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The Navigator
Date Location
Cast adrift on a deserted ocean liner, Buster Keaton and his sweetheart must battle swordfish and cannibals in this classic silent comedy.
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28 Jul 11am The Hippodrome, Bo'ness
Negativnights
Date Location
Experimental film works by various artists, distorting the usual tropes of narrative and meaning.
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31 May 6.30pm
Rattray's work is an absurdist assemblage of trash culture and rudimentary internet aesthetics covering…
Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
7 Jun 6.30pm
Erica Eyres video work often uses familiar formats such as the mockumentary, video blog or motivational…
Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Never Too Late (Af paam lo meuchar miday)
Date Location
A delicate and moving tale about a young man returning to Israel after years spent living in South America. Hertzel (Nony Geffen) struggles to adjust to life at home, and having taken a job hanging posters he sets out on the road, encountering a mix of settled people and other lost souls on the way. Ido Fluk’s sensitive feature debut presents a protagonist searching for a lost identity in the landscape, photographed beautifully by cinematographer Itai Marom.
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24 Jun 3.15pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
30 Jun 7.15pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
NFA
Date Location
What happens when you wake up to discover the life you had is gone? Successful businessman Adam bids his pregnant wife and child goodnight – and then wakes up in a hostel for the homeless with no idea as to how he got there. A microbudget feature addressing a blight on current society, everything in NFA (No Fixed Abode) is drawn from true stories, with many of the cast and crew coming from the homeless community themselves.
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23 Jun 6.40pm
22 Jun 8.50pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: British Scenes
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
Night of the Living Dead
Date Location
(4 stars) Seminal black comedy shocker which spawned two increasingly nasty sequels and countless unauthorised imitations. A group of people barricade themselves into a farmhouse to seek refuge from the hordes of flesh-crazy undead, created by misfiring military experiments. Filmed on a shoestring in Pittsburgh, real gore was supplied by a local butcher. Though it now seems dated, the rough and grainy qualities of the film only serve to make it more horribly convincing.
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5 Jun 6pm Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow
A Night To Remember
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(3 stars) Before James Cameron's Titanic, there was this British version of the sinking. It's more obviously studio-bound than Hollywood's effects-laden spectacular, but has plenty of excitement in a stiff-upper-lip sort of way. And you care more for the characters. And note that Cameron lifted scenes almost wholly intact.
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2 Sep3 Sep Mon 11am; Sun 2.30pm The Hippodrome, Bo'ness
THE 99 Unbound
Date Location
Introducing to the screen in crisp computer generated animation the super heroes of Naif Al-Mutawa’s comic strip The 99, this feature debut from British animator Dave Osborne brings together the first five heroes connected by their special relationship with the Noor stones; Gem stones imbued with the wisdom and knowledge of the lost civilisation of Baghdad. Each represents one of the 99 attributes of Allah. An action packed international journey filled with intrigue, conflict and advocacy of…
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25 Jun 7pm
24 Jun 1.20pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Animation
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
Niño
Date Location
A witty and incisive portrait of an aristocratic Philippine family in decline. The elderly family patriarch is ill and his daughter wants to sell the house, to the alarm of his sister, Celia, a former opera star, who had been looking forward to spending her last years peacefully among her memories of the past. Celia pins her hopes for a miracle on her young grandson, whom she dresses up as the Santo Niño (holy child).
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25 Jun 6.40pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Philippine New Wave
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
No Man's Zone (Mujin chitai)
Date Location
Filmmaker Toshi Fujiwara journeys into the 20-kilometer zone around the afflicted Fukushima nuclear power station. Speaking with residents who are preparing to comply with the government’s order to evacuate the zone, Fujiwara elicits testimony of dedication to the past and uncertainty about the future. No Man’s Zone is at once a documentary record of a time of crisis and a reflection on the meanings of home and homelessness, on Japanese culture and on strength in adversity.
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23 Jun 2.15pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
27 Jun 5.45pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
North Sea Texas (Noordzee, Texas)
Date Location
(2 stars) In a small town on the Belgian coast, 15-year-old Pim (Florizoone) falls for floppy-haired Gino (Vergels). It's easy on the eye and features sensitive performances, especially from Florizoone and van der Gucht as his voluptuous mother, but clichéd symbolism and a predictable story rob it of emotional impact.
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29 May30 May Tue 6.20pm; Wed 4.10pm & 8.40pm Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow
NT Live: Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley's classic gothic tale, written by Nick Dear and realised by Danny Boyle in his return to theatre. The roles of Dr Frankenstein and the Creature are alternated between Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller.
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14 Jun 6.45pm
21 Jun 6.45pm
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
14 Jun 7.30pm
23 Jun 7.30pm
The Hippodrome, Bo'ness
14 Jun 7.30pm
23 Jun 2.30pm
The Hippodrome, Bo'ness
17 Jun 7.30pm Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow
NT Live: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Date Location
See the National Theatre's adaptation of Mark Haddoe's best-selling book on a big screen near you.
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6 Sep 7pm The Hippodrome, Bo'ness
Nuclear Nation
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After the 11 March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, residents of Futaba, a town in Fukushima Prefecture, are relocated to an abandoned high school in a suburb of Tokyo, 150 miles south. With a clear and compassionate eye, filmmaker Atsushi Funahashi follows the displaced people as they struggle to adapt to their new environment. Among the vivid personalities who emerge are the town mayor, a Moses without a Promised Land; and a farmer who would rather defy the government than abandon his cows…
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22 Jun 6pm
28 Jun 8.15pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
Of Skies and Earth (Sa Kanto ng Ulap at Lupa)
Date Location
A representative work by a director who has devoted his career to depicting the plight of children. Four young kids try to make a household together in a vacant hut in Nueva Vizcaya. 'The predictability of their daily routine has turned their simple lives into some sort of paradise. Their concerns are minuscule. Their main goal is survival, to eat at least a few times a day and to maintain a semblance of order in their motley crew'. (Oggs Cruz, film critic).
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22 Jun 7.10pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Philippine New Wave
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Oh, Mr Porter!
Date Location
A hapless railway employee is made stationmaster of Buggleskelly, but in trying to do his best for his station falls foul of a gang of gun runners.
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9 Sep Sun 2.30pm & 7.30pm
Screening with short Elizabethan Express.
The Hippodrome, Bo'ness
Oliver Sherman
Date Location
A lonely veteran travels to a rural town to reconnect with the soldier who saved his life during the war, but tensions arise as it becomes clear their post-war lives are very different.
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19 Jul 8pm The Hippodrome, Bo'ness
1 Day
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(3 stars) Well-meaning and yet fresh, that this 'hip-hop musical' plays so well is largely down to the courageous and painstakingly observed realism of writer/director Woolcock. The stylised action that at times risks drowning out the sobering message is also what makes the exuberant musical scenes flow, and the whole package does an important job in giving a voice to a disenfranchised sector of society.
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25 Jun 5.50pm
Screening followed by a panel discussion (c.50min) about the deadly culture of gang, gun, knife and…
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
One Day in September
Date Location
The extraordinary story of the kidnapping of Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorist organisation Black September during the 1972 Munich Olympics is retold through archive footage, stills and interviews.
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6 Jul8 Jul Fri 1pm; Sat 6pm; Sun 3.45pm Filmhouse, Edinburgh
One For the Money
Date Location
Romcom as a newly unemployed Heigl sets herself up as a bounty hunter, based on the book by Janet Evanovich.
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One Mile Away
Date Location
A compelling tale of courage and determination with a smooth hip-hop soundtrack. Dylan and Shabba, members of rival Birmingham gangs, attempt to broker a peace agreement after being introduced by filmmaker Penny Woolcock, who had directed Dylan in the drama 1 Day.
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24 Jun 9.30pm
Followed by a Q&A with Penny Woolcock, producer James Purnell and the young men in the documentary, and…
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
26 Jun 8pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Michael Powell Award Competition
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
One.Two.One (Yek.Do.Yek)
Date Location
Tautly directed and deftly rhythmical, this enthralling film is a showcase for an outstanding ensemble cast. Through a series of episodes, set in locations ranging from a skin-treatment clinic to a fortune-teller’s salon to a prison visiting room, a narrative of love, loss and renewal unfolds, centering on a beautiful woman who has been disfigured in an accident. The third feature film directed by Mania Akbari, the star of Abbas Kiarostami’s magnificent Ten.
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25 Jun 6.45pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: International Competition
Cameo, Edinburgh
27 Jun 8.20pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: International Competition
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
Opera Australia: Don Giovanni
Date Location
Opera Australia performs Mozart's opera about the charismatic ladies' man and adventurer.
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28 Jun 7pm The Hippodrome, Bo'ness
Opera Australia: Lakme
Date Location
Opera Australia's finest singers perform the story of forbidden romance between a British Army soldier stationed in India during the Raj and a beautiful Hindi princess.
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5 Jun 1pm Cameo, Edinburgh
7 Jun 1pm The Belmont, Aberdeen
Opera de Paris: La Bayadere
Date Location
Ballet performance of Marius Petipa's seminal work recounting the impossible love between a dancer and a warrior.
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31 May 1pm The Belmont, Aberdeen
Opera on Ice
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Opera performed with stunning ice dance accompaniment at the Arena di Verona.
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The Orator (O Le Tulafala)
Date Location
In the first feature film in Samoan, the dwarf Saili – son of the late village chief – wants to honour his family and become chief in his own right. He struggles to gain respect, though, because of his small stature. As slight piles upon slight, he must steel himself to make a courageous stand during a contest of ceremonial oratory. The Orator ’s stately pacing and lush sense of atmosphere, coupled with gorgeous cinematography from Kiwi DoP Leon Narbey (Whalerider), make for entrancing cinema.
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30 Jun 1.30pm
28 Jun 8.40pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
Outside Bet
Date Location
(1 star) Hoskins piles on the geezer as Percy 'Smudge' Smith, the head of a band of Fleet Street hacks who unwisely entrust their redundancy money to Bax (MacNab), who invests it on a racehorse. Dated misogynist comedy, bargain-basement sentimentality and glib moralising cause the film to fall at the first hurdle.
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Papirosen
Date Location
Young filmmaker Gaston Solnicki spent more than a decade recording the lives of various members of his Argentine Jewish family on video. The result is an engrossing and dramatic documentary that gathers together the vivid personalities and the sometimes painful memories of four generations of Solnickis. Accustomed to the presence of Gaston's amer, his relatives speak and behave with engaging and occasionally startling candour, revealing the disagreements that divide them and hinting at the…
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24 Jun 9pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: International Competition
Cameo, Edinburgh
26 Jun 6pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: International Competition
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
Passport To Pimlico
Date Location
A London borough discovers an ancient charter and declares its independence and exemption from rationing. Wonderful wit and fun as the Ealing Studios satirise British red tape and bureaucracy.
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Personal Best
Date Location
Towne's tale of two sportswomen competing to join the pentathlon squad for the 1980 US Olympic team explores their mutual attraction and how it develops into a passionate relationship.
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10 Jul 6pm Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Personal Best
Date Location
Filmed over four years, this documentary follows British sprinters on their respective journeys to the London 2012 Olympics.
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20 Jul23 Jul Mon 3.15pm & 8.40pm; Fri & Sat 4.15pm & 6.15pm; Sun 4pm & 8.40pm Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Philharmonia Orchestra
Date Location
Carl Davis conducts his own score to the 1925 silent film Ben Hur, accompanied by a screening of the film.
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9 Jun Jun 9, 7pm Royal Festival Hall at Southbank Centre, London SE1
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
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Not so much a documentary, nor a compendium of interviews, but an almost rarefied glimpse into a wholesale revolt from a rigid paradigm long upheld by the west as the only way to make a film. If you want to see how technology has democratised cinema, here is the tip of a massive iceberg'. (Khavn de la Cruz).
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23 Jun 9.45pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Philippine New Wave
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
Date Location
(3 stars) An inept pirate captain (Grant) attempts to win Pirate of the Year competition with the help of a young Charles Darwin (Tennant). Aardman's humour sometimes seems dated but Grant is pleasing, the visuals are enchanting, Staunton's Queen Victoria is a riot and there's much for the whole family to treasure.
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The Plague of the Zombies
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Long before Night of the Living Dead, Hammer horror made a bold move into zombie territory with this 1965 shocker. Inexplicable deaths in a Cornish village prompt a local doctor to call on his medical mentor for assistance. Professor Forbes arrives with his daughter and soon the churchyard gives up its secrets as the dead walk again at the bidding of a master with the power of voodoo at his command.
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12 Jun To be confirmed Cameo, Edinburgh
12 Jun 10.30pm Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
Polisse
Date Location
(3 stars) Sprawling ensemble drama about the daily routines of a Child Protection Unit of the Paris police. There are strong performances and writer/director Maiwenn conveys a powerful sense of naturalism – except for her credibility-stretching decision to cast herself as a glamorous civilian photographer who gets involved with a cop.
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15 Jun21 Jun Fri 3pm, 5.40pm & 8.15pm; Sat 2.45pm, 5.50pm & 8.25pm; Sun 5pm; Mon 3pm & 5.40pm; Tue 3.15pm & 8.20pm; Wed 2.45pm & 8.20pm; Thu 3pm, 5.40pm & 8.15pm
22 Jun28 Jun Fri 2.15pm & 8.15pm; Sat 5.40pm & 8.15pm; Sun 1.15pm & 7.15pm; Mon 12.45pm & 3.25pm; Tue 3pm, 5.40pm & 8.15pm; Wed 3pm & 5.50pm; Thu 3pm & 8.15pm
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow
6 Jul12 Jul Fri & Sat 1.10pm & 8.35pm; Sun 1.30pm & 5.50pm; Mon 3.15pm & 5.50pm; Tue 3pm & 5.50pm; Wed & Thu 3pm & 8.35pm Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Portrait of Jennie
Date Location
Unusual Oscar winning romance about a struggling artist who finds his muse one day in Central Park.
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23 Jun 8.30pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Atmosphere Programme.
Inspace, Edinburgh
Portraits from the Banana Plantations of Cameroon
Date Location
Preview of Jan Nimmo's latest film about banana workers, and the chance to find out more about the banana trade.
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4 Jul 6pm Glasgow Women's Library, Glasgow
Postcards from the Zoo (Kebun binatang)
Date Location
A charming and unclassifiable work. Instead of a linear narrative, one-named director Edwin uses a gently drifting series of images and episodes to follow the life of a young girl who is abandoned by her father to be brought up in a sprawling zoo in Jakarta. The second half of the film takes a different course as our heroine is lured outside her animal paradise into the more perilous world of humans.
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29 Jun 8pm
1 Jul 3.30pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Potterthon
Date Location
Alternatively billed as '24 Hours in Bed with Harry Potter', this is the geek endurance event to end all geek endurance events. Bring your PJs (which are requested to be 'in house colours') and snuggle up to watch all eight films of the Harry Potter series, from bed. Apparently there'll be Quidditch on the Meadows at lunchtime too, if you've got the energy. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Atmosphere Programme.
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30 Jun Midnight Inspace, Edinburgh
PP Rider (Shonben raida)
Date Location
Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped. Their bizarre, distinctively Somai-esque journey involves some of the director’s most astonishing long takes.
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21 Jun 3.30pm
Print courtesy of The National Film Center of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Part of Edinburgh…
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Primrose Path
Date Location
A teenager from a bad background escapes into marriage with a handsome cafe owner. When he finally meets her family, the troubles begin.
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11 Jul 8.50pm
Featuring an introduction by Chris Fujiwara, Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Private Worlds
Date Location
The flow of life at a progressive psychiatric hospital is disturbed by the arrival of the conservative new superintendent and his sister. This unusual melodrama, one of the first Hollywood films to deal with mental illness, is one of La Cava’s most visually arresting works.
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1 Jul 9.15pm
Print courtesy of La Filmoteca Espanola. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Retrospective…
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Prometheus
Date Location
Sci-fi adventure in which a team of scientists investigating alien life forms becomes stranded and has to fight a battle in which the safety of mankind is at stake.
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Pusher
Date Location
A remake of Nicholas Winding Refn's (also behind 2011's Drive) 1996 Danish film about a week in the life of a London drug pusher.
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21 Jun 8.20pm
22 Jun 9.15pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Michael Powell Award Competition
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
Puss in Boots
Date Location
(4 stars) Puss (Banderas) and Humpty Dumpty (Galifianakis) attempt to steal magic beans from Jack and Jill, with Hayek as feline accomplice Kitty Softpaws. Given the slackening quality of the Shrek franchise, the surprise is that this imaginative romp was one of the 2011's best animated family films.
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Le Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows)
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(4 stars) In pre-WWII Le Havre, army deserter Jean (Gabin) tries to protect beautiful Nelly (Morgan) from a gang of small-time hoods. The great collaboration between director Carné and poet/screenwriter Prévert begins here; it's dark, bitter, fatalistic and wonderful, and has been given a meticulous and well-deserved digital restoration.
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28 May31 May Mon 8.35pm; Tue 3.15pm & 9pm; Wed 3.15pm & 8.35pm; Thu 8.35pm Filmhouse, Edinburgh
The Queen
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(4 stars) A behind the scenes glimpse into the relationship between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, after the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning. Beautifully written and performed by all, this is the second part of director Frears' Blair trilogy.
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A Queen is Crowned
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Newly remastered documentary capturing all the pomp and ceremony of the Queen's coronation, narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier, screening as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
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3 Jun 3.30pm Cineworld St Helens, St Helens

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