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	Films in Peel 2010 Programme
Doors open at 7.15 allowing access to wine bar. Films screened at 7.45 pm Matinees (marked M) Doors open 1.30. Film screened at 2.00 pm Tickets for all films £4 (concessions £3) available two weeks before screening date. Thompson Travel, Station Road Port Erin Celtic Gold, 5 Michael St. Peel Peter Norris Music, Finch Road, Douglas 'Mostly Manx', Nelson Street, Douglas Shakti Man, 68 Parliament Street, Ramsey Or on the door, if not sold out. If you would like to be added to our E-Mailing list, please click here.


MARCH		MARCH

Wednesday 10^th		Anne Frank [+ You} IOM Exhibition THE PIANIST (2002) 142mins Cert 15 The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, if not Europe. At the outbreak of the Second World War, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans. By the start of the 1940s, Szpilman has seen his world go from piano concert halls to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw and then must suffer the tragedy of his family deported to a German concentration camps, while Szpilman is conscripted into a forced German Labour Compound. At last deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 19, 1943 - May 16, 1943) and the Warsaw Uprising (1 August to 2 October 1944). Visit Website
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Wednesday 17^th		Anne Frank [+ You} IOM Exhibition THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS (2008) 94mins Cert 12A Director: Mark Herman Young Bruno lives a wealthy lifestyle in pre-war Germany along with his mother, elder sister, and SS Commandant father. The family relocates to the countryside where his father is assigned to take command a prison camp. A few days later, Bruno befriends another youth, strangely dressed in striped pyjamas, named Samuel who lives behind an electrified fence. Bruno will soon find out that he is not permitted to befriend his new friend as he is a Jew, and that the neighbouring yard is actually a prison camp for Jews awaiting extermination. Visit Website
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Saturday 27^th		Anne Frank [+ You} IOM Exhibition ANNE FRANK: THE WHOLE STORY” (2001) 120mins Cert 12 This well-made TV movie is a very moving experience. Seeing in graphic detail how a well-adjusted and endearing teenage girl deals with the horrors of persecution as her family is forced into hiding to avoid the Nazi terror cannot fail to engage the heart and mind. It shows Anne before the Nazi invasion of Holland as a bubbling girl eager for education and socialisation. Her indomitable spirit is well portrayed during her family's long months of hiding in the back of a factory in Amsterdam. Her physical deterioration after her capture is shown graphically, as is her will to survive to make her mark upon the world. Ironically, she did make her mark upon the world posthumously through her diary, the most-widely read work of non-fiction in the world after the Bible. The film stars Hannah Taylor-Gordon as Anne and Ben Kingsley as her father, Otto. Visit Website Matinee only at 2.00, doors open 1.30
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Wednesday 31^st		MORRIS: A LIFE WITH BELLS ON (2009) 100mins Cert 12 Directed by Lucy Akhurst Described as This is Spinal Tap meets Calendar Girls, the film follows the fortunes of an avant–garde Morris team in their struggle to push the boundaries of the venerable, ancient dance. Set around the country pub The Travellers Staff, the docu–style comedy proves that Morris is not just an innocent pub pastime involving hanky–waving and bearded men with staffs, but also that it has its politics–laden, ultra–competitive side too. The Millsham Morris men and their leader Derecq Twist are determined to achieve Morris perfection. But Derecq is also preparing to set the Morris world alight by performing the ultimate dance within the Morris firmament, the legendary Threeple Hammer Damson. As if this is not enough, he is in addition pioneering an innovative, daringly freeform brand of the dance dubbed "Extreme Morris," drawing the anger of traditionalist elements within the Morris community. When Millsham unveil their creation in competition, the Morris Circle – the governing body of Morris in the UK – bans Derecq from future competition. Totally devastated by the decision, Derecq embarks on a global odyssey through tragedy and triumph, which gravely tests his passion for Morris. Visit Website
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APRIL		APRIL
Wednesday 14^th		ME & ORSON WELLES (2008) 114mins cert 12A Directed by Richard Linklater and starring Zac Efron, Christian McKay, and Claire Danes. The film was shot in the Isle of Man, London, and New York in February, March, and April 2008. In New York in 1937, 17-year-old Richard Samuels (Efron) meets theatre director Orson Welles (McKay), whom he convinces to give him the role of Lucillus in Julius Caesar, Broadway's first Shakespearean production. Welles, who is having an extramarital affair with the leading actress while his wife is pregnant, couples Richard with production assistant Sonja Jones (Danes) to rehearse. Welles decides the entire production crew would benefit from a coupling game, and Richard cheats to ensure he is paired with Sonja. Visit Website
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Wednesday 28^th		BRIGHT STAR (2009) 119mins Cert PG Directed by Jane Campion London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23 year-old English poet, John Keats (Ben Whishaw), and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), an out-spoken student of high fashion. This unlikely pair begin at odds, he thinking her a stylish minx, while she was unimpressed not only by his poetry but also by literature in general. However, when Fanny heard that Keats was nursing his seriously ill younger brother, her efforts to help touched Keats and when she asked him to teach her about poetry he agreed. The poetry soon became a romantic remedy that worked not only to sort their differences, but also to fuel an impassioned love affair. When Fanny's alarmed mother and Keats' best friend finally awoke to their attachment, the relationship had an unstoppable momentum. Intensely and helplessly absorbed in each other, the young lovers were swept deeply into powerful new sensations, "I have the feeling as if we're dissolving," Keats wrote to her. Together they rode a wave of romantic obsession that only deepened as their troubles mounted. When Keats fell ill a year later, the two young lovers faced no marriage but separation. In Keats' own poignant words, "forever panting and forever young." Visit Website
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MAY		MAY
Wednesday 12^th		A SERIOUS MAN (2009) 105mins Cert 15 Dir: Joel & Ethan Coen "A Serious Man is the story of an ordinary mans search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik (Tony Award nominee Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances, Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed), who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larry’s unemployable brother Arthur (Richard Kind) is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny (Aaron Wolff) is a discipline problem and a shirker at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah (Jessica McManus) is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job." Visit Website
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Wednesday 26^th		2012 (2009) 157mins Cert 12A, Director: Roland Emmerich With: Amanda Peet, Chin Han, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Jimi Mistry, John Cusack, Liam James, Morgan Lily, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Tom McCarthy, Woody Harrelson Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world. Visit Website