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This week at the YSC we have a mix of nail biting and blood pumping thrillers as we take you into the dark murky worlds of Drive and The Debt, alongside some good old fashioned romantic drama in Jane Eyre. Movie Soc meanwhile are screening the Hitchcockian classic Rear Window, while there are two offerings at Movie Soc this week; first, as part of its Midnight Movies series, the cult classic Eraserhead, then the Japanese drama All About Lily Chou Chou.
* Drive - Monday 7.30
This incredibly stylish thriller for which director Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson) won the best director for at Cannes, stars Ryan Gosling as a getaway driver who tries to aid a friend (Carey Mulligan) and ends up in a nightmarish web of deceit, betrayal and revenge. Resulting in a brutal, bloody and unforgettable thriller, that has proved popular with critics and audiences around the world and is a film you do not want to miss.
* Jane Eyre - Thursday 7.30
Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender star in this acclaimed adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s classic romance, in which Jane Eyre travels to work as a governess at the estate of Mr Rochester and the pair find themselves drawn inexorably together; but Rochester has dark secrets lurking in his past that will soon be uncovered. So expect a great piece of costume drama, as mysteries are revealed and an iconic romance takes place.
* The Debt - Friday 7.30
In 1966, three Mossad agents (Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington, Martin Csokas) apparently eliminated a Nazi war criminal. However, decades later something is very wrong as the truth about what happened refuses to stay buried so that their older selves (Helen Mirren, Ciaran Hinds, Tom Wilkinson) have to put things right one way or another, resulting in a dark, sinister and unusual thriller.
* Rear Window - Sunday 7.00
The film many considered to be Hitchcock's best, Rear Window is a suspenseful tale on the dangers of voyeurism. L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined indoors in his apartment with a broken leg, and takes to watching his neighbours through their windows in order to pass the time. But his role as passive spectator is put under peril when he witnesses what he believes to be a murder.
* Eraserhead - Monday 7.30
As part of their new series of screenings 'Midnight Movies' (celebrating the cult film genre of midnight screenings popular in the 70s), World Cinema are this week showing David Lynch's directional debut Eraserhead. This is a a dark, bizarre, unsettling film about, among other things, sexual guilt and fear of parenthood, and with its serial visuals and dream logic is likely to disturb and bewilder in equal measure.
* All About Lily Chou-Chou - Friday 7.30
This ambitious film set in rural Japan follows the lives of a suicidal young teenager and his passion for the singer Lily Chou Chou. Despite its long length and dark tone, Shunji Iwa's film is well worth a watch for its complexity and absorbing visual style.
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