VHS-Filmreihe

Do 06.09.    19.30    Elizabeth

Do 4.10.      19.30    The King's Speech

Do 1.11.      19.30    The Iron Lady

Do 6.12.      19.30    The Queen

Do 14.02.    19.30     Pride and Prejudice

Do 07.03.     19.30    The Guard 

Do 04.04.     19.30    Hallam Foe 

Do 02.05.     19.30    The Edge of Love

Elizabeth 

Do 06.09.2012 um 19.30

1998, Director: Shekar Kapur , Cast: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher EcclestonA film of the early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch. This film details the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen ElizabethI. The main focus is the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.

 

The King’s Speech

Do 04. Oktober 2012. um 19.30

 2010, Director: Tom Hooper, Cast: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham-Carter
The story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stammer Bertie engages the help of the unorthodox speech therapist Lionel Logue. Through his help and as a result of their unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and leads the country through world-war II.

 

The Iron Lady

Do 01.November 2012 um 19.30

 2011, Director: Phyllida Lloyd, Cast: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Richard E. Grant.
An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene. She looks back on her life as she clears out her late husband Denis's clothes for the Oxfam shop. Denis is seen as being her rock in her political career. Now his ghost joins her to comment on her successes and failures.

 

The Queen

Do 06. Deember 2012 um 19.30

 2006, Director: Stephen Frears, Cast: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell
After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted. Diana the 'People's Princess' has died in a car accident in Paris. The Queen and her family decide that for the best, they should remain hidden behind the closed doors of Balmoral Castle. The heartbroken public do not understand and request that the Queen comforts her people. This also puts pressure on newly elected Tony Blair, who constantly tries to convince the monarchy to address the public.

 

Pride and Prejudice

Do 14.Februar 2013 um 19.30

 2005, Director: Joe Wright, Cast: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn

The story is based on Jane Austen's novel about five sisters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet - in Georgian England. Their lives are turned upside down when a wealthy young man (Mr. Bingley) and his best friend (Mr. Darcy) arrive in their neighborhood.

Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice?

 

The Guard

Do 07. März 2013 um 19.30

 2011, Director. John Michael McDonagh, Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong.

An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is teamed up with an uptight FBI agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring. Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a small-town Irish garda with a subversive sense of humor, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought straight-laced FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door.

 

Hallam Foe

Do 04. April 2013 um 19.30

 2007, Director: David MacKenzie, Cast: Jamie Bell, Ruth Milne, John Paul Lawler

Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city for love.
The seventeen year-old Hallam Foe is a weird teenager that misses his mother, who committed suicide. Hallam spends his spare time peeping at the locals and blames his stepmother Verity Foe. After a discussion with his father, Hallam travels to Edinburgh, where he meetsKate Breck and becomes obsessed with her and they have a strange romance, while Hallam reaches his maturity in the hardest way.

 

Edge of Love

Do 02.Mai .2013 um 19.30

 2008, Director: John Maybury, Cast: Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys

The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas is told through the lives of two extraordinary women.
Vera Phillips and Dylan Thomas were teenage lovers; fast forward ten years and the two reconnect in London. She's working as a singer whilst he is churning out scripts for government propaganda films. The two former lovers feel the thunderbolt once more, but Thomas Dylan is now married to the adventurous Caitlin. Despite their love-rival status, the women form a surprising friendship.*