New Location

Wiveliscombe's film society, Cinema Obscura will be commencing it's seventh (yes we have reached seven!) season of award winning films on Sunday 24th September. Established in 2000, Cinema Obscura was awarded "Best New Film Society" by British Federation of Film Societies. The new programme of films will include several films being shown for the first time in the South West. It also promises to be just as entertaining and challenging as previous Cinema Obscura seasons.

The season kicks off with Silvio Soldini's Bread and Tulips (cert12) a charming but wistful comedy of "re-discovered love", starring Licia Maglietta as Rosalba - a fortysomething mother of two who gets left behind on a family vacation who winds up in Venice. This film will have other mothers reaching for both their hankies and their travel agents' phone numbers. When the film opens, Rosalba is wearing orange tennis shoes, an orange visor and burgundy leggings — the very latest in trashy Euro-tourist wear. By the end, she's negotiating Venice's maze of streets and canals in a simple shift, her child-bearing hips rocking seductively from side to side. Venice has liberated her inner bohemian.

Bread & Tulips is an excellent introduction to Cinema Obscura new season of films - and old and new members are sure to enjoy the transformation as Cinema Obscura is also moving location to the New Theatre at the Wiveliscombe Primary School - still screening on Sunday evenings, doors open from 7pm with the main feature commencing at 7.30pm. Full membership is £25 (couples £45 ) with guest entry being £4.00.

Mark Reynolds, Cinema Obscura's chair, says "Cinema Obscura has put together another season of great and individualistic films which members and their guests will remember and savour. With our move to the Wiveliscombe Primary School Theatre we also hope to significantly raise comfort levels for our audiences"

The full Season of Films is as follows:-

• 24th September : Bread & Tulips (12) dir: Silvio Soldini
• 22nd October : Night of Truth (18) dir: Fanta Régina Nacro
• 19th November : Hidden (15) dir: Michael Haneke
• 21th January : The Sun (PG) dir: Alexander Sokurov
• 18th February : Untold Scandal (18) dir: E J-Yong
• 18th March : Head On (18) dir: Fatih Akin
• 15th April : Tropical Malady (12A) dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 20th May : Machuca (15) dir: Andrés Wood

Full details of this season of films from Eddie Gaines tel: 01984 624657 or John Alder tel: 01984 624102