Films screened at The Medway Centre, New St. Bakewell - 7.30pm second Sunday of the month
with ackowledgement and thanks to IMDB for most of the short synopses

11 Sept. 2011 Black Swan  (2010)
Nina (Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her obsessive former ballerina mother Erica (Hershey) who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side - a recklessness that threatens to destroy her. Fox Searchlight Pictures

9 Oct. 2011 Dancing at Lughanza  (1988)
A young boy tells the story of growing up in a fatherless home with his unmarried mother and four spinster aunts in 1930's Ireland. Each of the five women, different from the other in temperament and capability, is the emotional support system, although at times reluctantly, for each other, with the eldest assuming the role of a 'somewhat meddling' overseer. But then into this comes an elderly brother, a priest too senile to perform his clerical functions, who has "come home to die" after a lifetime in Africa; as well, there also arrives the boy's father, riding up on a motorcycle, only to announce that he's on his way to Spain to fight against Franco. Nevertheless, life goes on for the five sisters, although undeniably affected by the presence of the two men, they continue to cope as a close-knit unit... until something happens that disrupts the very fabric of that cohesiveness beyond repair.

13 Nov. 2011 The Girl who Played with Fire  (2009)
Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation. (Arrow Films) Swedish with sub-titles

4 Dec. 2011 Christmas Party
(booze, food)

11 Dec. 2011 Oranges and Sunshine  (2009)
Oranges and Sunshine tells the story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals in recent times: the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom. Almost singlehandedly, against overwhelming odds and with little regard for her own well-being, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice. She discovered a secret that the British government had kept hidden for years: one hundred and thirty thousand children in care had been sent abroad to commonwealth countries, mainly Australia. Children as young as four had been told that their parents were dead, and been sent to children's homes on the other side of the world. Many were subjected to appalling abuse. They were promised oranges and sunshine, they got hard labour and life in institutions.

8 Jan. 2012 West Side Story  (1961)
Classic film version of the musical based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliette but set in 20th century New York.

12 Feb. 2012 Potiche  (2009)
When her husband is taken hostage by his striking employees, a trophy wife (Deneuve) takes the reins of the family business and proves to be a remarkably effective leader. Business and personal complications arrive in the form of her ex-lover (Depardieu), a former union leader. French with sub-titles

11 Mar. 2012 Winter's Bone  (2010)
In a wilderness and poor area of the Ozarks, the seventeen year-old Rhee Dolly raises her younger siblings Sonny and Ashlee respectively and takes care of her catatonic mother alone, since her father Jessup Dolly is absent in prison. When the local Sheriff Baskin arrives at her poor house, he tells that his father, who is a meth cook, put their house in collateral for his bail and if he does not appear in court, the family will lose the property. The determined Rhee decides to find her father and walks to the houses of his father's friends, relatives and associates but is advised to stop snooping around. Desperated, Rhee tries to enlist the army to get US$ 40,000.00 for five years service but she is minor and needs the agreement of her parents. Rhee discovers that her father might have been murdered by his dangerous associates, but she is unable to find his body. When Rhee is hopeless to keep her real estate, she receives visitors that offer her father's bones.(Arrow Films)

16 Apr. 2012 Mystery Film 
Held for a new release, to be announced during the season

13 May 2012 First Grader  (2010)
Set in a mountain village in Kenya the film tells the remarkable true and uplifting story of a proud old Mau Mau veteran who is determined to seize his last chance to learn to read and write - and so ends up joining a class alongside six year-olds. Together he and his young teacher face fierce resistance, but ultimately they win through - and also find a new way of overcoming the burdens of the colonial past.

10 June 2012 Members' Summer Film and A.G.M.

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