MUDDLE  EAST

The main programme strand this year consisted of outstanding films from the Middle East, many of them rarely screened in Britain and coming from IRAN, IRAQ, ISRAEL, EGYPT, LEBANON and KURDISTAN, showing the political and very human situations in some of the world's trouble spots.

The second screen featured a contrasting programme including the great French silent classic L'argent (Dir. Marcel L'Herbier, 1928). A selection of films from this year's featured director JUZO ITAMI, the maker of such film society favourites as Tampopo and A Taxing Woman many of whose comedies have never been widely shown outside Japan and BRIT-NOIR showing some fine examples of British film noir from the 1940s and 1950s.

A Time for Drunken Horses* (Bahman Ghobadi)	L'argent (Marcel L'Herbier)	Daibyonin *(Juzo Itami)

(* These stills and titles are only to suggest the sort of films shown.)

Cober Hill offers first-class accommodation, fine food and a unique atmosphere. The fully inclusive charge was £150 per person for Friday and Saturday and Sunday night accommodation, all movies, en-suite rooms, programme notes, meals and refreshments with no extra charge for single rooms. For those wishing to stay for Friday and Saturday night only the cost was £120 per person.