SEASON 2014 22 Jun – 14 Aug
Rendez-Vous With French Cinema
Belle
Jersey Boys
Paths of Glory (WW1 Season)
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Chichester Cinema Bienvenue à New Park. We have put together such a delicious variety of films for you this season that even a football fan like me may have to sacrifice one or two matches of the World Cup. Two mini-seasons stand out this summer: Rendez-Vous with French Cinema brings together nine recent French films including Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s (‘Amelie’ & ‘Delicatessen’) ‘The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet’ (in English) and Roman Polanski’s ‘Venus in Fur’ with Mathieu Amalric and Emmanuelle Seigner. We hope to honour the memory of The Great War 100 years on, with our Commemorating WW1 season. Look out for the first ever Oscar Winner for Best Film, ‘Wings’, and perhaps Stanley Kubrick’s best work, ‘Paths of Glory’ with Kirk Douglas.
A Perfect Plan
Paths of Glory
Summer means Festivals and Fun, and we here at New Park never miss out on our opportunity to raise the ‘Film’ banner at this time of year. The 23rd Chichester International Film Festival follows this current season, and it will launch on the 8th and 9th August with two Open Air Screenings at Chichester’s iconic Priory Park (‘Oh! What a Lovely War’ and ‘Some Like it Hot’). A week before that (Friday 1st August) we will have a Festival Programme Launch at the New Park Bar. Come and join us from 11am-2pm for some nibbles and a drink, have a chat to Roger Gibson (Festival Artistic Director) about some hidden gems and pick up your Festival Programme before anyone else.
Every year we have around 25 generous supporters who help us bring the best films to the Film Festival by becoming a Festival Patron. See pg27 for details on how you too can become a Festival Patron. See you at the Cinema
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what’s on
Summer 2014 Advanced Style
29
Fading Gigolo
9
Of Horses and Men 26
Amadeus
28
Ghosts
8
Arthur & Mike
41
The Golden Dream 30
Oh! What a Lovely War
33
Begin Again
36
Grace of Monaco
Paths of Glory
32
Believe
35
The Grand Budapest Hotel
A Perfect Plan
11
24
Performance
7
40
Postman Pat: The Movie
35
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
14
Belle
9
8
Benvenuto Cellini
19
Grand Central
Beyond the Edge
11
Henry IV Part 2
10
Blue Ruin
41
Bright Days Ahead
21
How to Train Your Dragon (2)
35
Calvary
28
The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window
36
Camille Claudel 1915 15 Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci 19
In Bloom
16
Jealousy
42
Chef
25
Jersey Boys
17
Cold in July
29
Jimmy’s Hall
8
Commemorating WW1
31
Chinese Puzzle
25
Cycling with Moliere 30
12
King Lear
The Royal Sussex Regiment in the Great War (Talk)
32
Secret Sharer
38
Seve
39
A Small Family Business
13
Some Like It Hot
33
Tracks
24
La Bayadère
20
Under The Rainbow 37
La Traviata
40
Venus in Fur
15
Walking on Sunshine 26
Devil’s Knot
17
The Lady from Shanghai
43
Disappeared
36
War Horse
32
Manon Lescaut
10
Don Giovanni
13
War & Peace
20
Miss Violence
21
34
When I Saw You
Downhill
24
Wings
31
Edge of Tomorrow 37
Monty Python Live (mostly)
27
An Evening at the Cinema ‘1914’
Mr Morgan’s Last Love
39
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
16
32
Venus in Fur 15
Arthur & Mike 41
Begin Again 36
Kids Films 35
Mariinsky 20
Advanced Style 29
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Film Listings Sun 22 Jun
Thu 3 Jul
Fri 11 Jul
15:30 Grace of Monaco (PG) 103m 18:00 Jimmy’s Hall (12A) 109m 20:45 Grace of Monaco
13:30 16:00 18:15 20:45
Mon 23 Jun
13:15 Belle 15:45 The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (PG) 105m 18:15 Camille Claudel 1915 (15) 97m 20:45 In Bloom (15) 102m
12:45 Jersey Boys (15) 134m 15:30 Bright Days Ahead (15) 95m 17:45 Jersey Boys 20:45 Devil’s Knot (15) 114m
12:45 15:30 18:00 20:45
Jimmy’s Hall Grace of Monaco Jimmy’s Hall Grace of Monaco
Tue 24 Jun 13:00 15:15 18:00 20:30
Grace of Monaco Jimmy’s Hall Grace of Monaco Jimmy’s Hall
Wed 25 Jun 12:30 14:30 16:45 19:15
Grace of Monaco Jimmy’s Hall Grace of Monaco Jimmy’s Hall (extra screening)
Thu 26 Jun 13:15 Jimmy’s Hall 16:00 Grace of Monaco 18:30 Ghosts (West End Theatre) 90m 20:30 Grace of Monaco
Fri 27 Jun 12:15 Fading Gigolo (15) 90m 14:30 Jimmy’s Hall 17:00 Belle (12A) 104m 19:30 Henry IV (Part 2) (NT Encore) 180m
Sat 28 Jun 13:30 Jimmy’s Hall 16:00 Beyond the Edge (12A) 94m 18:30 Fading Gigolo 20:45 Belle
Sun 29 Jun 10:00 Private Screening 12:15 Belle 15:00 Manon Lescaut (ROH) 240m inc intervals 19:15 A Perfect Plan (15) 104m 21:15 Fading Gigolo
Mon 30 Jun 12:30 15:00 17:00 19:30
Belle Fading Gigolo Beyond the Edge King Lear (NT Encore) 210m inc interval
Tue 1 Jul 13:30 16:00 18:30 21:00
Beyond the Edge A Perfect Plan Belle Fading Gigolo
Wed 2 Jul 13:30 15:45 18:15 20:45
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Belle Fading Gigolo Belle A Perfect Plan
Fri 4 Jul
Sat 12 Jul 12:30 Devil’s Knot 15:00 Jersey Boys 18:00 Bright Days Ahead 20:15 Jersey Boys
Sat 5 Jul
Sun 13 Jul
13:15
12:00 Jersey Boys 14:30 Benvenuto Cellini (ENO) 190m 18:00 Jersey Boys 21:00 Bright Days Ahead
The Young & Prodigious T.S. Spivet 15:45 Belle 18:15 Venus in Fur (15) 95m 20:45 Camille Claudel 1915
Sun 6 Jul 12:15 Camille Claudel 1915 14:30 Don Giovanni (Glyndebourne) 210m 18:30 The Young & Prodigious T.S. Spivet 20:45 Venus in Fur
Mon 7 Jul 12:45 Venus in Fur 14:30 The Young & Prodigious T.S. Spivet 17:00 Belle 19:30 A Small Family Business (NT Live) 160m
Tue 8 Jul 13:15 Belle 15:45 Camille Claudel 1915 18:15 Venus in Fur 20:45 The Young & Prodigious T.S. Spivet
Wed 9 Jul 13:15 The Young & Prodigious T.S. Spivet 15:45 Camille Claudel 1915 18:15 Belle 20:45 Venus in Fur
Thu 10 Jul 13:15 Belle 16:15 In Bloom 18:30 The Young & Prodigious T.S. Spivet 20:45 Venus in Fur
Fading Gigolo Belle A Perfect Plan Belle
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Mon 14 Jul 12:45 Devil’s Knot 15:30 Jersey Boys 18:30 La Bayadere (Mariinsky Ballet) 165m 21:30 Bright Days Ahead
Tue 15 Jul 12:45 Jersey Boys 15:45 Bright Days Ahead 18:00 Jersey Boys 21:00 Miss Violence (18) 98m
Wed 16 Jul 12:15 Bright Days Ahead 14:00 Miss Violence 16:00 Jersey Boys 18:30 War and Peace (Mariinsky Opera) 235m
Thu 17 Jul 12:30 15:15 17:45 20:30
Jersey Boys Devil’s Knot Jersey Boys Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci 170m
Fri 18 Jul 13:15 Tracks (12A) 110m 15:45 Walking on Sunshine (12A) 97m 18:15 Chinese Puzzle (15) 117m 20:45 Chef (15) 115m
Sat 19 Jul 13:00 The Grand Budapest Hotel (15) 100m 15:15 Wings (PG) 144m 18:15 Chef 20:45 Chinese Puzzle
Sun 20 Jul
Wed 30 Jul
12:30 Chef 14:45 Tracks 16:45 Walking on Sunshine 19:00 Monty Python Live (mostly) 180m
13:30 Postman Pat 15:45 Cycling with Moliere 18:15 Advanced Style 20:15 The Golden Dream
Mon 21 Jul
Thu 31 Jul
13:45 Of Horses and Men (15) 85m 15:45 Chef 18:15 When I Saw You (12A) 98m 20:45 The Grand Budapest Hotel
13:30 Postman Pat 15:45 The Golden Dream 18:15 Cold in July 20:45 Cycling with Moliere
Tue 22 Jul
13:15 The 100 Year Old Man... (15) 114m 15:45 Begin Again (15) 104m 18:15 Downhill (15) 98m 20:30 Edge of Tomorrow (12A) 113m
13:30 Walking on Sunshine 15:45 Chinese Puzzle 18:15 Walking on Sunshine 20:30 Chef
Wed 23 Jul 13:15 Chinese Puzzle 16:00 Of Horses and Men 18:15 The Grand Budapest Hotel 20:30 Chef
Thu 24 Jul 13:15 15:30 18:15 20:45
Chef When I Saw You Tracks Walking on Sunshine
Fri 25 Jul 13:45 Advanced Style (PG) 72m 15:30 Chef 18:15 Cycling with Moliere 104m 20:45 Cold in July (18) 109m
Sat 26 Jul 12:30 Cycling with Moliere 15:00 Paths of Glory (PG) 90m 18:15 Advanced Style 20:30 Chef
Sun 27 Jul 12:30 Chef 15:00 Amadeus (Director’s Cut) (PG) 179m 18:15 Cold in July 20:45 Calvary (15) 100m
Mon 28 Jul 13:15 Cold in July 15:45 Calvary 18:15 The Golden Dream (15) 102m 20:45 Cycling with Moliere
Tue 29 Jul 13:30 Postman Pat (U) 88m 15:45 Advanced Style 18:00 Cycling with Moliere 20:30 Paths of Glory
Fri 1 Aug
Open Air Screening
Fri 8 Aug 19:30 Oh! What a Lovely War 144m
Sat 9 Aug 13:15 Grand Central 15:30 An Evening at the Cinema 1914 (U) 85m 18:00 Mr. Morgan’s Last Love 21:00 Blue Ruin (15) 90m Open Air Screening
Sat 2 Aug 13:00 Under the Rainbow 112m 15:30 Edge of Tomorrow 18:15 Begin Again 20:45 Secret Sharer (15) 103m
Sat 9 Aug 19:30 Some Like it Hot 120m
Sun 3 Aug
Sun 10 Aug
12:30 Secret Sharer 14:45 Begin Again 15:00 Talk: Royal Sussex Regiment in the Great War 17:30 War Horse (15) 112m 20:15 The 100 Year Old Man…
12:45 The Lady from Shanghai (PG) 87m 15:00 Arthur and Mike 17:30 La Traviata (Glyndebourne) 230m 21:30 Grand Central
Mon 4 Aug
14:00 16:00 18:15 20:45
13:15 Begin Again 15:45 Downhill 18:15 The 100 Year Old Man… 20:45 Secret Sharer
Tue 5 Aug 13:15 Believe (PG) 96m 15:30 Under the Rainbow 18:00 Edge of Tomorrow 20:30 Begin Again
Wed 6 Aug
Mon 11 Aug Jealousy 77m Grand Central Seve Arthur and Mike
Tue 12 Aug 13:15 How to Train Your Dragon (PG) 105m 15:45 Arthur and Mike 18:15 Jealousy 20:30 Blue Ruin
Wed 13 Aug
13:15 Believe 15:30 Begin Again 18:00 The 100 Year Old Man… 20:45 Downhill
13:00 How to Train Your Dragon 15:30 Mr. Morgan’s Last Love 18:30 Grand Central 20:45 Seve
Thu 7 Aug
Thu 14 Aug
13:15 The 100 Year Old Man… 15:45 Believe 18:00 Begin Again 20:45 Under the Rainbow
13:00 How to Train Your Dragon 15:30 Seve
Fri 8 Aug 13:15 Seve (cert & time tbc) 15:45 Mr. Morgan’s Last Love 116m 18:30 Arthur and Mike 101m 20:45 Grand Central (15) 94m
Opening Gala
Thu 14 Aug 18:30 Film TBA
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This Summer we bring you 6 Performance events in partnership with the Festival of Chichester. Accompanying these, we present a Glyndebourne Opera, 2 Mariinsky performances plus the unique ‘Monty Python Live (mostly)’.
HENRY IV PART 2 RSC (Delayed live)
Fri
27 Jun 19.30 p.10
MANON LESCAUT ROH (Delayed Live) Sun 29 Jun 15.00 p.10 KING LEAR (Encore)
Mon 30 Jun 19.30 p.12
DON GIOVANNI from GLYNDEBOURNE (Recorded)
Sun 6 Jul
14.30 p.13
A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS NT (Encore)
Mon 7 Jul
19.30 p.13
Terry Gilliam’s BENVENUTO CELLINI (Berlioz) ENO (Delayed Live)
Sun 13 Jul
14.30 p.19
Pg.8
GHOSTS West End Theatre Series Thu 26 Jun 18.30
Pg.19
Pg.20
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
LA BAYADÈRE
+ PAGLIACCI LIVE from Taormina Thu 17 Jul 20.30
Live from Mariinsky Theatre St Petersburg Mon 14 Jul 18.30
Pg.20
WAR AND PEACE Live from Mariinsky Theatre St Petersburg Wed 16 Jul 18.30
Pg.27
Pg.40
MONTY PYTHON LIVE (MOSTLY) From the O2
LA TRAVIATA
Sun 20 Jul 19.00
LIVE from Glyndebourne Sun 10 Aug 15.30
KEY Live: Transmitted Live by Satellite during the actual performance. Encore: Follow ups that have been recorded Live by Satellite. Delayed Live: Recorded live by satellite and transmitted within a week. Recorded: Live performances, but pre-recorded.
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Jimmy’s Hall Political activist Jimmy Gralton (Barry Ward) is deported from Ireland during the country’s ‘Red Scare’ of the 1930s.
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
22 Jun 23 Jun 24 Jun 25 Jun 26 Jun 27 Jun 28 Jun
15:30 & 18:00 12:45 & 18:00 15:15 & 20:30 14:30 & 19:15 13:15 14:30 13:30
The film follows this Irish communist leader who returns from a decade in New York before being deported for alleged Communist sympathies, to re-open the dance hall he built in 1921. Celebrates the spirit of the free thinkers who went to learn, argue, dream and have fun in the dance hall. Possibly Ken Loach’s last film. UK/Ireland 2014 Ken Loach.
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Grace of Monaco Grace Kelly’s crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco’s Prince Rainier III and France’s Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu
22 Jun 23 Jun 24 Jun 25 Jun 26 Jun
15:30 & 20:45 15:30 & 20:45 13:00 & 18:00 12:30 & 16:45 16:00 & 20:30
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American Actress Grace Kelly (Nicole Kidman) became Princess Grace of Monaco when she married Prince Rainier III (Tim Roth) in 1956, in what was dubbed “the marriage of the century”. Kidman and Roth lead an ensemble that includes Paz Vega, Frank Langella and Derek Jacobi. France/USA/Belgium/Italy 2014 Olivier Dahan 103m
West End Theatre Series
Ghosts
Thu 26 Jun 18:30 Tickets £15 (Friends/Students £12.50)
By Henrik Ibsen, adapted and directed by Richard Eyre, featuring Lesley Manville. Eyre’s first-rate revival of Ibsen’s 1881 play races along reminding us how much Ibsen, the pioneer of naturalism, owed to Greek tragedy. Lesley Manville’s Helene Alving is a magnificent performance, and Oswald, whose gradual degeneration is precisely charted by Jack Lowden, is also as powerful. This sold out and critically acclaimed show has been captured live during its limited West End run. Approx 90m. (No interval)
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Belle
27 Jun 28 Jun 29 Jun 30 Jun 1 Jul 2 Jul 3 Jul 4 Jul 5 Jul 7 Jul 8 Jul 9 Jul 10 Jul
17:00 20:45 12:15 12:30 18:30 15:45 & 20:45 13:30 & 18:15 13:15 15:45 17:00 13:15 18:15 13:15
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Inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, who was raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) and his wife (Emily Watson). Belle’s (Gugu Mabatha-Raw) lineage affords her certain privileges, yet the colour of her skin prevents her from fully participating in the traditions of her social standing. Left to wonder if she will ever find love, Belle falls for an idealistic young vicar’s son (Matthew Goode) bent on change, who with her help, shapes Lord Mansfield’s role as Lord Chief Justice to end slavery in England. The supporting cast (Sarah Gadon, Miranda Richardson, James Norton, Tom Felton) delivers expectedly great performances, particularly Penelope Wilton, the saucy bon-mot spewing Aunt, obviously recalling her ‘Downton Abbey’ character. The film was partly shot at Kenwood itself, and is a pleasure to look at. UK 2013 Amma Asante 104m
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Fading Gigolo
27 Jun 28 Jun 29 Jun 30 Jun 1 Jul 2 Jul 3 Jul
12:15 18:30 21:15 15:00 21:00 13:30 16:00
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Fioravante (John Turturro) decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray (Woody Allen). It doesn’t take much arm-twisting from Murray, to convince Fioravante to participate in a threesome with his doctor and her rich friend. From here, both rapidly grow to like this kind of income, and embrace their new relationship as pimp and gigolo. The intentional nod to Woody Allen’s work is outspoken. The ideas behind the character of this fading gigolo are very simple, but true and appropriate for our time of loneliness and emotional distance. The intelligent storytelling is complemented by beautifully selected music pieces, with an incredibly fast moving and wry screenplay. Also starring Sharon Stone, Vanessa Paradis and Sofia Vergara. USA 2013 John Turturro 90m
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Henry IV Part 2
Delayed
Fri
27 Jun 19:30
Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) to include interval wine.
Royal Shakespeare Company In this play Shakespeare explores loyalty, betrayal and growing old as King Henry’s (Jasper Britton) health is failing as a second rebellion threatens to surface. Intent on securing his legacy, he is uncertain that Prince Hal (Alex Hassell) is a worthy heir, believing him more concerned with earthly pleasures than with the responsibility of rule. Meanwhile, Falstaff (Antony Sher) is sent to the countryside to recruit fresh troops. Among the unwitting locals, opportunities for embezzlement and profiteering prove impossible to resist as Falstaff gleefully indulges in the business of lining his own pockets. As the King’s health continues to worsen, Hal must choose between duty and loyalty to an old friend in Shakespeare’s heart-breaking conclusion to this pair of plays.
Booking Ref
Manon Lescaut
Delayed
Sun 29 Jun 15:00 Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) to include interval wine. Booking Ref
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Royal Opera House This early Puccini masterpiece makes a welcome return to Covent Garden after an absence of over 20 years, in a new production by Jonathan Kent under the baton of Music Director Antonio Pappano. The exciting Latvian soprano Kristine Opolais sings the title role, who gives the bold but impressionable heroine, a very different perspective. She is matched in star power by Jonas Kaufmann as her lover, Des Grieux, and Christopher Maltman as her cynical brother Lescaut. Puccini’s sumptuous, richlycoloured score is characterized by youthful vitality and filled with glorious melodies. The opera culminates in Manon’s heart-breaking Act IV aria ‘Sola, Perduta, Abbandonata’, as she contemplates her impending death. Running time tbc. Opera in 4 acts sung in Italian with English subtitles, recorded live at the Royal Opera House on 24 June. (New production).
Beyond the Edge 61 years after Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest, we present a documentary about that extraordinary achievement.
Sat 28 Jun 16:00 Mon 30 Jun 17:00 Tue 1 Jul 13:30
It details the British expedition led by Colonel John Hunt in a way that gives great insight into this enormous achievement. Among the climbers were two New Zealanders, Edmund Hillary and George Lowe, two colonial blow-ins with great climbing experience from their home country. With monsoons looming and others in the race to the summit, the tension is high. The re-enactments have been seamlessly incorporated into archival material, and the narration as well as the recollections of the sons of all key members of the team, really brings home all that is at stake. Pooley has created a tense, detailed account of a history-making expedition that is riveting and informative. Absolutely fascinating! New Zealand 2013 Leanne Pooley 90m
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Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
A Perfect Plan Un Plan Parfait
Sun Tue Wed Thu
29 Jun 1 Jul 2 Jul 3 Jul
19:15 16:00 18:15 20:45
A woman in love tries to break her family curse of every first marriage ending in divorce, by dashing to the altar with a random stranger. In the Lefebvre family, all first marriages end in failure. To Isabelle (Diane Kruger), it doesn’t matter if it’s a real curse or a stupid belief, she is in a long-term relationship with Pierre (Robert Plagnol), and she wants to be on the safe side. The only solution is to find a first husband - anyone will do. The characters are all likable and the infectious French arrogance enriches the humour. Vastly enjoyable this is the feel good comedy of the year which makes viewers wonder whether wealth and organised lifestyles actually secure happiness and longevity in relationships. From the producers of last year’s ‘Untouchable’. (subtitles) France 2013 Pascal Chaumeil 104m
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King Lear National Theatre Live - Encore Oscar-winning ‘American Beauty’ and ‘Skyfall’ director Sam Mendes returns to the National Theatre for this new production of Shakespeare’s masterpiece. Aging, weary King Lear (Simon Russell Beale) plans to divide his realm between his three daughters. He tells them that the one who declares the greatest love for him will win the lion’s share. Goneril (Kate Fleetwood) and Regan (Anna Maxwell Martin) attempt to outdo one another with extravagant praise. Disgusted by their behaviour, the youngest daughter, Cordelia (Olivia Vinall), refuses to say anything. Enraged, Lear banishes her forever, even though she is his favourite. So begins a series of events that lead to tragedy. It reunites him with frequent collaborator and two-time Olivier Award winner Simon Russell Beale. Book early to avoid disappointment. Fri
30 Jun 19.30 (Encore)
Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) to include interval wine. Booking Ref
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210m with interval
Don Giovanni
Sun 6 Jul
14:30
Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) to include interval wine.
Glyndebourne - Recorded Jun 2014 The legend of Don Juan tells how, at the height of his licentious career, he seduced a girl of noble family and killed her father, who had tried to avenge her. In the original Spanish tragedy, Don Juan’s attractive qualities - his vitality, arrogant courage, and sense of humour - heighten the dramatic value of the catastrophe. The power of the drama derives from its rapid pace, the impression it gives of cumulative tension as Don Juan’s enemies gradually hound him to destruction, and the awareness that the Don is goaded to defy even the ghostly forces of the unknown. In the end he refuses to repent and is eternally damned. Canadian baritone Elliot Madore is in the title role, and Andrés Orozco-Estrada makes his Glyndebourne debut conducting the L.P.O. Approx 210m
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A Small Family Business
Mon 7 Jul
19:30
Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) to include interval wine.
National Theatre Live A riotous exposure of entrepreneurial greed by Olivier Award-winning playwright Alan Ayckbourn (Bedroom Farce, A Chorus of Disapproval). ‘A Small Family Business’ returns to the National Theatre for the first time since its celebrated premiere in 1987, when it won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play. Jack McCracken - a man of principle in a corrupt world… but not for long. Moments after taking over his father-in-law’s business he’s approached by a private detective armed with some compromising information. Jack’s integrity fades away as he discovers his extended family to be thieves and adulterers, looting the business from their suburban homes. Rampant self-interest takes over and comic hysteria builds to a macabre climax. Approx 160m
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French cinema is as varied and vital as ever in 2014, and this Summer we present 9 wonderful French productions ranging from ‘The Young & Prodigious TS Spivet’ (in English) from ‘Amelie’ director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, to the most recent Roman Polanski offering ‘Venus in Fur’. Along the way we will be graced by the talents of Juliette Binoche, Fanny Ardant and Mathieu Amalric to name but three.
Venus in Fur 15
Camille Claudel 1915 15
Cycling with Moliere 32
Bright Days Ahead 21
Chinese Puzzle 25
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet 16
Under the Rainbow 37
Jealousy 42
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Venus in Fur
5 Jul 6 Jul 7 Jul 8 Jul 9 Jul 10 Jul
18:15 20:45 12:45 18:15 15:45 20:45
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La Vénus à la Fourrure In Roman Polanski’s latest film, an actress attempts to convince a director how she’s perfect for a role in his upcoming production. In Paris, the unknown actress Vanda (Emmanuelle Seigner) arrives late for the audition of a play that is an adaptation by the director Thomas (Mathieu Amalric) of the 1870 novel ‘Venus in Furs’. He is ready to leave the theatre when Vanda convinces him to read part of the play with her. She knows the lines by heart and questions aspects of the characters entwining performance with reality. The film is similar both to ‘Knife in the Water’ (1961) and ‘Carnage’ (2011), in that it involves characters struggling for domination in a confined space. This time it’s mainly sex, not class or status, that serves as the battlefield. It’s so elegant and effortlessly accomplished. (subtitles) France/Poland 2013 Roman Polanski 95m
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Camille Claudel 1915
4 Jul 5 Jul 6 Jul 8 Jul 9 Jul
18:15 20:45 12:15 15:45 20:45
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Juliette Binoche and writer-director Bruno Dumont join forces for this searching portrait of the troubled sculptor and her poet brother. A portrait rather than a biopic – and miles from the romantic fervour of the 1988 Isabelle Adjani-starrer of (nearly) the same name – this ‘Camille Claudel’ depicts the troubled sculptor (Juliette Binoche) as an inmate of an asylum near Avignon. Camille lives a seemingly uneventful life among the other inhabitants – played by real-life patients – with whom she enjoys a tender intimacy. She receives a visit from her brother, visionary poet Paul Claudel. Their relationship and Camille’s internment form the basis of a challenging inquiry into madness, the clinical system and the nature of religious and artistic inspiration. The film nevertheless carries an intense emotional charge and Binoche’s mesmerising, nerves-bared performance is one of her finest ever. (subtitles) France 2013 Bruno Dumont 97m
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Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu
4 Jul 5 Jul 6 Jul 7 Jul 8 Jul 9 Jul 10 Jul
15:45 13:5 18:30 14:30 20:45 13:15 18:30
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The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet Les Extravagantes Aventures du Jeune et Prodigeux TS Spivet A 10-year-old cartographer secretly travels across the country on a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute. T.S. Spivet lives on a ranch in Montana with his beetle obsessed mother (Helena Bonham Carter), his father (a cowboy born 100 years too late) and his 14 year-old sister who dreams of becoming Miss America. T.S. is a prodigy with a passion for cartography and scientific inventions. One day, he receives an unexpected call telling him that he is the winner of the very prestigious prize for his discovery of the perpetual motion machine, and without telling anyone, he sets out across the U.S.A. to reach Washington DC. A combination of ‘Mark Twain’ and ‘Little Miss Sunshine’, this wonderful film is illustrated with charts, sketches and maps to help recount our hero’s adventures. Jean-Pierre Jeunet (‘Amelie’, ‘Delicatessen’) in his first English speaking film casts his usual unique style. France/Canada 2013 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 105m
International Panorama: Georgia
In Bloom
Grzeli Nateli Dgeebi
Fri 4 Jul Thu 10 Jul
20:45 16:15
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Friends Eka and Natia look to leave childhood behind in Georgia’s official foreign language submission for the Oscars. 1992. Georgia is a newly independent country (in chaos) after the fall of the USSR. Eka and Natia are exploring their independence in a male-dominant world. Circumstances begin to change when Natia’s suitor gives her a gun for protection and in no time, relationships between Eka, Natia, their dysfunctional families and friends dramatically change. (subtitles) Georgia/Germany/France 2013 N. Ekvtimishvili/S. Gross 102m
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Jersey Boys
11 Jul 12 Jul 13 Jul 14 Jul 15 Jul 16 Jul 17 Jul
12:45 & 17:45 15:00 & 20:15 12:00 & 18:00 15:30 12:45 & 18:00 16:00 12:30 & 17:45
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Clint Eastwood’s latest films is the story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group ‘The Four Seasons’. This is a musical biography of the rise, tough times and personal clashes, and the ultimate triumph of a group of friends whose music became symbolic of a generation. Far from a mere tribute concert, ‘Jersey Boys’ gets to the heart of the relationships at the centre of the group - with special focus on frontman Frankie Valli, the small kid with the big falsetto. This is a glimpse at the people behind a sound that has managed to endure for over four decades in the hearts of the public. USA 2014 Clint Eastwood 134m
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Devil’s Knot
11 Jul 12 Jul 14 Jul 17 Jul
20:45 12:30 12:45 15:15
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Colin Firth stars in this docudrama exploring the savage murders of three young children as part of a satanic ritual. To tell this true story as a docudrama, Egoyan alternates between the perspectives of the mother (Reese Witherspoon) of one of the three victims, and an investigator (Firth) staunchly against the death penalty who aided the defence of the three accused teens. For the most part, we follow Firth as he poses obvious questions the local authorities had no interest in asking, content to have someone to blame. Egoyan however, is the master of his canvas, an expert at knowing how to paint a portrait of a grieving town, creating the mourning atmosphere that led to the hysteria about Satanic cult rituals on which the three teens were accused. Echoes of ‘The Crucible’ and based on the 2002 best-seller by investigative journalist Mara Leveritt. USA 2013 Atom Egoyan 114m Box Office 01243 786 650
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Benvenuto Cellini
Delayed
Sun 13 Jul 14:30 Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) to include interval wine.
English National Opera Unseen in London for many years, and never previously at ENO, Berlioz’s ‘Benvenuto Cellini’ is forged anew at the London Coliseum by director Terry Gilliam and ENO Music Director Edward Gardner. The pair’s previos collaboration (‘Faust’) unleashed Gilliam’s inexhaustible imagination as a story-teller, and ‘Benvenuto Cellini’ offers this theatrical showman an equally rich canvas simply begging for his special flair. With its stunning visual and musical set pieces, Berlioz’s first opera is based on the celebrated 16th-century goldsmith and sculptor Benvenuto Cellini. A stellar cast has been assembled for this significant new production, led by rising tenor Michael Spyres in the title role, with the stunning soprano Corinne Winters as Teresa. Sung and subtitled in English. Approx 190m
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Teatro Antico di Taormina Opera
Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci
Luiz Fernando Malheiro conducts the Orchestra Taormina Festival and the Coro Lirico Siciliano. Approx 170m including interval. Thu 17 Jul 20:30 Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) to include interval wine. Booking Ref
LIVE from Sicily Two 19th Century operas performed at Teatro Antico di Taormina, the picturesque ancient Greek theatre in Sicily, built in early seventh century. CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Adapted by composer Pietro Mascagni from the short story written by Verga, this is considered one of the classics of verismo opera. Cast: Santuzza - Daniela Dessì; Turiddu - Fabio Armilato; Lola -Giuseppina Piunti; Alfio - Valdis Janons; Mamma Lucia - Maria José Trullu. 65m PAGLIACCI: Inspired by the success of Mascagni’s work, Ruggero Leoncavallo decided to compose this verismo opera based on the true events of an 1865 murder. Cast: Canio - Piero Giuliacci; Nedda / Colombina - Chiara Taigi ; Arlecchino Giuseppe Di Stefano; Taddeo - Giovanni Di Mare; Silvio Vincenzo Taormina. 90m Box Office 01243 786 650
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La Bayadère
Mon 14 Jul
18:30
Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) to include interval wine.
LIVE Ballet from the Mariinsky Theatre One of the great favourites of the ballet repertoire, combining the exotic and colourful setting of 19th century India, with the stunning virtuosity of the Mariinsky ballet. The powerful story of the noble warrior Solor and the temple dancer Nikia, this features one of the most celebrated scenes in classical ballet - The Kingdom of the Shades. Originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and first premiered in 1877, the ballet is a touchstone production for the Mariinsky Theatre and is being broadcast live from the annual ‘Stars of the White Nights Festival’ in St. Petersburg, conducted by Artistic Director, Valery Gergiev. Approx 165m inc interval
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Wed 16 Jul
18:30
Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) to include interval wine.
War & Peace
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LIVE Opera from the Mariinsky Theatre The world premiere of a brand-new production of Prokofiev’s epic masterpiece conducted by the internationally acclaimed Valery Gergiev and broadcast live from the recently opened Mariinsky II building in St. Petersburg. On Count Rostov’s country estate in 1806, young Natasha (Aida Garifullina) falls for dashing Prince Andrei (Andrei Bondarenko). But his father disapproves of their proposed union and she subsequently elopes with Anatole Kuragin, who neglects to reveal that he is already married. Meanwhile, Napoleon’s army is closing in on Russia, making war inevitable. Part of the annual ‘Stars of the White Nights Festival’ in St. Petersburg. Directed by Graham Vick with stage design by Paul Brown, the opera will be conducted by the internationally acclaimed Artistic Director of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev. Approx 235m including 2 intervals.
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Bright Days Ahead
11 Jul 12 Jul 13 Jul 14 Jul 15 Jul 16 Jul
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Les Beaux Jours Retired dentist Caroline (Fanny Ardant) is married, yet falls in love with her significantly younger lecturer in this delightful French romantic comedy. Caroline discovers new life paths when her daughters send her to “Les Beaux Jours”, an institution where retirees spend their hours sewing, playing table tennis or taking computer lessons. At these lessons, she meets Julien, a teacher more than 20 years her junior, with whom she soon enters a passionate relationship that turns her dull retirement upside down. Ardant, well into her 60s, delivers a convincing performance of a character who simply isn’t over the top. The age issue gives this film a touching distinction, being more accustomed to seeing the young driven by sex, but here the elegant, sensitive and dignified elderly dentist, shows that need can survive. (subtitles) France 2013 Marion Vernoux 95m
Tue 15 Jul Wed 16 Jul International Panorama: Greece
21:00 14:00
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Miss Violence
On her 11th birthday, Angeliki jumps off the balcony to her death. Was it suicide or an accident? Angeliki calmly leaves her eleventh birthday party, steps over the balcony of her family’s Athens apartment and drops to her death. The reason for her suicide drives the rest of the film. At first perhaps one’s guess is that she is being abused by her grandfather, the only man in the family. But not so fast. The grandfather, brilliantly played by Themis Panou, overcomes his embarrassment over his granddaughter’s death and leads the way in helping social services uncover the dark secrets of his family. Under Avranas’ skilful direction, who also co-wrote the script, as the secrets are revealed, so the tension increases. But suspend your suspicions until the end - they may surprise you. A totally riveting film. (subtitles) Greece 2013 Alexandros Avranas 98m Box Office 01243 786 650
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International Panorama: Palestine/Jordan
When I Saw You Lamma Shoftak
Mon 21 Jul Thu 24 Jul
18:15 15:30
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A journey of adventure, love, humour and the desire to be free. Jordan, 1967. A change is underway as thousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine. Tarek, 11, and his mother Ghaydaa, are amongst the latest, placed in “temporary” camps until they would be able to return. With difficulties adjusting to life and a longing to be reunited with his father, Tarek searches a way out. A story of the human spirit that knows no borders. Palestine/Jordan/Greece 2012 Annemarie Jacir 98m International Panorama: Australia
Tracks
True story of Robyn Davidson who walked 2,700km across the harsh Australian outback with her four camels and faithful dog.
Fri 18 Jul Sun 20 Jul Thu 24 Jul
13:15 14:45 18:15
When Robyn (Mia Wasikowska) arrives in Alice Springs she meets photographer Rick, and reluctantly agrees to sacrifice some solitude so that her journey can proceed. Wasikowska is luminous, her character’s need for connection with the land finds its truest expression when she is accompanied by an Aboriginal elder. A mesmerising film. Australia 2013 John Curran 110m
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Back by Public Demand
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Sat 19 Jul Mon 21 Jul Wed 23 Jul
13:00 20:45 18:15
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The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. Expect an amalgam of Anderson’s predilection for jewel-box environments, arch pseudo-professional patter and giant major-name casts (the star-studded cast features Anderson regulars Owen Wilson, Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Jude Law and Tilda Swinton). Expect the hilariously unexpected! USA 2014 Wes Anderson 100m
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Chef
18 Jul 19 Jul 20 Jul 21 Jul 22 Jul 23 Jul 24 Jul 25 Jul 26 Jul 27 Jul
20:45 18:15 12:30 15:45 20:30 20:30 13:15 15:30 20:30 12:30
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A chef who loses his restaurant job starts up a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise. The film follows a master chef (played by director-writer Jon Favreau) whose career is derailed and, as a last resort, opens a food truck and drives across country with his young son and his sous-chef (John Leguizamo), selling Cubano sandwiches. Along the way, we’re treated to food-porn at its best and introduced to an outstanding cast of characters: Dustin Hoffman, Sofia Vergara, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson and many more. The infectious, life affirming Cuban music greatly enhances the culinary scenes and deserves special mention, coupled with the addition of some irresistible blues and jazz. As delightful and charming as they come. But maybe you should eat well before you take the trip! USA 2014 Jon Favreau 115m
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Chinese Puzzle
18 Jul 19 Jul 22 Jul 23 Jul
18:15 20:45 15:45 13:15
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Casse-Tête Chinois Somewhere between the romance of Linklater’s ‘Before Sunrise’ trilogy and the good-natured bawdiness of the ‘American Pie’ franchise, sit the films of Cédric Klapisch. It is not necessary to have seen the previous instalments (‘The Spanish Apartment’ & ‘Russian Dolls’), because scenes that establish why Xavier (Romain Duris) is in New York provide both short and long-term background. His wife Wendy (Kelly Reilly) has left him, taking their children to her new partner in Manhattan, and leading Xavier to relocate. His travails, articulated through musing voice-overs that recall Woody Allen, come from a place of responsibility to his children, while acknowledging that sleeping on a mattress in a cruddy apartment is fine at 20 but worrying at 40. The search for happiness is great fun in this comedy of errors. France 2013 Cédric Klapisch 117m Box Office 01243 786 650
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Walking on Sunshine Set to the music of popular hit songs from the 1980s, in a beautiful coastal village in present day Italy. After a whirlwind romance, Maddie (Annabel Scholey) is preparing to marry gorgeous Italian Raf (Giulio Berruti), and has invited her sister Taylor (Hannah Arterton) to the wedding. Unbeknownst to Maddie, however, Raf is Taylor’s ex-holiday flame, and the love of her life. Features popular songs from the era, such as Human League’s ‘Don’t You Want Me Baby’, Madonna’s ‘Holiday’, Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’, and Wham’s ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go Go’. The film also stars ‘Sense & Sensibility’s Greg Wise, Katy Brand and is the feature film acting debut for Leona Lewis. Fri Sun Tue Thu
18 Jul 20 Jul 22 Jul 24 Jul
15:45 16:45 13:30 & 18:15 20:45
UK 2014 M. Ginia / D. Pasquini 97m
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Mon 21 Jul Wed 23 Jul International Panorama: Iceland
13:45 16:00
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Of Horses and Men A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Here, the horses are the stars. We focus on a remote Icelandic community of small-holders and horse-breeders, who nurse within their hearts the passions and physical needs that horses are not shy of showing. An uptight fellow trots over on his dainty little mare to call on an attractive widow, perhaps with romance on his mind: unfortunately, this woman is the owner of a lively stallion which also has romance on its mind. The results are spectacular. The sex lives of horses and, if you will, the death lives of horses are plain for all to see. Some of the scenes are staggeringly explicit and entirely extraordinary: it is not every film that really does show you things that you have never seen before. And yet the film manages also to be tender, delicate and funny. (subtitles) Iceland 2013 Benedikt Erlingsson 85m
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Sun 20 Jul 19:00 Tickets £15 (Friends/Students £12.50) Booking Ref
Monty Python Live (Mostly) From the O2 Arena, London For the first time in more than three decades, comedy legends Monty Python will perform live on stage together this year. Broadcast from London’s O2 Arena, ‘Monty Python Live (Mostly)’ will play in cinemas around the globe on Sunday 20 July. At a combined age of just 358, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin will once again perform some of their greatest hits, with modern, topical, Pythonesque twists. Monty Python are rightfully regarded as among the world’s finest-ever comedians. They influenced a generation and revolutionised comedy. Their eagerly awaited reunion promises to be among the biggest live events of 2014. 2014 UK
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Wings Winner of the first ever Academy Award for Best Picture, ‘Wings’ is the story of two men who go to war and the girl they leave behind. Sat 19 Jul 15:15 See pg 31 for full details.
USA 1927 William A. Wellman 144m
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International Panorama: Ireland
Calvary
After he is threatened, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him. Father James (Brendan Gleeson) sitting in his confessional, hears a calm voice from the other side telling him he’s going to be killed in a week’s time. He makes his way around the small Irish sea town, engaging with the colourful collection of locals. truths are revealed and consequences are had, all of it soaked in the tone of dark comedy. McDonagh’s (‘The Guard’) writing and directing talent is without question. Back by popular demand after our sell-out April screenings. Sun 27 Jul Mon 28 Jul
20:45 15:45
Ireland 2013 John Michael McDonagh 100m
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Festival Theatre Connections
Amadeus
The incredible story of Wolgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce), told by his peer (and secret rival) Antonio Salieri (the brilliant F Murray Abraham). With Mozart’s magical music swirling around them, Hulce and Abraham share a dual triumph in a film that stands as a provocative and prodigious achievement. Forman’s distinctive central European locations, painterly night-time exteriors and period crowd scenes look terrific. Seeing Cynthia “Sex and the City” Nixon play the teenage parlour maid will make you feel old, but this grandiose 1984 masterpiece still holds up well today. USA 1984 Milos Forman 160m Sun 27 Jul
15:00
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Cold in July
25 Jul 27 Jul 28 Jul 31 Jul
20:45 18:15 13:15 18:15
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In 1980s East Texas, two fathers pitted against each other in revenge must band together to uncover a darker truth. How can a split-second decision change your life? While investigating noises in his house, Richard Dane shoots a low-life burglar, Freddy Russell. Although he’s hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family’s safety when Freddy’s ex-con father, Ben (brilliantly frightening Sam Shepherd), rolls into town; hell-bent on revenge. Twists and turns echoing David Cronenberg’s ‘A History of Violence’ and Scorsese’s ‘Cape Fear’. Unpredictable and edgy, the action gradually crescendos into an orgy of corruption, sleaze and violence that involves the Dixie Mafia, crooked cops, the witness protection program, a snuff-porn ring and an inevitable bloodbath. USA 2013 Jim Mickle 109m
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Advanced Style
25 Jul 26 Jul 29 Jul 30 Jul
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Sartorial elegance for seniors in this New York fashion movie about a New York fashion blog. Ari Seth Cohen is a writer and photographer who began approaching elegant and interestingly dressed older women on the street in 2008 to ask if he could take their picture – in the manner of photography legend Bill Cunningham. His blog, ‘Advanced Style’, celebrated older women who insist on exuberant visibility. They are defying modern society’s tendency to patronise and ignore every female over 50. (One of his stars cheerfully describes her age as “somewhere between 50 and death!”). His elderly entourage are genuine, silver-tongued stars. They have mettle and style in abundance and have tightened their belts against encroaching age with an uncommon grace. An incredibly warm and life-affirming film. USA 2014 Lina Plioplyte 72m Box Office 01243 786 650
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Cycling with Moliere
25 Jul 26 Jul 28 Jul 29 Jul 30 Jul 31 Jul
18:15 12:30 20:45 18:00 15:45 20:45
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Alceste a Bicyclette Two actors. One play. Can the differences between the two egocentric men be put aside for the sake of friendship and theatre? Gauthier (Fabrice Luchini) is a successful soap actor who earns enough glory to be recognized in the streets and enough money to allow him to stage the most ambitious production any French actor dreams about – Moliere’s ‘Le Misanthtrope’. Of course he sees himself in the lead role of Alceste, but for the second role, Philinte, he wants his friend Serge (Lambert Wilson), who retired a few years before. Serge however, believes that he is the one fit for the lead. It may be the dream of any French actor to play Moliere or a play turning around Moliere’s texts but it is the dream of any lover of French cinema and theatre to see such a film. (subtitles) France 2013 Philippe Le Guay 104m
Mon 28 Jul Wed 30 Jul Thu 31 Jul International Panorama: Mexico
18:15 20:15 15:45
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The Golden Dream La Jaula de Oro Absorbing and suspenseful road movie, following three Guatemalan kids trying illegally to cross the Mexican border into the US. Spanish director Quemada-Diez was a camera assistant to Ken Loach, and has avowedly stuck to Loach’s gritty realistic directing style here. The title comes from a Mexican ballad about the despair of Mexicans who have made it into the US, but find it a “golden cage” because the US accepts their cheap labour without allowing them the proper residency papers they need to rise beyond the servant class. Three excellent non-professional actors play the lead roles, two kids who are desperate to get out of Guatemala, along with a young Indian boy they meet. With a poignant romantic tension and a tender sort of ‘Jules et Jim’ frisson between the three of them, this is a very substantial movie, with great compassion and urgency. Mexico 2014 Diego Quemada-Díez 102m
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Commemorating WW1 Chichester Cinema at New Park honours the 100 year anniversary of the start of World War One, by presenting 5 films and 1 talk during this Summer Season. This commemoration will then continue through the Festival and Autumn Season.
Wings
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19 Jul
15:15
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Starring Clara Bow, Charles “Buddy” Rogers, Richard Arlen and winner of the first ever Academy Award for Best Picture. The story of two men who go to war and the girl they leave behind. Featuring some of the finest aerial battle sequences in movie history and a romantic plotline, Wings is a gripping action film and a moving drama. Jack (Rodgers) leaves his small town to become a fighter pilot – unaware that his sweetheart Sylvia (Jobyna Ralston) is in love with his rival David (Arlen), and that he has attracted the attention of the girl-next-door, Mary (Bow). With a cast and crew populated by a number of aviators who had served in WWI, ‘Wings’ is an authentic war film: epic in scale and genuine in its humanist exploration of the devastating results of war. (Digitally Restored) USA 1927 William A. Wellman 144m
Paths of Glory
Sat 26 Jul Tue 29 Jul Booking Ref
15:00 20:30
Stanley Kubrick’s blistering indictment of military politics is an unforgettable movie experience and perhaps his best film. Adapted from a 1935 Herbert Cobb novel, in turn based on real events, this is a brilliant tale of horror in the trenches. Safe in their picturesque chateau behind the front lines, the French General staff passes down a direct order to Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas): take the Ant Hill at any cost. A blatant suicide mission, the attack is doomed to failure. Covering up their fatal blunder, the Generals order the arrest of three innocent soldiers, charging them with cowardice and mutiny. Dax, a lawyer in civilian life, rises to the men’s defence but soon realizes that nothing less than a miracle will save his clients from the firing squad. To watch this film is to experience the birth of one of the greatest directors of the 20th Century. (Digitally Restored) USA 1957 Stanley Kubrick 90m Box Office 01243 786 650
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Talk in the Studio
The Royal Sussex Regiment in the Great War
Sun 3 Aug
15:00
Tickets £5 (Friends £4) or £4 (Friends £3.50) if bought in conjunction with any film in this WW1 Season. Booking Ref
Alan Readman presents this illustrated talk drawing on the regimental archives, local newspapers and other sources held at the County Record Office. It describes the role of the Regular, Territorial and Service battalions at the Somme and at Ypres, at Aubers Ridge and the Boar’s Head, and looks at how the men from Sussex coped with the ordeal of the trenches. A remarkable story of service and self-sacrifice, it pays homage to a regiment and to a generation on the centenary of the outbreak of the war.
War Horse Follows a young man and his horse Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of WW1. Spielberg directs this epic adventure set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe. Joey and Albert (Jeremy Irvine) are forcefully parted, the film then follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets British, German, French, before the story reaches its emotional climax in No Man’s Land. Sun 3 Aug
17.30
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USA/UK 2012 Stephen Spielberg 146m
An Evening at the Cinema 1914
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9 Aug
15:30
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New archival compilation from the BFI appropriate for our WW1 commemoration season. Cinema a century ago was a new, exciting and highly democratic form of entertainment. Picture houses nationwide offered a sociable, lively environment in which to relax and escape from the daily grind, and with feature films still rare, the programme was an entertaining, ever-changing roster of short items with live musical accompaniment. Includes scenes of Allied troops celebrating Christmas at the Front, and an early sighting of one of cinema’s greatest icons. UK/US 1914 Music by Stephen Horne 85m
Priory Park Open Air Screenings Films start at Dusk
(approx 20.45) Music from 19.30 Advance Tickets £8 (£10 at the door). Bring a picnic Blanket or Chair and enjoy this Uniquely Wonderful Evening!
Open Air Screening
Open Air Screening
Oh! What a Lovely War
Fri 8 Aug from (Film at Dusk)
19.30
Song and dance numbers and all-star cameos thinly veil the starkness of this anti-war satire. Richard Attenborough’s adaptation based on the stage show of the same name. The Smith family attend the latest attraction at Brighton Pier, a vaudeville performance that reimagines the tragedy of the war in music-hall terms, complete with inspiring songs, prizes and a scoreboard toting up the dead. However, when the family’s sons are recruited during a particularly rousing number, they pass from the performance into the “real world” of conflict. All-star cast includes Ian Holm, Dirk Bogarde, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Corin Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Maggie Smith, Susannah York and John Mills. Plus short (12m) TV film about O!WALW. UK 1969 Richard Attenborough 144m
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Open Air Screening
Some Like it Hot
Sat 9 Aug from (Film at Dusk) Booking Ref
19:30
Maybe “nobody’s perfect”, as one character in this masterpiece suggests. But some movies are perfect, and this is one of them. When Chicago musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) accidentally witness a gangland shooting, they quickly board a southbound train to Florida, disguised as Josephine and Daphne, the two newest and homeliest members of an all-girl jazz band. Their cover is perfect… until a lovelorn singer (Marilyn Monroe) falls for “Josephine”, an ancient playboy (Joe E. Brown) falls for “Daphne”, and a mob boss (George Raft) refuses to fall for their hoax. The script by director Billy Wilder and IAL Diamond is beautifully measured; everything works, like a flawless clock. Nominated for seven Academy Awards in 1957, ‘Some Like It Hot’ is the quintessential madcap farce and almost everybody’s favourite movie comedy. USA 1957 Billy Wider 125m Box Office 01243 786 650
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18:15 15:45 20:45
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Downhill
Four old school friends reunite to attempt the epic coast to coast walk, across the United Kingdom. Gordon’s idea to reunite his four school friends for the first time in 20 years is arguably a terrible idea. They were a profoundly mismatched group to start with and age certainly hasn’t lessened their differences. On top of this, Gordon has chosen a holiday that turns out to be a gruelling physical endurance test, rather than anything remotely pleasurable. Walking coast to coast across the United Kingdom was never going to be easy, and the results are as funny as they are tragic, as this comically incompatible foursome walk full-tilt into their mid-life crises. As their journey unfolds, this comically incompatible foursome walk full tilt into their mid-life crises. UK 2014 James Rouse 98m
Rare & Traditional Breeds Show 20 July One of the biggest shows of its kind in the South East
See cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and poultry together with craft and trade stands all following a countryside theme. A delightful agricultural show for rare and traditional breeds of farm animals with prizes at stake, and classes for young handlers. Weald & Downland Open Air Museum Opening times and admission charges can be found at www.wealddown.co.uk or Tel: 01243 811348 Dogs on leads welcome
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Family Matinee
Postman Pat: The Movie
Tue 29 Jul Wed 30 Jul Thu 31 Jul
13:30 13:30 13:30
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Everyone’s favourite postie comes face to face with the dark side of the fame dream when he enters a national TV talent show. The demons of money, status and a new shiny suit conspire to tear Pat away from his friends and family. With new songs, new sets and a host of new characters alongside the favourites, a whole new generation of fans will be on the edge of their seats. Voice cast includes Jim Broadbent, Rupert Grint, Ronan Keating and David Tennant. UK 2014 Mike Disa 88m
Believe
Tue 5 Aug Wed 6 Aug Thu 7 Aug
13:15 13:15 15:45
A gifted but troubled young footballer is brought to the attention of former Manchester United coach Matt Busby. In 80’s Manchester, Sir Matt Busby (Brian Cox), restless in the twilight of his life, comes across an 11 year old thief – and gifted footballer - Georgie (Jack Smith). Intrigued, Matt decides to embark on his own method of teaching the tear-a-way a lesson. This acts as a catalyst for Matt, forcing him to deal with the ghosts of the Busby Babes. A funny and touching family film. UK 2014 David Scheinmann 96m
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How to Train Your Dragon 2
Tue 12 Aug 13:15 Wed 13 Aug 13:00 Thu 14 Aug 13:00
The fantastical world of Hiccup and Toothless five years later. On the Island of Berk, the inseparable pair journey through the skies, charting unmapped territories and exploring new worlds, when they discovery of a secret ice cave home to wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider. Voice cast includes Gerard Butler, Kristen Wiig, Cate Blanchett, Jonah Hill and Kit Harrington (Jon Snow from ‘Game of Thrones’.) USA 2014 Dean DeBlois 105m
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International Panorama: Sweden
The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Hundraåringen Som Klev ut Genom Fönstret och Försvann
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1 Aug 3 Aug 4 Aug 6 Aug 7 Aug
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The misadventures of Allan Karlsson who like Forrest Gump, succeeds in life despite evident drawbacks. Karlsson (Robert Gustafsson) isn’t the sharpest tool in the box, nor is he particularly sane, but he has an innate common sense and a good heart, that over his long life has earned him some surprising friends (Franco, Stalin, Truman, Reagan, Gorbachev…) and landed him amongst some historic moments (Spanish Civil War, invention of the atomic bomb and the fall of the Berlin Wall). With echoes of Woody Allen’s ‘Zelig’, the humour is delivered with such deadpan panache that it’s irresistible. At its Berlinale screening, the laughter often went through the roof. Sweden 2013 Felix Herngren 114m
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Begin Again
1 Aug 2 Aug 3 Aug 4 Aug 5 Aug 6 Aug 7 Aug
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Returning to the territory of ‘Once’, John Carney explores the poignant ways in which music brings people together. Swapping Dublin for New York, and trading a single couple for a group of people trying to mend bonds or forge new ones, the touching film trades in heart-on-sleeve sentiment, and deploys a series of gentle ballads, a number of them performed by Keira Knightley as Greta. Carney demonstrates that the disarming emotional candour and intimacy of his earlier film (‘Once’) was no fluke, he has a profound respect for the way music is created. Lovely chemistry between Knightley and Mark Ruffalo enriches their many scenes together, and mostly off the radar since her wonderful performance in ‘True Grit’, Hailee Steinfeld balances teen attitude with insecurity. James Corden playing Greta’s busker friend registers some of the funniest moments. Also stars Catherine Keener. USA 2014 John Carney 104m
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Under The Rainbow
13:00 15:30 20:45
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Au Bout du Conte Using the modern fairy tale canon, and filling the storyline with references to classic fairy tales elements, this is an enchantingly funny romantic comedy. Laura (Agathe Bonitzer) is still waiting for Prince Charming at the age of 24. So when Sandro (Arthur Dupont) appears at a party, she thinks he’s the one. But then again, when she meets Maxime (Benjamin Biolay), Laura starts to wonder if some Princes could be more charming than others? The fantastic duo Agnes Jaoui / Jean-Pierre Bacri prove once again to be some of the best comedy dialogue writers in the world. The movie travels through the illusions, fears, hopes we can’t live without, from waiting for a Prince charming to big and little forms of superstitions. This is an enchanting, funny, intelligent gem. (subtitles) France 2013 Agnes Jaoui/Jean-Pierre Bacri 112m
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Edge of Tomorrow
20:30 15:30 18:00
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All action adventure where an officer (Tom Cruise) finds himself caught in a time loop in a war with an alien race. Major Cage (Cruise) has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, he finds himself inexplicably thrown into a time loop, forcing him to live out the same brutal combat over and over. Alongside Special Forces warrior Vrataski (Emily Blunt), they take the fight to the aliens, each repeated encounter gets them one step closer to victory. USA 2014 Doug Liman 113m
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The Secret Sharer
20:45 12:30 20:45
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Joseph Conrad adaptation of a contemporary fable about human relationships at sea. This is a contemporary fable about human relationships at sea. Set on a rusting cargo ship in the South China Sea, it’s the Polish captain’s first command. His mutinous Chinese crew suspect he and their unscrupulous Boss want to scuttle the ship for an insurance scam. When the crew abandon ship, the young captain is left alone on board, helpless, anchored in a bay. That night while waiting anxiously on deck, he finds a naked body floating in the sea below, tangled up in the ship’s rope ladder. The captain discovers a Chinese woman in distress. She climbs on board, saying only “Hide me”. Inspired by Joseph Conrad’s ‘The Secret Sharer’. (In English & Mandarin) UK/Poland 2014 Peter Fudakowski 103m
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Mr Morgan’s Last Love
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A look at the life-changing connection between a retired and widowed American philosophy professor (Michael Caine) and a young Parisian woman (Clémence Poésy). Matthew Morgan (Caine) is a widowed, world-weary professor living in Paris. The cynical Matthew sees no meaningful future for himself - until he meets Pauline (Poésy), a free-spirited young dance instructor. The unlikely bond they form ultimately leads them to rediscover the joy that only family and true friendship can offer. Two-time Oscar-winner Caine stars with Poésy, Justin Kirk and Gillian Anderson in this richly nuanced, emotion-charged story of lost souls, new-found hope and ‘Last Love’. With echoes of Michael Hanneke’s ‘Amour’ and Roger Michell’s ‘Venus’. Ger / Bel / USA / Fra 2013 Sandra Nettlebeck 116m
Seve
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The son of a farmer becomes one of the most charismatic and successful golfers of all times. This new documentary is hoping to make a similar splash as ‘Senna’ (2000), by looking at the incredible story of how a highly driven and uniquely charismatic young man turned golf on its head, inspiring millions across the world. In contrast to Ayrton Senna who was born to a rich family, learnt to drive by the age of 9, and whose father built him his own go-kart track, Seve’s family lived on the bread line, and his first golf club was the head of a broken 3-iron tied to a stick, with which he used to hit pebbles on the beach. The film cleverly intertwines real footage with dramatization, and features young actor José Luis Gutiérrez as the young Seve and 2012 Gaudí Award winner María Molins as Carmen, Seve’s mother. Filmed on location in the northern coastal region of Cantabria. UK 2014 John-Paul Davidson
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La Traviata
Sun 10 Aug 17:30 Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15) to include interval wine. Booking Ref
Glyndebourne Director Tom Cairns returns to create a world that melds the archetypal and the modern, and the great Verdian Sir Mark Elder conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra. During the 1850s, Verdi found himself increasingly drawn to stories of complex, ambiguous outsiders who challenge the limits of society. ‘La Traviata’ continues a series of intimate, personal ‘domestic’ operas by Verdi, including ‘Luisa Miller’, ‘Stiffelio’ and ‘Rigoletto’. In ‘La Traviata’, we hear Verdi’s music naturally evolving to accommodate the growing realism of his characters and settings. While remaining true to his bel canto roots, Verdi creates music which bends, stretches and grows with Violetta, a heroine of unprecedented depth and dimension who runs the gamut from glittering coloratura to melting lyricism to dramatic declamation. In their Glyndebourne debut, Russian soprano Venera Gimadieva portrays this iconic role, opposite American tenor Michael Fabiano as Alfredo.
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Grand Central
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Léa Seydoux (‘Blue is the Warmest Colour’), Tahar Rahim (‘A Prophet’) and Denis Ménochet (‘Inglorious Basterds’) form a love triangle in this engrossing, superbly acted working-class melodrama. Gary (Rahim), an unskilled young man, lands a job as a decontamination sub-contractor at a nuclear power plant in the lower valley of the Rhone. Inducted into the workforce by supervisor Gilles and veteran Toni (Ménochet), Gary discovers that radiation contamination is not just a risk factor but an everyday hazard. At the same time, he begins an illicit affair with Karole (Seydoux), the fiancée of Toni. Screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, ‘Grand Central’ won the François Chalais Prize, which rewards films with life affirming values. Also starring Olivier Gourmet. France 2013 Rebecca Zlotowski 94m
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Arthur & Mike
8 Aug 10 Aug 11 Aug 12 Aug
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A man who fakes his own death and assumes a new identity in order to escape his life, moves in with a woman who is also trying to leave her past behind. Colin Firth plays Wallace Avery, a failure as a husband, father, professional golfer and FedEx employee. He decides his life is so awful, he fakes his death and starts over as Arthur Newman. This transformation might have worked had he not met a person equally as damaged in Charlotte (Emily Blunt). As if drawn together by the failings in their lives, the pair take to the road on a journey of discovery. Outstanding performances by Firth and Blunt, joined by Anne Heche, make this a very enjoyable film. USA 2012 Dante Ariola 101m
Blue Ruin Dwight is a mysterious outsider whose quiet life is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. Proving himself an amateur assassin, Dwight Evans (Macon Blair) winds up in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family. For better or worse, we are complicit with him from the beginning, which means that we experience with comic horror his various blunders and catastrophes, including an encounter with a crossbow arrow that he cannot remove from his thigh. (Stallone would have handled it easily.) This is a classic (and gory) American revenge story that won the FIPRESCI Prize in the Directors’ Fortnight program at Cannes 2013. It was written, directed and photographed by Jeremy Saulnier. USA/France 2013 Jeremy Saulnier 90m Sat 9 Aug 21:00 Tue 12 Aug 20:30 Booking Ref
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Jealousy
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La Jalousie A regularly out of work theatre actor is torn between the woman he lives with, and the woman he loves. 30-year-old Louis (Louis Garrel) lives with actress Claudia (Anna Mouglalis) in a small, rented apartment. He has a daughter by another woman - a woman he abandoned. A theatre actor and very poor, he is madly in love with this other woman who was once a rising star, but all offers of work have now dried up. Director Philippe Garrel has explained that ‘Jealousy’ is a modern representation of Parisian relationships inspired by his own father’s early-20th-century love life. Having cast his 30-year-old son Louis, as well as his daughter, Esther (Esther Garrel) as Louis’s sister, it’s obvious that this is a cross-generational family affair, as well as a self-effacing reflection. Like an astutely aching ballad, the film - aptly scored with sweet, strumming beats by Jean-Louis Aubert - is pleased to ambiguously infer the interior logic of its irresolute characters without pigeonholing their motivations. Shot in beautifully crisp black and white. France 2013 Philippe Garrel 77m
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The Lady from Shanghai This complex puzzle-within-apuzzle mystery, is a showcase for Orson Welles, showing his singular talents and sensibilities as few other films have. The story is superficially simple: a seaman Michael O’Hara (Welles) is hired on the yacht of the wealthy Banister (Everett Sloane). His beautiful but mysterious wife Elsa (Rita Hayworth) has met O’Hara earlier, when he saved her from a mugging. What ensues is a complicated pattern of deception, fraud and murder, with O’Hara finding himself implicated in a murder, despite his innocence. The film is best remembered for its final hall of mirrors sequence, with Elsa and Banister shooting it out amidst shards of shattering glass. Welles produced, directed, wrote and starred in the film, whilst Hayworth gives one of her best performances as the deceptive, seductive temptress, hard-edged and cynical. The film confounds, unsettles and disorients the viewer, very much as Welles intended to do.
Sun 10 Aug 12:45 Booking Ref
USA 1947 Orson Welles 87m
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(For first two matinees everyday)
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