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Welcome to the Wincanton Film Society programme for 2008/9, containing a broad selection of both domestic and foreign films that we believe will satisfy your current taste in movbies. We also know that some of our films will also challenge you and move you out of your comfort zone into new and exciting areas of viewing, and so firther enrich your viewing experience. WFS is now run on a commercial licence basis giving you a choice of two ways to view our films. You can buy a season ticket for £27 and this allows you access to all 10 of our normal programme movies. Alternatively you can simply turn up and pay on the door at £5 per screening. See our booking form or web site for details of prices and concessions. Films noted (Extra) are not included in the season ticket so an entrance fee will be charged. As always we are grateful to all ouir supporters, drawn from local businesses. We trust that you will all support our sponsoring businesses. It is important to support your local community, just as this selection of local businesses are supporting Wincanton Film Society. Our facilities at King Arthur's Community School are surely one of the best with comfortable tiered seating, wheelchare access and great parking. We have top quality projection equiopment providing such luxuries as surround sound with the relevant DVD's, further enhancing the film experience. We are immensely grateful to the British Federation for Film Societies SW and especially to their Development Officer, Paul Schilling, for his ongoing support. I would especially like to express my gratitude to my committee who are an amazing bunch of film lovers. They work very hard on your behalf to bring you the best offerings for the season. We commit this new season to you for your enjoyment. John Smith - Chairman.
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Tuesday 23rd September 2008 - 7.45pm "Happy-Go-Lucky" (15)
2008, UK 118 minutes. Comedy/Drama. Language: English. |
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(EXTRA) Saturday 4th October 2008 - "Last Holiday" (PG-13) 2006 USA |
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Wednesday 22nd October 2008 - 7.45pm Rated ( 15 ) , the film takes place in a small Texas border town in 1980. Sheriff Bell (a never-been-better Tommy Lee Jones) has ruled the land for years without the use of a gun, but a new brand of reckless lawlessness has taken over his town. Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande. |
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Tuesday 25th November 2008 - 7.45pm "Persepolis" Rated (12A), this is, in equal parts, a coming-of-age story, history lesson, and animated adventure tale. When Marjane's uncle is killed in the Iran/Iraq war, her parents send her to school in Austria, where her Middle Eastern appearance triggers a harsh lesson in racial prejudice. Eventually, she returns home to Iran but the tyrannical pressures of Iranian society force her to abandon her country once again.' |
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Wednesday 10th December 2008 - 7.45pm "Office Space" This geeky 1999 office comedy starring Ron Livingston as a corporate Everyman instantly gained cult status for its unabashed caricatures of office personalities, and its theme of corporate sabotage. Peter Gibbons (Livingston) is a typical middle manager living a mundane life amid a gray maze of cubicles. |
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Tuesday 20th January 2009 - 7.45pm "Diving Bell and the Butterfly" Celebrated painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel's third feature finds him reaching new artistic heights with this audacious and personal biopic, based on the best-selling memoir of the same name. The film tells the remarkable tale of Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), the world-renowned editor of French ELLE magazine, who suffered a stroke and was paralyzed by the inexplicable "locked in" syndrome at the age of 43. |
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Wednesday 25th February 2009 - 7.45pm Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is what is known in the legal world as a "fixer," or in the character's own pejorative version, a "janitor" who cleans up legal messes for VIPs and corporations on behalf of a prestigious New York City law firm. A former litigator, Clayton has found a niche that capitalizes on his legal acumen and shrewd people skills, and yet, after 13 years on the job, finds himself increasingly disgusted with his clientele. |
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Tuesday 24th March 2009 - 7.45pm This film examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi. It focuses on a relationship between one of the widows, who wants to escape the social restrictions imposed on widows, and a man who is from the highest caste and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi. |
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Wednesday 22nd April 2009 - 7.45pm Winner of the 2008 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, this is the first film from Austria to ever receive that prestigious honour. Based on the memoir by Adolf Burger, the film tells the inspiring story of a pre-World War II criminal whose cunning and fiery spirit enable him to overcome deadly odds and survive life in Germany's Sachsenhausen concentration camp. |
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Tuesday 22nd April 2009 - 7.45pm This Irish romance may be a musical, but it is miles away from the traditional Hollywood idea of people bursting into song. Glen Hansard (front man for indie rock band The Frames) plays the guy, a street musician who is playing for change when he meets the girl (Marketa Irglova), an immigrant from the Czech Republic. The pair immediately bond over their shared love of music (he is a guitarist, and she plays the piano), and the film chronicles their tentative relationship. |
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Wednesday 24th June 2009 - 7.00pm - Early Start!!! We don't know what it will be yet, so we will all have to wait and see. |
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