Centre for the Arts Maidenhead
Film Guide Nov-Dec 2018
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Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Altwood Road, Maidenhead SL6 4PF
The Seagull Thur 1 Nov 11am (P&B), 2pm and 4.30pm Dir: Michael Mayer 2018 98 mins, US At a lakeside Russian estate, friends and family gather for a weekend in the countryside. Everyone is caught up in passionately loving someone who loves somebody else. A tragicomedy unfolds about art, fame and human folly. Based on Anton Chekhov’s classic play.
WHY? Starring Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan, Elisabeth Moss
NT Live: Allelujah! Thur 1 Nov 7pm 170 mins, £15 An old fashioned hospital serving a small town, is threatened with closure. A documentary crew, eager to capture its fight for survival, follows the daily struggle to find beds on the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward and the triumphs of the old people’s choir.
WHY? Alan Bennett’s sharp and hilarious new play filmed live at London’s Bridge Theatre
Lucky Fri 2 Nov 2pm, Sun 4 Nov 7.30pm Dir: John Carroll Lynch 2017 88 mins, US Lucky (Harry Dean Stanton) is a 90-year-old atheist. Having outlived and out smoked all of his contemporaries, the fiercely independent Lucky finds himself at the precipice of life. He is thrust on a journey of self exploration in his quirky, off the map desert town.
WHY? ‘A profound, wry, slip of a movie carried by Stanton’s moving performance’ ★★★★ Empire
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again Sat 3 Nov 12pm Dir: Ol Parker 2018 114 mins, US Get ready to sing and dance, laugh and love all over again! Sophie finds out more about her mother Donna's past while seeking guidance on how to handle her pregnancy. The all-star cast includes Meryl Streep, Lily James, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth.
WHY? An all-new original musical based on the songs of ABBA
Skate Kitchen
Sun 4 Nov 2pm Dir: Crystal Moselle 2018, 106 mins, US Camille is an introverted teenage skateboarder who befriends an all-girl skateboarding crew. She falls in with the in-crowd, has a falling-out with her mother and falls for a mysterious guy. But a relationship with him proves to be trickier to navigate than a kickflip.
WHY? ‘A joyful meditation on friendship’ ★★★★ Independent
The Little Stranger Mon 5 Nov 11.30am Tues 6, Wed 7 and Thur 8 Nov 8pm Dir: Lenny Abrahamson 2018 111 mins, Ie/UK/Fr Dr Faraday has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. He is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. With the Hall now in decline, its inhabitants are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life.
WHY? Charlotte Rampling and Domhnall Gleeson star in this adaptation of Sarah Waters’s ghostly thriller
Oscar Wilde Season Live: An Ideal Husband Wed 7 Nov 2pm 160 mins, £15 Encore screening from London’s West End. This entertaining and still topical play brings an act of political sin into the heart of the English home. Sir Robert Chiltern is an ambitious government minister. His smooth ascent to the top seems assured until Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning proof of his previous financial chicanery.
WHY? The talented ensemble cast includes real-life father and son Edward and Freddie Fox
Wajib
Thur 8 Nov 2pm, Sun 11 Nov 4.30pm Dir: Annemarie Jacir 2017 97 mins, Ps/Fr/Co/De/Ae/Qa/No (Arabic with English subtitles) Abu Shadi is a divorced father living in Nazareth, preparing for his daughter’s wedding. Shadi, his architect son, arrives after years abroad to help him to hand-deliver the wedding invitations. As the estranged pair spend the day together, their relationship comes to a head.
WHY? ‘Sprightly, accessible comedy-drama’ ★★★★ The Guardian
Johnny English Strikes Again Fri 9 Nov 11am (P&B) and 8pm Sun 11 Nov 2pm Wed 21 Nov 4.30pm Dir: David Kerr 2018 88 mins, UK/Fr/US The UK is in peril. MI7’s security has been breached and every agent in the field identified and exposed. The only hope of finding the perpetrator is to bring an agent out of retirement. The head of MI7 is left with only one choice - his name is English… Johnny English.
WHY? Spy comedy starring Rowan Atkinson, Emma Thompson and Ben Miller
The Wife Fri 9 Nov 2pm, Sat 10 Nov 1.30pm Sun 11 Nov 7.30pm Wed 14 Nov 2pm, Wed 21 Nov 8pm Dir: Bjorn Runge 2017 100 mins, UK/Se/US Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) has spent forty years supporting her charismatic husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his stellar literary career. With Joe about to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, Joan confronts her sacrifice and some long-buried secrets. Based on the bestselling book by Meg Wolitzer.
WHY? ‘Glenn Close is unreadably brilliant’ ★★★★★ The Guardian
Oscar Wilde Season Live: A Woman of No Importance
Tues 13 Nov 2pm 155 mins, £15 Encore screening. An earnest young American woman, a louche English lord and an innocent young chap join a house party of fools and grotesques. Nearby a woman lives, cradling a long-buried secret.
WHY? Starring Olivier award winner Eve Best and BAFTA nominated actress Anne Reid
ROH Live: La Bayadère Tues 13 Nov 7.15pm 185 mins, £15 Live screening (Wednesday). Marius Petipa’s fantasy, set in legendary India, tells the tale of a temple dancer and the prince who loves her but marries another. His music perfectly matches the fluidity and precision of the choreography and the drama of the storytelling.
WHY? Natalia Makarova’s production brings an exotic world of temple dancers and noble warriors to life
RSC Live: Troilus & Cressida Wed 14 Nov 7pm 210 mins, £15 Live screening. Troilus and Cressida swear they will always be true to one another. But in the seventh year of the siege of Troy their innocence is tested and exposed to the savage corrupting influence of war, with tragic consequences.
WHY? Percussionist Evelyn Glennie collaborates with Gregory Doran to create a satirical futuristic vision of a world resounding with the rhythm of battle
NT Live: The Madness of King George Tues 20 Nov 7.15pm 210 mins, £15 Live screening from Nottingham Playhouse. It’s 1786 and the behaviour of King George III is becoming increasingly erratic. With the King’s mind unravelling at a dramatic pace, ambitious politicians and the scheming Prince of Wales threaten to undermine the power of the Crown.
WHY? Written by one of Britain’s best-loved playwrights Alan Bennett
A Star is Born Sun 25 Nov 12pm, Tues 27 Nov 8pm Wed 28 Nov 8pm Dir: Bradley Cooper, 2018 136 mins, US Seasoned musician Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper), discovers and falls in love with struggling artist Ally (Lady Gaga). She has given up on her dream to become a successful singer, but Jack immediately recognises her natural talent. Featuring original music with vocals recorded live during filming.
Nae Pasaran
WHY? ‘The live scenes are electric’ ★★★★★ Empire Tues 27 Nov 4.30pm Sun 2 Dec 11.30am Dir: Felipe Bustos Sierra 2018 96 mins, UK
(English and Spanish with English subtitles) 1974, Scotland. Bob Fulton is a Rolls-Royce engine inspector. He's just told his colleagues that a Chilean Air Force jet engine has arrived for maintenance. Bob is refusing to let it go through.
Faces Places
WHY? Documentary revealing the impact made by Scottish workers against one of the most repressive dictatorships of the 20th century Wed 28 Nov 4.30pm Dir: JR, Agnès Varda 2017 89 mins, Fr Iconic filmmaker Agnès Varda embarks on a road trip like no other with photographer JR. They head out in JR’s photo booth-enhanced truck, exploring the villages and small towns of rural France. A playful, tender and heart-warming insight into unnamed communities.
WHY? A Cannes Film Festival award winner and Academy Award nominee
First Man
Sat 1 Dec 4.30pm, Sun 2 Dec 2pm Tues 4 and Wed 5 Dec 8pm Dir: Damien Chazelle 2018, 141 mins, US Ryan Gosling stars as Neil Armstrong in this riveting account of NASA’s mission to land a man on the moon. Exploring the little told story of the challenges and cost of the ambitious endeavor. Directed by Academy Award winner Damien Chazelle (La La Land) and starring Claire Foy (The Crown) as Neil’s wife Janet.
WHY? ‘Ryan Gosling shines in this remarkably told Neil Armstrong biopic’ ★★★★★ Independent
Bohemian Rhapsody Sat 1 Dec 8pm, Wed 5 Dec 4.30pm Fri 7 Dec 8pm Dir: Bryan Singer 2018 134 mins, UK/US Drama tracing the meteoric rise of Queen. Reaching unparalleled success, Freddie shuns the band in pursuit of his solo career. Having suffered without the collaboration of Queen, he manages to reunite with his bandmates just in time for Live Aid - one of the greatest performances in the history of rock music.
WHY? A foot-stomping celebration of Queen and their music
Bad Times at the El Royale Fri 7 Dec 4.30pm Sun 9 Dec 2pm Dir: Drew Goddard 2018 141 mins, US 1960s California. Seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, meet at Lake Tahoe’s El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one fateful night, everyone will have a last shot at redemption… before everything goes wrong.
WHY? Thriller starring Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson and Chris Hemsworth
Black ’47 Sun 9 Dec 4.30pm Wed 12 Dec 4.30pm and 8pm Thur 13 Dec 8pm Dir: Lance Daly 2018 98 mins, Ie/Lu Ireland, 1847. The Great Famine has ravaged the country for two long years. Feeney has been fighting for the British Army abroad. He abandons his post to return home. But he is met by tragedy. With little else to live for, he sets a destructive path to avenge his family.
WHY? ‘It’s a western. It’s a revenge thriller’ ★★★★ The Irish Times
The Price of Everything
Sun 9 Dec 7.30pm Mon 10 Dec 11.30am Dir: Nathaniel Kahn 2018 98 mins, US Examining the role of art and artistic passion in today’s money-driven, consumer-based society. The film exposes deep contradictions as it holds a mirror up to contemporary values and times, coaxing out the dynamics at play in pricing the priceless.
A Christmas Carol
WHY? Documentary exploring the labyrinth of the contemporary art world Tues 11 Dec 8pm 90 mins, £15 Based on Charles Dickens’ own performance adaptation. Enjoy a one-man theatrical extravaganza of festive story-telling. Following sold-out theatre seasons, Simon Callow returns to wow audiences with this tour de force performance.
WHY? Both heart-warming and deeply moving - it’s a Christmas must see!
ROH Live: The Nutcracker Sun 16 Dec 4.30pm 150 mins, £15 Encore screening. Tchaikovsky’s much-loved music is matched to a magical adventure on Christmas Eve for Clara and her Nutcracker doll. Peter Wright’s production for The Royal Ballet keeps true to the spirit of this Russian ballet classic, with period details and dancing snowflakes.
WHY? One of the most delightful ways to discover the enchantment of ballet
Peterloo
Sun 16 Dec 7.30pm Mon 17 Dec 11.30am, Thur 20 Dec 8pm Dir: Mike Leigh 2018, 154 mins, UK An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre. A peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turns into one of the most notorious episodes in British history. From award winning filmmaker Mike Leigh and starring Rory Kinnear and Maxine Peake.
WHY? ‘Richly intelligent, passionate movie’ ★★★★★ The Guardian CERT
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Surviving Christmas Thur 20 Dec 4.30pm Dir: James Dearden 2018 Run time tbc, UK Two sisters and their families come together in their recently deceased parents dilapidated country house. Miranda and Dan are escaping from city life. Lila is a fading Hollywood star married to her agent, Trent. Ancient sibling rivalries flare up - with chaotic consequences.
WHY? Festive comedy starring Joely Richardson, Patricia Hodge, James Fox and Sally Phillips
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Sat 22, Sun 23 and Thur 27 Dec 4.30pm Dir: David Yates 2018 Run time tbc, UK/US Albus Dumbledore enlists his former student Newt Scamander to help thwart Grindelwald's plans of raising pure-blood wizards to rule over all non-magical beings. Newt agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested.
WHY? The latest film set in acclaimed author JK Rowling’s wizarding world
Widows Sat 22 Dec 8pm, Sun 23 Dec 7.30pm Thur 27 Dec 8pm Dir: Steve McQueen 2018 128 mins, UK/US Contemporary Chicago. Four women have nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities. Tensions build when Veronica (Viola Davis), Linda, Alice and Belle conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
WHY? A blistering, modern-day thriller set against the backdrop of crime, passion and corruption
The King and I from the London Palladium Fri 28 Dec 4.30pm Sat 29 Dec 8pm 180 mins, £15
Encore screenings of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical. 1860s Bangkok. An unconventional and tempestuous relationship develops between the King of Siam and Anna, a British schoolteacher.
WHY? With one of the finest scores ever written including Whistle a Happy Tune, Getting to Know You, and Shall We Dance CERT
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The Girl in the Spider’s Web Fri 28 Dec 8pm Sat 29 Dec 4.30pm Dir: Fede Alvarez 2018 Run time tbc, UK/De/Se/Ca/US Claire Foy stars as outcast vigilante Lisbeth Salander, the title character of the acclaimed Millennium book series created by Stieg Larsson. Hacker Lisbeth and journalist Mikael Blomkvist encounter a web of spies, cybercriminals and government corruption in this action packed thriller.
WHY? A new Dragon Tattoo story
NT Live: Antony and Cleopatra Sun 30 Dec 2pm 210 mins, £15 Encore screening of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love.
WHY? Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play the famous fated couple
Movie Monday Screenings Tickets £7 and include a free cup of tea or filter coffee. Excludes School Holiday Family Screenings and Event Cinema screenings.
Mon 5 Nov
11.30am
The Little Stranger
Mon 10 Dec
11.30am
The Price of Everything
Mon 17 Dec
11.30am
Peterloo
Parent and Baby Screenings (P&B) Thur 1 Nov
11am
The Seagull
Fri 9 Nov
11am
Johnny English Strikes Again
Exclusively for parents with children under 2 years. Lights are kept on low level and you can move around if you need to. Tickets are £5.50 for adults (including cup of tea); babies and infants are free of charge. Seating is unreserved and unaccompanied adults are not admitted.
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Ticket Prices (unless otherwise stated) £10.50 (£9.50 conc) Special Ticket Offer £9 (£8 conc) tickets when you book for three films at the same
time. Offer excludes Event Cinema screenings.
School Holiday Family Screenings Films with this logo are part of our school holiday programme for children and families. These screenings are £7 (£5 under 16s), Family & Friends (4 people) £20.
Movie Mondays Offer Monday film screening tickets £7 and include a free cup of tea or
filter coffee. Excludes School Holiday Family Screenings and Event Cinema screenings.
Box Office Opening Hours Monday
Open 15 mins before screening
Tuesday
11am - 2pm and 2.30pm - 8pm
Wednesday - Saturday
10am - 2pm and 2.30pm - 8pm
Sunday
2.30pm - 8pm
Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Altwood Road, Maidenhead SL6 4PF By phone / 01628 788997 Online / www.nordenfarm.org Film admission includes a charitable donation, which contributes to the upkeep of Norden Farm.
Disabled Accessibility Norden Farm provides ramped access, lifts and toilet facilities. The auditorium has an infra red hearing enhancement system.
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