Thursday 14th - 3rd September 2008

THE PAINTED VEIL (Masterpiece)

Rated: M (Moderate themes and sexual references), Drama 123Min,

Starring: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton

Director: John Curran

The Painted Veil is a love story set in the 1920s that tells the story of a young English couple, Walter, a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, who get married for the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai, where she falls in love with someone else. When he uncovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China ravaged by a deadly epidemic, and takes her along. Their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them purpose in one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth.

Thursday 28th August - Wed 3rd Sept 2008

MONGOL (Masterpiece)

Rated: MA 15+ (Not suitable for people under 15. Under 15s must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian) (Strong battle violence), Biography | Drama | History | Romance , 120 Mins,

Country: Germany | Kazakhstan | Russia

Language: Mongolian

Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Honglei Sun, Khulan Chuluun, Odnyam Odsuren, Aliya, Ba Sen, Amadu Mamadakov, Ba Yin, He Qi, Su Ben Hou

Director: Sergei Bodrov

Greatness comes to those who take it. The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world including Russia in 1206.Filmed in the very lands that gave birth to Genghis Khan, "Mongol" transports us back to a distant and exotic period in world history; to a nomad’s landscape of endless space, climatic extremes and ever-present danger. In a performance of powerful stillness and subtlety, celebrated young Japanese actor Asano Tadanobu ("Zatoichi," "Last Life in the Universe") captures the inner fire that enabled a hunted boy to become a legendary conqueror.

Thursday 4th Sept 2008

FORBIDDEN KINGDOM

Rated: PG (Martial arts violence and infrequent coarse language), Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance

104 Mins

Language:English | Mandarin

Starring: Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Michael Angarano, Collin Chou, Crystal Liu Yi Fei, Li Bing Bing

Director: Rob Minkoff

The path is unsafe. The place is unknown. The journey is unbelievable.

A 21st Century American teenager takes a spellbinding, dangerous journey into martial arts legend in the new action/adventure epic "The Forbidden Kingdom."

Shot on location in China, "The Forbidden Kingdom" marks the historic first-ever onscreen pairing of martial arts superstars Jackie Chan ("Rush Hour," "Drunken Master") and Jet Li ("Fearless," "Once Upon a Time in China"), and features the awe-inspiring action choreography of Woo-Ping Yuen ("The Matrix," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon").

Thursday 11th Sept 2008

THE COUNTERFEITERS (Die Fälscher)

Rated: MA (Strong Violence), Drama/ War

97 Mins

Language:German | Russian | English | Hebrew

Country: Austria | Germany

Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Screenwriter: Stefan Ruzowitzky, Adolf Burger
Starring: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow

It takes a clever man to make money, it takes a genius to stay alive

The true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, counterfeiter extraordinaire and bohemian. After getting arrested in a German concentration camp in 1944, he agrees to help the Nazis in an organized counterfeit operation set up to help finance the war effort.

For "The Counterfeiters," it was not only a question of saving their own lives, but also about saving their conscience as well...