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ANIMATION WORKSHOP- SATURDAY 14 MARCH
The Pound, Pound Pill, CORSHAM, 10am-4pm, £10
Spend the afternoon with friends or family making a short model animation film. Working with Helen Hewitt, participants will work in small groups - all you need to bring is your imagination. Each participant will receive their own CD copy. Places are limited so do book early. The finished films will be screened before Millions on Sunday 15 March and again at ‘Shortcuts’ on Saturday 21 March, so come and admire your efforts on the big screen!
www.animationforeducation.co.uk
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Spend the afternoon with friends or family making a short model animation film. Working with Helen Hewitt, participants will work in small groups - all you need to bring is your imagination. Each participant will receive their own CD copy. Places are limited so do book early. The finished films will be screened before Millions on Sunday 15 March and again at ‘Shortcuts’ on Saturday 21 March, so come and admire your efforts on the big screen!
www.animationforeducation.co.uk
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BOLLYWOOD NIGHT-SATURDAY 14 MARCH- SOLD OUT
This film is sold out, sorry.
LAGAAN
Ashutosh Gowariker
India, 2001, 223min (plus interval), PG, subtitles
The Pound, Pound Pill, CORSHAM, 7pm
£6 including Indian buffet provided by HAQUE’S INDIAN TAKEAWAY
Join us for Indian drinks, snacks and music before the all singing, all dancing main feature. It’s 1893, under British rule. A rural village must pay its taxes to a harsh Army captain. They can’t pay because crops have failed due to the monsoon failing, so the captain strikes a bargain: a cricket match. Win, and they pay nothing; lose, and the tax is trebled. One snag: they have never even seen cricket, let alone played it. A young hero rallies the villagers who rise to the challenge, their courage confronting British arrogance and ruthlessness, climaxing in the most exciting game you will ever have seen. A myth of independence and India’s love of cricket, featuring beautiful rural landscapes, captivating songs and dancing, comedy, romance and heroic action. Genuine Bollywood, this is a modern Indian classic.
Sponsored By Haque's
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LAGAAN
Ashutosh Gowariker
India, 2001, 223min (plus interval), PG, subtitles
The Pound, Pound Pill, CORSHAM, 7pm
£6 including Indian buffet provided by HAQUE’S INDIAN TAKEAWAY
Join us for Indian drinks, snacks and music before the all singing, all dancing main feature. It’s 1893, under British rule. A rural village must pay its taxes to a harsh Army captain. They can’t pay because crops have failed due to the monsoon failing, so the captain strikes a bargain: a cricket match. Win, and they pay nothing; lose, and the tax is trebled. One snag: they have never even seen cricket, let alone played it. A young hero rallies the villagers who rise to the challenge, their courage confronting British arrogance and ruthlessness, climaxing in the most exciting game you will ever have seen. A myth of independence and India’s love of cricket, featuring beautiful rural landscapes, captivating songs and dancing, comedy, romance and heroic action. Genuine Bollywood, this is a modern Indian classic.
Sponsored By Haque's
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MILLIONS- SUNDAY 15 MARCH
MILLIONS
Danny Boyle
UK, 2005, 98min, 12a
Selwyn Hall, Valens Terrace, BOX, 4.30pm
£4/£3 conc/£12 family
The UK is about to switch to the Euro, giving a gang a chance to rob a train loaded with money on its way to incineration. During the robbery, a money bag falls literally from the sky onto the playhouse of Damian, a withdrawn boy given to talking to imaginary saints. Damian wants to use the money to help the poor and needy, but his street-wise elder brother has other ideas, Philanthropy and capitalism collide in this tale of sibling rivalry. All ages will find Millions entertaining and meaningful - a well-mixed morality tale of humour and imagination, with a few twists of scariness to spice the mix.
Sponsored By Tim Matcham Garden Design
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Danny Boyle
UK, 2005, 98min, 12a
Selwyn Hall, Valens Terrace, BOX, 4.30pm
£4/£3 conc/£12 family
The UK is about to switch to the Euro, giving a gang a chance to rob a train loaded with money on its way to incineration. During the robbery, a money bag falls literally from the sky onto the playhouse of Damian, a withdrawn boy given to talking to imaginary saints. Damian wants to use the money to help the poor and needy, but his street-wise elder brother has other ideas, Philanthropy and capitalism collide in this tale of sibling rivalry. All ages will find Millions entertaining and meaningful - a well-mixed morality tale of humour and imagination, with a few twists of scariness to spice the mix.
Sponsored By Tim Matcham Garden Design
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YOUNG @ HEART- SUNDAY 15 MARCH
YOUNG @ HEART
Stephen Walker
UK, 2008, 107min, PG
Selwyn Hall, Valens Terrace, BOX, 7.30pm
£4/£3 conc/£12 family
This documentary follows the lives, and sometimes deaths, of a remarkable group of pensioners with an inspirational zest for life. Under musical direction, they form a choir singing songs from James Brown to Coldplay. Refusing to let the onset of age and diminishing health get in their way, they proceed to tour the world. As one member drily comments ‘from continent to continent, till I became incontinent’. One particularly moving scene has the choir reducing an audience of hardened state penitentiary prisoners to tears. Young @ Heart offers an uplifting and heart-warming lesson in how to get the most out of life.
Sponsored By GREENWOOD DIRECT
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Stephen Walker
UK, 2008, 107min, PG
Selwyn Hall, Valens Terrace, BOX, 7.30pm
£4/£3 conc/£12 family
This documentary follows the lives, and sometimes deaths, of a remarkable group of pensioners with an inspirational zest for life. Under musical direction, they form a choir singing songs from James Brown to Coldplay. Refusing to let the onset of age and diminishing health get in their way, they proceed to tour the world. As one member drily comments ‘from continent to continent, till I became incontinent’. One particularly moving scene has the choir reducing an audience of hardened state penitentiary prisoners to tears. Young @ Heart offers an uplifting and heart-warming lesson in how to get the most out of life.
Sponsored By GREENWOOD DIRECT
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I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG - MONDAY 16 MARCH- SOLD OUT
We're sorry but this film is sold out.
Philippe Claudel
France, 2008, 115min, 12a, subtitles
The Century (formerly Chapel etc), Martingate Centre, CORSHAM. Bar open from 7pm; film 8pm
£4/£3 conc/£12 family
This elegantly moving drama stars Kristin Scott Thomas as
Juliette, taken in by her estranged sister, Lea, after a long and mysterious absence, Her grim and unnameable secret has sent her family into collective shock and dysfunction over the past 15 years. Attempting to rebuild her life, tensions soon emerge due to the nature of Juliette’s absence and as Lea’s husband questions whether it’s safe for her to be around their children. The insightful script gradually reveals its secrets, creating extraordinary emotional tension throughout.Through Claudel’s remarkable character study, we are forced to see Juliette as a person, not a monster.
Sponsored By The Century
Philippe Claudel
France, 2008, 115min, 12a, subtitles
The Century (formerly Chapel etc), Martingate Centre, CORSHAM. Bar open from 7pm; film 8pm
£4/£3 conc/£12 family
This elegantly moving drama stars Kristin Scott Thomas as
Juliette, taken in by her estranged sister, Lea, after a long and mysterious absence, Her grim and unnameable secret has sent her family into collective shock and dysfunction over the past 15 years. Attempting to rebuild her life, tensions soon emerge due to the nature of Juliette’s absence and as Lea’s husband questions whether it’s safe for her to be around their children. The insightful script gradually reveals its secrets, creating extraordinary emotional tension throughout.Through Claudel’s remarkable character study, we are forced to see Juliette as a person, not a monster.
Sponsored By The Century
DIVIDED WE FALL - TUESDAY 17 MARCH
DIVIDED WE FALL
Jan Hrebejk
Czech Republic, 2000, 122min, PG, subtitles
Lacock Village Hall, East Street, LACOCK, 8pm
£4/£3 conc/£12 family
This beautifully constructed story is set in a small town in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. The characters
are well-crafted and finely nuanced (their names, translated, are Mary, Joseph and David). They are depicted without judgment: not every collaborator is deserving of punishment, and not every so-called resistance fighter is a hero, in this portrayal of wartime loyalties. The film is graceful, well paced, intelligent and thought provoking and there is a good measure of laugh-out-loud humour in this gripping thriller. It is an emotionally rewarding film that thoroughly satisfies the mind and soul.
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Jan Hrebejk
Czech Republic, 2000, 122min, PG, subtitles
Lacock Village Hall, East Street, LACOCK, 8pm
£4/£3 conc/£12 family
This beautifully constructed story is set in a small town in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. The characters
are well-crafted and finely nuanced (their names, translated, are Mary, Joseph and David). They are depicted without judgment: not every collaborator is deserving of punishment, and not every so-called resistance fighter is a hero, in this portrayal of wartime loyalties. The film is graceful, well paced, intelligent and thought provoking and there is a good measure of laugh-out-loud humour in this gripping thriller. It is an emotionally rewarding film that thoroughly satisfies the mind and soul.
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BUDDHA COLLAPSED OUT OF SHAME - WEDNSEDAY 18
BUDDHA COLLAPSED OUT OF SHAME
Hana Makhmalbaf
Iran, 2008, 77min, PG, subtitles
ByBrook Valley School, The Street, YATTON KEYNELL, 8pm
£4/£3 conc/£12 family
A poetic look at how violence and tragedy shape the lives and minds of children. In rural Afghanistan, where the Taliban blew up the gigantic ancient statues of the Buddha in 2001, a little girl is determined to go to school in a village still littered with rubble from the explosion. The obstacles she faces turn this everyday ambition into an epic struggle. This part-documentary, part-fantasy, by a 19 year old director, shows life under the Taliban from a child’s perspective, weaving extraordinary images of rural life into this deeply moving, but unsentimental story.
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Hana Makhmalbaf
Iran, 2008, 77min, PG, subtitles
ByBrook Valley School, The Street, YATTON KEYNELL, 8pm
£4/£3 conc/£12 family
A poetic look at how violence and tragedy shape the lives and minds of children. In rural Afghanistan, where the Taliban blew up the gigantic ancient statues of the Buddha in 2001, a little girl is determined to go to school in a village still littered with rubble from the explosion. The obstacles she faces turn this everyday ambition into an epic struggle. This part-documentary, part-fantasy, by a 19 year old director, shows life under the Taliban from a child’s perspective, weaving extraordinary images of rural life into this deeply moving, but unsentimental story.
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SEACHD - THURSDAY 19 MARCH
SEACHD: THE INACCESSIBLE PINNACLE
Simon Miller
Scotland, 2007, 100 min, PG, subtitles
St John the Baptist Church, GASTARD, 8pm
£4/£3 conc/£12 family
A young man, Angus, visits his dying grandfather in hospital, reviving his boyhood quest for the truth behind the death of his parents on the mountain, and that behind his grandfather’s ancient, incredible stories, from Gaelic mythology, of poisoned lovers, bloody revenge, water-horses and Spanish gold. His grandfather intervenes in Angus’ fate for one last time, leading him to one of Skye’s most treacherous mountains, the Inaccessible Pinnacle, and an ancient truth he never expected to find. Seachd means seven in Gaelic, referring to the seven stories intertwined in this poetic and visually stunning film, the first Scottish Gaelic feature film.
Sponsored By Jay Macleod
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Simon Miller
Scotland, 2007, 100 min, PG, subtitles
St John the Baptist Church, GASTARD, 8pm
£4/£3 conc/£12 family
A young man, Angus, visits his dying grandfather in hospital, reviving his boyhood quest for the truth behind the death of his parents on the mountain, and that behind his grandfather’s ancient, incredible stories, from Gaelic mythology, of poisoned lovers, bloody revenge, water-horses and Spanish gold. His grandfather intervenes in Angus’ fate for one last time, leading him to one of Skye’s most treacherous mountains, the Inaccessible Pinnacle, and an ancient truth he never expected to find. Seachd means seven in Gaelic, referring to the seven stories intertwined in this poetic and visually stunning film, the first Scottish Gaelic feature film.
Sponsored By Jay Macleod
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EMMA’S BLISS - FRIDAY 20 MARCH
EMMA’S BLISS
Sven Taddicken
Germany, 2006, 99min, 15, subtitles, 8pm
Village Hall, Yatton Road, BIDDESTONE
£4/£3 conc/£12 family
Rural and urban ways collide in this charming tale of Emma, a sexually frustrated pig-farmer (brilliantly played by Jördis Triebel) whose smallholding is about to be repossessed by her creditors. Salvation comes in the form of Max, a terminally ill car-dealer who, quite literally, crashes into her life after absconding from his firm with a stash of their money. The ever-resourceful Emma quickly puts a plan into action, and it isn’t long before she has Max under the spell of her earthy charms. This heart-felt, unpretentious romcom is brimming with warm performances and wry humour.
‘a storytelling, acting and visual treat’ european-films.net
Sponsored By Flemish Weaver
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Sven Taddicken
Germany, 2006, 99min, 15, subtitles, 8pm
Village Hall, Yatton Road, BIDDESTONE
£4/£3 conc/£12 family
Rural and urban ways collide in this charming tale of Emma, a sexually frustrated pig-farmer (brilliantly played by Jördis Triebel) whose smallholding is about to be repossessed by her creditors. Salvation comes in the form of Max, a terminally ill car-dealer who, quite literally, crashes into her life after absconding from his firm with a stash of their money. The ever-resourceful Emma quickly puts a plan into action, and it isn’t long before she has Max under the spell of her earthy charms. This heart-felt, unpretentious romcom is brimming with warm performances and wry humour.
‘a storytelling, acting and visual treat’ european-films.net
Sponsored By Flemish Weaver
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SHORTCUTS - SATURDAY 21 MARCH
The Pound, Pound Pill, CORSHAM, 4pm
FREE EVENT (still book a ticket)
During the half term holiday a group of youngsters attended workshops at The Pound with Film @ The Pound’s very own film director, Oscar Stringer and local actor and film-maker Mark Bishop.. They scripted, acted, filmed and edited their own short films, all based in local businesses, using state-of-the-art digital equipment. Come and watch the magnificent results. We’ve also had youngsters from the local schools submitting their favourite YouTube clips to us which we’ll be showing on the big screen this afternoon. Come and have a look at what the youngsters of Corsham are into.And last , but by no means least, we’ll be showing the short films that were created during the animation workshop on Saturday 14 March. Films throughout the festival will be preceded by some of these films as well.
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FREE EVENT (still book a ticket)
During the half term holiday a group of youngsters attended workshops at The Pound with Film @ The Pound’s very own film director, Oscar Stringer and local actor and film-maker Mark Bishop.. They scripted, acted, filmed and edited their own short films, all based in local businesses, using state-of-the-art digital equipment. Come and watch the magnificent results. We’ve also had youngsters from the local schools submitting their favourite YouTube clips to us which we’ll be showing on the big screen this afternoon. Come and have a look at what the youngsters of Corsham are into.And last , but by no means least, we’ll be showing the short films that were created during the animation workshop on Saturday 14 March. Films throughout the festival will be preceded by some of these films as well.
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DOUBLE BILL- SATURDAY 21 MARCH
DOUBLE BILL
Town Hall, High Street,
CORSHAM
Double bill £9/£7.50
The Strongman £6/£5
The Fall £4/£3
THE STRONGMAN
Frank Capra
USA, 1926, 75min, U, 7.30pm
Silent b/w with live piano accompaniment
A meek World War I soldier receives letters and a photo from an American girl he has never met. In search of her, he journeys to America after the war as assistant to a theatrical strong man, Zandow the Great. After adventures in New York, he finally finds her in a lawless frontier town…just as Zandow is incapacitated and he has to play the part of the strongman. Harry Langdon is an unjustly overlooked great from the silent comedy era, his visual comedy on a par with Lloyd and Keaton. Capra went on to direct ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’, and his talent for comedy and romance is apparent here. The film will be accompanied as usual by the incomparable James Harpham, with an original piano score specially commissioned for this performance.
THE FALL
Tarsem Singh
India/UK/USA, 2008, 117min, 15
9.30pm
A hospital in 1920s Los Angeles.
An injured silent movie stuntman entertains another patient, a little girl with a broken arm, with a fantastical story. With his tormented state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances. His heartbreak and desire for revenge over the loss of his girlfriend to the leading man is woven into the story, and his dark motives for telling it are revealed. Filmed over four years and 18 countries including India, Bali, South Africa and Italy, this visually extravagant, sumptuous film features unforgettable poetic and surreal images from amazing but real locations.
Book tickets online via Pound Art Centre
Town Hall, High Street,
CORSHAM
Double bill £9/£7.50
The Strongman £6/£5
The Fall £4/£3
THE STRONGMAN
Frank Capra
USA, 1926, 75min, U, 7.30pm
Silent b/w with live piano accompaniment
A meek World War I soldier receives letters and a photo from an American girl he has never met. In search of her, he journeys to America after the war as assistant to a theatrical strong man, Zandow the Great. After adventures in New York, he finally finds her in a lawless frontier town…just as Zandow is incapacitated and he has to play the part of the strongman. Harry Langdon is an unjustly overlooked great from the silent comedy era, his visual comedy on a par with Lloyd and Keaton. Capra went on to direct ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’, and his talent for comedy and romance is apparent here. The film will be accompanied as usual by the incomparable James Harpham, with an original piano score specially commissioned for this performance.
THE FALL
Tarsem Singh
India/UK/USA, 2008, 117min, 15
9.30pm
A hospital in 1920s Los Angeles.
An injured silent movie stuntman entertains another patient, a little girl with a broken arm, with a fantastical story. With his tormented state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances. His heartbreak and desire for revenge over the loss of his girlfriend to the leading man is woven into the story, and his dark motives for telling it are revealed. Filmed over four years and 18 countries including India, Bali, South Africa and Italy, this visually extravagant, sumptuous film features unforgettable poetic and surreal images from amazing but real locations.
Book tickets online via Pound Art Centre