Barn Cinema Guide, Jan-Feb 2010

Barn Cinema Film Guide January-February 2010

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

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Barn Cinema Film Guide JanuaryFebruary 2010

It’s not every January that the field for the big awards looks so open. Nobody is really sure who the forerunners are going to be in any of the Academy Award’s main categories. Can Daniel Day Lewis really sing? Is The Road just too dark, can a comedy like Up in The Air be taken seriously as a contender, does Clint Eastwood really know enough about the physical politics of Springbok rugby?

All I can guarantee is that they are all worth watching but none of them will provide the same visceral intensity of Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet, a harrowing, exhilarating journey through the brutal hierarchy of prison life.

Finally a word for our film archive/ music/ dance event in February. An unforgettable one off opportunity to see an original work that links Dartington’s past, present and future.

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A Serious Man

[15]

Monday 4 January / 8pm Tuesday 5 & Wednesday 6 January / 5pm Thursday 7 January / 2pm & 8pm Director Joel & Ethan Cohen Cast Michael Stuhlberg, Sari Wagner Lennick USA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 45m How do you follow up an Oscar winning literary adaptation and a star-studded screwball parody thriller? Well if you’re the Cohens you go back to your mid-western Jewish roots to play on the stereotypes that you know and love. We enter the late 1960s and the resoundingly normal world of Larry Gopnik, a good husband and father, and a conscientious professor at a small university, whose life falls apart for no reason he can fathom.

Just how you remain a righteous man under such circumstances is classic Cohen territory.

The Informant

[15]

Monday 4 January / 5pm Tuesday 5 & Wednesday 6 January / 8pm Thursday 7 January / 5pm Director Steven Soderbergh Cast Matt Damon, Clancy Brown USA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 48m Steven Soderbergh directs a bespectacled and very funny Matt Damon in the story of the highestranking corporate whistle-blower in American history. Damon plays Marc Whitacre, a succesful manager at agri-industry giant ADM who offers to go undercover for the FBI to expose an international price fixing scam. Unfortunately his view of himself as the common man’s James Bond is somewhat compromised by his inability to separate out fact from fantasy. High quality and extremely classy entertainment from a team at the top of their game.

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Glorious 39

[12A]

Friday 8 January / 8pm Saturday 9 January / 5pm & 8pm Sunday 10 January / 8pm Director Stephen Poliakoff Cast Romala Garai, Bill Nighy, David Tennant UK 2009 / Colour / 2hr 9m This tense psychological thriller is set between present day London and the idyllic British country side 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. As close friends die in suspicious circumstances, she finds herself in extreme danger and realises she has been betrayed. Boasts a stellar cast but it’s Bill Nighy who walks away with the acting honours.

Where The Wild Things Are + Dartington

see p.28 for more info

[PG]

Archive film Children (4m)

Friday 8 & Mon 11 - Wed 13 January / 5pm Sunday 10 January / 3pm Thursday 14 January / 2pm Director Spike Jonze Cast Max Records, Catherine Keener USA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 41m Spike Jonze achieves the almost impossible task of taking the nine sentences of Maurice Sendak's famous 1963 children's book and expanding them into a $80 million fantasy while retaining Sendak’s integrity of vision. A boy gets into an argument with his mum and flees first to his room, then to his imagination where he travels to the land of Wild Things to work through his discontent. Magic.

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The Sea Wall

[12A]

Monday 11 & Tuesday 12 January / 8pm Director Rithy Panh Cast Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel Fr/Cam/Bel 2009 / Colour / Subtitles / 1hr 55m Rithy Panh's period epic set in the rich landscape of French colonial Indochina is a highly successful adaptation of Marguerite Duras' acclaimed novel Un Barrage Contre le Pacifique that features another leading performance by the hardest working - and quite possibly finest - actress anywhere, Isabelle Huppert. Deceived into investing all of her savings in worthless, regularly flooded farmland perilously close to the ocean, The Sea Wall tells of a mother’s battle against both the colonial bureaucrats and nature itself, enlisting the help of the local villagers in building a dam against the sea to save their community.

The Men Who Stare at Goats

[15]

Wednesday 13 January / 8pm Thursday 14 January / 8pm Director Grant Heslov Cast George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey USA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 33m Inspired by Jon Ronson's non-fiction bestseller about the bizarre activities of a secret unit in the US military, this eye-opening comedy centres on reporter Bob Wilton who stumbles across a Special Forces operator on a mind-boggling mission in Iraq.

A former psychic soldier, part of a squad of 'warrior monks', he is on a mission to track down his former new-age commander Bill Django (Jeff Bridges in Lebowski mode) who has gone missing in action.

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Animate Earth

[no cert]

Thursday 14 January / 5pm Private preview* Thursday 18 February / 8.15pm Public performance** Director Clive Ardagh Documentary UK 2009 / Colour / 60m How might a more holistic scientific process broaden our perception of the natural world and inform subsequent understanding, resulting in a deep reconnection with the Earth? Based on the book Animate Earth by ecologist Stephan Harding, the film looks at Earth's functioning as a self-regulating, living being and our inherent human, spiritual, moral and physical connection to that story.

Stephan Harding holds a doctorate in ecology from the University of Oxford and is Co-ordinator of the MSc in Holistic Science at Schumacher College. His book is a brilliant synthesis of Gaian science and forward-looking social theory and argues that we need to establish the right relationship with the planet as a living entity.

Featuring interviews with Satish Kumar, Brian Goodwin and Fritjof Capra. * Private preview with limited free tickets for Arts Society members and Dartington staff only. Please reserve via the box office. ** February’s public screening will be followed by a panel discussion led by Stephan Harding and film maker Clive Ardagh.

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Nowhere Boy [15]

Friday 15 & Saturday 16 January / 8pm Sunday 17 January / 3pm Monday 18 January / 7.30pm Tuesday 19 January / 5pm Wednesday 20 January / 5pm Thursday 21 January / 2pm & 8pm Director Sam Taylor Wood Cast Aaron Johnson, Anne-Marie Duff, Kristen Scott Thomas UK 2009 / Colour / 1hr 35m This feature debut from artist Sam Taylor-Wood is a sensitive and sprightly look at the formative years of one of Britain's cultural icons. Liverpool, 1955, and 15-year-old John Lennon is a teenager hungry for experience. Since the age of five he has been brought up by his Aunt Mimi, who seems to be the epitome of respectability.

John is a bit of a rebel though and when he meets his mother Julia he forms an instant bond with her. Mimi likes to listen to Tchaikovsky, but Julia prefers Screamin' Jay Hawkins and after she takes John to see an Elvis film at the local cinema, he's a convert to the world of rock'n'roll. He's bewitched by Julia, and she by him, but their reconnection provokes a great deal of friction between the two women, with John caught in the middle. Yearning for a less troubled life, he escapes into music, starting a band with a group of friends and finding a kindred spirit when he meets Paul McCartney.

Just as he begins his new life further tragedy strikes, but by then he's found his voice‌

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Seraphine

[PG]

Fri 15, Sat 16 & Mon 18 January / 5pm Sunday 17 & Tuesday 19 January / 8pm Director Martin Provost Cast Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tuker France 2009 / Colour / Subtitles / 2hr 6m Winner of seven awards including Best Film and Best Actress at France’s César awards, this utterly beguiling biopic tells the truly outsider story of the village misfit with the artistic gifts of a Van Gogh.

The vibrantly expressive paintings of Séraphine de Senlis were championed by German art critic Wilhelm Uhde for whom she worked as a cleaner. Yolande Moreau’s remarkable central performance suggests the limitless mystery of human possibility which for de Senlis meant celebrating the natural world that surrounded her through her painting - using a gift she believed was given directly to her from God. Truly a celluloid epiphany.

The First Day of the Rest of your Life

see p.28 for more info

[15]

Wednesday 20 January / 8pm Thursday 21 January / 5pm Director Rémi Bezançon Cast Jacques Gamblin, Zabou Breitman France 2009 / Colour / Subtitles / 1hr 54m The classic French family drama gets a modern reboot in this unstoppably entertaining saga of life, love and death. Director Rémi Bezançon’s smart script selects one key day in the past for each member of a typical household, building up a picture of what makes them tick and drives them mad, as both individuals and a unit. Five days that are more important then any others and after which nothing will ever be the same again. A flawlessly acted and hugely entertaining work.

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It’s Complicated

[tbc]

Fri 22, Sat 23 & Tue 26 January / 5pm Sunday 24 & Wednesday 27 January / 8pm Monday 25 January / 7pm Thursday 28 January / 2pm & 5pm Director Nancy Myers Cast Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin USA 2009 / Colour / tbc Jane is the mother of three grown kids, owns a thriving bakery and has - after a decade of divorce - an amicable relationship with her ex-husband, attorney Jake. When they attend their son’s college graduation things take a strange turn when they find themselves having an affair (Jake now cheating on his new, younger wife). It gets further complicated when Jane’s architect starts to fall for her as well. Now Jane finds herself the centre of a love triangle with a big decision to make.

Departures

[12A]

Friday 22 January / 8pm Saturday 23 January / 8pm Sunday 24 January / 3pm Director Yôjirô Takita Cast Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomi Yamazaki Japan 2008 / Colour / Subtitles / 2hr 10m A winner at last year’s Oscars, Departures is a delightful and sensitive journey into the heartland of Japan and an astonishingly beautiful look at a sacred part of Japan's culture. When his Tokyo orchestra disbands, Daigo moves back home where he accidently finds himself in the ‘departure’ trade - the ceremonial preparation of corpses prior to cremation. Overcoming his initial trepidation he comes to develop a deep respect for his new role.

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Machan

[15]

Tuesday 26 January / 8pm Wednesday 27 January / 5pm Director Uberto Pasolini Cast Dhamapriya Dias, Gihan De Chickera Sri Lanka/It/Ger 2009 / Colour / 1hr 49m A well told tale with huge underdog charm Machan is based on the bizarre true story of how a motley but ingenious group of friends from Sri Lanka took up an invitation to an international handball tournament in Bavaria in order to get travel visas. The only problem is that no-one in Sri Lanka has ever heard of handball. Directed by the producer of The Full Monty, this displays the same twinkly crowd pleasing wit whilst providing a surprisingly direct indictment of global immigration policy.

Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno

[15]

Thursday 28 January / 8pm Director Serge Blomberg & Ruxanna Medrea Documentary Cast Romy Schneider France 2009 / Colour / Subtitles / 1hr 40m Please note strobe lighting effects in this film.

Before his untimely death, legendary French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (The Wages of Fear) started work on a much-cherished project, Inferno, that was intended to take the visual and psychological language of film in unprecedented directions. What remains is a dazzling evocation of one of the great lost films and a sobering account of what can happen when a visionary project flies too close to the sun.

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Nine

[15]

Friday 29 & Saturday 30 January / 5pm Sunday 31 January / 5pm & 8pm Monday 1 & Tuesday 2 February / 5pm Wednesday 3 February / 8pm Thursday 4 February / 2pm & 8pm Director Rob Marshall Cast Daniel Day Lewis, Judi Dench USA 2009 / Colour / tbc

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Based on the multi-award winning 1982 Broadway musical, Nine is the musical re-telling of Federico Fellini's semiautobiographical 8 and a half. It tells the story of Guido Contini, a world famous film director, as he confronts an epic mid-life crisis while balancing the many women of his life, including his wife (Marion Cotillard), his mistress (Penelope Cruz), his film star muse (Nicole Kidman), his confidant/costume designer (Judi Dench), an American fashion journalist (Kate Hudson), the whore from his youth (Fergie) and his mother (Sophia Loren).

The Road

[18]

Friday 29 & Saturday 30 January / 8pm Sunday 31 January / 2pm Monday 1 & Tuesday 2 February / 8pm Wednesday 3 February / 5pm Thursday 4 February / 5pm Director John Hillcoat Cast Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce USA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 51m

Not only a brilliantly directed and largely faithful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Road is also an unforgettable piece of film-making in its own right.

An unnamed man and his young son travel alone through a post-apocalyptic landscape, ravaged by an unspecified catastrophe. Ash and soot hang in the air, it is cold enough to crack stones and when the snow falls it is grey. The sky is dark, the cities abandoned and empty, the roads littered with corpses, the countryside deserted save for marauding gangs eating human flesh to survive. Man and boy head towards the coast, not knowing if anything awaits them there, trying to keep alive the idea of goodness and civilisation in a world where survival is a daily struggle.

This is a frighteningly convincing view of a possible future that takes us to places we don't want to go, and director John Hillcoat (The Proposition) and his collaborators are meticulous in creating its visceral beauty and horror. It's hard to imagine any actor other than Mortensen bringing the required intensity and youngster Kodi Smit-McPhee is accomplished beyond his years.

As the world around them is dying, what endures is the love between father and son, and a final, tender affirmation of hope.

London Film Festival

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Up in the Air

[15]

Friday 5 February / 5pm Saturday 6 & Sunday 7 February / 8pm Monday 8 February / 7.30pm Tuesday 9 February / 5pm Wednesday 10 February / 8pm Thursday 11 February / 2pm & 8pm Director Jason Reitman Cast George Clooney, Vera Farmiga USA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 44m Given hugely added significance by the rising tide of lay-offs across the globe, Jason Reitman’s follow up to the splendid Juno features George Clooney at his smooth, sardonic best as Ryan Bingham, a management consultant specialising in the field of firing people for companies that are downsizing.

His work takes him around the country, helping him pursue his private goal of accumulating ten million miles in his frequent flyer account and with it entry to an elite club. Faced by a threat posed by Natalie, a new recruit with a plan to introduce video links which would effectively ground Bingham and his colleagues, he talks his way into one last round trip, in which he will show Natalie the ropes and persuade his boss to stick with the status quo. This time he has an added incentive, having just met Alex, the beautiful and sassy frequent-traveller of his dreams. With its sharp script and crisp direction, Up in the Air is a pleasurable story of a supremely self-sufficient (or perhaps plain self-centred) lone-wolf having to re-assess his priorities.

And while Bingham is the film's driving force, Reitman gives his female characters a welcome depth and complexity too.

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Sherlock Holmes

[12A]

Friday 5 February / 8.15pm Saturday 6 February / 5pm Sunday 7 February / 3.30pm Monday 8 February / 5pm Director Guy Ritchie Cast Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law UK 2009 / Colour / 1hr 50m On the pure understanding that Jeremy Brett was the greatest Holmes and that Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce were the finest partnership, we still want to experience Holmes as an action hero. Guy Ritchie has shown enough promise to hint that he can deliver - join us to find out if we’re right.

Still Walking

[U]

Tuesday 9 February / 8pm Wed 10 & Thu 11 February / 5pm Director Kore-eda Hirokazu Cast Abe Hiroshi, Takahashi Kazuya USA 2009 / Colour / Subtitles / 1hr 50m Already drawing comparisons to the great classics of Ozu and Mizoguchi, Still Walking, Kore-eda's great new film is what the Japanese call a "home drama". It chronicles a 24-hour reunion of the Yokoyama family; the two adult children and their families are visiting their elderly parents to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the death of their elder brother, who died rescuing a drowning boy. There are no 'dramatic' incidents and the tone is generally light and humorous. But during the day and night we see all that unites and divides this particular family - and makes it just like any other. Simple and stunning in equal measure.

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DIARY

January

04 Monday 04 Monday 05 Tue & Wed 06 05 Tue & Wed 06 07 Thursday 07 Thursday 08 Friday 08 Friday 09 Saturday 09 Saturday 10 Sunday 10 Sunday 11 Mon-Wed 13 11 Mon & Tue 12 13 Wed & Thu 14 14 Thursday 15 Fri & Sat 16 15 Fri & Sat 16 17 Sunday 17 Sunday 18 Monday 18 Monday 19 Tuesday 19 Tuesday 20 Wednesday 20 Wednesday 21 Thursday 21 Thursday 22 Friday 22 Friday 23 Saturday 23 Saturday 23 Saturday 24 Sunday 24 Sunday 25 Monday 26 Tuesday 26 Tuesday 27 Wednesday 27 Wednesday 28 Thursday 28 Thursday 29 Friday 29 Friday 30 Saturday 30 Saturday 30 Saturday 31 Sunday 31 Sunday

FILM / CERTIFICATE

THE INFORMANT / 15 A SERIOUS MAN / 15 A SERIOUS MAN / 15 THE INFORMANT / 15 A SERIOUS MAN / 15 THE INFORMANT / 15 WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE / PG GLORIOUS 39 / 12A WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE / PG* GLORIOUS 39 / 12A WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE / PG GLORIOUS 39 / 12A WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE / PG THE SEA WALL/ 12A MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS / 15 WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE / 12 SERAPHINE / PG NOWHERE BOY / 15 NOWHERE BOY / 15 SERAPHINE / PG SERAPHINE / PG NOWHERE BOY / 15 NOWHERE BOY / 15 SERAPHINE / 12A NOWHERE BOY / 15 THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE / 15 NOWHERE BOY / 15 THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE / 15 IT’S COMPLICATED / tbc DEPARTURES / 12A THE FOX & THE CHILD / U* IT’S COMPLICATED / tbc DEPARTURES / 12A DEPARTURES / 12A IT’S COMPLICATED / tbc IT’S COMPLICATED / tbc IT’S COMPLICATED / tbc MACHAN / 15 MACHAN / 15 IT’S COMPLICATED / tbc IT’S COMPLICATED / tbc HENRI GEORGE CLOUZOU’S INFERNO / 15 NINE / 15 THE ROAD / 18 CORALINE / PG* NINE / 15 THE ROAD / 18 THE ROAD / 18 NINE / 15

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FILM / CERTIFICATE

01 01 03 03 04 04 05 05 06 06 06 07 08 08 09 09 10 10 11 12 13 13 14 15 15 16 16 16 18 18 19 19 20 20 20 21 21 22 22 23 23 25 25 26 26 27 27 27 28 28

NINE / 15 THE ROAD / 18 THE ROAD / 18 NINE / 15 NINE / 15 THE ROAD / 18 UP IN THE AIR / 15 SHERLOCK HOLMES / 12A PLANET 51 / U* SHERLOCK HOLMES / 12A UP IN THE AIR / 15 SHERLOCK HOLMES / 12A SHERLOCK HOLMES / 12A UP IN THE AIR / 15 UP IN THE AIR / 15 STILL WALKING / U STILL WALKING / U UP IN THE AIR / 15 UP IN THE AIR / 15 BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S / PG BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S / PG SPELLBOUND / PG BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S / PG SHOWCASE inc. DANSE MACABRE / no cert BRITISH ANIMATION AWARDS / 15 HOODWINKED TOO! / PG BRITISH ANIMATION AWARDS / 15 TULPAN / 12A THE SEARCH FOR SHANGRI-LA ANIMATE EARTH THE LOVELY BONES / 12A A PROPHET / 18 HOODWINKED TOO / PG* THE LOVELY BONES / 12A A PROPHET / 18 A PROPHET / 18 THE LOVELY BONES / 12A A PROPHET / 18 THE LOVELY BONES / 12A THE LOVELY BONES / 12A A PROPHET / 18 THE LOVELY BONES / 12A A PROPHET / 18 THE BOYS ARE BACK / 15 INVICTUS / TBC ENCHANTED/ PG* THE BOYS ARE BACK / 15 INVICTUS / tbc INVICTUS / tbc THE BOYS ARE BACK / 15

Mon & Tue 02 Mon & Tue 02 Wednesday Wednesday Thursday Thursday Friday Friday Saturday Saturday Sat & Sun 07 Sunday Monday Monday Tuesday Tuesday Wed & Thu 11 Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Saturday Sunday Monday Monday Tue - Mon 22 Tue & Wed 17 Tue & Wed 17 Thursday Thursday Friday Friday Saturday Saturday Saturday Sunday Sunday Monday Monday Tue & Wed 24 Tue & Wed 24 Thursday Thursday Friday Friday Saturday Saturday Saturday Sunday Sunday

*Young People’s Films

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For Saturday 2pm young people’s matinées please see p. 26-27

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s Friday 12 February / 5pm & 8pm Saturday 13 February / 5pm Sunday 14 February / 3pm & 8pm Director Blake Edwards Cast Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard USA 1961 / Colour / 1hr 55m A Valentine's film studded with sparkling moments, Breakfast at Tiffany’s tells the story of two bohemians falling in love against a Manhattan backdrop. When aspiring writer Paul Varjak moves into his new apartment, he is both intrigued by and drawn to his unconventional neighbour Holly Golightly. A Givenchy-clad free spirit, Holly is a party girl whose intensely stylish façade masks an inner despair and a hidden past. Henry Mancini provides the musical score, with the Oscar-winning ballad ‘Moon River’ underscoring a sublimely romantic climax.

Tulpan

[12A]

Tuesday 16 & Wednesday 17 February / 8pm Director Sergei Dvortsevoy Cast Askhat Kuchinchirekov, Tulepbergen Baisakalov, Samal Yeslyamova Ger/Kaz 2008 / Colour / Subtitles / 1hr 40m Covering much of the nomadic lifestyles that made Story of the Weeping Camel such a hit, Tulpan comes festooned with awards from film festivals the world over, including Cannes. This is a simple story of the adorably dim ex-sailor whose bid to woo a local beauty is constantly stymied by his blundering manner and an absence of farming prowess. His travails allow us ample time to examine the fabric of this remote society, as questions about its sustainability, practicality and principles are all raised.

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[PG] see p.28 for more info

“Among the year’s most endearing cinematic experiences”. Time Out

The British Animation Awards: Public choice screenings [15] Monday 15 February / 8pm Tuesday 16 & Wednesday 17 February / 5pm Director Various UK 2009 / B&W and Colour / 1hr 30m approx Your chance to vote for winners in the British Animation Awards. BAA 2010 invites the audience to vote for their winners in three categories, by viewing then using voting forms supplied at the screenings. Each programme contains a mix of short films, animated commercials and music videos, drawn from entries to BAA 2010, including several international festival award winners.

Joint ticket offer: £10, £8 (concs), £7.50 (stu) for all three programmes when bought in advance.

Ex-Animation [ ] U

Saturday 20 February / 1pm Director Various UK 2009 / B&W/Colour / 1hr

FREE SCREENING: a chance to see a selection of the best animation made by unders 18s in the South West.

Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs Evil [ ] PG

Tuesday 16 - Monday 22 February / 2pm Director Mike Disa Voice Cast Bill Murray, Hayden Panettiere USA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 21m Following on from the very clever Hoodwinked, Hood Vs Evil finds our heroine Little Red Riding Hood in training for entry to the group of Sister Hoods. A teenage Red and the Wolf are called back into action by Nick Flippers the head of the Happily Ever After Agency to investigate the disappearance of Hansel and Gretel.

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Music, Dance & Film Spellbound

[PG]

Saturday 13 February / 8pm Directors Alfred Hitchcock Cast Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov USA 1945 / B&W / 1hr 51m + intro Miklós Rózsa stunning soundtrack is tonight’s focus for Hitchcock’s classic film screening.

The first film to explore psychoanalysis, its simple

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love story is complicated by stellar dream sequences designed by Salvador Dali, making this a feast for the eyes and the ears.

With Dartington’s own Michael Chekhov in an Oscar nominated role, the screening will feature a 20 minute introduction by course leader and composer Miguel Mera on the power and importance of music in film.

with South West Music School & Youth Dance Academy

Showcase including Danse Macabre (re-imagined) Monday 15 February / 4.30pm & 6pm South West Music School and Youth Dance Academy students are at Dartington throughout the weekend preceding this event to develop their skills in devising music and dance for film. During that time they will have created original works for

short films including newly digitised silent footage from the Dartington archive featuring, among others, a film performance of Ballets Jooss’ 1935 Danse Macabre. A hugely successful event last year, this performance (at 4.30pm, repeated at 6pm) sees the students performing their works live alongside the selected footage.

This innovative SWMS project enables the artists supported by Dartington in the 1930s to inspire the emerging artists we support today.

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The Search for Shangri-La [no cert]

Thursday 18 February / 5pm Directors Various Archive Documentary B&W/Colour / 1hr 30m The opportunity to visit a hidden world has always fascinated travellers and explorers. This selection of films from the BFI National Archive reveals extraordinary images taken in Tibet from 1922 1950. The first film was taken during the 1922 attempt to climb Mount Everest. Subsequently British political officers undertook diplomatic missions - one such visit witnessed the Installation of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama in Lhasa. Home movie cameras recorded ceremonial events, landscapes, flora and fauna. Collectively they are a poignant testimony and a vital record of that lost world.

The Lovely Bones

[12A]

Friday 19 & Saturday 20 February / 5pm Sunday 21 & Monday 22 February / 8.15pm Tuesday & Wednesday 24 February / 5pm Thursday 25 February / 2pm & 8.15pm Director Peter Jackson Cast Saoirse Ronan, Susan Sarandon, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci USA/UK/NZ 2009 / Colour / 2hr 19m 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 who is murdered by a neighbour in a field near her suburban home. From a vantage point somewhere between heaven and earth, Susie watches her family and friends, seeking the closure that will allow her to depart this earth completely.

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see p.28 for more info

A Prophet

[18]

Friday 19 & Saturday 20 February / 8pm Sunday 21 February / 5pm Monday 22 February / 5pm Tuesday 23 & Wednesday 24 February / 8pm Thursday 25 February / 5pm Director Jacques Audiard Cast Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup France 2009 / Colour / Subtitles / 2hr 30m The winner of best film awards at both Cannes and London film festivals A Prophet may well be both the toughest and most rewarding film you see this year. A visceral tale that plays as a cross between a contemporary Shawshank Redemption and a prison set The Godfather, Jacques Audiard’s enthralling crime drama is so real that at the end it’s hard to remember the scenes of stunning imagination that allow you to see inside the troubled soul of its hero.

When Malik, a young French Arab, finds himself in prison with no friends or allies, he goes out of his way to be useful to the dominant Corsican gang and its leader Cesar Luciani.

After a gruelling rites-of-passage murder, that literally haunts him from that moment on, Malik builds by slow degrees a power base of his own.

Jacques Audiard's vice-like grip on characterdriven action cinema rips by in fingernail-biting anticipation of Malik's brutally authentic travails.

His irrepressible nature is brilliantly incarnated

by Tahar Rahim, whose impact is equally matched by Audiard regular Niels Arestrup as the Corsican boss.

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Invictus

[tbc]

Friday 26 & Saturday 27 February / 8pm Sunday 28 February / 3pm Monday 1 - Wednesday 3 March / 5pm Thursday 4 March / 2pm & 8pm Director Clint Eastwood Cast Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman USA 2009 / Colour / 2hr 14m Clint Eastwood reunites with his Million Dollar Baby co-star Morgan Freeman to tell one of the most inspiring stories of our generation.

Morgan Freeman is stunning as the newly elected President Mandela who knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match. To take to the field in Johannesburg in a Springbok shirt was perhaps the riskiest and most astute political decision Mandela could have made, a simple act that both understood and under-mined Afrikaaner hostility and saved his country from tearing apart.

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The Boys are Back

[12A]

Friday 26 & Saturday 27 February / 5pm Sunday 28 February / 8pm Monday 1 March / 8pm Director Scott Hicks Voice Cast Clive Owen, Laura Fraser UK/Australia 2009 / Colour / 1hr 45m Based on Simon Carr's memoir, The Boys are Back is a funny, anarchic and, above all, moving confessional drama about modern family life – complicated, fractured but with great possibilities for love and joy.

Clive Owen is Joe Warr, a wisecracking sportswriter whose beloved wife dies suddenly, leaving him to bring up their 6-year-old son Artie alone. Struggling with his own loss, he has to face the daily challenges of single parenthood while trying to cope with Artie's grief. Cue Harry, Joe's teenage son from his first marriage, who brings his own baggage into the mix.

Brothers

see p.28 for more info

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Tuesday 2 & Wednesday 3 March / 8pm Thursday 4 March / 5pm Director Jim Sheridan Cast Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhall, Tobey Maguire USA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 44m Based on the lauded Danish film that dealt sensitively with the post traumatic stress of a UN soldier’s homecoming, this star studded US version shifts the action to Iraq but holds the same storyline. Small time loser Jake Gyllenhall fills the physical and emotional gap left in his Marine brother’s family when he is shot down in Iraq and presumed dead. Natalie Portman as the grieving wife and mother of two comes both to depend on and care for this new support until sudden news changes all their relationships.

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Young People’s Films Where The Wild Things Are

Coraline

[PG]

Saturday 9 January / 2pm Director Spike Jonze Cast Max Records, Catherine Keener USA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 41m Spike Jonze achieves the almost impossible task of taking the nine sentences of Maurice Sendak's famous 1963 children's book and expanding them into an $80 million fantasy whilst retaining Sendak’s integrity of vision.

The Fox & Child

[U]

Saturday 23 January / 2pm Director Luc Jacquet Voice Cast Bertille Noël-Bruneau France 2009 / Colour / 1hr 32m Narrated by Kate Winslet this is a beautifully shot tale of the relationship that a young girl builds up with a wild fox through a summer in the French alps.

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[PG]

Saturday 30 January / 2pm Director Henry Selick Voice Cast Dakota Fanning, Teri hatcher USA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 36m Neil Gaiman’s wonderful story comes brilliantly to life in this stop-motion tale of a young girl’s desire to connect with her busy parents.

For all young people’s matinÊes, all adults must be accompanied by a child

Planet 51

[U]

Saturday 6 February / 2pm Directors Jorge Blanco, Javier Abad Marcos Martinez Voice cast Dwayne Johnson, John Cleese Spain/UK/USA / 2009 / Colour / 1hr 31m American astronaut Captain Charles "Chuck" Baker lands on Planet 51 thinking he's the first person to step foot on it. To his surprise, he finds that this planet is inhabited by little green people who are happily living in a white picket fence world and whose only fear is that it will be overrun by alien invaders... like Chuck!

Hoodwinked Too

[PG]

Saturday 20 February / 2pm Director Mike Disa Voice Cast Bill Murray, Hayden Panettiere USA 2009 / Colour / 1hr 21m Following on from the very clever Hoodwinked, Hood Vs Evil finds our heroine Little Red Riding Hood in training for entry to the group of Sister Hoods. A teenage Red and the Wolf are called back into action by Nick Flippers the head of the Happily Ever After Agency to investigate the disappearance of Hansel and Gretel.

Enchanted

[PG]

Saturday 27 February / 2pm Director Kevin Lima Cast Amy Adams, Partick Dempsey USA 2007 / Colour / 1hr 47m A classic Disney fairytale collides with modernday New York City in a story about a fairytale princess who is sent to our world by an evil queen.

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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

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THE GREEN FUNERAL COMPANY Claire and Rupert Callender.

[12A]

Sunday 10 January / 8pm

Seraphine

[PG]

Sunday 17 January / 8pm

It’s Complicated

[ tbc]

Sunday 24 January / 8pm

Nine

Helping you to create unique, inclusive, honest and appropriate ceremonies.

Full undertaking service, cremations, woodland burials, church services

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Sunday 31 January / 8pm

Breakfast at Tiffany’s [PG]

We also offer ethically invested, pre-payment funeral plans.

Sunday 14 February / 8pm Celebrate St. Valentine’s Day with our special three-course Movie Meal Deal. For full details call the box office.

The Lovely Bones

The Good Funeral Guide.

[12]

Sunday 21 February / 8.15pm

The Boys Are Back

[12A]

Sunday 28 February / 8pm 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

Prices £6.50 full price £5.00 all concessions DAS members £4.00 matinée £4.00 students £2.50 young people £2.50 children’s films 30

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

box office 01803 847070

booking details

Access for Patrons with Disabilities Dartington Arts venues

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

Pre-sale Exhibition Sam Haile (1909-1948) Artist & Potter Tue 19 & Wed 20 January 2010 Great Hall / 10.30am - 5.00pm A free exhibition of works by Sam Haile comprising paintings, drawings, etchings, prints and studio pottery from the collection of Marianne Haile, née De Trey.

Sale to take place in Exeter on 28 Jan 2010 www.bhandl.co.uk enquiries@bhandl.co.uk 01392 413100

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

Sam Haile, Reclining Figures oil on canvas, estimate £3,000-£5,000

The Elmhirsts’ Art: Conserving Dartington’s Collection 19 & 20 January / 12pm

The event also offers the opportunity to attend a talk on Dartington’s collection of 20th Century art from the Collection Conservation Strategy Team at Dartington.

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 and coffee for just £2.50