Folkestone Classic Film Club

A programme of international films made over the recent decades for mature minded film lovers

showing every Thursday at 11am

doors open 10.30am at the 

Silver Screen Cinema, Guildhall Street, Folkestone

(Please note that a stair lift has been installed at the cinema)

Annual Subscription is £8 which is valid for one year from date of issue.

Please make your cheque payable to: Folkestone Classic Film Club and post it, together with the following information, to:

F.C.F.C.
4 Metropole Court
The Metropole
Folkestone
CT20 2LT

Information that should accompany your cheque is as follows:

Full Name
Full Postal Address including Post Code
Telephone number
Email Address if you have one
Date and Signature

Your membership card will be at the cinema box office before the next Thursday's screening.

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Folkestone  Classic Film Club
Spring 2008 Season - Programme
3rd Jan 08 - 1st May 08

Scroll down, or click on hyperlinks, to see what's on 
in Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr and May 2008

UK 2006

Set in 19th century Japan, Branagh's version of Shakespear's comedy takes us, not to the Forest of Arden but to a Japanese garden. With Brian Blessed, Bryce Dallas Howard, Romala Garai and David Oyelowo.

At 11am

127 mins

Romania 2006

The owner/presenter of a low budget TV station tries to commemorate the anniversary of the revolution against Ceausescu, with comic results.

At 11am

124 mins

USA/UK

From Ian McEwan's novel and spanning the period from 1935 to 1999, this epic explores the conflict between imagination and reality. With James McAvoy, Keira Knightley and Romola Garai.

At 11am

123 mins

UK 1951

Many people's favourtie Ealing comedy, as the timid bank clerk executes a bullion robbery. Alex Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James and Alfie Bass.

At 11am

78 mins

Indonesia 2006

A fully sung 'gamelin musical' and modern version of an episode from Ramayana, where good and evil struggle for the affections of the herione.

31st Jan

At 11am

120 mins

USA 2007

George Clooney as a trouble shooting lawyer, against big companies who act like destructive psychopaths. With Tom Wilkinson and Tilda Swinton.

At 11am

120 mins

France/Chad 2006

A tale of retribution and reconciliation following the Chad government's amnesty to all those involved in the past civic war.

At 11am

95 mins

Ireland 2007

A musical romance between an unlikely couple - busking part time vacuum cleaner repair man (Glen Hansard) and a Czech immigrant cleaner (Marketa Irglova), set in Dublin.

At 11am

87 mins

Germany 2006

A Jewish forger is incarcerated in a concentration camp with others in an operation to counterfeit dollars and sterling in order to destabilise the allies; markets. Based on a factual account, the film raises many difficult moral issues.

28th Feb

At 11am

99 mins

UK 1947

A properly 'seedy' version of Graham Green's 'entertainment' with Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, Harcourt Williams and William Hartnell.

At 11am

92 mins

UK 1998

Surviving plots and counterplots, the young Elizabeth becomes absolute rule of England. With Cate Blanchett heading an all star cast (see film for 1st May)

At 11am

121 mins

France/Poland 1991

An absorbing puzzle of a film in which two women, one French, one Polish, seem to share a single existence.

At 11am

98 mins

UK 2005

The heir to a failing family shoe business discovers that there is an unexpected new market for their product, in this saucy comedy.

At 11am

106 mins

Uruguay 2004

A quirky comedy, set in a sock factory. Deadpan study of sibling envy, unrequited loyalty and late life disappointment.

At 11am

95 mins

USA/UK 2007

From the spectacular TV documentary series, adapted for the big screen.

At 11am

99 mins

France 2006

A lyrical drama, paying homage to Truffaut, the New Wave, and, above all, to the city of Paris, as we follow the lives of two brothers over one day just before Christmas. With Romain Duris, Louis Garrel and Guy Marchand.

17th April

At 11am

93 mins

USA 1939

Brittle, cynical comedy as a Parish playboy (Melvin Douglas) falls for Russian communist emissary (Greta Garbo). Billed as the film in which 'Garbo Laughs!'.

24th Apr

At 11am

110 mins

USA/UK 2007

1585 - and the monarch is still dealing with plots against her, mostly involving the imprisoned Mary Stuart. Following the execution of Mary, the country faces the Armada. Cate Blanchett (again) as Queen Elizabeth, older, wiser and still unmarried.

At 11am

115 mins

Our Summer 2008 season will open on Thursday, 8th May 2008, with "Goya's Ghosts" - Spain 2006

 

Annual membership.................................£8.00
Member's admission price.......................£3.00
Guest's admission price..........................£4.50

Complimentary coffee and biscuits

Free mailing list for members

Non members will have to be signed in as guests of members and will have to pay the guest fee, at present £4.50.

Membership Enquiries ring 01303 245812

 

The Silver Screen Cinema

Guildhall Street

Folkestone

 

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In presenting our latest programme, we are asking existing members to help us in spreading the word about the club; we will include an extra copy of this programme, for distribution to a friend or neighbour, please.

Your continued support is most gratifying but some members have been unable to renew their original subscriptions, so we are anxious to increase the numbers to last year's level. In addition, the cost of hiring each film is growing, but we do not want to increase the membership fee, so please help if you can.

All members will be reminded by letter when the renewal of their membership becomes due.

We are pleased to confirm that the subscription will remain at £8, valid for one year from the date of issue of your membership card.

Of course we welcome visitors to the district as well as those who wish to see only one or two films. You will have to be signed in as guests of members and will have to pay the guest fee, at present £4.

Please remember to present your membership card at the box office when buying your ticket at the reduced price.