FILM
THE ODYSSEY
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JULY / SEPTEMBER 2017
MAIN FEATURES DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: 29 Jul, 2, 9 & 10 Aug THE LONG HAUL (U) Director: David Bowers. Starring: Jason Drucker, Alicia Silverstone, Tome Everett Scott. USA 2017. 91 mins. Wimpy kid Greg Heffler convinces his parents to take a road trip apparently to their grandmother’s birthday. Really he is intent on attending a video game convention where, he feels sure, international stardom beckons.
THE MIDWIFE (12A)
4, 8-10 Aug
Director: Martin Provost. Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Frot, Olivier Gourmet, Mylène Demongeot. France 2017. 117 mins. French with English subtitles. Martin Provost’s The Midwife brings together two of French cinema’s most beloved stars. The life of a gifted but highly strung midwife (Frot) is jolted when her late father’s free-spirited mistress (Deneuve) resurfaces 30 years after disappearing without trace. Though polar opposites, the two women gradually come to rely on each other to cope with the unusual circumstance that brings them together.
Contains infrequent brief nudity and surgical detail.
THE BEGUILED (15)
11, 12, 15 & 16 Aug
Director: Sofia Coppola. Starring: Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning. USA 2017. 94 mins. Academy Award-winner Sofia Coppola's latest is a seductive drama with an all-star cast. A new adaptation of Thomas P. Cullinan’s Southern Gothic novel, A Painted Devil, the story unfolds at an all-girls boarding school in rural Virginia during the American Civil War. When the headmistress (Kidman) agrees to provide temporary refuge for a wounded Union soldier (Farrell), his sudden presence stirs up sexual tensions in the remote mansion. As each of the women falls for his charms, their tight-knit sisterhood buckles under the weight of deceit and jealousy, and taboos are broken in a dark and unexpected turn of events.
DESPICABLE ME 3 (U)
12, 16, 19 & 23 Aug
Directors: Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin, Eric Guillon. Voices: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Trey Parker. USA 2017. 90 mins. One-time dastardly supervillain Felonious Gru (Carell) seems to have hung up his ‘evil’ cape for good. Having settled in the ‘burbs with his feisty super agent wife (Wiig) and three adorable, unicorn-loving, adopted daughters, he’s now out actively to fight crime, not cause it. Until, that is, a long lost, enviably hirsute twin brother pops out of the woodwork to tempt him back to the dark side…
01202 280000 DUNKIRK (12A)
18, 19, 22-24 Aug
Director: Christopher Nolan. Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Harry Styles, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy. Netherlands/ UK/France/USA 2017. 106 mins. The mass evacuation of more than 330,000 Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in May 1940 was one of the most dramatic and pivotal episodes of the Second World War. In his latest feature, director Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, The Dark Knight trilogy) plunges viewers into the thick of it with what he describes as “the most visceral experiential two hours that audiences can hope for”. Told from three points of view – land, sea and air – Dunkirk unfolds with a palpable sense of dread and tension, evoking the very human and immediate desire to survive. With cinematography by Hoyte van Hoytema (Interstellar), a score from Hans Zimmer, and an all-star supporting cast that includes Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy and Mark Rylance, this is the must-see spectacle of the summer.
Contains sustained threat, intense sequences, moderate violence and strong language.
MAUDIE (12A)
25, 26, 29-31 Aug
Director: Aisling Walsh. Starring: Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Kari Matchett. Ireland/Canada 2016. 116 mins. Impoverished and disabled with chronic arthritis, watercolourist Maud lives with her mean-spirited spinster aunt in Nova Scotia. When she accepts a job as a housekeeper for Everett, a gruff fishmonger whose home is a tiny, one-room shack, she seems to escape one set of fetters for another. However, despite Everett’s surly selfishness, Maud perversely finds him attractive and inspiring, and he allows her to do her own painting when she’s through with the housework. With echoes of My Left Foot’s triumph over impairment and her role in Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky, Hawkins brings perky optimism to a character who eventually blossoms after one of her almost child-like paintings is bought by a Manhattan socialite and her relationship with Everett becomes infused with a strange tendresse. A small, beautifully realised delight.
Contains infrequent moderate violence and sex.
CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS: THE FIRST EPIC MOVIE (U)
26 & 29 Aug
Director: David Soren. Voices: Ed Helms, Kevin Hart, Thomas Middleditch. USA 2017. 89 mins.
Imaginative elementary-school pranksters George and Harold spend hours chronicling the exploits of their unlikely superhero, Captain Underpants, in their homemade comic books. However, when their stern headmaster intervenes, they accidentally hypnotise him into thinking that he is the caped tighty-whitey crusader.
www.lighthousepoole.co.uk FINAL PORTRAIT (15)
1, 2, 5-7 Sep
Director: Stanley Tucci. Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Clémence Poésy. USA/UK 2017. 90 mins. Stanley Tucci sketches the frustrations of creative genius with a fascinating and witty glimpse into the workshop and personality of Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti (Rush). In Paris in 1964, Giacometti invites an old friend, American writer and art-lover James Lord (Hammer), to sit for a portrait. But what Lord expects to last half a day drags on for weeks as the painter doubts his own talent and wrestles with his artistic whims.
ENGLAND IS MINE (15)
1, 2, 5 & 6 Sep
Director: Mark Gill. Starring: Jack Lowden, Jessica Brown Findlay. UK 2017. 94 mins. Steven Patrick Morrissey (Lowden) wants to write and sing. But as a young man, his voice goes no further than the NME letters page and his dead-end office walls. When the punk scene explodes, he discovers there’s more to life than dark satanic mills. England Is Mine is an evocative portrait of Morrissey, singer-songwriter and former frontman of The Smiths, chronicling his troubled adolescence in 1970s Manchester – a time when he was still finding his place in the musical world.
AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER (Cert TBC)
5 & 7 Sep
Directors: Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk. Featuring: Al Gore, Barack Obama, Donald Trump. USA 2017. TBC mins. Ten years after his original An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore remains committed to publicising the perils of climate change and doing something practical about it. The film follows Gore as he travels the globe, his predictions already proving correct with Miami Beach flooding regularly and Hurricane Sandy putting Manhattan’s Ground Zero underwater. Footage of Trump’s efforts to refute the fact of climate change makes for chilling viewing.
THE ODYSSEY (PG)
8, 9, 12-15 & 20 Sep
Director: Jérôme Salle. Starring: Lambert Wilson, Pierre Niney, Audrey Tautou. France 2016. 118 mins. French with English subtitles. In Jérôme Salle’s biopic, Lambert Wilson plays explorer Jacques Cousteau, the French naval captain who made oceanography and environmentalism household words with his 1960s and ’70s TV series. But relationships in the Cousteau family were anything but easy, especially after the favourite son, Philippe (Niney) was killed in a plane crash. Spanning some 30 years, Salle’s film skilfully intersperses accounts of the family dynamics with wonderful underwater sequences.
01202 280000 A GHOST STORY (12A)
8, 9, 12 & 13 Sep
Director: David Lowery. Starring: Casey Affleck. Rooney Mara. USA 2017. 92 mins. The latest film from acclaimed director David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Pete’s Dragon) is a singular exploration of legacy, loss, and the essential human longing for meaning and connection. A white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away. Increasingly unmoored, the ghost embarks on a cosmic journey through memory and history, confronting life’s ineffable questions and the enormity of existence. An audacious, unforgettable meditation on the passage of time, A Ghost Story emerges ecstatic and surreal – a wholly unique experience that lingers long after the credits roll.
Contains infrequent strong language and images of dead bodies.
LAND OF MINE (15)
12 & 14 Sep
Director: Martin Zandvliet. Starring: Roland Møller, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Joel Basman. Denmark/Germany 2015. 101 mins. German/Danish with English subtitles. As the Second World War comes to an end, a group of German POWs, boys rather than men, are captured by the Danish army and forced to engage in a deadly task – clearing land mines from the Danish coastline. With little or no training, the boys soon discover that the war is far from over.
THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM (15) 15, 16, 19-21 Sep Director: Juan Carlos Medina. Starring: Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Sam Reid. UK 2016. 109 mins Set in London’s East End in the late 1800s, The Limehouse Golem follows John Kildare (Nighy), an erudite detective whose career is going nowhere. To make matters worse, he also has a case he can’t crack: a series of murders so brutal the locals believe they could only be the work of a mythical creature. But when rising music hall star Lizzie Cree (Cooke) is accused of murdering her husband, Kildare suspects clearing her name will bring him closer to the truth. Told in flashbacks chronicling Lizzie’s picaresque rise through the seamier habitats of showbiz, this Victorian murder mystery keeps us guessing. With some wonderful cameos from the likes of Eddie Marsan (Their Finest), Douglas Booth (The Riot Club) and fêted Spanish actress Maria Valverde.
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www.lighthousepoole.co.uk DETROIT (Cert TBC)
22, 23, 26 & 28 Sep
Director: Kathryn Bigelow. Starring: John Boyega, Algee Smith, Anthony Mackie. 2017. TBC mins. Never afraid to tackle tendentious subjects, director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal now set their sights on the events of 1967 Detroit which sparked the worst race riots in American history. The action is centred on the Algiers Motel incident which left three black men dead and several more brutally beaten. Freighted with characteristic dramatic intensity, Bigelow’s latest is a timely reminder of the deep divisions in American society.
GOD'S OWN COUNTRY (Cert TBC)
22, 23, 26 & 28 Sep
Director: Francis Lee. Starring: Josh O’Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones, Ian Hart. UK 2017. TBC mins.
Fri 28 Jul
GOING IN STYLE VICEROY'S HOUSE
Sat 29 Jul
LA LA LAND MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
Tue 1 Aug
THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES LION VICTIM (1961)
Wed 2 Aug
ANOTHER MOTHER'S SON MOONLIGHT
Thu 3 Aug
JACKIE
Fri 4 Aug
THEIR FINEST
DID YOU MISS?
The life of a lonely and frustrated young farmer in the north of England is turned upside down by the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker. Set in the heart of rural Yorkshire, this is a bracingly openhearted romantic story marked by stunning lead performances.
LA LA LAND
SPECIAL SCREENINGS BLOCKBUSTERS
Catch some of this year’s hottest big-screen blockbusters at Lighthouse this summer. From superheroes to pirates, the action is guaranteed! 28 Jul & 3 Aug
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2
4 & 10 Aug
WONDER WOMAN
11 & 17 Aug
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: SALAZAR'S REVENGE
18 & 24 Aug & 1 Sep
SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING
25 & 31 Aug
WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES
Tue 1 Aug, 8.15
VICTIM (PG)
To mark the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales. Director: Basil Dearden. Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms. UK 1961. 100 mins. Early ’60s London, and gay men across the city are being blackmailed and threatened with exposure at a time when consensual homosexual acts could result in imprisonment. Basil Dearden’s classic thriller stars Dirk Bogarde in his most daring role – a gay lawyer fighting back against the blackmailers who dare to target him.
Tue 8 Aug, 8.15
RISK (15)
Director: Laura Poitras. Germany/USA 2016. 91 mins. A character study of the complex and volatile Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks. The award-winning director of Citizenfour returns with her most personal film to date, capturing Assange’s story with unprecedented access to her subject. Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle. In a new world order where a single keystroke can alter history, Risk is a portrait of power, betrayal, truth, and sacrifice.
SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING
DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY SCREENINGS
These events are enhanced to suit the needs of people with dementia. Staff are on hand to assist if needed, and we screen the films with the lights up a little and sound turned down a touch. There will be an interval to help ensure your comfort throughout.
Wed 30 Aug
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (U)
Director: Ken Hughes. Starring: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes. UK 1968. 146 mins. Adventures in a marvellous magical car with a nutty old grandpa, a wicked Child Catcher (played by the ballet dancer Robert Helpmann), song and dance, and a couple of scary moments.
Wed 27 Sep
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (U)
Director: Norman Jewison. Starring: Chaim Topol, Norma Crane. USA 1971. 179 mins. A Russian-Jewish peasant searches for good husbands for his three daughters and struggles to preserve tradition in a time of change. A screen adaptation of the sensational stage musical, featuring some great show-stopping numbers.
SPECIAL SCREENINGS ON SCREEN
Encore screenings are the live performances recorded without losing any of their magic and immediacy.
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE
ANGELS IN AMERICA PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES
Encores: Sat 5 & Tue 8 Aug
ANGELS IN AMERICA PART TWO: PERESTROIKA
Encores: Sat 5 & Tue 15 Aug
PETER PAN
Encore: Thu 17 Aug
YERMA
Live: Thu 31 Aug Encores: Tue 19 & Wed 27 Sep Live: Full Price £15 / Members £12 / Concessions £13 Encore: Full Price £13 / Members £10 / Concessions £11
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Live: Wed 9 Aug Encore: Tue 22 Aug
Live: Full Price £15 / Members £12 / Concessions £13 Encore: Full Price £13 / Members £10 / Concessions £11 For details of the full season of live screenings, see our website: www.lighthousepoole.co.uk
PETER PAN
JACQUES TATI WEEKEND
A season of films from acclaimed French filmmaker Jacques Tati, beginning with the winner of the 1958 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, My Uncle.
Sat 2 Sep, 3.15
MY UNCLE (U)
Monsieur Hulot’s visit to the technology-driven Bauhausy bungalow of his in-laws results in frequently hilarious attempts to come to terms with his new surroundings. Tati’s first film in colour. 116 mins.
Sun 3 Sep, 12.15
Sun 3 Sep, 2.30
Monsieur Hulot’s first adventure is spent on holiday by the seaside. With elaborate visual gags, enhanced by expressive manipulation of sound, Tati rivals the great comics of the silent era. 87 mins.
With pacing, wit and ingenuity all as flawless as ever, a bewildered Monsieur Hulot navigates modern Paris, a city made almost unrecognisable by a mass of glass-fronted skyscrapers, peopled by soulless businessmen. 124 mins.
MONSIEUR HULOT'S HOLIDAY (U)
PLAYTIME (PG)
DIARY
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28 JUL – 3 AUG
11 – 17 AUG
1 – 7 SEP
BLOCKBUSTER: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 Fri: 2.30; Thu: 8.00 GOING IN STYLE Fri: 6.00 VICEROY’S HOUSE Fri: 8.10 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE LONG HAUL Sat: 3.00; Wed: 3.45 LA LA LAND Sat: 5.15 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Sat: 8.00 THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES Tue: 1.30 LION Tue: 5.45 VICTIM (1961) Tue: 8.15 ANOTHER MOTHER'S SON Wed: 6.00 MOONLIGHT Wed: 8.15 JACKIE Thu: 6.00
THE BEGUILED Fri: 6.00, 8.10; Sat: 6.00, 8.10; Tue: 6.00, 8.10; Wed: 8.00 BLOCKBUSTER: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: SALAZAR’S REVENGE Fri: 3.15; Thu: 3.00 DESPICABLE ME 3 Sat: 4.00; Wed: 4.00, 6.00 NT ENCORE: ANGELS IN AMERICA PART TWO Tue: 1.30 NT ENCORE: PETER PAN Thu: 6.00
FINAL PORTRAIT Fri: 8.10; Sat: 6.00; Tue: 1.30; Wed: 6.00; Thu: 8.15 ENGLAND IS MINE Fri: 6.00; Sat: 8.00; Tue: 6.00; Wed: 8.10 BLOCKBUSTER: SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING Fri: 3.15 JACQUES TATI: MY UNCLE Sat: 3.15 JACQUES TATI: MONSIEUR HULOT’S HOLIDAY Sun: 12.15 JACQUES TATI: PLAYTIME Sun: 2.30 AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER Tue: 8.10; Thu: 6.00
4 – 10 AUG THE MIDWIFE Fri: 8.10; Tue: 5.45; Wed: 3.30; Thu: 5.30 BLOCKBUSTER: WONDER WOMAN Fri: 3.00; Thu: 8.00 THEIR FINEST Fri: 5.45 NT ENCORE: ANGELS IN AMERICA PART ONE Sat: 2.30; Tue: 1.30 NT ENCORE: ANGELS IN AMERICA PART TWO Sat: 7.00 RISK Tue: 8.15 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE LONG HAUL Wed: 1.15; Thu: 3.00 RSC LIVE: TITUS ANDRONICUS Wed: 7.00
18 – 24 AUG DUNKIRK Fri: 5.45, 8.15; Sat: 5.45, 8.00; Tue: 6.00, 8.15; Wed: 5.45, 8.15; Thu: 2.45, 5.45 BLOCKBUSTER: SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING Fri: 3.00; Thu: 8.00 DESPICABLE ME 3 Sat: 3.00; Wed: 3.30 RSC ENCORE: TITUS ANDRONICUS Tue: 1.30
25 – 31 AUG MAUDIE Fri: 5.45, 8.10; Sat: 5.30, 8.00; Tue: 5.45, 8.10; Wed: 5.45, 8.10; Thu: 1.15 BLOCKBUSTER: WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri: 2.45; Thu: 3.45 CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS Sat: 3.30; Tue: 1.30 DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY: CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG Wed: 2.00 NT LIVE: YERMA Thu: 7.00
The feature presentation starts at the time advertised in this brochure and on your ticket. This includes up to 20 minutes of advertisements and trailers prior to each main feature screening (ad/trailer times may vary). Live events tend to start promptly at the time listed on the ticket and often have pre-show material before that. We advise arriving at least 15 minutes early for live performances.
8 – 14 SEP THE ODYSSEY Fri: 5.45; Sat: 3.00, 8.00; Tue: 1.30, Wed: 5.45; Thu: 8.10 A GHOST STORY Fri: 8.15; Sat: 6.00; Tue: 6.00; Wed: 8.15 LAND OF MINE Tue: 8.00; Thu: 6.00
15 – 21 SEP THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM Fri: 5.45, 8.10; Sat: 3.00, 5.30, 8.00; Tue: 5.45, 8.10; Wed: 3.30, 8.10; Thu: 5.45, 8.10 THE ODYSSEY Fri: 3.00; Wed: 5.30 NT ENCORE: YERMA Tue: 1.30
22 – 28 SEP DETROIT Fri: 5.15; Sat: 2.45, 8.10; Tue: 5.15; Thu: 8.00 GOD’S OWN COUNTRY Fri: 8.10; Sat: 5.45; Tue: 1.30, 8.10; Thu: 5.45 DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Wed: 2.00 NT ENCORE: YERMA Wed: 7.00
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