26th Keswick Film Festival

The club season may have come to an end but there are still lots of films to enjoy at the 26th Keswick Film Festival starting on Thursday with The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford (additional screening on Saturday morning). The closing film A Private Life has already sold out and many of the other films are selling fast so don't leave it too late to get your tickets.

The programme includes award winners, a 1976 retrospective, a Jodie Foster showcase, family films, short films by Cumbrian filmmakers, recent work from vibrant US filmmakers selected by students from Carlisle College and an exclusive opportunity to see rare footage from Lake District filmmaker Terry Abraham. If that wasn't enough the Alhambra's second screen will be used for a Fringe Festival on Friday and Saturday.

Nouvelle Vague Sunday - 15th March 5pm

Out season of films comes to and end this Sunday but don't worry there's still more than 30 films to choose from at Keswick Film Festival next week. NOUVELLE VAGUE takes us to Paris, 1959 where Jean-Luc Godard is angry because all his buddies from the magazine 'Cahiers du Cinéma' they work for seem to have given up criticising films in favour of making them. "The best way to criticize a film is to make one" he quips to a friend. So, he turns round, bullies a producer Georges de Beauregard into backing a low-budget movie, hires a few unknowns and sets out to make the film that will change film history forever - 'A Bout de Souffle (Breathless)'.

Ever wondered what Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Jean-Paul Belmondo or Jean Seberg were really like? Come along to 'Nouvelle Vague' and see for yourself.

"Film history is rarely this charming." - Ian Freer, Empire

No Other Choice Sunday - 8th March 5pm

Park Chan-wook's latest is the South Korean entry for the Oscars this year. He has brought us some great thrillers - 'The Handmaiden', 'Decision To Leave' - and this is no exception, but this one is charged with comedy as well.

"With humour blacker than black bean noodles, the film is a masterful work of cinema which might well be Chan-wook’s masterpiece. And given this is the man who directed The Handmaiden that’s saying a lot." - John Bleasdale, Time Out