Sun 1 Aug // 20:00 /

A Single Man

12a / 101 mins / Tom Ford / 2009 / USA

Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, this is the story of a British college professor (Colin Firth) who is struggling to find meaning to his life after the death of his long time partner and finds himself unable to go on. He plans to end his life and we follow him through what should be his last day, during which he rediscovers some of the things that could make life worth living again. The story is a romantic tale of love interrupted, the isolation that is an inherent part of the human condition, and ultimately the importance of the seemingly smaller moments in life. Firth won a BAFTA for best leading actor.

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Wed 4 Aug // 20:00 /

The Search for Shangri-la

Tibet on Film 1922-1950

Visiting a hidden world has always fascinated travellers and explorers. This selection of films from the BFI National Archive reveals extraordinary images taken in Tibet from 1922 -1950. The first film was taken during the 1922 attempt to climb Mount Everest. Subsequently British political officers undertook diplomatic missions – one such visit witnessed the Installation of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama in Lhasa. None of the original cameramen could have anticipated the devastating events that would overtake Tibet or predict the future for its religious leader. The images are poignant testimony and a vital record of that lost world

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Thu 5 Aug // 20:00 /

Glenn Veness – I Love This Town

U / / Glenn Veness / 2010 / UK

Glenn has put together a NEW selection of footage; new film along with a selection of his classic favourites showing the colourful people and events that have taken place in Hastings over the last thirty years up to this very year. Free entry, donations welcome!

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Fri 6 Aug // 20:00 /

Nine

12a / 118 mins / Rob Marshall / 2009 / USA

Set in early 1960s Venice, this big-budget musical based on Fellini’s 8 1/2 follows famous film director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) as he struggles to complete his latest project on the eve of his 40th birthday. Meanwhile, he must also juggle the various colourful women in his life: his wife Luisa (Marion Cotillard), his mistress Carla (Penelope Cruz), his muse Claudia (Nicole Kidman), his producer Liliane (Judi Dench), his mother (Sophia Loren) and even a prostitute who resurfaces from the depths of his past (Stacy Ferguson).

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Sat 7 Aug // 20:00 /

CARNIVAL NIGHT - CLOSED

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Sun 8 Aug // 20:00 /

Nine

12a / 118 mins / Rob Marshall / 2009 / USA

Set in early 1960s Venice, this big-budget musical based on Fellini’s 8 1/2 follows famous film director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) as he struggles to complete his latest project on the eve of his 40th birthday. Meanwhile, he must also juggle the various colourful women in his life: his wife Luisa (Marion Cotillard), his mistress Carla (Penelope Cruz), his muse Claudia (Nicole Kidman), his producer Liliane (Judi Dench), his mother (Sophia Loren) and even a prostitute who resurfaces from the depths of his past (Stacy Ferguson).

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Wed 11 Aug // 20:00 /

CLEO FROM 5 TO 7

Subtitles

PG / 89 mins / Agnes Varda / 1962 / France

Agnès Varda’s second feature remains a highlight of the extraordinary outpouring of French movies in the early 60s. Following a pop singer around the streets and parks of Paris as she whiles away two hours awaiting the results of some medical tests, this subtle, innovative character study also succeeds brilliantly as a stylish, vivid documentary-style portrait of a wondrously vibrant city.

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Thu 12 Aug // Fri 13 Aug // Sat 14 Aug // Sun 15 Aug // 20:00 /

Up in the Air

15 / 108 mins / Jason Reitman / 2009 / USA

George Clooney is at his smooth, sardonic best as Ryan Bingham, a management consultant specialising in the field of firing people. His work takes him around the country, helping him pursue his private goal of accumulating ten million miles in his frequent flyer account. Faced by a threat posed by colleague Natalie, who plans to introduce video links which would ground Bingham, he talks his way into one last round trip, in which he will show Natalie the ropes and persuade his boss to stick with the status quo. With its sharp script and crisp direction, Up in the Air is a pleasurable story of a supremely self-sufficient lone-wolf having to re-assess his priorities.

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Wed 18 Aug // Thu 19 Aug // 20:00 /

The Informant

15 / 108 mins / Steven Soderbergh / 2009 / USA

Matt Damon plays Marc Whitacre, successfully working his way up the company ladder at agri-industry giant ADM. Seeing himself as a crusader for truth, justice and the common man, Whitacre volunteers information on his company's multi-national price fixing conspiracy to the FBI. He eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase. After three years of clandestine operations and with the case about to come to trial, it turns out that Whitacre has been less than candid about some of his other activities, and a series of ever more jaw-dropping comic and dramatic revelations follow.

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Fri 20 Aug // Sat 21 Aug // Sun 22 Aug // 20:00 /

The Boys are Back

12a / 100 mins / Scott Hicks / 2009 / USA

Based on Simon Carr's popular memoir. The Boys are Back is a funny, anarchic and, above all, moving confessional drama about modern family life – complicated, fractured but still with great possibilities for love and joy. Clive Owen is Joe Warr, a wisecracking writer whose wife dies suddenly, leaving him to bring up their six-year-old son alone. In the midst of this arrives Harry, Joe's teenage son from his first marriage, who brings his own personal baggage into the mix. Joe decides the best way forward is least-resistance parenting, and introduces a 'just say yes' maxim. In a house devoid of feminine influence, with a cultivated lack of rules and deep emotion swirling below the surface, life becomes exhuberant, instinctive, reckless… and potentially disastrous.

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Wed 25 Aug // 20:00 /

The Browning Version

U / 86 mins / Anthony Asquith / 1951 / UK

Based on the Terence Rattigan play The Browning Version follows an aging public school teacher in the last days in his job before retirement, as he comes to terms with his sense of failure as a teacher, a sense of weakness exacerbated by his wife's infidelity and the realization that he is despised by both pupils and staff of the school. However, an unexpected parting gift by a pupil marks an emotional turning-point…

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Thu 26 Aug // Fri 27 Aug // Sat 28 Aug // Sun 29 Aug // 20:00 /

The Lovely Bones

12a / 135 mins / Peter Jackson / 2009 / USA

A young girl watches over her family - and her killer - from the afterlife in this poignant adaptation of the novel by Alice Sebold. Growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Susie Salmon has loving parents, as well as her wise and kindly Grandma Lynn. But tragedy strikes and Susie is just 14 years old when she is murdered on December 6th 1973. Finding herself in an in-between world that is neither Heaven nor Earth, Susie is able to watch over those she has left behind and try to help them catch her killer. Her father has "all the pieces of the puzzle" but can't put them together, while detective Len Fenerman questions neighbour Mr Harvey, and Susie's sister Lindsey embarks on her own dangerous hunt for the truth.

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Sun 29 Aug // 20:00 /

Hidden Connections

Free screenings of archive film footage from the Hidden Connections project – including Love Your Lido (footage from St Leonards Bathing Pool) and archive footage featuring Hastings Old Town. A partnership project between the Electric Palace, Stade Education Project and Fisherman’s Protection Society.

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