Wed 22 February: DOSTANA

Tarun Mansukhani, India 2008 | 142 minutes | Hindi with English subtitles

Kunal and Sameer (John Abraham and Abhishek Bachchan) pretend to be a gay couple to secure a posh Miami apartment, but both of them fall for their gorgeous flatmate Neha (Priyanka Chopra).

Produced by gay film-maker Karan Johar a year before homosexuality was legalised in India, Dostana is a fun-packed comedy with fabulous songs, sun-drenched locations and acres of desi-boy flesh.

When: 7.30pm Wednesday 22 February 2012
Where: Amersham Arms, New Cross
Tickets: £3 on the door

“By turns exuberant and goofy and mushy and yearning.“ LOS ANGELES TIMES

“With three major gorgeous A-list stars, a saucy Shilpa Shetty dance number and generous shots of hunky Abraham in his underpants, this is huge camp fun.“ TIME OUT

“Dostana is no Brokeback Mountain. It’s not a serious take on homosexuality either… Although Dostana is a mainstream commercial film, it dares to push the envelope in its own way.“ ONE INDIA

Thurs 23 February: LA VIE DE JESUS

Friday 2 March: Sing-along-a-PURPLE RAIN

Sunday 4 March: Kirikou and the Sorceress with a BFI Animation workshop

An animation workshop, a film or both…

2 – 3.30pm in Dulwich Picture Gallery Art Room
Make a vivid stop-motion animation – inspired by the colour and music of Michel Ocelot’s animation – great fun for all the family!
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£3 on the door or FREE with a Gallery ticket.

Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)

Cert U/ 74 minutes
3.45 – 5pm
Director Michel Ocelot
Kirikou is born in an African village under a terrible spell that has been placed on it by the sorceress Karaba. Kirikou decides to save the village and sets out to find the Wise Man in the Forbidden Mountain. Based on an African folk tale, this is an enchanting, life-affirming animation of love and redemption, made with maturity and care – along with an all too rare respect for the art of storytelling.

FREE juice and popcorn donated by Peter Popples Popcorn
£5 from WeGotTickets or 020 8299 8750 (office hours)

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Winner of the Jim Dempster award for innovation.

Sunday 4th March – Hither Green Hall Presents: The Godfather

The Godfather – Certificate 15  (1972) – ‘It’s not personal …. It’s strictly business’.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton and winner of 3 Oscars including Leading Role (For Marlon Brando who snubbed the award due to the way Hollywood treated Native Americans) and Best Picture.  Do I really need to convince you to come along or do I need to send the boys round???

Entry is still a low £3, doors will open at 6pm on Sunday 4th March so you can get a drink and some food and find a seat before the film starts at 6.30pm.  Tickets are on sale at Cafe of Good Hope on Hither Green Lane and You Don’t Bring me Flowers on Staplehurst Road and will be available on the door.

The bar will be open with a selection of wines and beers from the Meantime Brewery, with tea, coffee, hot chocolate and homemade cakes, with freshly made pizza and popcorn made on site

Come join the family, just bring a cushion and we will treat you like one of our own at St Swithun’s Hall, St Swithun’s Road off of Hither Green Lane and Ennersdale Raod SE13 6RW

Wed 7 March: BICYCLE THIEVES

Monday 26 March: A SEPARATION

A Separation is that rare thing – not just a critically acclaimed but also a commercially successful Iranian film. This is unsurprising as it is beautifully crafted with a gripping script that will keep you guessing till the end.

It’s a simple enough story of a middle class couple at a crossroads in their lives. The wife (Simin) wants desperately to leave Iran to give her twelve-year-old daughter (Termeh) a chance of a better life, while the husband (Nader) feels compelled to stay to look after his ailing and senile elderly father.  Unable to reach a mutual decision and bound by the Iranian courts who prohibit Simin taking her daughter out of the country without Nader’s permission, the couple decide to separate. Termeh remains with her father while Simin moves out of the family home.

Incapable of looking after his father and working at the same time, Nader employs devout working class woman Razieh as home help and this is where the drama really begins, with Nader’s middle class pragmatic and no-nonsense approach to life clashing with Razieh’s outdated religious ideologies. Director Asghar Farhadi then continues to weave a mesh of deceit more intricate than a spider’s web, where no one seems to be telling the truth.

Winner of this year’s Golden Globe and nominated for the upcoming Oscars for best foreign language film.

“This powerful, complex Iranian drama centres on a conflict that cuts across boundaries of gender and class.” – The Guardian

Watch the trailer

Asghar Farhadi / Iran 2011 / 125 min / PG

Tickets: £4.50 (members) / £7 (non-members) – screening starts at 7.45PM.

Brockley Jack Film Club