GABLE END THEATRE
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Friday, 14
May 2010
AN
EDUCATION (cert. 12)
It was almost
an Oscar for Carey Mulligan’s depiction of
the young Lynne Barber in this film, adapted from the latter's memoir
of her
whirlwind teenage romance with a charming con man twice her age. The
early
1960s, with their parental and other concerns, are vividly re-created.
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Saturday, 29
May 2010
NOWHERE
BOY (cert. 15)
In her first full-length movie, the BritArt artist Sam Taylor Wood
gives us the
schoolboy John Lennon, raised by his Aunt Mimi and verging towards
delinquency;
but then his unstable birth mother reappears in his life and draws him
into an
emotional tangle just as he’s trying to assemble a skiffle group. |
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Friday, 25
June 2010
KATYN
(cert. 15)
Leading on
from
the Polish theme of this year’s St Magnus Festival, this is the most
recent
film from Poland’s veteran
film-maker, Andrzej
Wajda, in which he confronts the trauma and tragedy of Katyn forest,
where a
generation of Poland’s military
and intellectual élite
was massacred by Stalin’s NKVD, his father among them.
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Friday, 9
July 2010
A
SINGLE MAN
(cert.
15)
Colin Firth has the chance to show what a fine actor he can be in this
immensely stylish film, based on a story by Christopher Isherwood and
directed
by fashion designer Tom Ford: a day in the life of an English lecturer
in 1960s
Los Angeles as he
suppresses his grief after the accidental death of
his long-term partner.
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Friday, 23
July 2010
ME
& ORSON WELLES (cert. 12A)
Zac Efron
plays a
high-school student offered a part in Orson Welles's renowned 1937
production
of Julius Caesar on Broadway, with Christian McKay
giving an uncannily
convincing impersonation of the overbearing young Welles, rehearsing
the play
as a mirror of fascism in Europe and
upstaging on the film’s love interest. |
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Saturday, 7
August 2010
HOME
(cert. 15)
An Eco
parable:
Isabelle Huppert is mother to a large, happy-go-lucky bohemian family
who live
in glorious rural freedom next to an abandoned motorway, until the
motorway
project suddenly revives, and as the lorries start to roar, the family
stays put
to defy eco-progress, with disruptive, surrealistic, and often absurd
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SATURDAY
10 JULY - Fastliners
Often described as ‘Multi-National Blues Mayhem’ and
Eclectic Texas cum Chicago Roadhouse Blues’ the Fastliners consist of members
from three corners of the globe, Texas and Canada, Australia, and England and
Orkney and draw on blues material from the ‘40s to the ‘90s with a healthy
selection of original material thrown in for good measure. Drawing on rich,
diverse musical backgrounds they play electric and eclectic blues influenced
by Texas, Chicago and southern blues styles, as well as swing,
jump, funk, proto-rock and rockabilly.
Originally named ‘Last Train’, the Fastliners have
quickly gained a reputation as first class performers since they formed in
2008, not surprising considering some of the veteran musicians in the band.
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TUESDAY
27 JULY - Twelfth Day
Twelfth Day are
Catriona Price (fiddle/vocals) and Esther Swift (harp/vocals).
From opposite ends of Scotland, orcadian Catriona
and Esther who comes from the borders, started playing together when they were
flatmates during their music studies in Manchester.
Playing a mixture of
traditional and self-penned tunes and songs, this vibrant young duo have been
entrancing audiences at folk festivals and venues UK wide.
The music of Twelfth
Day is fast and furious yet subdued, playful yet reflective, mixing Scottish
folk music with jazz, opera and anything in between.
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WEDNESDAY 4 AUGUST -
Tiller's Folly
Tiller’s Folly, are
the Pacific Northwest's internationally
traveled, virtuosic ambassadors of song. For the past thirteen years, through
1,000's of performances they have spread their memorable blend of energy,
history, musicality, romance, and just plain fun. With seven CD's to their
credit, Tiller's continues to expand and refine their potent mix of Celtic
influenced Canadiana, Americana 'and beyond.'
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