Films

Woody, Buzz and the whole gang are back.

Catherine Breillat’s exploration of feminine tales continues with this subversive take on the story of Bluebeard.

Claire Denis revisits Africa, the setting for her celebrated first feature Chocolat, in this starkly haunting film that explores post-colonial Africa.

This year’s Best Foreign Film Oscar winner is a skillful blend of love story, police procedural crime thriller and legal drama.

Shrek is duped into signing a pact with the smooth-talking dealmaker, Rumpelstiltskin.

A jawdroppingly subversive and efficient piece of work, as former documentarian Alberto Cavalcanti establishes the ultimate bucolic English village into which he drops a platoon of German paratroops who hope to lay the groundwork for the forthcoming invasion.

The 5th annual Totnes Short Film Festival brings the best in young and up-and-coming film-making talent to the the Barn Cinema.

This documentary follows the setting up of the Landmatters Co-operative and their ongoing fight to gain the right to create a new living permaculture project.

Kurosawa’s thoroughly entertaining action romp follows the adventures of a princess, her retainer and two arguing servants transporting clan treasures through enemy territory.

Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore returns with an epic valentine to his Sicilian heritage.

For her feature film debut as writer/director, actor Rachel Ward has created a dark, gothic drama about family conflict and taboo relationships.

When his mother’s new job takes him to China, 12 year-old Dre finds himself the victim of a class bully. Luckily Jackie Chan is on hand…

Mother is the wholly refreshing corrective to the much abused film term – Hitchcockian. At once nail-bitingly tense and brimming with humanity, this terrific film comes fresh from sweeping the Asian Film Awards.

Jack Nicholson stars in Bob Rafelson’s seminal portrait of a disaffected and cynical America.

Stray Dog is arguably Kurosawa’s best 1940s film. Set in post-war Tokyo, the story of a cop obsessively hunting the criminal who stole his gun…

Hot on the heels of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo comes this sequel, which sees Lisbeth Salander and crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist once again caught up in a brutal murder investigation.

Sylvain Chomet’s second feature film is a winner on every level. Our weary hero is an over-the-hill magician, complete with less-than-friendly white rabbit; their adventures based upon an unrealised script by Jacques Tati.

Summer movies just don’t come any better than this classic slice of Tati.

When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Bellville Sisters…

This samurai Macbeth relocates the Scottish play to the civil wars of the 16th century Age of Warring States.

Visconti’s masterpiece The Leopard gets a breathtaking new digital restoration courtesy of Martin Scorcese and the Gucci foundation.

Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami’s film is a startlingly enigmatic work that begins with Juliette Binoche’s gallery owner in Tuscany attending a talk given by an English author about authenticity, fakes and copies in art.

Kitty Galore, formerly an agent for cat spy organisation MEOWS, has gone rogue and hatched a diabolical plan for world domination.

Sorrentino’s life of notorious Italian PM Guido Andreotti is just as telling a picture of the modern state of Italy as The Leopard’s depiction of the lost world from which it emerged.

The Leopard’s Prince of Salina is the ultimate exponent of familial duty.

Arguably the greatest of all Eric Rohmer’s films, Ma nuit chez Maud, is set over a Christmas in Clermont-Ferrand, where his brilliant script is the basis for a profoundly insightful study of desire, doubt and self-delusion.

Director Stephen Frears brings to life Posy Simmonds’ comic strip, serialised in The Guardian from 2005-2007, starring Gemma Arterton as glamorous newspaper columnist Tamara Drewe.

2026 and the city of the future, where the rich enjoy a metropolitan life of luxury in contrast to the poor who work in hard labour beneath ground to keep the city moving. This is the setting for Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, rightly regarded as one of the most influential films of all time.

Balthazar Blake is a master sorcerer in modern day Manhattan in need of an apprentice to help save the city from the forces of darkness.

Winner of multiple audience awards including the 2010 Sundance World Cinema Audience Award, Undertow continues Latin-America’s exploration of magical realism in modern cinema.

There’s a revolution under way in South America, but most of the world doesn’t know it.

This beguiling biopic tells the true outsider story of primitive artistic genius Seraphine de Senlis and her heavenly inspired canvases.

Narrated by Liam Neeson, The Wildest Dream uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory, the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest, and Conrad Anker, the mountaineer who finds Mallory’s frozen remains 75 years later.

Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire is both a rural idyll and the suicide capital of the north. Filmmaker Jez Lewis, who grew up there, goes back to find out why and in telling his own story illuminates debates about the social divide, poverty, addiction and a whole section of society, forgotten and seemingly unreachable.

Air, Water, Earth, Fire. Four nations tied by destiny when the Fire Nation launches a brutal war against the others.

The story of schizophrenic homeless musician Nathaniel Ayers, as told by the LA Times, illuminates both the man and the city.

If a film can ever really be said to be the difference between life and death then this is it.

Mental Health as a cinematic plot device is both used and explored in Scorcese’s homage to the 1950s pot boiler.

John Earle introduces and narrates this classic archive film of the 1933 attempt to scale Everest which came within 1500 feet of the summit…

LT22 Radio La Colifata is a radio show produced entirely by patients at a Buenos Aires psychiatric hospital. This screening will be followed by a panel discussion led by Celia Atherton, Director of Social Justice at Dartington, with Tim Yealland from English Touring Opera.

Deemed impossible to put onscreen because of its strong sexual content and language, James Jones’ novel emerged as a lavish, star-studded multi-oscar winning spectacle.

This year’s Julie & Julia sees Roberts taking on the true life role of writer Liz Gilbert in the screen adaptation of her bestselling memoir.

Based on the powerful novel by Daniel Woodrell, this is a stunningly well made film with one of the most powerfully written and acted heroines seen for a long time.

Calendar Girls director Nigel Cole brings the same ensemble sensibility of humour and pathos to this fact-based comedy drama.

Belgian animators Aubier and Patar take their beloved characters on a fantastic voyage via the centre of the earth…

Produced by David Lynch, this could be seen to be a corrective to all those who thought mistakenly that Herzog had gone mainstream with Bad Lieutenant.

Tasked with pursuing a schoolboy suspected of supplying marijuana, a young policeman becomes troubled by the clash between duty and instinct.

Based on the best-selling illustrated novel Diary of a Wimpy Kid this entertaining film chronicles the adventures of wise-cracking pre-teen Greg Heffley.