NOVEMBER 1999 MOVIES AT THE DUKES
GO (18)
Sunday 14 November1999 8pm & Monday 15 November 6.15pm
The latest in the Dukes' exciting film season of new movies from the USA is new release Go (18). From Doug Liman, director of last year's hit Swingers, comes this tale of US teenies and party babes caught up in a one-off drug deal that they expect will set them up for life. Instead they meet justice in the form of a trailof blackly comic consequesnces.
McCABE AND MRS MILLER (15)
Monday 15 November 8.30pm
Warren Beatty and Julie Christiestar in one of the best of director Robert Altman's early movies. Using the classic theme of the gambler and the whore, Altman produces a non-heroic western of class and technical panache. Set among 19th century frontier life in the Wild West, McCabe and Mrs Miller makes a good case for the old maxim about life being nasty, brutish and short - and suggests that we should grab our pleasures while we still can.
FELICIA'S JOURNEY (15)
Sunday 28 & Monday 29 November 8pm
With a British setting but by no means a British film, Felicia's Journey stars Bob Hoskins as a mild mannered serial killer who befriends a young and naive Irish runaway (Elaine Cassidy). Internationally acclaimed Turkish director Atom Egoyan adapts Irish writer William Trevor's novel in a UK/Canadian co-production. As is his previous work, which includes movies like The Adjuster, Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter, Egoyan captures with meticulous detail the contrasts of different environments, from rural Ireland to industrial Birmingham. Felicia's Journey is chilling and believable proof that foreigners can"do" British. regardless of the state of the British film industry itself, plenty of films are taking British subjects - watch out for David Mamet's The Winslow Boy (19 - 23 december 1999), which in the Dukes Christmas movie treat!
THE WAR ZONE (18)
Tuesday 30 November 8pm, Wednesday 1 December 8pm & Thursday 2 December 6.15pm
Drawing inevitable comparisons with Gary Oldman’s Nil By Mouth, cult actor Tim Roth turns his hand to directing with this raw, powerful drama. Meticulously staged and with a fine eye for detail and mood, The War Zone is a splendidly acted tale of a family torn apart by parental abuse.
Based on the controversial, critically acclaimed first novel by Alexander Stuart, the film details the 'war zone' that is at the heart of a seemingly happy middle class family, when they uproot from London to start a new life in Devon. Bold and utterly gripping, the film is dominated by a multi-layered performance from Ray Winstone, one of Britain’s finest screen actors.
Tickets for all Dukes movies cost £4 (£3 concessions) and are available on the night or can be reserved in advance from the Dukes.
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