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22 September: LAUREL & HARDY Towed in a Hole (1932), Saps at Sea (1940), The Music Box (1932). 100 mins. CERT U 7:30pm, at The Kings Theatre Join us at The Kings Theatre for an evening of films by the greatest comedy duo of all time. PFS are showing their classics Saps at Sea, Towed in a Hole and Oscar winner The Music Box. The Kings Theatre, will have an exhibition of Laurel and Hardy memorabilia. Buy a ticket and will can save £2 off the Laurel and Hardy show on 29 August, also at the Kings Theatre. Contact the Kings Theatre Box office on (023) 92828282. www.kings-southsea.com |
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Saturday 25 September: FREE VIDEOMAKING WORKSHOP For the 2010 Portsmouth Film Festival PFS is running a short one day video workshop. Places are free but booking is essential. Call Dawn Hope (023) 9229 1346 1pm-4pm in Omega Centre |
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Tuesday 5 October: AMAZING GRACE (UK, 2006) Director: Michael Apted Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Michael Gambon, Albert Finney 117 mins. CERT PG Doors 6:30pm; Event 7pm At a time when slavery was seen as not only acceptable but necessary for the economy, William Wilberforce and his fellow abolitionists dared to speak out against this massive injustice. Showing as part of Black History Month in association with the Portsmouth Racial Equality Network Organisation. The evening will feature African music and food, and a special introductory talk. Black History Month events are supported by Screen South and the UK Film Council Regional Investment Fund for England (RIFE)   
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British Science Association presents Tuesday 12 October: CONTACT (USA, 1997) Director: Robert Zemeckis Jodie Foster, John Hurt, David Morse, James Wood 120 mins. CERT PG Doors 6pm, Event 6:15pm Based on the novel by Carl Sagan, Astronomer Dr Ellie Arroway discovers an signal broadcast from deep space. She and her fellow scientists decipher the message and discover detailed instructions for building a mysterious machine.  Presented with the British Science Association, Prof. Bob Nichol of the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth will discuss the real search for extra-terrestrial life. |
 | Tuesday 19 October: SHORTS::CUT 2010 Local short films nominated for The Guide Award for Best Local film. 7:30pm Tuesday 19 October.- Tickets £2 In partnership with Portsmouth's local newspaper, The News, short films submitted to Shorts::Cut '10 will be judged as part of The Guide Awards. The awards honour the best in local culture and entertainment, with awards given out at a glittering event held at the King's Theatre in Southsea. This is your chance to see the 9 films you can vote for on the final list of nominees on The News Guide website in the run up to the Awards Ceremony on November, 2010.  To be eligible, the film must be made, or the filmmakers should live or study within The News circulation area, including Portsmouth & Southsea, Havant, Fareham, Waterlooville, Chichester, Bognor Regis, Petersfield, and Bishop's Waltham. More info at www.shortscut.org.uk . |
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Tuesday 26 October: INVICTUS (USA, 2009) Director: Clint Eastwood Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon 133 mins. CERT 12A Doors 6:30pm Event 7pm After becoming president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela rejects revenge, forgives oppressors who jailed him 27 years for his fight against apartheid and finds hope of national unity in an unlikely place: the rugby field. Showing in association with PATCH. Black History Month events are supported by Screen South and the UK Film Council Regional Investment Fund for England (RIFE). The event will also feature African music and food, and a special introductory talk by a guest speaker.
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Tuesday 9 November: MICMACS (France 2009) Director: Jean Jeunet French with English subtitles 104 mins. CERT 12 7:30pm Bazil's life has been ruined by weapons. His father was killed by a landmine in Morroco, and then one night he himself is hit by a stray bullet from a robbery and left close to death. After losing his job, Bazil falls in with a strange band of junk yard merchants. When he runs across the weapons manufacturers who made the instruments of his misery, Bazil puts into motion a bizarre revenge plot with which his new friends are only too happy to help. |
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Tuesday 16 November: FIND YOUR TALENT Youth Cinema screening including short work produced by talented young people in the city. Organised by Portsmouth City Council. 7pm Tickets TBA. |
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Tuesday 23 November: DEPARTURES (Japan, 2008) Director: Yojiro Takita Japanese with English subtitles. 130 mins CERT 12A 7:30pm Departures, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film, is a moving, gently amusing film. Daigo, a 36-year-old cellist sees that there's no future in his musical career and returns to his remote home town where he applies for a job at what he thinks is a travel agency. It turns out to be a small firm specialising in journeys from which no traveller returns, and he's initiated into the subtle art of "encoffinment". At first he can't tell his young wife about his new profession, but eventually she comes to understand its importance. |
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British Science Association presents Tuesday 7 December: THE END OF THE LINE (UK 2009) Director: Rupert Murry 6pm Free Entry. "Imagine an ocean without fish. Imagine the global consequences. This is the future if we do not stop, think and act. This powerful documentary examines the imminent extinction of bluefin tuna, and the profound implications of a future world with no fish that would bring certain mass starvation." (www.endoftheline.com) Filmed across the world, over two years - featuring top scientists, indigenous fishermen and fisheries enforcement officials - The End of the Line is a wake-up call to the world. The screening will be accompanied by a talk and discussion on this important topic. |
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Saturday 11 December: I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND (Czech Rep. 2006) Director: Jiri Menzel Czech with English subtitles 119 mins. CERT 15 Doors open 6.30pm Event 7pm I Served the King of England is a picaresque tale from the great Czech filmmaker Jiri Menzel, director of the sixties classic Closely Observed Trains. The film introduces us to Jan Dite just as he is released from a prison just before the very end of a 15-year sentence. The story flashes back to retell Jan's story as he try to get by in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia. Like Menzel's Oscar winning classic, it is based on a novel by Bohumil Hrabal. and tells a sometimes blackly comic, sometimes bawdy tale of an man surviving through extraordinary times. |
