Friday, 10 September 2010

October Silver Screen

3rd October – O Brother, Where Art Thou

Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring George Clooney, Set in 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression, the film's story is a modern satire loosely based on Homer’s Odyssey. Sometimes, you have to lose your way to get back home.


10th October – Whisky Galore

In association with “Taste of the Cairngorms” Scottish cheese & oatcakes on arrival and cranachan during the interval.

Filmed on Barra in the outer Hebrides, Whisky Galore was based upon a true incident, the foundering of a cargo ship off the Isle Of Eriskay with 50,000 cases of Scotch aboard.


17th October –Trainspotting

1996 British drama film directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh. The movie follows a group of heroin addicts in a late 1980s economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life

24th October - Ben Hur
Capture the splendor and might of Rome, the cruelty of slave ships, and the famous chariot race. From prince to slave and his rise to ultimate victory, this is the enduring story of Ben-Hur. Charlton Heston, star of the classic 1959 film, voices the title character.


31st October Halloween – The Lost Boys

Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It's fun to be a vampire.

Followed by a torch-lit procession to the Old Bridge Inn