Jun 18th
Exodus*
US 1960. United Artists/Carlyle/Alpha. 200m(DVD version). Super Panavision 70

The foundation of the state of Israel in 1948.
Laboured modern historical epic with occasional Hollywood artificiality, trying (and failing) honourably to cover a still tricky political situation with fairness.

Written by: Dalton Trumbo, from the novel by Leon Uris.
Producer/Director: Otto Preminger.
Starring: Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, Sal Mineo, Jill Haworth, David Opatoshu, John Derek, Alexandra Stewart, Felix Aylmer, Hugh Griffith, Gregory Ratoff, Marius Goring.
Photography: Sam Leavitt.
Music: Ernest Gold.

EXODUS. The visual metaphor of the poster, alas, still rings true today.

Jun 16th
Father Dear Father*
GB 1972. Sedgemoor/MM. 99m.

A divorced writer copes incompetently with his two growing teenage daughters by trying to re-marry himself.
Modest screen conversion of a cosy TV sitcom, very much of its time, with amusing farcical moments and some over-the-top cameos, but the endearing qualities of its central figure still shine through.

Written by: Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke.
Producer: Peter J. Thompson.
Director: William G. Stewart.
Starring: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Donald Sinden, Beryl Reid, Noel Dyson, Ursula Howells, Joyce Carey, Richard O'Sullivan, Jack Watling, Jill Melford.
Photography: Alan Hume.
Music: Nachum Heiman.

Jun 8th
My Favorite Brunette**
US 1947. Paramount. 87m. bw

A baby photographer turns detective when a beautiful woman is involved in a sinister plot to steal uranium from the US Government.
Amiable spoof private eye thriller where ironically the look of the film is conversely much brighter than the conventional noir, with a similarly lightweight dramatic effect, but some characteristic star turns.

Written by: Edmund Beloin, Jack Rose.
Producer: Daniel Dare.
Director: Elliott Nugent.
Starring: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre, Charles Dingle, Lon Chaney Jnr, John Hoyt, Reginald Denny; and Alan Ladd, Bing Crosby.
Photography: Lional Lindon.
Music: Robert Emmett Dolan.

Jun 4th
The Killer Inside Me** (18)
Rich Mix, Bethnal Green

A Texas deputy sheriff is also the resident psychopath.
Intriguing small town noir with controversial violence that captures reasonably well the author's barbed perspective of the killer himself.

w: John Curran, Michael Winterbottom, from the novel by Hunter S. Thompson
d: Michael Winterbottom
s: Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson, Ned Beatty, Elias Koteas, Tom Bower, Simon Baker, Bill Pullman

THE KILLER INSIDE ME. A latter day Norman Bates.

Jun 1st
East of Ipswich**
GB TVM. BBC. 72m.

A teenager reluctantly holidays with his parents in Suffolk but finds love.
Gently nostalgic British seaside semi-memoir (based on how Palin met his future wife) with many well-observed moments of dreary humour, and a twist in the tale that prevents it going down too predictable a path.

Written by: Michael Palin.
Producer: Innes Lloyd.
Director: Tristram Powell.
Starring: Edward Rawle-Hicks, John Nettleton, Pat Heywood, Oona Kirsch, Pippa Hinchley, Allan Cuthbertson, Joan Sanderson, Graham Crowden, Charles McKeown, Sheila Fern, John Wagland.
Photography: Nat Crosby.
Music: George Fenton.