Summer 2019 Film Guide by Bridport Arts Centre

July - August 2019

Box Office 01308 424204 www.bridport-arts.com

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We are the Animals, 22 August

July THURSDAY 4

Juliet, Naked (15) | 2018 | 1h 37m | 11am DIRECTED BY | Jesse Peretz STARRING | Chris O’Dowd, Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke, Kitty O’Beirne Based on the novel by Nick Hornby, JULIET, NAKED is a comic account of life’s second chances. Annie is stuck in a long-term relationship with Duncan an obsessive fan of obscure rocker Tucker Crowe. When the acoustic demo of Tucker’s hit record from 25 years ago surfaces, its release leads to a life-changing encounter with the elusive rocker himself.

In our Summer brochure you can expect to see a range of family films, light-hearted breakfast movies as well as more challenging drama. We have two very different films about the lives of artists; At Eternities Gate tells the story of Vincent Van Gogh’s time in Arles where he painted some of his greatest masterworks. Mr Turner see’s Timothy Spall as the great and eccentric painter JMW turner. It has been 50 years since we landed on the moon and The Dish tells the special story of a tiny Australian town as the world counts down the days to Apollo 11’s moon landing. First Man tells the story of legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong. Remember that if you come along to one of our 11am screenings you will get a free hot drink and pastry. We hope to see you soon!

PRICES £6

(no concessions)

£5 Bridport Arts Centre Members £4 Film Society Members this is for film only and

excludes Live Screenings

£3.50 Young Programmer £3

Under 25s BAC Stage members Look out for special £2.50 screenings of children’s films

There is a £1.50 booking fee on all transactions. Members exempt

BREAKFAST MOVIES Come along to our 11am screenings and get a free hot drink and pastry with every ticket purchased.

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£6 Breakfast movies includes a pastry and hot drink

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Sometimes Always Never (12A) | 2019 | 1h 31m | 7.30pm DIRECTED BY | Carl Hunter STARRING | Bill Nighy, Sam Riley, Jenny Agutter, Alice Lowe Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed out over a game of scrabble. With a body to identify and his family torn apart, Alan must repair the relationship with his youngest son Peter and solve the mystery of an online player who he thinks could be Michael, so he can finally move on and reunite his family.

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A 1967 American comedy about seemingly mismatched newlyweds free spirited Corie and serious Paul Bratter and their adventures living in a minuscule sixth floor walk-up apartment in a Greenwich Village brownstone.

THURSDAY 18

Barefoot in the Park

(PG) | 1967 | 1h 46m | 11am

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Lazzaro is the kind soul who helps anyone in his village, which is cut off from the outside world by a bridge that no one has the energy to fix. The inhabitants of the village are serfs to the Marchesa, whose son drafts Lazzaro into a kidnapping plot that quickly go awry.

1969, and as the world counts down the days to Apollo 11’s moon landing, the citizens of a tiny Australian town have more reason than most to be excited. NASA was working with a group of Australian technicians who had agreed to rig up a satellite interface. That the Aussies placed the satellite dish smack dab in the middle of an Australian sheep farm in the boondocks town of Parkes was just one of the reasons that NASA was concerned. Based on a true story, The Dish takes a smart, witty, comical look at the differing cultural attitudes between Australia and the U.S. while revisiting one of the greatest events in history.

THURSDAY 18

Following up The Wonders, Alice Rohrwacher offers a beautiful freewheeling fable that has the timeless quality of a folk tale but also brings to mind Pasolini and Fellini.

First Man

Happy as Lazzaro has the brightness of a summer’s day, but also dark shade to luxuriate in.

(12A) | 2018 | 2h 21m | 7.30pm DIRECTED BY | Damien Chazelle STARRING | Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll, Pablo Schreiber

SUNDAY 14

How did the first man land on the moon? Discover the story of legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong and the events that took place between 1961 and 1969 that lead to his historic journey. First Man is an unmissable biopic.

The Kid Who Would Be King (PG) | 2019 | 2h | 2pm DIRECTED BY | Joe Cornish STARRING | Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Denise Gough, Patrick Stewart, Rebecca Ferguson, Dean Chaumoo, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett Old school magic meets the modern world in this epic adventure. Alex (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) thinks he’s just another nobody, until he stumbles upon the mythical sword in the stone, Excalibur. Now, he must unite his friends and enemies into a band of knights and, together with the legendary wizard Merlin (Sir Patrick Stewart), take on the wicked enchantress Morgana (Rebecca Ferguson). With the future at stake, Alex must become the great leader he never dreamed he could be.

DIRECTED BY | Rob Sitch STARRING | Sam Neill, Billy Mitchell, Roz Hammond

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SUNDAY 21

THURSDAY 1

An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country’s poor and its provident, as well as by the film’s own director, Agnes Varda. The aesthetic, political and moral point of departure for Varda are gleaners, those individuals who pick at already-reaped fields for the odd potato, the leftover turnip.

DIRECTED BY | Michael Gordon STARRING | Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall

Pillow Talk (PG) | 1959 | 1h 42m | 11am

In New York, the interior decorator Jan Morrow and the wolf composer Brad Allen share a party line, but Brad keeps it busy most of the time flirting with his girlfriends. They do not know each other but Jan hates Brads since she needs the telephone for her business and can not use it. Coincidently Jan’s wealthy client Jonathan Forbes that woos her is the best friend of Brad and he comments with him that he feels an unrequited love for Jan, who is a gorgeous woman. When Brad meets Jan by chance in a restaurant, he poses as a naive tourist from Texas named Rex Stetson and seduces her. But Jonathan hires a private eye to find who Rex Stetson is.

THURSDAY 1

At Eternity’s Gate (12A) | 2018 | 1h 51m | 7.30pm DIRECTED BY | Julian Schnabel STARRING | Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac Shunned by the artistic community but encouraged by fellow painter Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh travels to the South of France in search of inspiration. In a rush of creativity, he paints 75 paintings in 80 days. But while grappling with religion, mental illness his anti-social behaviour sees him admitted to an asylum.

THURSDAY 25

A fast-living, cynical London music executive heads to a remote Cornish village on a stag weekend where he’s pranked by his boss into trying to sign a group of shanty singing fishermen. He becomes the ultimate ‘fish out of water’ as he struggles to gain the respect or enthusiasm of the unlikely boy band and their families who value friendship and community over fame and fortune. As he’s drawn deeper into the traditional way of life he’s forced to re-evaluate his own integrity and question what success really means.

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THURSDAY 8

Mary Poppins Returns

THURSDAY 15

(U) | 2018 | 2h 10m | 11am DIRECTED BY | Rob Marshall STARRING | Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw In Depression-era London, a now-grown Jane and Michael Banks, along with Michael’s three children, are visited by the enigmatic Mary Poppins following a personal loss. Through her unique magical skills, and with the aid of her friend Jack, she helps the family rediscover the joy and wonder missing in their lives.

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Mid-August Lunch (U) | 2008 | 1h 15m | 11am DIRECTED BY | Gianni Di Gregorio STARRING | Gianni Di Gregorio, Valeria De Franciscis, Marina Cacciotti, Maria Calì SUBTITLED Gianni is a middle-aged man living in Rome with his imposing and demanding elderly mother. His only outlet from her and the increasing debt into which they are sinking, are the increasingly frequent quiet sessions at the local tavern. As an Oriental saying goes, ‘Moments of crisis are moments of opportunities’. These appear during the celebration of the holiday of Ferragosto on 15 August. That’s when everybody leaves town to have fun. Opportunity knocks on Gianni’s door in the most unexpected way.

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THURSDAY 8

Mr. Turner (12A) | 2014 | 2h 30m | 7.30pm DIRECTED BY | Mike Leigh STARRING | Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson Lesley Manville, Marion Bailey Mr. Turner explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies. Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.

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THURSDAY 15

An Accidental Studio (TBC) | 2019 | 7.30pm DIRECTED BY | Bill Jones, Kim Leggatt STARRING | Michael Caine, Helen Mirren, Terry Gilliam, Richard E Grant Coming to the rescue of Monty Python’s Life Of Brian when the money fell at the last minute, George Harrison offered to fund the entire movie, mortgaging his house and his office to do so. The film was a massive hit, so successful in fact that they decided to set up a company, HandMade Films - which became more than a happy accident. It became a signature of collaboration and integrity. With unreleased archive interviews and footage with Harrison, interviews with Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Richard E. Grant, Neil Jordan, and unseen interviews with Bob Hoskins, An Accidental Studio explores HandMade’s baptism by fire, the risks it took in producing uniquely crafted intelligent films and the stories that grew up around it.

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THURSDAY 22

Horrible Histories: The Movie Rotten Romans (TBC) | 11am

DIRECTED BY | Dominic Brigstocke STARRING | Sebastian Croft Emilia Jones Nick Frost Craig Roberts Kim Cattrall Kate Nash Rupert Graves Alex Macqueen Derek Jacobi Atti, a smart and quick-witted Roman teenager, manages to upset Emperor Nero with one of his schemes. For punishment, Atti is sent to work in a cold and wet Britain where he also meets the Celts

MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA Sunday 15 Sep, 7.30pm THURSDAY 22

We are the Animals (15) | 2018 | 1h 34m | 7.30pm DIRECTED BY | Jeremiah Zagar STARRING | Sheila Vand, Raúl Castillo, Evan Rosado Us three. Us brothers. Us kings, inseparable. Three boys tear through their rural New York home town, in the midst of their young parents’ volatile love that makes and unmakes the family many times over. While Manny and Joel grow into versions of their loving and unpredictable father, Ma seeks to keep her youngest, Jonah, in the cocoon of home. More sensitive and conscious than his older siblings, Jonah increasingly embraces an imagined world all his own. Lyrical, impressionistic, arrestingly beautiful and strongly performed (with the boys all played by non-professional actors), Zagar’s heartbreaking film – part coming of age story, part sexual exploration, part magical realism – explores the animalism of young children alongside that of violent, warring adults.

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Tickets £11/9 Following the sell-out performances of Nosferatu (2017) and Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (2018), the Cabinet take their LSO St Luke’s performance of Man with a Movie Camera on the road to Cabinet performer Kieron Chissik’s home county of Dorset with the pioneering work of documentary brilliance, Man with a Movie Camera, rated 5 stars by Guardian and Observer, and one of the best documentaries ever made. The Cabinet follow some of the original score notes written by cinematic adventurer Dziga Vertov to create a dazzling whirlwind of a score with weaving rhythms, soaring melodies and intricate melodies and textures on harp, clarinet, viola and voice to celebrate the 90th anniversary of his 1929 experimental masterpiece, transporting the audience back to the dynamism of daily life in the Soviet Union’s cosmopolitan cities.

CABINET OF LIVING CINEMA Sunday 15 Sep, 2pm Tickets £11/9 The Cabinet of Living Cinema invites you to join them to make hand-made FX instruments made from natural materials collected from outside or brought from home to make a brand new cinema score. They will work with you to explore how sound and microphones can emulate rustling of wind, fallen leaves and bird song. You can then use your instruments and voice to live score and narrate the 1973 Prague studio FOR FAMILIES animation of Where the GREAT AGE 4+ RECOMMENDED Wild Things Are.

FILM DIARY MORNING 11AM

AFTERNOON 2PM

EVENING 7.30PM

JULY THURSDAY 4

JULIET, NAKED

SOMETIMES ALWAYS NEVER

THURSDAY 11

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK

HAPPY AS LAZZARO

THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING

SUNDAY 14

THURSDAY 18

THE DISH

THE GLEANERS AND I

SUNDAY 21

THURSDAY 25

FIRST MAN

FISHERMAN’S FRIENDS

AUGUST THURSDAY 1

PILLOW TALK

AT ETERNITY’S GATE

THURSDAY 8

MARY POPPINS RETURNS

MR. TURNER

THURSDAY 15

MID-AUGUST LUNCH

AN ACCIDENTAL STUDIO

THURSDAY 22

HORRIBLE HISTORIES: THE MOVIE - ROTTEN ROMANS

WE ARE THE ANIMALS

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