A project of ANAC, the Asociación Nerjeña Acción Cultural
in collaboration with RSA 99.1fm.

Films will be scheduled around author, actors,
directors birthdays, or historical anniversaries.

CINE CLUB - Season 2009-2010

The Nerja Cultural Centre, in conjunction with RSA 99.1 fm, is pleased to announce the return of the ANAC Cine Club! The Cine Club gives movie buffs the opportunity to enjoy classic films, international cinema and new releases on the big screen. Most months feature eight films for ten euros.
All films screened by the ANAC Cine Club are in their original language.

DECEMBER 2009

Tuesday 1 December – 7 pm
The Young Victoria (UK 2009) 100 min.
Emily Blunt, Jim Broadbent, Mark Strong. Dir. Jean-Marc Vallée.
THE YOUNG VICTORIA is a lavish costume drama that focuses on the early life of Queen Victoria, one of the most venerated monarchs in British history. Born into nobility, her ascent to the throne was assured. Politically however, Victoria's inexperience meant that she relied heavily upon advisers to guide her. None more so than her cousin Prince Albert (Rupert Friend, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE), who, at the tender age of 21 she married and went on to have nine children with. THE YOUNG VICTORIA is a visually-stunning film that gives candid insight into the challenges faced by those growing up in the public eye.
Original Version (English) with Spanish subtitles.

Monday 7 December – 7 pm
Is Anybody There? (USA 2009) 96 min. Michael Caine, Bill Milner. Dir. John Crowley.
Seventy-six-year-old Michael Caine and 13-year-old Bill Milner (Son of Rambow) make a fine comedy-drama team in Is Anybody There?, a touching if predictable story about taking a chance on human contact in a sea of loneliness, regret and death. Caine plays Clarence, a retired magician forced to take up residence in a home for seniors. Despite his anger and indignation, Clarence establishes a relationship with Edward (Milner), the only child of a financially-strapped couple who reluctantly turned their home into a care facility. Is Anybody There? is truly moving.
Original Version (English) with Spanish subtitles.

Tuesday 8 December – 8 pm. – World Cinema
Since Otar Left (France 2003) 103 min. Esther Gorintin, Nino Khomasuridze, Dinara Drukarova. Dir. Julie Bertucelli.
Winner of the Cannes Grand Jury Prize, Since Otar Left is the engrossing story of a household of 3 generations of women from the same family set in Tiblisi. Otar is the grandmother's son who is working in Paris communicating with them by letter and phone. The emphasis is on character and atmosphere with the leads so good that the film never fails to hold one's attention. A constant background to the film is the frustrations of life in Georgia with frequent power cuts, droughts etc. which throws the other themes of exile and escape into sharper relief. The director never allows the film to descend into easy sentimentality, and in particular ensures that the Grandmother comes across as irascible and independent rather than sweet and innocent, and not above lamenting the passing of Stalin (much to the disgust of her daughter).
Original Version (French, Georgian, Russian) with English subtitles.

Sunday 13 December 5 pm – 70th Anniversary of Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind (USA 1939) 222 min. Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Thomas Mitchell, Hattie McDaniel. Dir. Victor Fleming.
If not the greatest movie ever made, certainly one of the greatest examples of storytelling on film, maintaining interest for nearly four hours. Margaret Mitchell’s story is, in effect, a Civil War soap opera, focusing on the vixenish Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara , brilliantly played by Leigh; she won an Oscar, as did the picture, McDaniel, director Fleming, screenwriter Sidney Howard, and many others. Memorable Max Steiner score in this one-of-a-kind, never-to-be repeated film meticulously produced by David O. Selznick.
Original version (English) with Spanish subtitles.

Tuesday 15 December 7 pm
Crossing Over (USA 2009) 113 min. Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd, Ray Liotta. Dir. Wayne Kramer.
Crossing Over is director Wayne Kramer's take on nothing less than the vast subject of illegal immigration, coming at the topic from a dozen or so directions. Hefting the most star power is Harrison Ford, scurrying about as an L.A. Immigration and Customs officer whose conscience is sore from having trundled so many illegals back over the border--now he's worried about the child of a particularly vulnerable woman (Alice Braga). Cliff Curtis plays Ford's partner, an Iranian-American whose family is not as assimilated as his casual manner might suggest. There's a bit of pulp swagger in other sections of the picture: for instance, an Immigration official (Ray Liotta at his piggiest) coerces an Australian actress into a sex-for-green-card affair, and an adolescent Arab-American girl gives a cheeky speech at school that puts her family under suspicion as possible terrorists. Other strands of this scenario aren't as urgent, as Ashley Judd dreams of adopting the African child she's tending, and Jim Sturgess, as a British non-believer, tries to convince Immigration authorities of his commitment to working at a Jewish school. The movie's single best scene has him "auditioning" to convince a rabbi of his commitment to Judaism, a funny moment that also carries an echo of the history of Jewish exodus.
Original version (English) with Spanish subtitles.

Saturday 19 December- 5 pm - Deutsches Film
Good Bye Lenin (Germayn 2003) 121 min. Daniel Bruhl, Maria Simon. Dir. Wolfgang Becker.
The year is 1989 and East and West Germany are still divided. Alex (Daniel Bruhl) and his sister Ariane (Maria Simon) live in East Germany with their single mother, Christiane (Katrin Sass) who is a staunch Socialist. When Alex’s mother witnesses his arrest on a protest march, she suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma for eight months, just enough time for the Berlin Wall to come tumbling down, along with all of East Germany’s ideals. Eight months later, Christiane wakes up and things have changed. The doctors warn Alex that any shock could bring on a fatal heart attack. He then realizes he must convince his mother that her beloved Communism has not been overthrown but is in fact triumphing over Capitalism. Alex then sets out to recreate every detail of the old East inside the four walls of their tiny council flat … what begins as a little white lie soon turns into a major deception with hilarious consequences!
Original Version (German) with English subtitles.