Upcoming Films - March 2013

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MARCH 2013

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Welcome to Mareel Cinema This leaflet contains details of most of the films you can expect to see at Mareel this month.* Mareel Cinema is programmed weekly from Friday to Thursday. This allows us to be flexible and continue films which are proving popular with our audiences. Our films for any given week go on sale on Tuesdays.

There are many ways to find out which films are showing during the week: pick up a copy of our weekly listings flyer alongside this one from Mareel or Islesburgh, check the Mareel and/ or Shetland Box Office website for listings, call Shetland Box Office on 01595 745 555, or check our various local media advertising.

At Mareel, we aim to offer a variety of films for all tastes. Most of the time we will show films a few weeks after their official UK release dates because this is when distributors are willing to be flexible about how many times a film shows each day. This allows us to put on five or six films a week. With big blockbusters the distributors insist that we show the films virtually exclusively on Screen 1 for one, and sometimes two, full weeks in order to get them on the release date, as is the case with all the other cinemas in the UK. Sometimes we will do this, and sometimes we won’t, depending on audience demand.

Cinema Tickets Our prices vary depending on the day and time of the performance. When booking you will be asked to choose between different ticket types (e.g. adult, concession). Concessions include children aged up to 15 years old (those aged 16 and above must buy adult tickets), students (must produce valid ID), seniors (aged 60+), and people with disabilities.

Matinees:

before 5pm

Price per ticket

Monday to Friday

£4 / £3

Saturday and Sunday

£6.50 / £4.50

Evenings:

from 5pm onwards Monday

£5.50 / £3.50

Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

£6.50 / £4.50

Friday and Saturday

£7.50 / 5.50

Special Screenings: Senior Screening

(includes refreshment after film)

£4.50

Saturday Kids Club

£3.00 / £4.00

We hope you enjoy this month’s selection of films and we’ll see you in Mareel soon! *Please be aware that, due to the flexible nature of cinema programming, some details may be subject to change.

• 3D screenings cost an extra £1 on top of general ticket prices.

• 3D glasses cost an additional £1 per purchase (they are reusable).

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Babes in Arms

Film Wednesdays

At Babes in Arms every Monday morning we screen films exclusively for parents/guardians with babies up to 18 months old. Enjoy the latest releases from our regular programme accompanied by baby in a safe and comfortable environment. So no need to find a babysitter or worry about causing a disturbance next time you want to catch up on the movies. This is also a great way to meet other parents/guardians.

Film Wednesdays is a weekly series of screenings on Wednesday evenings for film lovers. Film Wednesdays are designed to spotlight the best of independent and world cinema, classic films and documentaries.

We are also happy to admit babies up to 18 months old into any morning or afternoon performance with a U, PG or 12A certification. Our Babes in Arms screenings are aimed at Parents/Guardians with babies. We are, however, happy to allow people without a baby to attend if they are accompanying someone at whom the screenings are aimed.

Senior Screenings at Mareel are weekly screenings for our mature guests (aged 60+) on Wednesday afternoons. Come along and meet friends for a screening of some of the best recent films and some classics from over the years. Enjoy a cup of tea or coffee accompanied by a snack, included in your ticket price.

Nappy changing facilities are available.

Our Senior Screenings are offered at a discounted rate with refreshments included. Refreshments are one cup of tea (everyday brew) or one cup of coffee (filtered) accompanied by some biscuits (diabetic and gluten free option available - please ask staff).

Saturday Kids’ Club Our Saturday Kids’ Club is a weekly Saturday morning screening of a recent hit or an old favourite, programmed specifically to be family-friendly. Parents may leave children over 8 alone in screenings but should be aware that the cinema is not providing any official childcare. We do, though, take special precautions for Saturday Kids’ Club screenings to provide as safe an environment as possible for younger audiences. If you leave your children in the cinema please be there on time to collect them at the end of the film.

At all screenings, including Saturday Kid’s Club, children under 8 should be accompanied by an adult aged 18 years or older. At all other screenings, children under 12 cannot attend a screening unaccompanied after 7pm.

Senior Screenings

Please retain your ticket to claim your refreshments.

Our Senior Screenings are aimed at Seniors (60+).

We are, however, happy to allow non-Seniors to attend if they are accompanying someone at whom the screenings are aimed.

Subtitled Screenings Our weekly Subtitled Screenings are film screenings with caption subtitles. These are similar to English subtitles for foreign language films, but for English language films. They inform the cinemagoer of any significant music, sung speech or sound effects – especially if any of these are taking place off-screen. At Mareel cinema, we are committed to accessibility for all and these screenings represent just a part of that commitment for our hard of hearing customers.

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I Wish

Showing from 1 March Cert: PG Duration: 128 minutes Japanese language film with English subtitles. Some six months after the separation of their parents, pre-teens Koichi and Ryu (played by brothers Koki and Oshirô Maeda) live at opposite ends of Kyushu island with their anxious mother and musician father respectively. The boys hatch a plot to ride a new bullet train between their two cities on its maiden journey, believing that when the trains cross paths a magical moment will occur and the family will be reunited.

Song for Marion

Showing from 1 March Cert: PG Duration: 93 minutes Vanessa Redgrave plays the cancer-stricken Marion, determinedly enjoying her final months singing in a community choir run by Elizabeth (Gemma Arterton), a young teacher who has boldly entered them in a national competition. Unfortunately, Marion’s husband (Terence Stamp) is just a little overprotective, and the dividing line between his concern and his innate curmudgeonliness wears thinner as the weeks roll by.

But when the inevitable finally happens, his abiding love for Marion and the understanding of loneliness that he shares with Elizabeth turn his life around. If you liked The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Quartet, you’ll love Song for Marion.

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Wreck-It Ralph

Django Unchained

Wreck-It Ralph longs to be as loved, but nobody loves a Bad Guy. So when a modern shooter game arrives featuring tough Sergeant Calhoun, Ralph sees it as his ticket to heroism and happiness. But will he realize he is good enough to become a hero before it’s Game Over for the entire arcade?

Quentin Tarantino’s, Django Unchained stars Jamie Foxx as a slave in the pre-Civil War South who meets bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz. Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to them. An incredible cast including Kerry Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Samuel L Jackson star.

Showing from 1 March Cert: PG Duration: 108 minutes

Showing from 1 March Cert: 18 Duration: 165 minutes

Sammy’s Great Escape 3D

Brave

Ray and Sammy, are captured by poachers, along with young hatchlings Ricky and Ella, only to end up being ogled by tourists in a giant aquarium. But together with a resourceful seahorse, they and their new friends plan an outrageous escape.

Another chance to see Pixar’s Oscar winning animated adventure. Set in the rugged wilds of the ancient Scottish Highlands, Brave follows a young princess named Merida as she challenges tradition and faces her destiny.

Showing from 1 March Cert: U Duration: 93 minutes

Showing from 8 March Cert: PG Duration: 100 minutes

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A Good Day to Die Hard Showing from 8 March Cert: 12A Duration: 98 minutes

The 007 of Plainfield, New Jersey’ is how Willis jokingly describes his character, John McClane, in his fifth Die Hard outing. But the world-weary, take-no-prisoners cop who always seems to find himself in way too deep is really outside his comfort zone this time, travelling to Russia to assist his errant son Jack. Jack is a chip off the old block, a CIA agent working to foil a nuclear weapons heist, and inevitably the McClanes prove an immutable force against some very angry Russian villains. With trusty action director John Moore on board, plus Mary Elizabeth Winstead once again playing John’s put-upon wife, we’re obviously on an exhilarating roller-coaster ride – with added wisecracks.

To the Wonder Showing from 8 March Cert: 12A Duration: 113 minutes

Ben Affleck is Neil, a clean-cut construction engineer who falls for the free-spirited Marina during a trip to Paris. She and her young daughter move to Neil’s Middle-American homeland, where Neil has a fling with a childhood friend, thereby jeopardising the strong spiritual bond that he thought he’d found with Marina.

To the Wonder is an intriguing film considerably enhanced by Javier Bardem’s sensitive performance as a priest trying to help the characters recover the faith that they, as well as he, have lost.

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This is 40

McCullin

This truly family affair reprises Rudd’s and Mann’s characters in Apatow’s Knocked Up. We find the now-married couple Debbie and Pete reluctantly approaching middle age, with two antsy young kids, Sadie and Charlotte (played by Mann and Apatow’s real-life children), not easing their passage. Debbie is already lying about her age and sniping at her record producer spouse, who seems more concerned with reviving Graham Parker’s ailing career than with maintaining his marriage – or his libido. With keenly wrought performances from its stars, Apatow’s sharply comic script and some nice supporting turns from Albert Brooks and Melissa McCarthy, This is 40 is a great ensemble piece that avoids mawkish sentimentality while subtly reflecting the anxieties of many who find themselves feeling uneasy in once-idyllic long-term relationships.

Documentary. Granted unprecedented access to the archives of veteran Times war photographer Don McCullin, directors Jacqui and David Morris interweave candid interviews with the man himself, archive footage of the conflicts he covered and a huge range of his devastating photographs. The result is a vivid and moving portrait of one of the most important photojournalists of the 20th century. By turns emotionally demanding and strangely uplifting, this powerful documentary proves a fitting tribute to a truly remarkable man.

Showing from 8 March Cert: 15 Duration: 134 minutes

Showing from 8 March Cert: 15 Duration: 95 minutes

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SPECIAL SCREENINGS FOR INTERNAIONAL WOMEN’S DAY & MOTHERS’ DAY

The Piano

Showing on Friday 8 March for International Women’s Day Cert: 15 Duration: 120 minutes Jane Campion’s powerful and visually sumptuous tale of a woman striving to live a life on her terms at a time when women were little more than their husbands’ chattels, is set during the early European colonisation of New Zealand. Ada (Holly Hunter), a mute woman, travels to New Zealand with her young daughter to marry a man she has never met. When she arrives on a bleak and windswept shore on the other side of the world, her new husband refuses to take her beloved piano to the house. It remains on the beach until Ada strikes a bargain with George Baines (Harvey Keitel), an illiterate settler who has “gone native.” Their meetings become stages in an erotic courtship that develops into a passionate affair. The character of Ada divided audiences on the film’s release as she is ostensibly presented as being ‘difficult’. Others saw her as a woman doing whatever she could to escape the repressive situation into which she had been forced, and to literally ‘find her own voice.’

Mamma Mia!

Showing on Sunday 10 March for Mothers’ Day Cert: PG Duration: 110 minutes Mamma Mia! brings the timeless lyrics and melodies of iconic super-group ABBA and the worldwide smash stage hit to the big screen. An independent single mother who owns a hotel on a Greek island, Donna, is about to let go of her daughter Sophie, as she is getting married. Sophie has secretly invited three guests; on a quest to find her father to walk her down the aisle, she brings back three men from Donna’s past to the island they visited 20 years earlier. Over 24 chaotic, magical hours, new love will bloom and old romances will be rekindled. Inspired by the storytelling magic of ABBA’s songs, Mamma Mia! is a celebration of mothers and daughters, old friends and new family found.

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Cloud Atlas

Showing from 15 March Cert: 15 Duration: 172 minutes David Mitchell’s 2004 novel was long considered unfilmable, but Tykwer and the Wachowski siblings doggedly pursued $100m in financing to create this epic meditation on the power of the soul. Six individuals’ stories are initially told chronologically, beginning in the early 1800s and finishing in a postapocalyptic time. Through clever, often blindingly fast cutting and abundant CGI, the various characters are ultimately connected.

Monsters Inc. 3D Showing from 15 March Cert: U Duration: 92 minutes

Academy Award-winning animated comedy adventure Monsters Inc. is back on the big screen in screaming 3D, bringing the story of Monstropolis to a whole new audience. When a child mistakenly enters the monstersonly town where screams are processed to provide power, the secret world of Monsters Inc. is threatened.

But when top scarers Mike (voiced by Billy Crystal) and Sully (voiced by John Goodman) hatch a plan to return the human back to her rightful place, they find their troubles have only just begun.

Beautiful Creatures

No

Based on the first book in Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s smash-hit teen saga The Caster Chronicles, this deliciously dark slice of Southern Gothic follows two star-crossed lovers living in a small Southern town that is haunted by mystery and secrets. Beautiful Creatures is the sexy new kid on the block, set to have teen pulses racing and to spawn a mega-franchise in the wake of Twilight and The Hunger Games.

Spanish language film with English subtitles. No explores the final days of the Pinochet regime through the eyes of two competing television companies canvassing for the ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ campaigns respectively in the crucial referendum that toppled the dictator. A riveting dramatisation of a crucial moment in South American history and the deserving winner of Director’s Fortnight, Cannes 2012.

Showing from 15 March Cert: 12 Duration: 124 minutes

Showing from 15 March Cert: 15 Duration: 118

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Acoustic Routes

Showing from 15 March Cert: 12A Duration: 105 minutes Originally made as a BBC documentary in 1992, this acclaimed film from writer-director Leman has now been re-edited to include extra performance footage of its subject, folk legend Bert Jansch. In plotting Jansch’s lengthy career – he was performing right up until his death in 2011 – Acoustic Routes provides a fascinating history of the fertile British folk scene of the 1960s and beyond. The roster of musicians citing Jansch as both a major influence and valued colleague represents an impressive who’s who of the genre and includes Wizz Jones, Martin Carthy, John Renbourn and Anne Briggs. The film, enthusiastically narrated

by Billy Connolly – who before he discovered comedy and Hollywood was something of a folk hero himself – naturally features many fine performances from all involved, but it’s ultimately Jansch who rightly steals the show.

Arbitrage

Showing from 22 March Cert: 15 Duration: 107 minutes “You think money’ll fix it?” asks fall guy Jimmy Grant of his benefactor-cum-bully Robert Miller. “What else is there?” shrugs Miller, neatly summarising the moral core of this riveting thriller. An investment guru awash with guilty secrets, Miller (Richard Gere) is the embodiment of beguiling venality. He’s fighting to sell his tottering company while also avoiding a murder rap, and his wife (Susan Sarandon) and daughter (Brit Marling) exhibit the same expedient duplicity. Jimmy (Nate Parker), however, unwittingly holds the key to Miller’s fate, and as Miller is pursued by the politically motivated Detective Bryer (Tim Roth, suitably sleazy), his façade of indignant innocence is sorely tested.

Jarecki’s debut feature is directed with great assurance and no slack, and basks in Yorick Le Saux’s nouveau noir cinematography. But it’s really Gere’s film: he’s terrific.

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Oz: The Great & Powerful

Showing from 22 March Cert: PG Duration: 130 minutes For this fourth feature-length version of L. Frank Baum’s classic novel, maverick fantasy-horror director Sam Raimi takes a typically offbeat tack.

Oscar is a young, somewhat shady magician working in small-town Kansas who’s accidentally transported to the magical kingdom of Oz. There he meets and swoons over Glinda, a good witch, who persuades him to battle a brace of bad witches and right the many wrongs of the kingdom. Despite his doubtful supernatural powers, Oscar reluctantly rises to the challenge, eventually redeeming himself in more senses than one. Backed by Walt Disney Pictures, Raimi’s film employs all the special effects imaginable, and is all the more entertaining for it.

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Stoker

Showing from 22 March Cert: 12A Duration: 99 minutes South Korean director Chan-wook Park makes a startling debut in English-language cinema with this atmospheric thriller. Beginning with the death of the family patriarch, Stoker zeros in on the emotionally uncompromising relationship between his daughter India and her chilling mother Evelyn.

The arrival of enigmatic Uncle Charlie only pushes strained relationships even further. At first India is suspicious of her charming uncle, an emotional leech who latches onto her damaged mother, but then, despite herself, she becomes drawn to him. As the relationship between uncle and niece grows, people begin to disappear, and it becomes clear that Uncle Charlie’s agenda goes beyond simply inheriting his brother’s family. Stoker combines family drama with psychological thrills, as the lines between good and evil get very blurred.

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Showing from 22 March Cert: U Duration: 81 minutes Japanese language film with English subtitles.

Documentary. This enchanting documentary follows elderly Japanese master chef Jiro Ono, chronicling his almost fanatical quest to perfect the art of sushi at his three-Michelin-star restaurant, Sukiyabashi Jiro.

Beyond Jiro’s kitchen, the film also profiles the old man’s two sons: Yoshikazu, destined to one day take over his father’s flagship restaurant, and Takashi, already running a successful restaurant of his own. A quietly moving homage to a gastronomic dynasty and a revealing insight into a secretive, perfectionist world, Jiro Dreams of Sushi is one of a kind.

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Bugsy Malone

Gambit

Telling of the rise of the sharp-suited Bugsy Malone and the battle for power between Fat Sam and Dandy Dan, this Chicago-set gangster movie is a classic of the genre with one big twist – all the gangsters are children. Jodie Foster is superb in one of her very earliest film roles.

This witty heist movie is a remake of a 1966 film starring rewritten by the Coen brothers. Colin Firth is the embittered art curator Harry Dean, who intends to hoodwink his rich boss (Alan Rickman) into buying a phony Monet, and employs Texan cowgirl (Cameron Diaz) to help soften him up.

Tinkerbell and the Secret of the Wings

Finding Nemo 3D

Showing from 15 March Cert: U Duration: 93 minutes

Showing from 22 March Cert: U Duration: 92 minutes

Another chance to catch up with Tinkerbell. Perhaps less well known here, Disney’s Tinkerbell franchise is big business in the USA. This is the fifth in the series and crafted with all the twinkle and magic dust we’ve come to expect when Disney addresses its youngest audiences.

Showing from 22 March Cert: 12A Duration: 89 minutes

Showing from 29 March Cert: U Duration: 100 minutes

Finding Nemo tells the story of an over-protective clownfish named Marlin who, along with a regal tang named Dory, searches for his abducted son Nemo all the way to Sydney Harbour. Along the way, Marlin learns to take risks and let Nemo take care of himself.

It originally came out in 2003 and has now been rereleased in stunning 3D. A favourite for all the family.

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The Croods

Showing from 29 March Cert: U Duration: 98 minutes This beautifully realised cartoon feature follows the world’s first prehistoric family. The family are forced to abandon the cave that has long been their haven. They enter a new and often frightening world in search of a safer environment, and are eventually led to a magical new land by a quick-witted teenager.Originating as it does from DreamWorks, this is more than just kids’ entertainment: its underlying messages won’t be lost on environmentalists, or on those who cherish meaningful family values.

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone Showing from 29 March Cert: Not Yet Rated Duration: 120 minutes

Superstar magicians Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) and Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi) have ruled the Las Vegas strip for years, raking in millions with illusions as big as Burt’s growing ego. But lately the duo’s greatest deception is their public friendship, while secretly they’ve grown to loathe each other. Facing cutthroat competition from guerilla street magician Steve Gray (Jim Carrey), whose cult following surges with each outrageous stunt, even their show looks stale. But there’s still a chance Burt and Anton can save the act-both onstage and off-if Burt can get back in touch with what made him love magic in the first place.

African Cats

Showing from 29 March Cert: U Duration: 89 minutes Documentary narrated by Samuel L. Jackson. An epic true story set against the backdrop of one of the wildest places on Earth, African Cats captures the real-life love, humour and determination of the majestic kings of the savanna. The story features Mara, an endearing lion cub who strives to grow up with her mother’s strength, spirit and wisdom; Sita, a fearless cheetah and single mother of five mischievous newborns; and Fang, a proud leader of the pride who must defend his family from a once banished lion.

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SPECIAL SCREENINGS FOR EASTER

We Have a Pope

Showing from 29 March Cert: PG Duration: 102 minutes Italian language film with English subtitles. A screening to coincide with the appointment of the new Pope, Moretti’s papal comedy is all about life’s big decisions.

In the case of Cardinal Melville, it’s a real humdinger: following the death of the pope he’s been thrust straight to the top of the Catholic church by his peers. The problem is that he doesn’t see himself as the right man for the job, so he flees the Vatican for a spot of soulsearching. Meanwhile the remaining cardinals call in a therapist (Moretti himself) to talk Melville round (who they believe has retired to prepare for his inaugural speech).

The Gospel According to Matthew Showing from 29 March Cert: 15 Duration: 137 minutes

Legendary director (and avowed atheist) Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to Matthew [Il vangelo secondo Matteo] is one of the great retellings of the story of Christ – a cinematic rendering (filmed by invitation from the Pope, no less) at once both passionate and poetic. With stunning black-and-white photography, an eclectic soundtrack, and using a cast of non-professionals who voice dialogue drawn directly from scripture, The Gospel According to Matthew depicts the key events in the life of Christ, from immaculate conception to death on the cross. Vaunted by the Vatican as one of its select few recommended films, acclaimed by the Archbishop of Canterbury as a “great film”, and revered by critics and audiences alike.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Grease Singalong

Showing on Saturday 30 March Special Event Duration: 120 minutes Ever wanted to know what it’s like to be a T-bird or a Pink Lady but never quite felt cool enough to pull it off?

Well, now is your chance to don those pink jackets, grease up those quiffs and let your inhibitions go for an evening where you are the stars and remember Grease is the word. Brought to you by the producers of the worldwide smash hit Sing-a-long-a Sound of Music, this is a fully interactive show that will get you singing and dancing in the aisles.

Madam Butterfly 3D

Showing on Sunday 31 March Special Event Duration: 155 minutes with a 15 minute interval Sung in Italian with English subtitles. Puccini’s heartrending tale of love and betrayal has been brought to the big screen in Julian Napier’s exquisite film, in which the characters and key moments of the action are heightened and enriched through the immersive power of 3D. The opera’s ravishing score features such wonderfully lyrical passages as the Humming chorus, Butterfly’s ‘un bel dì vedremo’ (One Fine Day), Cio-CioSan’s first entrance, and Pinkerton’s seduction of her.