Over 95 films since 2004 !

Friday 10th February 2012
and
Saturday 11th February 2012

at 7.30pm
in Polstead Village Hall
 

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

 " Trust no one. Suspect everyone. "

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is the long-awaited feature film version of John le Carré’s classic bestselling novel. The thriller is directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In). The screenplay adaptation is by the writing team of Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan.

The time is 1973. The Cold War of the mid-20th Century continues to damage international relations. Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), a.k.a. MI6 and code-named the Circus, is striving to keep pace with other countries’ espionage efforts and to keep the U.K. secure. The head of the Circus, known as Control (John Hurt), personally sends dedicated operative Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) into Hungary. But Jim’s mission goes bloodily awry, and Control is forced out of the Circus – as is his top lieutenant, George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a career spy with razor-sharp senses.

Estranged from his absent wife Ann, Smiley is soon called in to see undersecretary Oliver Lacon (Simon McBurney); he is to be rehired in secret at the government’s behest, as there is a gnawing fear that the Circus has long been compromised by a double agent, or mole, working for the Soviets and jeopardizing England. Supported by younger agent Peter Guillam (Benedict Cumberbatch), Smiley parses Circus activities past and present. In trying to track and identify the mole, Smiley is haunted by his decades-earlier interaction with the shadowy Russian spy master Karla.

The mole’s trail remains cold until maverick field agent Ricki Tarr (Tom Hardy) unexpectedly contacts his handler, Guillam. While undercover in Turkey, Ricki has fallen for a betrayed married woman, Irina (Svetlana Khodchenkova), who claims to possess crucial intelligence. Separately, Smiley learns that Control narrowed down the list of mole suspects to five men. They are the ambitious Percy Alleline (Toby Jones), whom he had code-named Tinker; suavely confident Bill Haydon (Colin Firth), dubbed Tailor; stalwart Roy Bland (Ciarán Hinds), called Soldier; officious Toby Esterhase (David Dencik), dubbed Poor Man; and – Smiley himself, tagged as Spy.

Even before the startling truth is revealed, the emotional and physical tolls on the players enmeshed in the deadly international spy game will escalate. 

Friday 23rd March 2012

at 7.30pm
in Polstead Village Hall
 

Jane Eyre

 " You're altogether a human being Jane "

In a bold new feature version of Jane Eyre, director Cary Joji Fukunaga (Sin Nombre) and screenwriter Moira Buffini (Tamara Drewe) infuse a contemporary immediacy into Charlotte Brontë’s timeless, classic story. Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) and Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds) star in the iconic lead roles of the romantic drama, the heroine of which continues to inspire new generations of devoted readers and viewers. 

The Suffolk Digital Cinema Network was launched in 2004. Its purpose was to enable communities to borrow the necessary equipment to show films in Village and Community Halls. Membership of the Network has grown to over 50 and several communities have purchased their own equipment.

As Chairman of Polstead Village Hall I became a founder member of the Network’s committee and Polstead Village Hall was one of the first villages to show films. The main funding organisations have been Screen East, the Awards for All Lottery Fund, EEDA, the Suffolk Development Agency, Babergh, Forest Heath, Mid-Suffolk and Suffolk Coastal District Councils. There are currently over 50 member groups showing films on a regular or occasional basis and there are four sets of equipment stored across the county for member groups to borrow.

Doors open at 7-00pm and films begin at 7-30pm.
The Hall is fully licensed so there is a bar as well as tea, coffee and Suffolk ice-cream to add to the enjoyment of the evening.
Tickets, £3-50, can be booked in advance at the Community Shop, or by ringing Sue Wigglesworth on 01787 210029

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