Browsing: movie

Neighbourhood Cinema movie night at CICCIC with ‘Coming Home” 7.00pm. It took the American film industry many years to make films about the war in Vietnam, apart from patriotic fare such as The Green Berrets. Released in same year as The Deer Hunter it looked at the conflict from a personal point of view and

Neighbourhood Cinema movie night at CICCIC with ‘Fargo” 7.00pm film start. doors open 6.30pm Brilliant comedy from the Cohen Brothers set in the freezing plains of Minneapolis and starring  William H. Macy, Frances McDormand and Steve Buscemi. A tale of criminal ineptitude! Story Based on a true story, a car salesman in Minneapolis, MN, Jerry Lundegard hires

Neighbourhood Cinema movie night at CICCIC with ‘Apocalypse Now” 7.00pm. A magnificent war epic whose making was also made into a film, Francis Ford Coppola directed this seminal Vietnam war movie whose story was based on Joseph Conrad’s book, Heart of Darkness. Story Vietnam, 1969. Burnt out Special Forces officer Captain Willard is sent into

Neighbourhood Cinema movie night at CICCIC with ‘The Deer Hunter” 7.00pm. Winner of the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars in 1979 this three hour epic from Michael Cimino brought a host of talent to this much discussed film and one of my favourites. Storyline: Michael, Steven and Nick are young factory workers from Pennsylvania

Neighbourhood Cinema movie night at CICCIC with “Babel” 7.00pm. Shown as park of a season of films by the Mexican director Alejandro G. Iñárritu this film from 2006 was my film of the year! Beautifully scored the film looks at three conected stories that unfold in North Africa, North America and Japan.  Storyline: In Morocco, a shepherd