June 3rd
Flags of Our Fathers** (15)
Electric Palace, Harwich

A descendant of one of the heroes who planted the flag on the top of Iwo Jima, tries to find out the truth behind the story.
Semi-coherent semi-remake of Saving Private Ryan, focusing this time on one of America's bloodiest conflicts during World War II in deliberately poor colour with unintelligible battle scenes which cross-cut back and forth in time between 1945 and the present day. Eastwood's thoughtful touches help to bring out many of the ironies of war however (the famous photo of the soldiers putting up the flag was "staged" in reality), although some of the anti-war sentiment expressed throughout the film gets a bit mawkish at times.

d: Clint Eastwood
s: Jesse Bradford, Ryan Phillippe, Adam Beach, Barry Pepper, John Benjamin Hickey, Jamie Bell, John Slattery, Paul Walker, Robert Patrick, Neal McDonough, Melanie Lynskey.