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Peterborough Arts Cinema's new season

The 10 films making up Peterborough Arts Cinema's new season

After a long summer break, Peterborough Arts Cinema is back with another season of films to make you think.

Based at the John Clare Theatre in Broadway, the programme begins on October 9 with Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme, and continues, weekly, Thursdays at 7pm, through to December.

The full programme is:

THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME

October 9 Wealthy businessman, Zsa-Zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate.

As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists, and determined assassins.

CHICKEN TOWN

October 19

Two school-friends join forces with a green-fingered granddad to fence a shed of weed that the old man has accidentally grown on his allotment.

HARD TRUTHS

October23

Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us.

SINNERS

October 30

Just in time for Halloween! Set in 1932, Jim Crow era Mississippi, the film follows two twin brothers known as Smoke and Stack as they return home to try and leave their troubled lives behind, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. Staring Michael B. Jordan.

SLADE IN FLAME

November 6

Described as the "Citizen Kane of rock musicals" by Mark Kermode, this film from 1975 charts the history of 'Flame', a fictitious group (played by members of the band Slade) in the late 1960s who are picked up by a marketing company and taken to the top, only to break up at their zenith. The Guardian describes the film as "mixing the madcap comedy of A Hard Day’s Night with the brutal nastiness of Get Carter...".

HOLY COW

November 13

After the tragic death of his father, 18-year-old Totone must look after his younger sister and their failing family farm. He assumes even more responsibility when he enters a cash competition for the best Comté cheese made in the western part of the French Alps.

SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE

November 20

In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own, forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.

FOUR MOTHERS

November 27

An author is saddled with caring for his mother after she suffers a stroke. His plans for a book tour are thrown into disarray when three more elderly women arrive on his doorstep in Dublin.

THE LIFE OF CHUCK

December 4

Based on the Stephen King novella, this powerful tale celebrates the life of Charles 'Chuck' Krantz as he experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.

THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND

December 11

An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favourite musicians to perform at his home.

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