WHAT’S ON / JANUARY 2015
TESTAMENT OF YOUTH VERA BRITTAIN’S WW1 MEMOIR IS BROUGHT TO LIFE IN THIS MAGNIFICENT PERIOD DRAMA STARRING ALICIA VIKANDER AND KIT HARINGTON.
THIS ISSUE:
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING BIG EYES WHIPLASH
BOOKING AND VENUE INFORMATION
OUEEN’S FILM THEATRE
THE HOME OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA IN NORTHERN IRELAND
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BLUE MOON £2.50
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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: £6.50
BOX OFFICE The Box Office opens 30 minutes before the first screening of the day. Queen’s University
20 University Sq, Belfast, BT7 1PA
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Box Office: 028 9097 1097 (after 6pm only) www.queensfilmtheatre.com
02/03
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WELCOME TO 2015 AT OFT!
It’s a brand new year at QFT and to mark the occasion we have given our monthly What’s On a bit of facelift. We think it’s clearer, cleaner and easier to read about the films you want to see – we hope you do too. As always we’d love to know what you think so please email us at qftcomments@qub.ac.uk with your thoughts. January is always an exciting month for film lovers; it marks the start of the annual awards season and sees the release of many of the year’s biggest, most anticipated films. This year looks set to be a vintage one and we are delighted to be able to include some of the best films we have seen for a long time in our new programme. So, amongst the many cinematic treats you have to look forward to we have the powerful The Theory of Everything, the intensely moving Testament of Youth and this year’s wild card, the exhilarating Whiplash. Alongside, of course, our pick of the best new releases, documentaries and re-issued classics. So come along and settle in at QFT for month of fantastic films. Before I go, it is ironic that as I write this, looking forward to the new year for QFT, that this very future is in doubt as a result of proposed, potentially devastating, cuts to our core funding from DCAL. There is still time to have your say and influence the outcome of proposals so if you care about QFT, our other great film organisations (Belfast Film Festival, Cinemagic and Derry’s Nerve Centre) and, indeed, arts and culture across NI, then please, please make your voice heard and join the #SaveNIFilm campaign. We have until 29 December to have our say so please take the time and send an email to budgetconsultation@dcalni.gov.uk. To make it even easier for you we have a downloadable template letter and online form that can be found on our home page www. queensfilmtheatre.com and on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/queensfilmtheatre. See you in 2015!
Susan Picken, Head of QFT
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NEW RELEASES
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
THURS 1 – THURS 15 JAN DIR: JAMES MARSH • UK • 2014 • 2 HRS 3 MINS
Based on Jane Hawking’s memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane (Felicity Jones) fighting tirelessly by his side,
Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of – time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and science, and achieving more than they could ever have dreamed. Introduction by Alan Fitzsimmons, Astrophysics Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast, on Sat 3 Jan, 6.20pm.
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BIG EYES THURS 1 – THURS 15 JAN DIR: TIM BURTON • USA • 2014 • 1 HR 44 MINS
Amy Adams stars in Tim Burton’s compelling tale of a true-life art scandal. Big Eyes tells the extraordinary true story of Margaret Keane (Amy Adams) and her husband Walter (Christoph Waltz), who takes credit for his wife’s distinctive artworks and enjoys fame and fortune while she toils in anonymity, painting for sixteen hours a day under lock and key. Eventually Margaret decides she can’t take any more and leaves Walter, but how can she prove he had been deceiving the world for years and finally get the recognition she deserves? This fascinating true story is the pet project of Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who wrote Tim Burton’s earlier Ed Wood. The excellent supporting cast includes Danny Huston, Jason Schwartzman, Krysten Ritter and Terence Stamp.
04/05
NEW RELEASES
TESTAMENT OF YOUTH MON 12 JAN (PREVIEW) & FRI 16 – THURS 29 JAN DIR: JAMES KENT • UK • 2014 • 2 HRS 10 MINS
Vera Brittain’s extraordinary life during WW1 is explored in this magnificent period drama based on her classic memoir. Intelligent and free-spirited Vera (Alicia Vikander, A Royal Affair) overcomes the narrow-mindedness of her conservative parents, winning a scholarship to Oxford. Entranced by her brother’s dashing friend Roland (Kit Harington, Game of Thrones), who shares her literary aspirations, she plunges into an intoxicating romance. Blooming, in love and on the cusp of fulfilling her ambitions, Vera’s dreams are brutally shattered by the onset of war. Taron Egerton, Colin Morgan, Dominic West and Emily Watson also star in this searing account of love, war and remembrance. Part of Conversations About Cinema: Impact of Conflict, an ongoing strand exploring the repercussions of conflict and the multiple ways this has been presented in film. A BFI Film Audience Network project with the support of the BFI, awarding funds from The National Lottery. Join in the conversationsaboutcinema.co.uk PREVIEW SCREENING AND SATELLITE Q&A Don’t miss a special preview screening, followed by a live satellite Q&A with cast and crew, on Mon 12 Jan, 6.30pm. Tickets £8. ILLUSTRATED TALK AND BOOK SIGNING The 4.50pm screening on Sun 18 Jan will include an illustrated talk and discussion with historian Trevor Parkhill, who edited the recently published The First World War Diaries of Emma Duffin, followed by a book signing in the foyer, in association with No Alibis.
06/07
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WHIPLASH
FRI 16 – THURS 29 JAN DIR: DAMIEN CHAZELLE • USA • 2014 • 1 HR 46 MINS
A gifted young drummer finds himself challenged by a brilliant mentor intent on pushing his student to greatness, in this multi-award winning, must-see drama. Andrew Neyman (Miles Teller, Divergent) is an ambitious young jazz musician, eager to shake off his mediocre background and hungry to rise to the top of his elite music conservatory. Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) is the fierce, unorthodox instructor who leads the top ensemble at the school.
When Fletcher selects Neyman to join his band, the stakes are dramatically raised. Sniffing out the fear beneath Neyman’s confidence, Fletcher ruthlessly begins to exploit it, pushing Neyman beyond the limits of both his ability and his sanity. Featuring intense, tightly-wound performances from Teller and Simmons, Whiplash won both the Grand Jury and the Audience awards at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. ‘…the purest hit of cinematic exhilaration this season.’ THE GUARDIAN
AT A GLANCE
JANUARY DATE
EVENT
TIME
DATE
Thurs 1
The Theory of Everything Big Eyes
5.20pm/7.50pm 5.30pm/7.40pm
Fri 2
The Theory of Everything Big Eyes
6.20pm/8.50pm 6.30pm/8.40pm
Tues 13 – The Theory of Everything Thurs 15 Enemy The Green Prince Big Eyes
Sat 3
The Theory of Everything + intro Big Eyes The Theory of Everything
6.20pm 6.30pm/8.40pm 9.00pm
Sun 4
The Theory of Everything Big Eyes
The Theory of Everything Big Eyes
Mon 5 – Tues 6
Testament of Youth Whiplash
6.00pm/8.40pm 6.15pm/8.30pm
5.20pm/7.50pm 5.30pm/7.40pm
Sat 17
2.30pm
6.20pm/8.50pm 6.30pm/8.40pm
Winter Sleep The Green Ray (Le rayon vert) Testament of Youth Whiplash
Sun 18
Winter Sleep The Green Ray (Le rayon vert) Testament of Youth + intro/discussion Whiplash Testament of Youth
2.15pm
Mon 19 – Wed 21
Testament of Youth Whiplash
6.00pm/8.40pm 6.15pm/8.30pm
Thurs 22
Testament of Youth Whiplash NT Live: Treasure Island
3.30pm/6.00pm 3.45pm/8.40pm 7.00pm
Fri 23
Testament of Youth A Most Violent Year Whiplash
6.00pm 6.15pm/8.50pm 8.40pm
Sat 24
Testament of Youth A Most Violent Year Whiplash
6.00pm 6.30pm/9.05pm 8.40pm
Sun 25
The Last of the Unjust Bolshoi Live: Swan Lake A Most Violent Year Testament of Youth Whiplash
2.00pm 3.00pm 6.10pm/8.45pm 6.20pm 9.00pm
Mon 26 – Thurs 29
Testament of Youth A Most Violent Year Whiplash
6.00pm 6.15pm/8.50pm 8.40pm
The Theory of Everything Big Eyes QFT Film Quiz
6.20pm/8.50pm 6.30pm/8.40pm 9.00pm for 9.15pm
Thurs 8
The Theory of Everything Big Eyes
6.20pm/8.50pm 6.30pm/8.40pm
Fri 9
The Theory of Everything Enemy Eastern Boys Big Eyes
6.20pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 8.50pm
Sat 10
Winter Sleep Guys and Dolls The Theory of Everything Enemy Eastern Boys Big Eyes
2.45pm 3.25pm 6.20pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 8.50pm
National Gallery Guys and Dolls The Theory of Everything The Green Ray (Le rayon vert) Enemy Big Eyes
2.20pm 2.45pm 5.40pm
The Theory of Everything Big Eyes Testament of Youth + satellite Q&A The Green Ray (Le rayon vert) Enemy
3.45pm 4.15pm
Mon 12
TIME
6.20pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 8.50pm
Fri 16
Wed 7
Sun 11
EVENT
5.50pm 8.00pm 8.10pm
6.30pm 6.40pm 8.50pm
Times are subject to change. Please check www.queensfilmtheatre.com for up-to-date information.
3.50pm 6.00pm/8.40pm 6.15pm/8.30pm 2.30pm 4.50pm 6.00pm/8.15pm 8.25pm
08/09
SPECIAL EVENTS
SHADOWS OF THE GREAT WAR: WORLD WAR ONE ON FILM A season of film screenings and events marking the centenary of World War One, taking place at venues across NI until March 2015. Presented by QFT and Film Hub NI, with the support of the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery fund.
A FAREWELL TO ARMS SAT 17 JAN, 1PM VENUE: ULSTER MUSEUM
GALLIPOLI SAT 7 FEB, 1PM VENUE: ULSTER MUSEUM
DIR: PETER WEIR • AUSTRALIA • 1981 • 1 HR 50 MINS
DIR. FRANK BORZAGE • USA • 1932 • 1 HR 28 MINS
A forgotten masterpiece, this adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s novel, published just two years earlier, is both a persuasive picture of the nightmare that was World War One and a compelling love story. Starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes.
Telling the story of Battle of Gallipoli in Turkey through the adventures of two idealistic young soldiers (Mel Gibson and Mark Lee), Gallipoli resonates with sadness long after you have seen it.
THE GREEN FIELDS OF FRANCE + TALK
THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY
TUES 20 JAN, 2PM & 7PM VENUE: STRAND ARTS CENTRE
SUN 14 MAR, 1PM VENUE: ULSTER MUSEUM
DIR: ALAN GILSENAN • IRELAND • 1998 • 50 MINS
DIR: KEN LOACH • IRELAND/UK/ OTHERS • 2006 • 2 HRS 7 MINS
Lyrical documentary portrait of the Irish Regiments in the First World War, featuring the voices of Frank McGuinness, John Banville and Peter Fallon. The 7pm screening will be followed by a talk by Jason Burke, who will shed some light on the experiences of East Belfast servicemen during WW1.
Set in Ireland in the aftermath of WW1, Ken Loach’s acclaimed drama follows two brothers (Cillian Murphy and Padraic Delaney) and their part in the fight for independence.
For full listings, booking information and details of participating venues please visit: www.filmhubni.org
NEW RELEASES
A MOST VIOLENT YEAR DATES: FRI 23 JAN – THURS 5 FEB DIR: J.C. CHANDOR • USA • 2014 • 2 HRS 5 MINS
American immigrant Abel Morales and his wife Anna (Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain) are drawn into the violence and corruption of New York City in the crime-ridden winter of 1981 as they attempt to build their own ‘American Dream’. Director-writer J.C. Chandor (All is Lost, Margin Call) has created an exquisite examination of ambition, corruption, loyalty and greed.
ENEMY FRI 9 – THURS 15 JAN
DIR: DENIS VILLENEUVE • CANADA /SPAIN • 2013 • 1 HR 30 MINS
Adam (Jake Gyllenhaal) is an apathetic history teacher who, while watching a movie, discovers Anthony, an actor who looks exactly like him. So begins Adam’s obsessive journey to confront his doppelgänger face to face. With this provocative existential thriller, director Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners) has created a moodily absurdist adaptation of José Saramago’s The Double that if anything actually deepens the possibilities explored in the novel.
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KIS UYKUSU
WINTER SLEEP SAT 10, SAT 17 & SUN 18 JAN DIR: NURI BILGE CEYLAN • TURKEY/FRANCE/GERMANY • 2014 • 3 HRS 16 MINS • SUBTITLED
The new film from Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia), winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes. This is a meditative drama about a small-town innkeeper whose cultural pretensions and smug self-satisfaction are fatefully undermined over the course of an eventful winter. Using its length to its advantage, Winter Sleep is compelling, hypnotic, and absolutely deadly in its aim.
EASTERN BOYS FRI 9 & SAT 10 JAN
DIR: ROBIN CAMPILLO • FRANCE • 2013 • 2 HRS 9 MINS • SUBTITLED
From Robin Campillo, the celebrated writer of Palme d’Or winner The Class, comes Eastern Boys, his highly acclaimed follow-up to 2004’s Les Revenants, which inspired TV’s The Returned. A 50-something businessman gets more than he bargained for when he invites a young street hustler back to his apartment. Loaded with sexual tension, this superbly directed thriller never goes where you expect.
10/11
NEW RELEASES
DOCUMENTARY
THE GREEN PRINCE TUES 13 – THURS 15 JAN DIR: NADAV SCHIRMAN • GERMANY/ USA/UK/ISRAEL • 2014 • 1 HR 41 MINS • PARTIALLY SUBTITLED
Winner of the 2014 Sundance world documentary audience award, this real-life thriller tells the story of one of Israel’s prized intelligence sources, recruited to spy on his own people for more than a decade. Focusing on the complex relationship with his handler, The Green Prince is a gripping account of terror, betrayal, and unthinkable choices, along with a friendship that defies all boundaries.
DOCUMENTARY
THE LAST OF THE UNJUST SUN 25 JAN, 2PM
DIR: CLAUDE LANZMANN • FRANCE/ AUSTRIA • 2013 • 3 HRS 38 MINS • SUBTITLED
TBC
Three decades after his cinematic milestone, Shoah, Claude Lanzmann once again reorients our understanding of the Holocaust. The film centres on Benjamin Murmelstein, the last Jewish elder of Theresienstadt (the so-called “model” ghetto), a figure despised by many of the ghetto’s surviving inhabitants. Intercut with footage of Lanzmann returning to Theresienstadt, Murmelstein explains his actions and precisely defines his paradoxical role in history.
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DOCUMENTARY
NATIONAL GALLERY SUN 11 JAN, 2.20PM DIR: FREDERICK WISEMAN • FRANCE/USA/UK • 2014 • 3 HRS 1 MINS
National Gallery takes us behind the scenes of a British institution, on a journey to the heart of a museum inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. Directed by legendary documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, this is the portrait of a place, its way of working and relations with the world, its staff and public, and its paintings.
OFT FILM QUIZ WED 7 JAN, 9PM
Join us for QFT’s Film Quiz of 2014! What did you think of 2014’s cinematic offerings? Was it Interstellar? Or was it a disaster of Pompeii proportions? Come along to our ultimate film trivia quiz as we recap the year and test your movie memory. Will you enjoy Total Recall or will you come up Point Blank? Tickets are FREE but must be booked in advance. Maximum 5 players per team.
12/13
SECOND SIGHT Our pick of restored and reissued classics, back on the big screen where they belong.
GUYS AND DOLLS SAT 10 & SUN 11 JAN DIR: JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ • USA • 1955 • 2 HRS 23 MINS
One of the most popular film musicals of all time just got better thanks to a vibrant digital make over. Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra play a couple of incorrigible gamblers who hatch a crazy scheme to secure a venue for an illegal card game, but love scuppers their plans. A joyfully entertaining romp, sizzling with wit, invention and lavish song and dance routines.
LE RAYON VERT
THE GREEN RAY SUN 11, MON 12, SAT 17 & SUN 18 JAN
DIR: ERIC ROHMER • FRANCE • 1986 • 1 HR 38 MINS • SUBTITLED
Eric Rohmer’s film is an honest, poignant and often very funny portrait of a twenty-something woman ostensibly looking for a good summer holiday, but yearning for so much more. The Green Ray won the Golden Lion and the Best Actress prize at the 1986 Venice Film Festival. Nearly 30 years on, it is a delight to re-visit, especially in the bleak days of January.
14/15
SPECIAL EVENTS
NT LIVE:
TREASURE ISLAND THURS 22 JAN, 7PM
RUNNING TIME: 3 HRS (INCL. INTERVAL)
When a frightfully weathered looking sailor arrives at the inn, with a giant sea-chest in tow, Jim the inn-keeper invites him inside… Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic, coming-of-age children’s story is reinvigorated with Bryony Lavery’s thrilling new stage adaption, which takes you on a journey across the high seas as the pirate’s secrets are revealed. Suitable for 10 yrs+.
TICKETS £15 (£12.50 concessions and Film Card holders)
BOLSHOI THEATRE
SWAN LAKE SUN 25 JAN, 3PM
RUNNING TIME: 2 HRS 40 MINS
The greatest of all romantic classical ballets, performed by the legendary Bolshoi company and broadcast live in superb HD. With Tchaikovsky’s famous, lyrical score, and performed to perfection by the unparalleled virtuosity of Russia’s great Bolshoi Ballet, this universal and enchanting masterpiece of love, deception and drama is one not to be missed.
TICKETS £15 (£12.50 concessions and Film Card holders)
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