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This Week at The Cameo

Back in Screen One owing to demand is HUNGER
(daily 6.50 show is in Screen Two)
"Outstandingly made. Raw, powerful film-making."
THE GUARDIAN
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Also remaining are Oliver Stone's W. and BURN AFTER READING (Read our Picturehouse Recommends article).

GOMORRAH returns for one show a day in Screen One.
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Also returning due to demand, for one early evening show a day (excluding Sun 16) is I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG.
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There's a single screening of I.O.U.S.A. on Monday 17 November as part of our Joiningthedots season.

The Euro Matinee film is OUTLANDERS.

The Sunday Double Bill is a lovely costumed pair of
MARIE ANTOINETTE and THE DUCHESS.

The Cameo Cinema is on Facebook.

13 November 2008

HIGHLIGHTS

THE C WORD
LIVE FROM ROYAL OPERA HOUSE
Since it's near the middle of November we'll finally get around to mentioning Christmas. The same as every year, The Cameo will only close on Christmas Day so you'll have every opportunity to escape the festive madness by relaxing in the best cinema in town. There may be minor alterations to opening and closing times on 24/26/31 December and 1 January, which will be advertised beforehand.

Save yourself a lot of hassle by getting your friends, family and people you admire from afar a Cameo Membership for Christmas. It's the present that keeps on giving and they will love you more than anybody else for being so thoughtful.

Gift Vouchers are always available priced £5 and £10. They can be spent in the bar and the kiosk as well as at the Box Office so they really are a gift of all-consuming joy.

As ever IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE will be screening in the days running up to Christmas. This year there will be shows from Friday 19 December up until 24 December. Selected shows will be in Screen One including the all-important shows on Christmas Eve.
We now have five confirmed live broadcasts of performances from the Royal Opera House's 2008/9 season.

HÄNSEL UND GRETEL - Tuesday 16 December, 7.10pm
Live from Royal Opera House, London

THE NUTCRACKER Sunday 28 December, 12.10pm
Live from Royal Opera House, London

MESSIAH Sunday 5 April
Live from King's College, Cambridge

ONDINE Wednesday 3 June
Live from Royal Opera House, London

LA TRAVIATA Tuesday 30 June
Live from Royal Opera House, London

Full details of the productions

Tickets On Sale Now:
Full Price £20
Concessions £19
Cameo Members £17.50
Children £5

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Thursday 13 November
Burn After Reading (15): 15:45, 18:10
Get Smart (12A): Big Scream 10:30
Hunger (15): 13:10, 16:00, 18:25, 21:05
Of Time And The City (12A): 13:15
Unrelated (15): 12:40
W. (15): 15:00, 18:00, 21:00
Whisky Event (18): 20:30

Friday 14 November
Burn After Reading (15): 15:50, 21:15
Gomorrah (15): 18:10
Hunger (15): 12:50, 15:45, 18:50, 21:10
I've Loved You So Long (12A): 18:25
Outlanders (15): 13:15
W. (15): 13:00, 15:55, 21:00

Saturday 15 November
Burn After Reading (15): 15:50, 21:15
Gomorrah (15): 18:10
Hunger (15): 12:50, 15:45, 18:50, 21:10
I've Loved You So Long (12A): 18:25
Outlanders (15): 13:15
W. (15): 13:00, 21:00

Sunday 16 November
Burn After Reading (15): 15:50, 21:15
Gomorrah (15): 20:40
Hunger (15): 15:55, 18:15
I've Loved You So Long (12A): 18:25
Marie Antoinette (123m)/The Duchess (110m) (12A): Double Bill 13:30
Outlanders (15): 13:15
W. (15): 13:00, 18:00, 21:00

Monday 17 November
Burn After Reading (15): 15:50, 21:15
Gomorrah (15): 18:10
Hunger (15): 12:50, 15:45, 18:50, 21:10
I.O.U.S.A. (U): 19:00
Outlanders (15): 13:15
W. (15): 13:00, 15:55, 21:00

Tuesday 18 November
Burn After Reading (15): Silver Screen 15:50, 21:15
Gomorrah (15): 18:10
Hunger (15): Silver Screen 12:50, Silver Screen 15:45, 18:50, 21:10
I've Loved You So Long (12A): 18:25
Outlanders (15): Silver Screen 13:15
W. (15): Silver Screen 13:00, Silver Screen 15:55, 21:00

Wednesday 19 November
Burn After Reading (15): 15:50, 21:15
Gomorrah (15): 18:10
Hunger (15): Wednesday Special 12:50, 15:45, 18:50, 21:10
I've Loved You So Long (12A): 18:25
Outlanders (15): Wednesday Special 13:15
W. (15): Wednesday Special 13:00, 15:55, 21:00

Thursday 20 November
Burn After Reading (15): 15:50, 21:15
Gomorrah (15): 18:10
Hunger (15): 12:50, 15:45, 18:50, 21:10
I've Loved You So Long (12A): 18:25
Outlanders (15): 13:15
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (12A): Big Scream 10:30
W. (15): 13:00, 15:55, 21:00

Coming Soon
WALTZ WITH BASHIR (18) - 21 November
An extraordinary animated documentary that offers a potent and necessarily harrowing portrait of the futility of war.
Official Site
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CHANGELING (15) - 28 November
Clint Eastwood directs Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich in a provocative thriller based on actual events.
Official Site

AÑO UÑA (15) - 28 November
A love story between a Mexican teenager and an older American woman who meet one summer in Mexico.
Official Site

SUMMER (Cert TBC) - 5 December
A story of a man struggling to reclaim his life which saw Robert Carlyle take the Best Performance award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June.

DEAN SPANLEY (Cert TBC) - 12 December
Peter O'Toole, Sam Neil and Jeremy Northam in a tale from Edwardian England that has O'Toole tipped for yet another Oscar nomination.

GONZO (15) - 19 December
A portrait of the late journalist Hunter S Thompson with archive footage and narration by Johnny Depp.

FILMS

Hunger (15)
Director: Steve Mcqueen Origin: United Kingdom Year: 2008 Duration: 96m Starring: Liam Cunningham, Michael Fassbender

The debut feature from Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen is a bold and brilliant telling of a controversial subject, the final months of IRA activist Bobby Sands, who protested against his treatment in prison through a hunger strike. When the inmates of the infamous Maze prison refuse to wear uniforms to protest against Britain's rejection of their plea to be recognised as political prisoners, this fails to get results. So one prisoner, Sands (Fassbender), decides to take a different tack and refuses to eat until the British Government acknowledges the IRA as a legitimate political organisation. Directed with astonishing precision and attention to detail, this is a fiercely intelligent work with an astounding and painfully authentic performance from Fassbender at its centre.

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W. (15*)
Origin: United States Year: 2008 Duration: 130m Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Oliver Stone, James Cromwell, Elizabeth Banks, Josh Brolin, Toby Jones


Stone sees Dub-ya's rise to power as a great, almost Capra-esque story: how did a onetime reprobate and black sheep of his esteemed family rise to become Leader of the Free World? W. shifts back and forth between Bush's hard-partying younger years and his first term in office, showing the highs of his rise to power but also giving ample airing to the lows. The formidable task of playing him falls to Josh Brolin, who continues his excellent run of performances (NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH). Stone has assembled an impressive cast around him, including Thandie Newton as Condoleezza Rice, Scott Glenn as Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Dreyfuss as Dick Cheney.

*Contains brief strong reality footage of war

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Gomorrah (15)
Director: Matteo Garrone Origin: Italy Year: 2008 Duration: 137m Starring: Salvatore Abruzzese, Simone Sacchettino, Maria Nazionale, Salvatore Cantalupo

Based on the bestselling book by Roberto Saviano, this is perhaps the most realistic and resolutely unsentimental Mafia picture to emerge from Italy. Power, money and blood: these are the 'values' that the residents of Naples and Caserta have to live with every day; they are forced to obey the rules of the system, or the Camorra. Five stories are woven together in this violent scenario, set in a cruel and apparently imaginary world, but one that is deeply rooted in reality. This powerful and visceral work, which acts as a mirror reflection of recent headlines in Italy, benefits from director Garrone's understated style, and the violence, when it arrives, is un-sensationalised.
Note: this film is subtitled

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Burn After Reading (15)
Director: Coen Brothers Origin: United States Year: 2008 Duration: 96m Starring: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton, John Malkovich

How do you follow up a multiple-award-winner like NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN? With relative ease it seems, if you are Joel and Ethan Coen. In BURN AFTER READING they retain the ability to glimpse into the dark heart of humanity, while turning up the black humour several notches and flirting with the spy genre. An ousted CIA official's (Malkovich, THE LIBERTINE) memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two gym employees (Pitt and McDormand), who are then intent on exploiting their find. Reuniting with George Clooney, the Coens also add Tilda Swinton (MICHAEL CLAYTON) and Richard Jenkins (THE VISITOR) to their increasingly impressive roster of stars.

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I've Loved You So Long (12A*)
Director: Philippe Claudel Origin: France Year: 2008 Duration: 117m Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius

Claudel's debut won two prizes at this year's Berlin Film Festival and it is easy to see why: this beautifully scripted and skilfully composed tale of two sisters who rebuild their relationship after years apart is utterly engrossing and deeply moving. Scott-Thomas plays wonderfully against type as Juliette, an introverted and fragile woman who has just been released from 15 years in prison. Emotionally and physically ground down by years of guilt and anguish, Juliette goes to stay with her younger sister Léa (Zylberstein). Léa has a full life as a wife and mother, and Juliette struggles to find her place in her sibling's close-knit world. As the sisters gradually rediscover common ground and a way of relating to each other, this intelligent and compassionate portrayal of the power of love and forgiveness builds towards a cathartic conclusion.
Note: this film is subtitled

*Contains soft drug use and emotive crime theme.

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Outlanders (15)
Director: Dominic Lees Origin: United Kingdom Year: 2007 Duration: 99m Starring: Alexis Raben, Shaun Dingwall, Przemyslaw Sadowski, Jakub Tolak

After his father's death, Adam hitchhikes to London from his hometown in Poland to find his older brother, a former Polish football star who is now supplying illegal migrant workers to the booming construction industry in London. To the impressionable young man it seems his brother has everything - wealth, status, women. But Adam soon discovers that beneath the surface glamour lies a dark heart of betrayal, corruption and murder.

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I.O.U.S.A. (U*)
Director: Patrick Creadon Origin: United States Year: 2008 Duration: 85m

I.O.U.S.A. boldly examines the rapidly growing American national debt and its consequences for US citizens. Burdened with an ever-expanding government and military, increased international competition, overextended entitlement programmes and debts to foreign countries that are becoming impossible to honour, America must mend its spendthrift ways or face an economic disaster of epic proportions. Sundance veteran Patrick Creadon helps demystify America's financial practices and policies, interweaving archival footage and economic data to paint a vivid and alarming profile of the country's current economic situation. Featuring candid interviews with the likes of Warren Buffet and Alan Greenspan, the ultimate power of I.O.U.S.A. is that it moves beyond doomsday rhetoric to proffer potential financial scenarios and solutions that could create a fiscally sound nation once again.

*Contains no material likely to offend or harm

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Of Time And The City (12A*)
Director: Terence Davies Origin: United Kingdom Year: 2008 Duration: 72m

Screened to unprecedented acclaim at Cannes, OF TIME AND THE CITY marks the much-welcome return to the screen of Terence Davies (DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES; THE HOUSE OF MIRTH), arguably the UK's most distinctive filmmaker. Created as part of the Digital Departures scheme, set up by North West Vision and Media to tie in with Liverpool's City of Culture status, this idiosyncratic and hugely personal paean to Davies' hometown of Liverpool brilliantly blends a poetic verbal account of his early life with contemporary and archive footage of the city. Narrated by Davies himself with impassioned grace and humour, this is one of the cinematic events of the year.

*Contains one use of strong language

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Unrelated (15)
Director: Joanna Hogg Origin: United Kingdom Year: 2008 Duration: 100m Starring: Kathryn Worth, Mary Roscoe, Tom Hiddleston

Joanna Hogg's impressive debut is both a bold and brutally honest portrait of women of a certain age and a comment on middle-class sensibilities. Anna (Worth) arrives at the Italian holiday home of an extended bourgeois family. She is the old school friend of matriarch Verena (Roscoe), but is soon distracted from 'the olds' and drawn to the vitality and energetic escapades of the teenagers in the group, and in particular to cocky Oakley (the fast-rising Hiddleston). It is gradually and subtly revealed that all is not right in Anna's world, and her spending time with the people more than half her age is an attempt to claim something missing in her own life. Combining professional and non-professional actors to credible effect, this is a touching, original and refreshing picture.

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Marie Antoinette (12A*)
Director: Sofia Coppola Origin: United States Year: 2006 Duration: 123m Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Danny Huston, Judy Davis, Steve Coogan

Coppola's third feature following THE VIRGIN SUICIDES and LOST IN TRANSLATION is a ravishing feast for the senses. The film portrays the naïve teenager who was entirely unprepared to take her place in the turbulent history of 18th-century France. Lost amongst the rigid etiquette, brutal family infighting and merciless gossip of the French royal court, Marie Antoinette found her escape in the sensual pleasures of youth. But her frivolity made her the object of scandal and a convenient scapegoat for a society on the verge of revolution. Eschewing historical fact to instead give an impressionistic look at a victim of circumstance, Coppola cuts the film to a blistering pop soundtrack featuring New Order, Bow Wow Wow and Siouxsie and the Banshees.

*Contains moderate sex

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The Duchess (12A*)
Director: Saul Dibb Origin: United Kingdom Year: 2008 Duration: 110m Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Ralph Fiennes, Keira Knightley

Based on the bestselling historical biography, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman, THE DUCHESS is an intelligent and compelling portrait of a remarkable woman. Married young to the cool and distant Duke of Devonshire (Fiennes, THE CONSTANT GARDENER), intimate of ministers and princes, Georgiana (Knightley, ATONEMENT, THE EDGE OF LOVE) was a fashion icon, a doting mother and a shrewd political operator. But at the core of her story is a desperate search for warmth and love. From her passionate and doomed affair with Earl Grey (Cooper, THE HISTORY BOYS) to her complex ménage à trois with her husband and her best friend, Lady Bess Foster (Atwell, CASSANDRA'S DREAM), THE DUCHESS is a very contemporary tale of fame, notoriety and the quest for love.

*Contains moderate sex

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Get Smart (12A*)
Director: Peter Segal Origin: United States Year: 2008 Duration: 110m Starring: Terence Stamp, Alan Arkin, Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway

Steve Carell (THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN) steps into the shoes of one of television's most beloved bumbling detectives in this big-screen adaptation of the hit 1960s comedy series created by Mel Brooks. The evil geniuses at KAOS hatch a diabolical plot to dominate every living man, woman and child on the planet. But US spy agency CONTROL have other ideas and promptly promote Maxwell Smart to the rank of special agent in a bid to thwart their plan. A hilarious romp: think The Pink Panther meets Austin Powers.
Showing as a Big Scream for parents/carers with babies only

*Contains moderate language and action violence

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (12A*)
Director: Mark Herman Origin: United Kingdom, United States Year: 2008 Duration: 94m Starring: Rupert Friend, Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, David Heyman

Adapted from John Boyne's bestselling novel, THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS is a fictional story that offers a unique and powerful perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people during wartime. Told through the eyes of an eight-year-old German boy shielded from the reality of World War II, this unforgettable tale follows an unlikely friendship that forms between Bruno (Asa Butterfield), the son of a Nazi commandant, and Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though a barbed-wire fence physically separates the two, their friendship grows and their lives become inescapably and tragically entwined. This is an enlightening, sobering and informative work for all generations of filmgoers.
Showing as a Big Scream for parents/carers with babies only

*Contains scenes of holocaust threat and horror

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