Slaley, Northumberland

The main feature on Friday 22nd October 2004 is Troy, directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Brad Pitt (Achilles), Brian Cox (Agamemnon), Eric Bana (Hector) and Diane Kruger (Helen).
We are also showing a short film (thanks to Larry Winger of Northumbrian Music Nights) about a trip to Sweden by a group of young musicians from Northumberland, where they played with young Swedish traditional musicians, as part of the SNAP (Sweden North Pennines Adventure) project.
Future shows will take place on the third Friday of each month, and the programme arranged so far will be as follows (all film titles are linked to entries in the Internet Movie Database, a mine of information about everything to do with the cinema).
Friday, 19th November, 2004 Amelie (Certificate 15)
“Amelie, a young and innocent girl with her own distinctive way of looking at the world, decides to help the people living in her part of Paris to find love. ”
Friday, 17th December, 2004 Cinderella (Certificate U)
“Friendly mice and birds and a fairy Godmother help an oppressed woman escape by helping her meet an eligible prince. ”
Friday, 21st January, 2005 Love, Actually (Certificate 15)
“Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely and interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London. ”
Friday, 18th February, 2005 (To be selected)
Friday, 18th March, 2005 (To be selected)
Friday, 15th April, 2005 (To be selected)
Friday, 20th May, 2005 (To be selected)
As you will see, we have still to choose four films for 2005: help us to select them by sending your suggestions to Michael Elphick. This website will carry updated information about the programme, and the films to be shown.
Another amusing website is the Four Word Film Review, which includes the following brief reviews:
Troy “Time wounds all heels”
Amelie “French girl strikes matches”
Cinderella “Cindy follows foot prince”