by Ian England – Secretary
We recently celebrated the “Central Coast Film Society” 100th film. The Society has been operating out of the Leven Theatre since 2015, we offer low cost film watching in our local community and currently have around 60 members. Our small but enthusiastic Committee get together and choose 12 modern interesting films and then these are shown to our members over a 12 month period. In a small community like Ulverstone it is very important to offer entertainment like our Film Society and we thank the Council for there ongoing support.
11th September Movie
A true story centring on Bernard Jordan (Michael Caine) – a near-90-year-old who staged a “great escape” from his retirement home in 2014 in order to join his fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy to commemorate their fallen comrades – the film’s layer of sentimentality threatens to give way to a certain schmaltz, but director Oliver Parker (An Ideal Husband, Johnny English Reborn) and screenwriter William Ivory (Made in Dagenham) refuse to let the film succumb to overt mawkishness.
Defying the very word that he’s unable to participate in the excursion of commemorating the 70th anniversary of the D-Day celebrations in France, Bernie, on the advice of his loving wife Rene (Glenda Jackson in her final on-screen role; the actress sadly departing in June 2023), hops a taxi, a bus and a ferry to make the trek. Rene does her best to cover for him back at their housing care facility, but as his “disappearance” becomes national news, there’s only so much she can do before admitting to her role in his so-called “escape”.