Gilmorehill G12
9 University Ave, 330 5522 Sponsored by McChuills, this year's themes at G12 incorporate the four main film subjects of all time: Gangsters, Romance, Drama and Comedy. Thursday 14Performance (18) 9pm £3British gangster classic with Mick Jagger and James Fox in 60's London - one of the most stunning British films ever to hit our screens. Friday 15Withnail And I (18) 9pm £3Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann in a classic rite of passage film though 60's London and beyond. Thursday 21The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg (18) 9pm £3A full scale all - singing musical with a sumptuous score by Michel Legrand. Friday 22The Legend Of The Holy Drinker (18) 9pm £3Rutger Hauer as a tramp in Paris in a tale of a noble but weak willed man. A beautifully shot film of subtlety and charm. Grosvenor Cinema
Ashton Lane 339 4298 Saturday 9
101 Dalmations (U) 11am £1Glen Close is Cruela De Vil in this live-action remake of Disney's classic. Saturday 9Scottish Screen Archive Presentation 1pm £4 (£3)Presented by Janet McBain, Curator Scottish Screen Archive As part of its 25th anniversary celebrations, the Scottish Screen Archive presents a special programme of treasures from its collection. See Saturday 9th in Programme for more details. Saturday 9
Dracula (PG) 3pm £4 (£3)Starring Bela Lugosi, this 1930 version of Bram Stoker's famous horror story is still regarded as one of the best Dracula films.Saturday 9Julius Caesar (PG) 4.50pm £4 (£3)Marlon Brando, James Mason and John Gielgud star in this great political thriller of mood & violence, real people, their ambitions and their dreams. Sunday 10Sing A Long Calamity Jane (U) 2.30 pm £4 (£3)Complete with words on screen, so you can sing along! Dig out those cowboy boots and hats, and join Doris as she shoots, ropes and sings her way through this rumbustuous musical! Sunday 10
Oliver Twist (U) 4.00 pm £4 (£3)Alec Guinness as Fagan in David Lean's atmospheric and superbly shot adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic.Thursday 14The English Patient (15) 7.30pm £4 (£3)Oscar winning picture with Ralph Fiennes as a Hungarian mapmaker charting the Sahara Desert. As World War II unfolds, he enters into a world of love, betrayal and politics. Saturday 16James And The Giant Peach (U) 11am £1Combining animation and live-action sequences, this film version of Roald Dahl's best selling children's book is fantasy at its best! Murder On The Orient Express (PG)Night Mail (U) 1936 2pm £4 (£3)
An old fashioned Agatha Christie murder mystery, with Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot and a huge cast of stars. Plus an extraordinary short from the GPO about the overnight post train from London to Glasgow, with a Benjamin Britten score and verse delivered by W H Auden. Romeo & Juliet (PG) 3pm £4 (£3)Zeffirelli's classic film, starring Leonard Whiting & Olivia Hussey. If you want Shakespeare at its best, look no further. Sunday 17
Kiss Me Kate (U) 2pm £4 (£3)Cole Porter's musical fantasy is a feast for the ears and eyes - with some great musical numbers this is a spectacular show-stopping musical!
Passage To India (PG) 4.10pm £4 (£3)David Lean's adaptation of EM Forster's novel about the clash between East and West in 1920's colonial India, with superb performances from Peggy Ashcroft and Alec Guinness.Thursday 21
Braveheart (15) 7.30pm £4 (£3)Single-handedly responsible for the surge in Scottish nationalism, and visually stunning, this is one of the few true epics of recent years.Saturday 23Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (PG) 11am £1Live action version of the famous Kipling novel about a boy brought up in the jungle by an assortment of animals. To Kill A Mocking Bird (PG) 1.50pm £4 (£3)Gregory Peck plays a gentle soft-spoken Alabama lawyer defending a Negro falsely accused of rape while raising his own motherless children in a hostile environment of bigotry and economic depression.
Hamlet (U) 4.30pm £4 (£3)Laurence Olivier's acting and directorial triumph - his version of 'To be or not to be' is incomparable.Cinema Al Fresco -Abba:The Movie/Saturday Night Fever 8.45pm FreePart of Ashton Lane's Longest Day party - an open air double bill screening right in the lane - all welcome!Sunday 24The Importance Of Being Earnest (U) 2pm £4 (£3)Dame Edith (a handbag!) Evans plays Lady Bracknell in this screen adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic comedy. Sunday 24Great Expectations (U) 4pm £4 (£3)David Lean's near-perfect adaptation of the classic Dickens novel. Thursday 28
Schindler's List (15) 7.30pm £4 (£3)A stark reminder of the sheer evil man can inflict on fellow man, this film should be compulsive viewing for everyone. |
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