WHAT’S ON / DECEMBER 2015
CATE BLANCHETT AND ROONEY MARA STAR IN TODD HAYNES’ EXQUISITE ADAPTATION OF PATRICIA HIGHSMITH’S NOVEL.
THIS ISSUE:
SUNSET SONG BFI LOVE CHRISTMAS AT QFT
BOOKING AND VENUE INFORMATION
OUEEN’S FILM THEATRE
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CORONA (330ml) £2.50
FREE PARKING
ACCESS
TICKET PRICES
QFT offers free on-site parking every night from 5.30pm, and all weekend, in the main Queen’s University site.
QFT is wheelchair accessible. We endeavour to host access screenings when possible. Access screenings include audio enhancement, audio description and on-screen captioning. See the website for more details.
Standard admission: £6.70
BOX OFFICE The Box Office opens 30 minutes before the first screening of the day.
QFT IS KINDLY SUPPORTED BY:
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 *ID required for discounted prices Mondays £4 for every film*
Skip the queue by booking online at queensfilmtheatre.com and printing your tickets at home.
The ticket price for uncertified films includes a one-day QFT membership.
Box Office: 028 9097 1097 (after 6pm only)
* Certain exclusions may apply, check website for details
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The stories we see on screen influence our lives. We want to hear stories from everyone, not just from one section of society. We want diversity in filmmaking, both on and off screen. Throughout the QFT programme you will see this symbol accompanying specific films. Developed by Bath Film Festival and now expanding across the UK, the F-Rating is a new film rating which highlights films made by and featuring women. Any film that answers ‘yes’ to one of these questions is awarded the F-Rating stamp of approval. 1. Does it have a female director? 2. Is it written by a woman? 3. Are there significant female characters on screen in their own right? This classification provides an easily identifiable label to enable moviegoers to vote with their feet and support women in film. Visit f-rated.com for more information.
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NEW RELEASES
CAROL FRI 27 NOV – THURS 10 DEC
DIR: TODD HAYNES • UK/USA/FRANCE • 2015 • 1 HR 58 MINS
Todd Haynes presents an intoxicating and immaculate adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s beloved novel. Todd Haynes’ Carol is a deeply romantic, emotionally honest love story about two women who courageously defy the suffocating conformities of mid-century America. Therese (Rooney Mara) is an aspiring photographer, working in a Manhattan department store where she first encounters Carol (Cate Blanchett), an alluring older woman whose marriage is breaking down. Ambushed by their sudden attraction, the two women gravitate toward each other despite the threat their connection poses to both Therese’s relationship with her steady beau and Carol’s custody of her beloved young daughter.
Blanchett is magnificent as Carol, whose elegant poise thinly veils her crumbling interior world, whilst Mara is mesmerising as the ingénue whose capacity for love awakens a newfound fearlessness. Phyllis Nagy’s (Mrs. Harris) adaptation deftly retains the rich interiors and exquisite tension of Patricia Highsmith’s groundbreaking novel The Price of Salt, written and published in 1952 at a time when its subject was considered scandalous. Haynes has created a shimmering companion work to both his lush Technicolor melodrama Far From Heaven, and the shadowy domestic noir Mildred Pierce, adopting a starkly different, more naturalistic prism through which to examine the contradictory optimism and paranoia of
post-war America and its oppressive social mores. Haynes’ filmmaking eloquence is sublimely enhanced by the cinematography of frequent collaborator Ed Lachman (who filmed with Super 16mm to produce the muted hues of glamour magazines of the era), the precision of Judy Becker’s production design and the expressive palette of Sandy Powell’s gorgeous costumes. - CLARE STEWART, BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
ACCESS SCREENING The 8.50pm screening on Tues 8 Dec will include audio description and on-screen captioning.
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NEW RELEASES
SUNSET SONG FRI 4 – THURS 17 DEC
DIR: TERENCE DAVIES • UK/LUXEMBOURG • 2015 2 HRS 10 MINS
Ravishing, tremulous and deeply felt, Sunset Song is the latest film from British screenwriter, novelist and director Terence Davies (Of Time and the City, The Deep Blue Sea).
refuge and battleground. As the constellation of her family shifts around her and romance comes calling, Chris grows into womanhood just as the First World War begins to devastate a generation.
Davies’ exquisite treatment of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel gives him a broad canvas of rain- Agyness Deyn builds upon lashed farmland on which to apply her starring role in last year’s his knack for literary adaptation. Electricity with a spirited performance that expresses It’s the early 20th-century in Chris’ joys as a light from within, rural Scotland and Chris Guthrie while Peter Mullan brings gnarly (Agyness Deyn) is a young woman authenticity to the zealous with plans. Excelling at her patriarch. A true Scottish epic, schooling and in possession of a Sunset Song laments the burgeoning independent streak, devastation of war and pays fine she seems destined for a job in tribute to the endurance of the teaching. But family life has its land. own pull and her religious father (Peter Mullan) exerts a formidable “Visually stunning and force on his brood, as well as emotionally engrossing.” on her mother (Daniela Nardini) - HOLLYWOOD REPORTER whose body he treats as both
NEW RELEASES
THE LADY IN THE VAN FRI 20 NOV – THURS 3 DEC
DIR: NICHOLAS HYTNER • UK • 2015 1 HR 44 MINS
The Lady in the Van is Alan Bennett’s funny, poignant and life-affirming big screen adaptation of his commercial and critical West End hit. Dame Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey, Marigold Hotel) reprises one of her most-loved stage roles for the cinema as the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins, who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years. A plaintive ode to friendship directed by longstanding Bennett collaborator Nicholas Hytner.
GRANDMA FRI 11 – THURS 17 DEC
DIR: PAUL WEITZ • USA • 2015 1 HR 19 MINS
A raucous road movie starring Lily Tomlin as a foul-mouthed septuagenarian. Tomlin is perfectly cast as a sharp-tongued, taboo-breaking granny who comes out fighting for her pregnant teenage granddaughter (Julia Garner) in this constantly surprising comedy-drama from About a Boy director Paul Weitz. “An initially breezy family comedy about mothers, daughters and abortions that slowly sneaks up on you and packs a major wallop.” - VARIETY
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TANGERINE FRI 27 – SUN 29 NOV & WED 2 – THURS 3 DEC
DIR: SEAN BAKER • USA • 2015 1 HR 28 MIN
A real-time drama, shot on iPhones in downtown LA and featuring two transgender working girls in a vengeful mood, Tangerine is a film that bursts off the screen with energy and style. Showing fierce chemistry with his cast, director Sean Baker has created a dazzlingly distinctive film filled with humour and heart that defies expectation. “A reinvigorating reminder of what indie filmmaking can – and should – do.” - TIME OUT
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THE LESSON SUN 6 – MON 7 & WED 9 – THURS 10 DEC
DIR: KRISTINA GROZEVA & PETAR VALCHANOV • BULGARIA/GREECE 2014 • 1 HR 45 MINS SUBTITLED
CERT TBC
A Bulgarian teacher is driven to extremes in a film with echoes of the Dardennes’ Two Days, One Night. The pressures of mounting debt are the backdrop to this pareddown, compulsive drama, made all the more striking thanks to a powerful central performance by Margita Gosheva. With the bank due to auction her house she must beg and borrow money at all costs, leading to moments of real suspense punctuated with an unexpected dash of dark humour.
NEW RELEASES/SPECIAL EVENTS
HECTOR FRI 18 – MON 21 DEC
DIR: JAKE GAVIN • UK • 2015 1 HR 27 MINS
Peter Mullan delivers a perfectly pitched performance as affable homeless pensioner Hector McAdam, in this captivating study of a man with a tragic past. For years Hec has wandered between motorway service stations, sleeping under bridges, and living on handouts; however, when his past life starts to catch up with him, the reasons for his self-imposed exile become clear. The always excellent Peter Mullan transforms this gentle observational drama into a sympathetic and enlightened study of human frailty.
DOCUMENTARY
ARMAGH STORIES: VOICES FROM THE GRAVE SUN 6 DEC, 3.50PM DIR: CAHAL MCLAUGHLIN • NORTHERN IRELAND • 2015 • 57 MINS + Q&A
Armagh Gaol was the primary prison for women during the Troubles until 1986. Using protocols of co-authorship, inclusivity and life-story telling, this film reveals the experiences of prison officers, prisoners, chaplains, solicitors, and doctors, as they walk and talk their way around the dilapidated site. These stories, some made public for the first time, describe what it was like to pass through the gates of this Victorian prison. Followed by a Q&A with participants and filmmakers. Free admission – book in advance at queensfilmtheatre.
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OUTBURST AND QFT PRESENT
THE QUEEN OF IRELAND + Q&A SAT 5 DEC, 8.40PM
DIR: CONOR HORGAN • IRELAND 2015 • 1 HR 22 MINS
Pandora ‘Panti’ Bliss is a wittily incisive performer with charisma to burn who is regarded as one of the best drag queens in the world. Created by Rory O’Neill, Panti is also an accidental activist and in her own words ‘a court jester, whose role is to say the unsayable’. The Queen of Ireland is a documentary film that follows Rory’s journey from the small Mayo town of Ballinrobe to striding the world stage. Followed by a Q&A with Panti Bliss herself and director Conor Horgan. Tickets £10.
THE SHOW OF SHOWS TUES 22 – WED 23 DEC
DIR: BENEDIKT ERLINGSSON ICELAND/UK • 2015 • 1 HR 13 MINS
CERT TBC
NEW RELEASES
DOCUMENTARY
THE FEAR OF 13 SUN 6, MON 7 & WED 9 DEC
DIR: DAVID SINGTON • UK • 2015 1 HR 35 MINS
After 23 years on Death Row a convicted murderer petitions the court asking to be executed, but as his story unfolds, it becomes clear that nothing is what it seems. The Fear of 13 is a stylistically daring experiment in storytelling that is part confessional and part performance. Nick, the sole protagonist, tells a tale with all the twists and turns of classic crime drama with a final shocking twist that casts everything in a new light.
DOCUMENTARY
STAR MEN THURS 10 DEC, 6.20PM
DIR: ALISON E. ROSE • CANADA/USA/UK • 2015 • 1 HR 28 MINS
Four of the world’s most influential astronomers reunite to celebrate 50 years of friendship on a road trip in the southwestern United States. Revisiting the places that became important to them in their youth, both personally and professionally, the four friends (Roger Griffin, Donald Lynden-Bell, Nick Woolf and Wallace L. Sargent) embark on a journey that will see them ponder not just the meaning of life, but the significance of its end.
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DOCUMENTARY
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT FRI 11 – SUN 13 DEC
DIR: LISA IMMORDINO VREELAND CERT TBC USA/ITALY/UK • 2015 • 1 HR 37 MINS
Peggy Guggenheim—bohemian, socialite, curator—blazed a trail past her famous uncle’s museum. She helped launch such acclaimed modern artists as Wassily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock, and her second husband Max Ernst. Her colourful personal history included such figures as Samuel Beckett, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp as well as countless others. This fascinating, entertaining portrait of Guggenheim’s turbulent life, many loves, and surprising career reveals a woman who was every bit the iconoclast as the artists she championed.
DOCUMENTARY
STEVE MCQUEEN: THE MAN & LE MANS MON 14 – THURS 17 DEC DIR: GABRIEL CLARKE & JOHN MCKENNA USA/UK • 2015 • 1 HR 42 MINS CERT
Lavishly illustrated with long- TBC lost motor racing footage, this documentary explores the making of Steve McQueen’s illfated Hollywood epic, Le Mans. He wanted to capture the very essence of the sport and its pull on the human spirit. But as production rolled, what McQueen didn’t yet have was a script. This is the story of how one of the most charismatic movie stars of all time would lose almost everything in the pursuit of his dream.
AT A GLANCE
Times are subject to change. Please check www.queensfilmtheatre.com for up-to-date information.
NOVEMBER DATE
EVENT
TIME
Fri 27
Carol The Lady in the Van Tangerine
6.20pm/8.50pm 6.30pm 9.00pm
Sat 28
NT Live: Of Mice and Men The Lady in the Van Carol Four Weddings and a Funeral Tangerine
3.00pm 4.15pm 6.20pm/8.50pm
Sun 29
Carol The Lady in the Van Tangerine
6.00pm/8.30pm 6.10pm 8.40pm
Mon 30
Carol The Lady in the Van Love
6.20pm/8.50pm 6.30pm 9.00pm
Sat 12
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict Sunset Song When Harry Met Sally Grandma Annie Hall
3.00pm 5.50pm 6.00pm 8.10pm 8.30pm
Sun 13
It’s a Wonderful Life Doctor Zhivago Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict Sunset Song When Harry Met Sally Grandma
1.10pm 1.30pm
6.30pm 9.00pm
DECEMBER
Mon 14 – Steve McQueen: The Man & Tues 15 Le Mans Grandma When Harry Met Sally Sunset Song
3.50pm/8.30pm 5.50pm 6.00pm 8.10pm 6.10pm 6.20pm 8.10pm 8.20pm
Wed 16 – Sunset Song Thurs 17 Grandma When Harry Met Sally Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
6.10pm 6.20pm 8.10pm
Fri 18
White Christmas It’s a Wonderful Life Hector Die Hard
6.00pm 6.10pm 8.30pm 8.50pm
Sat 19
QFT Film Card Day White Christmas It’s a Wonderful Life Hector Die Hard
From 1.30pm 6.00pm 6.10pm 8.30pm 8.50pm
Sun 20
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter’s Tale White Christmas It’s a Wonderful Life Hector Die Hard
2.30pm 6.00pm 6.10pm 8.30pm 8.50pm
Mon 21
The Muppet Christmas Carol It’s a Wonderful Life Scrooge Hector Gremlins
2.00pm 3.00pm/5.40pm/8.20pm 4.00pm 6.00pm 8.00pm
8.50pm
DATE
EVENT
TIME
Tues 1
Carol The Lady in the Van Fatal Attraction
6.20pm/8.50pm 6.30pm 9.00pm
Wed 2 – Thurs 3
Carol The Lady in the Van Tangerine
6.20pm/8.50pm 6.30pm 9.00pm
Fri 4
Sunset Song Harold and Maude + discussion Carol
6.10pm/9.00pm
Carol Sunset Song Breakfast at Tiffany’s Submarine The Queen of Ireland + Q&A Amélie
1.00pm/3.50pm 1.10pm/6.00pm 3.30pm 6.20pm 8.40pm 8.50pm
Sunset Song An Officer and a Gentleman Armagh Stories + discussion The Lesson Carol The Fear of 13
1.10pm/5.10pm 2.30pm 3.50pm 5.50pm 7.50pm 8.10pm
Tues 22
Sunset Song The Lesson The Fear of 13 Carol
6.10pm 6.20pm 8.35pm 8.50pm
The Muppet Christmas Carol It’s a Wonderful Life Scrooge The Show of Shows Gremlins
2.00pm 3.00pm/5.40pm/8.20pm 4.00pm 6.00pm 7.45pm
Wed 23
Sunset Song NT Live: Jane Eyre Carol (Access screening)
6.10pm 7.00pm 8.50pm
The Muppet Christmas Carol Scrooge It’s a Wonderful Life The Show of Shows Gremlins
2.40pm 4.00pm 4.40pm/7.20pm 6.00pm 7.45pm
HOLIDAY CLOSURE
Wed 9
Sunset Song The Fear of 13 The Lesson Carol
6.10pm 6.20pm 8.25pm 8.50pm
Thurs 24 – Thurs 31
Thurs 10
Sunset Song Star Men The Lesson Carol
6.10pm 6.20pm 8.25pm 8.50pm
Fri 11
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict When Harry Met Sally Sunset Song Grandma
6.10pm 6.20pm 8.15pm 8.25pm
Sat 5
Sun 6
Mon 7
Tues 8
6.20pm 8.50pm
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SPECIAL EVENTS
FILM CARD HOLDERS CHRISTMAS SCREENING SAT 19 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...and of course we have two screenings exclusively for members. We can’t announce the films just yet – but if you are a QFT Film Card Holder – watch your inbox for more information!
The QFT Film Card is a great way of supporting Northern Ireland’s foremost independent cinema. The card entitles you to a fantastic range of benefits including entry price discounts, a sneak preview of the programme emailed to you each month, free tea and coffee refills, exclusive meal deals at local restaurants and an invitation to the QFT Christmas and summer parties.
SPECIAL EVENTS - BFI LOVE
Feel the love this December with our ongoing programme of epic romances, cute and cuddly rom-coms and dark and dangerous love stories, all part of BFI LOVE.
I N PA R T N E R S H I P W I T H
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LOVELY CLASSICS WHEN HARRY MET SALLY FRI 11 – THURS 17 DEC DIR: ROB REINER • USA • 1989 • 1 HR 35 MINS
A trailblazing rom-com reissued as part of BFI LOVE.
doesn’t think it’s possible for men and women to have a platonic relationship - the sex part always gets in the way. Sally doesn’t agree - but, after Penned by Nora Ephron, the queen of contemporary accusing Harry of making a pass at her, she isn’t romantic comedy, and starring regular keen to find out if he’s right and the pair part ways collaborator Meg Ryan alongside Billy Crystal in in New York. an unprecedented leading man role, When Harry Met Sally is a genre classic. Astutely observed and Five years later, they bump into each other at the perfectly performed, its knowing exploration of airport and they still can’t agree - on anything. Five the complex relationships forged between modern years after that, Harry is divorced, Sally is single, men and women laid the blueprint for subsequent and they decide to give their friendship a shot. Free generations of movie romance. from the pressure of a romantic relationship and able to be themselves around someone new, Harry Harry and Sally are just friends. In fact, when and Sally grow closer and closer. But one fateful they first meet on a road trip from Chicago to New night is finally about to put Harry’s theory to the York after graduation, they aren’t even that. Harry test… #BFILOVE
SPECIAL EVENTS - BFI LOVE
FOOLS FOR LOVE
Sometimes you just have to laugh…explore the lighter side of love with these classic romantic comedies including (of course) the inimitable Annie Hall: “A relationship, I think, is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.”
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S SAT 5 DEC, 3.30PM
DIR: BLAKE EDWARDS • USA • 1961 • 1 HR 54 MINS
A sophisticated comedy studded with sparkling moments, Breakfast at Tiffany’s tells the story of two bohemians falling in love against a Manhattan backdrop. When aspiring writer Paul Varjak (George Peppard) moves into his new apartment, he is both intrigued by and drawn to his unconventional neighbour Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn). A Givenchy-clad free spirit, Holly is a party girl whose intensely stylish façade masks an inner despair and a hidden past.
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
ANNIE HALL
DIR: MIKE NEWELL • UK • 1994 • 1 HR 57 MINS
DIR: WOODY ALLEN • USA • 1977 • 1 HR 33 MINS
Oscar-nominated Four Weddings tells the story of committed bachelor Charlie (Hugh Grant) as he is forced to consider true love when he meets attractive American Carrie (Andie MacDowell) at a wedding. The film made a star of foppish, David Cassidy-quoting Hugh Grant. But the enduring joy of Four Weddings also lies in Richard Curtis’ script which sweetly insists that we’ll all find our one true love in the end.
Woody Allen’s first major hit, both critically and commercially, centred on the encounter of an absurdly neurotic comedian and writer (Allen, naturally) and the flaky chanteuse of the title (Diane Keaton). The mood of wistful reminiscence and the fact that Annie was played by someone who’d been Allen’s partner in real life invest the consistently amusing ragbag of gags with surprising poignancy. 35mm screening.
SAT 28 NOV, 6.30PM
SAT 12 DEC, 8.30PM
#BFILOVE
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FATAL ATTRACTIONS
Take a trip to the dark side of love with these dangerous tales of passion and desire including a certain ‘boiled bunny’…
LOVE MON 30 NOV, 9.00PM DIR: GASPAR NOÉ • FRANCE/BELGIUM • 2015 2 HRS 15 MINS • PARTIALLY SUBTITLED
The French provocateur behind Enter the Void and Irreversible returns to our screens with the hotly anticipated and wildly explicit sexual odyssey Love. Love tells the story of a young man trapped in a loveless relationship and obsessed with his sexually charged ex-girlfriend. Told in fragmented and explicit fashion, Love is an epic exploration of the relationship between love and sex. Expect a hypercolour whirlwind of drugs, orgies and betrayal the likes of which you’ve never seen before... Strictly over-18s!
FATAL ATTRACTION TUES 1 DEC, 9.00PM DIR: ADRIAN LYNE • USA • 1987 • 1 HR 59 MINS
The smash hit thriller about infidelity and revenge starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close. Based on a 1980 British TV film by writer-director James Dearden, director Adrian Lyne’s (9½ Weeks, Flashdance) hit thriller struck more than just a nerve with its parable about a marital indiscretion that goes horribly wrong. This remarkable film had audiences cathartically baying for the blood of its bunny-boiling female lead, and was reviled as antifeminist and reactionary. 35mm screening.
#BFILOVE
SPECIAL EVENTS - BFI LOVE
LOVE AND CAKE
Indulge yourself on a Sunday afternoon with two of the silver screens most adored romances, made even sweeter with complimentary cake. All together now ‘…love lifts us up where we belong….’
AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN SUN 6 DEC, 2.30PM
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO SUN 13 DEC, 1.30PM
DIR: TAYLOR HACKFORD • USA • 1982 • 2 HRS 4 MINS
DIR: DAVID LEAN • USA/ITALY/UK • 1965 • 3 HRS 20 MINS
Navy recruit Richard Gere strives to prove he’s officer material while falling in love with factory girl Debra Winger in this neo-classic romance.
An epic romance set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution.
Lou Gossett Jr. won an Oscar as the drill sergeant who puts Gere’s cocksure cadet Mayo through bootcamp hell. But it’s worth all the pain and tragedy as the finale sweeps everyone off their feet. There’d have been no Top Gun without it.
Director David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago, starring the late Omar Sharif and iconic British actress Julie Christie, is one of cinema’s greatest love stories, seen here in a sparkling new digital restoration to celebrate its 50th anniversary. In Moscow on the eve of WW1, medical student and aspiring poet Yuri Zhivago meets the beautiful Lara, setting in motion a fateful romance that turns their lives upside down. #BFILOVE
18/19
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TAKEOVER FILM FESTIVAL: OUEST FOR LOVE
Takeover Film Festival presents a season of films for over 15s – exploring the trials and tribulations of love. All screenings are hosted by QFT’s youth panel with special guests and talks.
HAROLD AND MAUDE FRI 4 DEC, 6.20PM
DIR: HAL ASHBY • USA • 1971 • 1 HR 31 MINS
Working from a script by Colin Higgins, countercultural director Hal Ashby tells the story of the emotional and romantic bond between a death-obsessed young man (Bud Cort) from a wealthy family and a devil-may-care, bohemian octogenarian (Ruth Gordon). Followed by an audience discussion, The Look of Love – panel members Robert J.E. Simpson, Rachael Kelly and Conor Smyth will discuss cinema’s presentation of love.
SUBMARINE SAT 5 DEC, 6.20PM
DIR: RICHARD AYOADE • UK/USA • 2010 • 1 HR 37 MINS
Richard Ayoade’s affecting and original comingof-age comedy captures the growing pains of a neurotic adolescent with cinematic sleight of hand and some splendid comic performances. He retains the literary flavour of Joe Dunthorne’s novel as we enter the mind of cowardly, misunderstood misfit teenager Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), and explore his burgeoning relationship with Jordana (Yasmin Paige), an aggressively unromantic pyromaniac. Plus short film (10 mins approx.) LE FABULEUX DESTIN D’AMÉLIE POULAIN
AMÉLIE
SAT 5 DEC, 8.50PM
DIR: JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET • FRANCE/GERMANY • 2001 2 HRS 3 MINS • SUBTITLED
Follow the wonderful Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) as she searches for the recipe for true love and the way to help others find happiness. Packed with off-kilter characters in a nostalgic, picturepostcard Paris, director Jean-Pierre Jeunet has created a world in which we’d all like to live. Heartswelling cinema at its best. Saturday’s screenings will be preceded by the winning short of Takeover’s latest shorts competition (still to be announced at time of print). Visit takeoverfilm.com for more information. #BFILOVE
SPECIAL EVENTS
CHRISTMAS AT OFT
QFT brings you Christmas in style in the company of James Stewart, Bing Crosby, Alastair Sim, Bruce Willis, the Muppets and those pesky Gremlins. Early booking is advised!
20/21
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IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE SUN 13 DEC & FRI 18 – WED 23 DEC
WHITE CHRISTMAS FRI 18 – SUN 20 DEC
DIR: FRANK CAPRA • USA • 1946 • 2 HRS 10 MINS
DIR: MICHAEL CURTIZ • USA • 1954 • 1 HR 59 MINS
This ultimate feel good and festive classic, from Oscar-winning director Frank Capra, stars James Stewart as despairing businessmen George Bailey.
Directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) this heartwarming Christmas tale is a true joy to watch and includes a veritable treasury of Irving Berlin classic tunes.
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.
Two talented song-and-dance men (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye), pals during World War II, team up to become one of the hottest acts in show business. One winter, they join forces, romantically and professionally, with The Haynes Sisters (Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen) and together they trek to Vermont for the perfect seasonal holiday.
THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL SCROOGE MON 21 – WED 23 DEC
MON 21 – WED 23 DEC
DIR: BRIAN HENSON • USA • 1992 • 1 HR 26 MINS
DIR: BRIAN DESMOND HURST • UK • 1951 • 1 HR 26 MINS
The best ever Muppet film, digitally restored for your viewing pleasure.
A true Christmas classic from director Brian Desmond Hurst, screening in a brand new digital restoration.
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. Come along and celebrate with the Muppets as they remind us all of the true meaning of Christmas!
This faithful adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol sees beloved British character actor Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, the miserly old man who learns the error of his ways through a series of visits from the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. See The Muppet Christmas Carol for an alternative approach to the same tale!
SPECIAL EVENTS
CHRISTMAS AT OFT DIE HARD
GREMLINS
DIR: JOHN MCTIERNAN • USA • 1988 • 2 HRS 12 MINS
DIR: JOE DANTE • USA • 1984 • 1 HR 46 MINS
Die Hard is the film for you if you like your Christmas movies violent, sweary and wearing a vest.
“Don’t expose him to bright light. Don’t ever get him wet. And don’t ever, ever feed him after midnight.”
New York City cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) travels to LA to spend Christmas with his estranged wife. His first stop is the office Christmas party at Nakatomi Plaza, where his wife works. But terrorist Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) turns up with some hard-core mayhem in mind, leaving McClane alone in a vest, sans shoes, to save the day.
Two years after E.T., Steven Spielberg gave it a mischievous sibling in Joe Dante’s anarchic creature feature, a subversive parable on the dangers of irresponsible pet care that doubles as an antidote to small-town Americana and Yuletide sentimentality. Zach Galligan plays the teenager who unwittingly unleashes a vicious, murderous swarm of little gremlins.
FRI 18 – SUN 20 DEC
MON 21 – WED 23 DEC
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SPECIAL EVENTS
BRANAGH THEATRE LIVE
THE WINTER’S TALE SUN 20 DEC, 2.30PM
3 HRS (APPROX.)
The first season of the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Live promises an exceptional series of plays broadcast to cinemas from London’s Garrick Theatre over the course of a year. The season begins with The Winter’s Tale. Shakespeare’s timeless tragicomedy of obsession and redemption is reimagined in a new production co-directed by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh, following their triumphant staging of Macbeth in Manchester and Manhattan. Judi Dench will play Paulina, Kenneth Branagh will play Leontes.
TICKETS Encore: £12.50 (£10 concessions and Film Card holders)
COMING SOON FROM NT LIVE
National Theatre Live is the National Theatre’s groundbreaking project to broadcast the best of British theatre live from the London stage to cinemas across the UK and around the world. OF MICE AND MEN SAT 28 NOV, 3PM (ENCORE) JANE EYRE TUES 8 DEC, 7PM AS YOU LIKE IT WED 25 FEB 2016, 7PM
TICKETS Live: £15 (£12.50 concessions and Film Card holders) Encore: £12.50 (£10 concessions and Film Card holders)