WHAT’S ON / SEPTEMBER 2014
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THIS ISSUE:
THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE
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NIGHT MOVES
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CONTENTS
4
HE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY T / ATTILA MARCEL
5
PRIDE / TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT
6 NIGHT MOVES / MYSTERY ROAD
7
BVIOUS CHILD / THE KEEPER O OF LOST CAUSES / IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE
8
20,000 DAYS ON EARTH
9
INDING FELA / STOP MAKING F SENSE / BIG STAR: NOTHING CAN HURT ME
10
AT A GLANCE
12
THE CINEMA OF CHILDHOOD
SCHOOLS PROGRAMME LAUNCH FOR TEACHERS
13
A FIEND IN THE FURROWS
16
ALOMÉ & WILDE SALOMÉ / S STEPHEN FRY LIVE: MORE FOOL ME
This is an annual open information session for teachers and film education practitioners that provides details on support available for schools, as well as the forthcoming year of film events which support the national curriculum for Moving Image Arts and other subjects across the national curriculum, at all levels. For more information please go to www.queensfilmtheatre.com/learning.
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SC LIVE: THE TWO R GENTLEMEN OF VERONA / NT LIVE: MEDEA / NT LIVE: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
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FILM HUB NI: CULTURE NIGHT
“Do you want to play a game?” The QFT film quiz returns for all those filmgoers who have been filling the void with games of thermo-nuclear war, Russian roulette and chess matches against Death himself! So if you know your Fassbender from your Fassbinder, your Point Blank from your Point Break and your Aronofsky from your Tarkovsky come along and test your movie mettle. Tickets are FREE but must be booked in advance. Maximum 5 players per team.
14-15 JIM JARMUSCH: THE ESSENTIAL INDEPENDENT
TUES 16 SEPT, 4PM-5.30PM
OUEEN’S UNIVERSITY WELCOME WEEK
VISIT THE JAMESON BAR AT QFT
MON 22 - FRI 26 SEPT
Welcome Week kicks off on 22 September this year and we’re delighted to welcome all new Queen’s students to the QFT, Northern Ireland’s only university cinema. We’ll be hosting a free, students-only screening of Pride (see page 5), a hilarious gay-rights romance set during the miners’ strikes of the 1980s, on Thursday 25 September – don’t miss it. And come check out the QFT stand during the Welcome Week festivities where we’ll be giving out film goodies and more!
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NEW RELEASES
(DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT)
THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY
FRI 5 – THURS 18 SEPT
ATTILA MARCEL
FRI 12 – MON 15 & THURS 18 SEPT
TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT
PRIDE
FRI 19 SEPT – THURS 2 OCT
FRI 22 AUG – THURS 4 SEPT
DIR: LASSE HALLSTRÖM • INDIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES/USA • 2014 • 2 HRS 2 MINS • DRAMA • CAST: HELEN MIRREN, OM PURI, MANISH DAYAL • PARTIALLY SUBTITLED
DIR: SYLVAIN CHOMET • FRANCE • 2013 • 1 HR 46 MINS • COMEDY • CAST: GUILLAUME GOUIX, ANNE LE NY, BERNADETTE LAFONT • SUBTITLED
DIR: MATTHEW WARCHUS • UK • 2014 • 2 HRS • COMEDY/DRAMA/HISTORY • CAST: BILL NIGHY, IMELDA STAUNTON, DOMINIC WEST
DIR: JEAN-PIERRE & LUC DARDENNE • BELGIUM/ITALY/FRANCE • 2014 • 1 HR 35 MINS • DRAMA • CAST: MARION COTILLARD, FABRIZIO RONGIONE, PILI GROYNE • SUBTITLED
Helen Mirren, Manish Dayal, Om Puri and Charlotte Le Bon star in a movie that bursts with flavour. The Hundred-Foot Journey is a portrayal of two worlds colliding and one boy’s drive to find the comfort of home, in every pot, wherever he may be.
Full of music, dance sequences and colourful production design, Attila Marcel takes its heightened reality cues from visionary modern directors such as Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Michel Gondry.
It’s the summer of 1984 – Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise money to support the families of the striking miners. But there is a problem. The Union seems embarrassed to receive their support…
Marion Cotillard excels in this tense social drama from the award-winning Dardenne brothers (The Kid with a Bike).
Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal) is a culinary ingénue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. Displaced from their native India, the Kadam family, led by Papa (Om Puri), settles in the quaint village of Saint-AntoninNoble-Val in the south of France.
Filled with charm, it is both picturesque and elegant – the ideal place to settle down and open an Indian restaurant, the Maison Mumbai. That is, until the chilly chef proprietress of Le Saule Pleureur, a Michelin starred, classical French restaurant run by Madame Mallory (Helen Mirren), gets wind of it. The film, produced by Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Juliet Blake, is based on Richard C. Morais’ eponymous international bestseller. The expertly woven script is by Steven Knight, who recently did a remarkable job writing and directing the dramatic thriller Locke.
Until now, Paul’s existence has been sheltered and strange. The thirty-something man has lived all his life in a drab Paris apartment with two aunts and a daily routine of constant piano practice. When Paul meets an eccentric neighbour and tries her herbal brew, he uncovers deeply buried childhood memories – and a key to unlocking the great mystery of his life. Attila Marcel is the first live action feature film by writer-director Sylvain Chomet, the celebrated creator of animated hits Belleville Rendez-vous and The Illusionist.
But the activists are not deterred. They decide to ignore the Union and go directly to the miners. They identify a mining village in deepest Wales and set off in a mini bus to make their donation in person. And so begins the extraordinary story of two seemingly alien communities who form a surprising and ultimately triumphant partnership.
Ben Schnetzer gives a gutsy performance as Mark Ashton, the campaigner who decides to break out of what he sees as the parochialism of gay politics and support the miners, while Bill Nighy, Paddy Considine, Dominic West and Imelda Stanton are intelligent, charming and witty throughout. “Matthew Warchus’s important romcom about gay activists and striking miners is a heartwarming, faith-restoring antidote…It’s impossible not to smile or be moved during this film.” – THE INDEPENDENT The 6.20pm screening on Mon 22 Sept will be followed by a panel discussion with Micheál Kerrigan, playwright, ‘Pits and Perverts’; Shá Gillespie, LGBT and Human Rights Activist; and Ruth McCarthy, Festival Director, Outburst Arts.
Returning to work after a nervous breakdown, factory worker Sandra (Cotillard) finds herself caught in the horns of an impossible dilemma. While she has been off her bosses have reallocated her work to her colleagues – with the added sweetener of a €1000 bonus. Now she wants to come back and her workmates have been given a choice; sack Sandra and keep their bonuses or reinstate her and say goodbye to the money. In a last ditch attempt to save her job an increasingly desperate Sandra is given one weekend to convince each of her former colleagues to lend her their support…
06/07
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NEW RELEASES
(KVINDEN I BURET)
NIGHT MOVES
MYSTERY ROAD
FRI 29 AUG – THURS 4 SEPT
FRI 29 AUG – TUES 2 SEPT
OBVIOUS CHILD
FRI 5 – THURS 11 SEPT
(KRAFTIDIOTEN)
THE KEEPER IN ORDER OF OF LOST CAUSES DISAPPEARANCE
FRI 5 – THURS 11 SEPT
FRI 12 – THURS 18 SEPT
DIR: KELLY REICHARDT • USA • 2013 • 1 HR 53 MINS • DRAMA/THRILLER • CAST: JESSE EISENBERG, DAKOTA FANNING, PETER SARSGAARD
CERT DIR: IVAN SEN • AUSTRALIA • 2013 TBC • 1 HR 52 MINS • MYSTERY/THRILLER • CAST: AARON PEDERSEN, HUGO WEAVING, RYAN KWANTEN
DIR: GILLIAN ROBESPIERRE • USA • 2014 • 1 HR 25 MINS • COMEDY/ROMANCE • CAST:JENNY SLATE, JAKE LACY, GABY HOFFMANN
DIR: MIKKEL NØRGAARD • DENMARK/GERMANY/SWEDEN • 2013 • 1 HR 37 MINS • CRIME/ MYSTERY /THRILLER • CAST: NIKOLAJ LIE KAAS, FARES FARES, SONJA RICHTER • SUBTITLED
DIR: HANS PETTER MOLAND • NORWAY • 2014 • 1 HR 57 MINS • CRIME/COMEDY • CAST: STELLAN SKARSGÅRD, TOBIAS SANTELMANN, KRISTOFER HIVJU • SUBTITLED
Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Saarsgard star as radical environmental activists whose act of eco-terror plunges them into a moral maelstrom, in the latest film from acclaimed American auteur Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff).
Jay Swan (the smouldering Aaron Pedersen) is an Aboriginal cop returning to his home town to investigate the murder of a teenage girl in this superb slow-burn-thriller with a stellar Australian cast.
The exploits of Brooklyn comedian Donna Stern (Jenny Slate), who gets dumped, fired and pregnant just in time for the worst/best Valentine’s Day of her life.
The latest crime sensation from Denmark, The Keeper of Lost Causes is from the screenwriter of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Mikkel Nørgaard, director of Borgen.
There are shades of Fargo and The Killing in this blackly funny Norwegian thriller starring Stellan Skarsgård.
For Donna, everyday life as a female twenty-something provides ample material for her hysterical and relatable brand of humour. On stage, Donna is unapologetically herself, joking about topics as intimate as her sex life and as crude as her day-old underwear. But when Donna winds up unexpectedly pregnant after a one-night stand, she is forced to face the uncomfortable realities of independent womanhood for the first time.
This is the first thrilling adaptation of the bestselling Department Q crime novels by Jussi Adler-Olsen. Carl Mørck (The Killing) is a disgraced detective who is reassigned to the newly created Department Q, a basement-bound job filing cold cases, and allocated a new assistant, Assad, a smart young Muslim cop. Always one to go against orders, Mørck throws them headlong into the mystery of a missing politician’s disappearance five years earlier. Believing the case to be unsolved, they embark on a dangerous journey that will lead them into the dark underworld of Copenhagen.
The three play a group of environmental activists who, though from very different backgrounds, are united by their radical politics. Josh (Eisenberg) is a militant who is determined to protect the earth by any means necessary. He leads them in a sabotage plot that will have far-reaching repercussions. In the aftermath, the conspirators are filled with paranoia and dread leading to an inevitable and shocking climax.
This is a film about a plot; it is also a far more plot-heavy film than we’re accustomed to seeing from this most austere of auteurs. Perhaps it is best to think of Night Moves as Reichardt’s personal spin on a genre — but which genre? The film slips seamlessly from a suspenseful thriller into a tale of moral consequence. Only a filmmaker as adept at tone as Reichardt could make such a transition so fluidly. And only a filmmaker with Reichardt’s integrity could keep us so captivated, questioning our sympathies and wondering how to navigate our political conscience in troubled times. “As tightly wound and gripping as a thumb-screw.” – Robbie Collin, DAILY TELEGRAPH
His first investigation into the brutal murder of a local teenage girl uncovers a web of corruption and a growing body count. Increasingly disturbed by what he finds, and uneasy around his racist police colleagues (who are also disdainful of his ‘city’ attitude), Swan’s real challenge begins when his inquiries take him still closer to home. Magnificent in its scope and incisive in its social commentary, Mystery Road is both a compelling riff on the Western genre and a biting exposé of indigenous Australian experience.
Donna’s drunken hookup – and epic lapse in prophylactic judgment – turns out to be the beginning of a hilarious and totally unplanned journey of self-discovery and empowerment.
Easygoing Nils (Skarsgård) spends his days driving his giant yellow snow plow, clearing the roads of the icy Norwegian backwater where he lives. When his son, Ingvar, dies of a suspected overdose, Nils is distraught and on the brink of suicide - then he receives proof that Ingvar didn’t OD at all but was murdered by drug-dealing gangsters. Cue transformation of this mild-mannered snow plow driver into a ruthless Charles Bronson style avenger… One of the cleverest, quirkiest thrillers you will see this year, In Order of Disappearance is a frosty delight.
NEW RELEASES/SPECIAL EVENTS
20,000 DAYS ON EARTH + NICK CAVE LIVE EVENT
FINDING FELA
WED 17 SEPT, 7PM
DIR: IAIN FORSYTH & JANE POLLARD • UK • 2014 • 1 HR 37 MINS + 60 MINS LIVE EVENT • DOCUMENTARY/MUSIC • CAST: NICK CAVE, BLIXA BARGELD, SUSIE BICK
Join us for a very special preview of 20,000 Days on Earth followed by a live performance, via satellite from the Barbican Centre, by Nick Cave, Warren Ellis and Barry Adamson, plus a Q&A with the film’s directors and special guests. 20,000 Days on Earth is a bold vision of one of music’s most mysterious and charismatic figures, the iconic Nick Cave. In their debut feature directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard fuse drama and documentary by weaving a cinematically staged day in Cave’s life with never-beforeseen verité observation of his full creative cycle. The film delves into Cave’s artistic processes, unpicking the stuff that makes him tick. We meet those who have affected his life,
personally and professionally, including hilarious moments shared with his regular collaborator, the multiinstrumentalist and epic beard-wearer Warren Ellis; actor and friend Ray Winstone; and Kylie Minogue, whom Cave duetted with on his mainstream hit single Where the Wild Roses Grow. These voices from the past revisit Cave in daydream-like scenes as he sits behind the wheel driving through his adopted hometown of Brighton. The film constructs a narrative and cinematic reality that seamlessly blends performance and storytelling with emotional truths. Avowedly neither a music documentary nor a concert film, 20,000 Days on Earth still contains electrifying performances.
08/09
NEW RELEASES/SPECIAL EVENTS
We see a song grow from the tiniest of ideas sketched out by Cave in his office to a monstrous epic performed by the peerless Bad Seeds on stage at Sydney Opera House. We also witness Cave open up to psychoanalyst Darian Leader as he discusses how his early years continue to inform his work, and later join him on a journey through his personal archive. This category-defying film possesses the same frankness and wry humour that run through all of Cave’s work, and pushes the form into new territory, exploring universal themes and celebrating the transformative power of the creative spirit. TICKETS £12.50 (£10 concessions and Film Card holders)
SAT 20 – TUES 23 SEPT
STOP MAKING SENSE
SAT 30 AUG, 9.30PM
BIG STAR: NOTHING CAN HURT ME
THURS 25 SEPT, 6.30PM
DIR: ALEX GIBNEY • USA/UK/NIGERIA /FRANCE • 2014 • 2 HRS • DOCUMENTARY/BIOGRAPHY/MUSIC • CAST: FELA KUTI, YENI KUTI, FEMI KUTI
DIR: JONATHAN DEMME • USA • 1984 • 1 HR 28 MINS • MUSIC • CAST: DAVID BYRNE, JERRY HARRISON, TINA WEYMOUTH, CHRIS FRANTZ
DIR: DREW DENICOLA & OLIVIA MORI CERT TBC • USA • 2012 • 1 HR 53 MINS • DOCUMENTARY/MUSIC • CAST: JON AUER, CHRIS BELL, ALEX CHILTON
Fela Kuti, the superstar pioneer of Afrobeat, is the subject of the latest work from prolific documentary maker Alex Gibney (The Armstrong Lie, Mea Maxima Culpa).
This year, Talking Heads’ concert film Stop Making Sense turns 30. To mark the occasion, QFT presents the digitally remastered film for one night only.
A feature-length documentary tracing the origins and history of the legendary Memphis band.
Fela’s life was as polyrhythmic as his music. Not just a musician, he was a human-rights activist, political agitator, cultural leader, nightclub owner - and a notorious ladies’ man. Born into a highly educated and politicised Lagos family, Kuti used his music to agitate as much as entertain. Despite brutal police beatings and regular raids on his family compound, he never changed tack. The film is packed with interviews and performances including funky archival footage from the ‘70s and ‘80s, full of wild jumpsuits and giant spliffs. Introduction by Marcus Smith, associate tutor, The Open University, on Sun 21 Sept at 6.30pm
Arguably the best live document of any band, ever, Stop Making Sense is a unique interpretation of Talking Heads at their creative peak, with director Jonathan Demme cutting out the audience and making use of long shots and stark lighting to place the focus solely on the band, including David Byrne in his now-iconic out-sized suit. From Byrne alone with a boombox singing “Psycho Killer” to the expanded Fela Kuti/ Parliament-inspired line-up closing with “Crosseyed and Painless”, Demme miraculously captures that lightning-in-abottle feeling: the exuberance of being in the audience at a concert. Do not miss!
While mainstream success eluded them, Big Star’s three albums have become critically lauded touchstones of the rock music canon. A seminal band in the history of alternative music, Big Star has been cited as an influence by artists including R.E.M., The Replacements, Belle & Sebastian, Elliot Smith and The Flaming Lips, to name just a few. With never-before-seen footage and photos of the band, in-depth interviews and a rousing musical tribute by the bands they inspired, Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me is a story of artistic and musical salvation.
10/11
AT A GLANCE
AUGUST DATE
EVENT
TIME
DATE
EVENT
TIME
Fri 29
Mystery Road Night Moves Two Days, One Night
6.30pm 6.40pm/9.00pm 8.50pm
Fri 12
In Order of Disappearance The Hundred-Foot Journey Attila Marcel
6.30pm/9.00pm 6.40pm 9.10pm
Sat 30
Night Moves Mystery Road Two Days, One Night Stop Making Sense
4.50pm/7.10pm 6.30pm 8.50pm 9.30pm
Sat 13
Sun 31
Hugo and Josephine Mystery Road Night Moves Two Days, One Night
3.30pm 5.30pm 5.40pm/8.00pm 7.50pm
The Hundred-Foot Journey In Order of Disappearance Attila Marcel The Blood on Satan’s Claw + intro
4.10pm/6.40pm 4.30pm/7.00pm 9.10pm 9.30pm
Sun 14
Crows + Ten Minutes Older NT Live: Medea The Hundred-Foot Journey In Order of Disappearance Attila Marcel
2.15pm 3.00pm 4.00pm/5.30pm 6.30pm/9.00pm 8.00pm
Mon 15
In Order of Disappearance Attila Marcel The Hundred-Foot Journey
6.30pm/9.00pm 6.40pm 8.50pm
Tues 16
The Hundred-Foot Journey NT Live: A Streetcar Named Desire In Order of Disappearance
4.15pm
4.15pm
SEPTEMBER DATE
EVENT
TIME
Mon 1 – Tues 2
Mystery Road Night Moves Two Days, One Night
6.30pm 6.40pm/9.00pm 8.50pm
Wed 3
Night Moves RSC Live: The Two Gentlemen of Verona Two Days, One Night
6.30pm 7.00pm 8.50pm
The Hundred-Foot Journey 20,000 Days on Earth + Nick Cave satellite event In Order of Disappearance
Night Moves NT Live: Medea Two Days, One Night Night Moves
6.30pm 7.00pm 8.50pm 9.15pm
Thurs 18 In Order of Disappearance Attila Marcel The Hundred-Foot Journey
Fri 5
Obvious Child The Hundred-Foot Journey The Keeper of Lost Causes
6.30pm 6.40pm/9.10pm 8.25pm
Fri 19
Sat 6
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders + intro Pride Permanent Vacation
6.30pm 6.40pm/9.10pm 8.30pm
Sat 20
Finding Fela Pride Stranger Than Paradise
6.30pm 6.40pm/9.10pm 9.00pm
Sun 7
Tomka and His Friends NT Live: Medea The Hundred-Foot Journey
Sun 21
Pride Red Shift + The Ash Tree Salomé & Wilde Salomé + Al Pacino satellite Q&A Finding Fela + intro Down By Law
1.20pm/8.30pm 3.50pm
Obvious Child The Keeper of Lost Causes
2.10pm 3.00pm 4.00pm/5.30pm /8.00pm 6.30pm 8.25pm
Mon 8
Obvious Child The Hundred-Foot Journey The Keeper of Lost Causes
6.30pm 6.40pm/9.10pm 8.25pm
Mon 22
Tues 9
The Keeper of Lost Causes The Hundred-Foot Journey Obvious Child
6.30pm 6.40pm/9.10pm 8.35pm
Pride + discussion Finding Fela Mystery Train Pride
6.20pm 6.30pm 9.00pm 9.20pm
Tues 23
Wed 10
The Keeper of Lost Causes The Hundred-Foot Journey Obvious Child QFT Film Quiz
6.30pm 6.40pm/9.10pm 8.35pm 9.00pm
Finding Fela Pride Night on Earth
6.30pm 6.40pm/9.10pm 9.00pm
Wed 24
Pride Screen 2 closed for private event
6.30pm/9.00pm
Thurs 11 The Keeper of Lost Causes The Hundred-Foot Journey Obvious Child
6.30pm 6.40pm/9.10pm 8.35pm
Thurs 4
4.10pm/6.40pm /9.10pm 5.30pm Obvious Child 7.25pm The Keeper of Lost Causes Quatermass and the Pit + intro 9.30pm
Wed 17
7.00pm 6.30pm/9.00pm
7.00pm 6.30pm/9.00pm
QFT offers a fully licensed bar, plus tea, coffee and a range of sweets and snacks, including:
6.30pm/9.00pm 6.40pm 8.50pm
Jameson Irish Whiskey
A range of teas World and Local Beers
4.00pm 6.30pm 9.10pm
Glastry Farm Northern Irish Ice Cream
Bailies Handroasted Coffee MacIvors Local Cider Keogh’s Hand Cooked Crisps
Thurs 25 Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me 6.30pm 6.40pm/9.10pm Pride 8.50pm Dead Man
Times are subject to change. Please check www.queensfilmtheatre.com for up-to-date information.
Open from 6 pm every day • Please note: we are a popcorn free zone!
12/13
SPECIAL EVENTS
SPECIAL EVENTS
THE CINEMA OF CHILDHOOD
A FIEND IN THE FURROWS
QFT presents four screenings in collaboration with ‘A Fiend in the Furrows’ - a three-day conference exploring ‘folk horror’ in literature, film, television, and music, introduced by Craig Wallace. For more information visit blogs.qub.ac.uk/folkhorror
The Cinema of Childhood season continues with more undiscovered gems selected by filmmaker and writer Mark Cousins. (HUGO OCH JOSEFIN)
HUGO AND JOSEPHINE
(TOMKA DHE SHOKËT E TIJ)
TOMKA AND HIS FRIENDS
(WRONY)
CROWS
SUN 14 SEPT, 2.15PM
DIR: DOROTA KEDZIERZAWSKA • POLAND • 1994 • 1 HR 6 MINS • DRAMA • CAST: KAROLINA OSTROZNA, KATARZYNA SZCZEPANIK, MALGORZATA HAJEWSKA • SUBTITLED
SUN 31 AUG, 3.30PM
SUN 7 SEPT, 2.10PM
DIR: KJELL GREDE • SWEDEN • 1967 • 1 HR 22 MINS • FAMILY/COMEDY/ DRAMA • CAST: FREDRIK BECKLÉN, MARIE ÖHMAN, BEPPE WOLGERS • SUBTITLED
DIR: XHANFISE KEKO • ALBANIA • 1977 • 1 HR 20 MINS • DRAMA/FAMILY • CAST: SOTIRAQ ÇILI, PAVLINA OÇA, ZEHRUDIN DOKLE • SUBTITLED
The lonely daughter of a rural pastor makes friends with a wild boy who lives in the woods. The mysterious giant who tends the garden seems sinister, but is really a big teddy bear.
When the Nazis occupy an Albanian village after the withdrawal of the Italian army from WW2, Tomka and his gang are furious – because the Germans set up camp on their football pitch.
The darkness of the world beyond childhood lingers at the edge of the frame, but never intrudes. There’s a triumphant ride on a penny-farthing, and an egg-eating scene to beat Cool Hand Luke (made in the same year, curiously). Kjell Grede delivers a Swedish summer classic, blond and gorgeous and heart-breakingly innocent. A pure pleasure.
The local partisans recruit the boys to spy on the invaders, and help to set an ambush. Who knew war could be this much fun? Albania’s greatest female director Xhanfise Keko spins a classic boys’ own adventure yarn, but in a style as raw and authentic as anything from the Italian neo-realists. Never before seen in the UK, freshly restored, this is a rare discovery.
In Crows, 9-year-old Wrona (“crow” in Polish) is neglected at home, laughed at in school, and furious with the world. So she steals a cute little 3-year-old girl to become her surrogate mother. Dorota Kedzierzawska’s film about an angry girl who just wants to love and be loved is tough yet tender, with gorgeous cinematography and an outstanding performance by Karolina Ostrozna as the scrappy misfit. Plus short film TEN MINUTES OLDER DIR. HERZ FRANK • SOVIET UNION • 1978 • 10 MINS
Storms of emotion sweep across a child’s face as he watches a show that we never see. Ten minutes last a small lifetime, and tell us everything about why children are so mesmerized by cinema, and why cinema is so mesmerized by children.
OUATERMASS AND THE PIT SAT 6 SEPT, 9.30PM
DIR: ROY WARD BAKER • UK • 1967 • 1 HR 38 MINS • HORROR/SCI-FI • CAST: ANDREW KEIR, BARBARA SHELLEY, JAMES DONALD
In Nigel Kneale’s third Hammer adventure for Prof. Bernard Quatermass, the streets of modern London are haunted by an ancient evil. The discovery of five million-year-old fossilized hominids and a Martian spacecraft during the excavation of Hobbs End underground station reactivates the spectral apparitions of local folklore. Introduction by Mike Catto, arts critic and broadcaster.
THE BLOOD ON SATAN’S CLAW SAT 13 SEPT, 9.30PM
DOUBLE BILL
RED SHIFT + THE ASH TREE
(VALERIE A TÝDEN DIVU)
VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS SUN 21 SEPT, 3.50PM
RED SHIFT DIR: JOHN MACKENZIE • UK • 1978 • 1 HR 15 MINS • DRAMA • CAST: STEPHEN PETCHER, LESLEY DUNLOP, STELLA TANNER
FRI 19 SEPT, 6.30PM DIR: JAROMIL JIREŠ• CZECHOSLOVAKIA • 1970 • 1 HR 15 MINS • ADVENTURE/ DRAMA/FANTASY • CAST: JAROSLAVA SCHALLEROVÁ, HELENA ANÝZOVÁ, PETR KOPRIVA • SUBTITLED
A very rare 35mm screening of this Czech folk horror cult classic.
DIR: PIERS HAGGARD • UK • 1971 • 1 HR 37 MINS • HORROR • CAST: PATRICK WYMARK, LINDA HAYDEN, BARRY ANDREWS
Jaromil Jireš was a key figure of the legendary Czech New Wave. His 1970 film is an adaptation of Vítezslav Nezval’s surrealist novel.
In 17th century England,a ploughman turns up remains of a fiend in the furrows, reviving forgotten horrors and old superstitions, as the devil himself regenerates his skin on the bodies of local children. The rural landscapes, bleak in winter and blossoming in spring, are beautifully photographed by Dick Bush.
The dreamlike narrative tells of teenage Valerie’s fantastical progression to adulthood and her recurring encounters with magical beings, witches, vampires, and the living dead, alongside puritanical authority figures. The cinematography, art direction, and Luboš Fišer soundtrack create a potent evocation of lost innocence.
Alan Garner’s adaptation of his complex 1973 novel for the BBC’s Play for Today is set in Mow Cop, Cheshire in three different time periods. A stone artifact is the trigger for the cyclical repetition of events on the site, forming an emotional correspondence between moments in time and space. The BFI will release Red Shift on DVD on 13 October. THE ASH TREE DIR: LAWRENCE GORDON CLARK • UK • 1975 • 32 MINS • DRAMA/HORROR • CAST: EDWARD PETHERBRIDGE, BARBARA EWING, LALLA WARD
M.R. James’s short story was adapted by David Rudkin (Penda’s Fen) for the BBC series A Ghost Story for Christmas. The skillfully interweaving narrative relates the powerful influence of a local witch on two generations of the Fell family, as natural cycles of death and rebirth are contaminated by murrain.
JIM JARMUSCH: THE ESSENTIAL INDEPENDENT Back when today’s bearded, check-shirted hipsters were but a glint in their daddy’s eyes, Jim Jarmusch pretty much defined the term – cool, funny, defiantly independent and oh, what great hair! Marking the 30th anniversary of the sublime Stranger Than Paradise, our mini season pays tribute to Jim’s genius.
PERMANENT VACATION
STRANGER THAN PARADISE
MYSTERY TRAIN
SAT 20 SEPT, 9PM
SUN 21 SEPT, 9.10PM
DIR: JIM JARMUSCH CERT TBC • USA • 1980 • 1 HR 15 MINS • DRAMA • CAST: CHRIS PARKER, LEILA GASTIL, JOHN LURIE
DIR: JIM JARMUSCH • USA/WEST GERMANY • 1984 • 1 HR 29 MINS • COMEDY/DRAMA • CAST: JOHN LURIE, ESZTER BALINT, RICHARD EDSON
DIR: JIM JARMUSCH • USA/WEST GERMANY • 1986 • 1 HR 47 MINS • COMEDY/DRIME/DRAMA • CAST: TOM WAITS, JOHN LURIE, ROBERTO BENIGNI
In his senior year at NYU, Jim Jarmusch made what would become his debut feature, Permanent Vacation - 75 minutes of frayed downtown cool.
Jarmusch’s breakthrough film, a low-budget portrait of youth, is a defining moment in American indie film-making.
“I scream. You scream. We all scream. For ice cream.’ Bob (Roberto Benigni)*
Aloysius (Chris Parker) is the prototype for many of Jarmusch’s subsequent loner heroes: he hangs aimlessly around his scuzzy apartment and the crumbling New York streets reading French poetry, stealing cars, and obsessing over his half-punk, half-dandy image. Permanent Vacation is a touching vision of what it was like to be head over heels with art, love, and oneself in late-1970s New York.
Jarmusch established himself as a major new talent with this low-budget, black-and-white portrait of three aimless young people: a detached, world-weary New York hipster (John Lurie), his fedora’d best friend (Richard Edson), and his 16-year-old Hungarian cousin (Eszter Balint), who has just landed in the States with an arsenal of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins tapes.
NIGHT ON EARTH
DEAD MAN
DOWN BY LAW MON 22 SEPT, 9PM
FRI 19 SEPT, 8.30PM
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SPECIAL EVENTS
Jarmusch’s typically eccentric take on the prison movie throws three oddball convicts together, sits back and basically sees what happens. It helps of course that his three cons are played by the combined talents of Tom Waits, John Lurie and Roberto Benigni. Confined three to a cell in the big house, washed up DJ Zack (Waits), pimp Jack (Lurie) and (perhaps) murderer Bob (Benigni) join forces and hatch a plan to break out. Eminently quotable* and deliciously funny, Down By Law is an absolute gem of a film.
TUES 23 SEPT, 9PM
THURS 25 SEPT, 8.50PM
DIR: JIM JARMUSCH • USA/JAPAN • 1989 • 1 HR 50 MINS • COMEDY/CRIME/ DRAMA • CAST: MASATOSHI NAGASE, YÛKI KUDÔ, SCREAMIN’ JAY HAWKINS • PARTIALLY SUBTITLED
DIR: JIM JARMUSCH • FRANCE/UK /GERMANY/USA/JAPAN • 1991 • 2 HRS 9 MINS • COMEDY/DRAMA • CAST: WINONA RYDER, GENA ROWLANDS, BÉATRICE DALLE • PARTIALLY SUBTITLED
DIR: JIM JARMUSCH • USA/GERMANY/ JAPAN • 1995 • 2 HRS • DRAMA/ FANTASY/ WESTERN • CAST: JOHNNY DEPP, GARY FARMER, CRISPIN GLOVER
Jarmusch’s customary assembly of misfits is set adrift in Memphis…with the ghost of Elvis!
Jarmusch goes global with this tale of five taxi rides in five different cities.
Regarded by many as Jarmusch’s masterpiece, Dead Man is a hypnotic, parable-like revisionist Western about the spiritual rebirth of a dying accountant (Johnny Depp) aptly named William Blake.
Like Down By Law, Mystery Train follows a small group of strangers in a strange land as they each experience the American dream. A young, rock ‘n’ roll-obsessed Japanese couple make a pilgrimage to the home of Elvis and Carl Perkins. An Italian widow, lost in the city, hears a disquieting story about the ghost of the King. And a down-and-out Brit (Joe Strummer), mourning the loss of his girlfriend and job, moves from boozing to violence and finally to redemption over the course of one long night.
A collection of five vignettes set in taxis from LA to Rome and Paris to Helsinki, Night on Earth encompasses everything from laugh out loud comedy to deeply moving pathos. On this journey, Jarmusch offers up some of his most unforgettable characters: Béatrice Dalle’s blind Parisian and her stone-faced Ivoirien driver (Isaach De Bankolé); Armin Mueller-Stahl’s German clown-turned-cabbie, still learning how to drive an automatic; Winona Ryder’s chain-smoking aspiring mechanic and the casting agent who tries to court her into showbiz (Gena Rowlands). One of Jarmusch’s warmest films, Night on Earth is still the director’s fullest attempt at making a cinema free of national borders.
Blake travels across a treacherous landscape encountering U.S. Marshals, cannibalistic bounty hunters, shady missionaries, cross-dressing fur traders and Nobody (Gary Farmer), a Plains Indian and one of the most fully realised Native American characters in recent cinema. Philosophical and metaphysical, at the same time Dead Man also offers a barbed reflection on America’s treatment of its indigenous people and a radical twist on the traditional myth of the American West. Not forgetting the incredible electric guitar score by Neil Young.
SALOMÉ + WILDE SALOMÉ + SATELLITE O&A WITH AL PACINO
STEPHEN FRY LIVE: MORE FOOL ME
SUN 21 SEPT, 4PM
WED 1 OCT, 7.30PM
SALOMÉ: DIR: AL PACINO • USA • 2013 • 1 HR 18 MINS • DRAMA • CAST: AL PACINO, JESSICA CHASTAIN, KEVIN ANDERSON
CERT TBC
RUNNING TIME: 1 HR 30 MINS
Salomé: the Oscar Wilde play is set in the time of Jesus and is the story of Salomé (Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain appearing in her first movie role), a princess whose stepfather, King Herod (Pacino), drunkenly promises whatever she desires if she performs the erotically charged “Dance of the Seven Veils” for him. Her demand for the head of John the Baptist - the only man whom Herod fears - leaves the king in a terrible position.
CERT TBC
Wilde Salomé: the documentary (directed by Pacino) takes us on a journey that focuses on his fascination and obsession for Wilde’s work after seeing the play performed in London with Stephen Berkoff in the role that Pacino would go on to fill.
To celebrate the release of his brand new volume of memoirs, More Fool Me, the ever-eloquent Stephen Fry will be broadcast live from The Royal Festival Hall reading extracts from the book alongside witty anecdotes and insightful observations.
The event will begin at 4pm with 10 min intervals between the films and before the Q&A. Estimated end time 8pm.
The Fry Chronicles was the biggest 2010 autobiography in the UK, selling over one million copies worldwide. Get a sneak preview of the third volume: a heady tale of the late eighties and early nineties in which Stephen, driven to create, perform and entertain, burned bright and partied hard and damn the consequences... Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see the multi-award-winning comedian, actor, presenter, writer and raconteur talking live: when he’s forced to tour he’s a tour de force.
TICKETS £12.50 (£10 concessions and Film Card holders)
TICKETS £12.50 (£10 concessions and Film Card holders)
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
WED 3 SEPT, 7PM
WILDE SALOMÉ: DIR: AL PACINO • USA • 2011 • 1 HR 35 MINS • DOCUMENTARY/DRAMA • CAST: AL PACINO, JESSICA CHASTAIN, KEVIN ANDERSON
Al Pacino’s films Salomé and Wilde Salomé will be screened back-to-back and followed with a live satellite Q&A featuring the Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker hosted by Stephen Fry.
16/17
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SPECIAL EVENTS
3 HRS APPROX. (INCL. INTERVAL)
Simon Godwin makes his RSC debut to direct Shakespeare’s exuberant romantic comedy, broadcast live from Stratford. Valentine and Proteus are best friends, until they fall in love with the same girl. Having travelled to Milan in search of adventure, they both fall for the Duke’s daughter Silvia. But Proteus is already sworn to his sweetheart, Julia, at home in Verona, and the Duke thinks Valentine is not good enough for his Silvia. With friendship forgotten, the rivals’ affections quickly get out of hand as the four young lovers find themselves on a wild chase through the woods, confused by mistaken identity and threatened by fierce outlaws before they find a path to reconciliation.
TICKETS Live performance: £15 full (£12.50 concessions and Film Card holders)
MEDEA
THURS 4 SEPT, 7PM (LIVE) / SUN 7 SEPT, 3PM (ENCORE) / SUN 14 SEPT, 3PM (ENCORE)
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
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TUES 16 SEPT, 7PM (LIVE) UT / SUN 28 SEPT, 3PM (ENCORE) / SUN 5 OCT, 3PM (ENCORE)
1 HR 40 MINS APPROX. (NO INTERVAL)
4 HR APPROX. (INCL. INTERVAL)
Helen McCrory (The Last of the Haussmans) returns to the National Theatre to take the title role in Euripides’ powerful tragedy, in a new version by Ben Power, directed by Carrie Cracknell, with music by Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory (Goldfrapp).
The fastest-selling production in the Young Vic’s history, Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece will be broadcast live from their London home by National Theatre Live.
Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children. Cornered, she begs for one day’s grace. It’s time enough. She exacts an appalling revenge and destroys everything she holds dear.
With Gillian Anderson (The X-Files, The Fall) as Blanche DuBois, Ben Foster (Lone Survivor, Kill Your Darlings) as Stanley and Vanessa Kirby (BBC’s Great Expectations, Three Sisters at the Young Vic) as Stella. As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace - but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski. Visionary director Benedict Andrews returns to the Young Vic following his Critics’ Circle Award-winning Three Sisters.
TICKETS Live performance: £15 full (£12.50 concessions and Film Card holders)
TICKETS Live performance: £15 full (£12.50 concessions and Film Card holders)
Recorded encore performance: £12.50 (£10 concessions and Film Card holders)
Recorded encore performance: £12.50 (£10 concessions and Film Card holders)
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18/19
FILM HUB NI – CULTURE NIGHT
The QFT offers something quite unique in Belfast a rich mixture of thoughtprovoking, independent, experimental, new and classic films from around the world...not to be missed. Ciarán Hinds
TAKE YOUR SEAT
FILM HUB NI OPENING UP A WORLD OF FILM CULTURE NIGHT SEPTEMBER CINEMA FRI 19 SEPT, 5PM-10PM
Film Hub NI comes to Culture Night Belfast. The one and only Culture Night Belfast, taking place on 19 September, will see Film Hub NI take over a warehouse on Little Donegall Street to the rear of the Belfast Telegraph to create Culture Night September Cinema, showing a huge range of independent film from 6pm-11pm. Film Hub members such as Takeover Film Festival, Cinemagic and many more will present a programme across the five hours showing films you know and films you definitely don’t. Drop by, have
some popcorn and enjoy the flickering silver screen. There will be sci-fi, horror, romance, animated films, silent films, bizarre shorts and local films all programmed by the collective power of Film Hub NI. Playbills will be available on Culture Night, distributed across the Cathedral Quarter by volunteers with titles and show times of all the films on offer. We’ll have popcorn on tap to keep spirits high, and the highs and lows of independent cinema on show. So drop in and join Film Hub members in enjoying the glowing light of the silver screen.
Film Hub NI is led by Film Hub Lead Organisation QFT as part of the BFI Film Audience Network and funded by British Film Institute through National Lottery Funding.
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