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Special Edition Chester International Film Festival 2012 9th-17th March St Mary's Centre 7.45pm |
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Chester Film Society are delighted to announce the 26th Chester International Film Festival.
Seven nights of films!
Tickets are now available and selling well.
Single tickets are just £3.50
Special Festival Pass - any 4 films - just £10
Reserve your tickets now! Email
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. Tickets are open to anyone - you don't need to be a member of Chester Film Society.
Telephone 01244 371750 or 01244 398707, or visit the Tourist Information Centre at the Town Hall (booking fee applies).
Please visit the festival website, www.chesterfilmfans.co.uk/festival where you can find out more on the films, make reservations, and download your own programme.
This festival, we are delighted to offer a screening of The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, with a live piano accompaniment and specially commissioned score by Chester-based Composer Neil Glendinning.
The programme is as follows:
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Friday 9th March
Blue Valentine
2010 USA Derek Cianfrance 112 min
Focusing on a contemporary married couple played by Oscar nominees Michelle Williams (My Weekend with Marilyn) and Ryan Gosling (Drive) the film charts their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods.
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Saturday 10th March Double Bill!
The Illusionist and
Round Ireland with a Fridge
The Illusionist
2010 UK Sylvain Chomet 80 min
Amazing hand-drawn animation. Based on a Jacques Tati story a French illusionist finds himself out of work and travels to Scotland where he meets a young woman. Together, their lives are changed forever.
Round Ireland with a Fridge
2010 UK Ed Bye 89 min
Delightful comedy based on the bestselling book by Tony Hawks, tracing the journey of a disillusioned television personality as he travels around Ireland to win a wager.
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Monday 12th March
The Headless Woman
2009 Argentina Lucrecia Martel 87 min
After hitting something with her car–either a boy or a dog, middled-aged dentist Verónica (María Onetto) experiences an enigmatic breakdown consisting of memory loss and emotional detachment.
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Tuesday 13th March
Fish Story
2009 Japan Voshihiro Nakamura 112 min
Based on the novel by Kotaro Isaka Fish Story weaves together several seemingly separate storylines taking place at different points in time over a 37 year period to explain how a little known punk rock song can save the world.
This film is part of the 2011-12 Chester Film Society season - free to society members.
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Thursday 15th March
The Kreutzer Sonata
2008 USA Bernard Rose 99 min
Loosely based on the works of Leo Tolstoy transferred to contemporary Hollywood the film emphasizes Tolstoy’s views on the rich complexities of love, obsession and paranoia set against the world famous sonata.
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Friday 16th March
I am Love
2010 Italy Luca Guadagnino 120 min
A tragic love story set at the turn of the millennium in Milan. This controversial film follows the fall of the haute bourgeoisie due to the forces of boredom, passion and unconditional love.
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Saturday 17th March
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
1920 Robert Wiene 71 min
We end our festival with one of the most influential of German Expressionist films - often considered one of the greatest horror movies of the silent era. The film uses stylized sets and acting to add to the strange style.
Accompanied with live piano and a specially comissioned score from Chester-based Composer Neil Glendinning.
Preceded by complimentary shorts.
Followed by Q & A with the Composer.
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Tickets are limited
Please visit the festival website, www.chesterfilmfans.co.uk/festival where you can make reservations, and download your own programme.
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Tuesday 5th March
7.45pm
St Mary's Centre
Skeletons
2009 UK 94 mins
Director: Nick Whitfield
Starring: Will Adamsdale, Andrew Buckley
Two shadowy figures are the representatives of a company that specialises in exhuming difficult and painful memories, inaccessible to every other kind of therapy. An original and dark comedy that is outright weird most of the time.
Winner of the Michael Powell Award for best feature film at the Edinburgh Film Festival 2010.
Nominated Outstanding Debut Writer/Director BAFTAs 2011
Tuesda 13th March
7.45pm
St Mary's Centre
Fish Story (Fisshu Sutori)
2009 Japan 112 mins
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Starring: Gaku Hamada, Atsushi Ito, Vincent Giry
Based on the novel by Kotaro Isaka Fish Story weaves together several seemingly seperate storylines taking place at different points in time over a 37 year period to explain how a little known punk rock song can save the world. The story moves from 1975 when ill-fated punk band Gerikin wrote their final song Fen Si to 1980 where rumours of hidden messages in the song surface, to 2009 when a boat is taken over by terrorists and finally to the future in 2012 where a huge comet threatens to destroy the Earth. Here, at the end, can a punk rock song offer mankind their only hope?
Tuesday 27th March
7.45pm
St Mary's Centre
London River
2009 France/UK 83 mins
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyate
Two unconnected individuals Elizabeth (Brenda Blethyn) and Ouamane (Sotigui Kouyate) come to London to search for their children who are missing in the aftermath of the 7/7 bombings. As their search progresses a friendship develops between the two seemingly unconnected people. Beautifully detailed, this film convincingly creates a portrait of a multi-ethnic city struggling to come to terms with the terrorist attack.
Academy Award Winner 2010 Brenda Blethyn
Tuesday 17th April
7.45pm
Riverside Building
Alamar
2009 Mexico/Spain 89 mins
Director: Pedro Gonalez-Rubio
Starring: Jorge Machado, Natan Machado Palombini, Nestor Marin
Jorge (Jorge Machado) a Mexican fisherman is spending quality time with his son Natan (Natan Machado Palombini) before his returns to Italy with his mother. Father and son bond as they work and play together in the beautifully photographed idyllic location of Mexico's coral reef, painting boats and even making friends with a perky white egret, Blanquilla.
Tuesday 24th Apr
7.45pm
Riverside Building
Agora
2009 Spain 127 mins
Director: Alejandro Amenabar
Starring: Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella
Set in Alexandria in the 4th century AD, the centre of this drama is Hypatia, a pagan intellectual woman much admired by her pupils and respected by men of influence, yet who becomes a subject of persecution. ‘Agora' throws a revealing light on a turbulent period that pre-dates by a couple of centuries the coming of Islam, and the conflicts of our own multi-ethnic times.
Winner Best Cinematography and Screeplay Goya Awards 2010
Nominated Audience Award Best European Film Awards 2010
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