The second part of the film version of Stieg Larsson's world-famous Millennium Trilogy, which has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide.

Having served his prison sentence, crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist returns to Millennium magazine intent on exposing a billion dollar sex trafficking ring.

When two of his researchers are murdered, Lisbeth Salander's prints are on the weapon and she emerges as the police's chief suspect.  Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society - but no-one can find her.

Unconvinced, Blomkvist uses all his magazine staff and resources to track Salander down and find out the truth.  Blomkvist also uncovers details of her terrible past, spent in criminally corrupt institutions. 

Yet Salander is more avenging angel than helpless victim.  The secretive hacker may be an expert at staying out of sight - but she soon stumbles upon secrets of her own past and has ways of tracking down her most elusive enemies. 

A punk avenging angel with boxing skills, a photographic memory who is pathologically focused on seeking out and punishing violent misogynists, Salander is drawn to the investigation on Blomkvist's computer, whose hard drive she has cloned without his knowledge.

So while Blomkvist and his fellow Millennium idealists research the sex industry according to the rules of good journalism, Salander-spurred on by the appalling case studies of teenage prostitution she finds on Blomkvist's computer-takes matters into her own hands.

If you missed it first time round or just want to refresh your memory, we'll have a special matinee screening of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on Sun 29 August at 3pm.

"...Salander is fast turning into a full-blown literary and movie phenomenon. She has more in common with Siouxsie Sioux than Miss Marple, but maybe it's time for Agatha Christie's dowdy old heroine to make way for the young pretender." - THE GUARDIAN

The next Words & PIctures QFT Book Club choice will be The Girl Who Played with Fire on Tues 7 Sept.

It's virtually a two-hander as the only characters who matter are a pregnant recovering junkie and the brother of her late lover, who died in an overdose. Over a summer, in the woman's refuge by the sea, the two grow to understand, appreciate and possibly even love one another although they are haunted by two others - the dead brother and his unborn child.

Hye-ja is a single mother to 27-year-old Do-joon, a naive young man who is dependent on her. Walking home alone one night down a nearly empty city street, he encounters a young girl who he follows for a while before she disappears into a dark alley.

The next morning, she is found dead in an abandoned building and Do-joon is accused of her murder. Thanks to an inefficient lawyer and an apathetic police force, Do-joon's case is quickly closed, but his mother refuses to let this be the end of the story. Trusting no one, she sets out to find the girl's killer and prove her son's innocence.

"An absolutely phenomenal film.  Some of the best movie surprises I've seen in years. This is filmmaking of a high order." - WALL STREET JOURNAL

 Film introduction on Fri 27 Aug at 9pm by Dr Daniel Martin, Film Studies, Queen's University.

Seize this chance to see why Bob Rafelson's sublime film remains a peerless masterpiece. Backed by László Kovács' painterly cinematography, Jack Nicolson positively crackles as the brilliant musician masquerading as an oil rig worker. Nominated for four Oscars®, Rafelson's film set such a high standard for American cinema that its achievements remain unsurpassed.

Amidst power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the football terraces, Joe (Martin Compston), is bored of a life that's going nowhere. Enter hairdresser, Jane (Nichola Burley) - blonde, brassy, and moving to the beat of a whole new world of music and moves at the Wigan Casino, the home of Northern Soul.

Shimmy Marcus' dynamic and satisfying coming-of-age film is set right at the pulsing heart of one of the most fascinating British youth culture movements of the last 40 years.

In association with U105. On 2nd September listen out for a Soulfood Northern Soul special brought to you by Mozkito and Soulfly.

A publishing phenomenon, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first book in the best-selling Millennium trilogy written by the Swedish journalist and author Stieg Larsson. Now adapted for the big screen in its native Sweden, the film version has gone on to win awards and smash box office records around Europe and is now set to repeat this success in the UK.

As fans of the novel will know, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a tense, gripping thriller that neatly turns the conventions of the genre on its head, giving us a kick-ass anti-heroine in the form of computer hacker Lisbeth Salander.

Facing prison time for slander, discredited journalist Mikael Blomkvist is hired by a reclusive industrialist for one last job; to solve a long unresolved family disappearance. Aided by the mysterious and troubled Lisbeth the two uncover a dark world of brutality, deception and ritualistic murder. On their own and not knowing who to trust, the pair's attempt to uncover the truth leads to a fight for their very survival...

A heady mix of intrigue, murder, violence and romance set against a wintry Scandanavian backdrop, this is a hugely enjoyable, darkly gripping yarn.

With film sequels planned for release later in 2010 (The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest) the Milliennium Trilogy could be one of the biggest must-sees of the new decade.

At the European launch of his latest book, academic author James Miller (operatic baritone William Shimell) meets his match in a passionate art curator (Juliette Binoche) who engages him in a battle of the sexes.

Romanticism clashes with pragmatism as they set out on the road and are mistaken as a married couple - a role they play a little too well...
Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami returns from the depths of his poetry and experimental films to present his first narrative feature in years.

At first glance Certified Copy has the appearance of a sun-drenched romantic comedy, but - as with all Kiarostami films - something deeper lurks just below the surface.

" Imagine a middle-aged Before Sunrise rolled up with Under the Tuscan Sun but spiked with elements of The Game." - SCREEN INTERNATIONAL

*NOT SHOWING ON MON 13 SEPT

Our weary hero is an over-the-hill magician, complete with less-than-friendly white rabbit. Always in search of a paying gig, the illusionist treks from Paris to the Western Isles to Edinburgh - acquiring, along the way, a young travelling companion who sincerely believes in his magical abilities. Based upon an unrealised script by Jacques Tati, this is the work of a master in his field.

The 6.45pm screening on Sunday 19 September will be presented in partnership with Autism Initiatives, and staffed by their support workers.

Shortly after its original release Lang's masterpiece was cut by almost a quarter - an act of cinematic butchery that devastated the director. The missing footage was believed lost, irretrievably so...that is until a few dusty reels were found in a Buenos Aires museum in 2008.

Now, with spectacular results including a brand new recording of the original score, Metropolis has been fully reconstructed and restored and can be seen in itsentirety for the first time in over 80 years. This is cinema history in the making.

Live from the Royal Festival Hall, this special event marks the publication of Stephen Fry's new volume of autobiography The Fry Chronicles.

Stephen will be beamed, direct via satellite, into your favourite local cinema, to give an exclusive preview of his hilarious, frank and uncompromising new book.

Book now for this unique opportunity to see the multi-award-winning comedian, actor, presenter, director and writer perform live - in glorious 2D!

Tickets for this very special event are £10 - book using the orange link below.

This multi award-winning homage to the love of cinema tells the story of Salvatore, now a successful film director, returning home for the funeral of Alfredo, his old friend who was projectionist at the local cinema throughout his childhood. Soon memories of his first love affair with the beautiful Elena and all the high and lows that shaped his life come flooding back, as Salvatore reconnects with the community he left 30 years earlier.

Based on Posy Simmonds' beloved graphic novel of the same name (which was itself inspired by Thomas Hardy's classic Far From the Madding Crowd) this wittily modern take on the romantic English pastorale is a far cry from Hardy's Wessex.

Tamara Drewe's present-day English countryside-stocked with pompous writers, rich weekenders, bourgeois bohemians, a horny rock star, and a great many Buff Orpington chickens and Belted Galloway cows-is a much funnier place. Once a shy and unattractive teenager from a small rural idyll, Tamara's past catches up with her when she returns the village and has to face an old flame.

" Frears brings his droll, witty touch to material that never pretends to be too deep." - The Daily Telegraph

MON 20 SEPT FOLLOWING THE 6.30PM SCREENING OF TAMARA DREWE

Bronagh Gallagher in Conversation

Tamara Drewe marks Bronagh Gallagher's second collaboration with Stephen Frears, and provides an excellent excuse for us to invite her to QFT to hear a tale or two. It also allows us to give Bronagh's hometown of Derry a firm handshake and a pat on the back, metaphorically speaking, for winning the bid to be the first ever UK City of Culture in 2013.

Bronagh's film career has been eclectic, to say the least. A standout performance in Alan Parker's The Commitments kicked things off in grand style, paving the way for credits including Tristan and Isolde, Middletown, Last Chance Harvey, Malice in Wonderland, Pulp Fiction and Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes.

Bronagh will recount stories from her award-winning career, and possibly talk about Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, if you ask her nicely.

Good Hair is a wonderfully insightful and entertaining, yet remarkably serious, documentary about African American hair culture. An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, the film visits hair salons and styling battles, scientific laboratories, and Indian temples to explore the way black hairstyles affect the activities, sexual relationships, and self-esteem of black people.

" Spirited, probing and frequently hilarious, it coasts on the fearless charm of its front man and the eyeopening candor of its interviewees."

- NEW YORK TIMES

Vittorio de Sica's remarkable drama of desperation and survival in Italy's post-war depression earned a special Academy Award for its affecting power. Shot in the streets and alleys of Rome, De Sica uses a real-life environment and cast non-professional actors. The impoverished Antonio's new job delivering cinema posters is threatened when a street thief steals his bicycle. Too poor to buy another, he and his son take to the streets in an impossible search for the bike.

Federico Fellini's 1960 masterpiece remains something of a midway point between his Il Maestro's early neo-realist works and the pure art of his later films. While La Dolce Vita features elements of both, it stands alone as a truly unique creation from a great filmmaker at the height of his powers.

La Dolce Vita sees Marcello Mastroianni's jaded gossip columnist flit and flirt his way through Rome in a series of vivid, impressionistic episodes, leaping from one visual show-stopper to another - not least that iconic scene featuring Anita Ekberg and the Trevi fountain. What's it all about? Life, death, love, art, class and celebrity, for starters - it's a film ahead of its time, and utterly timeless. Let's make this very simple: La Dolce Vita demands to be seen by any and everyone who loves cinema. Viva Fellini!

A loving and meticulous send-up of 1970s blaxsploitation movies, Black Dynamite is funny enough for the frat house and clever enough for film buffs.

Michael Jai White stars as Black Dynamite, a gun-toting, nunchuck-wielding, ladies man and soul brother. When "The Man" murders his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages, and floods the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor, Black Dynamite is the one hero willing to fight all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.

" This film will delight both discriminating fans of the blaxploitation tradition and ordinary lovers of goofy, in-ya-face thrills" - VARIETY

Presented by Francis Jones, Education Officer, Northern Ireland Screen Education.

Admission Free

The South Belfast hub of Culture Night continues with: Crescent Arts Centre - follow the Shoestring Tour around our newly refurbished, Victorian building to explore and experience all we have to offer - with a few surprises thrown in!

6.00pm - 8.00pm. (028) 9024 2338. http://www.crescentarts.org/

Set in the desolate Ozark Mountain region of the central United States, this enigmatic thriller follows 17-year-old Ree Jolly (a remarkable performance by newcomer Jennifer Lawrence) on a desperate quest to save the family home from the bailiffs, after her drug dealing father skips bail. Pulled perilously close to a brutal family of crack cocaine dealers, Ree is forced to undergo a series of terrifying ordeals, where death is always a distinct possibility.

Beautiful in its strangeness and a huge accomplishment for its first time director - a film we simply urge you to see.

 Married with a new baby on the way, fisherman Miguel falls in love with Santiago, an artist who has come to the seaside village to observe local life. Their situation seems impossible, then fate deals a tragic blow and Miguel finds himself bound by the strict traditions of his community, as he faces a choice between his family and the truth. Whatever the outcome, his life will never be the same again.

A retired gangster (Reno) is the target of a brutal assassination attempt. He survives to exact violent revenge on those who left him for dead ... but who were they?

Produced by Luc Besson, and featuring a charismatic central performance from Reno, this slick, hard-boiled French thriller proves once again that Hollywood is not the only source of stylish, action-packed entertainment.

Gen Silent is the new LGBT documentary that asks six LGBT seniors if they will hide their true identities in order to survive.

They put a face on what experts in the film call an epidemic: LGBT seniors so afraid of discrimination and abuse, in long-term/health care that some go back into the closet. Many of our greatest generation are dying prematurely because they don't ask for help and have too few people in their lives to care for them.

For more information about Age Awareness Week please visit www.ageawarenessweek.com

Based on a massive novel by James Jones deemed impossible to put onscreen because of its strong sexual content and language, From Here to Eternity emerged as a lavish, star-studded spectacle.

Werner Herzog directs, David Lynch produces. Who better to co-pilot a journey into the unknown?

Brad (Michael Shannon) has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house.  With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place... Based on a true story (several pinches of salt may be required), this gripping and unnerving blend of deadpan comedy, melodrama and raw tragedy is fleshed out by an expert cast, including Willem Dafoe and Chloë Sevigny.

FRI 1 - THURS 7 OCT

CERT: TBC

DRAMA

DIR: WERNER HERZOG

WITH: MICHAEL SHANNON, WILLEM DAFOE, GRACE ZABRISKIE, CHLOE SEVIGNY

USA/GERMANY  2009  1HOUR 31MINS