Saturday 21st August. 6:15pm. R39
DIRS: Bill Jones, Alan G Parker & Ben Timlett / UK / 2009 / 106min
How did a quintessentially English (apart from the lone American) off-the-wall comedy troupe conquer the world and change our sense of humour forever? Monty Python Almost The Truth may not answer the question, but it’s the first time the Python phenomenon
has been so candidly dissected on film. From childhood photos and home movies to their university days and early work in television, the documentary seeks to describe, if not explain, the complex …
Sunday 29th August. 8pm. R39
DIR: Michèle Hozer & Peter Raymont / Canada / 2009 / 108min
‘I detest audiences. They are a force of evil,’ said Glenn Gould, the renowned pianist and ‘interpreter’ of JS Bach, who abandoned public performances at the height of his career, aged 32. His legendary eccentricities, tolerated because of his acknowledged genius, concealed a mounting paranoia that eventually isolated him. Nevertheless, Gould, a good looking awkward prodigy, was an attractive subject and he is probably the most-documented performer to date. The fêted anecdotes – his Moscow …
Wednesday 18th August. 9pm. R39
DIRS: Andy Bichlbaum & Mike Bonanno
USA / UK / France / 2009 / 87min
Audacious, irreverent and mischievous, crusaders Andy and Mike are a passionate pair of corporate pranksters. Determined to bring to light the real issues that US corporations such as Dow, Exxon Mobil and Halliburton spend a lot of money glossing over, they travel the globe adopting false corporate personas, spewing absurd notions and ideas, trying to draw attention to the real impact of big business and the Free Market model. When the BBC interviews …
Wednesday 25th. 7pm. R39
DIR: Stephanie Soechtig / USA / 2009 / 75min
Water, water everywhere, but at what a price to drink! This instantly gripping, well-researched documentary investigates the many negative health and environmental issues that surround the commercialisation of H2O. The director looks at diverse and troubling elements of the industry, charting the water’s course from its source, where the systematic plunder of free water for vast profit for international companies is at the ongoing detriment of entire communities, to the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and the terrifying reality of …
Sunday 22nd August. 6pm. R39
DIR: Andreas Apostolides / Greece / 2009 / 55min
Tanzania’s Ngorogoro Crater is celebrated as one of the world’s largest natural havens, where the animals roam as they always have. But as beautiful and inspiring as it and other wildlife reserves around the world are, is this really what Nature intended? This insightful film interviews community leaders, wildlife specialists and anthropologists to dissect and challenge the Western conviction that for animals to survive, they should be separated from humans. For millennia, the Crater has been home to …
