April 2025

Mon 7 April The trouble with Harry

(USA 1955) Alfred Hitchcock: When a local man's corpse appears on a nearby hillside, no one is quite sure what happened to him. Hitchcock's comedy has long been overshadowed by the masterworks that surround it, but it's a wonderful, fanciful film, the most optimistic movie he ever made -- a fairy tale among nightmares; with Edmund Gwenn, Shirley MacLaine, John Forsythe.

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Mon 14 April Tokyo story

(Japan 1953) Yasujirō Ozu: The elderly Shukishi and his wife take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son and their daughter don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company. Ozu's masterpiece has lost none of its power more than half a century on; with Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara.

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Mon 21 April NO SCREENING (Easter Monday)

Mon 28 April Bedazzled

(Britain 1967) Stanley Donen: Stanley Moon is a bumbling short-order cook, infatuated with the statuesque waitress he works with at Wimpy Burger in London. On the verge of suicide, he meets the devil who, in return for his soul, grants him seven wishes to woo the challenging Margaret. Bright, inventive, and pointed -- one of the finest and funniest comedies of the 60s; with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron.

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