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BEN Affleck USA 2012 Starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston 120 minutes (15) – ARGO is a thriller based on the true story of a highly volatile international situation from recent history.

In 1979, six American officials managed to scramble out of the US embassy in Tehran, just as it was overrun by a pro-Ayatollah mob who brutally held the remaining personnel hostage: an ordeal for them and for Jimmy Carter, whose presidency bled to death in the ensuing media furore.

The six escapees holed up in secret at the Canadian ambassador?s residence. Back at CIA headquarters, the crisis is handled by Mendez, the agency?s top ?exfil? guy ? an expert in exfiltration, or getting Americans out of enemy territory. He sets up a Hollywood company and pretends that the six fugitives were Canadian film-makers scouting locations for a picture to be shot in Iran. What follows, in the deft script by screenwriter Chris Terrio, resembles an archetypal heist movie.

?A wonderfully lively and engrossing movie? The Observer, Winner of Best Director and Best Drama at the Golden Globes, seven Oscar nominations

BIG Band Swing Night, featuring invited guests SOUNDFORCE at The British Legion, Hadow Road, Marston, OX3 0JW – Thursday 31st January 2013; 8pm?10.30pm

A night of BIG BAND MUSIC (with Bar) featuring
The Velvet Tones big band directed by MICHAEL WILKINS.
Come and listen to the band FREE! Yes Free.

If you?re busy,ust pop in for a drink; if you?ve not heard a big band before, come along and hear for yourself.

If you are a musician, teacher, student, pop in and meet others.

See you there!

GET YOUR DANCING SHOES ON, LET YOUR HAIR DOWN AND LETS PARTY! That’s the message from the team behind this year’s Thame Carnival, due to be held on June 15, 2013.

Carnival team spokesperson, Mark Green, said: “We would love for as many local businesses, schools and groups to take part in whatever way they can. Whether it is a full float, a walking parade, a stall at the fete, an advertisement in our brochure or taking part in one the many events taking place in the arena, we would welcome your participation.

“Please remember all money raised is partly used to stage next year’s carnival and the sum left over goes to Thame community good causes.”

Over the last two years, due to its enormous success, the carnival has raised sufficient funds to donate

WHEN? 8pm at the Players Theatre, Nelson Street, Thame. WHAT? Patrick Collins presents another of his ?words and music? evenings in aid of Amnesty international.

Tickets

QUIZ – Thame Choral Society – 7.30 for 8.pm start – Haddenham Youth and Community Centre, Woodways, Haddenham.

The cost is

THAME CINEMA 4 ALL will be showing the film, Headhunters (15) 2011, on Saturday, January 26, 2013. The film stars: Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Synn

THIS weeks’s film at Thame Cinema 4 All, on Saturday, January 19, will be BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO. It was released in 2012, is 92 minutes long, a 15 certificate, Directed by Peter Strickland, Starring Toby Jones, Antonio Mancino, Cosimo Fusco.

This chilling and unique British thriller, about strange goings on in 1970?s post-production, came and went from our cinema screens last summer, without much fanfare, but with critics unanimous in their effusive praise. ?…my highlight of 2012 ? adventurous, enigmatic and sound as a pound? (Mark Kermode); ?its vision, ingenuity and sheer gobsmacking audacity have blown me ten feet out of my seat. …a great, rumbling thunderclap of genius? (Robbie Collin, Telegraph); ?…one of the most remarkable British movies of the last couple of years? (Philip French, Observer).

In another consummate performance, Toby Jones ? who has cemented his place as one of the greatest character actors of his generation – is Gilderoy, a prissy and introverted sound engineer from the home counties. For reasons that are uncertain, he is recruited by the Berberian Sound Studio, and travels to Italy to provide sound effects for the producers of a film called The Equestrian Vortex. Turns out it has nothing to do with horses. Rather, it is one of a string of gaudy, sadistic, sexually explicit horror films of the period known as ?giallo? pictures. Gilderoy, more accustomed to working with clipped Shakespearean thesps and Vaughn Williams? Lark Ascending, is very much the innocent abroad in a studio that feels more like a high security psychiatric institution, peopled by the luridly flamboyant and menacingly desirable. Gilderoy becomes increasingly entrapped in this nightmarish new world, but it is the sounds themselves ? the sounds of violence and terror – that ensnare him, gradually eroding his interior life and obliterating his psychic retreats into pastoral England.

This is a film about the moralities of movie making and its relationship with popular culture. In particular, it explores the power of sound, often an overlooked element of the cinematic art, but one that is intrinsic to the psychological impact of the movie experience. A real one-off.

CAN you find the key…? What would you do if you found a key? What would you do if you found the door that belonged to the key? And what would you do inside the Secret Garden?

Mary Lennox is lost and lonely, sent away from her home in India she finds herself in the wilds of Yorkshire in a vast mansion owned by a distant Uncle. Soon the house begins to give up its mysterious stories, but can she find the key to the secret garden and discover what?s inside? A story of unlocking hearts and minds, the redemptive power of nature and why some rules should be broken…..

This well loved children?s classic is brought to life by critically acclaimed, award winning Proteus and the creative team behind ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘The Snow Queen’, ‘The Princess and the Pea’ and last year?s ?Arabian Nights?. Fusing circus, puppetry, film and music this is a magical journey beyond the door, into the garden of imagination.

The Secret Garden will be performed at The Players Theatre, Nelson Street, Thame at 7.45pm on Friday 18th January. Tickets cost

NEXT month’s Thame’s Got Talent competition has been postponed but a new date will be announced in the near future.

Karen Shardlow, Development & Events Manager for the organisers, Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity, said: “Despite the postponement, we are planning a show in a brand new exciting format as part of our 25th Anniversary celebrations starting later this year and we very much hope to invite local acts to be part of it.

“We will be making further announcements and publishing more information as we progress towards the event, via the charity’s Facebook and Twitter.

http://www.facebook.com/florencenightingalehospice

“Our thanks go to the committee members, Michele Pethers ? Crash Records, Susie Jones ? Orsum Events, Yvette & Matthew Cundy ? Kismett Jewellers) and our supporters Vale Life Magazine, Kevin Lucas Guitar School, Stage Coach Thame, Frank Millar Photography, Black Frog Studios, Lotte Duncan of Lotte?s Kitchen, ThameNews.Net, Steve Gunn and Icatching Designs and The Spread Eagle Hotel for their support of the event.”

FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY – SCARAMOUCHE JONES by Justin Butcher – The Players Theatre, Theatre, Nelson Street, Thame – 7.45pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013 – Tickets