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PEAK FILM SOCIETY
Peak Film Society
Partington Theatre
Henry Street
Glossop


Tel: (01457) 853893

email: peakfilmsociety@yahoo.co.uk

Peak Film Society

Come and see some great films in a real cinema atmosphere. Why go out of town?

Peak Film Society offers you:

  • A varied programme of films for the coming season and one payment to join, which covers entrance to all films.
  • Contact with other film enthusiasts and the chance to learn about films and film projection. With guest speakers and special events.
  • Concessionary rates for OAPs, students and the unwaged.
  • The theatre has raked seating and a licensed bar.
  • Temporary membership for individual screenings: £4 (concessions £3)
    Full season membership: £25 (concessions £20)

    Any five films: £18 (concessions £13.50)

    To join the Peak Film Society, contact Bestsellers Bookshop in the Market Arcade, telephone 01457 865236 or email peakfilmsociety@yahoo.co.uk.

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    Peak Film Society 2007-8
    The committee reserves the right to alter the programme without notice.
     

    September 8
    7.30pm

    IMDb

    The Queen
    UK 2006 103mins Certificate 12A
    Starring: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen
    Director: Stephen Frears
    An intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction bewteen HM Queen Elizabeth II and Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.


    The Queen 

    Sunday
    October 14

    7.30pm

    IMDb


    Blood Diamond
    UK 2007 143mins Certificate 15
    Starring: Leonardo di Caprio, Djimon Hounsou
    Director: Ed Zwick
    Set against the backdrop of
    civil war and chaos in 1990s Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond is the story of an ex-mercenary from Zimbabwe and a Mende fisherman. Both men are African but their histories are as different as any can be, until their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rare pink diamond that can transform their lives.

    Blood Diamond    

    November 3
    7.30pm

    IMDb


    Volver
    Spain 2006 121mins Certificate 15
    Starring: Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura
    Director: Pedro Almadovar
    Two sisters with troubled lives find that their dead mother returns to their home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve in her life. Cruz became the first Spanish actress ever to be nominated for best lead actress at the Oscars for her performance.


    Volver

    December 8 
    7.30pm

    IMDb


    The Devil Wears Prada
    USA 2006 109mins Certificate PG
    Starring: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci
    Director: David Frankel
    Andrea, a naive young woman, comes to New York and scores a job as the assistant to one of the city's biggest magazine editors, the ruthless and cynical Miranda Priestly. As she is whisked away to Paris with Miranda and faces all of the glamour that could be hers, she is forced to decide where she wants to be in her life.


    The Devil Wears Prada

    2007
    January 5
     
    7.30pm

    IMDb


    The Prestige
    UK/USA 2006 130mins Certificate 12A
    Starring: Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Michael Caine
    Director: Christopher Nolan
    Rival magicians in turn-of-the-century London battle each other for trade secrets. The battle is so intense that it turns them into muderers. The title refers to the product of a successful trick.


     The Prestige

    February 2 
    7.30pm

    IMDb


    The Wind That Shakes the Barley
    UK 2006 127mins Certificate 15
    Starring: Gillian Murphy, Patrick Delaney, Liam Cunningham
    Director: Ken Loach
    Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. A sympathetic look at Republicans in early 20th century Ireland, and two brothers who are torn apart by anti-British rebellion.


    The Wind That Shakes the Barley 

    March 1 
    7.30pm

    IMDb


    Little Miss Sunshine
    USA 2006 101mins Certificate 15
    Starring: Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin
    Director: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Farls
    Olive has a dream: winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true but are so burdened with their own quirks and problems they can barely make it through a day without some disaster. Circumstances conspire to put the family on the road together with the goal of getting Olive to the contest in far off California.


    Little Miss Sunshine  

    April 5
    7.30pm

    IMDb


    Das Leben Anderen (The Lives of Others)
    Germany 2006 137mins Certificate 15
    Starring: Martina Gedek, Ulrick Mühe, Sebastien Koch
    Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
    Oscar-winning thriller set in East Berlin before the fall of the Berlin wall provides a snapshot of how the state kept control of its citizens. At its heart are a state-approved playwright, his actress wife and the Stasi officer sent to monitor them and the fateful influence they exert on each other. A moving and gripping drama.


    Das Leben Anderen

    May 3 
    7.30pm

    IMDb


    La Vie en Rose (La Môme)
    France/UK/Czech Republic 2007 140mins Certificate 12A
    Starring: Marion Cotillard, Gerard Depardieu
    Director: Oliver Dahan
    Tells the story of the troubled life of French songbird Edith Piaf. Raised in poverty, Edith's magical voice and her passionate romances and friendships with some of the greatest names of the period - Yves Montand, Jean Cocteau, Charles Aznavour, Marlene Dietrich, Marcel Cerdan and others - made her a star all around the world. But in her audacious attempt to tame her tragic destiny the Little Sparrow (her nickname) flew so high she could not fail to burn her wings.

    La Vie en Rose

    June 7 
    7.30pm

    IMDb

    Atonement
    UK/France 2007 130mins Certificate 15 
    Starring: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn
    Director: Joe Wright
    Oscar-winning adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel by Christopher Hampton. Fledgling writer Briony Tallis (Saiorse Ronan), as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.


     Atonement

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