Sep 27th  
Mandy**        
(GB 1952)                               
Rank/Ealing. 93m. bw

A deaf girl is the cause of a custodial battle between her parents over her as they try to teach her to speak.
Sensitively performed, if unnecessarily melodramatic around its sweet little child of the title, intending to give more substance to what is already a moving disability drama with Hawkins on good form as ever as the teacher.

Written by: Nigel Balchin, Jack Whittingham, based on the novel "The Day is Ours" by Hilda Lewis.
Producer: Leslie Norman.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick.
Starring: Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins, Mandy Miller, Terence Morgan. Godfrey Tearle, Marjorie Fielding, Dorothy Allison, Eleanor Summerfield, Patricia Plunkett, Jane Asher.
Photography: Douglas Slocombe.
Music: William Alwyn.

Sep 18th  
Corridor of Mirrors**           
(GB 1948)                                                 
Apollo/Cartier-Romney. 105m. bw

A London socialite falls for a mysterious man who lives in the past and claims that she is the reincarntion of his past love.
Curious romantic melodrama - something of a vogue for the time - and surprisingly lavishly well made, influenced by Cocteau as well as Brief Encounter, but uneven in both respects with shifting audience sympathies, and style generally superseding content - a recurring theme with this director's later work, including James Bond.

Written by: Rudolph Cartier, Edana Romney, based on the novel by Christopher Massie.
Producer: Rudolph Cartier.
Director: Terence Young.
Starring: Edana Romney, Eric Portman, Barbara Mullen, Leslie Watson, Hugh Sinclair, Bruce Belfrage, Alan Wheatley, Christopher Lee (his first film), Lois Maxwell.
Photography: Andre Thomas.
Music: Georges Auric.

Sep 15th   
Steve Jobs**              
(US/GB 2015)                                                                                         

Computer entrepreneur Steve Jobs spends more of his life devoted to crediting innovative new technologies than dealing with his own probable daughter.
A two-hour study of egomania, a relentlessly chatty film peppered with visuals and good ensemble performances, although ultimately shedding no further light on Steve Jobs than what is already established from the beginning.

Written by: Aaron Sorkin, based on the book by Walter Isaacson.
Producers: Danny Boyle, Guyman Cassidy, Christian Colson, Mark Gordon, Scott Rudin.
Director: Danny Boyle.
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels, Michael Stuhlbarg, Katherine Waterston, John Ortiz.
Photography: Alwin Kuchler.
Music: Daniel Pemberton.

Sep 12th   
Give My Regards to Broad Street*         
(GB 1984)                                                 
Twentieth Century Fox/MP Communications. 108m.

Semi-fantasia musical drama about a pop star whose recording tapes for his latest album are stolen.
Little more than an excuse for a 90-minute pop promo, done with some style on occasion but no substance, a piece of McCartney whimsy-whamsy when the separation of the Beatles was still a recent memory. Looking back today, its various depictions of old film studios, BBC recording sessions and the eponymous Broad Street railway station make it rather warmly nostalgic.

Written/Music by: Paul McCartney.
Producer: Andros Epaminondas.
Director: Peter Webb.
Starring: Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Bryan Brown, Barbara Bach, Linda McCartney, Tracey Ullman, Ian Hastings, John Bennett, Giant Haystacks, George Martin, Ralph Richardson (his last film).
Photography: Ian McMillan.

Sep 4th 
Lucas and Albert*         
(Headgate Theatre, Colchester)

(GB 2019)
Scruffy Bear. 90m. bw

The travails of two elderly hitmen on the hunt for several victims in an elaborate plot.
Sytlized overextending of a black comedy for the stage (a sort of Waiting for Godot with hitmen), nicely maintained by the two leads and with good individual vignettes, and making good cinematic use of the Tendring area.

Written and Produced by: Robert Putt, Arthur Longhurst, based on their play "Babysitters".
Director: Darren S. Cook.
Starring: James Osbourne, Anthony Longhurst, Gloria Price, Sidney Kean, John Altman, Michael McKell, Robert Putt, Kim Taylforth, Claudia Grace McKell.
Photography: Neill Phillips.
Music: Various.