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Most years you can guarantee a huge tussle when it comesto choosing our favourite films. In 2009 however there wasno getting around the fact that one film stood head and shouldersabove all others: Paolo Sorrentino’s Il Divo was a singularmasterpiece that marked the continuing upward spiralof the most distinctive new voice in European filmmaking.Honourable mention also goes to J.J. Abrams for finallygiving us a Star Trek movie that lived up to the original series,providing us with the most enjoyable film of 2009.As for this brochure it’s hard to imagine when we will screenthree more influential films than Citizen Kane, The Red Shoesand The Godfather in one programme. Jane Campion, Ang Leeand Michael Haneke fight it out for the new heavyweight directortitle but you couldn’t ask for a better way to head into Christmasholidays than with The Red Shoes.Colin Orr, Film Programmer

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The Soloist [12A]

Sunday 8 November / 3pm & 8pmMonday 9 November / 5pmDirector Joe WrightCast Robert Downey Jr, Jamie FoxxUSA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 57mJoe Wright, the director of Atonement, brings anoutsider’s perspective to LA Times writer Steve Lopez’smemoir of meeting and getting to know schizophrenichomeless musician Nathaniel Ayers. Very much in theShine mode, he captures not just the interaction of boththese troubled men but also the sounds and sights ofthe city in inventive and challenging ways. One long sceneis just an abstract dance of vivid colours - synaesthesiamade visual - as Lopez takes Ayers to watch an orchestraat the Disney Concert Hall and Ayers is transported,mentally, to a place to which he hasn’t been for years.“It’s a deliriously imperfect film -and all the better for it.” Time Out

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Tricks [12A]

Monday 9 November / 7.30pmTuesday 10 November / 5pmDirector Andrzej JakimowskiCast Damian Ul, Ewelina Walendziak,Poland 2008 / Colour / Subtitles /1hr 36mTricks is a wonderfully sweet yet subtle Polish film thatlets us into the magical world of a child’s imagination.We follow six-year-old Stefek and, to a lesser extent, his18-year-old sister, Elka, over one summer as he wandersthe streets of his small town trying to influence destinywith his mind, whether helping a trader sell apples orforcing a man who changes trains at the railway stationto spend more time in town because he might be hisestranged father. Bathed in summer light, Tricks offersa warm portrait of childhood and attributes unusualintelligence and emotional instincts to its subjects.

The TimeTraveller’s Wife [12A]

Tuesday 10 November / 8pmWednesday 11 November / 5pm & 8pmDirector Robert SchwentkeCast Eric Bana, Rachel McAdamsUSA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 47mBana and McAdams bring a sensitive rigour and chemistry to Audrey Niffenegger’s bestselling lovestory, whose hero who is cursed to slip randomlythrough the decades meeting up with his soulmateat different points throughout her life.

Army of Crime [15]

Friday 13 November / 8.30pmSaturday 14 November / 5pmSunday 15 November / 3pmDirector Robert GuédiguianCast Simon Abkarian, Virginie Ledoyen,Robinson Stévenin, Grégoire Leprince-RinguetFrance 2009 / Colour / Subtitles / 2hr 19mTimed for release at a point when France is battling issuesof xenophobia, Robert Guédiguian's epic yet engagingdrama chronicles the famous 'Red Poster' case in wartimeFrance, when a group of foreign partisans defied Frenchapathy to form their own resistance against the Nazisbefore being branded by the occupation propogandistsand the Vichy government as an ‘Army of Crime’. Led byMissak Manouchian, a worker and poet of Armenian origin,the group carried out around thirty operations against theGermans between August and November 1943 but eventuallyfaced betrayal and capture by the French police.“This morally engaging tale is one of the most importantrevisionist accounts of life under German occupation.”Philip French, The Observer

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My Best Girl [U]

With live musical accompanimentby the Elysian QuartetThursday 12 November / 8pmDirector Sam TaylorCast Mary Pickford, Charles ‘Buddy’ RogersUSA 1927 / B&W / Silent / 1hr 20mThis classic silent comedy is produced by and starsMary Pickford, the greatest female star of the silentera. Alongside her equally glamorous husband DouglasFairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and D W Griffiths, Pickfordfounded one of Hollywood’s great film companies,United Artists. In My Best Girl she stars as Maggie,the stock room girl who falls in love with her co-workerJoe, unaware that he is the store owner’s son workingundercover to learn the ropes. This film/performance collaboration showcasesthe Barn’s combined peformance and digitalprojection environment at its best, with thescreening accompanied by a live soundtrackperformed by the Elysian Quartet.

Elysian Quartet has performed all over the worldto great acclaim and is the only British string quartetof its generation dedicated exclusively to contemporary,improvised and experimental music. For this eventthe Elysians perform their own works and improvisations.

TheGodfather [18]

Friday 13 November / 5pmSaturday 14 November / 8pmSunday 15 November / 8pmDirector Francis Ford CoppolaCast Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan,Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, John CazaleUSA 1972 / Colour / 2hr 55m A stunning digital restoration of FrancisFord Coppola's ultimate gangster movie.Based on the best-selling novel by MarioPuzo (who co-wrote the screenplay withCoppola), The Godfather tells an epic taleof an Italian/American family in the yearsimmediately following the second worldwar. Although none of the drama ofCoppola’s masterpiece was ever lost ontelevision, it is only on the big screen thatits true scale and scope can be felt. FromGordon Willis’ cinematography to Nino Rota’smusic this is truly epic filmmaking with aneye for mise-en-scene that has probablynot been matched since.Richly nuanced in structure and dialogue,the story of the Corleone family is pitchperfect in every sense, from its cast down.Marlon Brando’s Oscar winning performanceas the dominant patriarch not only sealedhis reputation as America’s greatest filmactor but allowed him to literally pass thebaton to the next generation, led by astunning Al Pacino marvellously under-playing as the potential heir who is forcedto choose a path not of his own taking butfor which he is instinctively perfect.Tickets £8.00

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Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee [15]

Tuesday 17 November / 5pmWednesday 18 November / 8pmThursday 19 November / 2pm & 5pmDirector Shane MeadowsCast Paddy Considine, Olivia ColmanUK 2009 / Colour / 1hr 11mLe Donk & Scor-zay-zee is an improvised comedy,shot over five days by Shane Meadows, devised withand starring Paddy Considine. Rock roadie and failedmusician, Le Donk has lived, loved and, erm, learned.Along the way he’s lost a girlfriend and his life has hita brick wall, but he has found a new sidekick in up-and-coming Nottingham rap prodigy Scor-zay-zee(playing himself). With Meadows’ fly-on-the-wallcrew in tow, Donk sets out to make Scor-zay-zee(and himself) a star, with a little help from the ArcticMonkeys! This low-budget rockumentary followsLe Donk and Scorz on their journey of a lifetime;it’s an unpredictable, irrepressible ode to spontaneousfilmmaking - and to a burgeoning UK rap talent.

A Hard Day’s Knight [no cert]

Director Ashley Wing & Clayton FussellUK 2009 / Colour / 10mThis bitter-sweet story explores the boundaries ofdetermination and delusion via the story of Donald,Britain’s last remaining knight in shining armour.

Showing alongside Shane Meadows’ newfeature we are screening the popular winnerof the SHOOT 2009 Short Film Festival, SouthHams own award-winning mockumentary.

The Birdwatchers [15]

Monday 16 November / 7.15pmWednesday 18 November / 5pmDirector Marco BechisCast Claudio Santamaria, Alicélia Batista CabreiraItaly/Brazil 2009 / Colour / Subtitles / 1 hr 48mThis engrossing story, featuring a cast of indigenouspeoples, dramatises the true life crises of the Guarani-Kaiowá community who live out an uneasy existenceon their enclosed reserve in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.Alongside the farming classes who own vast swathsof agricultural land, covered with GM crops and whoentertain bird watching tourists, many of the tribes’young people are driven to commit suicide. One suchevent leads to confrontation but also to a love affairbetween a young shaman and a farmer’s daughter.“An extraordinary film... wonderful performances...beautifully shot and moving drama...” Derek Malcolm

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KEVICC Film Festival [no cert]

Tuesday 17 November / 7.30pmDirectors VariousCast VariousKEVICC 2008/9 / Colour & B&W / 1hr 30m approx This evening is a celebration of the filmmaking talentat King Edward VI Community College in Totnes andpresents work made by students over the last 12 months.The films will range in scope and scale from very shortshorts, indents and advert style pieces to longer narrativeand documentary films.Also this evening in The Roundhouse Café we will bepresenting music from KEVICC musicians and singers.The entire evening is free so if you want to come alongand check out the best in your local community talentthen reserve a ticket at the box office or just turn upon the night.

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AnEducation [12A]

Friday 20 November / 8pmSaturday 21 November / 5pmSunday 22 November / 3pmMonday 23 November / 7.45pmTuesday 24 November / 5pmWednesday 25 November / 8pmThursday 26 November / 2pm & 5pmDirector Lone ScherfigCast Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan,Alfred Molina, Emma ThompsonUK 2009 / Colour / 1hr 40m1961, and London is poised betweenpost-war austerity and the swingingwhich has yet to start. Lower-middle-class Twickenham is a dull place, andparticularly so to 16-year-old Jenny,swotting to pass her Oxbridge examwhilst dreaming of art, culture and allthings sophisticated and French. Thesecome her way sooner than expected,when she meets David, a suave olderman who manages not only to charmJenny, but also to win over her father.Soon she's enjoying a world of smokybars and supper clubs, concerts andweekends away with David, seducedby the idea of a grown-up life.Adapted from the memoir by journalistLynn Barber, Nick Hornby's script islively and witty, with a breakthroughperformance from Carey Mulligan whofully captures in Jenny the combinationof naïvete and aspiration that makeher a natural for David's advances.

The Beachesof Agnes [18]

Thursday 19 November / 8pmDirector Agnès VardaDocumentaryFrance 2008 / Colour / Subtitles /1hr 53mThe only female member of the NouvelleVague, Agnès Varda - that eccentricgrandmother of French cinema - at theage of 83 unveils in The Beaches of Agnes,a grand, colourful and playful evocation ofher life with and love for her late husband,Jacques Demy. A work of art in itself,this is a charming documentary thatcelebrates the joy of a filmmaking family.

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The Imaginariumof Dr Parnassus [12A]

Friday 20 & Monday 23 November / 5pmSaturday 21 & Sunday 22 November / 8pmDirector Terry GilliamCast Christopher Plummer, Heath Ledger, Lily ColeFr/Can/UK 2009 / Colour / 2hr 3mDoctor Parnassus is the head of a travelling showin which the audience can enter into a surreal world.Centuries ago, the Doctor made a series of pacts withthe devil and now that it’s time to sacrifice his daughterhe must find a way out again.Seemingly sunk by the tragic death of actor HeathLedger during the filming process, Gilliam’s Faustiantale was saved by the inspired idea of having JudeLaw, Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell step in to playdifferent facets of Ledger’s character. The resultis a magnificent kaleidoscope of surreal imagery.

Thirst [18]

Tuesday 24 November / 8pmWednesday 25 November / 5pm Director Park Chan-wookCast Song Kang-ho, Kim Ok-vin, Kim Hae-sookKorea 2009 / Colour / Subtitles / 2hr 14mKorean director Park Chan-wook followsup his vengeance trilogy - Sympathy forMr Vengeance, Oldboy and Lady Vengeance -with this intriguing take on the vampire talewhich picked up the Prix du Jury at this year’sCannes. Continuing his explorations of humanexistence in extreme circumstances, Park’ssensual, violent tale is centered on a priestwho has become a vampire through volunteeringto trial a deadly blood virus vaccine. The priestthen finds himself tested through a series ofsensual temptations, finding himself onintimate terms with the Seven Deadly Sins.

The Thing [18]

Thursday 26 November / 8pmDirector John CarpenterCast Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, TK CarterUSA 1982 / Colour / 1hr 49mJohn Carpenter reaffirmed his position as themaster of suspense with this classic remakeof the 1951 sci-fi tale The Thing from AnotherWorld. Adding some stunning visual effectsto his armour, Carpenter pumps up the actionquotient to augment this thrilling tale ofAmerica Research Station 31, a lonely Antarcticbase which is menaced by a shape-changingalien from outer space. In many ways moreinspired than the Alien films it is a true cultclassic available once again in digital format.

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Bright Star [PG]

Friday 27 November / 8pmSaturday 28 November / 5pm Sunday 29 November / 5pm & 8pmMonday 30 November / 7.15pmTuesday 1 & Wednesday 2 December / 8pmThursday 3 December / 2pm, 5pm & 8pmDirector Jane CampionCast Ben Whishaw, Abbie CornishUK 2009 / Colour / 1hr 59mThe romantic poet John Keats' love for FannyBrawne inspired some of the most beautiful loveletters ever written but their intense love affairwas tragically curtailed by Keats' death at theage of 25. Director Jane Campion tells this tenderstory through the eyes of Fanny, superbly playedwith a combination of strength and fragility byAbbie Cornish. Paired with Ben Whishaw, equallyimpressive as the sensualist Keats, they bringchemistry and a modernity to a passion which,although expressed with restraint, is palpable.Campion's use of Keats' poetry and her referencingof his appreciation of nature is as sensitive asit is inspired. The changing seasons, gorgeouslyphotographed by Greig Fraser, are integral to thestory, and as the lovers' relationship deepens, thefilm's visual style echoes their changing emotions.

Katalin Varga [15]

Friday 27 November / 5pmSaturday 28 November / 8pmDirector Peter StricklandCast Hilda Péter, Tibor Pálffy, Norbert Tankó, Rom/UK/Hun 2009 / Colour / Subtitles / 1hr 24mDebut British director Strickland’s Transylvania-set dramais a remarkable achievement, a raw but beautifully staged revengetragedy centred around a sinister chapter in our heroine’s past life.

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TakingWoodstock [15]

Friday 4 & Saturday 5 December / 8pmSunday 6 December / 3pmMonday 7 December / 7.15pmTuesday 8 & Wednesday 9 December / 5pmThursday 10 December / 2pm & 8pmDirector Ang LeeCast Imelda Staunton, Emile HirschUSA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 59mIn 1969 interior designer Elliot returns fromGreenwich Village to the Catskills to help hisparents turn around their dying motel. It seemsa futile task until Elliot hears that a neighbouringtown has revoked its licence for a 'hippie' musicfestival. He contacts the organisers and threeweeks later his mother is packing twelve gueststo a room as half a million people descend onhis neighbour's farm for the relocated event.40 years since the landmark festival encapsulatedthe dreams of a generation, this gently funnyand good-hearted film is very much a personalstory. While the festival happens mostly off-screen, we see Elliot's relationship with hisfamily and himself changing forever. A senseof history is evoked through nice asides, suchas TV coverage of the moon landing, and stylisticchoices including the use of split screen in somesequences. But mostly it comes through thecharacters themselves.

Weekend Music SpecialSat 5 - Sun 6 December Enjoy a weekend of folk including meals,accommodation, real ale tasting and ticketsto see Taking Woodstock and BBC Folk Awardwinner Chris Wood in concert. See p.29 for info.

Man & Nature Week

The End of the Line [U]

Monday 30 November / 5pmDirector Rupert MurrayDocumentaryUK 2009 / Colour / 1hr 30mThe first major feature documentary film revealingthe impact of overfishing on our oceans and theeffects of our global love affair with fish as food.

Vanishing of the Bees [U]

Tuesday 1 December / 5pmDirector George Langworthy, Maryam HeneinDocumentaryUK 2009 / Colour / 1hr 37mThe apiary science mystery known as ‘ColonyCollapse Disorder’ describes how bees are disappearingall over the planet and no one knows why. Vanishingof the Bees unfolds as a dramatic tale of science andmystery, illuminating this extraordinary crisis andits greater meaning about the relationship betweenhumankind and mother earth.

The Cove [12A]

Wednesday 2 December / 5pm Director Louie PsiholoyosDocumentaryUSA 2009 / Colour / Subtitles / 1hr 32mA band of activists led by former dolphin trainerRichard O’Barry travel to Taiji, Japan to exposethe hidden story of how thousands of dolphinsoriginally captured for the world’s marine parksend up slaughtered annually for food and profitin a sheltered cove. This is a tense and harrowingpiece of guerrilla eco-journalism.

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01 Tuesday THE VANISHING OF THE BEES / U 5:00pm01 Tuesday BRIGHT STAR / PG 8:00pm02 Wednesday THE COVE / 12A 5:00pm02 Wednesday BRIGHT STAR / PG 8:00pm03 Thursday BRIGHT STAR / PG 2:00pm 5:00pm 8:00pm04 Friday COLD SOULS / 12A 5:00pm04 Friday TAKING WOODSTOCK / 15 8:00pm05 Saturday FAME / PG* 2:00pm05 Saturday COLD SOULS / 12A 5:00pm05 Saturday TAKING WOODSTOCK / 15 8:00pm06 Sunday TAKING WOODSTOCK / 15 3:00pm06 Sunday COLD SOULS / 12A 8:00pm07 Monday TAKING WOODSTOCK / 15 7:15pm08 Tuesday TAKING WOODSTOCK / 15 5:00pm08 Tuesday GOODBYE SOLO / 15 8:00pm09 Wednesday TAKING WOODSTOCK / 15 5:00pm09 Wednesday TALES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE / 12A 8;00pm10 Thursday TAKING WOODSTOCK / 15 2:00pm 8:00pm10 Thursday TALES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE / 12A 5:00pm11 Friday WHITE RIBBON / 15 5:00pm11 Friday CITIZEN KANE / U 8:00pm12 Saturday 9 / 12A* 2:00pm12 Saturday WHITE RIBBON / 15 5:00pm12 Saturday CITIZEN KANE / U 8:00pm13 Sunday 9 / 12A 2:30pm13 Sunday CITIZEN KANE / U 5:00pm13 Sunday WHITE RIBBON / 15 8:00pm14 Monday WHITE RIBBON / 15 8:00pm15 Tuesday WELCOME / 15 5:00pm15 Tuesday WHITE RIBBON / 15 8:00pm16 Wednesday WHITE RIBBON / 15 5:00pm16 Wednesday WELCOME / 15 8:00pm17 Thursday WHITE RIBBON / 15 2:00pm18 Friday ME & ORSON WELLES / tbc 8:00pm18 Friday THE RED SHOES / U 5:00pm19 Saturday THE RED SHOES / U* 2:00pm19 Saturday THE RED SHOES / U 5.00pm19 Saturday ME & ORSON WELLES / tbc 8:00pm20 Sunday FANTASTIC MR. FOX / PG 2.00pm20 Sunday ME & ORSON WELLES / tbc 5:00pm20 Sunday THE RED SHOES / U 8:00pm21 Monday FANTASTIC MR. FOX / PG 2:00pm21 Monday ME & ORSON WELLES / tbc 5:00pm21 Monday THE RED SHOES / U 8:00pm22 Tuesday THE RED SHOES / U 2:00pm22 Tuesday ME & ORSON WELLES / tbc 5:00pm22 Tuesday FANTASTIC MR. FOX /PG 8:00pm23 Wednesday FANTASTIC MR. FOX / PG 2.00pm23 Wednesday THE RED SHOES / U 5:00pm23 Wednesday ME & ORSON WELLES / tbc 8:00pm

08 Sunday THE SOLOIST / 12A 3.00pm 8:00pm09 Monday THE SOLOIST / 12A 5:00pm09 Monday TRICKS / 12A 7:30pm10 Tuesday TRICKS / 12A 5:00pm 8:00pm10 Tuesday THE TIME TRAVELLER’S WIFE / 12A 8.00pm11 Wednesday THE TIME TRAVELLER’S WIFE / 12A 5.00pm 8:00pm12 Thursday MY BEST GIRL - Elysian Quartet / U 8:00pm13 Friday THE GODFATHER / 18 5:00pm13 Friday ARMY OF CRIME / 15 8:30pm14 Saturday STAR TREK / 12A* 2:00pm14 Saturday ARMY OF CRIME / 15 5:00pm14 Saturday THE GODFATHER / 18 8:00pm15 Sunday ARMY OF CRIME / 15 3:00pm15 Sunday THE GODFATHER / 18 8:00pm16 Monday THE BIRDWATCHERS / 15 7:15pm17 Tuesday LE DONK & SCOR-ZAY-ZEE / 15 & A HARD DAY”S KNIGHT / no cert 5:00pm17 Tuesday KEVICC FILM FESTIVAL / no cert 7:30pm18 Wednesday THE BIRDWATCHERS / 15 5:00pm18 Wednesday LE DONK & SCOR-ZAY-ZEE / 15 & A HARD DAY”S KNIGHT / no cert 8:00pm19 Thursday LE DONK & SCOR-ZAY-ZEE / 15 2:00pm 5:00pm19 Thursday THE BEACHES OF AGNES / 18 8:00pm20 Friday THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR PARNASSUS / 12A 5:00pm20 Friday AN EDUCATION / 12A 8:00pm21 Saturday CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS / U* 2:00pm21 Saturday AN EDUCATION / 12A 5:00pm21 Saturday THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR PARNASSUS / 12A 8:00pm22 Sunday AN EDUCATION / 12A 3:00pm22 Sunday THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR PARNASSUS / 12A 8:00pm23 Monday THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR PARNASSUS / 12A 5:00pm23 Monday AN EDUCATION / 12A 7:45pm24 Tuesday AN EDUCATION / 12A 5:00pm24 Tuesday THIRST / 18 8:00pm25 Wednesday THIRST / 18 5:00pm25 Wednesday AN EDUCATION / 12A 8:00pm26 Thursday AN EDUCATION / 12A 2:00pm 5:00pm26 Thursday THE THING / 18 8:00pm27 Friday KATALIN VARGA / 15 5:00pm27 Friday BRIGHT STAR / PG 8:00pm28 Saturday CRIMSON WING / U* 2:00pm28 Saturday BRIGHT STAR / PG 5:00pm28 Saturday KATALIN VARGA / 15 8:00pm29 Sunday BRIGHT STAR / PG 5:00pm 8:00pm30 Monday THE END OF THE LINE / U 5:00pm30 Monday BRIGHT STAR / PG 7:15pm

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Tales FromThe Golden Age [12A]

Wednesday 9 December / 8pmThursday 10 December / 5pmDirectors Hanno Höfer, Cristian Mungiu,Constantin Popescu, Ioana UricaruCast Alexandru Potocean, Avram Birau, Vlad IvanovRomania 2009 / Colour / Subtitles / 2hr 11mConceived and scripted by Cristian Mungiu (Four Months,Three Weeks, Two Days), this is a comic and darkly ironic lookat Romania under the Ceaucescu regime. It uses five urbanmyths from this so-called 'golden age' to show the idiociesof daily life in a dictatorship and the importance of humourin coping with its consequences.

White Ribbon [15]

Fri 11, Sat 12 & Wed 16 December / 5pmSunday 13 - Tuesday 15 December / 8pmThursday 17 December / 2pmDirector Michael HanekeCast Christian Friedel, Ulrich TukurAus/Ger/Fr/It 2009 / Colour / Subtitles / 2hr 25mHaneke's Palme d'Or winner is a work of uncommondepth. Shot in stark black and white, this precise,mesmerising work surveys the life of a rural Protestantvillage in northern Germany over several monthsfrom 1913 to 1914, ending, tellingly, on the eve ofWorld War I. Moving from house to house, we visitthe homes of the pastor, baron, doctor and steward.As we experience the rituals and intimacies ofdomestic lives, strange acts occur: the doctor'shorse falls over a trip wire, the crops in the fieldare destroyed, an accident happens in the mill...A comment on where German society was heading?Possibly, but also a universal essay on repressionand violence.

Cold Souls [12A]

Friday 4 & Saturday 5 December / 5pmSunday 6 December / 8pmDirector Sophie BarthesCast Paul Giamatti, Emily Watson, David StrathairnUSA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 41mThis existential comedy plays much like a sweeter CharlieKaufman story and imagines an international trade in thetrafficking of souls. The ever-excellent Paul Giamatti playsNew York actor Paul Giamatti who is in rehearsal for UncleVanya and finding it hard to separate from Chekhov'sunhappy protagonist. Coming across a 'soul storage' facilityrun by the smooth Dr Flintstein he has his soul removedand deposited in a vault. However when his newfoundlightness proves a problem for his performance - it lackssoul - the doctor obligingly lends him that of a Russianpoet. By the time he decides that he'd prefer his own soulback, it's gone missing.

Goodbye Solo [15]

Tuesday 8 December / 8pmDirector Ramin BahraniCast Souleymane Sy Savane, Red WestUSA 2008 / Colour / 1hr 31mThis as an absorbing and wonderfully authentichumanist drama that can easily sit alongside last year’sThe Visitor. Solo is a Senegalese immigrant driving a taxiin North Carolina, an amiable, open and inquisitive chatterbox.One night, granite-faced, grumbling old-timer William (RedWest, a former bodyguard to Elvis Presley), gets in his caband offers Solo a job; in two weeks' time, he wants thedriver to take him to Blowing Rock, a cliff that forms oneof the region's most famous tourist attractions. Solo, realisingWilliam's intentions, decides to try to help him find a newlease of life. “An almost perfect film” New York Times

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Citizen Kane [U]

Friday 11 December / 8pmSaturday 12 December / 8pm Sunday 13 December / 5pmDirector Orson WellesCast Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton,Everett Sloane, Agnes MooreheadUSA 1941 / B&W / 1hr 59mConsistently voted by critics as the greatest filmof all time, Orson Welles’ directing debut hasbeen unavailable to screen for over 20 yearsbut now, thanks to this BFI restored print, wecan once again feast upon this monumentalachievment.Welles broke every rule in the book for this hisfilmmaking debut, starting with the narrativestructure based around a newsreel search forthe meaning of media tycoon Charles FosterKane’s last words “Rosebud”. Welles articulatesthe strength of the American dream while alsodissecting its corrupting power through therise and fall of a self-styled public demagogue,Citizen Kane - a character modeled so closelyon real press baron William Randolph Hurstthat Hurst turned his full empire on destroyingWelles’ Hollywood career and more or lesssucceeded. Add to this Greg Toland’s groundbreakinginnovations in cinematography and BernardHerrmann’s music and there is not a singleweakness in the entire film. With his troopof theatre actors in tow, the keys to the studioand Herman J. Mankiewicz’s screenplay,so rich in nuance and detail, Welles wasable to explore an innovative range of artisticpossibilities never before or since imagined.

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9 [12A]

Sunday 13 December / 2.30pmDirector Shane AckerVoice Cast Elijah Wood,Christopher PlummerUSA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 19mProduced by Tim Burton, 9, a computer-animated fantasy based on the 11-minuteshort that brought former UCLA studentShane Acker an Oscar nod in 2006, haslooks that kill. Set in a dystopian universewhere machines have effectively wiped outhumanity, all that’s left with a semblanceof soul takes the form of nine rag dollswith numbers stitched on their backs.9 is pleased to survive and finds eight otherslike him whom he must inspire to fight backand restore hope for the world.

Welcome [15]

Tuesday 15 December / 5pmWednesday 16 December / 8pmDirector Philippe LioretCast Vincent Lindon, Firat AyverdiFrance 2009 / Colour / Subtitles /1hr 49mA young Iraqi Kurd stranded in France needsto get across the English Channel in thisemotionally affecting drama. Caught attemptingto smuggle himself in a truck’s hold, Bilal, like somany refugees in France, is stuck in legal limbo.Confined in a transit camp he hits on the idea oftaking swimming lessons at the municipal pooland trains to swim across the English Channel.A very timely take on the current refugee crisis.“Reinforces Philippe Lioret’s reputation forclassic European filmmaking at its smoothest”Variety

Me & Orson Welles [tbc]

Friday 18 & Saturday 19 December / 8pmSunday 20 - Tuesday 22 December / 5pmWednesday 23 December / 8pmDirector Richard LinklaterCast Zac Ephron, Claire Danes UK 2009 / Colour / 1hr 54mSet over a whirlwind week in 1937 when a young aspiring actor is thrown into themiddle of Orson Welles’ Mercury TheatreCompany on the eve of the opening of Welles’historic staging of Julius Caesar. During theweek the budding actor finds romance andlearns some real life experience at the handsof the great manipulator and showman.Christian McKay puts in a mesmerizingturn as the man himself in this thoroughlyentertaining slice of historical fiction.

FantasticMr Fox [PG]

Sun 20, Mon 21 & Wed 23 December / 2pmTuesday 22 December / 8pmDirector Wes AndersonVoice Cast George Clooney, Michael Gambon, Bill MurrayUK 2009 / Colour / 1hr 33mIn his first animated feature, Wes Anderson provesthe perfect filmmaker to bring Roald Dahl's much-loved story to the screen. Using classic stop-motion animation Anderson manages to keephis own artistic signature while expanding Dahl’stale of the fantastic Mr Fox’s battle for supremacyagainst the evil farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean.

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The RedShoes [U]

Fri 18, Sat 19 & Wed 23 December / 5pmSunday 20 & Monday 21 December / 8pmTuesday 22 December / 2pmDirector Michael Powell, Emeric PressburgerCast Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer,Marius Goring, Robert HelpmannUK 1948 / Colour / 2hr 13mPowell and Pressburger’s stunning melodramaleapt out of the black & white post WWIIausterity like nothing the British cinema hadever seen: a rhapsody of colour expressionism,reaching delirious heights in the ballet scenes.The basic story of how an impresario 'discovers'a dancer, and makes her a slave to her art, untila young composer offers her a lifeline back toreality would seem almost overwrought if itwere not for the incredible production valuesthat lift the whole film into the realms offantasy. Choreographed by the Royal Ballet’sRobert Helpmann and with production designby Dartington’s own Hein Heckroth, Powellmanages to induce the great dramatic artswhile creating something distinctly cinematic.Restored to an incredible digital negative underthe guidance of Martin Scorsese, this is a treatfor lovers of dance, music and film.

+ Restoration FilmDartington Film ArchiveUK 1924 - / B&W / 5mThis second film in our series of DartingtonArchive shorts details the rebuilding of thecentral courtyard finishing with Christmascelebrations in the Great Hall.

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For all young people’s matinées, all adultsmust be accompanied by a child

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Saturday 12 December/ 2pmDirector Shane AckerVoice Cast Elijah Wood, Christopher PlummerUSA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 21mProduced by Tim Burton 9, a computer-animated fantasy based on the 11-minute shortthat brought former UCLA student Shane Ackeran Oscar nod in 2006, has looks that kill.

Also, don’t miss our holidaymovie for all the family...

Fantastic Mr Fox [PG]

Sunday 20 - Wednesday 23 December

Director Wes AndersonVoice Cast George Clooney,Meryl Streep, Bill MurrayUK 2009 / Colour / 1hr 33mSee p. 23 for screening details.

Star Trek [12A]

Saturday 14 November / 2pmDirector JJ AbramsCast Chris Pine, Zachary QuintoUSA 2009 / Colour / 2hr 7mThe all round most enjoyable film of the yeartells the story of how Kirk, Spock and the gangall get together.

Crimson Wing [PG]

Saturday 28 November/ 2pmDirector Matthew Aeberhard, Leander WardDocumentaryUSA/UK 2009 / Colour / 1hr 18mIn a remote wilderness, one of nature's last greatmysteries unfolds: the birth, life and death of amillion crimson-winged flamingos. Against adramatic landscapes, these secretive birds struggleto survive.

The Red Shoes [U]

Saturday 19 December/ 2pmDirector Michael Powell, Emeric PressburgerCast Anton Walbrook, Moira ShearerUK 1948 / Colour / 2hr 13mFor older children Powell and Pressburger’sstunning melodrama is a rhapsody of colourexpressionism, reaching delirious heights in thedance scenes. It may just lead to years of balletclasses.

Cloudy With TheChance of Meatballs [U]

Saturday 21 November / 2pmDirector Phil Lord, Chris MillerVoice Cast Neil Patrick Harris, James CaanUSA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 30mThe most delicious event since macaroni metcheese. Inspired by the beloved children's book,the film focuses on a town where food falls fromthe sky like rain.

Young People’s Films

Fame [PG]

Saturday 5 December / 2pmDirector Kevin TancharoenCast Kelsey Grammer, Debbie AllenUK 2009 / Colour / 1hr 47mThis movie is based upon the 1980 film whichfollows NYC talent attending the New York CityHigh School for the Performing Arts. A slightlymore authentic High School Musical.

eat drinksleep thinkExperience the unique blend ofcontemporary dining and historictradition at the White Hart.

Located at Dartington Hall, theWhite Hart restaurant has been fullyrefurbished and restored to its formerglory and offers a tantalising menuusing the finest seasonal ingredients,sourced locally where possible.

The bar is open from: 11am - 11pm Monday to Sunday 10am for morning coffee

Food is served from:12 noon - 9pm every day

To reserve a table contact us on:

01803 847111 bookings@dartingtonhall.comwww.dartingtonhall.com

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Sunday NightMovie Meal DealBook in advance for any of these films andget your cinema ticket plus a two coursepre-screening supper and coffee in the WhiteHart for the special price of £17.50.

The Soloist [18]Sunday 8 November / 8pm

The Godfather [15]Sunday 15 November / 8pm

Bright Star [pg]Sunday 29 November / 8pm

N.B. Movie Meal Deal tickets must be bookedon 01803 847070 by 5pm on the Fridaypreceding the screening.

Café DealBuy a ticket for any of our Thursdaymatinées and get a pre- or post-film cakeand coffee in the Roundhouse for £2.50

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Covering Devon and Cornwall

Event DiaryNovember03 Tue - Sat 7.30pm Barn Theatre07 Dartington Playgoers -

Humble Boy08 Sunday 3.00pm Studio 3

Young Artist Showcase withSouth West Music School

12 Thursday 8.00pm Barn TheatreElysian Quartet

14 Saturday - Sunday Great Hall/Ship Studio15 Devon Baroque

19 Thursday 7.30pm Studio 3Dartington Readings II

24 Tuesday 8.00pm Studio 31Retina Dance Company

27 Friday 7.30pm Great HallMusic for Mary Queen of Scots

29 Sunday 11am & 2.30pm Barn CinemaTravelling Light - How Cold My Toes

December03 Thursday 8.00pm Studio 3

Dartington Readings III05 Saturday 7.30pm Great Hall

Chris Wood06 Sunday 8.00pm Studio 31

Marie-Gabrielle Rotie07 Monday 2.00pm Studio 31

Lyngo Theatre13 Sunday 7.30pm Great Hall

Dartington Community Choir

Music Weekend SpecialSaturday 5 - Sunday 6 December Enjoy this special weekend of folk musicand film, which offers a night’s B&B stay atDartington, a real ale tasting session, 2-coursedinner & ticket to see BBC Folk Award-winningmusician Chris Wood in concert on Saturday,plus Sunday lunch and a ticket for Sunday’smatinée screening of Taking Woodstock.www.dartington.org/folk-weekend for pricesand booking details.

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Boxoffice 01803 847070 www.dartington.org/arts

Access for Patrons with DisabilitiesDartington Arts venues

Large print brochure available. Please telephone 01803 847074

Please phone in advance for advice on access and anyassistance needed. Our staff will be pleased to help you.Please ask for our leaflet on facilities for disabled patrons.

Assistance dogs are welcome. Please inform box officestaff when booking your ticket.

Wheelchair access is available at The Barn, Great Hall,Studio 1, Studio 3 and Studio 31. Accessible toiletfacilities are adjacent to all the above venues.

For patrons who have a hearing impairment, The Barn and Great Hall offer an infra-red system.Please ask the Front of House manager for furtherassistance on arrival.

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In PersonThe Barn box office is open: Monday - Friday 12:30-7:00pm; Saturday &Sunday 1:00 - 7:00pm. As well as the above opening hours the box officeis also open one hour prior to any scheduled event for ticket collection andpurchase but not for advance booking. The Totnes Bookshop box office isopen Monday to Saturday 9.30am to 5pm. Online24 hrs a day you can visit our website and book cinema tickets via secureemail. Upon receipt of your booking form the box office will process yourtickets and reply by email. www.dartington.org/arts for detailsBy PostPlease send your order with a cheque made payable to The DartingtonHall Trust or credit / debit card details to the Box office, The Barn, DartingtonHall, Totnes, TQ9 6DE. If you wish the tickets to be sent to you, pleaseenclose an SAE.By PhoneTo book by phone please call 01803 847070 during the opening hoursgiven above excluding the one hour prior to a film. Please have yourcredit card details ready. When the box office is closed there will be anannouncement with programme information and ticket availability. We accept most credit cards.ReservationsPlease note that all reserved tickets must be paid for prior to the day of the event. We reserve the right to release any tickets that have notbeen paid for by the day of the event.ConcessionsArts Society members; over 60s; full time students; young people;unemployment benefit; DHT Employees. Please provide proof of eligibilityat time of purchase or at time of collection.ReturnsWe are normally unable to offer refunds or exchanges.

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CertificationU Suitable for audiencesof all ages

PG Parental Guidancesuggested

12A May be unsuitablefor children under 12.Children under 12 must beaccompanied by an adult

12 Exhibition to onlythose aged 12 and over

15 Exhibition to onlythose aged 15 and over

18 Exhibition to onlythose aged 18 and over

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Prices£6.50 full price £5.00 all concessions

DAS members£4.00 matinée£4.00 students £2.50 young people£2.50 children’s films

The Roundhouse Café is now open to serveaudiences and visitors to Dartington Hall.

The café features organic and local produceincluding cakes, Luscombe Farm juices,a selection of organic teas, coffee, beerand wine, plus superb Salcombe ice-cream.

We hope you will enjoy this non-smoking,family-friendly space when you visit Dartington Hall.

café:barOPENING HOURSmon-sun 12:00 - 20:00

SPECIAL OFFERBuy a ticket for Thursday matinées and get a pre- or post-film cake and coffee for just £2.50