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IDFilms present Silent Running
By Kate Hawkins The IDFilms presentation this week is Silent Running, an environmental fable directed by an innovative special effects auteur. Starring Bruce Dern, it depicts the struggle of one man and three robots to preserve the world’s remaining forests, when the powers-that-be order their destruction. The 1972 film was directed by Douglas Trumbull who [...]
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Retro animation classic on show
By Kate Hawkins IDFilms are giving everyone a chance to see Les Triplettes de Belleville on Monday. Released in the UK as Belleville Rendezvous, this is Sylvain Chomet’s first feature film. A retro-styled animation with English subtitles, from 2003, much of the story is communicated visually and in song. The orphaned Champion is raised by [...]
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Free vampire film for Halloween
Coventry University’s idfilm group has a special Halloween treat this week – a free screening of Tomas Alfredson’s 2008 vampire movie Let the Right One in. The film is based on the book of the same name by John Ajvide Lindquist. Set in a Stockholm suburb in 1982, it is a coming-of-age story and a [...]