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 Saturday 11 July FAB Fest 4 - The Art of the Nasty The films programmed today accompanying the book launch of The Art of the Nasty are unseen since the Act was passed twenty-five years ago.
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 Sundays 12, 19 and 26 July Sunday Evening Ealing Comedies The Ealing Comedies are regarded by many as representative of a golden period in UK cinema history. Come and enjoy them as they were intended to be seen - on the big screen!
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Fri 03 Jul Double Bill: Pi (15) 6.45pm A technology nerd is obsessed with finding the underlying numerical pattern behind the global stock market.
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Sat 04 Jul Special Multiple Screening Double Bill: Pi (15) 1.45pm and 6.45pm A technology nerd is obsessed with finding the underlying numerical pattern behind the global stock market.
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Sun 05 Jul Afternoon - Family Double Bill: Spirited Away (PG) 1.00pm Academy-award winner for Best Animated Feature - a film that gets you dreaming again.
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  Coraline (PG) 3.25pm An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealised version of her frustrating home life, but it has sinister secrets.
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Mon 06 Jul Kevin Macdonald Double Bill: The Last King of Scotland (15) 6.00pm In an incredible twist of fate a young Scottish doctor becomes the 'closest advisor' to one of the world’s most barbaric figures.
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  State of Play (12A) 8.25pm A team of investigative reporters work alongside a police detective to try to solve the murder of a congressman’s mistress.
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Tue 07 Jul British Feature Double Bill: Is Anybody There? (12A) 7.00pm Edward is obsessed with ghosts and the afterlife and his parents are concerned that life might be passing him by. But when Clarence comes to stay his world is disrupted.
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  Helen (PG) 8.55pm Helen is a teenage girl who, when asked to play the stand-in for a reconstruction to find a lost girl, realizes it gives her a chance to confront her own troubled past.
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Thu 09 Jul British Feature Double Bill: Hunger (15) 7.00pm Set in Belfast’s Maze Prison the film is an interpretation of the events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike led by Bobby Sands.
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  Genova (15) 8.55pm A university lecturer leaps at the chance of a teaching job in the Italian town of Genoa, seeing it as a fresh start following the death of his wife.
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Fri 10 Jul James Bond Double Bill: Casino Royale (12A) 6.00pm James Bond must stop Le Chiffre, a banker to the world’s terrorist organizations, from winning a high-stakes poker tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro.
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  Quantum of Solace (12A) 8.50pm Seeking revenge for the death of his love, James sets out to stop an environmentalist from taking control of a country’s valuable resource.
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Sat 11 Jul The Art of the Nasty Double Bill: Take an Easy Ride (18) 12.30pm This cautionary tale about the perils of hitch-hiking is a low-budget exploitation classic
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  The Brute (18) 1.15pm Julian Glover plays one of cinema's most disturbing villains in this powerful British film about domestic terrorism.
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   The Art of the Nasty Single Bill: Death Weekend (18) 3.15pm This stunning home-invasion horror film from Canada, aka The House by the Lake, has been unseen in the UK since its pre-cert era video release on the Vampix label.
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   The Art of the Nasty Single Bill: Satan's Slave (18) 5.25pm This is a very rare screening of the export version of the Satanic shocker, as originally released by early market-leaders Intervision at the dawn of the video era.
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   The Art of the Nasty Single Bill: Equinox (18) 8.00pm This rarely screened horror movie has remained unseen in the UK since its two pre-cert video releases on the Mountain and KM labels.
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   The Art of the Nasty Single Bill: Black Devil Doll (18) 9.40pm Chucky meets Dolemite as a jive-talking puppet goes on the rampage!
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Sun 12 Jul Afternoon: Complicated Women - Bette Davis Double Bill: All About Eve (PG) 1.00pm An ageing Broadway star suffers from the hidden menace of a rising star. A witty, cruel and wildly funny film with superb performances.
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    Evening - Ealing Comedies Double Bill: Whisky Galore (PG) 6.30pm During World War II a ship full of whisky is wrecked on a small Hebridean island.
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   Single Bill: Il Divo (15) 8.30pm Giulio Andreotti was the synonym of power in Italy for over four decades and appeared set to become Prime Minister, until the Mafia declared war on him.
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Tue 14 Jul Double Bill: Welcome to the Sticks (12A) 6.45pm A postmaster is posted north after impersonating the disabled in order to procure a sought-after transfer post.
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  French Film (15) 8.50pm Jed is preparing to interview filmmaker Thierry Grimandi, a self-appointed expert on ove. Initially dubious, Thierry’s musings may not be as pretentious as he thought.
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Wed 15 Jul Werner Herzog Double Bill: Grizzly Man (15) 6.45pm A heartrending tale of grizzly bear activists who were killed in 2003 while living amongst grizzlies in Alaska.
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  Encounters at the End of the World (U) 8.50pm This darkly witty documentary sees Herzog heading to the frozen south to interview those who live and work there, on the assumption that they'll be quite weird.
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Thu 16 Jul David Lynch Double Bill: Mulholland Drive (18) 6.00pm A menacing, dreamy, mystery thriller set in Hollywood. A woman is involved in a car crash. She escapes from two men and hides in an empty apartment.
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  Blue Velvet (18) 8.45pm A man returns to his home town after being away and discovers a severed human ear in a field. He begins his own investigation.
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Fri 17 Jul Stephen Frears Double Bill: Mrs. Henderson Presents (12A) 6.30pm Laura Henderson buys an old London theatre and opens it up as the Windmill.
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  Cheri (15) 8.35pm Set in Paris pre-World War I, the film paints a picture of the romance between young Cheri and retired courtesan Lea.
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Sat 18 Jul Special Multiple Screening - Stephen Frears Double Bill: Mrs. Henderson Presents (12A) 1.30pm and 6.30pm Laura Henderson buys an old London theatre and opens it up as the Windmill.
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  Cheri (15) 3.35pm and 8.35pm Set in Paris pre-World War I, the film paints a picture of the romance between young Cheri and retired courtesan Lea.
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Sun 19 Jul Afternoon - Swedish Double Bill: Together (18)Tillsammans 1.00pm Into a collective household full of right-on concerns and new ways of relationships, arrives a woman on the run from her husband. A warm comedy of manners and people.
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    Evening - Ealing Comedies Double Bill: Passport to Pimlico (PG) 7.30pm Part of London is discovered to belong to Burgundy and the inhabitants themselves free of rationing restrictions.
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Mon 20 Jul Swedish Double Bill: Together (18)Tillsammans 6.15pm Into a collective household full of right-on concerns and new ways of relationships, arrives a woman on the run from her husband. A warm comedy of manners and people.
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Tue 21 Jul Claude Berri Double Bill: Jean de Florette (PG) 6.20pm A hunchback tax collector inherits a farm in Provence in the mid 1920s.
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  Manon des Sources (PG) 8.45pm A sequel to Jean de Florette which centres around Jean’s eighteen-year-old daughter, Manon.
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Wed 22 Jul Double Bill: A Cock and Bull Story (15) 7.00pm Director Michael Winterbottom, played by Jeremy Northam, attempts to shoot the adaptation the un-filmable novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
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  In the Loop (15) 8.55pm Though the American President and the British Prime Minister are itching to attack, others believe it’s a wrong decision. An hilarious and biting satire on British-US relations and the lunacy of war.
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Thu 23 Jul Double Bill: The Night of the Hunter (12) 6.30pm A preacher with 'Love' and 'Hate' tattooed on his knuckles desperately pursues two children.
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  The Innocents (12A) 8.25pm The film tells of an impressionable and repressed governess who agrees to tutor two orphaned children.
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Fri 24 Jul Bent Hamer Double Bill: Kitchen Stories (PG) 7.00pm In the early 1950s Sweden’s Home Research Institute sets its sights on the Norwegian bachelor of creating his perfect kitchen.
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  O'Horten (18) 8.55pm After forty years of driving the same train route Odd Horten has been forced into retirement. His orderly existence is about to give way to a future of perplexing questions.
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Sat 25 Jul Special Multiple Screening - Bent Hamer Double Bill: Kitchen Stories (PG) 2.00pm and 7.00pm In the early 1950s Sweden’s Home Research Institute sets its sights on the Norwegian bachelor of creating his perfect kitchen.
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  O'Horten (18) 3.55pm and 8.55pm After forty years of driving the same train route Odd Horten has been forced into retirement. His orderly existence is about to give way to a future of perplexing questions.
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Sun 26 Jul Afternoon: Jean-Luc Godard Double Bill: Vivre sa Vie (15) It's My Life 2.00pm Presented like a documentary Godard gives a dazzling examination of prostitution.
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  Pierrot le Fou (15) 3.45pm Ferdinand leaves his wife and elopes with his former babysitter, Marianna. When a dead body is found at Marianna's, they head for the South of France to escape being caught up in gangster activities.
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   Evening - Ealing Comedies Double Bill: The Man in the White Suit (U) 7.30pm A scientist produces a fabric that never gets dirty and never wears out.
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  The Ladykillers (U) 9.15pm An older lady takes in a sinister lodger who, with his four friends, commits a robbery.
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Tue 28 Jul Double Bill: Raising Victor Vargas (15) 7.00pm A glorious celebration of hang-ups, family and teen courtship. Fresh, funny and utterly genuine.
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  Blue Eyelids (15) Parpados azules 8.50pm Marina wins a prize draw at work for a trip to a beautiful beach resort, but it soon becomes clear she has no one to take. She decides to invite Victor, someone who she has just met.
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Wed 29 Jul Single Bill: Modern Life (PG) La Vie Moderne 7.00pm With a warm irreverent eye Depardon presents a rural community and the legacies that bind them to land and family.
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   Single Bill: Sleep Furiously (U) 8.50pm The film is set in a small hill farming community in Trefeurig, mid-Wales. It is a landscape that is changing rapidly as small-scale agriculture is disappearing. A profound journey into a world of endings and beginnings.
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Thu 30 Jul Double Bill: In This World (15) 6.30pm The film follows the journey of two migrants a camp on the Palestine-Afghanistan border to London.
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  Ramchand Pakistani (15) 8.20pm An eight-year-old Pakistani boy and his father, belonging to the untouchable Hindu caste, accidentally cross the border and spend years in an Indian jail. On the other side of the border the wife/mother builds a new chapter of her life.
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Fri 31 Jul Claude Chabrol Double Bill: Comedy of Power (PG) L'ivresse du pouvoir 6.30pm Chabrol based the film on a true life incident, the investigation of crooked executives at EIF Aquitaine, the French version of Enron.
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Sat 01 Aug Claude Chabrol Double Bill: Comedy of Power (PG) L'ivresse du pouvoir 6.30pm Chabrol based the film on a true life incident, the investigation of crooked executives at EIF Aquitaine, the French version of Enron.
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  The Diary of a Chambermaid (15) 3.05pm Celestine takes up a post as chambermaid to a middle-class family and becomes the catalyst that reveals their sexual, religious and social repressions.
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    Jules et Jim (PG) 8.20pm Based on a novel by Henri-Pierre Roche ...wistful, lyrical and exhilarating.
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Tue 04 Aug Double Bill: Tell No One (15) 6.00pm When widower Alex receives an email and clicks on the link indicated he sees a woman’s face standing in a crowd ... Margot’s face.
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  Anything for Her (15) 8.30pm Lisa and Julien's happy existence is shattered when Lisa is arrested and sentenced to life for murder. Julien goes outside the law to get her out of jail.
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Wed 05 Aug Double Bill: Vicky Cristina Barcelona (12A) 6.30pm Two girlfriends on holiday become enamoured with the same painter, unaware that his insane ex-wife is about to enter the picture.
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  Last Chance Harvey (12A) 8.30pm The film tells the story of a struggling New York jingle writer and a lonely British bureaucrat who meet by chance in London and transform one another’s lives.
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Thu 06 Aug Special Multiple Screening Double Bill: Vicky Cristina Barcelona (12A) 6.30pm and 6.30pm Two girlfriends on holiday become enamoured with the same painter, unaware that his insane ex-wife is about to enter the picture.
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  Last Chance Harvey (12A) 8.30pm and 8.30pm The film tells the story of a struggling New York jingle writer and a lonely British bureaucrat who meet by chance in London and transform one another’s lives.
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Fri 07 Aug Double Bill: Half Nelson (15) 6.30pm A young high school teacher's inspired brilliance in the classroom conflicts with a serious drug habit outside of it.
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  Sugar (15) 8.35pm The film follows the story of Miguel Santos, aka Sugar, a Dominican baseball player from San Pedro de Macoris struggling to make it to the big leagues in the US.
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Sat 08 Aug Special Multiple Screening Double Bill: Half Nelson (15) 1.45pm and 6.30pm A young high school teacher's inspired brilliance in the classroom conflicts with a serious drug habit outside of it.
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  Sugar (15) 3.50pm and 8.35pm The film follows the story of Miguel Santos, aka Sugar, a Dominican baseball player from San Pedro de Macoris struggling to make it to the big leagues in the US.
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Sun 09 Aug Afternoon - Double Bill: Strangers on a Train (PG) 1.30pm Two strangers meet in a train carriage. They strike a bargain about exchanging "murders" that will inspire both their lives.
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  Accident (15) 3.30pm A stunningly confident oblique study of six people and the way they tear each other to pieces emotionally amid the drowning calm of an Oxford summer.
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   Evening - Single Bill: Barry Lyndon (PG) 7.00pm This film chronicles the progress of an Irish rogue as he makes his way through the battlefields and boudoirs of 18th century Europe.
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Mon 10 Aug Opera Double Bill: The Magic Flute (PG) 6.15pm A film version of Mozart’s opera masterpiece sung in English with a screenplay written by Stephen Fry.
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  La Bohème (PG) 8.50pm A film based on Giacomo Puccini’s masterpiece of Italian opera.
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Tue 11 Aug Double Bill: Badlands (15) 6.30pm A young garbage collector and his magazine addicted girlfriend go on the run across the Dakota badlands.
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  Bonnie and Clyde (15) 8.25pm Bonnie and Clyde begin a crime spree to escape the hardships of the Depression. Based on a true story.
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Thu 13 Aug The 23rd London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival on Tour Single Bill: Pedro (15) 6.30pm Pedro Zamora was in MTV’s Real World show in 1994 and was HIV positive. Subsequently, he became a peer educator speaking in schools about prevention.
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   The 23rd London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival on Tour Single Bill: Nighthawks (15) 8.25pm The first British gay feature which dealt unapologetically with homosexuality.
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Fri 14 Aug Andrzej Wajda Double Bill: Ashes and Diamonds (15) Popiol i diament 6.45pm Maciek is ordered to kill Szczuka. Though killing has been easy for him in the past, Szczuka was a fellow soldier and Maciek must decide whether to follow orders.
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  Katyn (15) 8.50pm This devastating film addresses the secret massacre of thousands of Polish officers in the forests of Katyn.
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Sat 15 Aug Special Multiple Screening: Andrzej Wajda Double Bill: Ashes and Diamonds (15) Popiol i diament 1.45pm and 6.45pm Maciek is ordered to kill Szczuka. Though killing has been easy for him in the past, Szczuka was a fellow soldier and Maciek must decide whether to follow orders.
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  Katyn (15) 3.50pm and 8.50pm This devastating film addresses the secret massacre of thousands of Polish officers in the forests of Katyn.
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Sun 16 Aug Afternoon - Double Bill: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (PG) 1.30pm A factory worker pursues his philosophy that while life is nasty, brutish and short, you have to make the best of it.
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  This Sporting Life (12) 3.15pm Frank's competitive nature and powerful physique mean that when he reads of the success and respect gained by the local rugby team, he decides to join and share in the glory.
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   Evening - Alfred Hitchcock Double Bill: The 39 Steps (U) 6.45pm A man in London tries to help a counterespionage agent. But when the agent is killed and he stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself.
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  The Lady Vanishes (U) 8.30pm During a journey abroad a trans-continental express, a young woman strikes up an acquaintance with a middle-aged governess.
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Mon 17 Aug British Classics Double Bill: Rita, Sue and Bob Too (18) 6.30pm Rita and Sue accept an offer of 'a little extra' from Michelle's husband.
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  Withnail and I (15) 8.20pm Withnail and Marwood are two waiting-to-be actors who share a flat and live on a diet of booze, pills and fags in 60s Camden.
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  Red Cliffs (15) Chi bi 8.25pm The Han Dynasty is facing its death in third century China and the emperor raises a million-man army against two kingdoms that are hopelessly outmatched.
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Wed 19 Aug The 23rd London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival on Tour Single Bill: Dream Boy (18) 6.30pm Shy and introspective, Nathan keeps to himself, but it is not long before he notices Roy, the boy next door.
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   The 23rd London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival on Tour Single Bill: Greek Pete (18) 8.20pm Over six months Andrew Haigh worked with a group of London rent boys to create a semi-improvised drama based on their lives. A privileged record of a sub-culture as never before seen on film.
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Thu 20 Aug Paul Dano Double Bill: Little Miss Sunshine (15) 6.30pm A family, determined to get their daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant, take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.
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  Gigantic (15) 8.30pm Mattress salesman Brian finds his plan to adopt a Chinese baby augmented by the arrival of a young woman. A funny, surreal love story.
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Fri 21 Aug Ken Loach Double Bill: Riff-Raff (15) 6.45pm A documentary-style comedy about the scams, laughs, dangers and camaraderie of work on a London building site.
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  Looking for Eric (15) 8.40pm Eric, a Manchester-based postman, is finding that his life is falling apart while his love for football endures.
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Sat 22 Aug Special Multiple Screening: Ken Loach Double Bill: Riff-Raff (15) 1.45pm and 6.45pm A documentary-style comedy about the scams, laughs, dangers and camaraderie of work on a London building site.
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  Looking for Eric (15) 3.40pm and 8.40pm Eric, a Manchester-based postman, is finding that his life is falling apart while his love for football endures.
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  Tristana (18) 3.35pm A girl seduced by her guardian leaves him for a younger lover. She returns as an amputee seeking revenge.
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   Evening - Roman Polanski Double Bill: Repulsion (PG) 6.30pm Polanski's disturbing, hallucinating trip into the mental state of a Belgian manicurist.
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Mon 24 Aug Johnny Depp Double Bill: Dead Man (18) 6.00pm An innocent young accountant sets off across America in search of work. Deadpan humour and superb cinematography.
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  Public Enemies (15) 8.20pm The story of legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger, the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover.
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Tue 25 Aug Double Bill: When We Were Kings (PG) 7.00pm A documentary record of events around a boxing match staged in 1974 in Zaire between Muhammed Ali and George Forman.
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  Soul Power (12A) 8.50pm 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 twelve-hour concert in Zaire.
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  Rudo y Cursi (15) 8.55pm The film follows Beto and Tato, two brothers who play for the village football team.
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  Lake Tahoe (15) 8.50pm Teenage Juan crashes his family car and his quest to fix it will bring him into contact with the town’s strange and colourful inhabitants.
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Fri 28 Aug Single Bill: Wendy and Lucy (15) 7.00pm A woman’s life is derailed while en route to find work for the summer.
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   Single Bill: Frozen River (15) 8.40pm Ray Eddy is about to buy her family the house of her dreams but her gamble-loving husband takes off with the money. She finds herself alone with her kids and completely broke.
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Sat 29 Aug Special Multiple Screening Single Bill: Wendy and Lucy (15) 2.00pm and 7.00pm A woman’s life is derailed while en route to find work for the summer.
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   Special Multiple Screening Single Bill: Frozen River (15) 3.40pm and 8.40pm Ray Eddy is about to buy her family the house of her dreams but her gamble-loving husband takes off with the money. She finds herself alone with her kids and completely broke.
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Sun 30 Aug Afternoon - Double Bill: Room at the Top (12A) 2.00pm An ambitious young clerk causes the death of his lover but marries into a rich family. A melodrama that takes on sex in Britain and shows us the industrial North as it really was.
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    Evening - Jacques Tati Double Bill: Jour de Fete (U) 7.00pm Jour de Fete has a graceful, unassuming ease in its observation of a French village's Bastille Day celebrations.
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LATECOMERS Latecomers are admitted strictly at the House Manager's discretion but only within the first 15 minutes of the film.
SATURDAY MATINEES We are continuing our new, popular Saturday afternoon matinee programmes. See full details above.
AGE RESTRICTIONS Most films are screened as double bills. Where a programme contains films with different age ratings, the highest rating governs all films in the programme as the films are sold on a single ticket. Patrons younger than the highest rating will not be admitted to the Cinema. Riverside Studios reserves the right to ask for proof of age.
COATS AND BAGS For the comfort, safety and security of all visitors and staff, backpacks and other large bags are not allowed into the auditorium. All items brought into Riverside Studios may be subject to a search.
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