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The Review - AT THE MOVIES with DAN CARRIER
Published: 28 May 2009

Pick of the Indies

NOW you have another excuse to head to your local – like you need them – as two great pubs are hosting film nights this month.
And as well as serving top beer in nice surroundings, both of the bars in question have picked absolute cinematic beauties to screen.
In its back room, The Dartmouth Arms in York Rise, Dartmouth Park, is screening Ken Loach’s 1969 film Kes on Wednesday, June 3 at 7pm.
So well known it hardly needs a brief synopsis, let us just say Kes cemented Loach – who lives near the pub – as a household name.
Gritty with super performances, it tells the story of a boy who rescues and brings up a falcon.
The pub’s monthly film soirees include a top quality projector, breaks so you can get a pint in and not miss the action, and comfy sofas.
And you’ve got another chance to see Camden Town-based film-maker Franny Armstrong’s devastating global warming critique, The Age of Stupid, in the ever-so-cosy and totally cool downstairs bar at the Torriano in Torriano Avenue, Kentish Town. It will be screened on Tuesday, June 2 at 7pm and features Pete Postlethwaite as “The Archivist”, a man who is entrusted with looking after mementoes from the human age on planet Earth, before our disgusting, polluting behaviour ruined the planet for ourselves and everything else on it!

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