Timetable Date
Matinee
Early Evening
Evening
Wed 1
Beyond the Hills (5.45pm)
BAFTA Shorts (8.40pm)
Thu 2
BAFTA Shorts (5.45pm)
Beyond the Hills (8pm)
Fri 3
Cinema Bambino: Robot & Frank (11am) Love is All You Need (2pm)
Sat 4
Screen Juniors: Labyrinth (2pm)
Sun 5 Mon 6
The Place Beyond the Pines (2pm) (s) (a)
Tue 7
Love is All You Need (2pm)
Wed 8
Love is All You Need (2pm)
May
The Place Beyond the Pines (7pm)
The Place Beyond The Pines (5pm)
Love is All You Need (8pm)
Love is All You Need (5pm)
The Place Beyond the Pines (7.30pm) (s) (a) Love is All You Need (7pm)
The Place Beyond the Pines (5.45pm)
Love is All You Need (8.30pm) The Place Beyond the Pines (7pm)
Thu 9
Love is All You Need (5.45pm)
The Place Beyond the Pines (8.10pm)
Fri 10
Home (6pm)
The Look of Love (8pm)
Sat 11
Home (6.30pm)
The Look of Love (8.15pm)
Sun 12
The Look of Love (6pm) (s) (a)
Home (8.15pm)
Mon 13
First Position (2pm)
Tue 14
The Look of Love (2pm)
Wed 15 Thu 16
First Position (1pm)
Fri 17 Sat 18 Sun 19
NT Live: This House Encore (2pm)
Mon 20
Promised Land (2pm)
Tue 21
I’m So Excited (2pm)
The Look of Love (7pm) First Position (6pm)
The Look of Love (8pm) (s) (a)
The Look of Love (6pm)
First Position (8.15pm)
The Look of Love (3.30pm)
NT Live: This House (7pm)
Promised Land (6pm)
I’m So Excited (8.15pm)
I’m So Excited (6pm)
Promised Land (8pm)
Promised Land (6pm)
I’m So Excited (8.15pm) I’m So Excited (7pm)
I’m So Excited (6pm)
Promised Land (8pm)
Wed 22
I’m So Excited (6pm)
Promised Land (8pm)
Thu 23
Promised Land (6pm)
I’m So Excited (8.15pm)
Fri 24
A Hijacking (6pm)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (8.10pm)
Sat 25
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (5.30pm)
A Hijacking (8.10pm)
Sun 26
Breath of the Gods (5pm)
A Hijacking (7.30pm)
Mon 27
A Hijacking (6pm)
Breath of the Gods (8.10pm)
A Hijacking (6pm)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (8.10pm)
Wed 29
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (5.45pm)
Theorem (8.20pm)
Thu 23
Theorem (6pm)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (8.10pm)
Beware Mr Baker (6pm)
Flickpic Winner (8pm)
Tue 28
Fri 31
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2pm)
Me & You (2pm)
(s)(a) Subtitled & audio described screenings Please note screenings & times may be subject to change.
Cinema May 2013
Image: The Place Beyond the Pines
I’m So Excited
Me and You
Director: Pedro Almodovar Cast: Antonio Banderas, Antonio de la Torre, Blanca Suarez USA | 2013 | Subtitled
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci Cast: Tea Falco, Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Sonia Bergamasco Italy | 2012 | Italian | Subtitled
A technical failure has endangered the lives of the people on board Peninsula Flight 2549. The crew devotethemselves to making the flight as enjoyable as possible for the passengers, but life in the clouds is complicated.
An introverted teenager tells his parents he going on a ski trip, but instead spends his time alone in a basement.
(Los amantes pasajeros) 15 (90 mins)
Ticket Prices Full Price £7, Concession £5 Screen Juniors £3 Cinema Bambino: £5 (under 12 months free)*
(Io e te) 15 (96 mins)
*Screenings from our core programme for parents / carers & children under 12 months
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Beyond the Hills
Director: Mira Nair Cast: Riz Ahmed , Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland USA | UK | Qatar | 2013
Director: Cristian Mungiu Cast: Catalina Harabagiu, Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur Romania | France | Belgium| 2013 | Subtitled
12A (128mins)
A young Pakistani man chasing corporate success on Wall Street finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland.
Beware of Mr Baker 15 (92 mins)
Director: Jay Bulger USA | 2012 A documentary about legendary drummer Ginger Baker, best known for his work with Eric Clapton in Cream and Blind Faith.
The Place Beyond the Pines 15 (140 mins)
Director: Derek Cianfrance Cast: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes USA | 2013 A motorcycle stunt rider (Gosling) considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician. Includes subtitled and audio described screenings: Sun 5 May, 7.30pm & Mon 6 May, 2pm
(Dupa dealuri) 12A (152 mins)
The bond between two young women who grew up in the same orphanage comes under strain as one who has found refuge at a convent in Romania, refuses to leave with her friend to start a new life Germany. Projectionist Pick:
Love Is All You Need 15 (116 mins)
Director: Susanne Beir Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm Germany | Italy |Denmark | Sweden | France | 2013 | English & Subtitles A warm, funny romantic comedy by Oscar winner Susanne Bier. A self-declared bachelor (Brosnan) and a woman reeling from the sight of her husband cheating on her (Dyrholm) find out that just when you think it’s all over, it just might be about to begin.
Promised Land 15 (106 mins)
Director: Gus Van Sant Cast: Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski USA | United Arab Emirates 2013 A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.
Breath of the Gods U (105mins)
Director: Jan Schmidt-Garre Germany | India | 2013 | Subtitled Documentary following the story of the creation of modern yoga by Indian savant T. Krishnamacharya. Including rare historical footage as well as lavish re-enactments.
The Look of Love 18 (101 mins)
Director: Michael Winterbottom Cast: Steve Coogan, Stephen Fry, Anna Friel UK | USA | 2013 Winterbottom’s film stars Steve Coogan as Paul Raymond, the ‘King of Soho’, so dubbed by the press due to his huge club and property empire which, along with his porn business, amassed him a fortune of billions of pounds. Includes subtitled and audio described screenings: Sun 12 May, 6pm & Tue 14 May, 8pm
Theorem
(Teorema) 15(105 mins) Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini Cast: Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, Massimo Girotti Italy | English | 1968 | Subtitled An enigmatic visitor, staying with a wealthy Milanese family, seduces one by one each of its members (including the maid), and then leaves, leaving each person profoundly and distinctly disparately changed.
Now booking...nGlyndebourne Festival - an amazing series of opera on the cinema screen. First up - Ariadne auf Naxos on 4 June. For more details visit our website.
BAFTA Shorts
Screen Juniors:
First Position
Director: Various | 2013
Monthly film screenings celebrating the world of children’s cinema. With free drop-in animation activities before the screening, 11am-2pm.
Director: Bess Kargman USA | 2011
15 (105 mins)
A feature length selection of short live action and animated films from the EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA). In cinemas around the UK from 12 April 2013.
NT Live: This House Live: Thu 16 May, 7pm Encore: Sun 19 May, 2pm Director: Jeremy Herrin
James Graham’s biting, energetic and critically acclaimed new play strips politics down to the practical realities of those behind the scenes who roll up their sleeves, and on occasion bend the rules, to manoeuvre a diverse and conflicting chorus of MPs within the Mother of all Parliaments. Part of National Theatre Live – the best of British theatre broadcast live to cinemas worldwide. Cinema Bambino screening: Fri 3 May, 11am
Robot and Frank 12A (89mins)
Director: Jake Schreier Cast: Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon, Peter Sarsgaard USA | 2012 Set in the near future, Frank, an aging jewel thief receives a gift from his son: a domestic robot butler programmed to look after him. Resistant at first, Frank warms to the robot as the two companions try their luck as a heist team...
Sat 4 May, 2pm | Tickets £3
Labyrinth U (101mins)
Director: Jim Henson Cast: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly UK | United States | 1986 Fifteen-year-old Sarah wishes her little brother would disappear, but when goblins kidnap him she sets out to retrieve him, and finds herself on the adventure of a lifetime
A Hijacking (Kapringen) 15 (99 mins)
Director: Tobias Lindholm Cast: Johan Philip Asbæk, Søren Malling, Dar Salim Holland | Sweden | 2012 | Subtitled Switching back and forth between the Indian Ocean and a Copenhagen boardroom, A Hijacking traces a hostage negotiation in compelling detail.
Home
(Yurt) 12A (77 mins) Director: Muzaffer Özdemir Cast: Kanbolat Gorkem Arslan, Muzaffer Özdemir, Turkey | 2013 | Subtitled Poetic and resonant, Home is a serene depiction of one man’s journey to find his own sense of peace amidst the conflict between nature and the ever intrusive modern age.
U (95 mins)
A documentary following six talented young dancers from around the world as they prepare for a gruelling international ballet competition.
Flickpic – You Choose What’s viewed To celebrate ‘mac at fifty’ we’re running Flickpic, a very special programme of films from the last 50 years. Revisiting each decade from the 1960s right up to the present day, we’ll be picking out a shortlist of three iconic films and it’s entirely over to you to vote for the film you most want to see. Vote for your 1990s film now, either online at www.macarts.co.uk, or in person at mac birmingham. The 1990’s film finalists are: Edward Scissorhands (12) 1990 Johnny Depp stars in Tim Burton’s classic as the manmade creation adopted by a local Avon lady in a tale of love, and acceptance. Thelma & Louise (15) 1991 In a bid to escape an overbearing husband and a dead-end job, best friends Thelma and Louise hit the road for a weekend away that turns into a test of true friendship. The Silence of the Lambs (18) 1991 Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) must match wits with insane psychological expert Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) to give her clues in the search for the serial murderer “Buffalo Bill”.