WHAT’S ON / January 2014
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THIS ISSUE:
MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
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Contents
4 THE JAMESON FILM INSIDER
5 12 YEARS A SLAVE / MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
6 INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS / CRYSTAL FAIRY & THE MAGICAL CACTUS
7 MARIUS / FANNY / THE GENERAL
8 AT A GLANCE
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THE JAMESON BAR AT QFT QFT offers a fully licensed bar, plus tea, coffee and a range of confectionery and snacks. FREE PARKING QFT offers free on-site car parking after 5.30pm within the main Queen’s University site (access via University Square). Disabled badge holders can access disabled bay parking in front of the main Queen’s University site. DISABILITY ACCESS Wheelchair users: Ramp access, 14 wheelchair spaces in cinema, accessible toilets. PROGRAMME CHANGES We reserve the right to change the published programme. Please check www.queensfilmtheatre.com for the most up to date information about film screening dates and times.
“It’s the accessible cinema experience: SEE the dialogue! HEAR the action!” Access screenings include audio enhancement, audio description and on-screen captioning.
9 QFT LEARNING
10 THE MISSING PICTURE / ROUGH CUT / ¡VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS!
11 AFTER TILLER / KISS THE WATER / TEENAGE
12-13 GOTHIC: THE DARK HEART OF FILM
14 NT LIVE / BOLSHOI LIVE
15 FILM HUB NI
The next Access screening at QFT is: 12 YEARS A SLAVE WED 22 JAN, 6.00PM About cinema subtitles and audio description: Cinema subtitles (properly known as captions) are displayed along the bottom of the cinema screen. They include the spoken text as well as descriptions of sounds such as ‘door creaks’, ‘footsteps approaching’, ‘gunshot’ etc. Cinema audio description is a recorded narration which explains - in gaps in the dialogue - what’s happening on screen. It’s delivered through wireless headphones and only the wearer hears the audio description soundtrack. You are strongly advised to book headsets for audio enhancement and audio description at the QFT box office in advance of the screenings as the necessary equipment is limited. Captioning and Audio Description equipment is supported by Northern Ireland Screen and Adapt NI. FOLLOW US ON: /QUEENSFILMTHEATRE
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THE JAMESON FILM INSIDER
04/05
NEW RELEASES
JAMESON PRESENTS
Behind the music
Words By Leigh Forgie
No-one does the idiosyncratic anti-hero quite like the Coen Brothers. Their film making habits are inspired by the early pioneers of cinema, but with a career spanning almost thirty years, it has always been their ability to create unique and memorable leftfield characters that has seen the award-winning writer-director combo deservedly labelled as the most inventive film makers of our lifetime. Their latest film is no exception. Winning the Grand Prix award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and receiving high praise from critics worldwide, Inside Llewyn Davis is already poised to take its place alongside other Coen greats such as Barton Fink, Fargo and No Country For Old Men. The film features a couch-surfing struggling musician in a make-or-break quest to find fame and fortune amidst the early 1960’s New York folk scene. Given this concentrated subject matter, does Inside Llewyn Davis earn the title as the Coens’ most musically profound film to date?
The Dude might disagree. The pot-smoking layabout hero of 1998’s The Big Lebowski became one of the Coens’ best loved characters, with a musical CV that includes a love of Creedence Clearwater Revival, a brief stint as roadie for Metallica and a fevered distaste of The Eagles. Curated by long-time collaborator T-Bone Burnett, the soundtrack reflected the musical tastes of The Dude and produced one of the Coens’ most memorable film sequences to date. After a case of mistaken identity, the Dude falls prey to a druginduced, bowling-themed hallucinogenic dream, complete with a psychedelic soundtrack provided by Kenny Rogers and The First Edition, with their version of “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)”. Far out man! While the music of The Big Lewboski was reflective of the film’s characters, their 2001 comedy O Brother, Where Art Thou? made use of a Depressionera American Deep South backdrop. Loosely following
MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
12 years a slave the same structure as Homer’s Odyssey, the film follows three chain-gang escapees on their quest for long buried treasure. During their misadventures, they wind up recording a hit song as they attempt to avoid the law. Under the “Soggy Bottom Boys” mantle, their version of traditional American folk song “Man of Constant Sorrow” graces the airwaves “as far away as Mobile,” turning the boys into an overnight sensation. But the success story doesn’t end there. The soundtrack went on to win Album of the Year at the 2002 Grammy Awards, has since sold over 7 million copies and is considered one of the best soundtracks of all time. Over a decade later, the Coens are hoping to repeat history, as the cast-performed recordings of Inside Llewyn Davis have already met with similar praise. If they can accomplish this, then perhaps the titular character of their latest film will eventually find the fame and fortune that he so desperately seeks.
FRI 10 – THURS 23 JAN
FRI 3 – THURS 16 JAN
Dir: Steve McQueen • USA/UK • 2013 • 2 HrS 14 Mins • BIOGRAPHY/Drama/HISTORY • Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
DIR: JUSTIN CHADWICK • UK/SOUTH AFRICA • 2013 • 2 HRS 27 MINS • BIOGRAPHY/ DRAMA/HISTORY • CAST: IDRIS ELBA, NAOMIE HARRIS, TERRY PHETO
Director Steve McQueen follows the acclaimed Hunger and Shame with this shocking, based-on-fact story of a 19th-century freeman kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South. The enormously talented Chiwetel Ejiofor leads an extraordinary cast that includes Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Paul Giamatti, Alfre Woodard and Benedict Cumberbatch.
kidnapped, transported to the South and sold into slavery. Forced to take a new name, he is thrown together with other enslaved African Americans, each suffering the horrors of gruelling labour, daily humiliations, and families torn apart. But for Northup, there is the added nightmare of remembering the freedom and identity he so recently enjoyed.
A timely and intimate portrait of the making of a modern icon.
First with Hunger and then with Shame, Steve McQueen established himself as a director of the highest order, and a filmmaker in keen pursuit of truth. Drawing on a shocking real-life story, 12 Years a Slave illuminates, like no other film before it, what it must have been like to live as an American slave.
Powerful, visceral, and often heartbreaking, 12 Years a Slave communicates the horrors of slave society and the physical experience of slavery in one unforgettable film.
In Saratoga Springs, New York, 1841, Solomon Northup is a free man making his living as a musician. After accepting a job offer from two men to play for a circus, he soon finds himself
The 6.00pm screening on Wed 22 Jan will be an Access screening with audio description and on-screen captioning – see page 3.
The daunting task of capturing the revolutionary’s tinderbox spark and charisma falls to Idris Elba, who nails the fiery leader’s well-known physical details (the ramrod posture and clipped diction). Based on Nelson Mandela’s own 1994 memoir, the film exhaustively traces his life, from his early political awakening as an idealistic Johannesburg lawyer in the turbulent 1940s, to his dogged courtship of his future wife and partner in protest, Winnie (an excellent Naomie Harris), to his unjust 27-year imprisonment on Robben Island, to his eventual release and rise to the presidency of a nation that once tried with all its might to break his soul.
NEW RELEASES
06/07
NEW RELEASES/SECOND SIGHT
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
FRI 24 JAN – THURS 6 FEB
CRYSTAL FAIRY & THE MAGICAL CACTUS
FRI 24 JAN – WED 29 JAN
MARIUS
FRI 3 – THURS 9 JAN
FANNY
FRI 17 – THURS 23 JAN
SECOND SIGHT
THE GENERAL
FRI 24 – SUN 26 JAN
Dir: JOEL & ETHAN COEN • USA/FRANCE • 2013 • 1 HR 45 MINS • DRAMA/MUSIC • Cast: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman
cert Dir: Sebastián Silva • CHILE TBC • 2013 • 1 HR 38 MINS • ADVENTURE/COMEDY • Cast: Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffmann, Juan Andrés Silva • PARTIALLY SUBTITLED
Dir: Daniel Auteuil • FRANCE • 2013 • 1 HR 34 MINS • DRAMA • Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Raphaël Personnaz, Victoire Bélézy • ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Dir: Daniel Auteuil • FRANCE • 2013 • 1 HR 42 MINS • DRAMA • Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Victoire Bélézy, Jean-Pierre Darroussin • ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Dir: Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman • USA • 1926 • 1 HR 29 MINS • ACTION/ ADVENTURE/COMEDY • Cast: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender
Sharp and funny, the Coen Brothers latest features star-in-the-the-making Oscar Isaac as a hapless folk singer in ‘60s New York, along with Carey Mulligan and a surprise appearance by none other than Justin Timberlake.
Michael Cera (Juno, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) teams up with maverick writer/director Sebastián Silva (The Maid) for this deadpan comedy and drug-fuelled road trip through Chile.
Veteran French star Daniel Auteuil (Caché) takes on both directing and acting duties in this trilogy based on playwright Marcel Pagnol’s acclaimed Marius/Fanny/César plays.
The follow up to Marius and the second film adapted from Marcel Pagnol’s trilogy finds Fanny alone, dealing with the ever increasing advances of Panisse and her own shameful secret.
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Set in the 1920s, in Pagnol’s hometown of Marseille, the first film centres on Marius, a young man working in his father César’s seaside bar. Although desperate to join the ship crews and explore the world, Marius is tethered to the port by feelings for his childhood friend, Fanny. Things come to a head when the local factory owner Panisse proposes to Fanny and Marius is forced to admit his feelings.
Like its predecessor, this handsomely mounted production is marked by magnificent performances from Daniel Auteuil, Victoire Bélézy and especially Jean-Pierre Darroussin as a widower looking to cash in on Fanny’s predicament.
Coinciding with the current vogue for all things folk, Inside Llewyn Davis takes us back to a pivotal moment in musical history, shown from the perspective of the also-ran… Greenwich Village 1961 B.D. (before Dylan) and Llewyn Davis is a talented but struggling folk musician living from hand to mouth and sleeping on a series of friends’ sofas. Increasingly dejected by his resounding lack of success, Llewyn decides it’s make or break and embarks on a last ditch attempt at fame, accompanied by his trusty guitar and a ginger cat…
Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, Inside Llewyn Davis is not only one of the more purely enjoyable films you will see this year but comes with a packed folk soundtrack to boot (featuring the film’s stars along with Marcus Mumford and the Punch Brothers). What’s not to like? “A masterpiece ‘anti-musical’ from the Coen brothers.” - The Guardian “Oscar Isaac (Drive) gives one of the best performances of a strong year as Llewyn Davis.” - Rolling Stone
Jamie (Cera) is a shaggy, boorish young American traveling through Chile. While searching for a rare hallucinogen – the famed San Pedro cactus – with a trio of Chilean brothers, Jamie invites a mysterious hippie (Gaby Hoffmann) along for the ride, but her free-spirited personality quickly clashes with his self-absorption. When they head for the beach, Jamie’s big trip starts taking surprising turns. Winner of the Best Director Award (World Cinema) at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
The second film in the trilogy, Fanny, follows two weeks later on Friday 17 January.
Don’t miss Marius, the first film in the trilogy, screening at QFT from 3-9 January.
Featuring an impressive orchestral score from acclaimed composer Carl Davis, this is perhaps Buster Keaton’s best-known film and it is widely considered to be the last great comedy of the silent era. Set during the Civil War, the title refers not to Keaton’s character, but to his engine, ‘The General’ which figures prominently in one of the most hilarious chase scenes ever filmed. Keaton portrays the engineer Johnnie Gray, who is rejected by the Confederate Army. When a small band of Union soldiers penetrate far beyond Confederate lines to steal his locomotive, Johnnie Gray sets off in hot pursuit. Introduction by Laura Shearer, film blogger, filmthinktank.com, on Fri 24 Jan, 6.30pm.
AT A GLANCE
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QFT LEARNING
JANUARY DATE
EVENT
TIME
Fri 3
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Marius La Belle et la Bête + intro
6.00pm/8.55pm 6.30pm 8.35pm
Sat 4 – Sun 5
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Marius La Belle et la Bête
6.00pm/8.55pm 6.30pm 8.35pm
Mon 6 – Thurs 9
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom The Missing Picture Marius
6.00pm/8.55pm 6.30pm 8.35pm
Fri 10 – Sat 11
12 Years a Slave Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Rough Cut
6.00pm/8.45pm
Sun 12 – Mon 13
12 Years a Slave Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom ¡Vivan las Antipodas!
6.00pm/8.45pm
Tues 14
12 Years a Slave After Tiller + discussion Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
6.00pm/8.45pm 6.30pm
Wed 15 – Thurs 16
12 Years a Slave After Tiller Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
6.00pm/8.45pm 6.30pm
Fri 17 – Sat 18
12 Years a Slave Fanny The Night of the Hunter
6.00pm / 8.45pm 6.30pm 8.55pm
Sun 19
Bolshoi Live: Jewels The Night of the Hunter 12 Years a Slave Fanny
3.00pm 4.00pm / 8.55pm 6.00pm / 8.45pm 6.30pm
6.10pm 9.05pm
6.10pm 9.05pm
12 Years a Slave Kiss the Water Fanny
6.00pm / 8.45pm 6.30pm 8.20pm
Wed 22
12 Years a Slave (Access screening) Kiss the Water Fanny 12 Years a Slave
6.00pm 6.30pm 8.20pm 8.45pm
QFT Learning provides opportunities for people of all ages to engage with film. For more information go to www.queensfilmtheatre.com/learning
Thurs 23
12 Years a Slave Kiss the Water Fanny
6.00pm / 8.45pm 6.30pm 8.20pm
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY EVENT
Fri 24
The General + intro Inside Llewyn Davis Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus
6.30pm 6.40pm/8.50pm
Sat 25
Junior Gothic: The Woman in Black The General Inside Llewyn Davis Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus
Sun 26
Into the Arms of Strangers + intro The General Inside Llewyn Davis Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus
Mon 27 – Wed 29
Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus Inside Llewyn Davis Teenage
6.30pm 6.40pm / 8.50pm 8.40pm
Inside Llewyn Davis NT Live: Coriolanus Teenage
4.00pm / 6.30pm 7.00pm 8.45pm
9.00pm
8.25pm
For more information on QFT Learning please contact Marion Campbell, QFT Learning, m.campbell@qub.ac.uk
Mon 20 – Tues 21
Thurs 30
8.40pm
INTO THE ARMS OF STRANGERS: FILM STORIES OF THE KINDERTRANSPORT INTRODUCTIONS
2.00pm 6.30pm 6.40pm / 8.50pm 8.30pm 4.00pm 4.30pm / 6.30pm 6.40pm / 8.50pm 8.30pm FRI 3 JAN, 8.35PM
Dir: Mark Jonathan Harris • UK/USA • 2000 • 1 HR 52 MINS • DOCUMENTARY/HISTORY/WAR • Cast: JUDI DENCH (NARRATION) • PARTIALLY SUBTITLED
In the nine months prior to World War II, 10,000 children left their families, their homes and their childhood and took a journey that would change their lives forever. Narrated by Dame Judi Dench, this moving documentary details the historic events leading up to the journey from chaos in Europe to safety in Britain. Recalling the tears, the trauma, the waiting, and in a few cases, the joyous reunion, surviving “kinder” tell their story as never told before.
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LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE
SUN 26 JAN, 4PM
One of the children featured in the film is Robert Sugar, who was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1930, and was eight years old when he left on the Kindertransport. He was sent to a Jewish refugee hostel in Belfast,
and then to a refugee farming settlement near Millisle, in County Down. Preceding the screening of Into the Arms of Strangers will be a short newsreel held on the Northern Ireland Screen Digital Film Archive, Ulster at Arms (1944), which looks at the areas of Northern Irish industry that contributed to the Allied war effort during World War II. Introduction by Marion Campbell, QFT Learning.
Introduction by Robert J.E. Simpson, writer and film historian.
THE GENERAL
FRI 24 JAN, 6.30PM Introduction by Laura Shearer, film blogger, filmthinktank.com.
EDUCATION AND OUTREACH
QFT Learning organises a year round programme of formal and informal events for younger audiences that supports the national curriculum. For more details about events for schools please go to queensfilmtheatre.com/learning QFT’s youth panel is currently planning its fourth Takeover Film Festival from 7-9 Feb 2014. For more information go to takeoverfilm.com
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THE MISSING PICTURE
MON 6 – THURS 9 JAN
ROUGH CUT
FRI 10 – SAT 11 JAN
¡VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS!
SUN 12 – MON 13 JAN
AFTER TILLER
KISS THE WATER TEENAGE
TUES 14 – THURS 16 JAN
MON 20 – THURS 23 JAN cert TBC
Dir: Rithy Panh • CAMBODIA/FRANCE • 2013 • 1 HR 36 MINS • DOCUMENTARY • Cast: Randal Douc (VOICE) • ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Dir: Jamie Shovlin • UK • 2013 • 1 HR 30 MINS • DOCUMENTARY • Cast: Agnes Aspen, Ashley Houston, Bob Young
Dir: Victor Kossakovsky • GERMANY/ARGENTINA/ NETHERLANDS/CHILE • 2011 • 1 HR 48 MINS • DOCUMENTARY • ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Dir: Martha Shane & Lana Wilson • USA • 2013 • 1 HR 25 MINS • DOCUMENTARY
A visually astonishing account of Pol Pot’s Cambodia using miniature clay figures and archive footage to explore memory and trauma.
The debut feature from London-based artist Jamie Shovlin explores the re-making of an exploitation film that never was.
It’s a question every school child has wondered: Where would you end up if you dug from one side of the world to the other?
At its dark heart is Hiker Meat, an archetypal 1970s slasher movie imagined by Shovlin, complete with hitchhiking heroine, charismatic commune leader and a group of teens who disappear one by one. This tantalising film-within-a-film serves to both deconstruct and pay affectionate homage to the often-maligned exploitation style.
Acclaimed Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky introduces us to four pairs of antipodes: Argentina and China; Spain and New Zealand; Hawaii and Botswana; and Russia and Chile. Filmed without narration, the landscapes take central stage in a sumptuous journey best enjoyed in the cinema. Kossakovsky pulls us gently in to each scene, allowing us to linger, watch and listen. Music sets the scene while Kossakovsky’s creative twisting camerawork frequently offers a skewed view of the world.
Dr. George Tiller was one of the few medical practitioners in America who carried out third-term abortions. In 2009, he was assassinated.
Director Rithy Panh returns to the subject that haunts his work with this deeply felt account of his childhood years, endured in various Khmer Rouge labour camps. Panh recreates his experiences with miniature clay figures against stylised backdrops and archive footage. Totems of a childhood innocence cruelly defiled by Pol Pot’s regime, these mute figures are invested with extraordinary expressive power by the forensic detail and lyrical restraint of Panh’s narration. A searching rumination on the relationship between memory and trauma, The Missing Picture demands we reflect on near-unimaginable suffering with a sombre urgency and quiet insistence.
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Shovlin filmed key sections and a full trailer for Hiker Meat in an intense shoot in summer 2013. Rough Cut contrasts these re-made sequences with on-set footage and insights into the development of Hiker Meat’s script, soundtrack and design, to create a compelling mash-up of self-referencing processes, behind-the-scenes viewpoints and time-honoured slasher tropes.
Mesmerising, moving and at times transcendentally comical, ¡Vivan Las Antipodas! breathes life into places that seem mythically connected.
Since then, fewer and fewer doctors are willing to place their lives on the line to carry out these procedures. Martha Shane and Lana Wilson interview the last four, who have become the number one target for pro-life activists. What emerges from the film is a deeply humane account of the complexities surrounding this issue and, ultimately, a call for a rational discussion rather than a descent into violence that those opposed to abortion should abhor. A panel discussion will follow the screening on Tuesday 14 January.
MON 27 – THURS 30 JAN
Dir: Eric Steel • USA/UK • 2013 • 1 HR 19 MINS • DOCUMENTARY/ ANIMATION/BIOGRAPHY
Dir: Matt Wolf • USA/GERMANY • 2013 • 1 HR 18 MINS • DOCUMENTARY/HISTORY
From documentarian Eric Steel (The Bridge) comes this poetic portrait of eccentric Megan Boyd, who lived a hermit’s existence in the remote Highlands of Scotland where she became the world’s most celebrated maker of salmon fishing flies.
Teenagers didn’t always exist. At the turn of the century, child labour was ending, ‘adolescence’ was emerging, and a struggle erupted between adults and youth. Would the young be controlled and regimented, or could they be free?
Mixing animation and more traditional documentary techniques, Steel explores the fascinating life of an artist who dedicated her whole life to the perfection of her craft, with salmon fishers from all corners of the globe - including Prince Charles - making the pilgrimage to her remote cottage for her almost mystical skill in creating objects of beauty irresistible to salmon fish and anglers alike. “Kiss the Water is like dreaming and eating dessert at the same time.” - Jerry Seinfeld
cert TBC
Inspired by punk author Jon Savage’s book, Teenage gives voice to emblematic teenagers from the first half of the 20th century: Brenda, a selfdestructive Bright Young Thing; Melita, an idealistic Hitler Youth; Tommi, a rebellious German Swing Kid; and Warren, a black Boy Scout. Teenage is a punk approach to history. Thanks to the use of subjective narration (from actor Ben Whishaw among others) and living collage of footage, voices and rhythms, it recreates the turbulent feeling of teenage rebellion.
SPECIAL EVENTS: GOTHIC: THE DARK HEART OF FILM
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Gothic
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE
The exploration of the dark side of cinema continues into the New Year with our programme dedicated to all things Gothic.
Dir: Charles Laughton • USA • 1955 • 1 HR 32 MINS • CRIME/DRAMA/FILM-NOIR • Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
THE DARK HEART OF FILM New digital restorations of The Night of the Hunter and La Belle et la Bête will feature alongside Cinemagic’s Gothic storytelling prior to The Woman in Black, and Film at the Braid’s presentation of the classic The Haunting. Gothic NI has been produced by QFT, Belfast Film Festival, Cinemagic, Takeover Film Festival and Film at the Braid, Ballymena and is supported by the British Film Institute’s Programme Development Fund. This programme is presented by Film Hub NI and QFT as part of the BFI Film Audience Network and funded by British Film Institute through National Lottery Funding. www.facebook.com/GothicNI
Part of the BFI Gothic season. For more information, visit bfi.org.uk/gothic
QFT is a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network.
FRI 17 – SUN 19 JAN
14/15 12/13 CINEMAGIC PRESENTS JUNIOR GOTHIC:
THE WOMAN IN BLACK
GOTHIC AT BRAID FILM THEATRE:
THE HAUNTING
cert TBC
BRAND NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION Charles Laughton’s Southern Gothic masterpiece has been immaculately restored for a big screen revival. Based on a novel by the same name, The Night of the Hunter tells the tale of self-appointed preacher Powell (a charismatic and horrifying Robert Mitchum). A sinister yet sensitive character, Powell travels to a small Southern town in search of the family whose husband and father was recently imprisoned for stealing $10,000. Powell ingratiates himself with the family, marries the mother and attempts to find the hidden money. Working alongside cinematographer Stanley Cortez, Laughton produced one of the most haunting and beautifully shot films ever made - it was his only film as a director. Venue: Queen’s Film Theatre
FRI 3 – SUN 5 JAN
SAT 25 JAN, 2PM
Dir: Jean Cocteau • FRANCE • 1946 • 1 HR 35 MINS • DRAMA/FANTASY/ROMANCE • cast: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parély • ENGLISH SUBTITLES QFT LEARNING SEE PAGE 11
Dir: James Watkins • uK/CANADA/SWEDEN • 2012 • 1 HR 35 MINS • DRAMA/HORROR/ THRILLER • cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Janet McTeer, Ciarán Hinds
BRAND NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION
Before the screening join storyteller Randall Stephen Hall as he enthrals and bewitches audience members with gothic tales and folklore.
More beautiful than ever in a new digital restoration, Cocteau’s spellbinding, sensuous adaptation of Beauty and the Beast was recently described by Guillermo del Toro as ‘the most perfect cinematic fable ever told’. Cocteau aspired towards a ‘realism of the unreal’, working with cinematographer Henri Alekan and designer Christian Bérard to conjure up a world of living statues, talking mirrors and candelabras clutched in disembodied hands. With the addition of an eerie orchestral score from Georges Auric, so magical is the entire effect that we are tempted to wonder – along with Beauty – ‘Do such marvels really exist?’ The answer must be an enthralled ‘yes’. Introduction by Robert J.E. Simpson, writer and film historian, on Sun 3 Jan, 8.35pm Venue: Queen’s Film Theatre
WED 29 JAN, 7PM DIR: ROBERT WISE • UK/USA • 1963 • 1 HR 50 MINS • HORROR • CAST: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson AT BRAID FI THEALM TRE
Young widower Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) is sent to a remote village to sort out the affairs of a recently deceased woman. But upon his arrival, it soon becomes clear that everyone in the town is keeping a deadly secret. Venue: Queen’s Film Theatre TICKETS: £5 (£4 concessions) Book online at queensfilmtheatre.com or cinemagic.org.uk
Long before Ghost Story or Poltergeist, Robert Wise directed a creepy little tale about the supernatural called The Haunting, based on the Shirley Jackson novel, The Haunting of Hill House. Dr. John Markway (Richard Johnson), a professor of anthropology with a deep interest in the occult, decides to investigate an infamous mansion with a long history of unexplained psychic phenomena. Joining him in his experiment are Luke Sanderson (Russ Tamblyn) who stands to inherit the house from his family, and two volunteers, Eleanor Vance (Julie Harris) and Theodora (Claire Bloom) who possess unusual extrasensory sensitivities. Complimentary wine served before and after the film. Venue: The Braid, 1-29 Bridge Street, Ballymena TICKETS: £4 Book online at thebraid.com
SPECIAL EVENTS: NT LIVE / BOLSHOI LIVE
CORIOLANUS
SPECIAL EVENTS: FILM HUB NI
NATIONAL THEATRE’S WAR HORSE
BOLSHOI LIVE
14/15
FILM HUB NI OPENING UP A WORLD OF FILM The filmmakers gather before the Gala Screening at St. Columb’s Hall. From left: Gerry Anderson (writer and narrator), Mark McCauley (director), Andrew Reid (Northern Ireland Screen) and Chris Martin (producer).
THURS 30 JAN, 7PM (LIVE) / SAT 1 FEB, 3PM (ENCORE) / SAT 8 FEB, 3PM (ENCORE)
National Theatre Live will broadcast the Donmar Warehouse’s production of Coriolanus, Shakespeare’s searing tragedy of political manipulation and revenge, with Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers, BBC’s The Hollow Crown) in the title role and Mark Gatiss (BBC’s Sherlock) as Menenius, directed by the Donmar’s Artistic Director Josie Rourke. When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But he has enemies at home too. Famine threatens the city, the citizens’ hunger swells to an appetite for change, and on returning from the field Coriolanus must confront the march of realpolitik and the voice of an angry people.
TICKETS Live performances: £15 (£12.50 concessions / Film Card holders)
THURS 27 FEB, 7PM (LIVE) / SUN 2 MAR, 3PM (ENCORE) / SUN 9 MAR, 3PM (ENCORE)
SOLD OUT
The National Theatre’s original stage production of War Horse, broadcast live from London’s West End to cinemas. Based on Michael Morpurgo’s novel and adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford, War Horse takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon to the trenches of First World War France. Filled with stirring music and songs, this powerfully moving and imaginative drama is a show of phenomenal inventiveness. At its heart are astonishing life-size puppets by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, who bring breathing, galloping, charging horses to thrilling life on stage. “Genius isn’t too strong a word to describe this astonishing production.” - Daily Telegraph
Recorded encore performances: £12.50 (£10 concessions / Film Card holders)
The 2013-14 Bolshoi season continues in the New Year with the glitteringly beautiful Jewels. The great comic-satiric ‘Jazz Age’ ballet by Shostakovitch, The Golden Age is another highlight, and there is also the excitement of a completely new Bolshoi production - the 2011 ballet Lost Illusions: a story of student ambition, love and loss in 19th century Paris. JEWELS Sun 19 Jan 2014, 3pm Fauré/Stravinsky/Tchaikovsky Balanchine LOST ILLUSIONS Sun 2 Feb 2014, 3pm Leonid Desyatnikov Alexei Ratmansky THE GOLDEN AGE Sun 30 Mar 2014, 4pm Shostakovitch - Grigorovich
TICKETS £15 (£12.50 concessions / £7.50 QFT Film Card holders)
A City Dreaming Gala and FIRST Film Hub NI Welcome Day Film Hub NI began activity with the Gala Screening of A City Dreaming on Friday 6 December as part of Derry-Londonderry City of Culture 1013. Written and narrated by the renowned BBC broadcaster Gerry Anderson, A City Dreaming is a beautiful and moving portrait of Derry, Londonderry or Stroke City, whichever you prefer. Directed by Mark McCauley and produced by Chris Martin, the film was supported by the British Film Institute and Northern Ireland Screen. Film Hub NI was delighted to support the Gala Screening, demonstrating the excitement that cinema can create and what the Film Hub will develop with its partners over the next years. A sell-out crowd at the historic St. Columb’s Hall on Newmarket Street in the city, delighted in the
wide vision of Anderson and his and the city’s past. The film features a dizzying array of archive film accompanied by a series of personal and intimate recollections of a city and its people. A story that weaves its way through half a century of history during a time that saw the city rise from poverty and neglect, to hitting the headlines across the world. Then, on Saturday 7 December, Film Hub NI held its first welcome day for prospective members at QFT. A wide array of interested parties gathered to hear advice from industry experts such as the Independent Cinema Office, British Federation of Film Societies and Access Cinema. The BFFS British Film Society of the Year, Newcastle Community Cinema, recounted their
tremendous successes in creating and nurturing the film culture of Newcastle, Co. Down. Film Hub NI arranged various screenings, and ample opportunity was had to meet, exchange ideas and plan new cinema in new places. For more information about Film Hub NI visit queensfilmtheatre.com/filmhub or contact us at filmhubni@qub.ac.uk