May 2024
Mon 6 May Crimes and misdemeanors
(USA 1989) Woody Allen: An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman. Both a civilised comedy with iron in its soul and a serious examination of our inner fears that also manages to be very funny; with Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow.
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(France 2014) Eric Lartigau: A girl, who lives with her deaf parents, discovers that she has the gift of singing. As well as ensuring that the film avoids the cloying sweetness of Hollywood, the Béliers' idiosyncrasies strike a gently subversive note; with Louane Emera, Francois Damiens, Karine Viard.
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Mon 20 May Kind hearts and coronets
(Britain 1949) Robert Hamer: A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession. Each word is carefully weighed, there is not one word too many, each scene is meticulously prepared, and none could possibly have been structured or executed better; with Alec Guinness, Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson.
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Mon 27 May The seven year itch
(USA 1955) Billy Wilder: When his family goes away for the summer, a hitherto faithful husband with an overactive imagination is tempted by a beautiful neighbour. So arresting is Monroe's presence that when she's not on-screen, we wait impatiently, wondering; with Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes.
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