter Sergio Sánchez and director Juan Antonio Bayona. This genuinely creepy and affecting drama revels in its influences, from Executive Producer Guillermo del Toro to the work of Alfred Hitchcock. Belén Rueda and Fernando Cayo play an affluent couple who acquire the orphanage she grew up in, to raise their adopted son and six foster children. “The Orphanage is a disturbing, and yet intelligent and compassionate dramatisation of loss and bereavement: in some ways, it is a wish-fulfilment fantasy, a way of following the departed into the void so that they can be made to live again…” (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian)

§ Monday 15th September • Auditorium
Monday Cinema: Happy-Go-Lucky (15)
Mike Leigh 2008 118 minutes
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
Mike Leigh’s latest film, working with his established improvisational techniques, has divided critics, and it certainly is a departure from his usual style. Poppy (Sally Hawkins) is an excessively cheerful London schoolteacher who encounters bitter and prejudiced driving instructor (Eddie Marsan) when her bike is stolen. “At the Berlin Film Festival press conference Mike Leigh said, ‘It’s important to reject the growing fashion to be miserabilist, the growing fashion to be pessimistic and gloomy because the world is in a bad way. Everywhere there are people on the ground getting on with it and being positive.’“(Channel4.com)

§ Monday 22nd September • Auditorium
Monday Cinema: In the Valley of Elah (15)
Paul Haggis 2007 121 minutes
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
Writer/director Paul Haggis’s war drama stars Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon as parents of a young army specialist who is found dead shortly after returning from a tour of duty in Iraq. The film succeeds as both a forensic crime drama and as an investigation into American involvement in Iraq. “To his great credit, Mr. Haggis tries to coax an answer out of his story rather than imposing one on it from the start, as he did in Crash.” (New York Times). Cinematography by Roger Deakins, score by Mark Isham.

§ Monday 29th September • Auditorium
Introduced by Tim Lathe
Monday Cinema: Juno (12A)
Jason Reitman 2007 96 minutes
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
Teenage actress Ellen Page and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody provide the heart of director Jason Reitman’s comedy. Polarising audiences in its treatment of teen pregnancy, the film deals with a young woman’s decision to resolve her unplanned pregnancy with an adoption. “It’s like having the delicious cynicism of Ghost World and Heathers, but without any traces of the concomitant cruelty. A sharp-edged, sweet-centred, warm-hearted coming-of-age movie that’s always just that little bit smarter than you think it is.” (Empire)