August 2024
Mon 5 August The olive tree
(Spain/Germany 2016) Icíar Bollaín: A young woman tries to get back the family olive tree. Her search and what it has come to symbolise lies at the heart of this amusing and very human story of a family at war. An earthy, quietly stirring Spanish fable that finds familial, regional and environmental grievances inseparably tangled in its branches; with Javier Gutiérrez, Anna Castillo, Manuel Cucala.
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Mon 12 August Much ado about nothing
(Britain/USA 1993) Kenneth Branagh: Imaginative, intelligent, and brilliantly filmed, Branagh's Much ado... is likely to make many people, especially the young, understand that Shakespeare can be vital, interesting, moving, and fun. Branagh's love for the material is contagious in his exuberant adaptation of Shakespeare's farce. with Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington.
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Mon 19 August The Palm Beach story
(USA 1942) Preston Sturges: Screwball comedy which finds married couple Tom and Gerry Jeffers in a strained relationship, largely due to financial difficulties. Gerry decides to leave Tom and head to Palm Beach in order to marry a wealthy man. One of the outright funniest movies of its era; with Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor.
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Mon 26 August The white diamond
(Germany/Japan/Britain 2004) Werner Herzog: In this quirky documentary, engineers attempt a daring journey above the Guyanese rainforest canopy with an airship prototype. The adventure is fraught with risks – a previous expedition had ended tragically. This is one of Herzog's most breathtaking and life-affirming films.
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