Season Seventeen Films
(2022/23)
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1 November 2022
The Duke
UK (2020) 95 mins; Dir: Roger Michell; Stars: Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren
In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver steals Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. A comedy with humour and lots of love. 'We are convinced that the Goya has been stolen by a highly professional, international criminal gang'
6 December 2022
Belfast
UK (2021) 98 mins; Dir: Kenneth Branagh; Stars: Caitríona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan
Kenneth Branagh delivers a beautiful, heartfelt film about a family in 1969 Belfast.
3 January 2023
Operation Mincemeat
UK, USA (2021) 128 mins; Dir: John Madden; Stars: Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald
A bizarre and seductive cinematic blend of high-level espionage and ingenious fiction, where the stakes could hardly be higher. 'Our target is Greece'.
7 February 2023
Quiet Weekend
UK (1946) 116 mins; Dir: Harold French; Stars: Derek Farr, Frank Cellier, Marjorie Fielding
Filmed at Cornbaggers in East Garston in 1946, this is a gentle story about the ordinary and extraordinary adventures of a British family and their various guests during a weekend in their country cottage.
7 March 2023
Downton Abbey: A New Era
UK (2022) 124 mins; Dir: Simon Curtis; Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Jim Carter, Michelle Dockery
The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the South of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa.
4 April 2023
Spencer
UK, Germany, USA, Chile (2021) 117 mins; Dir: Pablo Larraín; Stars: Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Sally Hawkins
Though rumours of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen's estate. There's eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game, but this year, things will be profoundly different.
2 May 2023
The Apartment
USA (1960) 125 mins; Dir: Billy Wilder; Stars: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
'Movie-wise, there has never been anything like "The Apartment" love-wise, laugh-wise or otherwise-wise!'
13 June 2023
Gunda
UK (2021) 93 mins; Dir: Viktor Kosakovskiy; Stars: Gunda
This documentary looks at the daily life of a pig and its farm animal companions: two cows and a one-legged chicken.
4 July 2023
Living
UK, Japan, Sweden (2022) 102 mins; Dir: Oliver Hermanus; Stars: Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp
Overwhelmed at work and lonely at home, a council bureaucrat's life takes a heartbreaking turn when a medical diagnosis tells him his time is short. Influenced by a local decadent and a vibrant woman, he continues to search for meaning until a simple revelation gives him a purpose to create a legacy for the next generation.