BOOKING AND VENUE INFORMATION
OUEEN’S FILM THEATRE
THE HOME OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA IN NORTHERN IRELAND
JOIN US AT THE JAMESON BAR QFT is the only cinema in Northern Ireland with a fully licensed bar, serving up a range of local and international beers, wine, spirits, tea and coffee. It’s the perfect place to catch up with friends before catching a film. NOVEMBER’S BEER OF THE MONTH
BUCK’S HEAD (500ml) £3.50
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
02/03
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THE F-RATING
From this month, you’ll see this symbol accompanying films in the QFT programme. 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.
SIMON CALLOW ON ORSON WELLES SUN 15 NOV, 3.00PM
Join one of the UK’s most accomplished actors and cultural historians, Simon Callow, to hear from the third volume of his acclaimed biography of Orson Welles, ‘One-Man Band’. Tickets £5 “The more vulnerable Welles becomes, the more vivid Callow’s writing.” – DAVID HARE
SPACE AND PLACE EXHIBITION SUN 1 – SUN 15 NOV
Artist and illustrator Peter Hutchinson A series of hand-drawn images that illustrates the experience and ‘journey’ of film from start to finish. The result is a collage of images that celebrate QFT, Art Deco cinemas, Irish actors, front of house staff and audiences. All available for purchase - contact design@peterhutchinson.org
OFT FILM O CARD 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
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NEW RELEASES
BROOKLYN FRI 6 – THURS 19 NOV
DIR: JOHN CROWLEY • IRELAND/UK/CANADA • 2015 1 HR 52 MINS
In the early 1950s, a young Irish woman (Saoirse Ronan) crosses the Atlantic to begin a new life in America, in this exquisitely crafted adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Colm Tóibín. There aren’t many opportunities for young women in post-war Ireland, but soft-spoken Eilis Lacey (Ronan) is lucky: America has long been considered the land of opportunity, and when her family makes arrangements with a kindly Brooklyn priest (Jim Broadbent) for her to move there, she jumps at the chance. Set up tentatively in a boarding house and working in a swanky Brooklyn department store, Eilis struggles to find her place — but after meeting Tony (Emory Cohen), a handsome young Italian man with an infectious passion for life, she’s filled with the joy of young love and the promise of a future. When a family tragedy brings her back to Ireland, she discovers that
her perspective has changed dramatically; facing mounting pressures from those closest to her, Eilis must decide where she is to spend the rest of her life. Adapted by Nick Hornby (Wild, An Education) from Colm Tóibín’s novel, Brooklyn is a story universal in its reach yet personal in the telling. Saoirse Ronan is outstanding, letting us in on every nuance of Eilis’ transformation from a lonely young wallflower to a confident adult. The stellar cast also includes Domhnall Gleeson and Julie Walters. Brooklyn is a gorgeously realised film about family, memory, and making a new home. ACCESS SCREENING The 6.20pm screening on Tues 17 Nov will include audio description and on-screen captioning.
04/05
NEW RELEASES
THE LOBSTER FRI 23 OCT – THURS 5 NOV
DIR: YORGOS LANTHIMOS • IRELAND UK/GREECE/FRANCE/NETHERLANDS 2015 • 1 HR 58 MINS
Bizarre, hilarious and one of a kind, The Lobster is the English language debut of the Greek provocateur Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth), featuring an all-star cast including Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Ben Whishaw and John C. Reilly. In a recognisable near future, singledom is outlawed and singletons must report to The Hotel where they have 45 days to find a soulmate – otherwise they get turned into an animal of their choosing. This surreal premise provides the backdrop for a blend of deadpan humour and subtle horror in a uniquely entertaining film.
MISSISSIPPI GRIND FRI 30 OCT – THURS 5 NOV
DIR: RYAN FLECK & ANNA BODEN USA • 2015 • 1 HR 49 MINS
Ben Mendelsohn and Ryan Reynolds star in a compelling, off-beat road movie from writer-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson). Gerry (Mendelsohn) is a talented poker player, but his gambling habit is getting the best of him. Meeting charismatic young traveller Curtis (Reynolds), Gerry deems him his lucky charm, and together they hit the road, gambling their way south towards a high-stakes poker game in New Orleans.
“A bittersweet, beautifully textured road movie that plays like a conscious throwback to the lost souls and open highways of 1970s American cinema.” - VARIETY
NEW RELEASES
THE LADY IN THE VAN FRI 20 – THURS 26 NOV
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.
DOCUMENTARY
HE NAMED ME MALALA FRI 6 – THURS 12 NOV
DIR: DAVIS GUGGENHEIM UNITED ARAB EMIRATES/USA • 2015 1 HR 27 MINS
An intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded when Taliban gunmen opened fire on her and her friends’ school bus in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. The then 15-year-old teenager, who had been targeted for speaking out on behalf of girls’ education, was shot in the head, sparking international media outrage. An educational activist in Pakistan, Yousafzai has since emerged as a leading campaigner for the rights of children worldwide and in December 2014, became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
06/07
SPECIAL EVENTS
THE TIME IS NOW COMMUNICATE! PARTICIPATE! AGITATE!
To mark the release of Suffragette last month, and He Named Me Malala this month, QFT presents a selection of films exploring the ongoing fight for women’s equality, the advances that have been made and what remains to be achieved.
OFFSIDE SAT 31 OCT, 4.30PM DIR: JAFAR PANAHI • IRAN • 2006 • 1 HR 31 MIN • SUBTITLED
In Iran, women are officially banned from men’s sporting events. In June 2005, Iran defeated Bahrain to qualify for the World Cup. Young women football fanatics struggle against all-male rule by dressing as boys to infiltrate the match. Intelligent, funny satire on culture and the position of women from Jafar Panahi (Taxi Tehran, see page 8).
THELMA & LOUISE THURS 5 NOV, 6.30PM DIR: RIDLEY SCOTT • USA/FRANCE • 1991 • 2 HRS 9 MINS
Thelma & Louise made a huge splash when it was released and has since become a part of the pop culture lexicon. In it, a mistreated housewife and harried waitress stumble into an out-of-control but totally liberating - crime spree. As bold and relevant as ever, it remains a vastly entertaining must-see.
WADJDA WED 4 NOV, 6.30PM DIR: HAIFAA AL-MANSOUR • SAUDI ARABIA/GERMANY/USA/ UNITED ARAB EMIRATES/JORDAN/NETHERLANDS • 2012 1 HR 37 MINS • SUBTITLED
Growing up in Saudi Arabia, independent 10-year-old Wadjda wants to wear trainers, listen to rock music and, most importantly, to ride a bike. Made in a country where it is illegal for women to drive let alone make films, director Haifaa Al-Mansour’s accomplishment becomes all the more impressive. Wadjda is an absolute gem of a film.
ZINE WORKSHOP WED 11 NOV, 6.30PM-8.30PM
Interested in the radical possibilities of self-publishing? QFT has organised a zine workshop that explores issues raised in the Time Is Now season. Join zine makers Cherry Styles (Synchronise Witches Press) and Ione Gamble (Polyester Zine) for a hands-on zine making workshop. For participants aged 18+. Tickets £3. For more details about the season and zine go to ttin.uk
THE TIME IS NOW is a UK-wide film project celebrating women forcing change, curated and produced by Showroom Workstation and Film Hub North in partnership with Pathé and Twentieth Century Fox. THE TIME IS NOW is a BFI Film Audience Network initiative with the support of the BFI, awarding funds from The National Lottery.
NEW RELEASES
TAXI TEHRAN FRI 30 OCT – THURS 5 NOV
DIR: JAFAR PANAHI • IRAN • 2015 1 HR 22 MINS • SUBTITLED
CERT TBC
Winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlinale, Jafar Panahi’s latest is perhaps his most playful film yet. For an exceptionally lithe, inventive 80 minutes, banned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi (Offside, Closed Curtain) himself drives a taxi through the busy streets of Tehran, picking up various passengers who serve as conduits for a provocative discussion of Iranian social mores and the art of cinematic storytelling. “Filled with love for his art, his community, his country and his audience.” - DARREN ARONOFSKY
GÜEROS FRI 20 – WED 25 NOV
DIR: ALONSO RUIZ PALACIOS • MEXICO • CERT TBC 2014 • 1 HR 46 MINS • SUBTITLED
Güeros is a road movie in which the travellers barely manage to leave town. Director Alonso Ruiz Palacios arrives as a bold new voice in Mexican cinema with his energetic and imaginative feature debut – a cool, retro, black-andwhite portrait of Mexico City and of three restless young men searching for a purpose and identity in a city of millions. “As self-aware black-and-white, nouvelle-vague-tribute fever dreams go, Güeros is surprisingly beautiful, inventive and convincing.”- SIGHT & SOUND
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BY OUR SELVES FRI 30 OCT – SUN 1 NOV
DIR: ANDREW KÖTTING • UK • 2015 1 HR 23 MINS
Andrew Kötting (Swandown) retraces English poet John Clare’s journey from Epping Forest to Northamptonshire. Toby Jones, Iain Sinclair and a Straw Bear follow in his footsteps exactly 150 years after his death. En route they interview graphic novelist Alan Moore and Oxford Professor Simon Kövesi about Clare’s work and life. Captured in sumptuous black and white photography, they discover the only truth of the road: whatever our hopes and delusions, we are always By Our Selves.
ANIME NERE
BLACK SOULS FRI 13 – SUN 15 NOV
DIR: FRANCESCO MUNZI ITALY/FRANCE • 2014 • 1 HR 43 MINS CERT TBC SUBTITLED
Lovers of Matteo Garrone’s CERT TBC Gomorrah will relish this tough, tense journey through the dark heart of organised crime in modern Italy. The grey, lawless Calabrian mountains are an area where honour demands respect and the slightest insult must be avenged. Luciano (Fabrizio Ferracane) has left the family ‘business’ to dedicate himself to farming but his young son Leo (Giuseppe Fumo) cannot wait to fire a shot in anger. Leo’s impetuous actions propel the family into a bloody feud, transforming their lives into the stuff of Greek tragedy.
08/09
NEW RELEASES
DOCUMENTARY
THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION WED 11 – THURS 12 NOV
DIR: STANLEY NELSON • USA • 2015 1 HR 55 MINS
The first feature length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails. Master documentarian Stanley Nelson goes straight to the source, weaving a treasure trove of rare archival footage with the voices of the people who were there: police, FBI informants, journalists, white supporters and detractors, and Black Panthers who remained loyal to the party and those who left it.
DOCUMENTARY
DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN SAT 14 – SUN 15 NOV
DIR: SAM COLLINS, JARROD KIMBER & JOHNNY BLANK • UK • 2015 1 HR 39 MINS
Two passionate cricket journalists discover a devastating scandal during their in-depth exploration of the sport they adore. In the 21st century, sport and corruption are inseparable. In the wake of revelations about wrongdoings at FIFA, this heartfelt doc about cronyism and racketeering in the world of cricket feels particularly timely. This is a film about passion, about money, about power and standing up for what you care about before it is too late.
“Essential for lovers of Test cricket.”- EMPIRE
10/11
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DOCUMENTARY
LISTEN TO ME MARLON SAT 7 – SUN 8 NOV
DIR: STEVAN RILEY • UK • 2015 1 HR 38 MINS
Marlon Brando was one of the most acclaimed and influential actors of all time. He also was one of the most elusive and enigmatic. Featuring exclusive access to Brando’s previously unseen and unheard personal archive, including hundreds of hours of audio, Listen to Me Marlon sheds light on the artist and the man. Charting Brando’s exceptional career and extraordinary personal life, the film explores his complexities, telling the story entirely in his own voice. No talking heads, no interviewees: just Brando on Brando.
ANIME NERE
BLACK SOULS HAND GESTURES IL GESTO DELLE MANI - DOCUMENTARY SUN 22 – TUES 24 NOV
DIR: FRANCESCO CLERICI • ITALY 2015 • 1 HR 17 MINS • SUBTITLED
CERT TBC
This documentary film follows the process of creating one of Velasco Vitali’s famous dog sculptures, from wax to glazed bronze, at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia (Battaglia Artistic Foundry), in Milan. The film observes the work of a group of skilled artisans in this 100-year-old foundry and reveals the ancient traditions of bronze sculpture making, unchanged since the Sixth century B.C.
The Mon 23 Nov screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Francesco Clerici.
AT A GLANCE
Times are subject to change. Please check www.queensfilmtheatre.com for up-to-date information.
OCTOBER DATE
EVENT
TIME
Fri 13
Fri 30
The Lobster Taxi Tehran By Our Selves Mississippi Grind
6.20pm 6.30pm 8.20pm 8.50pm
Brooklyn Standing Tall Black Souls
6.20pm/8.40pm 6.30pm 9.00pm
Sat 14
The Lobster By Our Selves Offside Mark Kermode: The Others Taxi Tehran Mississippi Grind
2.30pm 2.40pm/8.20pm 4.30pm 5.30pm 6.30pm 9.00pm
Beauty and the Beast Death of a Gentleman A Sinner in Mecca Brooklyn Black Souls Diary of a Chambermaid
12.00pm 3.30pm 4.00pm 5.40pm/8.00pm 5.50pm 8.10pm
Sun 15
Lady and the Tramp Simon Callow on Orson Welles Casablanca Brooklyn Death of a Gentleman Black Souls
12.00pm
Mon 16
Brooklyn Eisenstein in Guanajuato Chemsex
6.20pm/8.40pm 6.30pm 8.45pm
Tues 17
Brooklyn (Access screening) Do I Sound Gay? Tab Hunter Confidential Brooklyn
6.20pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 8.40pm
Wed 18
Brooklyn Stories of Our Lives Tangerine
6.20pm/8.40pm 6.30pm 8.15pm
Thurs 19
Microbe & Gasoline NT Live: Of Mice and Men Brooklyn
6.30pm 7.00pm 8.40pm
Fri 20
The Lady in the Van Güeros True Romance
6.20pm/8.35pm 6.30pm 8.45pm
Sat 21
Cinderella The Big Blue The Lady in the Van Güeros True Romance
12.00pm 3.40pm 4.00pm/6.20pm/8.35pm 6.30pm 8.45pm
Sun 22
Tangled Brokeback Mountain Hand Gestures Güeros The Lady in the Van True Romance
12.00pm 2.40pm 3.30pm 5.15pm 5.25pm/7.40pm 7.30pm
Mon 23
Brief Encounter Hand Gestures + Q&A The Lady in the Van Güeros
6.20pm 6.30pm 8.15pm 8.50pm
Tues 24
Brief Encounter Hand Gestures The Lady in the Van Güeros
6.20pm 6.30pm 8.15pm 8.25pm
Wed 25
Vivienne Dick at QFT #1 Brief Encounter Vivienne Dick at QFT #2 The Lady in the Van Güeros
4.00pm 6.20pm 6.30pm 8.15pm 8.50pm
Sat 31
NOVEMBER DATE
EVENT
TIME
Sun 1
Gone With the Wind The Lobster Taxi Tehran Mississippi Grind Wings of Desire By Our Selves
1.00pm 1.40pm/5.40pm 4.10pm 6.00pm 8.10pm 8.20pm
Mon 2
The Lobster Taxi Tehran Badlands Mississippi Grind
6.20pm 6.30pm 8.20pm 8.50pm
Tues 3
The Lobster Taxi Tehran Vertigo Mississippi Grind
6.20pm 6.30pm 8.20pm 8.50pm
Mississippi Grind Wadjda Taxi Tehran The Lobster
6.20pm 6.30pm 8.35pm 8.45pm
Mississippi Grind Thelma & Louise The Lobster Taxi Tehran
6.20pm 6.30pm 8.45pm 9.10pm
Fri 6
Brooklyn He Named Me Malala A Perfect Man
6.20pm/8.40pm 6.30pm 9.10pm
Sat 7
Brooklyn Listen to Me Marlon He Named Me Malala The Apartment
4.00pm/6.20pm/8.40pm 4.25pm 6.30pm 8.30pm
Sun 8
Brooklyn Listen to Me Marlon He Named Me Malala The Sweet Escape
3.00pm/5.20pm/7.40pm 3.25pm 5.30pm 7.30pm
Mon 9
Brooklyn He Named Me Malala Last Tango in Paris
6.20pm/8.40pm 6.30pm 8.30pm
Tues 10
Brooklyn He Named Me Malala Belle de jour
6.20pm/8.40pm 6.30pm 8.30pm
Wed 11
Brooklyn He Named Me Malala The Black Panthers
6.20pm/8.40pm 6.30pm 8.30pm
Thurs 12
Brooklyn He Named Me Malala The Time Is Now: Zine Workshop The Black Panthers
6.20pm/8.40pm 6.30pm
Wed 4
Thurs 5
6.30pm 8.30pm
Thurs 26 The Lady in the Van
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter’s Tale My King
3.00pm 3.20pm 5.40pm/8.00pm 5.50pm 8.10pm
6.20pm 7.30pm 8.35pm
12/13
SPECIAL EVENTS
BRANAGH THEATRE LIVE
THE WINTER’S TALE THURS 26 NOV, 7.30PM
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 £15 (£12.50 concessions and Film Card holders)
VIVIENNE DICK AT QFT
QFT and Film Studies at Queen’s are delighted to welcome Irish filmmaker Vivienne Dick for two special screenings. More details at queensfilmtheatre.com
THE IRREDUCIBLE DIFFERENCE OF THE OTHER (2013, 27 mins) Wed 25 Nov, 4pm, FREE Presented by Film Studies at Queen’s and followed by a Q&A with Vivienne Dick. VISIBILITY: MODERATE (1981, 38 mins) + RED MOON RISING (2015, 15 mins) Wed 25 Nov, 6.30pm, £4 Presented in partnership with Onwards and Outwards, a nationwide programme of screenings to highlight women filmmakers who have excelled in making works of independence and originality. Followed by a Q&A with Vivienne Dick.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Love is a many-splendored thing at QFT this autumn with our season of films as part of BFI LOVE: be swept away by epic romances, cuddle to date night rom-coms, and thrill to dark desires and fatal attractions. The BFI LOVE blockbuster season, happening across the UK, including venues throughout Northern Ireland, will truly be an affair to remember, running from November to December, featuring films to fall in love with and films to break your heart. Check back in our December programme for upcoming LOVE screenings. I N PA R T N E R S H I P W I T H
bfi.org.uk/love filmhubni.org #BFILOVE
14/15
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LOVE LAUNCH FOOLS EVENT FOR LOVE
DER HIMMEL ÜBER BERLIN
WINGS OF DESIRE SUN 1 NOV, 8.10PM
DIR: WIM WENDERS • WEST GERMANY/FRANCE • 1987 2 HRS 8 MINS • SUBTITLED
Damiel (Bruno Ganz) is an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears, hopes, dreams—of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist (Solveig Dommartin), he is willing to give up his immortality and come back to earth to be with her. Wings of Desire was made in 1987, before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the feeling of division is one that permeates the film. Not only is Berlin a city carved in half, but its inhabitants, both human and celestial, are cut off from love and sensation.
THE APARTMENT SAT 7 NOV, 8.30PM
DIR: BILLY WILDER • USA • 1960 • 2 HRS 5 MINS
Jack Lemmon plays a man trying to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for liaisons, but complications and a romance of his own (in the form of Shirley MacLaine) ensue. Deliriously funny, The Apartment is shot through with director Billy Wilder’s customary wit and cynicism, creating a bleak vision of estrangement in the modern working city. Fools for Love - Enjoy the lighter side of love with our selection of classic romantic comedies on a Saturday night. More coming up in December.
LOVELY RESTORED CLASSICS TRUE ROMANCE
BRIEF ENCOUNTER
DIR: TONY SCOTT • USA/FRANCE • 1993 • 1 HR 58 MINS
DIR: DAVID LEAN • UK • 1945 • 1 HR 26 MINS
True Romance is a brilliant, wildly energetic and blistering masterpiece, exploding with crackling dialogue, devastating violence, and, of course, young love. The film, which was originally written by Quentin Tarantino, and later revised by Scott to adapt it to his tastes, focuses on the whirlwind relationship of a charismatic loner (Christian Slater) and a hooker with a heart of gold (Patricia Arquette).
Turbulent passion and middle-class restraint combine when a married woman (Celia Johnson) falls for a doctor (Trevor Howard) she meets at a railway station. On the brink of an affair and desperately in love, the two must make a choice that may part them forever. Scripted by Noël Coward, David Lean’s 1945 classic screen romance remains powerfully affecting in this 70th anniversary reissue.
FRI 20 – SUN 22 NOV
MON 23 – WED 25 NOV
SPECIAL EVENTS
LOVE AND CAKE
DIR: VICTOR FLEMING • USA • 1939 3 HRS 53 MINS + INTERMISSION
CASABLANCA
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
DIR: MICHAEL CURTIZ • USA • 1942 • 1 HR 42 MINS
DIR: ANG LEE • USA/CANADA • 2005 • 2 HRS 14 MINS
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman stay one step ahead of the Nazi’s in wartime Morocco as they recall their past affair. Sam (Dooley Wilson) tickles the ivories and contentiously sings their song, Claude Rains gets all the best lines as a corrupt Vichy captain and Sydney Greenstreet, Paul Henreid and Peter Lorre offer sterling support. Casablanca is the real deal – an untarnished American movie classic.
Ang Lee’s unmissable and unforgettable Brokeback Mountain hits you like a shot in the heart. It’s a landmark film and a triumph for Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, who bring deep reserves of feeling to this defiantly erotic love story about two Wyoming ranch hands and the external and internal forces that drive them from desire to denial.
Treat yourself with our season of epic romances on a Sunday afternoon, made even more indulgent with complimentary cake*. Pure romantic escapism!
SUN 15 NOV, 3.20PM
*Please note cake limited to first 100 customers only.
GONE WITH THE WIND SUN 1 NOV, 1PM
Set against the turbulent backdrop of the American Civil War, the story of feisty, petulant southern belle Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) and her complicated love life involving the dashing Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) and the married Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) is the most successful film in box office history. This spectacular restoration from the original negative offers the ultimate big screen experience.
SUN 22 NOV, 2.40PM
#BFILOVE
16/17
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FATAL ATTRACTIONS
Love hurts in our selection of dark and dangerous love stories. For adults only!
BADLANDS
VERTIGO
DIR: TERRENCE MALICK • USA • 1973 • 1 HR 34 MINS
DIR: ALFRED HITCHCOCK • USA • 1958 • 2 HRS 8 MINS
Filmed in the summer of 1972, but set in a dreamlike and indistinct 1950s America, Terrence Malick’s extraordinary Badlands follows 15-yearold Holly (Sissy Spacek) as she falls, against her father’s wishes, for charismatic local greaser Kit (Martin Sheen), trusting implicitly in her protector all the while, despite his increasingly violent and anti-social behaviour.
A former detective (James Stewart) with a fear of heights is hired to follow a woman (Kim Novak) apparently possessed by the past, in Alfred Hitchcock’s timeless thriller about obsession. A film of dreamlike allure, it’s whipped to dizzying heights by Bernard Herrmann’s Wagnerinfluenced score.
LAST TANGO IN PARIS
BELLE DE JOUR
DIR: BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI • FRANCE/ITALY • 1972 2 HRS 14 MINS
DIR: LUIS BUÑUEL • FRANCE/ITALY • 1967 1 HR 40 MINS • SUBTITLED
Marlon Brando gives one of his greatest performances in Bernardo Bertolucci’s barrierbreaking erotic drama. A fascinating combination of seemingly disparate elements — cinematographer Vittorio Storaro’s typically decadent visual style, cinephile in-jokes, and Brando’s improvisatory, from-the-gut performance — Last Tango in Paris transcends its scandalous reputation to remain a milestone of the European art film.
Catherine Deneuve’s porcelain perfection hides a cracked interior in one of her most iconic roles: Séverine, a Paris housewife who begins secretly spending her afternoons working in a bordello. This surreal and erotic late-sixties daydream is an examination of desire and fetishistic pleasure, as well as a gently absurdist take on contemporary social mores and class divisions.
MON 2 NOV, 8.20PM
MON 9 NOV, 8.30PM
TUES 3 NOV, 8.20PM
TUES 10 NOV, 8.30PM
#BFILOVE
SPECIAL EVENTS
CINEMAGIC: HAPPILY EVER AFTER
Join Cinemagic for a showcase of heart-warming young people’s films that journey through the trials and tribulations of young love and the fun-filled quests to find true love. Tickets £5.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
LADY AND THE TRAMP
DIR: GARY TROUSDALE & KIRK WISE • USA • 1991 1 HR 32 MINS
DIR: CLYDE GERONIMI, WILFRED JACKSON & HAMILTON LUSKE USA • 1955 • 1 HR 16 MINS
This event includes a traditional storytelling session ‘Once Upon A Time’. This gorgeous animated tale is about finding beauty under the skin and love that transcends vanity. ‘Be our Guest’ and enjoy a magical adventure and classic songs with Belle, Chip, Lumiere and Mrs Potts in this ‘Tale as old as Time’
This event includes a poster design workshop – try your hand at creating a film poster for this classic heart-warming story. Generations of fans have fallen in love with Disney’s masterpiece – an irresistible song-filled adventure about Lady, a lovingly pampered cocker spaniel, and Tramp, a roguish mutt from across the tracks.
CINDERELLA
TANGLED
DIR: CLYDE GERONIMI, WILFRED JACKSON & HAMILTON LUSKE USA • 1950 • 1 HR 14 MINS
DIR: NATHAN GRENO & BYRON HOWARD • USA • 2010 1 HR 40 MINS
This event includes a traditional storytelling session, ‘Once Upon A Time’. When Cinderella’s cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the Royal Ball, she gets some unexpected help from the lovable mice Gus and Jaq, and from her Fairy Godmother who grants her a ‘happily ever after’. Disney’s original 1950 classic, back on the big screen.
This event includes a poster design workshop – try your hand at creating a film poster for this funfilled film. The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time, and who she really is.
SAT 14 NOV, 12.00PM
SAT 21 NOV, 12.00PM
SUN 15 NOV, 12.00PM
SUN 22 NOV, 12.00PM
WHERE WILL YOU FIND LOVE? Join us for a celebration of the wonder of love, in all its many forms, at venues across NI during November and December. Nerve Centre Dungannon Film Club Black Box QFT Cinemagic Takeover The Strand Newry Film Club Braid Film Theatre Love Coffee
I N PA R T N E R S H I P W I T H
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SPECIAL EVENTS
OUTBURST OUEER ARTS FESTIVAL
Outburst brings you the very best in new queer cinema from around the world, in partnership with QFT. Selected screenings will feature extra short films, in association with IRIS Prize Festival. DOCUMENTARY
A SINNER IN MECCA SAT 14 NOV, 4.00PM DIR: PARVEZ SHARMA • USA • 2015 • 1 HR 19 MINS • AGE: 18+
For a gay filmmaker, filming in Saudi Arabia presents two serious challenges: filming is forbidden in the country and homosexuality is punishable by death. These were risks that Parvez Sharma faced as he embarked on his Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, a journey considered to be the greatest aspiration within his beloved religion of Islam. This fascinating journey, filmed mostly in secret by Sharma on his phone, looks beyond 21stcentury Islam’s crises of religious extremism, commercialism and sectarian battles to bring us a story of the religion like it has never been told before. DOCUMENTARY
CHEMSEX SAT 14 NOV, 8.45PM DIR: MAX GOGARTY & WILLIAM FAIRMAN • UK • 2015 1 HR 23 MINS
A powerful and unflinching exploration of a hidden health emergency in London’s gay community. Chemsex is a feature-length documentary with extraordinary access to the secret world of ‘’chemsex’’ and “slamming” parties - where intravenous drug use and unprotected sex is fuelling a huge rise in HIV infections and drug addiction in the capital.
EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO MON 16 NOV, 6.30PM DIR: PETER GREENAWAY NETHERLANDS/MEXICO/FINLAND/BELGIUM/FRANCE 2015 • 1 HR 46 MINS • PARTIALLY SUBTITLED
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Daring, sexually explicit and wildly funny, Peter Greenaway’s latest film depicts the great Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s visit to Mexico in 1931 to shoot a film – an experience that would shape his career. Making use of extreme close-ups, split-screens and a dramatic montage, Greenaway deliberately uses Eisenstein’s own cinematic tools to produce a film that’s as visually exciting as it is profane. Fasten your seat belts for a unique cinematic treat (and the most jaw droppingly funny gay sex scene we’ve ever seen!).
20/21
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DO I SOUND GAY?
TAB HUNTER CONFIDENTIAL
TUES 17 NOV, 6.30PM DIR: DAVID THORPE • USA • 2014 • 1 HR 17 MINS
TUES 17 NOV, 8.30PM CERT TBC
Is the gay accent – identifier for the queer community, cheap fodder for comedians – learnt or inherited? Newly single and pushing 40, director David Thorpe examines his own lilting lisp, consulting linguists, speech therapists, voice coaches, and modern queer icons George Takei, Margaret Cho, Tim Gunn, David Sedaris and Dan Savage. Screening with THE LITTLE DEPUTY (Dir. Trevor Anderson, 2015, Canada, 9 mins)
STORIES OF OUR LIVES WED 18 NOV, 6.30PM
DIR: JIM CHUCHU • KENYA/SOUTH AFRICA • 2014 • 1 HR 1 MIN PARTIALLY SUBTITLED • AGE: 18+
Nairobi’s The NEST Collective have made it their mission to challenge myths and norms of Kenyan identity. Traveling around the country compiling the experiences of LGBTQI people, they artfully adapted 200 interviews into this award-winning mosaic of five fictional stories that forge powerfully intimate depictions of identity under siege. Screening with OUR GEMMA (Dir. Cara Holmes, 2015, Ireland, 12 mins)
DIR: JEFFREY SCHWARZ • USA • 2015 • 1 HR 30 MINS • AGE: 18+
Jeffrey Schwarz (I Am Divine) returns with a moving documentary about the chiselled one-time matinee idol with a secret. Schwarz coaxes a remarkable testimony from the once-closeted Tab Hunter, tracing what life was like inside the Hollywood machine for a gay actor, and explores what happens when that machine stops turning.
TANGERINE WED 18 NOV, 8.15PM DIR: SEAN BAKER • USA • 2015 • 1 HR 28 MIN
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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.
SPECIAL EVENTS
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
We are delighted to welcome the 23rd French Film Festival to QFT – the only festival of Francophone films in the UK. UN HOMME IDÉAL
A PERFECT MAN FRI 6 NOV, 9.10PM DIR: YANN GOZLAN • FRANCE • 2015 • 1 HR 37 MINS SUBTITLED • AGE: 15+
Mathieu Vasseur (Pierre Niney) is a struggling young writer making a living at his uncle’s moving company. The chance discovery of a dead man’s diary in a skip changes his life forever. With a nod to Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley, this sun-drenched thriller is elevated by the immersive performance of Niney (2015 Best Actor César for Yves Saint Laurent). COMME UN AVION
THE SWEET ESCAPE SUN 8 NOV, 7.30PM DIR: BRUNO PODALYDÈS • FRANCE • 2015 • 1 HR 45 MINS SUBTITLED • AGE: 12+
There’s a definite whiff of Wes Anderson about actor/ director Bruno Podalydès’ The Sweet Escape. A midlife crisis propels graphic designer Michel (Podalydès) into a newfound passion for kayaking and a pastoral adventure sparkling with good humour, which swings between absurd, surreal comedy and Jacques Tatiesque gentle slapstick. LA TÊTE HAUTE
STANDING TALL FRI 13 NOV, 6.30PM DIR: EMMANUELLE BERCOT • FRANCE • 2015 • 1 HR 58 MINS SUBTITLED • AGE: 15+
Catherine Deneuve, as a concerned judge dealing with delinquent youth, and newcomer Rod Paradot as Malony, the teen offender she counsels, are the twin poles in Emmanuelle Bercot’s sobering drama – the first film directed by a woman to open the Cannes Film Festival since 1987 – that traces ten turbulent years in Malony’s life.
22/23
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DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID SAT 14 NOV, 8.10PM
MICROBE ET GASOIL
MICROBE & GASOLINE THURS 19 NOV, 6.30PM
DIR: BENOÎT JACQUOT • FRANCE/BELGIUM • 2015 • 1 HR 36 MINS SUBTITLED • AGE: 18+
DIR: MICHEL GONDRY • FRANCE • 2015 • 1 HR 43 MINS SUBTITLED
Early 20th century, in the French provinces. Much courted for her beauty, Célestine (Blue Is the Warmest Colour’s Léa Seydoux) is a young chambermaid who has just arrived from Paris in the service of the Lanlaire household. Fending off her master’s (Hervé Pierre) advances, Célestine must also deal with the very strict Madame Lanlaire (Clotilde Mollet) who lords over the house with an iron fist.
Jump into Michel Gondry’s extraordinary universe with the story of two young misfits who decide to take a road trip across France in a selfconstructed house on wheels (complete with a collapsible flower window box). This is one of Gondry’s freshest and most charming films – a fantasist buddy-movie sprinkled with Gondry’s own childhood memories. With Audrey Tautou no less as Microbe’s mum. LE GRAND BLEU
THE BIG BLUE SAT 21 NOV, 3.40PM DIR: LUC BESSON • FRANCE/USA/ITALY • 1988 2 HRS 18 MINS • SUBTITLED
Enzo (Jean Reno) and Jacques (Jean-Marc Barr) are childhood friends who, as adults, have both become professional divers. As they compete to see who can dive deeper and longer without an aqualung, Jacques meets Johanna (Rosanna Arquette), a beautiful insurance agent and finds himself torn between her and the deep blue sea. A visionary epic of obsession and beauty by Luc Besson. MON ROI
MY KING THURS 26 NOV, 8.35PM DIR: MAÏWENN • FRANCE • 2015 • 2 HRS 8 MINS • SUBTITLED • AGE: 18+
After her astonishing drama about a childprotection unit (Polisse), Maïwenn returns to our screens with this uncompromising film about a relationship in meltdown. Emmanuelle Bercot (who won the Best Actress Award at Cannes this year and directed Cannes-opener Standing Tall) and Vincent Cassel star as a tempestuous couple locked in a cycle of violence and love.