The Warminster & District Film Society will be bringing the following films to the Ath over the next few months. Wednesday 18 March 2015, 7.30pm Mr. Turner 2½ hours Cert. 12A (UK/France/Germany - 2014) The acclaimed box office hit, Mr. Turner (Timothy Spall) explores the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric British painter. Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he exploits, he ends his life living incognito with a landlady in Chelsea. Throughout he travels, paints, stays with the aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty. Wednesday 15 April 2015, 7.30pm Pride 2 hours Cert. 15 (UK - 2014) The heartwarming comedy-drama, based on true events of an unlikely alliance between gay activists and a Welsh mining community in South Wales. Together they stood shoulder to shoulder against the government in 1984 and in so doing, unknowingly, paved the way for many of the civil rights that people enjoy today. Wednesday 6 May 2015, 7.30pm The Hundred Foot Journey 2 hours Cert. PG (USA/India - 2014) The family of a talented cook, are drifting through Europe after fleeing political violence in India that killed the family restaurant business and their mother. A car accident in rural France and the kindness of a young woman inspires Papa Kadam to set up an Indian restaurant there. Unfortunately, this puts him in direct competition with the snobbish Madame Mallorys (Helen Mirren) acclaimed haute cuisine establishment across the street. Wednesday 27 May 2015, 7.30pm The Rocket 11⁄2 hours Cert. 12 (Australia/Thailand/Laos -2013) A boy who is believed to bring bad luck to everyone around him leads his family and two new friends through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey through a land scarred by the legacy of war, to prove hes not bad luck he builds a giant rocket to enter the most exciting and dangerous competition of the year: the Rocket Festival. Subtitles Wednesday 10 June 2015, 7.30pm What We Did On Our Holiday 11⁄2 hours Cert. 12A (UK -2014) From the writers of BBC’s ‘Outnumbered’ this charming comedy tells the tale of Doug (David Tennant) and Abi (Rosamund Pike) and their three children as they travel to the Scottish Highlands for Dougs father Gordies (Billy Connolly) birthday party. Its soon clear that when it comes to keeping a secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are their biggest liability. Wednesday 1 July 2015, 7.30pm The Imitation Game 2 hours Cert. 12A (UK/USA - 2014) This multi-Oscar nominated film, based on the real life story of the legendary crypto-analyst Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbach), portrays the nail biting race against time to break the highly complex German Enigma code by Turing and his brilliant colleagues at the Governments top secret Bletchley Park during the dark days of World War II. All star cast including Keira Knightley and Charles Dance. Wednesday 22 July 2015, 7.30pm Finding Vivian Maier - Bonus Film 11⁄2 hours Cert. U (USA -2013) The extraordinary documentary about an American real estate agent, John Maloof, who on a trip to a local auction house in search of old pictures for a history book about his neighbourhood, secures a box full of old negatives. The power of these 100,000 images from the 1950s onwards by the late Vivian Maier, an eccentric nanny and secret social photographer, encourages John to share them with the world, earning Maier a posthumous reputation as one of the world’’s most accomplished street photographers. Wednesday 12 August 2015, 7.30pm The Theory of Everything 2 hours Cert. 12A (UK -2014) The stunning Oscar nominated film from the memoir ‘Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen’ by Jane Wilde Hawking (Felicity Jones) which deals with her relationship with her ex-husband, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne), his diagnosis of motor-neuron disease, and his success in physics.
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