QFT What's On Guide for May 2016

WHAT’S ON / MAY 2016

LOVE & FRIENDSHIP WHIT STILLMAN’S ADAPTATION OF JANE AUSTEN’S COMIC GEM, STARRING KATE BECKINSALE AND CHLOË SEVIGNY.

THIS ISSUE:

SON OF SAUL EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!

SHAKESPEARE ON FILM

02/03

BOOKING AND VENUE INFORMATION

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Get £2.70 off every film you see plus invitations to special events, exclusive meal deals, free tea and coffee refills and much more.

Buy online at www.queensfilmtheatre.com

MAY’S DRINKS OF THE MONTH

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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

Exclusive to Film Card holders – Holohans Pantry is offering 20% off your food bill any time, any day. Holohans Pantry is a new restaurant located on University Street (opposite what used to be Beatrice Kennedy). Boxty is the specialty, scrummy! Don’t forget our existing partners – Molly’s Yard – who also offer 20% off your food bill.

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Open to all – For fans of all things Nordic/delicious, Kaffe O is offering 15% off the bill to anyone with a valid on that day QFT ticket.

Perfect for a quick, healthy and very tasty bite to eat.

And remember Lavery’s and The Woodworkers also offer QFT goers some great deals...

Throughout the QFT programme you will see this symbol accompanying specific films.

The F-Rating 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?

Visit f-rated.com for more information.

NEW RELEASES

04/05

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FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS FRI 6 – THURS 19 MAY

DIR: STEPHEN FREARS • UK • 2016 • 1 HR 50 MINS

Stephen Frears (The Queen, Philomena, My Beautiful Laundrette) directs Meryl Streep in Florence Foster Jenkins; the true story of the New York heiress who believed, incorrectly, that she could sing.

Obsessively pursuing her dreams of opera stardom, Foster Jenkins is blissfully unaware that while the voice she hears in her head is beautiful, to her audience, it’s comically bad.

Her manager, aristocratic English actor St Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant), lovingly protects her from this painful reality.

But when she decides to give a public concert at Carnegie Hall in 1944, he faces his greatest challenge yet.

An almost unbelievable true story of self-delusion but also a heartening look at the power of self-belief, it offers excellent central performances - with Streep typically brilliant and Grant on restrained, unusually steely form - in a film that’s got warmth, humour and charm to spare.

If the story sounds familiar that’s because it was recently tapped as inspiration for another film, the French Marguerite, which screened at QFT in April.

ACCESS SCREENING The 6.30pm screening on Tues 17 May will include audio description and on-screen captioning.

EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!

FRI 13 – THURS 26 MAY

DIR: RICHARD LINKLATER • USA • 2016 • 1 HR 57 MINS

The new film from US indie master Richard Linklater - his first since 2013’s critically adored Boyhood - is a riotous, perceptive and acutely funny step back into 1980s college dorm life.

It’s been billed by Linklater himself as a “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused, which focused on teenagers celebrating the last day of high school. This time he follows a group of rowdy young freshmen as they enjoy their first weekend of college: partying hard, enduring painful initiation rites and trying to meet girls; navigating their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.

Dazed and Confused made stars out of its then relatively unknown cast and the loose, naturalistic performances from his equally obscure actors here - Tyler Hoechlin, Zoey Deutch, Ryan Guzman, Blake Jenner and Glen Powell - looks set to do the same. It’s a blissfully enjoyable watch from a confident, expressive and ever-thoughtful filmmaker at the height of his abilities. «««« “Following his defining opus Boyhood, Linklater has cut loose to deliver his most purely pleasurable effort since 1993’s Dazed and Confused.”

- NIGEL M SMITH, THE GUARDIAN

DAZED AND CONFUSED SAT 7 MAY, 9.10PM

DIR: RICHARD LINKLATER • USA 1993 • 1 HR 42 MINS

America, 1976. The last day of school. Bongs blaze, bellbottoms ring, and rock and roll rocks. Revisit one of the best teen films ever made in advance of Richard Linklater’s “spiritual sequel”, Everybody Wants Some!!

06/07

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NEW RELEASES

UMIMACHI DIARY

OUR LITTLE SISTER FRI 29 APR – THURS 5 MAY

KORE-EDA HIROKAZU • JAPAN • 2015 2 HRS 7 MINS • SUBTITLED

Our Little Sister is the new film by acclaimed director Kore-eda Hirokazu (Like Father, Like Son and I Wish).

Set in provincial Japan, the film sees three sisters take in their younger sibling when the girls’ father dies, sparking a journey of self-discovery for all four sisters, looking back into painful pasts but also reaching forward to hopeful futures. This exquisite family drama, set across the varied colours of the four seasons, is one of the most graceful, tender and moving films of the year.

DHEEPAN

SAUL FIA

SON OF SAUL

FRI 22 APR – THURS 5 MAY

JACQUES AUDIARD • FRANCE • 2015 1 HR 55 MINS • SUBTITLED

FRI 29 APR – THURS 12 MAY

DIR: LÁSZLÓ NEMES • HUNGARY • 2015 • 1 HR 47 MINS • SUBTITLED

Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes 2015, a Golden Globe, and this year’s Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Son of Saul is Hungarian director László Nemes’ blistering debut feature; a courageous and unflinching reimagining of the Holocaust drama.

Saul Ausländer is a member of the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners forced to assist in the machinery of the Nazi concentration camps. While at

work, he discovers the body of a boy he recognises as his son.

As the Sonderkommando plan a rebellion, Saul vows to carry out an impossible task: to save the child’s body from the flames and to find a rabbi to recite the mourner’s Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.

Anchored by a riveting and intensely brave performance from newcomer Géza Röhrig, Son of Saul is a remarkable exploration of one of humanity’s

darkest moments. Visceral, gripping and immensely powerful, it is one of the boldest and most remarkable debut features in recent memory and is already being heralded as a masterpiece of world cinema. ««««« “By any standards, this would be an outstanding film, but for a debut it is remarkable.”

- PETER BRADSHAW, THE GUARDIAN

Jacques Audiard’s (A Prophet, Rust and Bone) explosive immigrant drama depicts a Sri Lankan rebel fighter who attempts a better life in Paris under a dead man’s identity.

A mixture of brutal social realism and nail-biting suspense, the film’s grit and boldness won it the top prize at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. Antonythasan Jesuthasan, a former Tamil Tiger child soldier-turned-acclaimednovelist, gives a breakout lead performance as the multi-faceted Dheepan.

Screening with short film ABU AMMAR IS COMING (Dir. Naeem Mohaiemen, Bangladesh/Lebanon/UK, 2016, 6 mins).

NEW RELEASES

MILES AHEAD

08/09

FRI 22 APR – THURS 5 MAY

DIR: DON CHEADLE • USA • 2015 1 HR 40 MINS

Written and directed by actor Don Cheadle in his directorial debut, Miles Ahead is a freeform biopic of undisputed jazz great Miles Davis.

Set predominantly in 1970s Manhattan, the film explores the heady early days of Davis’ success along with the darker, reclusive times battling the addiction that almost ended his life and struggling to overcome the creative block which threatened to end his career. Cheadle gives a brilliant performance, full of attitude, exploring both the man and the myth, as he recounts his exploits to Rolling Stone reporter Dave Braden (Ewan McGregor).

LOVE & FRIENDSHIP

KNIGHT OF CUPS

FRI 27 MAY – THURS 9 JUN

FRI 6 – WED 11 MAY

DIR: WHIT STILLMAN • IRELAND/ NETHERLANDS/FRANCE/USA • 2016 1 HR 33 MINS

Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny reunite with director Whit Stillman for a witty adaptation of Jane Austen’s early novella Lady Susan.

Set in the opulent drawing rooms of eighteenth-century English society, Love & Friendship focuses on the machinations of a beautiful widow, Lady Susan Vernon (Beckinsale), who, while waiting for social chatter about a personal indiscretion to pass, takes up temporary residence at her in-laws’ estate. While there, the intelligent, flirtatious, and amusingly egotistical Lady Vernon is determined to be a

DIR: TERRENCE MALICK • USA • 2015 1 HR 58 MINS

matchmaker for her daughter Frederica—and herself too, naturally. She enlists the assistance of her old friend Alicia (Sevigny), who is herself married to Stephen Fry as a gouty killjoy, but two particularly handsome suitors complicate her orchestrations.

Adapting Jane Austen’s unpublished early novella Lady Susan, Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, Damsels in Distress, The Last Days of Disco) returns to top form with this latest comedy of manners. Kate Beckinsale excels in her role as the deliciously devious Lady

ACCESS SCREENING The 6.30pm screening on Tues 3 May will include audio description and on-screen captioning.

Vernon and delivers each line with relish. With exquisite period detail and a script teeming with bon mots and witty dialogue, Love & Friendship is a rare—and rarified—treat. ««««« “A flat-out hilarious adaptation of a Jane Austen novella.”

- THE TELEGRAPH ACCESS SCREENING The Tues 7 June screening will include audio description and on-screen captioning (time TBC).

Christian Bale plays a lost soul adrift in Hollywood in Terrence Malick’s latest impressionistic drama.

Knight of Cups follows writer Rick (Bale) on an odyssey through the playgrounds of Los Angeles and Las Vegas as he undertakes a search for love and self. This takes him on a series of adventures with six alluring women (including Imogen Poots, Cate Blanchett and Natalie Portman). The seventh film from Malick (The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life) offers both a vision of modern life and an intensely personal experience of memory, family, and love.

NEW RELEASES

NEW RELEASES

GREEN ROOM

MUSTANG

DIR: JEREMY SAULNIER • USA • 2015 1 HR 35 MINS

DIR: DENIZ GAMZE ERGÜVEN TURKEY/FRANCE/GERMANY/QATAR 2015 • 1 HR 37 MINS • SUBTITLED

From the director of Blue Ruin comes this ultra-violent tale of a punk band falling prey to a gang of neo-Nazis led by Patrick Stewart (playing against type).

The feature debut of Turkish filmmaker Deniz Gamze Ergüven is a sensitive and powerful portrait of sisterhood and burgeoning sexuality.

Jeremy Saulnier displays great restraint and discipline in his direction and storytelling, utilising David Fincher-esque techniques to spine-chilling effect; allowing the horror to manifest itself in the mind of the viewer as much as it plays out on screen.

In a remote Turkish coastal village on the Black Sea, five young sisters live under the guardianship of their grandmother and uncle after the death of their parents. When a neighbour witnesses the girls innocently playing on the beach, she reports this “scandalous” behaviour to their guardians, who institute a tyrannical regime of both physical and emotional imprisonment.

FRI 20 – THURS 26 MAY

“An incendiary performance from Patrick Stewart fuels a stunning film, not for the faint of heart.”

- TY COOPER, HEYUGUYS

LOUDER THAN BOMBS SAT 28 MAY – THURS 2 JUN

FRI 13 – THURS 19 MAY

EVOLUTION SAT 28 MAY – THURS 2 JUN

DIR: JOACHIM TRIER • NORWAY/FRANCE /DENMARK • 2015 • 1 HR 49 MINS

DIR: LUCILE HADŽIHALILOVIC ´ FRANCE/BELGIUM/SPAIN • 2015 1 HR 22 MINS • SUBTITLED

Award-winning Norwegian director Joachim Trier (Oslo, August 31st) makes his Englishlanguage debut with the starstudded Louder Than Bombs, an intricate and delicate family drama.

A mesmerising blend of body horror and surreal fantasy from director Lucile Hadžihalilovic´ (Innocence), pitched somewhere between Franju’s Eyes Without a Face and Glazer’s Under the Skin.

A war photographer dies in a car accident. When an exhibition of her work is planned three years later, her family must finally come to terms with their grief and with the unspoken issues between them. With a stellar cast headed

by Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert, Jesse Eisenberg and David Strathairn, this is a film of calm intensity.

10/11

10-year-old Nicolas lives on a remote island, inhabited solely by women and young boys. He spends his days exploring the sea and the rocky shore. But after making an eerie discovery that no-one else will believe, Nicolas is due to keep an appointment at the island’s hospital, where he will confront the mysteries of his origins and his destiny.

Screening with short film ALWAYS (CRASHING) (Dir. Jason Wood & Simon Barker, UK, 2016, 14 mins).

12/13

NEW RELEASES

SPECIAL EVENTS

HEART OF A DOG

SHORT TERM 12

DIR: LAURIE ANDERSON • FRANCE/USA 2015 • 1 HR 16 MINS

DESTIN DANIEL CRETTON • USA • 2013 1 HR 37 MINS

“Hello, little bonehead. I’ll love you forever.” So begins Heart of a Dog, Laurie Anderson’s cinematic journey through love, death and language.

A simultaneous screening with Newcastle Community Cinema, Newry Film Club and the Strand Arts Centre, to coincide with the NI Mental Health Arts & Film Festival 2016.

FRI 20 – SUN 22 MAY

Centring on Anderson’s beloved rat terrier Lolabelle, who died in 2011, Heart of a Dog is a personal essay that weaves together childhood memories, video diaries, philosophical musings on data collection, surveillance culture and the Buddhist conception of the afterlife, and heartfelt tributes to the artists, writers, musicians and thinkers who inspire her.

THE SKY TREMBLES

AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS MON 23 – WED 25 MAY

DIR: BEN RIVERS • UK • 2015 1 HR 37 MINS • SUBTITLED

SAT 14 MAY, 6.30PM

Told through the eyes of Grace (Brie Larson, Room), a twentysomething supervisor at a fostercare facility for at-risk teenagers, this electric and exceptional drama is a gutsy portrayal of troubled teens, offering tears and laughter in equal measure.

“Larson’s performance is something of a quiet revelation, and the same could be said of the film itself.”- FILM.COM

NT LIVE ENCORES

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE THURS 12 MAY, 7PM

The new feature film by award-winning British artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers (Two Years at Sea) is a hallucinatory adventure of cruelty, madness and malevolence, reminiscent of both Antonioni and Herzog.

2 HRS 30 MINS (NO INTERVAL)

At the heart of the film’s layered narratives is an adaptation of Paul Bowles’ Morocco-set short story ‘A Distant Episode’. Moving between documentary, fiction and fable, The Sky Trembles... sees its protagonist, filmmaker Oliver Laxe, directing his own film in Morocco before walking off set and into Rivers’ narrative. What happens next is a filmmaker’s nightmare.

THE AUDIENCE

This stunning production of Miller’s tragic masterpiece won a trio of 2014 Olivier Awards including Best Revival, Best Actor for Mark Strong and Best Director for Ivo van Hove.

SAT 28 MAY – THURS 2 JUN DIR: LUCILE HADŽIHALILOVIC FRANCE/BELGIUM/SPAIN • 2015 1 HR 22 MINS • SUBTITLED

THURS 9 JUN, 7PM

3 HRS (INCL. 20 MIN INTERVAL)

Written by Peter Morgan (The Queen) and directed by Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours), this special encore screening includes an exclusive Q&A with Helen Mirren and director Stephen Daldry.

TICKETS Encore: £12.50 (£10 concessions and Film Card holders)

14/15

NEW RELEASES

SPECIAL EVENTS

DOCUMENTARY

UK GREEN FILM FESTIVAL

THE DIVIDE FRI 6 MAY, 6.30PM

DIR: KATHARINE ROUND • UK/USA 2015 • 1 HR 18 MINS

The UK Green Film Festival returns to QFT as part of a nationwide celebration of environmental films. For more details visit ukgreenfilmfestival.org. Tickets £4.

The Divide tells the story of seven individuals striving for a better life in modern day US and UK - where the top 0.1% owns as much wealth as the bottom 90%.

DOCUMENTARY

DEEP TIME SUN 1 MAY, 4.10PM

By weaving these stories with news archive from 1979 to the present day, The Divide creates a lyrical, psychological and tragicomic picture of how economic division creates social division.

It serves as both a call to arms, and a powerful warning. The film is inspired by the criticallyacclaimed, best-selling book “The Spirit Level” by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.

DIR: NOAH HUTTON • USA • 2015 1 HR 29 MINS

Ancient oceans teeming with life, Norwegian settlers, Native Americans and multinational oil corporations find intimacy in deep time. Following up his 2009 feature Crude Independence, Deep Time is director Noah Hutton’s ethereal portrait of the landowners, state officials, and oil workers at the centre of the most prolific oil boom on the planet for the past six years.

DOCUMENTARY

ATLANTIC

DOCUMENTARY

POPULATION BOOM

MON 9 – WED 11 MAY

DIR: RISTEARD Ó DOMHNAILL IRELAND • 2016 • 1 HR 20 MINS

SAT 7 MAY, 4.30PM

CERT TBC

At three different corners of the Atlantic, fishing communities in Ireland, Norway, and Newfoundland share social, economic and environmental problems stemming from human interactions with the ocean’s ecosystems.

But while the Canadian and Norwegian governments work to safeguard their oil, gas, and fish, Ireland opts to sell its ocean resources to foreign interests, to the detriment of its working class.

Featuring voiceover by renowned actor Brendan Gleeson, Risteard Ó Domhnaill’s Atlantic tackles harsh realities with uncommon grace and perspective.

The 6.40pm screening on Wed 11 May will be followed by a Q&A with director Risteard Ó Domhnaill.

DOCUMENTARY

JUST EAT IT: A FOOD WASTE STORY MON 2 MAY, 4.30PM

DIR: GRANT BALDWIN CANADA/UK/USA • 2014 • 1 HR 15 MINS

Filmmakers and food lovers Jen and Grant dive into the issue of food waste from farm, through to retail, all the way to the back of their own fridge. After catching a glimpse of the billions of dollars of good food that is tossed each year in North America, they pledge to quit grocery shopping and survive only on discarded food. What they find is truly shocking.

DOCUMENTARY

THE SHORE BREAK SUN 8 MAY, 4.00PM

DIR: WERNER BOOTE • AUSTRIA • 2013 1 HR 31 MINS • PARTIALLY SUBTITLED

DIR: RYLEY GRUNENWALD SOUTH AFRICA • 2014 • 1 HR 30 MINS PARTIALLY SUBTITLED

How many people are too many?

And who’s one too many? Is this even the right question to ask? One thing is certain: 25 years ago there were five billion of us. Today, there are seven.

Dwindling resources, mountains of toxic waste, hunger and climate change – the results of overpopulation? In Population Boom, director Werner Boote traverses the globe armed with a World Bank umbrella to examine the myths and facts about overpopulation.

Two cousins from South Africa’s Wild Coast have opposing plans to develop their land. Nonhle wants to develop eco-tourism in order to protect her community’s homes, farms, graves and traditional lifestyle while Madiba is planning a titanium mine and national tolled highway.

Meanwhile, their King and Queen, who oppose the mine and highway, are deposed by the South African Government.

UK GREEN FILM FE STIVAL

SPECIAL EVENTS

16/17

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HENRY V SCREENING + KENNETH BRANAGH Q&A (BROADCAST LIVE TO CINEMAS)

FRI 27 MAY, 5.45PM FOR 6.00PM* DIR: KENNETH BRANAGH • UK • 1989 • 2 HRS 17 MINS

SHAKESPEARE ON FILM

Join QFT as we celebrate the quatercentenary of the Bard with an exciting season of screenings and special events, part of BFI Presents Shakespeare on Film.

The BFI Film Audience Network (FAN) is proud to announce Shakespeare on Film: a spectacular UK-wide series of 300 special screenings and events celebrating the enormous impact the playwright’s life, work and legacy has had on cinema.

The project is led by Film Hub London working in partnership with the BFI and the UK’s eight other film Hubs. BFI Presents: Shakespeare on Film will see multiplexes, independent cinemas, film clubs, pop-ups and community venues the length and breadth of the UK enticing audiences with a broad range of must-see filmic interpretations of Shakespeare’s work and special events featuring leading cinematic lights.

ARENA

ALL THE WORLD’S A SCREEN: SHAKESPEARE ON FILM SAT 28 MAY, 5.00PM

DIR: DAVID THOMPSON • UK • 2016 • 1 HR

From BBC Arena and Film London comes this compact but meaty exploration of Shakespeare, translated into celluloid from 1895 to now. Ranging from Olivier’s ground breaking trio of adaptations through Welles’ poverty row masterpieces to the great foreign language versions of Kurosawa and Kozintsev, it also encompasses Hollywood, Bollywood and even outer space (!). A sharp, smart essay documentary, full of terrific clips, archive interviews and behind the scenes footage, this is a great introduction to the rich legacy of Shakespeare in the movies.

Written and produced by David Thompson & Adrian Wootton; Arena Series Editor, Anthony Wall.

Tickets £4

A hugely exciting and important moment for us, this live on-stage event with one of Northern Ireland’s most acclaimed talents is being broadcast direct and simultaneously from QFT to over 70 cinemas UK-wide.

Taking place in his home city, actor Kenneth Branagh will discuss his career as a director within the context of his Shakespeare films with Adrian Wootton, CEO of Film London and the British Film Commission.

The conversation will focus on Branagh as one of Britain’s leading Shakespearean actor/ directors, and will explore Shakespeare as an inspiration for filmmaking, covering his immeasurable cultural impact and why he remains so relevant today. The discussion will be followed by a screening of Kenneth Branagh’s first Shakespeare film, Henry V, released in 1989. Directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, Henry V is a gritty adaptation of Shakespeare’s epic and brutal play. The BAFTA and Academy Award-winning film is widely considered one of the best Shakespeare film adaptations ever made, commended for the performances and direction as well as the accessibility of its Shakespearean language.

Please note the Q&A will take place first, followed by the film screening. There will be a short 15 minute interval in-between.

Tickets £15/£12.50 concs. (max 4 per customer). *Please note that there will be no admission after 6.00pm.

SPECIAL EVENTS

DRAMATIC POETRY: KENNETH BRANAGH’S SHAKESPEARE

Linking in with our very special event with Kenneth Branagh, this is a rare opportunity to see his Shakespeare films, as director and actor, on the big screen.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING SAT 21 MAY, 4.20PM DIR: KENNETH BRANAGH • UK/USA • 1993 • 1 HR 51 MINS

Cheerful and energetic with a delightfully starry cast including Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington and Michael Keaton, Kenneth Branagh’s version of Shakespeare’s comedy is a fast moving, intricate tale of love and romantic sparring, a ‘Merry War’ of trust and treachery, social graces and sheer physical attraction, chastity under suspicion and marriage in jeopardy.

35mm screening.

OTHELLO SUN 22 MAY, 3.20PM DIR: OLIVER PARKER • USA/UK • 1995 • 2 HRS 3 MINS

The dark side of love comes to the fore in this 1995 version of Shakespeare’s tragedy which sees Laurence Fishburne cast as Othello (the first black actor to play the part on screen), and a superb Branagh cast as the manipulative and devious Iago – who goads and provokes the jealous Othello into an act of homicidal rage…

18/19

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HAMLET SAT 28 MAY, 1.30PM

LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST HENRY V SUN 29 MAY, 3.40PM

MON 30 MAY, 3.30PM

DIR: KENNETH BRANAGH • UK/USA 1996 • 4 HRS 2 MINS

DIR: KENNETH BRANAGH UK/FRANCE/USA • 2000 • 1 HR 34 MINS

DIR: KENNETH BRANAGH • UK 1989 • 2 HRS 17 MINS

Branagh directs and stars as the titular Prince of Denmark in this lavish and flamboyant version of one of Shakespeare’s greatest and most loved plays. A superbly starry cast (featuring Richard Attenborough, Judi Dench and Julie Christie amongst others) is matched by the casting of majestic Blenheim Palace as Elsinore in a production that is full of visual bravado whilst at the same time remaining true to the essence of the original play.

Branagh’s unique and delightful staging of this Shakespeare Comedy, reimagines the play as a classic Hollywood-style musical romance with lively dance sequences set to classic tunes from the Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and Gershwin songbooks.

An all-star cast includes Branagh himself, Nathan Lane, Timothy Spall and Alicia Silverstone.

35mm screening.

Kenneth Branagh’s directorial debut, in which he also stars, this rousing, gritty and highly acclaimed adaptation of Shakespeare’s History Play replaces the patriotic zeal of Laurence Olivier‘s famed 1944 version with a more sombre and brooding manner reflecting the brutality and futility of war.

A remarkable achievement in cinema and in presenting the work of the Bard on the big screen...

20/21

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SPECIAL EVENTS

SOUND AND FURY: MACBETH ON FILM

One of the most frequently filmed of Shakespeare’s plays, the tragedy of Macbeth has provided inspiration for film-makers from across the globe since the earliest days of cinema. This selection of films explores how the story of Macbeth has been told in film, from Hollywood through to Japan and beyond.

MACBETH + MACBETH ON FILM TALK SUN 8 MAY, 6.00PM DIR: JUSTIN KURZEL• UK/FRANCE/USA• 2015 • 1 HR 53 MINS

Another chance to see Michael Fassbender as one of theatre’s most conflicted characters, alongside Marion Cotillard as the fiercely ambitious Lady Macbeth. Featuring red-hued smoky battle scenes and an excellent Fassbender descending into madness, this savagely realised, blood-soaked interpretation retains Shakespeare’s words in its story of power, ambition and guilt.

The screening will be preceded by a free 30 mins talk by Prof Mark Burnett, School of English at Queen’s University, who will explore the many screen incarnations and adaptations of Macbeth.

POLANSKI’S MACBETH SAT 14 MAY, 3.30PM

DIR: ROMAN POLANSKI • UK/USA • 1971 • 2 HRS 20 MINS

The first film after his pregnant wife’s brutal murder by the Manson family, Roman Polanski’s 1971 adaptation of Macbeth was and still is sure to stir audience sensibilities. His depiction of the Macbeths as a youthful and beautiful power couple echoes the contemporary cult(ure) of celebrity, as gorgeous youths sell their souls for the ultimate social climb.

With introduction by School of English at Queen’s PhD candidate Cynthia Martin.

MAKIBEFO

SUN 15 MAY, 3.40PM

DIR: ALEXANDER ABELA • UK/MADAGASCAR/FRANCE • 2001 1 HR 13 MINS • SUBTITLED

Shot in Madagascar and played by non-professional actors, Makibefo offers an alternative reading of Macbeth. The use of the Antandroy people who had never seen a film before, is an example of a “transcultural” approach to the play, a complex process of rewriting which consists in a narrative and aesthetic remoulding of the adaptation.

With introduction by School of English at Queen’s PhD candidate Marianne Hewitt.

SHAKESPEARE ON FILM TALK

RICHARD III

1 HR 30 MINS APPROX.

DIR: LAURENCE OLIVIER • UK • 1955 • 2 HRS 41 MINS

Adrian Wootton, CEO of Film London, co-writer and producer of All The World’s a Screen, the BBC Arena documentary (and regular QFT guest and host of our Kenneth Branagh talk), will provide an overview of the rich legacy of Shakespeare from Silent to Sound, from Western to Musical, from British Cinema to Bollywood and everything in between.

The archetypal ‘baddie’, Olivier’s portrayal of Shakespeare’s evil monarch has been much lampooned but is nonetheless captivating and fascinating. Undoubtedly a great performance immensely intelligent and fiercely energetic, it is also uncomfortable - unnervingly funny, deeply disturbing and, at times, decidedly high camp.

A flawed but fascinating addition to the Shakespeare film canon.

THURS 26 MAY, 6.20PM

THURS 26 MAY, 8.20PM

KUMONOSU-JÔ

THRONE OF BLOOD SUN 22 MAY, 3.00PM

DIR: AKIRA KUROSAWA • JAPAN • 1957 • 1 HR 50 MINS • SUBTITLED

Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood, which was first released in 1957 to a Japanese audience, has since become a seminal cinematic adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Set during the tumultuous ‘Sengoku’ period of feudal Japan, the film draws heavily from Japanese history, culture, and theatre in a vivid and visceral retelling of the Shakespearean tale. 35mm screening.

With introduction by School of English at Queen’s PhD candidate Samantha Lin.

EXHIBITION: SHAKESPEARE LIVES THROUGH KENNETH BRANAGH ON STAGE AND SCREEN TUES 26 APR – TUES 31 MAY QFT FOYER. EXHIBITION LAUNCH: SAT 7 MAY, 5.30PM

This exhibition celebrates the work of Kenneth Branagh in bringing Shakespeare to life on stage and screen and making the work of the Bard accessible to a global audience.

It features rarely seen artefacts from the Sir Kenneth Branagh Archive in Special Collections, the McClay Library at Queen’s University Belfast, which illustrate the actor/director’s remarkable Shakespearean career, from his debut as Henry V with the Royal Shakespeare Company aged

just 23 to his Oscar-nominated screen adaptation of Hamlet, and beyond.

Kindly hosted by QFT and the School of Creative Arts, QUB.

SPECIAL EVENTS

THE KARATE KID SAT 30 APR, 3PM

DIR: JOHN G. AVILDSEN • USA • 1984 2 HRS 6 MINS

This screening is a partnership between Belfast Photo Festival Youth Edition and Cinemagic.

John G. Avildsen’s original The Karate Kid, starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita, screening from a new digital print. See how a generation of children learned the fundamentals of martial arts by washing their dad’s car, witness how ‘Mr Miyagi’ became a household name, stare in awe and realise that bullies can be beaten with a little help from the East. Tickets £4.

The film will be followed by an award ceremony, where the winners of the Festival’s Movie Poster Competition will be announced and awarded their prizes.

CINESEEKERS FILM CLUB The CineSeekers Film Club host monthly screenings for young people, presenting a diverse and varied range of international children’s films. Tickets £4.

TENKU NO SHIRO RAPYUTA

LAPUTA: CASTLE IN THE SKY SAT 7 MAY, 4.00PM

DIR: HAYAO MIYAZAKI • JAPAN • 1986 2 HRS 4 MINS • SUBTITLED VERSION

Jumping overboard on a flying ship to avoid capture, Sheeta is rescued by her powerful crystal necklace which floats her down to safety. Sheeta longs to see Laputa, the castle in the sky, but the pirates are after its treasure and its secret powers. Studio Ghibli’s first film is a thrilling adventure set in an alternate 19th Century, and produces a high quality anime style that sets the benchmark for the films to follow.

Part of Studio Ghibli Forever (see opposite).

22/23

SPECIAL EVENTS

STUDIO GHIBLI FOREVER Studio Ghibli Forever is a celebration of the many wonderful films – for children and adults alike – from one of the most acclaimed animation studios in the world. The films of directors such as Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata have long been celebrated as beautifully hand-drawn works of art that transport audiences of all ages to fantastical worlds filled with unforgettable characters.

This Spring and Summer, enjoy some of the most imaginative stories ever bought to life on screen in the lead-up to the latest Studio Ghibli release: When Marnie Was There, coming to QFT in June. studioghibliforever.com

STUDIO GHIBLI AT QFT MAY Sun 1: NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND Sat 7: LAPUTA: CASTLE IN THE SKY Sat 14: MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO Sat 21: GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES Sun 29: KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE JUNE Sun 5: ONLY YESTERDAY Fri 10: WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE released Sun 19: PRINCESS MONONOKE Sun 26: SPIRITED AWAY JULY Sat 2: HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE Sat 16: PONYO Sun 17: THE WIND RISES Sat 23: THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA Tickets £4 (except When Marnie Was There).

See At a Glance on back cover for times of May screenings.

AT A GLANCE APRIL

Sat 14

Mustang My Neighbour Totoro Polanski’s Macbeth + intro Florence Foster Jenkins Everybody Wants Some!!

Short Term 12

1.25pm/8.40pm 2.00pm 3.30pm 4.00pm 6.20pm/8.50pm 6.30pm

DATE

EVENT

TIME

Sun 15

Fri 29

Our Little Sister Miles Ahead Son of Saul Dheepan

6.20pm 6.30pm 9.00pm 9.10pm

Mustang Makibefo + intro Everybody Wants Some!!

Florence Foster Jenkins

3.25pm/8.10pm 3.40pm 5.30pm/8.00pm 5.40pm

Mon 16

The Karate Kid Miles Ahead Our Little Sister Son of Saul Dheepan

3.00pm 4.20pm/6.30pm 6.20pm 9.00pm 9.10pm

Everybody Wants Some!!

Florence Foster Jenkins Mustang

6.20pm/8.50pm 6.30pm 9.00pm

Tues 17

Everybody Wants Some!!

Florence Foster Jenkins (Access) Mustang

6.20pm/8.50pm

Wed 18 – Everybody Wants Some!!

Thurs 19 Mustang Florence Foster Jenkins

6.20pm/8.50pm 6.30pm 9.00pm

Fri 20

Everybody Wants Some!!

Heart of a Dog Green Room

6.20pm/9.00pm 6.40pm 8.50pm

Sat 21

Grave of the Fireflies Much Ado About Nothing Everybody Wants Some!!

Heart of a Dog Green Room

4.10pm 4.20pm 6.20pm/9.00pm 6.40pm 8.50pm

Sun 22

Throne of Blood + intro Othello Everybody Wants Some!!

Heart of a Dog Green Room

3.00pm 3.20pm 5.30pm/8.10pm 5.50pm 8.00pm

Mon 23 – Everybody Wants Some!!

Wed 25 Green Room

6.20pm/9.00pm 6.30pm 8.50pm

Thurs 26 Shakespeare on Film Talk Green Room Richard III + intro Everybody Wants Some!!

6.20pm 6.30pm 8.20pm 8.35pm

Fri 27

Henry V + Kenneth Branagh Q&A Love & Friendship

5.45pm for 6.00pm 6.30pm/8.30pm

Sat 28

Hamlet Love & Friendship All the World’s a Screen Louder Than Bombs Evolution

1.30pm 3.00pm/6.30pm/8.30pm 5.00pm 6.20pm 8.40pm

Sun 29

Kiki’s Delivery Service Love’s Labour’s Lost Louder Than Bombs Love & Friendship Evolution

3.30pm 3.40pm 5.50pm 6.00pm/8.00pm 8.10pm

Mon 30

Henry V Louder Than Bombs

3.30pm 6.20pm

Evolution Love & Friendship Louder Than Bombs

6.20pm 6.30pm/8.30pm 8.40pm

Sat 30

MAY

6.30pm 9.00pm

DATE

EVENT

TIME

Sun 1

Miles Ahead Nausicaä of the Valley of theWind Deep Time Our Little Sister Son of Saul Dheepan

2.00pm/6.00pm 3.30pm 4.10pm 6.10pm 8.10pm 8.50pm

Miles Ahead Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story Our Little Sister Son of Saul Dheepan

4.20pm/6.30pm 4.30pm 6.20pm 9.00pm 9.10pm

Dheepan Miles Ahead (Access) Our Little Sister Son of Saul

6.20pm 6.30pm 8.50pm 9.00pm

Wed 4 – Thurs 5

Dheepan Miles Ahead Our Little Sister Son of Saul

6.20pm 6.30pm 8.50pm 9.00pm

Fri 6

The Divide Florence Foster Jenkins Knight of Cups Son of Saul

6.30pm 6.40pm 8.20pm 9.00pm

Sat 7

Florence Foster Jenkins Son of Saul Laputa: Castle in the Sky Population Boom Knight of Cups Son of Saul Dazed and Confused

1.40pm/6.40pm 2.15pm 4.00pm 4.30pm 6.30pm 9.00pm 9.10pm

Sun 8

Florence Foster Jenkins The Shore Break Macbeth + Macbeth on Film talk Son of Saul Knight of Cups

3.50pm/6.10pm 4.00pm

Son of Saul Atlantic Knight of Cups Florence Foster Jenkins

6.30pm 6.40pm 8.30pm 8.50pm

Son of Saul Atlantic + Q&A Florence Foster Jenkins Knight of Cups

6.30pm 6.40pm 8.50pm 9.00pm

Florence Foster Jenkins NT Live: A View from the Bridge Son of Saul

6.30pm

DATE

EVENT

TIME

7.00pm 8.50pm

Wed 1 – Thurs 2

Everybody Wants Some!!

Florence Foster Jenkins Mustang

6.20pm/8.50pm 6.30pm 9.00pm

Evolution Love & Friendship Louder Than Bombs

6.20pm 6.30pm/8.30pm 8.40pm

Mon 2

Tues 3

Mon 9 – Tues 10

Wed 11

Thurs 12

Fri 13

6.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm

The Sky Trembles…

Times are subject change. Please check queensfilmtheatre.com 6.30pm/8.30pm Love &toFriendship for up-to-date information.

8.40pm Evolution

Tues 31

JUNE

Times are subject to change. Please check queensfilmtheatre.com for up-to-date information.