WHAT’S ON / JANUARY 2016
ROOM
LENNY ABRAHAMSON DIRECTS THIS POWERFUL AND HUGELY AFFECTING ADAPTATION OF EMMA DONOGHUE’S BESTSELLING NOVEL.
THIS ISSUE:
THE DANISH GIRL JOY THE REVENANT
BOOKING AND VENUE INFORMATION
OUEEN’S FILM THEATRE
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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*
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* Certain exclusions may apply, check website for details
02/03
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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
THE DANISH GIRL FRI 1 – THURS 14 JAN
DIR: TOM HOOPER • UK/GERMANY/USA • 2015 • 2 HRS
Tom Hooper’s gorgeous new feature, starring Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) and Alicia Vikander (Testament of Youth), continues his march through some of the fascinating byways of history. The Danish Girl, drawn from the fact-based novel by David Ebershoff and similar in spirit to Hooper’s magnificent The King’s Speech, focuses on a character struggling with internal demons that threaten his equilibrium. Sumptuously photographed, The Danish Girl is set in Copenhagen in the 1920s and focuses almost entirely on a free-spirited couple, both of them painters — he of delicate landscapes, she of portraits. Einar (Redmayne), has
just had a successful gallery show, but Gerda (Vikander) struggles to gain attention for her work. One day, Gerda asks her husband to stand in for a female model so she can complete her latest painting. Einar is overwhelmed by the experience of putting on beautiful, feminine clothes, and soon it turns into a quiet obsession. As Einar gradually rediscovers himself, Gerda’s paintings of him as a woman begin to attract serious attention. Gerda balances Einar’s transformation with her new-found acclaim. Einar, meanwhile, finds it impossible to put the genie back in the bottle: She will become Lili, one of the first known recipients of gender reassignment surgery.
One of the extraordinary things about The Danish Girl is the manner in which Hooper treats the emotional volatility these characters cope with, both individually and together. Love and understanding are paramount to them, even as the emergence of Lili brings simultaneous loss and gain. Vikander is superb, and Redmayne’s performance in his transgendered role is as subtle and powerful as his work in The Theory of Everything. ACCESS SCREENING The 6.20pm screening on Tues 12 Jan will include audio description and on-screen captioning.
04/05
NEW RELEASES
JOY
FRI 1 – THURS 14 JAN
DIR: DAVID O. RUSSELL • USA • 2015 • 2 HRS 4 MINS
Jennifer Lawrence reunites with her Silver Linings Playbook director David O. Russell for the true story of Joy Mangano, who founded a business empire that spanned four generations. Joy Mangano is smart. Really smart. She has the ideas and the know-how to create something brilliant. However, her family life is difficult, and Joy has to negotiate her parents’ divorce as well as the new man in her life.
alone, and struggles to persuade anyone to take her seriously as a businesswoman. Enter the Home Shopping Network, whose executive (Bradley Cooper) is willing to give Joy a chance to showcase her new invention, the Miracle Mop.
It isn’t long before Joy’s new venture really starts to take off, but success comes at its own price, and she has yet more trials and tribulations to contend with as she transforms from a Things go from bad to worse when struggling single mother into the Joy ends up raising her three kids matriarch and business mogul
she knew she would always become. Unfolding over four generations, this is a deeply emotional story of family, love and the tough world of commerce. Reuniting David O. Russell with Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro, Joy is the story of one woman’s determination to take on the world, no matter the cost.
NEW RELEASES
ROOM FRI 15 – THURS 28 JAN
DIR: LENNY ABRAHAMSON • IRELAND/CANADA • 2015 1 HR 58 MINS
Adapted from Emma Donoghue’s resilience reaches its breaking bestseller and directed by Lenny point, they enact a risky plan Abrahamson (Frank, Adam & Paul), to escape. What starts as a Room tells the extraordinary story harrowing story of loss and of Jack (played by magnificent anger beautifully transitions to newcomer Jacob Tremblay), a one of love and possibility. spirited five-year-old who is looked after by his loving and devoted Ma While the cast — rounded out (Brie Larson). by William H. Macy and Joan Allen — is uniformly excellent, Like any good mother, Ma none stands out more than the dedicates herself to keeping Jack gifted young Tremblay, who happy and safe, nurturing him conveys Jack’s dizzying range with warmth and love and doing of experience with a sensitivity typical things like playing games and wisdom far beyond his years. and telling stories. The difference The film remains tethered to between their life together and Jack’s perspective, while Brie other families however, is they Larson makes good on her Short are trapped in a windowless, Term 12 promise with a stunning 10-by-10-foot space, which Ma performance that steers the has euphemistically named mother-son relationship clear of “Room.” As Jack’s curiosity about cloying sentimentality. their situation grows, and Ma’s
Lenny Abrahamson continues his eclectic run of projects, transforming the challenge of filming within a tiny, confined space into an opportunity for visual invention. This, combined with Emma Donoghue’s adaptation of her own novel, results in a wholly cinematic and transformative experience, one that not only celebrates life, but gives us a newfound appreciation for all that we have in this world. ACCESS SCREENING The 6.20pm screening on Tues 26 Jan will include audio description and on-screen captioning.
06/07
NEW RELEASES
THE REVENANT FRI 15 – THURS 28 JAN
DIR: ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ IÑÁRRITU • USA • 2015 • 2 HRS 36 MINS
Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy star in an enthralling revenge western from Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman), who has created an immersive and visceral cinematic experience.
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s raw and gritty follow-up to the Oscar-winning Birdman is based on an extraordinary true story of betrayal, survival and ultimate redemption. Its incredible authenticity stems Fur trapper Hugh Glass (Leonardo from Iñárritu’s determination DiCaprio) is leading a hunting party to film Glass’s gruelling ordeal in 1820s South Dakota when he’s in sequence, using natural attacked and viciously mauled light, in genuinely unforgiving by a bear. Rather than tending to locations. The superb supporting his wounds, the frontiersman’s cast includes Will Poulter and traitorous companions, led by Domhnall Gleeson. John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy), decide to abandon him, leaving “Far more challenging than Glass to perish in a shallow grave. even Iñárritu’s bravura OscarBut he survives. Now he must winner Birdman, this is his brave warring tribes, a savage Fitzcarraldo or his environment and a ferociously Apocalypse Now.” harsh winter on a 120-mile trek to - TOTAL FILM take his revenge.
AT A GLANCE
Times are subject to change. Please check www.queensfilmtheatre.com for up-to-date information.
JANUARY DATE
EVENT
TIME
Sat 23
Fri 1
The Danish Girl Joy Le Mépris
3.50pm/6.20pm/8.50pm 4.00pm/8.40pm 6.30pm
Room Bolshoi Babylon The Revenant
3.50pm/6.20pm/8.50pm 4.30pm/6.30pm 8.30pm
Sun 24
Sat 2
Joy Ice and the Sky The Danish Girl Le Mépris
3.50pm/8.40pm 4.30pm 6.20pm/8.50pm 6.30pm
Bolshoi Babylon Exhibition on Screen: Goya The Forbidden Room Room The Revenant
3.30pm 3.45pm 5.30pm 5.50pm/8.20pm 8.00pm
Sun 3
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter’s Tale Ice and the Sky The Danish Girl Le Mépris Joy
Mon 25
2.30pm 4.10pm 6.00pm/8.30pm 6.10pm 8.20pm
The Forbidden Room Room The Revenant
6.00pm 6.20pm/8.50pm 8.30pm
Tues 26
Mon 4 – Thurs 7
The Danish Girl Joy Le Mépris
6.20pm/8.50pm 6.30pm 9.00pm
The Forbidden Room Room (Access screening) The Revenant Room
6.00pm 6.20pm 8.30pm 8.50pm
Wed 27
Fri 8
Joy Brooklyn A War The Danish Girl
6.20pm 6.30pm 8.50pm 9.00pm
Room My Nazi Legacy The Revenant
6.20pm/8.50pm 6.30pm 8.30pm
Thurs 28
6.00pm
Sat 9
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter’s Tale Tubby Hayes: A Man in a Hurry Joy Brooklyn A War The Danish Girl
Room NT Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses The Revenant
2.30pm 4.15pm 6.20pm 6.30pm 8.50pm 9.00pm
Sun 10
NT Live: Jane Eyre Brooklyn Joy A War The Danish Girl
2.30pm 4.00pm/6.30pm 6.20pm 8.50pm 9.00pm
Mon 11
The Danish Girl A War Brooklyn Joy
6.20pm 6.30pm 8.50pm 9.00pm
Tues 12
The Danish Girl (Access screening) A War Brooklyn Joy
6.20pm 6.30pm 8.50pm 9.00pm
Wed 13 – The Danish Girl Thurs 14 A War Brooklyn Joy
6.20pm 6.30pm 8.50pm 9.00pm
Fri 15
The Revenant Room 11 Minutes
6.00pm 6.20pm/8.50pm 9.10pm
Sat 16
The Revenant Room 11 Minutes
2.50pm/6.00pm 3.50pm/6.20pm/8.50pm 9.10pm
Sun 17
Room Shem the Penman Sings Again The Revenant 11 Minutes
3.20pm/5.50pm/8.20pm
Mon 18 – Thurs 21
Room Sherpa The Revenant
6.20pm/8.50pm 6.30pm 8.30pm
Fri 22
Room Bolshoi Babylon The Revenant
6.20pm/8.50pm 6.30pm 8.30pm
3.40pm 5.30pm 8.40pm
7.00pm 8.30pm
NEW RELEASES
BROOKLYN FRI 8 – THURS 14 JAN
DIR: JOHN CROWLEY •IRELAND/UK/ CANADA • 2015 • 1 HR 52 MINS
A huge hit when it screened at QFT back in November, here is another chance to see this wonderful film featuring a beautiful, understated performance from Saoirse Ronan. In the early 1950s, a young Irish woman (Ronan) crosses the Atlantic to begin a new life in America, in this exquisitely crafted adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Colm Tóibín. Brooklyn is a gorgeously realised film about family, memory, and making a new home.
KRIGEN
A WAR FRI 8 – THURS 14 JAN
DIR: TOBIAS LINDHOLM • DENMARK 2015 • 1 HR 55 MINS • SUBTITLED
A War is the third film from Danish writer-director Tobias Lindholm, following R and (QFT hit) A Hijacking. Pilou Asbæk stars as a Danish army commander in Afghanistan whose life and family are turned upside down by the fallout of a single decision made while his company is under attack. Assembling a supporting cast that includes Danish soldiers and Taliban warriors, Lindholm and his cast inject the film with a physical and moral realism that transcends the trappings of a typical war film.
08/09
NEW RELEASES
11 MINUT
11 MINUTES FRI 15 – SUN 17 JAN
DIR: JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI POLAND/IRELAND • 2015 1 HR 21 MINS • SUBTITLED
CERT TBC
Jerzy Skolimowski’s ‘catastrophic thriller’ focuses on 11 scintillating minutes in the lives of a variety of characters (including our own Richard Dormer), each of whom is following a different path on a single day in Warsaw – some routine, many of them lifechanging, all pulse-pounding. As each story develops, the veneer of each character’s behaviour is stripped away until Skolimowski (Four Nights with Anna, Essential Killing) ties all the plot threads together in a breathtaking climax.
THE FORBIDDEN ROOM FRI 22 – SUN 24 JAN
DIR: GUY MADDIN & EVAN JOHNSON CANADA • 2015 • 1 HR 59 MINS
Guy Maddin (My Winnipeg, The Saddest Music in the World) and co-director Evan Johnson’s dreamlike opus is gleeful, hypnotic and totally deranged. A humorous, surreal, and mesmerising tale inspired by early sound films from the 1920s, Maddin and Johnson have created a visual feast, weaving together multiple stories and performances by Mathieu Amalric, Charlotte Rampling, Udo Kier and cult electropop duo Sparks, among others. “I’ve never taken LSD and wandered around a film archive, but I imagine the experience might be similar to The Forbidden Room.” – JORDAN HOFFMAN, THE GUARDIAN
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LA GLACE ET LE CIEL - DOCUMENTARY
ICE AND THE SKY SAT 2 – SUN 3 JAN
DIR: LUC JACQUET • FRANCE • 2015 1 HR 29 MINS • SUBTITLED
Writer-director Luc Jacquet creates a compelling call to arms through charting the work of spry 82-yearold climatologist Claude Lorius. Having first visited Antarctica 60 years ago, Lorius devoted his career to deep drilling for ice cores beneath the frozen tundra to investigate changes in the earth’s climate over thousands of years. Restored super-8 footage of early expeditions recounts the hardships endured, but it’s the measured detachment with which Lorius explains what his ominous research evidence means for the future of the planet that packs the biggest punch.
DOCUMENTARY
SHERPA
MON 18 – THURS 21 JAN
DIR: JENNIFER PEEDOM AUSTRALIA/NEPAL• 2015 1 HR 36 MINS • PARTIALLY SUBTITLED
In 2013, the world’s media reported on a shocking mountainhigh brawl as European climbers fled a mob of angry Sherpas. Director Jennifer Peedom and her team set out to uncover the cause of this altercation, intending to film the 2014 climbing season from the Sherpas’ point of view. Instead, they captured Everest’s greatest tragedy, when a huge block of ice crashed down onto the climbing route... “Rarely are documentaries as powerfully polemic and jawgapingly spectacular as Sherpa.” – HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
10/11
NEW RELEASES
DOCUMENTARY
BOLSHOI BABYLON FRI 22 – SUN 24 JAN
DIR: NICK READ & MARK FRANCHETTI UK • 2015 • 1 HR 27 MINS
Gaining unprecedented access into the world of Russia’s celebrated ballet company, Bolshoi Babylon takes us behind the scenes to witness the most turbulent period in the venerable institution’s history. In 2014, the 250-year-old organisation was rocked by scandal when its director was attacked with acid by a disgruntled former dancer. Unearthing biting jealousies and cutthroat ambition, Bolshoi Babylon is a study of a culture that reveals its off-stage drama to be every bit as captivating as the finely rehearsed action on it.
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2016 - DOCUMENTARY
MY NAZI LEGACY WED 27 JAN, 6.30PM
DIR: DAVID EVANS • UK • 2015 1 HR 36 MINS • PARTIALLY SUBTITLED
Three men travel together across Europe. For two of them the journey involves a confrontation with the acts of their fathers, who were both senior Nazi officers. For the third, the eminent human rights lawyer and author Philippe Sands, it means visiting the place where much of his own Jewish family was destroyed by the fathers of the two men he has come to know. It is an emotional, psychological exploration of three men wrestling with their past, the present of Europe - and conflicting versions of the truth.
SPECIAL EVENTS/SECOND SIGHT
12/13
SHEM THE PENMAN SINGS AGAIN SUN 17 JAN, 3.40PM
DIR: PÁDRAIG TREHY • IRELAND 2015 • 1 HR 20 MINS
CERT TBC
An imagined archive of the actual and much fabled friendship between James Joyce and tenor John McCormack. The character of Shaun the Post in Joyce’s “unreadable” novel, Finnegan’s Wake, was based on McCormack. Joyce portrayed himself as Shaun’s lowly twin brother, Shem the Penman. Joyce and McCormack’s encounters are reimagined and interrupted by a series of films within the film which chart the exploits of Shem and Shaun. As Joyce’s eyesight fails, the narrative is carried by a mix of archive recordings and imaginary radio broadcasts.
SECOND SIGHT
LE MEPRIS FRI 1 – THURS 7 JAN
DIR: JEAN-LUC GODARD • FRANCE/ITALY 1963 • 1 HR 43 MINS • SUBTITLED
Jean-Luc Godard’s subversive foray into commercial filmmaking is a star-studded Cinemascope epic. Le Mépris stars Michel Piccoli as a screenwriter torn between the demands of a proud European director (played by legendary director Fritz Lang), a crude and arrogant American producer (Jack Palance), and his disillusioned wife, Camille (Brigitte Bardot), as he attempts to doctor the script for a new film version of The Odyssey. This brilliant study of marital breakdown, artistic compromise, and the cinematic process is presented in a new restoration from the BFI.
NEW RELEASES
DOCUMENTARY
TUBBY HAYES: A MAN IN A HURRY SAT 9 JAN, 4.15PM
DIR: LEE COGSWELL • UK • 2015 55 MINS + 40 MINS
CERT TBC
Tubby Hayes: A Man in a Hurry charts the life and times of professional jazz musician Edward Brian ‘Tubby’ Hayes who recorded some of the most iconic pieces of the ‘50s and ‘60s. Tubby’s credits include soundtracks to Alfie and The Italian Job, and live performances and recordings for Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Quincy Jones and Dizzy Gillespie. Screening with Jazz Goes to College: The Tubby Hayes Big Band recorded live for the BBC in 1966, introduced by Humphrey Lyttelton (40 mins).
Tickets £4 for members of the Musicians’ Union, Equity and Writers’ Guild (proof of membership required).
EXHIBITION ON SCREEN
GOYA – VISIONS OF FLESH AND BLOOD SUN 24 JAN, 3.45PM
DIR: DAVID BICKERSTAFF • UK • 2015 1 HR 35 MINS
‘Goya – Visions of Flesh and Blood’ takes you on a tour of Goya’s paintings from the National Gallery’s stunning exhibition, giving you a chance to see them up close with insightful commentary by leading art historians. Considered to be Spain’s most important artist and the father of modern art, it is difficult to overstate Goya’s influence. A gifted portrait painter, an observer of everyday life and a social commentator: his paintings offer something for everyone.
Tickets £8
14/15
SPECIAL EVENTS
BRANAGH THEATRE LIVE
THE WINTER’S TALE SUN 3 JAN, 2.30PM (ENCORE) SAT 9 JAN, 2.30PM (FINAL ENCORE)
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. JANE EYRE SUN 10 JAN, 2.30PM (ENCORE)
As You Like It
LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES THURS 28 JAN, 7PM AS YOU LIKE IT THURS 25 FEB, 7PM
TICKETS Live: £15 (£12.50 concessions and Film Card holders) Encore: £12.50 (£10 concessions and Film Card holders)