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TALL TALES
Electronic music producer Mark Pritchard, songwriter Thom Yorke and groundbreaking visual artist Jonathan Zawada present Tall Tales, a collaborative visual and audio cinema experience a decade in the making. Screening in advance of the release of their titular album, Tall Tales shows the... Read More
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DAVID LEAN: RYAN’S DAUGHTER (70MM)
The film that all but ended Lean’s career, Ryan’s Daughter, filmed mostly on Kerry’s Dingle Peninsula, is set in the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising. Rosy (Sarah Miles) lives a life of quiet boredom with husband Charles (Robert Mitchum). Major... Read More
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DAVID LEAN: LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (70MM)
It would be five years before Lean returned to the screen with the film that has come to define him. Indeed, this biopic of T.E. Lawrence, the British Army officer who played a significant role in the Arab Revolt during... Read More
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DAVID LEAN: THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
Lean subsequently became less prolific, the time between films increasing as a result of the epic scale on which he began to work. The Bridge On The River Kwai, winner of seven well-deserved Oscars, including Lean’s first for direction, had a... Read More
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DAVID LEAN: HOBSON’S CHOICE
In Lean’s first overtly comic film since Blithe Spirit nearly a decade before, Charles Laughton stars as Henry Horatio Hobson, a miserly Victorian bootmaker whose three daughters wish to marry. Hobson consents to the younger women’s matches, but opposes the very idea... Read More
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DAVID LEAN: THE SOUND BARRIER
Written by renowned playwright Sir Terence Rattigan, this is Lean’s fictional, meticulously researched depiction of British aerospace engineers and test pilots working to achieve the first supersonic flight (conveniently overlooking the fact that the feat was actually achieved in the... Read More
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DAVID LEAN: A PASSAGE TO INDIA
Devastated by the reception afforded Ryan’s Daughter, and a notorious lunch with the American National Society of Film Critics where the film was lacerated at length to his face, Lean retreated, finally emerging to pursue a decades-old passion project in this... Read More
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DAVID LEAN: SUMMERTIME
David Lean’s collaboration with Katharine Hepburn would be described by the great director in later years as his favourite. Hepburn plays Jane Hudson, a secretary from middle-America fulfilling her lifelong dream of visiting Venice. With her loneliness accentuated in the... Read More
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DAVID LEAN: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (4K)
Lean wanted to follow the action and adventure of Lawrence with something more intimate and romantic; the result was another epic, one that still holds a position in the top ten highest-grossing films ever made. Set in Russia (for which location shooting... Read More
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