BOOKING AND VENUE INFORMATION
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TICKET PRICES Standard admission: £6.50 Senior Citizens, Disabled Users (Carers’ tickets are free), Unwaged, QUB Staff: £5 QFT Film Card, Students (aged 16 and over in full-time education), Children (under 16 years): £4 Mondays and Tuesdays: * £4 for every film *Certain exclusions may apply, check website for details
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QFT FILM CARD Buy online at www.queensfilmtheatre.com and receive £2.50 ticket discount off the standard ticket price and a range of other benefits (see the website for details). PAYMENTS QFT does not accept payment by cheque or American Express and operates a minimum card transaction amount of £5 when paying in person or by telephone. SUBTITLED FILMS Customers are advised that viewing of subtitles may be restricted along the first few rows of Screen One. THE JAMESON BAR AT QFT QFT offers a fully licensed bar, plus tea, coffee and a range of confectionery and snacks. QFT IS KINDLY SUPPORTED BY:
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, accessible toilets, wheelchair spaces in both screens (please book in advance). 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.
02/03
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FILM CARD HOLDERS CHRISTMAS SCREENING
SUN 14 DEC, FROM 1.30PM
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. It’s time for the Film Card Holders Christmas party! As a thank you to our most loyal of customers, we would like to invite all Film Card holders to a special get together. We’ll be serving up complimentary mulled wine and festive treats, listening to some of our favourite Christmas songs, not to mention a few seasonal surprises we have up our sleeves...and to round it off there’s a choice of two screenings: TESTAMENT OF YOUTH A special preview of this moving and timely adaptation of Vera Brittain’s beloved WWI memoir, starring Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington and Colin Morgan. Testament of Youth will open at QFT on 16 January 2015. Special thanks to Lionsgate Films. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE It wouldn’t be Christmas at QFT without this feel good, festive classic. Join us as Clarence, the angel trying to get his wings, shows a despairing George Bailey (James Stewart) what the world would be like without him in it. Details of Christmas films showing at QFT start on page 8. Book your place in person at Box Office or online by visiting queensfilmtheatre.com/films/specialevents
CONTENTS
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ST. VINCENT / THE DROP
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HAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS W / EFFIE GRAY
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EVIATHAN / THE L GRANDMASTER / STATIONS OF THE CROSS
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ANAKAMANA / CONCERNING M VIOLENCE / KON-TIKI
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I T’S A WONDERFUL LIFE / THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL / THE POLAR EXPRESS
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IE HARD / ELF / D FROZEN SING-A-LONG
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AT A GLANCE
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HE OVERNIGHTERS / T CITIZENFOUR / HEAVEN ADORES YOU
13 SHADOWS OF THE GREAT WAR: WORLD WAR ONE ON FILM
14-17 BEYOND THE INFINITE: SCI-FI ON SCREEN
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T LIVE: JOHN / NT LIVE: N TREASURE ISLAND /BOLSHOI LIVE: THE NUTCRACKER
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A BIG FESTIVE THANK YOU TO ALL THE STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS WHO MAKE OFT HAPPEN: Dick Baptiste, Brendan Boylan, Alison Brown, Johnny Burnside, Marion Campbell, Richard Cardwell, Richard Davis, Sean Dorris, Jessica Fok, Sara Gunn-Smith, Jenni Graham, Hannah Griffiths, Stephen Hutchinson, Sarah Kelly, Ciaran Magee, Clare Maguire, Nicola Martin, Siobhan McAlister, Debbie McCormack, Stuart McCormick, Kyle McDonald, Elizabeth McGeown, Morgan J McKinnon Snell, Declan Meehan, Adrian Mulgrew, Jill Mulholland, David Neill, Amanda Neuman, Ciara O’Connor, Cliodhna O’Halloran, Emma O’Kane, Hugh Odling-Smee, Lorraine Orr, Susan Picken, Alice Quigley, Matt Ralphson, Jane Robinson, Elizabeth Sands, Laura Shearer, Michael Staley, Michael Stevenson, ` Jakub Swiderek, Sara Tibbs, David Wallace, and Fabienne Weir.
NEW RELEASES
THE DROP
ST. VINCENT
FRI 5 – THURS 18 DEC
FRI 21 NOV – THURS 4 DEC
DIR: THEODORE MELFI • USA • 2014 • 1 HR 42 MINS • COMEDY • CAST: BILL MURRAY, MELISSA MCCARTHY, NAOMI WATTS
DIR: MICHAËL R. ROSKAM • USA • 2014 • 1 HR 46 MINS • CRIME/DRAMA • CAST: TOM HARDY, NOOMI RAPACE, JAMES GANDOLFINI
A cantankerous, cash-strapped, loose-living retiree (Bill Murray) becomes a spectacularly unlikely role model for his 12-year-old neighbour, in this delightful comedy co-starring Melissa McCarthy, Chris O’Dowd, Terrence Howard and Naomi Watts.
Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and the late, great James Gandolfini star in this gritty crime drama from Michaël R. Roskam, the Academy Award nominated director of Bullhead.
It’s putting it mildly to call Vincent (Murray) a prickly character. A solitary Vietnam War veteran with a withering temper, he’s less than pleased to see Maggie (Melissa McCarthy) move into the vacant house next door with her 12-year-old son Oliver (newcomer Jaeden Lieberher). Desperate times call for desperate measures, however, and when Vincent’s bank account bottoms out, he approaches Maggie about minding her boy during her late-night nursing shifts. Maggie reluctantly agrees, and soon Oliver is on the receiving end of an uproarious miseducation.
Yet Vincent’s unorthodox tutelage also yields a tender and mutually beneficial friendship reminiscent of Murray’s unforgettable pairing with Jason Schwartzman in Rushmore. On the strength of his much-buzzed-about screenplay, writer-director Theodore Melfi has assembled a cast the likes of which first-time filmmakers can typically only dream. In addition to Murray and McCarthy, St. Vincent stars Chris O’Dowd and Terrence Howard, as well as Naomi Watts as a pregnant Russian prostitute. Her wonderfully over-the-top turn is the sort of performance one might label a “scene-stealer.” But with Murray in this sort of form, there’s no doubt as to who’s running the show.
Based on a screenplay from Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone), The Drop follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) through a covert scheme of funneling cash to local gangsters - “money drops” - in the underworld of Brooklyn bars. Under the heavy hand of his employer and cousin Marv (James Gandolfini), Bob finds himself at the centre of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighbourhood’s past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter what the cost.
04/05
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WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS
FRI 12 – THURS 18 DEC
EFFIE GRAY
FRI 28 & SUN 30 NOV
DIR: JEMAINE CLEMENT & TAIKA WAITITI • NEW ZEALAND • 2014 • 1 HR 25 MINS • COMEDY • CAST: JEMAINE CLEMENT, TAIKA WAITITI, JONATHAN BRUGH
DIR: RICHARD LAXTON • UK • 2014 • 1 HR 48 MINS • DRAMA • CAST: DAKOTA FANNING, EMMA THOMPSON, CLAUDIA CARDINALE
“We’re werewolves, not swearwolves!”
It’s been a long time coming, but Emma Thompson’s incisive screenplay about the troubled relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise) and his teenage bride Euphemia ‘Effie’ Gray (Dakota Fanning) proves well worth the wait.
You may have shared houses with some weirdos in the past, but the vampire housemates in What We Do in the Shadows take the cake. Viago (Taika Waititi) is a fussy dandy who sleeps in a coffin, Deacon (Jonathan Brugh) hasn’t washed the dishes in 500 years, Vlad (Jemaine Clement) has Bram Stoker’s Dracula-style orgies in his room and 8,000 year old Petyr (Ben Fransham) mostly hides in the basement behind a heavy stone boulder. The four have allowed camera crews into their Wellington home to film them in the lead-up to The Unholy Masquerade, an annual New Zealand gathering of the undead and their supernatural counterparts.
This uproariously silly mockumentary was created by Taika Waititi (Boy, Eagle vs Shark) and Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) and adapted from their 2006 short film. You’d assume it’d be safe to say that all the Transylvanian tropes would have been well and truly trotted out by now (hat tip to The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me But Your Teeth Are in My Neck and Dracula: Dead and Loving It) but this is a real fresh, bloody laugh.
Thompson herself plays author Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, who supports Effie through a scandalous court case that turns on the question of whether the Ruskins’ loveless marriage has been consummated. With the Crimean War gnawing away in the background, and an exceptionally strong cast that includes Robbie Coltrane, Derek Jacobi, and Tom Sturridge as the Pre-Raphaelite Millais – with whom Effie falls in love – Effie Gray confirms director Richard Laxton (Burton and Taylor, An Englishman in New York) as a master of cinematic biography.
NEW RELEASES
YI DAI ZONG SHI LEVIAFAN
LEVIATHAN
FRI 28 NOV – THURS 4 DEC
THE GRANDMASTER
FRI 5 – THURS 11 DEC
KREUZWEG
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
FRI 5 – THURS 11 DEC
DIR: ANDREY ZVYAGINTSEV • RUSSIA • 2014 • 2 HRS 21 MINS • DRAMA • CAST: VLADIMIR VDOVICHENKOV, ALEKSEY SEREBRYAKOV, ROMAN MADYANOV • SUBTITLED
DIR: WONG KAR WAI • HONG KONG/ CHINA • 2013 • 1 HR 48 MINS • ACTION/ DRAMA • CAST: TONY CHIU WAI LEUNG, ZHANG ZIYI, ZHANG JIN • SUBTITLED
DIR: DIETRICH BRÜGGEMANN • GERMANY • 2014 • 1 HR 50 MINS • DRAMA • CAST: LEA VAN ACKEN, LUCIE ARON, ANNA BRÜGGEMANN • SUBTITLED
Winner of Best Film at the 2014 London Film Festival and a screenplay award at Cannes, the latest film from acclaimed director Andrey Zvyagintsev (Elena, The Return) is a gripping and complex study of corrupt politics in Putin’s Russia.
Wong Kar Wai’s double Oscar-nominated film inspired by the life of legendary Kung Fu master Ip Man (Tony Chiu Wai Leung) finally hits the UK after opening 2013’s Berlin Film Festival.
Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Script at the Berlin Film Festival, Dietrich Brüggemann’s extraordinary film is a distinctive and moving study of faith today.
Set on a remote peninsula near Russia’s border with Finland, it follows a family’s attempts to resist the compulsory purchase of their home by the local mayor. The result is a complex, richly layered and immersive drama that’s as epic and imposing as its title suggests. “Stunningly shot and superbly acted, especially by Madyanov, this is film-making on a grand scale.” - Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN *****
Born into a wealthy family in Foshan, Ip’s life changes when a Martial Arts Grandmaster names him as heir to his family, bypassing his only child Gong Er (Zhang Ziyi) as tradition dictates. Bent on restoring her family’s honour, she challenges Ip, igniting a relationship between the two that lasts a lifetime. Spanning China’s chaotic Republican era, war with the Japanese and Ip’s ultimate move to the US, Wong’s approach is, naturally, unconventional. This is less a straightforward Kung Fu biopic than a philosophical, impressionistic ‘kung fu dream’, but a staggeringly beautiful one at that.
Young Maria (a brilliant performance from Lea van Acken) is part of a strong Catholic family dominated by a fanatical mother. As the indoctrination of the local priest and mother increases, the conflicts she faces between these teachings and her adolescent attraction to a boy force her to make difficult choices. Uniquely structured around the 14 Stations of the Cross, the film unfolds with a slow and deliberate pace (each station is comprised of a single tracking shot), offering an intense dissection of Catholic passion and pressure.
06/07
NEW RELEASES
CONCERNING VIOLENCE
MANAKAMANA
FRI 12, SUN 14, TUES 16 & THURS 18 DEC DIR: STEPHANIE SPRAY & PACHO VELEZ • NEPAL/USA • 2013 • 1 HR 58 MINS • DOCUMENTARY • SUBTITLED
SAT 13, MON 15 & WED 17 DEC CERT TBC
Technology and spiritual belief meet aboard a Nepalese cable car. The latest work to emerge from the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab is a startling, one-of-a-kind documentary experience, filmed entirely inside the narrow confines of a cable car transporting villagers to an ancient mountaintop temple high above a jungle in Nepal. Over the course of 11 trips – each composed of a single static shot – directors Spray and Velez introduce us to new sets of passengers. Through their shared conversations, anecdotes, observations about the surrounding landscape, and even their silence, a detailed picture of their lives emerges; a story about history, tradition and change. “You could hardly ask for a more beautiful vision of souls in transit.” - TIME OUT NEW YORK
DIR: GÖRAN HUGO OLSSON • SWEDEN/FINLAND/DENMARK/USA • 2014 • 1 HR 29 MINS • DOCUMENTARY • PARTIALLY SUBTITLED
Full of remarkably powerful footage, Concerning Violence is a challenging but ultimately illuminating look at the struggle against colonial rule in Africa. Committing a political act of unburying and appropriation, director Göran Hugo Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape 1969-1975) assembles striking archival material of various liberation efforts from the ‘60s and ‘70s and sets it to passages from Frantz Fanon’s vital treatise on racism and colonialism, The Wretched of the Earth. Actor/singer Lauryn Hill narrates the text with passionate conviction, guiding us through a tricky terrain of often-difficult imagery. Divided into nine chapters and meticulously woven together to rhythmic perfection, Olsson’s work is one of the most impressively structured found-footage films—and certainly the most intense—in recent memory.
KON-TIKI
FRI 19 – TUES 23 DEC DIR: JOACHIM RØNNING & ESPEN SANDBERG • UK/NORWAY/DENMARK/ GERMANY/SWEDEN • 2012 • 1 HR 58 MINS • ADVENTURE/HISTORY • CAST: PÅL SVERRE HAGEN, ANDERS BAASMO CHRISTIANSEN, GUSTAF SKARSGÅRD • ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION
Nominated for the Best Foreign Language film Oscar, Kon-Tiki is one of the most exhilarating films you will see all year. On the 28th April 1947, Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl set off with five inexperienced crew members on an expedition to cross the Pacific Ocean on a balsa wood raft. He wanted to prove that people from South America settled in Polynesia instead of people from Asia, as was believed at the time. Rønning and Sandberg’s masterful account of Heyerdahl’s staggeringly brave journey is unerringly faithful to the original story, as we follow Heyerdahl gathering financing for the trip with loans and donations, before setting off on an epic 101 day-long journey across 8,000 kilometres, all while the world was watching.
CHRISTMAS AT QFT
QFT brings you Christmas in style with favourites old and new. Early booking is advised!
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
TUES 16 – TUES 23 DEC
THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL
FRI 19 – TUES 23 DEC
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CHRISTMAS AT OFT THE POLAR EXPRESS
SAT 20, MON 22 & TUES 23 DEC
DIR: FRANK CAPRA • USA • 1946 • 2 HRS 10 MINS • DRAMA/FAMILY/ FANTASY • CAST: JAMES STEWART, DONNA REED, LIONEL BARRYMORE
DIR: BRIAN HENSON • USA • 1992 • 1 HR 26 MINS • COMEDY/DRAMA/ FANTASY • CAST: MICHAEL CAINE, KERMIT THE FROG, MISS PIGGY
DIR: ROBERT ZEMECKIS • USA • 2004 • 1 HR 40 MINS • ANIMATION/ ADVENTURE/FAMILY • CAST: TOM HANKS, CHRIS COPPOLA, MICHAEL JETER
Something of a Christmas tradition in itself, It’s a Wonderful Life returns to QFT in this digitally restored version.
The best ever Muppet film, digitally restored for your viewing pleasure.
10 years on since Robert Zemeckis first pushed the boundaries of motion capture animation to create his unique winter wonderland, this anniversary re-release will give a new generation the chance to see a Christmas classic back on the big screen.
This ultimate feel good and festive classic, from Oscar-winning director Frank Capra, stars James Stewart as despairing businessmen George Bailey. One fateful Christmas Eve, George receives a visit from Clarence, a celestial messenger, who prevents him from jumping into a freezing river. The pair travel together through moments in George’s life to show him what the world would be like if he had never existed. A genuinely tender and enduring piece of yuletide cinema.
Michael Caine plays Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserable old man, bitter about his past and determined to ignore Christmas completely. When Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, he begins to discover the feeling of Christmas cheer and the importance of good deeds. This comedic retelling is a true gem with humour that will appeal to children and adults alike, so come along and celebrate with the Muppets as they remind us all of the true meaning of Christmas!
Late on Christmas Eve, a young boy lies awake in bed doubting the existence of Santa Claus and nervously waiting to hear the sound of sleigh bells. Instead a magical steam engine roars outside his window, bound for the North Pole. The train’s irascible conductor (Tom Hanks - in one of several roles) invites the boy on board, and together they begin a roller-coaster journey up mountains, across ice fields and beyond imagination.
08/09
CHRISTMAS AT QFT
QFT HIJACK!
DIE HARD
FRI 19 – SAT 20 DEC
ELF
SUN 21 – TUES 23 DEC
FROZEN SING-A-LONG
SAT 6 DEC, 12.30PM
DIR: JOHN MCTIERNAN • USA • 1988 • 2 HRS 12 MINS • ACTION/THRILLER • CAST: BRUCE WILLIS, ALAN RICKMAN, BONNIE BEDELIA
DIR: JON FAVREAU • USA/GERMANY • 2003 • 1 HR 33 MINS • COMEDY/ FAMILY/FANTASY • CAST: WILL FERRELL, JAMES CAAN, BOB NEWHART
DIR: CHRIS BUCK & JENNIFER LEE • USA • 2013 • 1 HR 48 MINS • ANIMATION/ ADVENTURE/COMEDY • CAST: KRISTEN BELL, IDINA MENZEL, JONATHAN GROFF
Chosen as this month’s Hijack! screening by the QFT staff, Die Hard is the film for you if you like your Christmas movies violent, sweary and wearing a vest.
Will Ferrell’s take on a North Pole elf trying to figure out Manhattan just might be the funniest he’s ever been, and this is certainly one of the best Christmas movies from the past ten years.
Sing your heart out at this special sing-a-long screening of Disney’s newest classic. Altogether now: “Let it go, let it go...”
New York City cop John McClane (Willis) travels to LA to spend Christmas with his estranged wife (Bedelia). His first stop is the office Christmas party at Nakatomi Plaza, where his wife works. But terrorist Hans Gruber (an impeccable performance from Rickman) turns up with some hard-core mayhem in mind, leaving McClane alone in a vest, sans shoes, to save the day. What follows is some of the best and most iconic action cinema ever to have come out of Hollywood. Yippee-ki-yay, melon farmer!
Elf follows the fish-out-of-water story of Buddy (Ferrell); an oversized elf who leaves the North Pole for Manhattan in search of his real family, after realising he is in fact a human inadvertently raised as an elf. Under the watchful eye of writer/ director Jon Favreau, Will Ferrell’s performance as loveable man-child Buddy is played with supreme comedic skill. With a tongue in cheek story and accessible humour for children and adults alike, Elf is a true modern Christmas classic.
Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen, this delightful children’s animation goes one better by having not one but two beleaguered princesses. The sweet and intrepid Anna (Kristen Bell) is desperately searching for her missing sister Elsa (Idina Menzel), whose icy powers have thrown the kingdom of Arendelle into eternal winter. But as Anna’s quest gradually reveals, Elsa is not really so villainous, and along the way Anna solicits the help of a comic snowman called Olaf (Josh Gad), rugged mountain man Kristoff (Jonathon Groff), and a reindeer called Sven.
10/11
AT A GLANCE
NOVEMBER DATE
EVENT
TIME
Fri 28
Forbidden Planet + intro Effie Gray The Drop Leviathan
6.20pm 6.30pm 8.50pm 9.00pm
Sat 29
Sun 30
Junior Sci-Fi: Close Encounters of the Third Kind All Quiet on the Western Front The Drop The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Leviathan Heaven Adores You 2001: A Space Odyssey Effie Gray Leviathan The Drop
1.00pm 3.00pm 5.45pm 6.30pm 8.00pm 9.00pm 6.00pm 6.10pm 8.30pm 9.00pm
DECEMBER DATE
EVENT
TIME
Mon 1
The Drop The Day the Earth Stood Still 2001: A Space Odyssey Leviathan
6.00pm 6.15pm 8.15pm 8.30pm
Stalker The Drop 2001: A Space Odyssey + intro Leviathan
6.00pm 6.15pm 8.30pm 9.10pm
Leviathan The Thing + intro 2001: A Space Odyssey The Drop
6.00pm 6.15pm 8.30pm 8.50pm
Leviathan Flash Gordon 2001: A Space Odyssey The Drop
6.00pm 6.15pm 8.30pm 8.50pm
Fri 5
Stations of the Cross St. Vincent The Grandmaster
6.20pm 6.40pm/8.50pm 8.40pm
Sat 6
Junior Sci-Fi: The Iron Giant Frozen Sing-A-Long La Grande Illusion St. Vincent Stations of the Cross The Grandmaster
12.00pm 12.30pm 3.00pm 6.00pm/8.10pm 6.20pm 8.40pm
Sun 7
Lawrence of Arabia St. Vincent Stations of the Cross The Grandmaster
2.00pm 6.00pm/8.10pm 6.20pm 8.40pm
Mon 8
Stations of the Cross St. Vincent The Grandmaster
6.20pm 6.40pm/8.50pm 8.40pm
Tues 9
St. Vincent The Grandmaster NT Live: JOHN Stations of the Cross
5.50pm 6.30pm 8.00pm 9.00pm
Tues 2
Wed 3
Thurs 4
DATE
EVENT
TIME
Wed 10 – Thurs 11
The Grandmaster St. Vincent Stations of the Cross
6.30pm 6.40pm/8.50pm 9.00pm
Fri 12
Manakamana What We Do in the Shadows St. Vincent
6.30pm 6.40pm/9.00pm 8.50pm
Sat 13
The Overnighters + intro Concerning Violence What We Do in the Shadows Citizenfour St. Vincent
3.30pm 6.30pm 6.40pm 8.20pm 8.30pm
Sun 14
QFT Film Card Day Blade Runner: The Final Cut Manakamana St. Vincent What We Do in the Shadows
From 1.30pm 6.00pm 6.10pm 8.30pm 8.40pm
Mon 15
Citizenfour St. Vincent What We Do in the Shadows Concerning Violence
6.30pm 6.40pm 8.50pm 9.00pm
Tues 16
It’s a Wonderful Life Manakamana St. Vincent What We Do in the Shadows
6.15pm 6.30pm 8.50pm 9.00pm
Wed 17
It’s a Wonderful Life Concerning Violence What We Do in the Shadows St. Vincent
6.15pm 6.30pm 8.50pm 9.00pm
Thurs 18 It’s a Wonderful Life Manakamana St. Vincent What We Do in the Shadows
6.15pm 6.30pm 8.50pm 9.00pm
Fri 19
The Muppet Christmas Carol Kon-Tiki It’s a Wonderful Life Die Hard
6.10pm 6.20pm 8.10pm 8.45pm
Sat 20
It’s a Wonderful Life The Polar Express The Muppet Christmas Carol Kon-Tiki Die Hard
3.30pm/8.10pm 4.00pm 6.10pm 6.20pm 8.45pm
Sun 21
Bolshoi Live: The Nutcracker Joyeux Noël The Muppet Christmas Carol Kon-Tiki It’s a Wonderful Life Elf
3.00pm 3.30pm 6.10pm 6.20pm 8.10pm 8.45pm
Mon 22
It’s a Wonderful Life The Polar Express The Muppet Christmas Carol Kon-Tiki Elf
3.30pm/8.10pm 4.00pm 6.10pm 6.20pm 8.45pm
Tues 23
It’s a Wonderful Life The Polar Express The Muppet Christmas Carol Kon-Tiki Elf
3.00pm/7.30pm 3.30pm 5.30pm 5.45pm 8.15pm
Wed 24 – CLOSED FOR CHRISTMAS Wed 31
Times are subject to change. Please check www.queensfilmtheatre.com for up-to-date information.
SPECIAL EVENTS
THE OVERNIGHTERS
SAT 13 DEC, 3.30PM
CITIZENFOUR
SAT 13 & MON 15 DEC
HEAVEN ADORES YOU
SAT 29 NOV, 9PM
DIR: JESSE MOSS • USA • 2014 • 1 HR 42 MINS • DOCUMENTARY
DIR: LAURA POITRAS • GERMANY/USA • 2014 • 1 HR 53 MINS • DOCUMENTARY
DIR: NICKOLAS DYLAN ROSSI • USA • 2014 • 1 HR 44 MINS • DOCUMENTARY /MUSIC
Winner of the Special Jury Award at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, this raw documentary follows the progress of a community in North Dakota, to which the sudden discovery of a vast oilfield inspired thousands of impoverished Americans to migrate in search of work and fortune.
Laura Poitras’ thrilling new documentary explores the actions and motivations of whistleblowers and the culture that surrounds them.
Belfast Film Festival, Queen’s Film Theatre and Oh Yeah! present the premiere of Heaven Adores You, an intimate, meditative inquiry into the life and music of Elliott Smith.
Focusing on a charismatic Lutheran pastor as he struggles alongside his flock to adjust to the change, the film is at once an in-depth study of a society undergoing transformation, and a powerful testament to small-town America’s fight for survival in the face of economic crisis. Screening as part of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival, the film will be Introduced by Kerry Anthony MBE, Chief Executive Officer, Depaul Ireland.
In January 2013, Laura Poitras began making a film about the abuses of national security in post 9/11 America. Soon she was receiving encrypted emails from someone identifying themselves as ‘Citizenfour’ who was ready to blow the whistle on the massive covert surveillance programmes run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. In June 2013, Poitras finally met with ‘Citizenfour’ who turned out to be a man called Edward Snowden. This was the first of a series of meetings which she was able to document on camera. Screening as part of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival, the film will be followed by a panel discussion chaired by Mike Harris, Director of the Don’t Spy On Us coalition.
CERT TBC
By threading the music of Elliott Smith through the dense, yet often isolating landscapes of the three major cities he lived in, Heaven Adores You presents a visual journey and an earnest review of the singer’s prolific songwriting and the impact it continues to have on fans, friends, family and fellow musicians. This definitive documentary about the late singer features previously unreleased songs, rare footage and poignant interviews that make for a heartfelt tribute to his fleeting but unforgettable career.
12/13
SHADOWS OF THE GREAT WAR: WORLD WAR ONE ON FILM
SHADOWS OF THE GREAT WAR: WORLD WAR ONE ON FILM A season of film screenings and event marking the centenary of World War One, at venues across NI from November 2014 to March 2015. Presented by QFT and Film Hub NI, with the support of the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery fund.
For full listings, booking information and details of participating venues please visit: www.filmhubni.org
ALL OUIET LA GRANDE ON THE WESTERN FRONT ILLUSION SAT 29 NOV, 3.00PM, QFT
SAT 6 DEC, 3.00PM, QFT
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA SUN 7 DEC, 2.00PM, QFT DIR: DAVID LEAN • UK • 1962 • 3 HRS 47 MINS • ADVENTURE/ BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA • CAST: PETER O’TOOLE, ALEC GUINNESS, ANTHONY QUINN
David Lean’s portrait of T.E. Lawrence, still stands as one of British cinema’s most towering achievements. Epic, magnificent and not to be missed.
JOYEUX NOEL (MERRY CHRISTMAS)
SUN 21 DEC, 3.30PM, QFT
DIR: LEWIS MILESTONE • USA• 1930 • 2 HRS 13 MINS • DRAMA/WAR • CAST: LEW AYRES, LOUIS WOLHEIM, JOHN WRAY
DIR: JEAN RENOIR • FRANCE • 1937 • 1 HR 54 MINS • DRAMA/WAR • CAST: JEAN GABIN, DITA PARLO, PIERRE FRESNAY • SUBTITLED
DIR: CHRISTIAN CARION • FRANCE/ GERMANY/UK/BELGIUM/ROMANIA/ NORWAY • 2005 • 1 HRS 56 MINS • DRAMA/ HISTORY • CAST: DIANE KRUGER, BENNO FÜRMANN, GUILLAUME CANET • SUBTITLED
Based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, this classic anti-war film tells its story from the perspective of the German soldiers who fought in the Great War. A masterpiece with a powerful anti-war message the film went on to win Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director.
Jean Renoir’s masterpiece is rightly considered one of the greatest anti-war films ever made, with a message that rings as true today as it did almost 80 years ago.
One of the happier moments of the Great War is recounted in this warm-hearted film that tells the story of the 1914 Christmas truce on the Western Front.
SPECIAL EVENTS: BEYOND THE INFINITE: SCI-FI ON SCREEN
BEYOND THE INFINITE: SCI-FI ON SCREEN
“…SCIENCE FICTION IS SOMETHING THAT COULD HAPPEN - BUT USUALLY YOU WOULDN’T WANT IT TO. FANTASY IS SOMETHING THAT COULDN’T HAPPEN THOUGH OFTEN YOU ONLY WISH THAT IT COULD.” - ARTHUR C. CLARKE Our trip around the cinematic universe comes to an end this month with some of Sci-Fi’s greatest films. As well as the re-release of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, we also have a focus on Sci-Fi soundtracks and a very special exclusive screening of Blade Runner: The Final Cut, ahead of its nationwide release in April 2015.
SCI-FI: DAYS OF FEAR AND WONDER Beyond the Infinite: Sci-Fi on Screen is part of BFI Sci-Fi: An out-of-this-world season of films and events at venues across the UK, October – December 2014. Supported by Film Hub NI. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery. Film Hub NI is part of a significant new national initiative aimed at growing audiences for film across the UK - BFI Film Audience Network. It aims to put film at the centre of cultural life in Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, encouraging more people to see a more diverse range of films in more locations nationally.
Film Hub NI is managed and delivered by Queen’s Film Theatre. For further information please see facebook.com/filmhubni or queensfilmtheatre.com/filmhub or bfi.org.uk/sci-fi
14/15 TAKEOVER FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS
THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
SAT 29 NOV, 6.30PM
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
SUN 30 NOV – THURS 4 DEC
SPECIAL PRESENTATION
BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT
SUN 14 DEC, 6PM
DIR: GARTH JENNINGS • USA/UK • 2005 • 1 HR 49 MINS • ADVENTURE/ COMEDY/SCI-FI • CAST: MARTIN FREEMAN, MOS DEF, SAM ROCKWELL
DIR: STANLEY KUBRICK • USA/UK • 1968 • 2 HRS 21 MINS • MYSTERY/ SCI-FI • CAST: KEIR DULLEA, GARY LOCKWOOD, WILLIAM SYLVESTER
DIR: RIDLEY SCOTT • USA/HONG KONG/ UK • 1982 • 1 HR 57 MINS • SCI-FI/ THRILLER • CAST: HARRISON FORD, RUTGER HAUER, SEAN YOUNG
Programmed and introduced by QFT’s Takeover youth panel, Takeover Film Festival presents the big screen adaptation of Douglas Adams’ much-loved radio play and book, screening as part of its U.F.O. Sci-Fi season.
For many, quite simply the greatest Sci-Fi film ever made and the standard against which all others are still measured.
Timed to coincide with BFI Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder, this special one-off screening is a rare opportunity for audiences to see Ridley Scott’s iconic Sci-Fi classic on the big screen ahead of its re-release in April 2015.
Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) realises that his house is about to be demolished and learns from Ford Prefect (Mos Def), his friend (who is really an alien), that the whole Earth is going to be destroyed in order to build an intergalactic highway bypass. Luckily, they are able to escape by hitchhiking on a passing spaceship with their handy copy of the book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. For more information about Takeover Film and the annual Takeover Film Festival in February, go to www.takeoverfilm.com
Co-written by Kubrick and novelist Arthur C. Clarke, 2001’s epic canvas follows nothing less than the evolution of human ‘civilisation’ – from prehistoric apes through to mankind’s journey to the stars, all under the influence of mysterious black monoliths. A cinematic milestone and a film experience unlike any other. TAKEOVER FILM FESTIVAL The opening night screening on Sun 30 Nov is presented by the Takeover Film Festival. QFT’s Takeover youth panel selected the film as part of its U.F.O. Sci-Fi season, inspired by speculative fiction. Introduction by Mike Catto, broadcaster and arts critic, on Tues 2 Dec, 8.30pm.
Adapted from Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Scott’s visionary masterpiece has gripped audiences, influenced film-makers and inspired passionate and fierce debate in the thirty plus years since its original release. Harrison Ford is exemplary as the world weary detective hunting down intelligent but murderous replicants in a neon-lit, rain-spattered future Los Angeles.
BEYOND THE INFINITE: SCI-FI ON SCREEN
STAR TRACKS: SOUNDS OF SCI-FI From the eerie strains of the theremin to the rock infused fantasy of Flash Gordon, this season celebrates some of the best Sci-Fi soundtracks and launches with a special screening of Forbidden Planet, the first film to feature a completely electronic score.
FORBIDDEN PLANET
FRI 28 NOV, 6.20PM
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
MON 1 DEC, 6.15PM
DIR: FRED M. WILCOX • USA • 1956 • 1 HR 38 MINS • ACTION/ADVENTURE/SCI-FI • CAST: WALTER PIDGEON, ANNE FRANCIS, LESLIE NIELSEN
DIR: ROBERT WISE • USA • 1951 • 1 HR 31 MINS • SCI-FI • CAST: MICHAEL RENNIE, PATRICIA NEAL, HUGH MARLOWE
A not-to-be-missed screening, talk and electronic music demonstration exploring the seminal soundtrack to this Sci-Fi classic.
One of Hollywood’s greatest composers, Bernard Herrmann is probably best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock on films including Psycho, Vertigo and North by Northwest.
Forbidden Planet’s innovative electronic music score, credited as “electronic tonalities”—partly to avoid having to pay any of the film industry music guild fees—was composed by Louis and Bebe Barron. While the theremin (which was not used in the film) had been used on the soundtrack of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 film Spellbound, the Barrons’ electronic composition is credited with being the first completely electronic film score; their soundtrack preceded the invention of the Moog synthesizer by eight years (1964).
The film revolves around a United Planets mission in the 23rd century to a mysterious planet called Altair-4. The crew discovers Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon) and his daughter, Altaira (Anne Francis), the lone survivors of an earlier space mission. During his years on the planet, Morbius has uncovered the secrets of an extinct race, the Krells. Meanwhile, the crew is being picked off by the silent and invisible “id monster.” This special screening will be preceded by a presentation about the film’s soundtrack and a demonstration of some of the electronic techniques used in the film by Dr. Justin Yang, Sonic Arts Research Centre, School of Creative Arts, Queen’s University Belfast.
Before this, however, Herrmann worked on the eerie score for the Sci-Fi classic, The Day the Earth Stood Still. An intelligent and thought provoking addition to the genre, the film’s story is simple. An alien, Klaatu, and a robot, Gort - a creature far in advance of anything 1950s Earth had seen come to Earth to assess its inhabitants. Will humanity become a threat, or is it worth saving?
16/17
STALKER
TUES 2 DEC, 6PM
THE THING
WED 3 DEC, 6.15PM
FLASH GORDON
THURS 4 DEC, 6.15PM
DIR: ANDREI TARKOVSKY • SOVIET UNION • 1979 • 2 HRS 41 MINS • DRAMA/ SCI-FI • CAST: ALISA FREYNDLIKH, ALEKSANDR KAYDANOVSKIY, ANATOLIY SOLONITSYN • SUBTITLED
DIR: JOHN CARPENTER • USA • 1982 • 1 HR 49 MINS • HORROR/MYSTERY/ SCI-FI • CAST: KURT RUSSELL, WILFORD BRIMLEY, KEITH DAVID
DIR: MIKE HODGES • USA/UK • 1980 • 1 HR 51 MINS • ACTION/ADVENTURE/ SCI-FI • CAST: SAM J. JONES, MELODY ANDERSON, MAX VON SYDOW
Beautiful, cryptic and eerie, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 Sci-Fi masterwork still resonates today.
A remake of the 1951 movie, The Thing from Another World, John Carpenter’s Sci-Fi horror ramps up the shocks, gore and humour, in the process creating one of ‘80s cinemas most iconic films.
“Flash a-ah. Saviour of the Universe. Flash a-ah. He’ll save every one of us!”
Seemingly prescient of the Chernobyl disaster, the story is fable-like in its simplicity – a guide, or Stalker, takes two people, Writer and Professor, into a forbidden area called the Zone, at the heart of which is the Room, where their deepest wish will come true. This simple structure, however, supports a richness of imagery, meaning and allegory which lingers long after the end of the film. Integral to this is a complex soundtrack by Eduard Artemyev that merges music and natural sound to the point where they become indistinguishable.
Sitting alongside a laconic lead performance by Kurt Russell, an atmosphere of claustrophobic paranoia and some truly jaw-dropping effects (“You gotta be f**kin’ kidding”), is a great electronic score by none other than the maestro Ennio Morricone – a rare instance of Carpenter not scoring one of his own films. Introduction by Marcus Smith, Associate Tutor, The Open University.
There are some films that may not be great cinema but that doesn’t stop them from being great fun – or people from loving them. A perfect example is Flash Gordon, Mike Hodges’ loving re-creation of the classic early cinema matinee serial. With spectacular campy costumes, fantastic low-budget sets, muscular men, scantily clad women, Ming the Merciless and the inimitable Brian Blessed what’s not to love! And that’s before we get to Queen’s much loved soundtrack.
18/19
SPECIAL EVENTS
JOHN
TUES 9 DEC, 8PM
TREASURE ISLAND
THURS 22 JAN, 7PM
THE NUTCRACKER
SUN 21 DEC, 3PM
RUNNING TIME: 2 HRS
RUNNING TIMES: 3 HRS (INCL. INTERVAL)
RUNNING TIME: 2 HRS 20 MINS
Internationally renowned DV8 Physical Theatre bring their powerful new production to the National Theatre.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of murder, money and mutiny is brought to life in a thrilling new stage adaptation by Bryony Lavery, broadcast live from the National Theatre.
Based on E.T A. Hoffmann’s story, The Nutcracker is one of the greatest classics in the world. With iconic music by Tchaikovsky, and enchanting sets and costumes, this beautiful tale explores the universal themes of love, power and evil.
JOHN authentically depicts real-life stories, combining movement and spoken word to create an intense and moving theatrical experience. Lloyd Newson, DV8’s Artistic Director, interviewed more than 50 men asking them frank questions, initially about love and sex. One of those men was John. What emerged was a story that is both extraordinary and touching. Years of crime, drug use and struggling to survive lead John on a search in which his life converges with others, in an unexpected place, unknown by most. Contains adult themes, strong language and nudity. Suitable for 18 yrs+.
It’s a dark, stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper’s granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in - and her dangerous voyage begins. Treasure Island is suitable for children of 10 yrs+.
‘JOHN’ AND ‘TREASURE ISLAND’ TICKETS Live performance: £15 (£12.50 concessions and Film Card holders)
This choreographic version, created for the Bolshoi by Yuri Grigorovich, is full of romanticism and philosophical reflections on ideal love. Masterfully interpreted by the Bolshoi dancers, it will enchant the whole family for the festive season, proving that one is never too young or too old to be swept away by The Nutcracker.
TICKETS Live performance: £15 (£12.50 concessions and Film Card holders)
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