THE CROSS BARN, ODIHAM

Cinema

The dates and times of the films for the Spring/Summer 2010 season are shown below. Doors open 45 minutes before performances. All tickets are £5. Tea/coffee and biscuits, and wine are available. Tickets can be purchased from P&K Electrical, Fountains Mall, Odiham. Alternatively, you can call The Cross Barn on 01256 701803 or email cinema@thecrossbarn.org.uk

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Friday, 16th April, 7.45pm

Nowhere Boy (15) starring Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Anne Marie Duff

This is the story of John Lennon’s childhood and youth, up to the Beatles’ departure for Hamburg. Abandoned at the age of 5 by his pleasure-loving but troubled mother Julia (Anne-Marie Duff), Lennon was raised by his formidable aunt Mimi (Kristin Scott-Thomas). Both actors were Bafta nominated as Best Supporting Actress for their performances.

A spirited teenager, curious, sharp and funny, growing up in the shattered city of Liverpool and yearning for a normal family, John escapes into art and the new music flooding in from the United States. His fledgling genius finds a kindred spirit in the young Paul McCartney. But just as John's new life begins, the truth about his past leads to a tragedy he would never escape.
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Friday, 21st May, 7.45pm

The Hurt Locker (15) 6 Oscars and 6 Baftas, including Best Film and Best Director.

“With our hands well and truly wrung over the whys and wherefores of Iraq, movieland turns its attention to the soldiers faced with cleaning up after the invasion - in this case a squad of US bomb disposal experts.

While there's not much in the way of storyline, when it comes to nerve-jangling tension, director Kathryn Bigelow proves she's a master of her craft. From the opening scene of a blast in downtown Baghdad, she paints a terrifying picture of a land in which instant death is around every corner and where the sweat trickling down your neck may be the last thing you ever feel.

Following the death of their last commander, the boys of Bravo Company are saddled with Staff Sergeant James, a maverick whose habit of riding roughshod over protocol may be putting his men's lives at risk.

Beautifully made - watch out for an early scene when an exploding bomb sends flakes of rust from a car roof rising heavenward - it's the Iraq war as we've never seen it before.” David Edwards, Daily Mirror
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Friday, 18th June, 7.45pm

A Single Man (12A) starring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore

Colin Firth delivers the performance of his career, for which he won the Best Actor Bafta, as George Falconer, a gay English professor at a Los Angeles college in 1962, whose life is thrown into turmoil when he gets a call to say that his boyfriend Jim has died in a car crash. It's one of Jim's relatives who does George the courtesy of letting him know - but in 1960s California, although the loss might be understood, it's not socially accepted, and George is devastated not to be invited to the funeral.

Over the months that follow, he finds it increasingly difficult to cope alone. His best - and pretty much only - friend Charley (Julianne Moore), an alcoholic British ex-pat, is always there for him, but she's not the most stable of influences.

The film, directed by fashion designer Tom Ford, is based on the landmark novel by Christopher Isherwood, and condenses George’s story into one emotion and event charged day, following him from the loneliness of his morning, through his day and transformative night.
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