TINTERN VILLAGE HALL

 

Next Film: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (15) -                                  Friday 10th February 2012

 

 

In the early 1970s during the Cold War, the head of British Intelligence, Control (John Hurt), resigns after an operation in Budapest, Hungary goes badly wrong.  It transpires that Control believed one of four senior figures in the service was in fact a Russian agent - a mole - and the Hungary operation was an attempt to identify which of them it was.  Smiley (Gary Oldman) had been forced into retirement by the departure of Control, but is asked by a senior government figure to investigate a story told to him by a rogue agent, Ricky Tarr (Tom Hardy), that there was a mole.  Smiley considers that the failure of the Hungary operation and the continuing success of Operation Witchcraft (an apparent source of significant Soviet intelligence) confirms this, and takes up the task of finding him.  Through the efforts of Peter Guillam (Benedict Cumberbatch), Smiley obtains information that eventually leads him to Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong), the agent at the heart of the Hungary fiasco.  He is then able to put together the pieces of the puzzle, which lead him to the identity of the mole and the true intent of Operation Witchcraft.  This gripping movie adapted from the John le Carre novel also stars Colin Firth, Ciaran Hinds and Toby Jones.

 

 

 

The Adventures of Tintin : The Secret of the Unicorn (PG) - Friday 9th March 2012

 

Having bought a model ship, the Unicorn, for a pound off a market stall Tintin is initially puzzled that the sinister Mr. Sakharine should be so eager to buy it from him, resorting to murder and kidnapping Tintin - accompanied by his marvellous dog Snowy - to join him and his gang as they sail to Morocco on an old cargo ship.  Sakharine has bribed the crew to revolt against the ship's master, drunken Captain Haddock, but Tintin, Snowy and Haddock escape, arriving in Morocco at the court of a sheikh, who also has a model of the Unicorn. Haddock tells Tintin that over 300 years earlier his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock was forced to scuttle the original Unicorn when attacked by a piratical forebear of Sakharine but he managed to save his treasure and provide clues to its location in three separate scrolls, all of which were secreted in models of the Unicorn.  Tintin and Sakharine have one each and the villain intends to use the glass-shattering top Cs of operatic soprano the Milanese Nightingale to secure the third.  With aid from bumbling Interpol agents the Thompson Twins our boy hero, his dog and the captain must prevent Sakharine from obtaining all three scrolls to fulfil the prophesy that only the last of the Haddocks can discover the treasure's whereabouts.

 

 

The Iron Lady (12A) - Friday 13th April 2012

 

 

 

 

Meryl Streep is Margaret Thatcher, Jim Broadbent as Denis and Richard E Grant as Heseltine.  This is irresistible.  Wonderful comment from an imdb correspondent too young to remember who she is: “Tells the story of a woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.  The story concerns power and the price that is paid for power, and is a surprising and insightful portrait of an extraordinary and complex woman”  Hmm! Some of us remember differently!

 

 

 

Ticket Price: Adults £4.00 - Age 15 and under £2.50

Screening time: Doors open 7.15 pm - Film starts 7.45 pm

Refreshments: Brooke's Ice Cream on sale throughout the evening

Parking: Immediately outside the hall - additional parking available at Tintern Abbey

Disabled facilities:

For more information:

Andrew Reid Tel: 0208 144 7225 or 07774 726860  

Email: andrew.reid@huntermillerreid.co.uk

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