MAY ‘14
@ MAREEL & ISLESBURGH COMMUNITY CENTRE
www.shetlandboxoffice.org T: 01595 745555
WELCOME TO MAREEL CINEMA This leaflet contains details of most of the films you can expect to see at Mareel this month. Please be aware that, due to the flexible nature of cinema programming, some details may be subject to change.
CINEMA TICKETS Our prices vary depending on the day and time of the performance, and the type of screening. When booking you will be asked to choose between two different ticket types: adult or 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. Tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded once purchased. Customers are responsible for checking that they have booked the correct tickets at time of purchase as mistakes cannot be rectified at a later date. Only in the event of a screening being cancelled will your ticket be refunded.
TICKET PRICES MATINEES:
before 5pm
Price per ticket
Monday to Friday
£4.50 / £3.50
Saturday, Sunday, Holidays*
£7 / £5
EVENINGS:
from 5pm onwards Monday
£6 / £4
Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
£7 / £5
Friday, Saturday, Holidays*
£8 / £6
SPECIAL SCREENINGS: Senior Screening (includes refreshment ) £5
MAREEL OPENING HOURS Sun - Thu: 10am - 11pm Fri - Sat: 10am - 1am
*Holidays include Bank Holidays, Christmas’ Eve, Boxing Day, & New Year’s Eve. • 3D screenings cost an extra £1 on top of ticket prices. • 3D glasses cost an additional £1 and are reusable.
Shetland Arts Development Agency manages Mareel, the Garrison Theatre & Bonhoga Gallery. We also develop and promote a year round programme of film, music, theatre, literature, visual arts, & dance events. We do this because we want to see Shetland celebrated as a place where inspiration & innovation are valued; where people want to live, work & study; and we want the full social & economic potential of the islands to be achieved.
Shetland Arts is supported by Creative Scotland and core funded by the Shetland Charitable Trust. Shetland Arts is a registered charity (SCO37082).
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THE OTHER WOMAN Tickets on sale now A comic tale of retribution, The Other Woman follows three women who form an unlikely alliance, joining forces to settle a score with the man in their lives. Cameron Diaz takes centre stage as a woman who discovers that her boyfriend has been keeping a rather big secret: he’s already married! Angry that she has unwittingly become ‘the other woman’, she reaches out to his wife (Leslie Mann) and his other mistress (Kate Upton) to hatch a plan for revenge.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (3D) Tickets on sale now After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier finds Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help of a new ally, the Falcon. However, they soon find themselves up against an unexpected and formidable enemy - the Winter Soldier.
CALVARY Tickets on sale now After being told he will be murdered in one week’s time, Father James Lavelle (Brendan Gleeson) finds himself with seven days to determine his would be killer and put his affairs in order. Prevented by the “seal of confessional” from going to the police, Father Lavelle opts to engage with and tries to understand his small minded and morally scurrilous parishioners with the hope of dissuading the one amongst them intent on his death. Set against the stunning beauty of Ireland’s West Coast comes this darkly comic thriller from writer director John Michael McDonagh.
PIONEER Tickets on sale now In the early 1980s, enormous oil and gas deposits were discovered in the North Sea. A corporate battle ensued between competing Norwegian and American diving teams to win the lucrative contract to bring these natural resources ashore through a pipeline on the ocean bed, 500 metres below the surface. Norwegian diver Petter (Aksel Hennie) is obsessed with reaching the depths necessary to lay the pipeline and - along with his brother and an ambitious American diver (Wes Bentley) - has the discipline, strength and courage to take on this dangerous experiment. But a sudden, tragic accident changes everything. In trying to get to the truth behind the accident, Petter finds himself up against shadowy forces and an industrial machine that will go to any lengths to keep the truth under wraps, in order to secure the profits that will flow. With his life at stake, he must decide who he can trust and what he most believes in.
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A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM Tickets on sale now Acclaimed critic and filmmaker Mark Cousins explores notions of childhood in the movies in this comprehensive documentary, which premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Taking as his starting point self-shot footage of his niece and nephew playing, fighting and performing for the camera, Cousins delves into a wealth of world cinema clips in order to examine how children have been imagined, represented and commented on through the medium of film. At once a fascinating journey into a huge archive, A Story Of Children And Film is a mesmerising tribute to youth and youthful energy, and a must for all cinephiles.
THE LUNCHBOX Showing from: Fri 2 May
THE LOVE PUNCH Showing from: Fri 2 May Tickets on sale: Wed 23 April When a bitterly divorced couple (Emma Thompson and Pierce Brosnan) are virtually bankrupted by a fasttalking French swindler (Laurent Lafitte), they call in their social cavalry to try to literally get their own back. The Love Punch is that rare thing, a middle-aged caper movie – and being set largely on the Côte d’Azur, it also looks terrific. Directed and written by Joel Hopkins, The Love Punch sees its ensemble cast play off each other nicely, especially Brosnan and Thompson as they bite their metaphorical lips in deference to their own best interests. Watch out too for a few clever running gags, which the less tech-savvy will recognise with wry resignation.
Tickets on sale: Wed 23 April Hindi language film with English subtitles. Every day in Mumbai, tens of thousands of hot lunches in tiered stainless-steel containers travel from wives’ kitchens to husbands’ offices via a precisely choreographed network of bicycles, rickshaws, trains and scooters. Although the system is usually reliable, one day the lunchbox destined for Rajeev, prepared by his wife Ila, somehow ends up with Saajan. When the emotionally distant Rajeev fails to notice the mix-up, Ila encloses a note of apology in the next day’s lunchbox to its unknown recipient. Saajan cautiously responds, and thus begins a touching and tantalisingly frank correspondence. This delicately acted romance has echoes of Sleepless in Seattle with the crossover appeal of Slumdog Millionaire, and its vibrant energy cleverly contrasts with the measured intensity of the bond being forged between the two leads.
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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (3D & 2D) Showing from: Fri 2 May Tickets on sale: Wed 23 April It’s great to be Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield). For Peter Parker, there’s no feeling quite like swinging between skyscrapers, embracing being the hero, and spending time with Gwen (Emma Stone). But being Spider-Man comes at a price: only Spider-Man can protect his fellow New Yorkers from the formidable villains that threaten the city. With the emergence of Electro (Jamie Foxx), Peter must confront a foe far more powerful than he. And as his old friend, Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan), returns, Peter comes to realize that all of his enemies have one thing in common: OsCorp.
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TIM’S VERMEER Showing from: Fri 9 May Tickets on sale: Wed 30 April Tim’s Vermeer follows Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, as he attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all of art: How did 17th century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer (‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’) manage to paint so photo-realistically, 150 years before the invention of photography? Jenison’s epic research project ultimately succeeds as he uses 17th century technology -- lenses and mirrors -- to develop a technique that might have been used by Vermeer, supporting a theory as extraordinary as what he discovers. Spanning a decade, Jenison’s adventure takes him to Delft, Holland, where Vermeer painted his masterpieces; on a pilgrimage to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artist David Hockney; and eventually even to Buckingham Palace, to see the Queen’s Vermeer. Directed by Teller of Penn & Teller fame.
BAD NEIGHBOURS Showing from: Fri 9 May Tickets on sale: Wed 30 April Kelly (Rose Byrne) and Mac (Seth Rogen) discover that the house next door in their nice suburban neighbourhood has been let to a raucous bunch of college students. Bad Neighbours follows their increasingly desperate efforts to maintain a quiet life for themselves and their newborn baby. Needless to say, they don’t stand much of a chance. But for the rest of us this is a frantically paced laugh-fest that those of a virtuous disposition might find intensely debauched – which is its glorious point!
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THE LEGO MOVIE (3D & 2D) Showing from: Fri 9 May Tickets on sale: Wed 30 April BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! The Lego Movie follows Emmet, an ordinary, rulesfollowing, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as a most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. Emmet (Chris Pratt) is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which he is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared. Will Ferrell, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks, Nick Offerman and Alison Brie join Chris Pratt to form the cast of the first-ever full-length theatrical LEGO movie, the greatest movie ever assembled.
TRACKS Showing from: Fri 9 May Tickets on sale: Wed 30 April Tracks tells the incredible true story of Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska), a young woman who in 1977 undertook a perilous solo trek across 1,700 miles of stunning Australian outback. Abandoning city life, Robyn arrives in Alice Springs and declares her ambition to cross the desert to the Indian Ocean to the amusement of the locals. However after months of camping out and working on a camel farm people begin to take her seriously. A chance meeting with National Geographic photographer Rick Smoland (Adam Driver) provides her with the necessary financing for her expedition under the condition that he be allowed to photograph parts of her journey for the magazine. With only her dog and four unpredictable camels for company, she embarks on an inspiring and life changing journey of self-discovery.
LOCKE Showing from: Fri 9 May Tickets on sale: Wed 30 April Shot in real time during a journey along the M6, with no props and only a voice cast for support, Tom Hardy is spellbinding as mild-mannered Ivan Locke, who receives a phone call that will change his life. Pieces of the jigsaw are gradually revealed as we watch Locke deal with a terrible dilemma, driving through the night against the backdrop of Haris Zambarloukos’s gorgeous, neon-swabbed cinematography. Despite its minimalist cast and setting, this is not an exercise in restraint, but rather a great piece of cinema, and a thoughtful meditation on what it means to be a man.
BABES IN ARMS
Mondays at 11am For parents/guardians with babies up to 18 months old. THE LOVE PUNCH p4 TRACKS p7 TRANSCENDENCE p11 GODZILLA (2D) p10 MALEFICENT (2D) p14
We are also happy for parents/guardians with babies up to 18 months old to attend any morning or afternoon screening with a U, PG or 12A certification.
THE LOVE PUNCH
5 May 12 May 19 May 26 May 2 Jun
SENIOR SCREENINGS
7 May 14 May 21 May 28 May 4 Jun
THE LOVE PUNCH p4 TRACKS p7 A THOUSAND TIMES GOOD NIGHT p11 THE DOUBLE p11 MALEFICENT (2D) p14
TRACKS
Wednesdays at 2pm Weekly screenings for our mature guests (60+), offered at a discounted rate with refreshments included in the ticket price. (Please retain your ticket to claim your refreshments)
FILM WEDNESDAYS
Wednesdays at 8pm The best of independent & world cinema, classic films & documentaries, for film lovers. 7 May 14 May 21 May 28 May 4 Jun
THE LUNCHBOX p4 TIM’S VERMEER p6 THE DOUBLE p11 TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM p13 BLUE RUIN p15
Access to unlimited film at Mareel for just £22.50 a month.
Access to unlimited off-peak film at Mareel for just £18 a month.
BLUE RUIN
PROMOTIONS & SPECIAL SCREENINGS
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SUBTITLED SCREENINGS
Mondays at 8.15pm And where possible additional week day matinees.
MALEFICENT
5 May THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (2D) p5 12 May LOCKE p7 19 May GODZILLA (2D) p10 26 May THE DOUBLE p11 2 Jun MALEFICENT (2D) p14 Some screenings may be subject to change. Please check weekly film flyer for updates.
ASN FRIENDLY SCREENINGS
11 May THE LEGO MOVIE (2D) 25 May POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE
THE LEGO MOVIE
Twice per month For people with additional support needs & their families, friends, & carers. It is fine for customers to move around, make noise, or take a break during the film. p7 p13
POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2
AUTISM FRIENDLY SCREENINGS
Monthly screening for people on the autistic spectrum & their families, friends, & carers. Soundtrack volume is reduced & low lights are left on. It is fine for customers to move around, make noise, or take a break during the film. 4 May THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (2D) p5
FAMILY FAVOURITES Monthly screening of a family film.
24 May POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE
p13
FAMILY & FRIENDS
TEN 4 NINE
Groups of 4 including 2+ children & 1+ adult, all pay concession prices for any U, PG, 12A, 12, or 15 film.
Buy 10 tickets in one purchase for any one screening for the cost of 9.
(subject to age restrictions)
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GODZILLA (3D & 2D) Showing from: Thur 15 May Tickets on sale: Wed 30 April The blockbuster season gets off to a colossal start with this reboot of 1954’s Gojira. Eschewing the campy schlock of many previous spinoffs, this Godzilla is a new origin story. In this version, it’s not radiation that spawns the monster, but the other way around: the so-called atomic tests of the 1950s were in reality early attempts to kill the 600-foot tall beast. Now Godzilla is leaving its ocean home, creating a tsunami in its wake and wreaking terrifying devastation wherever it goes; the human characters, including a soldier, a nurse, and a scientist, are helpless in the face of this immense force of nature.
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THE DOUBLE
Showing from: Fri 16 May Tickets on sale: Wed 7 May Director Richard Ayoade’s latest feature is an idiosyncratic adaptation of Dostoevsky’s celebrated novella, switching the action from 19th century Russia to a surrealist modern-day America. Simon (Jesse Eisenberg) is a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams, Hannah (Mia Wasikowska). He feels powerless to change any of these things. The arrival of a new co-worker, James, serves to upset the balance. James is both Simon’s exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and good with women. To Simon’s horror, James slowly starts taking over his life.
A THOUSAND TIMES GOOD NIGHT TRANSCENDENCE Showing from: Fri 16 May Tickets on sale: Wed 7 May The world’s foremost expert on artificial intelligence (played by Jonny Depp) seeks to create a sentient machine that will revolutionise humankind – and coincidentally release him from his own terminal illness. His loyal wife and best friend naturally support these twin aspirations, but others, notably a fiery campaigner bent on outlawing such technology, are determined to stop him. Stepping up several gears from previous robotic adventures, this squarely addresses the complex moral issues that are already emerging in our technology-dependent society.
Showing from: Fri 16 May Tickets on sale: Wed 7 May Rebecca is one of the world’s top war photographers. On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul, she gets too near and gets badly hurt. Back home another bomb drops. Her husband and daughters can no longer bear the thought of her dying while at work. She is given an ultimatum: Her work, or her family life. The choice seems obvious. Rebecca swears to Marcus that she will never go to a war zone again. Yet the conviction that her photos can make a difference keeps pulling at her resolve, making it difficult for her to live a normal life as a mother and wife. Then comes an offer to photograph a refugee camp in Kenya, a place allegedly so safe that daughter Steph is allowed to join her mother...
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KING LEAR Showing on: Sun 18 May @ 3pm Tickets on sale: Wed 23 April
Skyfall director Sam Mendes’s highlyanticipated return to the National Theatre, with Simon Russell Beale in the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Aging, weary King Lear (Simon Russell Beale) plans to divide his realm between his three daughters. He tells them that the one who declares the greatest love for him will win the lion’s share. Goneril (Kate Fleetwood) and Regan (Anna Maxwell Martin) attempt to outdo one another with extravagant praise. Disgusted by their behaviour, the youngest daughter, Cordelia (Olivia Vinall), refuses to say anything. Enraged, Lear banishes her forever, even though she is his favourite. So begins a series of events that lead to tragedy. £16 / £13
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TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM
Showing from: Fri 23 May Tickets on sale: Wed 14 May Noted music documentarian Morgan Neville’s Oscarwinning film lovingly salutes those unacknowledged but certainly not unsung heroines of the music business: the backing singers. Neville combines extensive interviews with the stars whose careers wouldn’t have succeeded without them. But revealing as the interviews are, Twenty Feet From Stardom’s finest moments spring from the archives: studio and concert performances from the present day’s Bruce Springsteen and Sting, going back to Ike and Tina Turner’s Ikettes and Phil Spector’s Crystals. Wonderful characters, fantastic voices, and overall a marvellously uplifting movie no music fan should miss.
POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE Showing from: Fri 23 May
THE BOOK THIEF Showing from: Fri 23 May Tickets on sale: Wed 14 May BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Based on the beloved international bestselling book, The Book Thief tells the story of Liesel, an extraordinary and courageous young girl sent to live with a foster family in World War II Germany. She learns to read with encouragement from her new family and Max, a Jewish refugee who they are hiding under the stairs. For Liesel and Max, the power of words and imagination become the only escape from the tumultuous events happening around them. The Book Thief is a life-affirming story of survival and of the resilience of the human spirit.
Tickets on sale: Wed 14 May Everybody’s favourite postie enters a TV talent show in his first amazing animated big screen family adventure! There’s great excitement in Greendale. A top TV talent show is coming to the little rural town. And presenter Simon Cowbell (Robert Atkin Downes) is taking charge of the auditions. When Postman Pat (Stephen Mangan) gets up to do his turn, he reveals an amazing singing voice. Seduced away from his friends and family by the lure of money and fame, Pat is replaced on his rounds by a robot called the PatBot 3000. Even his faithful black and white cat Jess has a robot double. But little does anyone suspect that the PatBot has world domination in mind! Rupert Grint, David Tennant and Jim Broadbent join the top-notch voice cast of Pat’s first movie. And if his singing voice seems familiar, that’s because it’s supplied by Ronan Keating!
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MALEFICENT (3D & 2D) Showing from: Wed 28 May Tickets on sale: Wed 14 May From Disney comes Maleficent - the untold story of Disney’s most iconic villain from the 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty. A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Maleficent rises to be the land’s fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal - an act that begins to turn her pure heart to stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces an epic battle with the invading king’s successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom - and perhaps to Maleficent’s true happiness as well.
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BLUE RUIN Showing from: Fri 30 May Tickets on sale: Wed 21 May Dwight is a vagrant who lives in his car and dumpsterdives to survive. When he unexpectedly learns that the man who killed his parents years earlier has just been released from prison, he locates the person he thinks is the murderer and, almost to his own surprise, dispatches him in an amateurish and gruesome manner. But this is no ordinary revenge thriller, and Dwight soon finds himself in a twitchy but brutal game of cat and mouse with the family of the man he’s just killed, a gun-crazed redneck crew presided over by a foul-mouthed matriarch. As the carnage mounts towards a bleakly gratifying conclusion, this dazzlingly original film balances grubby realism with genre thrills and a midnight-black humour that would make the Coens chuckle. The results are as funny as they are grisly.
X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (3D & 2D) Showing from: Fri 30 May Tickets on sale: Wed 21 May In a scintillatingly imaginative adaptation of one of Marvel’s most popular storylines, the original X-Men unite with the stars of 2011’s prequel First Class to thwart the Sentinels – an army of mutant-killing robots. Kicking off with Wolverine going back in time to stop Mystique from killing the Sentinels’ leader, thus averting a ruinous war, the sparky relationships between the older and younger characters - especially Stewart and McAvoy as the two Xaviers – add an entertaining dimension to the most visually thrilling X-Men episode yet.
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THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME Showing on: Sun 1 June @ 3.30pm Tickets on sale: Wed 23 April
Following its smash-hit live broadcast in 2012, the National Theatre production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time returns to cinemas. Based on the acclaimed novel by Mark Haddon, adapted by Simon Stephens and directed by Marianne Elliott, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime has been hailed by The Times as ‘a phenomenal combination of storytelling and spectacle’ and won 7 Olivier Awards in 2013, including Best New Play. Christopher, fifteen years old, has an extraordinary brain – exceptional at maths while ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When he falls under suspicion of killing Mrs Shears’ dog Wellington, he records each fact about the event in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of the murder. But his detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a frightening journey that upturns his world. £16 / £13
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