Sunday 23rd September Loving Vincent UK (2017) 1 hr 37 mins Dir: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman Loving Vincent takes place a year after Vincent van Gogh’s death following Armand Roulin as he investigates what exactly caused van Gogh to take his own life. We follow Armand as he explores the people and places surrounding Vincent in his final weeks. The entire film was hand painted in oil by over 125 different artists bringing about 80 of Vincent’s most famous paintings to life
Sunday 14th October I am not a Witch UK/ France (2017) 1hr 33mins Dir: Rungano Nyoni In a remote Zambian village, a nine-year-old girl is accused of being a witch and given a stark choice: accept her supernatural branding and live a tethered lifeas a sorceress, or cut her ties with local tradition and be transformed into a goat that may be killed and eaten for supper. Bewilderingly, strange yet terrifically sure-footed feature debut from writer-director Rungano Nyoni
Sunday 11th November Aurore - I Got life France (2017) 1hr 29 mins Dir: Blandine Lenoir Aurore is 50-ish and soon to become a grandmother. She feels she might as well be invisible as far as the world is concerned. Her boss can’t remember her name and even automatic doors fail to react as she approaches them. Is her future just a desert of loneliness and physical decline? Blending comedy, drama and romance. Starring Amelie’s Audrey Tautou.
For full details of Cinema Obscura’s 2018 -19 season of films contact Eddie Gaines on 01984 624657
Cinema Obscura Sunday 9th December Pulp
UK (1972) 1 hr 46mins Dir: Mike Hodges Michael Caine follows up his role of Jack Carter (in Hodges’ Get Carter) by playing a pulp novelist Mickey King enlisted to ghost write an autobiography of a mystery celebrity on Malta. His client turns out to be a former actor (Mickey Rooney) well known for gangster roles but soon to die. King soon finds his commission more complicated than he first imagined.
Films in the second half of our 2018 -19 season (in brief) Sunday 13th January 2019: Happy End (15) France / Germany 2017 Dir: Michael Haneke "All around us, the world, and we, in its midst, blind". A snapshot from the life of a bourgeois European family – expect the unexpected as this is a film by Michael Haneke. Sunday 10th February 2019: Zama (15) Argentina 2018 Dir: Lucrecia Martel Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is, to a better place. Sunday 10th March 2019: Berlin Syndrome (15) Australia/ France 2017 Dir: Cate Shortland A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship, when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave. Sunday 14 April 2019: Summer 1993 (12A) Spain 2017 Dir: Carla Simón Based on the director's own childhood. In the summer of 1993, following the death of her parents, six year old Frida moves from Barcelona to the Catalan countryside to live with her aunt and uncle.
All our screenings are at the New Hall Wiveliscombe Primary School, North Street, Wiveliscombe. TA4 2LA Directions: From centre of Wiveliscombe, turn right into North Street from the White Hart Hotel. The Primary School is approx 200 yards on the left. The New Hall is on right hand side of the Primary School - Good disabled access Limited parking is also available via Tuckers Meadow ( just past the school on the left ) At the end of the screening – we ask that you please respect the local neighbours by leaving the Primary School vicinity quietly.
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