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See all our film dates on the Wincanton Window Diary
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Programme 2009/10
Tuesday 22nd September 2009 - 7.45pm
"The Reader"
Year: 2008
Starring: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes
Genre: Drama
Director: Stephen Daldry
Language: English/German
Length: 124 minutes
Rating: 15
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
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Wednesday 21st October 2009 - 7.45pm
"As Good As It Gets"
Year: 1997
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: James L. Brooks
Language: English
Length: 139 minutes
Rating: 15
A single mother/waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship.
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***Note To Season Ticket Holders***
This screening is in partnership with ScreenBites who promote good local food.
To ensure your seat please book in advance. Ticket will be on sale soon on a first come first served basis.
Local food producers will bring a selection of foods to challenge your taste buds.
Tickets on the door will be at our normal advertised price.
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Tuesday 24th November 2009 - 7.45pm
"Gran Torino"
Year: 2008
Starring: Clint Eastwood
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director: Clint Eastwood
Language: English, Hmong, Spanish
Length: 116 minutes
Rating: 15
Disgruntled Korean War vet Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: his 1972 Gran Torino.
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Wednesday 9th December 2009 - 7.45pm
"That Boat That Rocked"
Year: 2009
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy
Genre: Comedy, Drame, Music, Romance
Director: Richard Curtis
Language: English
Length: 135 minutes
Rating: 15
A period comedy about an illegal radio station in the North Sea in the 1960's.
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Tuesday 19th January 2010 - 7.45pm
"Australia"
Year: 2008
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman
Genre: Adventure, Romance, History, Drama, War, Western
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Language: English, Aboriginal
Length: 165 minutes
Rating: 12A
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot.
As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.
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Wednesday 24th February 2010 - 7.45pm
"Marley and Me"
Year: 2009
Starring: Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Director: David Frankel
Language: English
Length: 120 minutes
Rating: PG
A family learns important life lessons from their adorable, but naughty and neurotic dog.
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Tuesday 23rd March 2010 - 7.45pm
"Run Lola Run"
Year: 1999
Starring: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Director: Tom Tykwer
Language: German, English
Length: 81 minutes
Rating: 15
A young woman in Germany has twenty minutes to find and bring 100,000 Deutschmarks to her boyfriend before he robs a supermarket.
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Wednesday 21st April 2010 - 7.45pm
"Defiance"
Year: 2009
Starring: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Director: Edward Zwick
Language: English, German, Russian
Length: 137 minutes
Rating: 15
Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants.
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Tuesday 18th May 2010 - 7.45pm
"The Cruel Sea"
Year: 1953
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Stanley Baker, Donald Sinden
Genre: Drama, War
Director: Charles Frend
Language: English
Length: 127 minutes
Rating: PG
The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.
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Wednesday 23rd June 2010 - 7.00pm - Early Start!
"AGM and Surprise Film"
As in previous years we reserve this space to bring you a surprise film so that we can end our year on a high.
We don't know what it will be yet, so we will all have to wait and see.
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FILM RATINGS
At every film evening you will be given a simple feedback form so that you can give each film a rating.
This is important. However, we are sure that you will all have opinions and suggestions, and it's those very opinions and suggestions that we really need you to give us.
That way we can learn, and this will help us shape the future of the society. That's why, at each screening we always have a suggestions box.
So please jot your suggestions down on a sheet of paper (match boxes ok) and put them in our suggestion box. You can send in your thoughts and suggestions at anytime. Simply send them to us using the details on our Contact page. Help us to make - "The Wincanton Film Society" - The Best!
See you next time.
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