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Film
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The Descendents [15]
With his first feature since Sideways, Alexander Payne blends comedy and tragedy in this story of a father’s journey to re-examine his past and... read more
Coriolanus [15]
Ralph Fiennes flexes considerable directorial muscle in this meaty Shakespeare adaptation, taking the title role of warrior Coriolanus, whose... read more
Carnage [15]
Adapted by Roman Polanski and playwright Yasmina Reza from her own Tony award-winning play The God of Carnage, this new film from the veteran... read more
The Artist [PG]
Set against a backdrop of a Tinseltown in transition from silent film to talkies, a whimsical love story emerges between Peppy Miller, an... read more
Charlotte’s Web [U]
BarnKids Screening
Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. read more
A Dangerous Method [15]
Based on Christoper Hampton’s play The Talking Cure this is the intense story of the birth of psychoanalysis as told through the intertwined... read more
Coraline [U]
BarnKids Screening
An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets. read more
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close [12A]
Director Stephen Daldry showed with Billy Elliot that he can get the best out of young talent and with The Hours that he could handle big themes... read more
The Woman in Black [12A]
Susan Hill’s hugely rewarding Victorian period ghost story gets translated from stage to screen in this first outing for the post-Potter Daniel... read more
A Monster in Paris [U]
BarnKids Screening
An animated movie set in Paris in the year 1910 and centred on a monster who lives in a garden and his love for a beautiful, young singer. read more
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel [12A]
A group of British retirees decide to ‘outsource’ their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Stars Judi Dench, Bill Nighy... read more
The Lion King [U]
BarnKids Screening
Tricked into thinking he killed his father, a guilt ridden lion cub flees into exile and abandons his identity as the future King. read more
Mysteries of Lisbon [PG]
Raoul Ruiz’s masterful and engrossing tale follows a multitude of characters whose fates conjoin, separate and then rejoin again over three... read more
J Edgar [15]
Leonardo DiCaprio puts in an Oscar nominated performance as J.Edgar Hoover, the founder of the FBI and face of law enforcement in America for... read more
Slapstick Festival - The General
Following the success of Bristol’s eighth silent comedy festival Chris Daniels – Slapstick’s Creative Director brings the very best silent... read more
In Search of Haydn [U]
Award-winning filmmaker Phil Grabsky offers the eagerly awaited final part of his trilogy of films about the great composers. read more
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Rampart [15]
Based on James Ellroy’s story this is stunning crime drama with an incredible central performance from Woody Harrelson. read more
A Useful Life [PG]
This delightful monochrome gem centres on the last days of the Cinemateca, an art house cinema in Montevideo, and Jorge, its dedicated employee. read more
Martha Marcy May Marlene [15]
Martha is an enigma. Stealing away from the abusive cult she’s been living in, she makes a break for her uptight sister’s lakeside house,... read more
Red Dog [PG] plus Ray: A Life Underwater
The highest grossing Australian film of 2011, Red Dog is the very funny and charming chronicle of the real-life travels of a much-loved Skelpie read more
Bel Ami [15]
Bel Ami, based on the novel by Guy de Maupassant, is an erotically charged tale of ambition, power and seduction which chronicles the rise of... read more
The Muppets [U]
BarnKids Screening
With the help of three fans, The Muppets must reunite to save their old theatre from a greedy oil tycoon. read more
The Muppets [U]
*BarnKids* Saturday 31 March
Easter Holiday Films With the help of three fans, The Muppets must reunite to save their old theatre from a greedy oil tycoon. read more
Woman in the Fifth [15]
American writer Tom Ricks comes to Paris desperate to put his life together again and win back the love of his estranged wife and daughter. When... read more
Ordet -The Word [12A]
Dreyer’s stunning film builds towards a shattering, miraculous climax that challenges us all. read more
Trishna [15]
Michael Winterbottom’s inventive updating of Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles inflects the story with the contradictions of rural and... read more
Le Quattro Volte [U]
Inspired by Pythagoras’s belief in four-fold transmigration – by which the soul is passed from human to animal to vegetable to mineral – this... read more
The School - Dartington Film Archive
Footage of Leonard Elmhirst discussing the theory and practice behind the setting up of Dartington Hall School and its key part in the Dartington... read more
Journey 2 [PG]
Easter Holiday Film A group of friends set out on a mission to find a grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island read more
Carancho [15]
In a country with more than 8,000 road deaths a year, Sosa is an ambulance chasing lawyer who falls for Luján, a young doctor. When he tries to... read more
The Kid with a Bike [12A]
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes, the deeply moving new film by the Dardenne brothers delves into the emotional life of 11-year-old Cyril. read more
We Bought a Zoo [PG]
*BarnKids* Saturday 14 April
Based on the true story of Dartmoor Zoological Park, but set in Southern California. read more
We Bought a Zoo [PG]
BarnKids Screening
Based on the true story of Dartmoor Zoological Park, but set in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to... read more
Midnight in Paris [12A]
The best and the most succesful Woody Allen movie since Hannah & Her Sisters, this romantic comedy follows an American family’s visit to... read more
In Darkness [15]
Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar In Darkness is based on the true story of Leopold Socha, a Polish sewer worker who during the... read more
Le Havre [tbc]
In this warmhearted portrait of the French harbour city that gives the film its name, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of... read more
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The Adventures of Tin Tin: The Secret of the Unicorn [PG]
BarnKids Screening
Intrepid reporter Tintin and Captain Haddock set off on a hunt for a sunken ship commanded by Haddock’s ancestor. read more
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia [15]
In the dead of night, a group of men – among them, a police commissioner, a prosecutor, a doctor and a murder suspect – drive through the... read more
Into the Abyss [12A]
Werner Herzog’s latest documentary has a typically fascinating focus: following the director as he conducts intimate interviews with prisoners... read more
This Must be the Place [tbc]
Sean Penn is simply astonishing here, playing Cheyenne, a retired, reclusive and oddball rock star living just outside Dublin. read more
Headhunters [tbc]
Anyone who thinks all Scandanavian crime is cold and sterile is in for shock with this spectacularly entertaining and shockingly funny version of... read more
Big Miracle [PG]
BarnKids Screening
Drew Barrymore stars in this true story of the fight to save a family of whales trapped in the Artic ice. read more
Le Grande Illusion [U]
Screening on its 75th anniversary in a gorgeous digital restoration, this prototype POW camp film by the great Jean Renoir is justly considered... read more
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