We are a not-for-profit group and periodically we will make
contributions to Northumberland County charities when a cash surplus permits.
Right: Films for Fall 2011 season
Films are shown at the Northumberland Mall Theatres in Cobourg, Ontario at 4.00 pm on selected Sundays.
We also produce a Film Festival on the last weekend in January.
Latest News
Spring Season
Full program now announced
February 12 - A Dangerous Method; Cronenberg interprets Freud/Jung and birth of Psychiatry.
February 26 - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; John LeCarre; won British 'Oscar' BAFTA; multi category Oscar bet. Cold War espionage
March 25 - A Separation; best Foreign Film bet from Iran; "reality" is Universal irespective of culture...Multi award winner!!
Vote now for the Best Canadian Film and Best International Film screened through Film Circuit in 2011. Last year's winners were Dilip Mehta's Cooking with Stella and Juan José Campanella's The Secret in their Eyes. Cast your vote before January 31, 2012. One lucky voter will be randomly selected to win a cash prize of $500!
Jan 27 through 29 - Full program announced - tickets are now available and selling fast. Packages have now all sold out. The majority of singles were sold January 15 but a few are available for sale before each movie. An exception is The Artist which has fully sold out.
Other Neat stuff
With thanks to NFS filmgoers, Sponsors RBC Dominion Securities, Cobourg and VIA Rail Canada, Northumberland Film Sundays is pleased that since our inception in 2003, over $17,000 in donations has been distributed to local not-for-profit groups. A listing of all recipients can be found here.
The newsletter now has a new signup page. If you'd like to receive emails about NFS (and only NFS), go to this page to sign up.
Be sure to click on the film title or image to get more details including a
trailer for each movie.
Film Details
Film 1
A Dangerous Method- click
photo or title for more details and a trailer Sunday February 12, 2012. 4:00pm
Leads: Keira Knightley Viggo Mortensen Michael Fassbender Vincent Cassel
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Run-time: 99 minutes
Rating: R for sexual content
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) as his patient in A Dangerous Method. Jung's weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen). Both men fall under Sabina's spell.
Based on the classic novel of the same name, the international thriller is set at the height of the Cold War years of the mid-20th Century. George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a disgraced British spy, is rehired in secret by his government - which fears that the British Secret Intelligence Service, a.k.a. MI-6, has been compromised by a double agent working for the Soviets.
Written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, A Separation focuses on an Iranian middle-class married couple who are faced with a difficult decision: to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating father who has Alzheimers. The film was highly acclaimed at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival and was nominated for the Golden Globes.
Film 4
Iron Lady - click
photo or title for more details and a trailer Sunday April 15, 2012. 4:00pm
Leads: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Anthony Head, Richard E. Grant, Olivia Colman, Roger Allam, Reginald Green, Alexandra Roach, Harry Lloyd
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Run-time: 105 minutes
Rating: PG-13
Combining the past and present, The Iron Lady follows Margaret Thatcher's life as a wife, widow, mother, daughter, Prime Minister and frail old woman. Struggling with the changing times and loss of power, an aged Thatcher (Meryl Streep) remembers the highs and lows of her life and career as the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the twentieth Century.
Film 5
Monsieur Lazhar- click
photo or title for more details and a trailer Sunday April 29, 2012. 4:00pm
A touching, inspiring film about a middle-aged Algerian immigrant seeking political refuge in Quebec. Bachir jumps at the opportunity to replace a Montreal elementary school teacher who committed suicide one night after class. The school's overworked principal is initially relieved. Director Philippe Falardeau follows a humble man who is ready to transcend his own loss in order to accompany children beyond the silence and taboo of death.
Film 6
Albert Nobbs - click
photo or title for more details and a trailer Sunday May 13, 2012. 4:00pm
Leads: Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Johnson, Janet McTeer, Brendan Gleeson, Brenda Fricker
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Run-time: 113 minutes
Rating: R
Award-winning actress Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs) plays a woman passing as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making. Mia Wasikowska (Helen), Aaron Johnson (Joe) and Brendan Gleeson (Dr. Holloran) join a prestigious, international cast that includes Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Janet McTeer, Brenda Fricker and Pauline Collins.
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Northumberland Film Sundays
Thanks these Generous Sponsors and Contributors:
Northumberland Film Sundays gratefully acknowledges our partnership with Film Circuit, presented by TIFF, and its sponsors and supporters. For more information about Film Circuit and to view a full list of their sponsors and supporters, please visit tiff.net/filmcircuit
