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This week the YSC has three very different films on offer, starting with the staggeringly beautiful film by master filmmaker Terrence Malick The Tree of Life. Yet if that is not your thing, we also have exciting animated fun in Kung Fu Panda 2 and noisy robot brawling in Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon. Meanwhile Movie Soc are celebrating Halloween with a horror double-bill of The Thing and The Omen, and World Cinema are offering the visually fascinating The Fall. There will also be a screening of Innocence hosted by the campus-run SAASY blog, in the first of a series of ‘Coming of Age’ films.
Terrence Malick (Badlands, Thin Red Line) is an auteur with remarkable reputation as creator of magnificent, mind-blowing works and this is certainly no exception. Winner of the Palme D’or at Cannes and applauded by critics and audiences across the world, this is a truly breathtaking experience starring Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain and Brad Pitt, that looks at the very nature of existence as a man scours his childhood looking for a clue. A visual and intellectual treat, this is filmmaking like no other and demands watching.
Po (Jack Black) the mighty Panda is back in this highly entertaining sequel to the extremely popular Kung Fu Panda. Now he and the furious five must defeat the evil Lord Shen (Gary Oldman) who has discovered the secret of gunpowder. What Results is an exciting action adventure in which our hero must discover the true meaning of Kung Fu, starring Angelina Jolie, Seth Rogen, Dustin Hoffman and Jackie Chan.
* Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Friday 7.30pm If you just want to see cars, robots and explosions this may just be the film for you. This ridiculously popular third outing of the alien robots in disguise is now the fourth highest grossing film in history. Full of vast spectacle and exciting special effects this is certainly something that needs to be seen at the cinema to get the full effect.
* The Thing - Sunday 5.00pm The first screening of Movie Soc’s horror double-bill is horror-master John Carpenter’s classic monster/sci-fi film The Thing. The ‘thing’ of the title is a shape-shifting alien, wreaking havoc in the Antarctic research station. A tense, paranoid and at times gruesome watch, The Thing has gone down in film history as a horror classic.
* The Omen - Sunday 7.00pm Next up is The Omen, a 70s horror about a mother who inadvertently adopts Satan’s son. Don’t take the pretentions and seriousness too seriously and this ought to fulfil the sort-after Halloween scares. If you’ve seen the remake and weren’t impressed, never fear; this is much better.
* The Fall - Friday, 7.30pm As always world cinema are screening an unusual and little known foreign film, this time the US/Indian movie The Fall. Telling the tale of the struggle of a hospitalised man, The Fall is a strange, intriguing fantasy, backed up with inventive and stylish visuals. The perfect antidote to Student Cinema’s Friday offering of Transformers.
* Innocence - Wednesday, 7.30pm. As part of a ‘Coming of Age’ film season, student-run blog SAASY are putting on this French drama. As the title would suggest, the film takes childhood innocence and its subsequent death at pre-pubescence as its theme, only with an unusual, arty tone throughout, and is certainly worth a trip to Physics to watch.
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