Films

Loach’s most accessible and heartwarming film to date tells the story of Eric the postman whose life is slipping through his own fingers…

Showing in this restored print Lindsay Anderson’s debut feature was probably the closest we ever came to a British New Wave.

Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck go out on a limb with this new film about an ambitious young baseball player from the Dominican Republic. “Beautiful and searching… one of the must see films of 2009” – The Daily Telegraph

David Rose received the first Roberto Rossellini Award in 1987 in recognition of his sponsorship of new writers and directors, the Royal Television Society’s Gold Medal in 1988, and a BAFTA Fellowship in 1997. In this talk David will look at the creative role of the producer and celebrate the many writers and directors who benefited from his ability to create a space in which they could work without artistic interference.

This classically styled piece of art house cinema was Sweden’s entry for this years Oscars. “An intense pleasure” Variety

Happily-married couple Lisa and Julien lead a quiet life with their son Oscar. But one morning their lives are turned upside down when the police arrest Lisa for murder. “Thriller of the year” – Figaro | “Pure entertainment: utterly gripping and extremely persuasive” – Sight & Sound

A powerful, poetic and emotionally-charged drama about love, loss and liberation. The film tells the story of Jakob Beer, a man whose life is haunted by his childhood experiences during WWII.

Based on the award-winning novel from bestselling author Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper tells the story of Sara and Brian who live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girl’s life.

A truly epic film returns to the big screen in this full digital restoration. Although Kubrick took over the direction fromAnthony Mann this is very much a Kirk Douglas project.

A film about the continuing struggle over history and memory, and an uncompromising exploration of the Russian cover up of the massacre that prevented the Polish people from commemorating those that had been killed for nearly 50 years.

Michael Mann takes us back to the dust bowl days to re-tell the story of Depression era legend John Dillinger – superbly played by Johnny Depp – and the fledgling FBI who named him America’s first Public Enemy Number One.

Wheel of Time is a documentary about a Buddhist ritual promoting peace and tolerance, held by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Inner Voice follows Monk during the process of making her latest critically acclaimed music theatre piece Songs of Ascension.

This archive film gives a vivid account of the lives of these extraordinary people and ends with the unique Buddhist masked dances at Thangboche Monastery during the ceremony of Mani Rhimdu.

Hollywood studio film-making reached its zenith with Hitchcock’s stunning thriller – released in this brand new print to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

Following a sneak preview last year, DISS film composition course leader Miguel Mera’s new work receives a full screening this summer.

UK film-maker Sadik Ahmed directs this intense contemporary Western, which takes place in a remote town in the marshlands of Bangladesh.

“One of the finest movies about a great musician I’ve ever seen” Philip French, The Observer

As Pippa dutifully follows her husband to a new life in a staid Connecticut retirement community, her idyllic world and the persona she has built over the course of her marriage will be put to the test.

Mizoguchi’s masterpiece is both impassioned and elegiac with its fragile beauty highlighted with a soundtrack from Fumio Hayasaka, rightly regarded as the finest of Japan’s film composers.

The story of a mercenary samurai selling his services to two rival factions in a small town, and then sitting back to watch the enemies destroy each other, was the film link between Dashiel Hammet’s noir novel Red Harvest and Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars.

It’s Jacques Tati meets Jacques Demy in this wonderful Belgo-French comedy that has seduced film festival audiences around the world.

Red Cliff marks a thrilling return home for John Woo after his long and no doubt well rewarded time in Hollywood. This epic film is based on the true events during the end of the Han Dynasty and immediately prior to the period of the Three Kingdoms in ancient China.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the lunar landings we screen Moon, a refreshingly philosophical eco sci-fi inspired by such classics of the genre as Silent Running.

With a sublime soundtrack by multi-award winner composer Joe Hisaishi – also known for his work with Takeshi Kitano – Miyazaki’s first digitally animated feature has a resonance, weight and complexity that make it all but Shakespearean.

Japan’s most celebrated composer of the 20th century, Toru Takemitsu produced one of his most haunting works for the soundtrack of this film.

Okay, so you’ve seen it on TV but nothing comes close to the full on-screen mayhem of this cult blockbuster that turned a whole generation onto classic Blues & Soul.

Before Womad or any other intercultural festival thought to do it, in 1974 the most celebrated American R&B acts of the time came together with the most renowned musical groups in Southern Africa for a 12 hour, three-night long concert held in Kinshasa, Zaire.

Audrey Tautou plays the legendary Coco Chanel in an enthralling exploration of her early life before she rose to worldwide fame as the most celebrated fashion designer of the 20th Century.

This big budget feature – filmed to commemorate Giacomo Puccini’s 150th anniversary – stars the opera world’s dream team, soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor Rolando Villazon.

Inspired by the life of France’s most notorious criminal, Mesrine: Killer Instinct is part one of a two part biography that charts the rise and fall of the often marvelled, yet utterly ruthless gangster, Jacques Mesrine.

Manny the mammoth, Sid and Diego, now joined by a pregnant Ellie have survived the meltdown but now face the prospect of settling down and finding mates.

A family’s peaceful existence is threatened when a busy highway is opened only metres away from their isolated house in the middle of nowhere. Refusing to move, Marthe, Michel and their three children find new ways to adapt to their new environment.