APRIL 26th
WASTE LAND
Director: Lucy Walker, Joao Jardim
Actors: Vik Muniz
99 minutes
Cert. PG. Documentary

Lucy Walker's excellent documentary follows one of the most ambitious projects of
Vik Muniz, the New York-based Brazilian sculptor, artist and photographer. Born to an
impoverished family in São Paulo in 1961, Muniz transforms apparent rubbish and other
discarded materials to comment on the waste, exploitation and hidden beauties of life. In
2008 he became friends with men and women who worked on the world's largest
landfill, Rio de Janeiro’s Jardim Gramacho, sorting out recyclable materials from
garbage. After photographing them, he incorporates the stuff they've retrieved into giant
blow-ups of them, creating expressive portraits. These pictures not only give them pride
and dignity but are later exhibited and sold to provide them with money to realise useful
projects that enhance their lives. The subjects are sensitively observed and the process
of the work lucidly explained; Muniz is a gifted, modest and altogether delightful man.

MAY 10th
CABARET
Director: Bob Fosse
Actors: Liza Minnelli, Michael York,
Helmut Greim, Joel Grey
124 minutes
Cert. 15. Musical/Drama

A DFS SPECIAL EVENT
To celebrate the Dart Music Festival and the 40th anniversary of this superb
film, The Kit-Kat Club comes to Dartmouth Guildhall!
In decadent 1930s Berlin, Sally Bowles (Minnelli) headlines at the Kit-Kat
Club and dreams of being a star…
Superbly choreographed by Fosse, and winner of eight Academy Awards,
Cabaret evokes the Berlin of 1931 - city of gaiety and perversion, of
champagne and Nazi propaganda; how long will it be before the brown shirts
fulfil the promise of the song "Tomorrow Belongs to Me"?

MAY 24th
THE WAY
Director: Emilio Estevez
Actors: Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez,
James Nesbitt
123 minutes
Cert. 12A. Drama/Adventure

Grief and the reconciliation of a father/son relationship are the crux of Emilio Estevez’s
journey along “El Camino de Santiago.”
Tom, a widowed Californian optician (Martin Sheen), receives a call to say that his son Daniel has
died in a storm in the French Pyrenees, while hiking “El Camino de Santiago”. Tom travels to
France to retrieve his son’s body, but instead of returning home with Daniel’s ashes he impulsively
decides to honour his son’s memory by completing the journey himself, placing the ashes in his
backpack and joining others making the picturesque pilgrimage.
Tom is, at first reluctantly, befriended by a trio of garrulous fellow pilgrims: blocked Irish travel
writer Jack, ageing Dutch hippie Joost, and bruised Canadian divorcee Sarah…..
Sensitive without being sentimental, writer/director Estevez allows the simple story to unfold
slowly, as the characters reveal themselves. The ensemble acting is superb, and Estevez’s real-life
father, Martin Sheen, delivers a subtly nuanced, compelling performance.

JUNE 7th
THE HELP
Director: Tate Taylor
Actors: Emma Stone, Viola Davis,
Octavia Spencer
146 minutes
Cert. 12A. Drama

A hugely enjoyable award-winning adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling
novel….
Set in 1960s Jackson, Mississippi, The Help tells how Skeeter Phelan, a young, white
would-be writer, convinces two black maids, Aibileen and Minny , to work secretly with
her on a book. Skeeter wants the maids to reveal, anonymously, the hardships routinely
inflicted on them by the wealthy families whose food they cook and whose children they
raise. But the secret writing project and the resulting unlikely friendship breaks societal
rules and puts them all at risk. From their improbable alliance a remarkable sisterhood
emerges, instilling all of them with the courage to transcend the lines that define them,
and the realisation that sometimes those lines are made to be crossed-even if it means
bringing everyone in town face-to-face with the changing times.