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This week you have a choice of no fewer than three Best Picture Academy Award Nominees and two Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award Nominees.

Returning to Screen One is A PROPHET. Also remaining are PRECIOUS: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire and UP IN THE AIR.

SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL is back by popular demand.

Appearing at the end of the week for a couple of previews before opening fully on 12 February is THE WOLFMAN.



The weekly Euro Matinee screening from 5 February is THE WHITE RIBBON.

The Sunday Double Bill is a school passion pairing of AN EDUCATION and NOTES ON A SCANDAL. As usual, it's FREE for Cameo Members.


We have two further shows of the Blur documentary NO DISTANCE LEFT TO RUN at 1.10 and 6.20 on Tuesday 9 February.


Tickets are now on sale for a special screening of BURLESQUE UNDRESSED, at which Immodesty Blaize will appear in person for a signing. See below for details.


It was pleasing to see The Cameo make the list of the Top Ten Independent Cinemas in the UK as compiled by The Guardian. You can see our mention here


The Cameo Membership offer is now even better, as the 10% Members' discount applies to all food and drink in the bar and kiosk. More Membership info here


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3 February 2010

HIGHLIGHTS

Valentine's Day Special
Immodesty Blaize in Person
The more romantic among you need look no further than The Cameo as a destination on Valentine's Day, Sunday 14 February.

For the afternoon we're bringing back one of our most popular double bills of the last few years, BEFORE SUNRISE and BEFORE SUNSET, in which two people explore the attraction they have for each other in Vienna and then, nine years later, in Paris.

Commencing at 1.30 - and as with all of our Sunday Double Bills, it is FREE to Cameo Members.

If you are looking for a cuddle in the evening then you can come along to BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S at 6.15. One of the two recent marriage proposals in The Cameo's Screen One was made at this very film so you never know what might happen.

Advance booking is highly recommended to avoid disappointment.

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BURLESQUE UNDRESSED (15)

Thursday 25 February, 8.30

Immodesty Blaize will be appearing in person at The Cameo for a signing following the film.


British burlesque superstar Immodesty Blaize peels back the curtain to reveal her world of high-octane glamour, giving an exclusive peep behind the scenes to expose the work involved in the art of the tease.

From the elaborate and spectacular costume designs to the impressive on-stage gimmicks, Immodesty and her pals showcase the best of burlesque in a dazzling explosion of seductive live performance, including footage from her very own sell-out Tease Show.

This film tells the real story of the genre, charting its rise and fall from its British roots to its American evolution, finally rejoicing in its 21st-century revival. BURLESQUE UNDRESSED also features a special appearance by Marc Almond and a big-band soundtrack of memorably heart-pounding music.

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FILM TIMES

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Wednesday 3 February
A Prophet (18): 14:15, 17:15, 17:30, 20:30, 20:45
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (15): Wednesday Special 12:50, 15:35, 18:10, 21:10
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (15): Wednesday Special 12:00
Up in the Air (15): Wednesday Special 14:50

Thursday 4 February
A Prophet (18): 14:15, 17:15, 17:30, 20:30, 20:45
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (15): 12:50, 15:35, 18:10, 21:10
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (15): 12:00
The Box (12A): Big Scream 10:30
Up in the Air (15): 14:50

Friday 5 February
A Prophet (18): 13:40, 17:15, 20:30
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (15): 15:35, 18:10, 21:00
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (15): 13:10, 15:55, 18:25
The White Ribbon (15): 12:30
Up in the Air (15): 21:10

Saturday 6 February
A Prophet (18): 13:40, 17:15, 20:30
Met. Opera: Simon Boccanegra (): 18:00
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (15): 15:35, 18:10, 21:00
The White Ribbon (15): 12:30
Up in the Air (15): 13:10

Sunday 7 February
A Prophet (18): 13:40, 17:15, 19:30
An Education (100m)/Notes on a Scandal (92m) (12A): Double Bill 13:30
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (15): 15:35, 18:10, 21:00
The White Ribbon (15): 12:30
Up in the Air (15): 21:10

Monday 8 February
A Prophet (18): 13:40, 17:15, 20:30
Mark Kermode: It's Only a Movie Tour (No certificate): 19:30
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (15): 15:35, 18:10, 21:00
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (15): 15:55
The White Ribbon (15): 12:30
Up in the Air (15): 13:10

Tuesday 9 February
A Prophet (18): Silver Screen 13:40, 17:15, 20:30
No Distance Left to Run: A Film About Blur (15): Silver Screen 13:10, 18:20
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (15): Silver Screen 15:35, 18:10, 21:00
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (15): Silver Screen 15:55
The White Ribbon (15): Silver Screen 12:30
Up in the Air (15): 21:10

Wednesday 10 February
A Prophet (18): 17:15, 17:30, 20:30
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (15): 15:35, 18:10, 21:00
The White Ribbon (15): Wednesday Special 12:30
The Wolfman (15): Slackers Club 13:30, 21:15
Up in the Air (15): Wednesday Special 13:10

Thursday 11 February
A Prophet (18): 13:40, 17:15, 17:30, 20:30
Breakfast at Tiffany's (PG): Big Scream 10:30
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (15): 15:35, 18:10, 21:00
The White Ribbon (15): 12:30
The Wolfman (15): 21:15
Up in the Air (15): 13:10

Coming Soon
THE WOLFMAN (15) - 12 February
Benicio Del Toro brings fresh blood to the role of Lawrence Talbot, a man for whom the full moon is far from romantic.

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (PG) - 14 February
The romantic classic returns for one early evening show in Screen One as a Valentine's Day treat.

THE ROOM (15) - 20 February
A special screening of 'the worst film of all time'.

BURLESQUE UNDRESSED (15) - 25 February
A lively history of the burlesque art form.

EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP (Cert TBC) - 5 March
Billed as 'the world's first street art disaster movie', the film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work.

CRAZY HEART (15) - 5 March
A Golden Globe-winning performance from Jeff Bridges as a broken-down, hard-living country music singer.

FILMS

A Prophet (18)
Director: Jacques Audiard Origin: France, Italy Year: 2010 Duration: 155m Starring: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup

Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, blistering crime drama A PROPHET demonstrates Audiard's (THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED) ability to rise beyond a genre to exceptional heights of emotional intensity. Malik (Rahim) lands himself in jail at 19. After a violent crash course in the ways of the ruling gang, he slowly begins, through his self-education, to challenge the prison power structures. And as the long years of his sentence roll on, he uses his ruthless cunning to establish himself as a major new player. A PROPHET moves fluidly from art-house subtlety to genre pyrotechnics in an endlessly powerful and absorbing tapestry of criminal life, which has all the epic human drama of such classics as SCARFACE and THE GODFATHER.

Note: this film is subtitled

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Mark Kermode: It's Only a Movie Tour (No certificate*)
Duration: 60m

What happens when you spend most of your childhood in a cinema? Is excessive consumption of films bad for you? Britain's leading film critic Mark Kermode considers these great questions, drawing on scenes of real life: getting shot at while interviewing Werner Herzog in the Hollywood Hills, being handbagged by Helen Mirren at the BAFTAs, and being thrown out of the Cannes Film Festival for heckling in very bad French.

*Live event

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Met. Opera: Simon Boccanegra ()
Year: 2010 Duration: 220m

Four decades into a legendary Met career, tenor Plácido Domingo makes history singing the title role in Verdi's gripping political thriller, which is written for a baritone. Adrianne Pieczonka, Marcello Giordani, and James Morris are his co-stars in this moving and tragic story of a father and his lost daughter. James Levine conducts.

Conductor: James Levine; Production: Giancarlo del Monaco; Adrianne Pieczonka, Marcello Giordani, Plácido Domingo, James Morris

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Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (15*)
Director: Lee Daniels Origin: United States Year: 2009 Duration: 110m Starring: Mariah Carey, Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Lenny Kravitz

Adapted from the bestselling novel Push by Sapphire, PRECIOUS tells the inspirational story of a Harlem girl whose struggle embodies America's downtrodden youth. Pregnant by her drug-addicted father with her second child and taunted over her obesity and illiteracy by her peers, Clareece 'Precious' Jones's life is one of unimaginable trauma and heartache. But when she is invited to an alternative school by a social worker (Carey), she discovers hope in the support around her. Encouraged not tormented, she becomes determined to turn her life around. The bold direction and a brave central performance from newcomer Sidibe have been stirring expectation since Sundance 2009. Anyone who writes off PRECIOUS does so at their own peril; this is set to be one of the year's big cinematic surprises and a serious awards contender.

*Contains strong language and sexual abuse references

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The Beat That My Heart Skipped (15)
Director: Jacques Audiard Origin: France Year: 2006 Duration: 107m Starring: Romain Duris, Emmanuelle Devos, Niels Arestrup

Writer/director Jacques Audiard (READ MY LIPS) turns in a crafty, contemporary Parisian update of James Toback's FINGERS. Tom (Duris) is set to follow in his father's footsteps in the sleazy and sometimes violent world of real estate. Then a chance encounter leads him to believe that he can become, like his mother, a concert pianist. He starts preparing for an audition with a virtuoso Chinese pianist (Pham). She doesn't speak a word of French, so music is their only language. However, pressures from the ugly world of his day job soon become more than he can handle. Though comparisons with the original are inevitable, Audiard's precise direction in tandem with the simmering, complex performance by Duris mean that THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED more than holds its own.
Note: this film is subtitled

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The Box (12A*)
Director: Richard Kelly Origin: United States Year: 2009 Duration: 116m Starring: Cameron Diaz, Frank Langella, James Marsden

Undeterred by the mixed reception he received for his previous science-fiction outing, SOUTHLAND TALES, director Richard Kelly (DONNIE DARKO) has returned to the genre, concocting another dazzling and unpredictable modern fantasy, based on the short story by Richard Matheson. Norma and Arthur Lewis (Diaz and Marsden) are a young couple in mid-'70s America struggling to meet their financial obligations. When a mysterious stranger offers them a deal - press the button on a box and receive a million dollars, but condemn an innocent person to death - Norma finds the temptation too much to bear. What follows is a hallucinatory journey into a world of wormholes, alien conspiracy and acute moral dilemmas.

*Contains moderate horror and psychological threat.

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The Wolfman (15*)
Director: Joe Johnston Origin: United Kingdom, United States Year: 2010 Duration: 100m Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Hugo Weaving, Emily Blunt

Oscar-winning visual effects maestro turned director Joe Johnston (RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK) takes audiences on yet another fantasy thrill ride in this retelling of a horror legend. THE WOLFMAN stars Benicio Del Toro (CHE) as an ill-fated travelling nobleman named Lawrence Talbot, who upon returning to his ancestral homeland following the disappearance of his brother, discovers that something monstrous is threatening the townspeople. Attacked by a rampaging werewolf, Talbot is bitten and is subsequently left bearing the beast's mark in the form of a curse. Set in Victorian England, this haunting remake of the 1941 B-movie classic boasts not only a stellar cast, but truly spectacular special effects courtesy of acclaimed makeup artist Rick Baker (X-MEN: THE LAST STAND).

*To be confirmed

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Up in the Air (15)
Director: Jason Reitman Origin: United States Year: 2009 Duration: 109m Starring: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick

In Reitman's (JUNO, THANK YOU FOR SMOKING) return to corporate America, Clooney is at his smooth, sardonic best as management consultant Ryan Bingham. His work takes him around the country, helping him pursue his private goal of accumulating ten million air miles and entering an elite club. Faced with the threat of video conferencing being introduced at his firm, he talks his way into one last round trip. This time he has an added incentive, having just met Alex (Farmiga), the beautiful and sassy frequent flier of his dreams. With its sharp script and crisp direction, UP IN THE AIR is a pleasurable story of a supremely self-sufficient (or perhaps plain self-centred) lone-wolf having to reassess his priorities. And while Bingham is the film's driving force, Reitman gives his female characters a welcome depth and complexity too. (LFF)

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An Education (12A*)
Director: Lone Scherfig Origin: United Kingdom Year: 2009 Duration: 100m Starring: Peter Sarsgard, Emma Thompson, Alfred Molina, Carey Mulligan

Sixteen-year-old Jenny (Mulligan) entertains fantasies of a Francophile future while conscientiously pursuing the education that her father Jack (Molina) hopes will get her into Oxford. But the typical '60s family dynamic is rent asunder with the arrival of charismatic thirty-something David (Sarsgaard), who introduces her to an exciting new world of classical music, art and nightclubs. In the hands of Danish director Lone Scherfig (WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF, ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS) and writer Nick Hornby (HIGH FIDELITY, ABOUT A BOY), AN EDUCATION is a charming, funny yet provocative coming-of-age movie reflecting a staid post-war Britain that was on the uncertain brink of a cultural revolution.

*Contains moderate sex references.

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Breakfast at Tiffany's (PG)
Director: Blake Edwards Origin: United States Year: 1961 Duration: 115m Starring: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Mickey Rooney

Classic adaptation of the Truman Capote novel with Audrey Hepburn as the Manhattan callgirl Holly Golightly who has an on-off relationship with Peppard's writer, who is himself juggling an affair with a wealthy patroness.

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No Distance Left to Run: A Film About Blur (15)
Director: Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern Origin: United Kingdom Year: 2010 Duration: 98m

NO DISTANCE LEFT TO RUN finds four members of blur together for their 2009 rehearsals and acclaimed summer tour, following a six-year hiatus. With previously unseen archive material alongside revealing new interviews and reportage, the film recounts blur's highs and lows, from Colchester and Goldsmiths to their headline return at Glastonbury and Hyde Park. A portrait of enduring friendship and resolution.

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Notes on a Scandal (15)
Director: Richard Eyre Origin: United Kingdom Year: 2006 Duration: 92m Starring: Dame Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Cate Blanchett, Alice Bird

Acclaimed writer and director Eyre (IRIS, STAGE BEAUTY) teams up with screenwriter Patrick Marber (CLOSER) to adapt author Zoe Heller's novel of the same name. When the new art teacher (Blanchett) at the prestigious St. George's School enters into a torrid affair with one of her male students, the aging History teacher (Dench), who senses a kindred spirit in the beautiful younger woman, uses her knowledge of the transgression to wield an obsessive power that soon threatens tragedy for all involved. Brilliantly performed, the tension between Dench and Blanchett is palpable in this gripping thriller.

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Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (15)
Director: Mat Whitecross Origin: United Kingdom Year: 2010 Duration: 115m Starring: Olivia Williams, Ray Winstone, Andy Serkis

London in the late 1970s: amidst the sprawling tenement blocks and dingy back-street pubs, an anarchic music scene stirs. Its high priest is provocateur and punk-poet Ian Dury, the polio-stricken lead singer of The Blockheads and the most inspired lyricist of his generation. More than a standard biopic, SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL is an involving and emotionally charged family drama, documenting Dury's struggle to hold onto the things that mattered in the increasingly frenzied storm of fame. With a career-best performance from Andy Serkis, inspired staging from director Mat Whitecross and Peter Blake's pop-art stylings, this is the unique and powerful film that Dury deserved.

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The White Ribbon (15)
Director: Michael Haneke Origin: Austria, France, Germany, Italy Year: 2009 Duration: 144m Starring: Ulrich Tukur, Burghart Klaussner, Christian Friedel

Haneke's (HIDDEN, THE PIANO TEACHER) Palme d'Or winner is a mesmerising work surveying life in a protestant village in northern Germany over several months, ending, tellingly, on the eve of World War I. We visit the homes of the pastor, the baron, the doctor and the steward. As we experience the rituals and intimacies of domestic lives, strange, violent acts occur - the doctor's horse falls over a trip wire, the crops in the field are destroyed, an accident happens at the mill - leading the film to become something of a universal essay on repression and violence. Partly a portrait of a time and place in history and partly a study of how sickness in the home can lead to sickness in society, it's also a mystery that, in usual Haneke fashion, is down to us to unravel. [Dave Calhoun, The Times BFI London Film Festival]

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