Aug 30th
The Age of Adaline**    
(US 2015)      
Lionsgate/Lakeshore Entertainment. 115m.

A reclusive young woman rendered ageless by a freak accident in 1906 is romanced by a young man in contemporary San Francisco, but his father then recognises her as a jilted lover from 50 years before.
Sentimental supernatural romance, a softer Picture of Dorian Grey scenario without the darker side, and cloying narration which only partly helps.

Written by: J. Mills Goodloe, Salvador Paskovitz.
Producers: Sidney Kimmel, Gary Luccchesi, Tom Rosenberg.
Director: Lee Toland Krieger.
Starring: Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, Harrison Ford, Ellen Burstyn, Kathy Baker, Cate Richardson, Anthony Ingruber, Hugh Ross (narrator).
Photography: David Lanzenberg.
Music: Rob Simonsen.

Aug 11th   
Paris, Texas** (12A)
(Greenwich Picturehouse)     

(WG/Fra 1984)  

Argos Films/Tobis Film/Road Movies/Filmproduktion GmbH. 148m.

A desert drifter heads towards the piece of land he owns in Paris, Texas, but patches up things first with his estranged wife and son.
Breakthrough arthouse film for this director casting his visual eye over the semi-remote American landscape, with various allusions to Westerns, road movies and some Biblical echoes (eg. the main character in the wilderness like Christ, etc.), long and languorous but less enigmatic than David Lynch and with moving moments of acting.

Written by: Sam Shepard, Kit Carson.
Producer: Don Guest.
Director: Wim Wenders.
Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Nastassja Kinski, Aurore Clement, Hunter Carson, Bernhard Wicki.
Photography: Robby Muller.
Music: Ry Cooder.

PARIS, TEXAS (1984). Wim Wenders's cult film "about America" although mostly European made, including Aurore Clement as a surrogate mother who reflects on her semi-adopted son leaving home to find his actual mother. His bedsheets referenced a popular film of the time. 

Aug 9th   
Vampira   
US title: Old Dracula  
(GB 1974)                             
Columbia/World Film Services. 88m.

The venerable Count Dracula opens up his castle to eligible tourist visitors who will provide him with the right blood group that will revive his lover, who then turns black.
Unattractive sexploitation vampire comedy, uncertain of its identity with talent used in the wrong manner and style.                                 

Written by: Jeremy Lloyd.
Producer: Jack Wiener.
Director: Clive Donner.
Starring: David Niven, Teresa Graves, Nicky Henson, Jennie Linden, Peter Bayliss, Linda Hayden, Bernard Bresslaw, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones, Carol Cleveland, Kenneth Cranham.
Photography: Tony Richmond.
Music: David Whitaker.