Barn Cinema Film Guide March-April 2010
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Under normal circumstances during award season we would be celebrating the wonderful diversity of cinema and the finest storytelling, acting and directing. Instead the film world seems obsessed by technology and 3D. That the big awards are going to be fought over by two war films of spectacularly differing styles and budgets must say something. For me, if a film is good enough you don’t need it poking you in the eye to make sure it has your attention, but that won’t stop me trying out Avatar in 2D Digital to see if it is really a film or a rollercoaster ride. Let me know what you think too. Finally a word for our season of films celebrating older age (p.6), all of which we hope will provoke debate and questions to feed our evening discussion on 16 March following the screening of Mid-August Lunch. Colin Orr, Film Programmer
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Oscar Contenders Avatar
[12A]
Friday 5 March / 5pm & 8.30pm Saturday 6 March / 8pm Sunday 7 March / 3pm Monday 8 March / 6.30pm Tuesday 9 & Thursday 11 March / 8pm Wednesday 10 March / 5pm Director James Cameron Cast Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Giovanni Ribisi, Wes Studi USA 2009 / Colour / 2hr 40m Now officially the biggest box office hit of all time - in terms of money taken - Avatar may also sweep the boards at this year’s Oscars, where it has received nine nominations. I’m sure most of you are eager to see just what all the fuss is about and whether it’s just an old fashioned tale with extra special effects. Now is your chance to find out if it’s more than just a rollercoaster ride. Showing in 2D digital.
The Hurt Locker
[15]
Saturday 6 March / 5pm Sunday 7 March / 8pm Director Kathryn Bigelow Cast Jeremy Renner, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes USA 2009 / Colour / 2hr 11m Then only real contender up against Avatar in the main Oscars, Kathryn Bigelow’s stunning take on modern warfare is an intense portrayal of elite soldiers disarming bombs in the heat of combat. Having already sneaked up the outside to take most of the major critics’ awards, can Bigelow really out do ex-husband Cameron in the more populist Oscar race and be the first ever woman to win the best director award from the Academy? The only thing we can guarantee is that if you missed this the first time around then you’d be foolish to miss it again. 04
Precious
[15]
Tuesday 9 March/ 5pm Wednesday 10 March / 8.30pm Director Lee Daniels Cast Gabourey Sidibe, Mo’nique, Mariah Carey USA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 49m Nominated for six Oscars and four Baftas Precious is one of the most distinctive films of the year, and one of the most affecting. Clareece 'Precious' Jones is an obese and impoverished teenager, systematically abused emotionally and physically by her mother and by her mother's boyfriend. Recommended to attend 'Each One Teach One', an alternative education centre, she meets an inspiring teacher who prods her into seeing that there could be hope for a better life.
A Serious Man
[15]
Thursday 11 March / 5pm Director Joel & Ethan Coen Cast Michael Stuhlberg, Sari Wagner Lennick, Richard Kind USA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 45m Due to the bad weather in January I know many of you didn't get the chance to see what proved to be the most satisfyingly Coenesque work since Fargo. Surely a shoo-in for the best original screenplay Oscar, this is no less than a minor masterpiece whose wit and wisdom come from detailed observation and loving understanding of a very particular community. Classic Coens. 05
Older Age Season Ageing today presents many new opportunities, alongside some additional challenges. We are living longer and retaining greater independence but rely increasingly on unpaid carers and support at a time when families are more dispersed than ever. The depiction of Tolstoy’s final years in The Last Station (p.8) sets the stage for a week of films that show the huge variety and opportunity of older age. Celia Atherton, Director of Social Justice at Dartington, will host a panel discussion after Mid-August Lunch that will explore attitudes to and knowledge about ageing. Our panel will also include Rt Hon Clare Short MP and Bill Jordan from the Senior Council for Devon, so please come along to see the films and to join the discussion. For more information on this season or to learn about our Abundant Life project www.dartington.org/abundant-life The Last Station
O’Horten
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[12A]
Mid-August Lunch
[U]
Monday 15 March / 5pm
Tuesday 16 March / 8.15pm
Director Bent Hamer Cast Baard Owe, Espen Skjønberg, Ghita Nørby Norway 2007 / Colour / Subtitles / 1hr 36m
Director Gianni di Gregorio Cast Valeria De Francis, Marina Cacciotti Italy 2008 / Colour / Subtitles / 1 hr 15m
One of the most charming tales about retirement and the sense of both fear and challenge that it can inspire. Focused on one life-changing evening in 67-year-old train engineer Odd Horten's existence, O’Horten is a unique blend of absurdist humour and aching melancholy .
This perfectly formed gem details the relationships built up over a holiday weekend in Rome when a middle-aged man living with his mother finds his small world - and flat - overrun when he is left to care for a group of strongly opinionated women left with him by their own offspring. Followed by discussion led by Celia Atherton OBE.
“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.” W. Somerset Maugham
Up
Tokyo Story
[PG]
Up
[U]
Wednesday 17 March / 5pm
Thursday 18 March / 5pm
Director Yasujiro Ozu Cast Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara Japan 1953 / B&W / Subtitles / 2hr 15m
Director Pete Docter & Bob Petersen Voice Cast Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer USA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 42m
An elderly couple leave their rural home to visit their married children in Tokyo but their son and daughter are too preoccupied to have much time for them. Ozu explores the spaces between what’s said and what cannot be said, finessing a keen sense of the fractures riven in modern families.
The most affecting and powerful portrayal of life, love, loss and regret in any film this past year, Up is a stunning movie that touches on more issues than it has a right to and covers them all with humour and compassion. This is very much a film about and for an older audience.
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The Last Station [15]
Friday 12 & Saturday 13 March / 5pm & 8pm Sunday 14 March / 3pm & 8pm Monday 15 March / 7.30pm Tuesday 16 March / 5pm Wednesday 17 March / 8pm Thursday 18 March / 2pm & 8pm Director Michael Hoffman Cast Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, James McAvoy, Paul Giamatti, Anne-Marie Duff Ger/Russia/UK 2009 / Colour / 1hr 53m
After almost fifty years of marriage the Countess Sofya, devoted wife, passionate lover, muse and secretary of Leo Tolstoy, suddenly finds her entire world turned upside down. In the name of his newly created religion, the great Russian novelist has renounced his noble title, his property and even his family in favour of poverty, vegetarianism and celibacy. When Sofya then discovers that Tolstoy’s trusted disciple, Chertkov - whom she despises may have secretly convinced her husband to sign a new will, leaving the rights to his iconic novels to the Russian people rather than his own family, she is consumed by righteous outrage. Using her cunning and every trick of seduction in her considerable arsenal, she fights fiercely for what she believes is rightfully hers. The Last Station’s greatest strength is the mesmerising back and forth between Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren: two Oscar nominated performances from these acting powerhouses who prove that vintage wins out over youth every time. see p.28 for more info
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A Single Man [15]
Friday 19 March / 8pm Saturday 20 March / 5pm Sunday 21 March / 8pm Monday 22 March / 7.30pm Tuesday 23 March / 8pm Wed 24 & Thu 25 March / 5pm Director Tom Ford Cast Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Goode USA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 39m
Oscar and Bafta nominated Colin Firth finally gets the complex role he has been waiting for all these years. Los Angeles 1962, and 52-yearold English college professor George Falconer is struggling to find meaning in his life after the death of his long time partner Jim. Through the course of one day, a series of events and encounters cause him to reflect on his past, and consider whether or not he has a future. His lovelorn best friend Charley is devoted to George but wrestling with her own dilemmas, while one of his students, Kenny, pursues him, seeing a possible kindred spirit. Based on a novel by Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man is an affecting story of love and loneliness. Making his directing debut, designer Tom Ford displays an instinctive feel for the material, which he was also involved in adapting, plus good judgement in the casting. While the film is as impeccably styled and photographed as one would expect, it also has a welcome sense of experiment in its aesthetic that serves to enhance, rather than overshadow, its emotional pull.
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MICMACS
[12A]
Friday 19 March / 5pm Saturday 20 March / 8pm Sunday 21 March / 5pm Monday 22 & Tuesday 23 March / 5pm Wednesday 24 March / 8pm Thursday 25 March / 2pm Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet Cast Dany Boon, AndrĂŠ Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Yolande Moreau France 2009 / Colour / Subtitles / 1hr 42m
The Princess & The Frog [U]
Sunday 21 March / 2pm
Ponyo
[U]
Sunday 28 March / 2pm
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MICMACS is the latest dazzlingly cinematic outing from Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Delicatessen, AmĂŠlie), a satire on the arms trade which grounds this director's cinema of fantasy firmly in reality. Dany Boon leads a terrific cast including the matchless Yolande Moreau (Seraphine) in a thrilling comedy about one man's plan to destroy two big weapons manufacturers, with a little help from his friends. Few directors are more imaginative and inventive at creating their own distinctive on-screen worlds, and the aesthetic sensibility at play in MICMACS works in tandem with pacey, edge-of-the-seat storytelling and no end of visual gags and witty wordplay.
Seraphine
[12A]
Thursday 25 March / 8pm Wednesday 31 March / 5pm Thursday 1 April / 2pm & 5pm Director Martin Provost Cast Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tuker France 2009 / Colour / Subtitles / 2hr 6m We received so many requests to show this again that it returns alongside Yolande Moreau’s latest film MICMACS. Understandably the winner of seven awards including Best Film and Best Actress at France’s César awards, this utterly beguiling biopic is simply sublime, with the revelation of the final paintings a divine moment. Don’t miss it again.
Glorious 39
[15]
Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 March / 5pm Director Stephen Poliakoff Cast Romala Garai, Bill Nighy, David Tennent UK 2009 / Colour / 2hr 9m Another return from our depleted January programme that was unable to play due to the severe weather. This tense psychological thriller is set between present day London and the idyllic British countryside around the outbreak of the Second World War. Anne, a budding young actress, stumbles across secret recordings of a sinister Nazi appeasement plot that will stop at nothing to achieve its aims.
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Music & Film
Crazy Heart
[15]
Friday 26 March / 5pm & 8pm Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 March / 8pm Monday 29 March / 5pm Tuesday 30 March / 8pm Director Scott Cooper Cast Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhall, Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell USA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 52m
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Destined to win Jeff Bridges the acting Oscar he has been due, Crazy Heart is the story of Bad Blake a successful 57-year-old musician whose career and personal life have been derailed by alcoholism. Playing to bowling alleys and bars across New Mexico, he's interviewed by a journalist and is surprised when a spark of attraction develops between them. His next stop is Phoenix, where he plays a gig with former band member Tommy Sweet, who's now a mega-star but hasn't forgotten the debt he owes to Bad. The question is whether Bad can get himself together long enough to make either relationship work. Channelling a bit of Waylon Jennings and a lot of Kris Kristofferson, Bridges is stunning in the way he can be both wry and sardonic in his interactions with his terrific supporting cast. The songs, by T Bone Burnett and Stephen Bruton, feel both timeless and specific to these characters, giving us insight and resonance. The Southwest settings are equally perfect, providing a superb backdrop to this simple but satisfying tale.
“The English may not like music, but they love the noise it makes” Sir Thomas Beecham
Oil City Confidential
[15]
Monday 29 March / 7.30pm Director Julien Temple Documentary UK 2009 / Colour / 1hr 52m Julien Temple's documentary focuses on Dr Feelgood and he puts forward a persuasive case to regard the Canvey Island blues/pub-rock combo as one of Britain's finest bands.
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
[15]
Tuesday 30 March / 5pm Wednesday 31 March / 8pm Director Mat Whitecross Cast Andy Serkis, Ray Winstone, Olivia Williams UK 2010 / Colour / 1hr 55m Andy Serkis rightly gained a Bafta nomination for his startling depiction of the legendary Ian Dury in a film that doesn’t shy away from his complex and troubling personal life.
It Might Get Loud
[PG]
Thursday 1 April / 8pm Director David Guggenheim Documentary USA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 38m Three generations of electric guitar virtuosos, Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), The Edge (U2) and Jack White (The White Stripes), sit down together to share their stories, teach and play.
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Alice in Wonderland
[tbc]
Friday 2 April / 2pm & 5pm Saturday 3 April / 8pm Sunday 4 April / 2pm & 5pm Monday 5 April / 2pm & 8pm Tue 6 & Wed 7 April / 2pm & 5pm Thursday 8 April / 2pm & 8pm Director Tim Burton Cast Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska Helena Bonham Carter UK/USA 2010 / Colour / tbc It was only a matter of time before the confluence of Tim Burton and Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland became a reality. If ever a director and a subject were made for each other this was it. What we get, thankfully, is not a letdown but a magical and imaginative twist on two of the most beloved stories of all time. Johnny Depp stars as the Mad Hatter with newcomer Mia Wasikowska as 19-year-old Alice, who returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl, reuniting with her childhood friends the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Dormouse, the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, and of course, the Mad Hatter. Alice embarks on a fantastical journey to find her true destiny and end the Red Queen’s reign of terror. Capturing the wonder of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865) and “Through the Looking-Glass” (1871) with stunning, avant-garde visuals (filmed at nearby National Trust property, Antony), Burton clearly relishes the original material, allowing it to speak for itself. 14
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Easter Holidays - Children’s Films Nanny McPhee & The Big Bang
[U]
+ Dartington Archive film Children (4m) Friday 9 April / 2pm Sunday 11 - Thursday 15 April / 2pm Director Susanna White Cast Emma Thompson, Maggie Smith UK /Fr/USA 2010 / Colour / tbc Emma Thompson returns as the eponymous Nanny McPhee in a whole new adventure. This time out she arrives to help a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. Nanny uses her magic to teach the woman's children and their two spoiled cousins five new lessons.
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
[PG]
Friday 16 April / 2pm & 5pm Sunday 18 April / 3pm Director Chris Columbus Cast Logan Leman, Pierce Brosnan, Uma Thurman USA 2010 / Colour / 1hr 58m Very much an attempt to invent a whole new Harry Potter style franchise. A teenager discovers he's the descendant of Poseidon and sets out on an adventure to settle an on-going battle between the Greek gods. 15
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FILM / CERTIFICATE
01 01 02 03 03 04 04 05 06 06 07 07 08 09 09 10 10 11 12 14 15 15 16 16 17 17 18 18 19 19 20 20 20 21 21 21 22 22 23 24 24 25 25 26 27 27 27 28 29 29 30 30 31 31
INVICTUS / 12A THE BOYS ARE BACK / 12A BROTHERS / 15 BROTHERS / 15 INVICTUS / 12A INVICTUS / 12A BROTHERS / 15 AVATAR / 12A AVATAR / 12A* THE HURT LOCKER / 15 AVATAR / 12A THE HURT LOCKER / 15 AVATAR / 12A PRECIOUS / 15 AVATAR / 12A AVATAR / 12A PRECIOUS / 15 A SERIOUS MAN / 15 THE LAST STATION / 15 THE LAST STATION / 15 O’HORTEN / 12A THE LAST STATION / 15 THE LAST STATION / 15 MID-AUGUST LUNCH / U TOKYO STORY / PG THE LAST STATION / 15 THE LAST STATION / 15 UP / U MICMACS / 12 A A SINGLE MAN / 15 THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG / U* A SINGLE MAN / 15 MICMACS / 12A THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG / U MICMACS / 12A A SINGLE MAN / 15 MICMACS / 12A A SINGLE MAN / 15 A SINGLE MAN / 15 A SINGLE MAN / 15 MICMACS / 12A MICMACS / 12A SERAPHINE / 12A CRAZY HEART / 15 PONYO / U* GLORIOUS 39 / 15 CRAZY HEART / 15 PONYO / U CRAZY HEART / 15 OIL CITY CONFIDENTIAL / 15 SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL / 15 CRAZY HEART / 15 SERAPHINE / 12A SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL / 15
Monday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Wednesday Thursday Thursday Friday Saturday Saturday Sunday Sunday Monday Tuesday Tue & Thu 11 Wednesday Wednesday Thursday Fri & Sat 13 Sunday Monday Monday Tuesday Tuesday Wednesday Wednesday Thursday Thursday Friday Friday Saturday Saturday Saturday Sunday Sunday Sunday Mon & Tue 23 Monday Tuesday Wed & Thu 25 Wednesday Thursday Thursday Friday Saturday Sat & Sun 28 Sat & Sun 28 Sunday Monday Monday Tuesday Tuesday Wednesday Wednesday
MATINEE
EARLY EVE
EVE
5:00pm 8:00pm 8:00pm 8:00pm 5:00pm 2:00 pm
8:00pm 5:00pm 5:00pm
2:00pm*
8:30pm 8:00pm
5:00pm 3:00pm 8:00pm 6:30pm 5:00pm 8:00pm 5:00pm 8:30pm 5:00pm 5:00pm 3:00pm
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MATINEE
EARLY EVE
01 01 02 02 03 03 04 04 05 05 06 06 07 08 08 09 09 09 10 10 11 11 14 14 15 15 16 16 17 17 18 18 19 19 20 21 21 22 22 23 23 24 24 24 25 25 26 26 27 28 28 29
SERAPHINE / 12A IT MIGHT GET LOUD / PG ALICE IN WONDERLAND / tbc SHUTTER ISLAND / 15 ALICE IN WONDERLAND / tbc* SHUTTER ISLAND / 15 ALICE IN WONDERLAND / tbc SHUTTER ISLAND / 15 ALICE IN WONDERLAND / tbc SHUTTER ISLAND / 15 ALICE IN WONDERLAND / tbc SHUTTER ISLAND / 15 ALICE IN WONDERLAND / tbc ALICE IN WONDERLAND / tbc SHUTTER ISLAND / 15 NANNY MCPHEE & THE BIG BANG / U ONDINE / 12A THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO / 18 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO / 18 ONDINE / 12A ONDINE / 12A THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO / 18 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO / 18 THE LOVELY BONES / 12A THE LOVELY BONES / 12A THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO / 18 PERCY JACKSON & THE LIGHTNING THIEF / PG GREEN ZONE / 15 PERCY JACKSON & THE LIGHTNING THIEF / PG* GREEN ZONE / 15 PERCY JACKSON & THE LIGHTNING THIEF / PG GREEN ZONE / 15 GREEN ZONE / 15 CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY / 12A CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY / 12A FOOD, INC. / 15 CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY / 12A FOOD, INC. / 15 CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY / 12A THE SCOUTING BOOK FOR BOYS / 12 I AM LOVE / 15 ASTRO BOY / PG* I AM LOVE / 15 THE SCOUTING BOOK FOR BOYS / 12 THE SCOUTING BOOK FOR BOYS / 12 I AM LOVE / 15 I AM LOVE / 15 THE SCOUTING BOOK FOR BOYS / 12 THE SCOUTING BOOK FOR BOYS / 12 THE SCOUTING BOOK FOR BOYS / 12 I AM LOVE / 15 I AM LOVE / 15
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*Young People’s Films
EVE 8:00pm 8:00pm 8:00pm
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Shutter Island [15]
Friday 2 April / 8pm Saturday 3 April / 5pm Sunday 4 April / 8pm Monday 5 April / 5pm Tuesday 6 & Wednesday 7 April / 8pm Thursday 8 April / 5pm Director Martin Scorsese Cast Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer USA 2009 / Colour / 2hr 18m
The latest outing of the Scorcese / Di Caprio partnership is a classic murder mystery based on the novel by Dennis Lehane. It's 1954, and upand-coming US marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. As he attempts to put together the evidence Daniels comes to suspect a far more complex and dangerous game is afoot - one that involves the hospital staff and inmates and in which he himself is a major protagonist. When a hurricane hits the coast line of this remote and barren island the investigators find themselves stranded within the fortress-like hospital for the criminally insane. More dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion and as the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity. A great piece of genre entertainment.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
[18]
Män som hatar kvinnor Friday 9 April / 8pm Saturday 10 April / 5pm Sunday 11 - Tuesday 13 April / 8pm Wednesday 14 April / 5pm Thursday 15 April / 8pm Director Niels Arden Oplev Cast Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace SW/Den/Ger 2009 / Colour / Subtitles / 2hr 32m The biggest publishing phenomenon of the past few years has seen the Millennium series of novels sell millions of copies propelling its already dead author Stieg Larsson to unforseen fame. This Scandinavian film version has already broken box office records in Europe and the rights have been sold to Hollywood with Twilight’s Kristen Stewart already tipped to star as the computer hacker Lisbeth Salander. 16-year old Harriet Vanger disappeared without trace on September 29 1966. Nearly forty years later a journalist, Mikael Blomqvist, is contacted by industrial leader Henrik Vanger, who wants him to write the history of the Vanger family. The family chronicle is just a cover for the real assignment: to find out about what really happened to Harriet. Mikael gets help from the young and troubled computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and together the odd couple starts to dig into the past of the Vanger family, encountering a darker and bloodier history than they ever could have imagined. see p.28 for more info
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Ondine
[12A]
Friday 9 April / 5pm Saturday 10 April / 8.15pm Sunday 11 - Tuesday 13 April / 5pm Director Neil Jordan Cast Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda Ireland 2009 / Colour / 1hr 51m This story of an Irish fisherman who discovers a woman in his fishing net is Neil Jordan’s first wholly original script since The Crying Game and marks a return to his love of fairytales, explored first in The Company of Wolves Colin Farrell plays Syracuse, a divorced fisherman who’s stunned one day to find a beautiful young woman wrapped up in his net. Ondine has little to say regarding where she came from and Annie, Syracuse’s 10-year-old daughter, instantly concludes that she must be a selkie - a mermaid in Celtic lore. What’s important is the effect that this unusual stranger has on both father and daughter, both of whom desperately need a sense of hope in their lives. The film functions, too, as a vivid photographic love letter to the southwestern Irish coast, with its magnificent skies and tiny remote islands.
The Lovely Bones
[12A]
Wednesday 14 April / 8.15pm Thursday 15 April / 5pm Director Peter Jackson Cast Saoirse Ronan, Susan Sarandon,Stanley Tucci USA/UK/NZ 2009 / Colour / 2hr 19m Resheduled from our February prgramme, Peter Jackson returns to his pre-The Lord of the Rings days with this imaginative version of Alice Sebold’s ‘The Lovely Bones’. The 1970s-set novel is narrated from beyond the grave by Susie Salmon, a 14-year-old trapped between heaven and earth following her murder. 20
Green Zone
[15]
Friday 16 April / 8pm Saturday 17 April / 5pm & 8pm Sunday 18 April / 8pm Monday 19 April / 5pm Director Paul Greengrass Cast Matt Damon, Jason Isaacs, Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Brendon Gleeson UK/FR/USA/SP 2010 / Colour / 1hr 55m Paul Greengrass explores the aftermath of the Iraq invasion in this feature adaptation of author Rajiv Chandrasekaran's literary exposé ‘Imperial Life in The Emrald City’. A one-time Baghdad bureau chief of the Washington Post, Chandrasekaran was present as American forces attempted to set up a provisional government in the grounds surrounding Saddam Hussein's former palace. The resulting governing body, according to critics, existed in a bubble so far removed from the grim realities of the Iraq War that it failed to properly assess the needs of the people. In this fictional thriller set during the USled occupation of Baghdad, director Greengrass and screenwriter Brian Helgeland use the novel as the foundation for the story of an officer who joins forces with a senior CIA colleague to unearth weapons of mass destruction, but soon stumbles across evidence of an elaborate cover up. As a result, the objective of their mission is inverted and Captain Miller (Matt Damon, very much in Bourne mood) realizes that operatives on both sides of the conflict are attempting to spin the story in their favour.
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Capitalism: A Love Story Monday 19 April / 7.30pm Tuesday 20 April / 5pm & 8pm Wednesday 21 April / 8pm Thursday 22 April / 5pm Directors Michael Moore Documentary USA 2009/ Colour / 2hr 7m On the 20-year anniversary of his groundbreaking masterpiece Roger & Me, Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world). With both humour and outrage, Michael Moore poses the ultimate question for the industrial world: who are we and why do we behave the way that we do?
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[12A]
Food,Inc.
[PG]
Wednesday 21 April / 5pm Thursday 22 April / 2pm & 8pm Director Robert Kenner Documentary USA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 34m You are what you eat. It's a simple expression that bears scary implications as you watch Food, Inc. The film cogently explains how unfettered corporations exploited laws and subsidies to create shocking monopolies, and carefully dissects the cosy relationships between business and government. Along the way, we hear stories of heartbreak and outrage, but the film carefully channels these emotions towards opportunities for activism. Watching Food, Inc. gives you a strong appetite for better, more ethical food.
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The Scouting Book for Boys
[12]
Friday 23 April / 5pm Saturday 24 April / 8pm Sunday 25 April / 3pm Monday 26 April / 7.30pm Tuesday 27 April / 8pm Wed 28 & Thu 29 April / 5pm Directors Tom Harper Cast Thomas Turgoose, Holly Grainger, Rafe Spall UK 2009 / Colour / 1hr 42m
Having grown up together on a caravan park on the Norfolk coast where their respective parents work, young teenagers David and Emily have become close friends, deeply reliant on each other for distractions and mischief. It's a shock to them both when it's decided that Emily is to be sent away to live with her father and there's even greater alarm throughout the park when Emily disappears. David struggles to cope as the situation grows ever more complex. The debut feature from Tom Harper, director of a number of acclaimed shorts, and written by playwright and Skins contributor Jack Thorne, The Scouting Book for Boys is an expertly constructed drama with deftly handled shifts in tone. It depicts the anxieties, awkwardness and fears of being a teenager, without denying the occasional delights of being young or the possibility of fun and adventure during a hazy British summer. Thomas Turgoose continues to build on the reputation he's gained appearing in Shane Meadows' This Is England and Somerstown, while Holly Grainger delivers an equally impressive performance as Emily.
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I am Love
[15]
Io sono l'amore Friday 23 April / 8pm Saturday 24 April / 5pm Sunday 25 April/ 8pm Monday 26 & Tuesday 27 April / 5pm Wednesday 28 April / 8pm Thursday 29 April / 2pm & 8pm Director Luca Guadagnino Cast Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti Italy 2009 / Colour / Subtitles / 2hr
Tilda Swinton is simply stunning as Emma, the Russian emigre matriarch of a wealthy Milanese family who lives in a carefully ordered world where her duty towards husband and children dominates. But a chance encounter ignites long repressed passions and sets her on a journey of sexual awakening. From its 50sstyle opening titles, set over a snow-covered Milan, to John Adams score, I Am Love can’t help but recall the Douglas Sirk themes of an earlier film age, not to mention Visconti. We follow the Recchi family, on its great melodramatic arc that propells it to a magnificent finale of operatic proportions.
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Young People’s Films Avatar
Ponyo
[12A]
Saturday 6 March / 1.30pm
Saturday 27 March / 2pm
Director James Cameron Cast Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, USA 2009 / Colour / 2hr 40m
Director Hayao Miyazaki Voice cast Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Japan 2009 / Colour / 1hr 40m
By the time you read this Avatar will officially be the biggest box office hit of all time. It may also sweep the board at this year’s Oscars. Showing in 2D Digital.
Ponyo places Hans Christian Anderson’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ in a contemporary Japanese setting. It is a tale of childhood love and adventure Hayao Miyazaki style. The latest film from the internationally acclaimed Studio Ghibli.
The Princess & The Frog
Alice in Wonderland
Saturday 20 March / 2pm
Director Tim Burton Cast Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska UK/USA 2010 / Colour / tbc
[U]
Director Ron Clements & John Musker Voice Cast Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos USA 2010 / Colour / 1hr 37m A fairy tale set in Jazz Age-era New Orleans and centered on a young girl named Princess Tiana and her fateful kiss with a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again. 26
[U]
[PG]
Saturday 3 April / 2pm
This is a magical and imaginative twist on some of the most beloved stories of all time. Johnny Depp stars as the Mad Hatter and Mia Wasikowska as 19-year-old Alice, who returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl.
For all young people’s matinÊes, all adults must be accompanied by a child
Nanny McPhee & The Big Bang
Astro Boy
Saturday 24 April / 2pm
[PG]
Director David Bowers Voice Cast Freddie Highmore, Nicholas Cage HK/USA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 34m
Saturday 10 April / 2pm Director Susanna White Cast Emma Thompson, Maggie Smith UK /Fr/USA 2010 / Colour / 1hr ?m Nanny McPhee returns to help a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war.
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
[PG]
Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy is about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he has lost.
[PG]
Saturday 17 April / 2pm Director Chris Columbus Cast Logan Leman, Pierce Brosnan, USA 2010 / Colour / 1hr 58m A teenager discovers he's the descendant of Poseidon and sets out on an adventure to settle an on-going battle between the Greek gods.
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Sunday Night Movie Meal Deal Book in advance for any of these films and get your cinema ticket plus a two course pre-screening supper in the White Hart for £18.00
The Last Station
THE GREEN FUNERAL COMPANY Claire and Rupert Callender.
[15]
Sunday 14 March / 8pm
A Single Man [15] Sunday 21 March / 8pm
Crazy Heart
[12A]
Sunday 28 March / 8pm
Shutter Island
[15]
Sunday 04 April / 8pm
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo [18] Sunday 11 April / 8pm
Green Zone
[15]
Helping you to create unique, inclusive, honest and appropriate ceremonies. Full undertaking service, cremations, woodland burials, church services We also offer ethically invested, pre-payment funeral plans.
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Sunday 18 April / 8pm
I am Love
Covering Devon and Cornwall [PG]
Sunday 25 April / 8pm
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Movie Meal Deals must be booked by 5pm on the Friday preceding the screening.
Café Deal Buy a ticket for our Thursday matinées and get a pre- or postfilm cake and hot drink in the Roundhouse for £2.50 28
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winter warmer special
Relax and enjoy our winter warmer special available between 6pm-7pm, Monday - Thurday. The perfect treat for a night at the movies.
The bar is open from: 10am (coffee) - 11pm Monday-Sunday Food is served every day: 12 - 2pm and 6 - 9pm
Two course set dinner - just ÂŁ10.95
Offer ends 31st March 2010
Tel: 01803 847111 bookings@dartingtonhall.com www.dartingtonhall.com
Certification U Suitable for audiences of all ages PG Parental Guidance suggested 12A May be unsuitable for children under 12. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult 12 Exhibition to only those aged 12 and over 15 Exhibition to only those aged 15 and over 18 Exhibition to only those aged 18 and over
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In Person The Barn box office is open: Monday - Friday 12:30-7:00pm; Saturday & Sunday 1:00 - 7:00pm. As well as the above opening hours the box office is also open one hour prior to any scheduled event for ticket collection and purchase but not for advance booking. The Totnes Bookshop box office is open Monday to Saturday 9.30am to 5pm. Online 24 hrs a day you can visit our website and book cinema tickets via secure email. Upon receipt of your booking form the box office will process your tickets and reply by email. www.dartington.org/arts for details By Post Please send your order with a cheque made payable to The Dartington Hall Trust or credit / debit card details to the Box office, The Barn, Dartington Hall, Totnes, TQ9 6DE. If you wish the tickets to be sent to you, please enclose an SAE. By Phone To book by phone please call 01803 847070 during the opening hours given above excluding the one hour prior to a film. Please have your credit card details ready. When the box office is closed there will be an announcement with programme information and ticket availability. We accept most credit cards. Reservations Please note that all reserved tickets must be paid for prior to the day of the event. We reserve the right to release any tickets that have not been paid for by the day of the event. Concessions Arts Society members; over 60s; full time students; young people; unemployment benefit; DHT Employees. Please provide proof of eligibility at time of purchase or at time of collection. Returns We are normally unable to offer refunds or exchanges.
Tickets now available at Totnes Bookshop
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Access for Patrons with Disabilities Dartington Arts venues
Craft Education at Dartington
Wheelchair access is available at The Barn, Great Hall, Studio 1, Studio 3 and Studio 31. Accessible toilet facilities are adjacent to all the above venues. For patrons who have a hearing impairment, The Barn and Great Hall offer an infra-red system. Please ask the Front of House manager for further assistance on arrival. Assistance dogs are welcome. Please inform box office staff when booking your ticket Please phone in advance for advice on access and any assistance needed. Our staff will be pleased to help you. Please ask for our leaflet on facilities for disabled patrons.
Large print brochure available. Please telephone 01803 847074 www.dartington.org/arts
Book-binding & Print-making Dartington is home to specialist craft makers and sculptors, two of whom run book-binding and print-making classes throughout the year, open to all levels of experience from beginners to experienced artists. Held by Mary Bartlett (book-binding) and Michael Honnor (print-making), the workshops boast unique collections of expertise and equipment and are among the best in the South West. If you would like more info or to sign up for either course please leave a message with the main Dartington reception on 01803 847000.
Exhibition: A History of Bookbinding at Dartington Hall 1935-2010 25 February - 25 April / DCA (UCF) library A free exhibition to mark the release of “Inky Rags�, a history of letterpressing & bookbinding on the Dartington estate from 1935 - 2010, authored by Mary Bartlett.
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The Roundhouse Café is now open to serve audiences and visitors to Dartington Hall. The café features organic and local produce including cakes, Luscombe Farm juices, a selection of organic teas, coffee, beer and wine, plus superb Salcombe ice-cream. We hope you will enjoy this non-smoking, family-friendly space when you visit Dartington Hall.
café:bar OPENING HOURS mon-sun
12:00 - 20:00
SPECIAL OFFER Buy a ticket for Thursday matinées and get a pre- or post-film cake & hot drink for just £2.50