Matinée

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.