What's on 2011-2012: Season Thirteen
Welcome to our 2011-2012 season. We think it will be another season of great films that will keep you entertained, moved, perhaps inspired, but certainly not bored.
We hope you will join HFS for the season but remember that you don't need to be a member to come along. So, if you want to bring a friend, or spread the word, everyone is welcome to come and pay on the night. Films will be normally be shown at the Locus Centre in The Square in Aberfeldy, BUT the AGM, now rearranged for Friday 24th February 2012, will be at the new Breadalbane Community Campus, Crieff Road, Aberfeldy. Directly after the AGM the film we will be showing (at the campus) is The Guard (not in the original programme - as the film previously chosen is not yet available). Please try to come along to sample the cinematic attractions of the campus as we would like to hear your views on its advantages and disadvantages compared with the Locus Centre before we decide where our next season of films should be shown. PLEASE ALSO NOTE we are pleased to announce an extra and very special film event on Sunday 11 March 2012 - a French evening at Aberfeldy Town Hall with a double bill (Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources) starting at 5pm. See below for more information. Go to the Beanometer page for this season's scores. | September 2011: Submarine
October 2011: Neds November 2011: Chico and Rita December 2011: Harold and Maude January 2012: Skeletons February 2012: Inside Job February 2012 (HFS AGM): The Guard (Note new date and film) March 2012: Never Let Me Go March 2012: Double Bill: Jean de Florette & Manon des Sources April 2012: The French Lieutenant's Woman May 2012: Of Gods and Men |
SEPTEMBER 2011: Submarine7.30 pm 1st and 2nd Sept 2011 NB THESE SHOWINGS ARE AT BREADALBANE SCHOOL CAMPUS
Family life in the Welsh town of Barry is stirred up by the fantasies of a teenager who’s convinced that his mum’s having an affair. He sets out to bring his family back together again, whilst trying to impress his classmate who “hates any place that could be called romantic”. Funny and sweet, directed by Richard Ayoade and adapted from his own novel by Joe Dunthorne.
UK 2010
96 minutes Certificate 15 |  |
OCTOBER 2011: Neds7.30pm 6th and 7th October 2011
Peter Mullan directs and acts in his first film for eight years. Neds, set in a Glasgow 1970s world of non-educated delinquents is as angry and menacing as Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and features a remarkable cast of debut actors.
UK 2010
124 minutes Certificate 18 |  |
NOVEMBER 2011: Chico and Rita7.30pm 3rd and 4th November 2011
Sexy, sunny and sweet-natured, this lovely animation by film-maker Fernando Trueba and artist and designer Javier Mariscal is a 1940s love story with all the brassy passion of a Barry Manilow number, set in the nightclubs of Havana and New York.
Spain 2010
93 minutes Certificate 15 |  |
DECEMBER 2011: Harold and Maude7.30pm 1st and 2nd December 2011
Harold, bored and overly preoccupied with death, develops a relationship with the elderly Maude and learns something about life on the way. Voted forty fifth of the hundred funniest movies of all times this blackly comic film has become a cult classic.
USA 1971
91 minutes Certificate 15 |  |
JANUARY 2012: Skeletons7.30pm 12th and 13th January 2012
Dry as a bone comedy about a company that specialises in exorcising emotional demons…. by pointing their beepers at cupboards to see what skeletons might be lurking, before dragging them out and putting them to rest. Director Nick Whitfield balances the oddity with emotional truth to make an impressive debut.
UK 2010
93 minutes Certificate 15 |  |
FEBRUARY 2012: Inside Job7.30pm 2nd and 3rd February 2012
“If you're growing, you're not in recession … right?" so says Hank Paulson, former US treasury secretary, adding a bit more hot air to inflate the great financial bubble that popped with a very big bang in 2008. This gripping documentary about the global banking crisis is directed by Charles Ferguson and narrated by Matt Damon.
USA 2010
108 minutes Certificate 12A |  |
FEBRUARY 2012 (HFS AGM): The GuardAfter the HFS AGM now rearranged for 7.30pm on Friday 24th February (Breadalbane Campus)
On the west coast of Ireland, Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) is a small-town cop with a confrontational personality and a subversive sense of humour - but absolutely no interest in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) to his door ... a wickedly funny film with a few twists along the way.
Ireland 2011
96 minutes |  |
MARCH 2012: Never Let Me Go7.30pm 1st and 2nd March 2012
An intriguing and disturbing tale, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, set in a drab 1970s boarding school. It tells the story of two girls, played by Keira Knightly and Carey Mulligan, who accidentally learn what the future holds for them under the medical police state that rules their almost-but-not-quite England.
UK 2010
103 minutes Certificate 12A |  |
EXTRA DOUBLE BILL - MARCH 2012: Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources5.00pm Sunday 11th March, Aberfeldy Town Hall (with a 45 minute refreshment break between films)
This excellent double-bill will be shown on Sunday 11 March at Aberfeldy Town Hall – starting at 5pm with a 45 minute refreshment break between the film showings. We will provide a free glass of wine/soft drink with each film so come along for our first ever, cabaret style special screening. Hopefully, it will be a memorable evening and the first in a line of double-bill specials!
In Jean De Florette an old man (played by Yves Montand) and his only remaining relative (Daniel Auteuil) in a rustic French village are keen acquire an adjoining vacant property – for the spring water on the land there. They are frustrated when the man who has inherited the property (Gerard Depardieu) moves in, so they try to trick him by blocking up the spring. They then watch as their new neighbour, his wife and daughter Manon suffer as he struggles to keep his crops watered through the hot summer. In the sequel, Manon Des Sources, Manon (played by Emanuelle Beart) has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She determines to take revenge upon the men responsible for their woes in the first film. Both of these iconic French film dramas were directed by Claude Berri. Jean de Florette 1986 (120 mins) Manon des Sources 1986 (113 mins) | 
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APRIL 2012: The French Lieutenant's Woman7.30pm 5th and 6th April 2012
Harold Pinter’s screenplay translated John Fowles’ novel onto the big screen by splitting the story into parallel narratives: a modern story of acting, film and adultery and the story of the characters from the book. Meryl Streep’s performance and exquisite photography lighten the intellectual load. Directed by Karel Reisz and featuring Jeremy Irons.
UK 1981
129 minutes Certificate 12 |  |
MAY 2012: Of Gods and Men7.30pm 3rd and 4th May 2012
An austere and moving film as a group of elderly Cistercian monks in Algeria face a terrible threat from Muslim fundamentalists. “Thrillingly audacious, moving and real”. Directed by Xavier Beauvois.
France 2010
122 minutes Certificate 15 |  |
