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All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane 15
Tuesday 15 July 8.50pm
Dir. Louise Alston | 2007 | 1hr 16mins
Anthea is 25, two years out of university, and unfulfilled. All her friends are leaving for brighter city lights or are settled in relationships, and even her best friend Michael is completely taken up with his new girlfriend. Is there anything worth staying round for? Winner of the audience award at this year’s London Australian Film Festival, and with Australia’s best new music and acting talent, this is a funny, romantic and charming film.




Blithe Spirit U
Saturday 28 6.35pm / Sunday 29 June 4.00pm
Dir. David Lean | 1945 | UK | 1hr 35mins
In Lean’s first comedy, novelist Charles (Rex Harrison) has the tranquillity of newly married bliss disturbed when the mischievous ghost of his first wife Elvira comes back to haunt the house. The problem is, she is visible to him and no-one else.




Bra Boys 15
Tuesday 8 July 6.30pm
Dir. Sunny Abberton, Macario de Souza | 2007 | 1hr 30mins
The most commercially successful documentary in Australian history. Named from the much-maligned tattooed surfing tribe of the south Sydney suburbs, and directed by two former Bra Boys, the film focuses on Abbertson and his brothers Koby Jai and Dakota, to tell stories of troubled home lives, surfing successes and clashes with authority.

 

 

California Dreamin’ 15
From Friday 11 July
Dir. Cristian Nemescu | 2007 | Romania | 1hr 54mins | Subtitled
+ Pemba (Best of DepicT! 1998 - 2006)
A sure sign of the cinema of New Europe on the rise, California Dreamin’ is the story of an unscheduled stop by a train of American troops, who are halted and stranded on their way to Kosovo in the small Romanian town of Capalnita. Cultural wires inevitably (and hilariously) cross, as the town’s Elvis impersonator is wheeled out (just to make the Yanks feel at home), and cardboard Marilyn Monroes are thoughtfully stationed outside their hotel. But there is more to this than a satire of cultural misrecognition: Nemescu framed the action with memories of the last American occupation of Romania in 1944: is history repeating itself?

 

A Complete History of My Sexual Failures 18
From Friday 27 June
Dir. Chris Waitt | 2008 | UK | 1hr 34mins
Produced by Sheffield’s own Warp Films, Chris Waitt’s documentary follows one lonely man’s attempt to fix a broken love life. He’s been dumped by every single one of his girlfriends and he’s trying to understand why. One even wrote a book, dedicated to him, in which the boyfriend character is brutally murdered. Others have just done the deed by text or e-mail. But it hurts just as much…

Couscous 15
From Friday 20 June
Dir. Abdel Kechiche | 2007 | France | 2hrs 31mins | Subtitled
Winning the prize for best film at this year’s French Caesars and the Special Jury Prize at Venice, Couscous is a drama of North African immigrants in a southern French town. Entirely performed by non-professional actors, Kechiche’s film provides a vision of contemporary France not usually seen on the cinema screen. For her role as the fiery young lead, Hafsia Herzi has deservedly become a French phenomenon.




The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course PG
Saturday 21 June 1.30pm & 3.30pm (Teenage KICs)
2002 | 1hr 30mins
Aussie adventurer Steve Irwin aka The Crocodile Hunter has nabbed another feisty croc, hoping to save it from poachers. What Steve doesn’t know is that the crocodile has innocently swallowed a top secret US satellite beacon, and the poachers are actually American special agents sent to retrieve it. Crikey!




Donkey Punch 18
From Friday 18 July
Dir. Olly Blackburn | 2008 | UK | 1hr 39mins
+ Donut (Best Of DepicT! 1998 - 2006)
In another outing from Sheffield’s Warp X, Olly Blackburn’s debut feature investigates violence, sex and moral responsibility – all set against the beautiful blue water of the Mediterranean. Far from your typical horror film, three young lads from London invite the girls that they meet in a local Majorcan bar onto the yacht that they crew for a party. As they sail further into the Med and the ice-breaker drugs take hold, disaster strikes. Not for the faint-hearted.




The Edge of Love 15
From Friday 27 June
Dir. John Maybury | 2008 | UK | 1hr 50mins
It’s been ten years since John Maybury directed his art house hit Love is the Devil on the life of Francis Bacon. In The Edge of Love (fresh from opening the Edinburgh Film Festival) he focuses on the life of poet Dylan Thomas seen through the eyes of Vera Phillips, his teenage love, and his wife Caitlin. Back to top form for Maybury.



Female Agents 15
From Friday 27 June
Dir. Jean-Paul Salomé | 2008 | France | 2hrs | Subtitled
A wonderfully old-fashioned action adventure, Female Agents follows a five woman resistance unit as they parachute into northern France to protect the secret of the D-Day Landings and eliminate the head of German counter-intelligence. Paying tribute to the bravery of female spies in the Second World War, the film features a stellar cast, including Sophie Marceau and Julie Depardieu.

 

Forbidden Lie$ 12A
Wednesday 23 July 8.45pm
Dir. Anna Broinowski | 2007 | 1hr 46mins
This riveting film won the award for Best Documentary from the Australian Institute last year, and explores the controversy behind the bestselling book Forbidden Love, the supposedly true story of an honour killing in Jordan. Author Norma Khouri became the toast of the publishing world, until July 2004, when Australian journalist Malcolm Knox exposed her work as complete fiction. In hiding ever since, now Norma wants to talk, but is she a literary talent or a con artist?




In Bruges 18
From Friday 20 June
Dir. Martin McDonagh | 2007 | UK, Belgium | 1hr 47mins
Martin McDonagh’s debut feature follows his Oscar-winning short Six Shooter with this black comedy featuring Brendan Gleason, in which the expletives pile up higher and higher. When a job goes badly wrong, veteran hitman Ken and his rookie partner Ray are sent by their boss to hide out in Bruges. McDonagh is clearly a major talent and In Bruges is a serious pleasure.

 

I’m a Cyborg But That’s OK 15
From Friday 18 July
+ Geoff World Destroyer (Best of DepicT! 1998-2006)
Dir. Park Chan-Wook | 2006 | South Korea | 1hr 47mins | Subtitled
The South Korean director of the celebrated ‘Vengeance Trilogy’ puts away his knives and guns and creates a romantic comedy on how easily the human machine breaks down and the trials of putting it together again. Young-goon spends her days working on a production line. As the robotic actions of her work get to her, she starts to believe that she’s a cyborg: eventually plugging her wrists into the mains. When she is sent to a psychiatric hospital she comes across Il-soon, a sensitive young man in a rabbit mask!




In Search of a Midnight Kiss 15
From Friday 13 June
Dir. Alex Holdridge | 2007 | USA | 1hr 30mins
A beautiful American independent film that truly delivers. Wilson, an aspiring screenwriter, faces the prospects of New Year’s Eve alone, a suitable end to a dreadful year until he meets aspiring actress Vivian. Filmed in black and white, this film is so well written and acted that it totally captivates.
+ One Day cert TBC
Dir. James Barriscale | 2006 | UK | 16mins
Fresh from the international film festival circuit and Kodak's Best Short Film Finalist of 2007. Owen (Tim McInnerny) breaks free from his claustrophobic office and escapes to Blackpool with the girl from the video shop. He shouldn't... but he's off on one. Featuring Toby Stephens.




Irina Palm 15
From Friday 13 June
Dir. Sam Garbarski | 2007 | Belgium, Luxembourg, UK, Germany, France | 1hr 43mins
Maggie (Marianne Faithful) is in a bind: her grandson is slowly dying from a mystery illness, and the cost of a possible cure is more than she (or her son and daughter in law) can possibly afford. In desperation, she takes a hostess job in a sex club in Paris – naively at first, but becomes so proficient that she becomes known throughout the city as Irina Palm.




The Italian Job PG
Saturday 12 July 2.00pm
Dir. Peter Collinson | 1969 | UK | 1hr 39mins
Arguably the best heist movie ever - never bettered, never equalled. Minis run riot through the streets of Turin.

 

In Which We Serve U
Tuesday 1st July 6.15pm / Wedensday 2nd July 8.40pm
Dir. David Lean, Noel Coward | 1942 | UK | 1hr 54mins

Leans adaptation of Noel Coward's script based on the sinking of Lord Mountbatten's destroyer, HMS Kelly. Starring John Mills and a youthful Richard Attenborough.



Killer of Sheep 12A
From Friday 11 July
Dir. Charles Burnett | 1977 | USA | 1hr 20mins
+ Le Cheval 2.1 (Best of DepicT! 1998 - 2006)
Thirty years after its debut, Burnett’s classic tale of a hard life in the LA Watts ghetto has been issued on 35mm for the first time. Made on a microscopic budget, the rights to the music used in the film were beyond available funds. Only recently were they paid for at a vastly greater cost than the original film. Burnett’s meditation on 70s Afro-American life focuses on Stan, a man morally and physically exhausted by his job in a slaughterhouse and struggling to keep his family and home together. Killer of Sheep is recognised as one of the greatest films of all time by the US National Society of Film Critics. A moment in film history.




The Ladykillers U
Sunday 13 July 2.00pm
Dir. Alexander Mackendrick | 1955 | UK | 1hr 37mins
The sinister, smooth-talking Professor Marcus takes lodgings with a sweet old lady and moves his entire gang, masquerading as a string quartet, into a quiet boarding house to plan a major heist.




Let’s Get Lost 15
From Friday 27 June
Dir. Bruce Weber | 1988 | USA | 2hrs
Chet Baker was the great white jazz hope of the 1950s. An outstanding trumpeter and singer, he was destined for greatness. With the looks of James Dean and a voice that was utterly seductive he was building an immense following. An addiction to drugs destroyed his voice and ultimately the man. Bruce Weber’s fascinating and complex film provides insight, music and tragedy.

Lou Reed’s Berlin 12A
From Friday 25 July
Dir. Julian Schnabel | 2007 | USA/UK | 1hr 25mins
When Lou Reed recorded the album Berlin in 1973 it was a conclusive commercial failure. For the following 33 years, the material was never performed live. But in 2006, Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) revived Reed’s forgotten masterpiece, which tells of the dramas of two lovers played out against the divide of the Berlin Wall. Filmed over a five night residence at Brooklyn’s St Ann’s Warehouse, this may just be one of the best concert films ever made.

Mamma Mia! cert TBC
From Friday 11 July
+ Flighty (Best of DepicT! 1998 - 2006)
Dir. Phyllida Lloyd | 2008 | UK, USA | Running time TBC
The West End hit musical finally arrives on the big screen. Sophie is getting married to a wonderful man on a paradise Greek island where her mother Donna owns a hotel. However, she has one problem. She has never known the identity of her real father, so who will give her away? In step three suspects for the role Harry, Bill and Sam, shocking the life out of Donna… but who will prove to be father of the bride in time for the big day? All set to Abba’s most memorable hits – light-hearted summer fun guaranteed.




Memories Of Matsuko 15
From Friday 11 July
Dir. Tetsuya Nakashima | 2006 | Japan | 2hrs 10mins | Subtitled
+ Brian’s Breakdown (Best of Depict! 1998 - 2006)
Directed by the innovative Tetsuya Nakashima (Kamikaze Girls), Memories of Matsuko is a surreal ‘fairytale tragedy’. When his aunt Matsuko is mysteriously found dead in a park, listless college student Sho plays detective to look back into her life. Comedy, eye-candy imagery and offbeat production numbers (think The Happiness of the Katakuris meets Busby Berkeley) mix together to tell Matsuko’s story: a starry-eyed dreamer, looking for her one true love.




Mongol 15
From Friday 6 June
Dir. Sergei Bodrov | 2007 | Germany, Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia | 2hrs 5mins | Subtitled
Russian director Bodrov presents a sumptuous, epic tale of the early life of the legendary Genghis Khan. Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film and shot in Kazakhstan and Inner Mongolia, Mongol has breathtaking battle scenes, arresting cinematography and a plot filled with romance, betrayal and conquest.

My Winnipeg 12A
From Friday 18 July
Dir. Guy Maddin | 2007 | Canada | 80mins
In what iconoclastic director Guy Maddin calls a ‘docufantasia’ to his Canadian hometown, three strands build to make an impression of a city. Narrated by Maddin himself, the first strand ponders the sheer sleepiness of Winnipeg, a city that boasts the highest number of sleepwalkers in the world. The second looks back into civic history, whilst the epilogue re-enacts some very personal (and sometimes traumatic) events from the filmmaker’s own Winnipeg childhood. Hilarious, outrageous and thought provoking – but above all unforgettable.

 

Oldboy 18
Sunday 20 – Tuesday 22 July
Dir. Park Chan-Wook | 2004 | South Korea | 2hrs 3mins | Subtitled
Park’s explosive second tale of revenge is surely his best. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes, Oldboy is the story of Dae-su, mysteriously imprisoned for years. With determination (and not a little machete-fighting), he escapes, desperate to track down his captor and make him pay. But what Dae-su finds at the end of his exhilarating journey brings back memories that he may have preferred to keep buried.




Paris 15
From Friday 25 July
+ Screen Kiss (Best of DepicT! 1998-2006)
Dir. Cedric Klapisch | 2008 | France | 2hrs 10mins | Subtitled
Pierre used to be a successful professional dancer. Now, he’s spending his days at home on his balcony, waiting for a heart transplant to save his life. When his considerably less successful sister moves in to care for him with her three children, Pierre’s world widens as they contemplate the lives going on below them in the capital’s streets. A warm-hearted film from the director of Russian Dolls and Pot Luck.




Pather Panchali U
Saturday 19 July 1.30pm
1955 | 1hr 55mins | Bengali with English subtitles
The first in the Apu trilogy, Pather Panchali shows the beginnings of the young boy Apu’s life, his relationship with his sister, his harassed mother, ancient aunt and his priest father who will finally take them away from their remote Bengal village. A masterpiece of Indian cinema.




Priceless 12A
From Friday 13 June
Dir. Pierre Salvadori | 2006 | France | 1hr 46mins | Subtitled
Audrey Tatou (Amélie) is back in a chic, sexy French comedy about the pitfalls of choosing glamour over love. Annoyed by her latest wealthy victim, serial goldigger Irene embarks on a fling with hotel employee Jean in the belief that he’s a rich tycoon. When she’s discovered and ditched, she flees to Nice, whilst Jean follows her to discover that the business of being a gigolo is more rewarding than he imagined…




Private Property 15
From Friday 20 June
Dir. Joachim Lafosse | 2006 | Luxembourg, Belgium, France | 1hr 33mins | Subtitled
Isabelle Huppert stars in this critically lauded, intimately crafted Belgian drama. Pascale (Huppert) wishes to sell the rambling farmhouse left to her and her twin sons by her ex-husband in order to start a fresh life and career with her new love. Sons Thierry and Francois are not so happy with the plans, however, as tensions across the kitchen table erupt into full scale family war.




Romulus, My Father 15
Wednesday 30 July 6.20pm
Dir. Richard Roxburgh | 2007 | 1hr 46mins
An examination of love and loss through the lens of the post-war immigrant experience. Based on Raimond Gaita’s acclaimed memoir, Romanian Romulus struggles to bring up his son, Rai, complicated by the arrival of depressive mother Christina – who is only to disappear and then reappear again, this time with a new lover…
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A Secret 15
From Tuesday 22 – Thursday 24 July
Dir. Claude Miller | 2007 | France | 1hr 46mins | Subtitled
Claude Miller’s latest family drama narrated through the eyes of François, whose parents’ inability to disclose their past during the occupation comes to define his uncertain youth. With a stellar cast, A Secret was a box office smash in France; beautifully acted, it stands as a subtle yet powerful interrogation of Jewish, French and family histories.

September 15
Tuesday 1 July 8.45pm
Dir. Peter Carstairs | 2007 | 1hr 25mins
In racially segregated rural Australia in 1967, 16-year-olds Paddy and Ed are best friends, growing up together on Ed’s family farm. However, when the law giving equal rights to aboriginals is introduced, aboriginal Paddy and white Ed find their friendship tested – especially when politics coincide with the arrival of a new girl in town. The sell-out opener of Melbourne International Film Festival.




Short and Sweet 7+
Saturday 5 July 11.00am (KIC Start screening suitable for children with autism and their families)
Compilation of family favourites including Shaun the Sheep and Purple & Brown. Showing in conjunction with Showcomotion Young People's Film Festival. Check out the Showcomotion website for the full programme of films: www.showcomotion.org.uk




Speed Racer PG
From Friday 25 July
Dir. Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski | 2008 | USA | 2h 15mins
From the makers of The Matrix, a family movie that is full of action and story, a breathtaking mix of animation and live action. Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is a rising star in motor sport but he is also ready to root out corruption. Rated highly by some critics, this is pure fun for the adventurous child.




The Spiderwick Chronicles PG
Saturday 26 July KIC Start 11.00am 1.30pm | 2008 | 1hr 47mins
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures...

Summer Hours (L’heure d’été) 12A
From Friday 18 July
Dir. Olivier Assayas | 2008 | France | 1hr 40mins
+ La Flamme (Best of Depict! 1998 - 2006)
Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep) directs a drama about the fate of a priceless family art collection, commissioned to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Paris’ Musee D’Orsay. With a breathtaking cast (Juliette Binoche, Jérémie Réiner, Charles Berling and Edith Scob) Summer Hours explores the tensions between three siblings as their mother’s death forces them to make a decision about the paintings that surrounded their childhood, but may no longer have a place in their busy adult lives.

Superman: The Movie PG
Dir. Richard Donner | 1978 | USA | 2hrs 23mins
Saturday 26 July 4.00pm
Forty years after his comic book debut in 1938, Superman hit the big screen in one of Hollywood’s best superhero movies. With Christopher Reeve playing Superman, the film tells the story of his birth on Krypton to his youth as Clark Kent in Kansas and battles with Lex Luthor, and spawned three sequels – first see the original and best!

This Happy Breed U
Tuesday 24 / Wednesday 25 June
Dir. David Lean | 1944 | UK | 1hr 50mins
A huge contemporary hit, Lean returned to Noel Coward for his inspiration for this saga of a suburban family between the wars. We follow Lean’s camera from the Thames and the rooftops of London into the home of the Gibbons family, whose private triumphs and tragedies unfold against the public and political, from the 1926 General Strike to the outbreak of another war.




Sympathy For Lady Vengeance 18
Wednesday 23 July 8.25pm & Thursday 24 July 6.20pm
Dir. Park Chan-Wook | 2005 | South Korea | 1hr 55mins | Subtitled
The final tale in the cycle concerns Keum-ja, a convicted child murderer, released from jail and out to get revenge. Rounding up a band of ex-con conspirators, and tying up the loose ends of the life that she left on the outside, she sets the scene for an unforgettable bloody denouement.

 

Sympathy For Mr Vengeance 18
Friday 18 July 8.40pm & Saturday 19 July 6.20pm
Dir. Park Chan-Wook | 2002 | South Korea | 2hrs 1min | Subtitled
In the first of Park’s trilogy, Ryu is a deaf and dumb steelworker. His beloved sister is in need of an expensive kidney transplant to survive. In what should be an easy money scam, he kidnaps the boss’s daughter to pay for a suitable donor. The money comes easily. It’s the violent consequences that Ryu finds more difficult to take. This is a superbly crafted, stark thriller – a real standard bearer for the new South Korean cinema.

The Visitor 15
From Friday 4 July
Dir. Tom McCarthy | 2007 | USA | 1hr 46mins
+ The End (Best of DepicT! 1998 -2006)
Tom McCarthy returns after his Sundance prize-winner The Station Agent with a film just as beautifully observed. Widowed and drifting economics lecturer Walter is compelled out of his inert life when he attends an academic conference in New York. Walking into his city apartment, he is faced with Syrian drummer Tarek and his Senegalese girlfriend Zainab, who are living there and paying rent to a conman. Reluctantly, Walter lets them stay. Slowly he warms to his lodgers and becomes fascinated by Tarek’s drumming.




The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep PG
Saturday 28 June 11.00am (KIC Start) & 1.30pm
2007 | 1hr 15mins
A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend. Showing in conjunction with Showcomotion Young People's Film Festival. Check out the Showcomotion website for the full programme of films: www.showcomotion.org.uk