Winter Screening OUNDLE
If you want an enjoyable evening without travelling too far the Oundle cinema and its Village Outreach programme has a variety of films to tempt you out this winter. All Oundle films will be shown in the Stahl Theatre, West Street. Doors open at 7.15pm for ticket sales and bar services. The programme commences punctually at 7.45pm. We hope you will enjoy this season which is made possible only through the support and energy of the large number of volunteers who assist with our operations and grant support from Oundle Town Council.

Tickets £5, under 18s £3, are available from Oundle Festival Office, 4 New Street, Oundle PE8 4ED, on 01832 274734, via on line booking at www.oundlecinema.org. uk or on the door. Ticket availability can be checked on the night by telephoning 07840 732112 after 6.45pm; please note that this number does not receive voice or text messages.

Transport Volunteer Action will be pleased to arrange lifts to and from screenings in Oundle. Call 01832 275433 Monday to Friday 9.30am -12.30pm, or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Sunday 15 January - Sarah’s Key (12A) Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten-year old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard - their secret hiding place - and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Sixty seven years later Sarah’s story intertwines with that of Julia Jarmond, an American journalist investigating the roundup. In her research, Julia stumbles onto a trail of secrets that link her to Sarah, and to questions about her family’s future. French, subtitled, running time 111min.

Sunday 22 January - A Separation (PG) Set in Contemporary
Iran, A Separation is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. We meet thirty-something couple Nader and Simin in the divorce courts, with Simin insisting she wants to leave Iran. She does not want their ten-year-old daughter Termeh to grow up ‘in these circumstances’, she says. Nader disagrees, not least because his elderly father with Alzheimer’s lives with them and needs care. The action takes place over a few weeks, perhaps a few months, but it is one of those films that tricks you into believing it is unfolding in real time. Subtitled, running time 123 min.

Friday 10 February - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (15) Featuring Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, John Hurt and Ciarán Hinds and based on the classic novel of the same name, this international thriller is set at the height of the Cold War years of the mid-20th Century. George, a disgraced British spy, is rehired in secret by his government - which fears that the British Secret Intelligence Service, aka MI6, has been compromised by a double agent working for the Soviets. Running time 128 min.

Sunday 19 February - One Day (12A) After one day together - July 15th, 1988, their college graduation - Emma Morley (Anne Hathaway) and Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess) begin a friendship that will last a lifetime. She is a working-class girl of principle and ambition who dreams of making the world a better place. He is a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground. For the next two decades, key moments of their relationship are experienced over several July 15ths in their lives. Together and apart, we see Dex and Em through their friendship and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. Running time 107 min.

BRIGSTOCK
Friday 20 January - Bridesmaids (15) – 7.43pm Although lauded as a chick flick, this is a rom-com that both men and women will enjoy, centred on women’s relationships with each other, rather than with their men. Annie, a single, thirty-something woman with a failed cake shop business, is asked to be maid of honour for her best friend, Lillian. In her heart, she is horrified by Lillian’s disloyalty in leaving her behind in the dismal pit of spinsterhood. She instantly takes a dislike to one of the other bridesmaids, Helen, a superwoman who presumes to organise everything and believes herself a better friend to the bride-to-be than Annie. With her desire to make the bridesmaids’ parties and functions operate down at her own economic level. Annie’s own sense of failure is amplified and accelerated by the intolerable humiliation of being a bridesmaid. This threatens to poison everything, including a promising new relationship.Doors open at 7pm, tickets £4 including free popcorn.

Friday 17 February - Oranges & Sunshine (15) - 7.30pm Based on her own book, this film tells the grippingly disturbing story of how, almost single-handedly, against overwhelming odds and with no regard for her own personal safety, Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, uncovered one of the most significant social scandals in recent times. She reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and drew worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice. Children as young as four had been told that their parents were dead and had been sent to children’s homes on the other side of the world. They were promised oranges and sunshine, but they got hard labour and life in institutions. A scandal only brought to the attention of the public in the late 1980s through Margaret Humphreys courageous efforts. Doors open at 7pm, tickets £4 including free popcorn.

HARRINGTON
Wednesday 25 January - Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (U) - 7.30pm Emma Thompson returns with the sequel to Nanny McPhee. This time Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother, Mrs. Isabel Green, who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. Also starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans and Maggie Smith. For details please call Ann Butlin on 01536 710822.

GREAT ADDINGTON
Saturday 21 January - Gnomeo and Juliet (U) - 7.30pm Romeo and Juliet in cartoon style, with songs from executive producer Elton John, and set in British suburbia. For details please call Elaine Scott on 01536 330250.

RINGSTEAD
Friday 3 February - A Bunch of Amateurs (15) - 7.45pm Chosen for the Royal Film Performance in 2008 this comedy stars Burt Reynolds as an out-of-work Hollywood star who mistakenly thinks he is going to play King Lear at Stratford only to find he has been cast in a village amateur theatre production of the play. His arrival causes chaos. Also stars Imelda Staunton, Samantha Bond and Derek Jacobi. Tickets £4 from 01933 460373 or on the door. Bar available. Ringstead Village Social Club, High Street. Street parking and access from High Street or car park and disabled access off Back Lane.

Winter Screening