A boy who is believed to bring bad luck leads his family (and a couple of ragged misfits) through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey through a land scarred by war, the boy builds a giant rocket to prove he’s not cursed and to enter the most lucrative but dangerous competition…Continue readingThe Rocket
Category: Past Films
Hallhill Doors & Bar 7.30 Film begins at 8pm. Watch the trailer here. Whiplash(15) 1 hr 47 mins. A musician’s pursuit of perfection spirals into obsession as his teacher pushes him to the brink of both his ability and his sanity. Continue readingWhiplash
A modern-day Grapes of Wrath, award-winning documentary The Overnighters is an intimate portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the broken American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota. With the town lacking the infrastructure to house the overflow of migrants, a local pastor starts the controversial “overnighters” program, allowing down-and-out workers a…Continue readingThe Overnighters
“A small gem, tender and bleak, funny and sad, superbly photographed in luminous monochrome”. Peter Bradshaw, Film Critic, The Guardian Pawel Pawlikowski, the director of Last Resort and My Summer of Love returns to his homeland for this moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking…Continue readingIda
The Grand Budapest Hotel Friday 27th February GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for…Continue readingThe Grand Budapest Hotel
The first film of our 2015 programme is Nebraska. A black and white road trip drama from the writer of About Schmidt, Sideways and The Descendants starring Bruce Dern as a tempestuous Missouri father who’s convinced he’s won a million dollar magazine sweepstakes, and Will Forte as the son who grudgingly agrees to drive him…Continue readingNebraska
In the House (15) 2012, France 1hr 45 mins. (subtitles) A sixteen-year old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student and writes about it in essays for his teacher unleashing an unstoppable series of events. “Dark, tense, and wryly funny, In the House is brilliantly directed by François Ozon and features fine…Continue readingIn the House
Friday 31st October Hallhill Doors & Bar 7.30 Film @ 8.000Continue readingThe Man in the White Suit
A “brilliant exploration of violence and corruption in contemporary China” (Jon Frosch, The Atlantic), A TOUCH OF SIN was inspired by four shocking (and true) events that forced the world’s fastest growing economy into a period of self-examination. Written and directed by master filmmaker Jia Zhangke (The World, Still Life), “one of the best and…Continue readingA Touch of Sin
“One of modern cinema’s finest love stories, Before Midnight is essentially a film about people talking. But, when the talk’s this good, this absorbing and revealing and witty and true, who’s going to complain?” Philip Kemp, Total Film Friday 29th August @ Hallhill, Dunbar Doors & Bar 7.30 Film begins @ 8.00Continue readingBefore Midnight