http://dartington.org/ http://www.dartington.org/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:15:45 GMT Michael Morpurgo’s children’s book dealing with the terrible toll taken by horses during the First World War has slowly filtered into the public conscience, principally through the multi-award winning stage production…

]]> http://www.dartington.org/barn-cinema/war-horse-12a Friday, 03 February 2012 5:00pm http://www.dartington.org/barn-cinema/war-horse-12a The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.

]]> http://www.dartington.org/barn-cinema/black-beauty-pg Saturday, 11 February 2012 2:00pm http://www.dartington.org/barn-cinema/black-beauty-pg Originally released in 1934, Jean Vigo’s first and only full-length feature is one of cinema’s greatest masterpieces. Made on a tiny budget, the film exudes an invigorating rawness and intensity that merge to create the loveliest, least maudlin study of human desire ever committed to film.

]]> http://www.dartington.org/barn-cinema/l-atalante-pg Monday, 13 February 2012 5:00pm http://www.dartington.org/barn-cinema/l-atalante-pg Legendary Czech animator and surrealist Jan Svankmajer (Alice, Faust) returns with his first film in five years, an anarchically funny tale about a man, Eugene, who falls in love with the woman of his dreams – literally.

]]> http://www.dartington.org/barn-cinema/surviving-life-15 Wednesday, 15 February 2012 8:15pm http://www.dartington.org/barn-cinema/surviving-life-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 embrace his future. Matt King – Clooney in a sure to be Oscar nominated role – looks like a man leading a charmed life. Living on Hawaii’s Big Island, he has a law practice, a wife and family, and is the trustee of a large family plot of beautiful and valuable land.

]]> http://www.dartington.org/barn-cinema/the-descendents-15 Friday, 17 February 2012 5:00pm http://www.dartington.org/barn-cinema/the-descendents-15 Ralph Fiennes flexes considerable directorial muscle in this meaty Shakespeare adaptation, taking the title role of warrior Coriolanus, whose abrasive pride and love of battle are his downfall as a politician…

]]> http://www.dartington.org/barn-cinema/coriolanus-15 Friday, 17 February 2012 8:00pm http://www.dartington.org/barn-cinema/coriolanus-15 An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers’ retaliation.

]]> http://www.dartington.org/barn-cinema/fantastic-mr-fox-pg Saturday, 18 February 2012 2:00pm http://www.dartington.org/barn-cinema/fantastic-mr-fox-pg 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 auteur is a brilliantly sustained one-scene comic drama which exposes the hypocrisy, doublethinking and charmlessness of the modern bourgeoisie.

]]> http://www.dartington.org/barn-cinema/carnage-15 Friday, 24 February 2012 5:00pm http://www.dartington.org/barn-cinema/carnage-15 Set against a backdrop of a Tinseltown in transition from silent film to talkies, a whimsical love story emerges between Peppy Miller, an aspiring starlet, and George Valentin, the world’s biggest movie actor…

]]> http://www.dartington.org/barn-cinema/the-artist-pg Friday, 24 February 2012 8:00pm http://www.dartington.org/barn-cinema/the-artist-pg 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.

]]> http://www.dartington.org/barn-cinema/charlotte-s-web-u Saturday, 25 February 2012 2:00pm http://www.dartington.org/barn-cinema/charlotte-s-web-u