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Come and see some great films in a real cinema atmosphere. Why go out of town? Peak
Film Society offers you: Temporary membership for individual screenings:
£4 (concessions £3) To join the Peak Film Society, visit Bestsellers Bookshop in the Market Arcade, telephone 01457 865236 or email peakfilmsociety@yahoo.co.uk. |
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September 20 7.30pm  |
The Kite Runner USA 2007 128 mins Certificate 15 Starring: Khalid Abdalla, Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada Director: Marc Forster Based on Khaled Hosseini's bestselling novel, The Kite Runner is the story of two boyhood friends, Amir and Hassan, growing up in Kabul in the 1970s. Amir's wealthy family take in Hassan's family as servants. The political upheavals in Afghanistan are used as a backdrop, adding texture to the story. |
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October 25 7.30pm |
Once
Ireland 2007 85 mins Certificate 15 Starring: Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova Director: John Carney A busker and Czech immigrant meet on the streets of Dublin, forming a friendship based on their love of music. Together they raise enough money to hire a recording studio for the weekend, where they record a demo. Once is a quiet, wistful, modern romance. |
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November 8 7.30pm |
The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher) Austria/Germany 2007 98mins Certificate 15 Starring: Karl Markovics, August Diehl Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky The Counterfeiters is the true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1936. Salomon is a master forger. Arrested by the Berlin CID fraud squad he is moved between concentration camps to help produce vast quantities of sterling and dollars as a way of financing the war and undermining the British and American economies. |
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December 20 7.30pm |
Sweeney Todd UK 2007 116mins Certificate 18 Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman Director: Tim Burton Based on the hit Broadway musical. The infamous story of Benjamin Barker (Sweeney Todd) who sets up a barber shop in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs Lovett, who runs a pie shop below. Not for the faint hearted! |
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2009 January 12 7.30pm |
Control UK 2007 122 mins Certificate 15 Starring: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton Director: Anton Corbijn Control is the biography of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days of 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980. The film is based on his wife Deborah's biography Touching from a Distance. The band were discovered and signed to Manchester's Factory Records label by Tony Wilson. |
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February 7 7.30pm |
There Will Be Blood USA 2007 158 mins Certificate 12A Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Dillon Freasier, Kevin J O'Connor, Paul Dano Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Loosely based on the 1927 novel Oil by Upton Sinclair. Day-Lewis plays Daniel Plainview, a turn-of-the-century Texas prospector who will stop at nothing to control the region's oil industry. |
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February 28 7.30pm |
The Savages USA 2007 114 mins Certificate ? Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Laura Linney, Philip Bosco Director: Tamara Jenkins A struggling playwright and her successful academic brother are forced to set aside their differences when their father begins to show signs of dementia. The film offers an unsentimental insight into painfully awkward family dynamics. |
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April 4 7.30pm |
The Orphanage (El Orfanato) Mexico/Spain 2007 105 mins Certificate 15 Starring: Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Geraldine Chaplin, Roger Princep Director: Juan Antonio Bayona A shiver of fear runs through this pungent and scary film. A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, where she opens an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible, sinister new friend. |
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May 16 7.30pm |
Happy-Go-Lucky UK 2008 118 mins Certificate ? Starring: Alexis Zegerman, Eddie Marsan, Sally Hawkins Director: Mike Leigh Lives up to its title. Poppy is a thirty-year old primary school teacher in contemporary North London. She has great friends, a job she loves and a full life. The movie watches her confront the harsh realities of life and deal with them head-on, never losing her sense of humour. |
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June 13 7.30pm |
to be announced... |
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