Chidham & Hambrook Film Society
' Argo ' (cert 15) see trailer
Oscar winning thriller, re-creating the rescue attempt of six consular staff during the Iran hostage crisis of 1979
Tickets: £5/ £6, children £3 Tel: 01243 576580 or
email: towers321@btinternet.com

' THE DESCENDANTS ' starring George Clooney
Set in Hawaii, it is a sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic story of Matt King (George Clooney) an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries. It won several awards, including an Oscar for best screenplay for Alexander Payne. An outstanding performance by Clooney.

Chidham & Hambrook Film Society
Friday March 1st 2013
'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel'
One of the best loved films from last year.
Brilliant! - watch the trailer

Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie and a host of other well known British actors star in this film about British retirees who travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways.

Adapted from the book “These foolish Things” by Deborah Moggach, the film is directed by John Maddon ( Shakespeare in Love).

  Doors and Bar open 7.30pm Film starts at 8pm
Tickets: £5 members £6 non-members £3 children under 14
Reserve in advance (recommended) : Tel: 01243 576580 / 574074
email: towers321@btinternet.com

Our film on Friday November 30th is MY WEEK WITH MARILYN

The stormy relationship between Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier while they were making the Prince and the Showgirl is recreated wonderfully. It is told through the eyes of Colin Clark, the third assistant director, who has a romantic relationship with her and becomes her confidant.
Entertaining, funny and poignant with great performances from Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh ,Judi Dench and many others.
Doors open at 7.30pm for bar and cha t. Film starts at 8pm. Tickets:  £5 members /£6 non-members. Reservations: 01243 576580/ 574074

Tinker Tailor is a period piece that's about mood as much as it is about drama. Made by a Swede who is an outsider to the British class system, it's unusually sensitive to the ways in which the Establishment represented by the intelligence services is itself filled with outsiders. As a result, this is an adaptation that's less posh, less clubby than the television version. It looks back at the Cold War era – its cruelties and banalities – with a clear, cold eye.

Tinker Tailor has received three OSCAR nominations

Best Actor in a leading role .................Gary Oldman
Music......................................................Alberto Iglesias
Best Adapted screenplay..................... Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan

Sadly, Bridget O'Connor died last year at the age of 49 so knew nothing of the nomination.

Supporting Cast:
John Hurt - Colin Firth - Benedict Cumberbatch - Toby Jones - Mark Strong
Tom Hardy - Ciaran Hinds
To find out more and watch clips from the film go to
www.tinker-tailor-soldier-spy.com/ and enter the Circus

About 'The Great White Silence'
Newly restored by the BFI, The Great White Silence is a deeply moving account of Scott's sea journey south from New Zealand and, once his team reaches Antarctica, their preparations for the long walk.

A hundred years ago the British Antarctic Expedition (1910-1913) led by Captain Scott set out on its ill-fated race to the South Pole. Joining Scott on board the Terra Nova was official photographer and cinematographer Herbert Ponting, and the images that he captured have fired imaginations ever since.

Ponting filmed almost every aspect of the expedition: the scientific work, life in camp and the local wildlife - including the characterful Adélie penguins. Those things he was unable to film he boldly recreated back home. Most importantly, Ponting recorded the preparations for the assault on the Pole - from the trials of the caterpillar track sledges to clothing and cooking equipment - giving us a real sense of the challenges faced by the expedition.

Ponting used his footage in various forms over the years and in 1924 he re-edited it into this remarkable feature, complete with vivid tinting and toning. The BFI National Archive - custodian of the Expedition negatives - has restored the film using the latest photochemical and digital techniques and reintroduced the film's sophisticated use of colour. The alien beauty of the landscape is brought dramatically to life and the world of the expedition revealed in brilliant detail.

Friday Oct 28
Village Hall
7pm for food, movie starts at 8pm

Chidham and Hambrook Film Society present....

  BANGERS ‘n' MASH AND A MOVIE

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT ( cert 15)

Come and join us to watch one of the best movies of 2010 and enjoy a winter warming supper with new improved heating!

Nominated for 4 Oscar and BAFTA awards.

A warm, funny, intelligent and witty drama about what happens when two teenage children invite the anonymous sperm donor who is their biological father into their comfortable, progressive lives in sunny, suburban California .

Fabulous performances from Julieanne Moore, Annette Bening and Mark Ruffalo

Friday October 28 th at Chidham and Hambrook Village Hall

7pm for food, movie starts at 8pm

£10

Pre-booking essential for food

Tickets : 01243 576580/ 574074 or email : towers321@btinternet.com

NB The November film will now be shown on Friday Dec 2 nd .  

A ghostwriter stumbles onto a secret that places his life in danger as he takes down the life story of a former U.K. prime minister in this Roman Polanski adaptation of the Robert Harris novel. Convinced by his agent that he's been granted a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, talented British screenwriter "The Ghost" (Ewan McGregor) agrees to aid British prime minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan) in completing his memoirs after the leader's former aide dies under mysterious circumstances.
A gripping conspiracy thriller ( cert 15)

Tickets available from: 01243 574074 / 572902
£6 to include membership for the year.

You will be pleased to know that the heating has now been refurbished and it will be WARM!!!

'TAMARA DREWE'
Starring Gemma Arterton.
A comic romp set in rural Dorset inspired by the classic works of Hardy with a 21 st century twist. Tamara -once a teenage ugly duckling now a smouldering femme- fatale -returns to her old village and causes something of a stir amongst the locals. She kick-starts a trail of envy, lust, scandal and gossip with very funny results.

Doors open 7.30 for wine and chat. Film starts 8pm
Tickets: £6 non-members, £5 members
( to include glass of wine)
Tel : 574074 / 576580 email: towers321@btinterent.com

NON-DINERS MAY BUY TICKETS ON THE DOOR FOR USUAL PRICE

£5 MEMBERS, £6 NON-MEMBERS, £3 CHILDREN
When? - Friday, 28th January at 7:00 pm.
Where? - Chidham & Hambrook Village Hall.
How? - Tickets from 574074 or 576580

OSCAR NOMINATIONS
BEST ACTRESS – MERYL STREEP

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY – NORA EPHRON

Saturday
Dec 18th
Village Hall

We are continuing our season with the dark comedy / thriller IN BRUGES . Bruges, the most well-preserved medieval city in the whole of Belgium, is a welcoming destination for travellers from all over the world. But for hit men Ray and Ken, it could be their final destination; a difficult job has resulted in the pair being ordered right before Christmas by their London boss to go and lie low in this the storybook city for a couple of weeks. Very much out of place amidst the gothic architecture, canals, and cobbled streets, the two hit men fill their days living the lives of tourists.

As they explore the city (which definitely shares top billing) the consequences are comic, dark, weird and emotional while they await further instructions from their boss in London.

Starring Colin Farrell , Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes.

BAFTA for best screen play in 2009. (cert 18)
All proceeds go to the restoration of the village hall

Directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo di Caprio this is an edge of your seat psychological mystery that will have you gripped to the very end.
It's 1954 and US Marshall Teddy Daniels ( diCaprio) is sent to a remote island housing an asylum for the criminally insane to investigate the disappearance of one of the patients. As the island is cut off by a hurricane Teddy begins to doubt everything – his memory, his partner, even his own sanity. ( 140 mins cert.15)

This will be the final film of the season. Come and enjoy local sausages, creamy mash, onions and delicious gravy. Food served downstairs from 7:00pm. Film Show upstairs from 7:45pm. 1st glass of wine FREE !

IF DINING PRE-BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL (SEE BELOW)

NON-DINERS MAY BUY TICKETS ON THE DOOR FOR USUAL PRICE

£5 MEMBERS, £6 NON-MEMBERS, £3 CHILDREN

Friday, 30th April at 7:00 pm. Chidham & Hambrook Village Hall Tickets from 574074 or 572902

AN EDUCATION
cert 12A

We start with a silent classic by Buster Keaton (circa.1921) called The Boat . Buster's handmade boat, The Damfino (get it?), is finished and is, of course, too large to get through the basement door. When he drives off with it in tow, the side of his house, then the whole thing, collapses. At the harbour he sails the boat out only to have it sink beneath him. The rest of the film is a series of adventures that he and his family have with the restored boat.

It is, of course, a silent film and we hope to have a local celebrity playing LIVE accompanying music on the piano!

After a short break for refreshment at the bar, we then present our main feature which is the classic, Knife in the Water (Cert. PG)

The international breakthrough feature film by Roman Polanski (circa.1962) called Knife in the Water is a cagy and sophisticated art film, masterfully judged to take the West by surprise. It provided the springboard for one of the most impressive directorial careers ever. A grey, moody character study of two males' subtle competition for a female, it has an almost uncanny ability to draw one into its hyper-naturalistic surface. The acting and the direction of actors for camera are so good that Polanski is able to enclose us entirely within his tiny world on a small sailboat.

Friday, 26 th March at 7:00pm
Chidham & Hambrook Village Hall
Tickets £5 members, £6 non-members 1 st drink free!
All proceeds to the Hall restoration
This is an evening NOT to be missed!

On Friday night, 26th February, 33 members of the FilmSoc enjoyed chatting to railway model enthusiasts over a glass of wine, whilst discussing the handmade models on exhibition at Chidham & Hambrook Village Hall.

This time it's “The Titfield Thunderbolt” .

Prior to the film there will be the chance to view Railway Models over a glass of wine and a member of the Watercress Line will be giving a presentation.

Venue: Chidham & Hambrook Village Hall

Tickets: £5 members, £6 non-members, £3 children
Order from 574074 or 572902 or take a chance at the door

All proceeds to the Village Hall Restoration Fund

Synopsis and Trivia

Synopsis

Released in 1953 by the famous Ealing Studios, the film tells the story of how the Titfield villagers fight the closure of their local branch line by British Railways. It's fun and games when a group of villagers band together to run it themselves, in the face of opposition from a bus company. The film was made on location on the Camerton branch line, an ex GWR railway which ran through the beautiful Cam Valley just south of Bath .

Film Trivia:

• Writer T.E.B. Clarke ("Tibby") was inspired to write the Titfield Thunderbolt saga after a 1951 visit to the volunteer-operated Talyllyn Railway, which carries passengers and slate along the Cambrian coast between Towyn and Abergynolwyn, in Wales . "The Titfield Thunderbolt" reflects Clarke's fascination with the volunteers' preservationist spirit there.
• 'Gregson, John' had never driven a car before making this film.
• The credited driver, fireman and guard were not actors, they were British Railways employees from Westbury depot and were originally to be uncredited extras. After director Charles Crichton spoke to them on location and realized they "looked and sounded the part", they were given speaking parts.
• The 'Thunderbolt' is a genuine veteran locomotive, its real name is 'Lion'. It was built for the Liverpool and Manchester railway in 1838, making it 115 years old when it was used in the film.
• The locomotive, "Lion" was damaged during filming when the carriage train is reunited with the locomotive. The rear frame was bent by the force of the impact. The damage was still visible in 2001.
• A wooden replica of "Lion" was made for the scene where "Thunderbolt" is removed from the museum.
• A replica locomotive was built on the chassis of a Bedford truck for the scene where the locomotive is seen driving down the road.
• Writer T.E.B. Clarke was a neighbor of Richard Beeching, then Director of ICI, at the time of filming. Beeching's 1963 report "The Re-shaping of British Railways" resulted in the wholesale closure of many branch lines like the one portrayed in the movie.
• The final scenes of Mallingford station were filmed at the Bath Road Bridge end of the main platform at Bristol Temple Meads station, Bristol , UK .
• The name Titfield created by T.E.B. Clarke the from the adjacent villages of Titsey and Limpsfield in Surrey .

Friday 27 November 2009

7pm for 7.30pm

Film Night at the Village Hall

This is the true story of two young British climbers Simon Yates and Joe Simpson, who in 1985 set off to scale the hitherto unclimbed West Face of the Siula Grande, a 21,000ft peak in the Peruvian Andes. Simpson and Yates reach the summit but shortly after starting the descent, an accident turns their daring expedition into a desperate fight for survival.

  One climber is badly injured. Using alpine climbing techniques, the two climbers are roped together and try to descend to safety. Later the injured climber falls into a crevasse - still attached to his mate by a rope. The able bodied climber is in danger of being pulled in too.

What would you do? Fall to your deaths together or cut the rope?

Poster

This film tells of the decision and the repercussions which could haunt their lives. An action docu-drama with a psychological twist.

Chidham & Hambrook Village Hall Friday, 5 th June, 7 p.m.
Reception with Free drink, then upstairs to watch the film.
Tickets: £5 members, £6 non-members.
Order in advance or take a chance at the door. Phone 572902 or 574074
All proceeds to the hall restoration fund.