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PEAK FILM SOCIETY
Peak Film Society
Partington Theatre
Henry Street
Glossop


Tel: (01457) 853893

email: peakfilmsociety@yahoo.co.uk

Peak Film Society


Come and see some great films in a real cinema atmosphere.
Why go out of town?

Peak Film Society offers you:

  • A varied programme of films for the coming season and one payment to join, which covers entrance to all films.
  • Contact with other film enthusiasts and the chance to learn about films and film projection. With guest speakers and special events.
  • Concessionary rates for OAPs, students and the unwaged.
  • The theatre has raked seating and a licensed bar.
  • Programme 2010-11

    Temporary membership for individual screenings: £4.50 (concessions £3.50)
    Full season membership: £27.50 (concessions £23)

    Any five films: £19.50 (concessions £16.50)

    To join the Peak Film Society, visit Bay Tree Books, 96 High Street West, telephone 01457 865236 or email peakfilmsociety@yahoo.co.uk.

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    Peak Film Society 2010-11
    The committee reserves the right to alter the programme without notice.
     

    September 25
    7.30pm

    IMDb

    Morris: A Life with Bells On

    UK 2009 104 minutes Certificate 12A
    Starring: Derek Jacobi, Harriet Walter
    Director: Lucy Akhurst

    Initially shown only in local venues this star studded, small budget film became the subject of a petition for its general release having rapidly achieved cult status in the Morris world. Derecq Twist, leader of a Dorset Morris side, has two ambitions: to perform the legendary Threeple Hammer Damson; and to pioneer "Extreme Morris". He incurs the wrath of Quentin Neely, leader of the Morris Circle…



    October 23
    7.30pm

    IMDb


    Coco Before Chanel

    France 2009 105 mins Certificate PG 13
    Starring: Audrey Tautou
    Director: Anne Fontaine
     
    The story of Coco Chanel's rise from obscure beginnings to the heights of the fashion world. Having grown up in an orphanage Gabrielle Chanel is working in a provincial bar as a seamstress and a singer. Then a liaison with a baron opens up opportunities to develop her gifts.

     Coco before Chanel

    November 20
    7.30pm

    IMDb


    Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
    UK 2010 115 mins Certificate 15
    Starring: Andy Serkiss, Naomie Harris, Ray Winstone
    Director: Mat Whitecross

    Critically acclaimed, hard hitting biopic of Ian Dury (Andy Serkiss), new wave rock musician, actor and lyricist whose childhood experiences of family life, polio and special school education shaped his anarchic adult life and musical career.

    Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

    December 11 
    7.30pm

    IMDb


    Bright Star

    France 2009 119 mins Certificate PG
    Starring: Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw
    Director: Jane Campion
     
    Jane Campion's beautifully filmed drama is based on the love affair between the 19th century poet John Keats and his muse Fanny Bawne. The film covers their meeting in 1818, when they were neighbours, until Keats’ final departure to Italy to convalesce two years later.


    Bright Star

    2011
    January 15
     
    7.30pm

    IMDb


    Up In The Air

    USA 2010 109 mins Certificate 15
    Starring: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman
    Director: Jason Reitman
     
    Ryan Bingham travels across the country and dismisses people from their jobs. His life on the road is threatened, along with the relationship he has formed with another traveller, when a new employee suggests firing people by video conferencing. We see what happens when he takes her on a trip to show her the realities of his work.


     Up In The Air

    February 26 
    7.30pm

    IMDb


    An Education

    UK 2009 100 mins Certificate PG 13
    Starring: Carey Mulligan, Peter Saarsgard, Olivia Williams, Dominic Cooper, Alfred Molina, Emma Thompson and Rosamund Pike
    Director: Lone Scherfig
     
    A coming-of-age story, based on journalist Lynn Barber's memoir, about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London. She is expected to go to Oxford, but her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age who introduces her to a more exciting life.


    An Education 

    March 26 
    7.30pm

    IMDb


    Me and Orson Welles

    UK/USA 2009 114 mins Certificate 12
    Starring: Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Christian McKay
    Director: Richard Linklater
     
    In November 1937 high school student and budding actor Richard Samuels takes a day trip to New York. He finds the Mercury Theatre and meets Orson Welles who, after an impromptu audition, offers Richard the role of Lucius in his modern retelling of Julius Caesar. Richard is delighted but as opening night approaches, now he has seen the way Welles works, has to decide if acting in this production is really worth it. (Subject to confirmation)

    Me and Orson Welles

    April 16
    7.30pm

    IMDb


    The Ghost

    France/Germany 2010 128 mins Certificate 15
    Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Ewan McGregor, James Belushi
    Director: Roman Polanski
     
    A journalist is invited to ghost write the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister (who bears an unmistakable resemblance to Tony Blair!).  During his research and information gathering he makes a shocking discovery... Roman Polanski's political thriller/satire is both exciting and enjoyable.


    The Ghost

    May 14 
    7.30pm

    IMDb


    A Single Man

    USA 2009 99 mins Certificate 12A
    Starring: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Goode
    Director: Tom Ford

    Debut feature from fashion designer Tom Ford loosely based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood. The story centers on a single day in the life of an English professor in Los Angeles following the sudden death of his partner.

    A Single Man

    June 11 
    7.30pm

    IMDb

    Ip Man

    Hong Kong 2008 106 mins Certificate 15
    Starring: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam
    Director: Wilson Yip
     
    Kung fu movie star Donnie Yen gives one of his best performances as the eponymous Ip Man, the man who taught Bruce Lee. Focusing on his life during the Sino-Japanese war this is a handsomely mounted, attractively shot, period, award winning epic.


    Ip Man

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