MEDWAY EVENTS
Films introduced by programmer & film critic Nick Walker
The Other Cinema is a weekly showcase for quality films from around the world, with a post-film discussion over a FREE glass of wine.
Screen Classics is a monthly celebration of classic cinema; a great opportunity to see some of cinema’s classic films on the big screen.
Film Cafe Society is a FREE monthly members club for cineastes, showing great underground and avante-garde classics, with a post-film discussion over coffee and cake.
The events aim to provide a gentle platform for debate for an audience who both appreciate and enjoy groundbreaking cinema from around the world. Film fans in the Medway / North Kent area do not now have to travel as far afield as London or Canterbury to enjoy the best of current releases or cinema classics.
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Chatham Odeon Cinema |
Thursday 2 September [7.45pm]
18 certificate / 109 minutes
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Cast: Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba
Synopsis: Michael Winterbottom’s neo-noir adaptation of Jim Thompson’s controversial yet classic novel sees a West Texas deputy sheriff slowly unmasked as a psychotic killer.
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Chatham Odeon Cinema |
Thursday 9 September [7.45pm]
12A certificate / 165 minutes
Director: Karan Johar
Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Kajol, Shahrukh Khan
Synopsis: A sweeping epic in the melodramatic Bollywood manner this emerges as a potent, engaging and poignant film. The film is fascinating and it really grips.
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MEET ME IN ST LOUIS
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Chatham Central Theatre |
Tuesday 14 September [7.30pm]
U certificate / 113 minutes
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Judy Garland, Mary Astor
Synopsis: This classic musical is set in the year before the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York.
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BROTHERS BLOOM
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Chatham Odeon Cinema |
Thursday 16 September [7.45pm]
12A certificate / 114 minutes
Director: Rian Johnson
Cast: Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo
Synopsis: The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they’ve decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
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Chatham Odeon Cinema |
Thursday 23 September [7.45pm]
15 certificate / 107 minutes
Director: Noah Baumbach
Cast: Ben Stiller, Rhys Ifans, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Synopsis: This bittersweet comedy tells of a New Yorker who moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother’s assistant.
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Chatham Odeon Cinema |
Thursday 30 September [7.45pm]
12A certificate / 98 minutes
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Cast: Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint, Rupert Everett, Eileen Atkins, Martin Freeman
Synopsis: This action / comedy tells of a middle-aged, solitary assassin, who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims!
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Chatham Odeon Cinema |
Thursday 7 October [7.45pm]
12A certificate / 92 minutes
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson
Synopsis: Attempting to impress his ideologies on religion, relationships, and the randomness (and worthlessness) of existence, lifelong New York resident Boris Yellnikoff rants to anyone who will listen, including the audience. But when he begrudgingly allows naive Mississippi runaway Melodie St. Ann Celestine to live in his apartment, his reclusive rages give way to an unlikely friendship and Boris begins to mold the impressionable young girl’s worldly views to match his own.
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KEY LARGO
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Chatham Central Theatre |
Tuesday 12 October [7.30pm]
PG certificate / 100 minutes
Director: John Huston
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore
Synopsis: This classic Film Noir thriller sees a man visit his old friend’s hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.
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GAINSBOURG
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Chatham Odeon Cinema |
Thursday 14 October [7.45pm]
15 certificate / 130 minutes
Director: Joann Sfar
Cast: Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta, Anna Mouglalis
Synopsis: A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
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83 High Street, Rochester ME1 1LX |
Tuesday 19 October [7.30pm]
15 certificate / 112 minutes
Director: G.W. Pabst
Cast: Rudolph Forster, Carola Neher
Synopsis: G.W. Pabst’s adaptation of the Bertolt Brecht play set in London at the turn of the century, where the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the ‘king of the beggars’
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Chatham Odeon Cinema |
Thursday 21 October [7.45pm]
15 certificate / 140 minutes
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Michael Caine
Synopsis: Mystery, Sci-Fo thriller set in a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a single idea within one’s mind can be the most dangerous weapon or the most valuable asset.
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Chatham Odeon Cinema |
Thursday 28 October [7.45pm]
15 certificate / 120 minutes
Director: Jan Kounen
Cast: Anna Mouglalis, Mads Mikkelsen
Synopsis: Paris 1913. Coco Chanel wants to democratize women’s fashion and Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring is redefining musical taste. They fall in love…
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Chatham Odeon Cinema |
Thursday 4 November [7.45pm]
15 certificate / 120 minutes
Director: George Nolfi
Cast: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Terence Stamp
Synopsis: Based on a short story by Philip K Dick this romantic science fiction thriller looks at an affair between a politician and a ballerina, who is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart.
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AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
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Chatham Central Theatre |
Tuesday 9 November [7.30pm]
U certificate / 113 minutes
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron
Synopsis: Gene Kelly stars in this classic song and dance musical as Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is “discovered” by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry’s art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a his best-friend cabaret singer.
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Chatham Odeon Cinema |
Thursday 11 November [7.45pm]
15 certificate / 120 minutes
Director: Juan José Campanella
Cast: Soledad Villamil, Ricardo Darín
Synopsis: The story, set in 1999, is told in flashback form: in June 1974 a federal justice agent, Benjamín Espósito, becomes spellbound by and subsequently entangled in the investigation of the crime of a young woman, brutally raped and murdered inside her house in a Buenos Aires neighbourhood.
Academy Award Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
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83 High Street, Rochester ME1 1LX |
Tuesday 15 November [7.30pm]
15 certificate / 16 minutes & 15 certificate / 60 minutes
Director: Luis Bunuel
Co-writer: Salvador Dali
Synopsis: Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali’s dreamlike surreal early films consist of bizarre and surreal images that connect their fascination for political and religious satire.
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Chatham Odeon Cinema |
Thursday 18 November [7.45pm]
18 certificate / 129 minutes
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Cast: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist
Synopsis: The second part of the Millennium trilogy thriller sees Mikael Blomkvist, receives a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden from a young journalist
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Chatham Odeon Cinema |
Thursday 25 November [7.45pm]
15 certificate / 113 minutes
Director: Nigel Cole
Cast: Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Rosamund Pike, Miranda Richardson, Daniel Mays
Synopsis: A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
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83 High Street, Rochester ME1 1LX |
Tuesday 14 December [7.30pm]
PG certificate / 71 minutes
Director: Robert Wiene
Cast: Conrad Veidt
Synopsis: Robert Wiene’s masterpiece of German Expressionism inhabits a jagged landscape of sharp angles and angled staircases as it creates a mindscape, a subjective psychological fantasy.
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83 High Street, Rochester ME1 1LX |
Tuesday 18 January [7.30pm]
PG certificate / 94 minutes
Director: F.W. Murnau
Cast: George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor
Synopsis: F.W. Murnau’s classic immorality fable is set in the dark shadows of German Expressionism, telling of a temptress bewitching a farmer, who debates whether to kill his wife or leave the other woman.
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83 High Street, Rochester ME1 1LX |
Tuesday 15 February [7.30pm]
U certificate / 92 minutes
Director: E.A. Dupont
Cast: Anna May Wong
Synopsis: E.A. Dupont’s classic immorality tale about two dancers is set among the jazz clubs of Piccadilly during the hedonistic world between wars; starring Anna May Wong.
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83 High Street, Rochester ME1 1LX |
Tuesday 22 March [7.30pm]
15 certificate / 185 minutes
Director: Akira Kurasawa
Cast: Toshiro Mifune
Synopsis: Akira Kurasawa’s last film with Toshiro Mifune starring as an honourable older doctor who takes a young medical graduate under his guidance at a local clinic.
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