Mareel Cinema November 2012

@ MAREEL & ISLESBURGH COMMUNITY CENTRE

www.shetlandboxoffice.org T: 01595 745555

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

NOVEMBER 2012

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Welcome to Mareel Cinema This leaflet includes synopses for 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.

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 6pm

Price per ticket

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.

Monday to Friday

£4 / £3

Saturday and Sunday

£6.50 / £4.50

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.

Monday

£5.50 / £3.50

Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

£6.50 / £4.50

Friday and Saturday

£7.50 / 5.50

We hope you enjoy this month’s selection of films and we’ll see you in Mareel soon! *Some films may be confirmed at a later date and thus won’t be included in this leaflet.

Evenings:

from 6pm onwards

Special Screenings: Senior Screening

(includes refreshment after film)

£4.50

Saturday Kids Club

£3.00 / £4.00

• 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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5 Broken Cameras

Cert: 15 Duration: 94 minutes Subtitled Documentary. At the birth of his son Gibreel, Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat is given his first movie camera and begins recording both Gibreel’s childhood and the conflict growing around them. As Israel’s controversial ‘security barrier’ is built through their village, olive groves and buildings are destroyed by Israeli troops; violent protests are even more violently suppressed, and in the process the five cameras of the title are smashed. But with the help of Jewish filmmaker Guy Davidi, the narrative also reflects moments of hope and minor triumph that underpin the determined spirit of Burnat, his family and their fellow residents. Whatever one may think about this complex and divisive issue, Burnat and Davidi’s documentary is an affecting, sometimes almost poetic study that reminds us that despite the political intransigence, the situation must be one day be resolved. 5 Broken Cameras was awarded the IFDA prize at Amsterdam Film Festival and the Audience Award at Sheffield Doc/ Fest, as well as further prizes at Sundance, London Open City, and the Stranger Than Fiction Film Festival in Dublin.

A Simple Life Cert: PG Duration: 118 minutes Subtitled

A heart-warming, low-key study of ageing and the tender bond between a nanny/housemaid and her now adult charge, Ann Hui’s exquisite film stars Yip as the elderly Ah Tao, lifelong servant to film producer Roger.

After suffering a stroke, Ah Tao must move into a care home. Used to taking meticulous care of her master for so many years, she suddenly finds their positions reversed, as Roger becomes her principal carer and must learn to look after her as she had done him for so long. Beautifully acted and elegantly observed, A Simple Life is a rewarding and humane film that wholly avoids sentimentality and moves towards an uplifting conclusion that is entirely fitting for a film so infused with warmth and compassion.

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Beasts of the Southern Wild Cert: 12A Duration: 93 minutes

In a delta in the Deep South, a community of misfits eke out an existence on a little island known as the Bathtub. Benh Zeitlin’s debut feature sees six-year-old Hushpuppy struggling to make sense of the world in the unpredictable care of her father Wink. An almost grudging survival instinct preoccupies this odd pair - at least when Wink isn’t off on a moonshine bender - with Hushpuppy constantly picking up the animals that share their lives. When a torrential storm washes over the Bathtub, engulfing houses as well as some of the residents, Hushpuppy’s feral sympathies conjure visions of melting ice caps, from which the long-extinct beasts of the film’s title re-emerge to reclaim the planet.

Gambit Cert: TBC Duration: TBC

This witty heist movie is a remake of a 1966 film starring Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine, rewritten by the Coen brothers and directed by Michael Hoffman.

Colin Firth is the embittered art curator Harry Dean, who intends to hoodwink his caustic, obscenely rich boss (Alan Rickman) into buying a phony Monet, and employs a raucous Texan cowgirl (Cameron Diaz) to help soften him up. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Dean’s plans soon go awry – he falls for the girl himself, and the fakery proves less than convincing. Along the way Gambit treats us to some deliciously sharp humour, and sparkling turns from Stanley Tucci, Tom Courtenay and Cloris Leachman.

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Madagascar 3

Frankenweenie

DreamWorks’ third animated Madagascar epic is arguably the most inventive and certainly the funniest so far. Having decamped to Monte Carlo in search of their friends the penguins, regulars Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are pursued by Captain Chantel DuBois - who is determined to add Alex’s head to her trophy room - and the rather friendlier Gia the jaguar and Stefano the sea lion.

When young Victor’s pet dog Sparky (who stars in Victor’s home-made monster movies) is hit by a car, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked “monster” wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor’s neighbors, he has to convince them (and his parents) that despite his appearance, Sparky’s still the good loyal friend he’s always been.

Cert: PG Duration: 93 minutes

Cert: PG Duration: 87 minutes

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Liberal Arts Cert: 12A Duration: 97 minutes

Lawrence of Arabia

Cert: PG Duration: 216 minutes Director David Lean and screenwriters Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson’s expansive account of the Arab revolt and the duplicity of the imperial powers in the latter stages of World War One is not an attempt to elucidate the truth about the part played by a still mysterious and controversial figure. Rather, it is a grandiose, Fordian celebration of the myth the real T. E. Lawrence did so much to create. Peter O’Toole’s charismatic (and best) performance presents a character of fascinatingly halfhidden complexities and flaws. A carefully orchestrated narrative of battles, heroic journeys and betrayals, this supreme achievement of epic cinema is shown here in a new, full digital restoration to celebrate the film’s 50th anniversary.

A witty and bittersweet cross-generational comedydrama, Liberal Arts sees writer/director Josh Radnor play Jesse, a university admissions officer living in New York, who at 35 is jaded in both his career and his personal life as a long-term relationship comes to an end. Over the course of a weekend he meets Zibby (Elizabeth Olsen), a zestful sophomore with a passion for literature, classical music and improv, some 16 years his junior. He struggles to resist her forthright romantic advances, even as he is troubled by the stark contrasts in their respective stages of life and corresponding worldviews. No such conflict exists when Jesse is expertly seduced by his former English Romantics lecturer whom he had greatly admired as a student, the hard-drinking, straight-talking and staunchly unromantic Judith Fairfield (Allison Janney). While often funny and gently poking fun at youth’s obsession with self and significance, Liberal Arts is ultimately an elegy to the raw passions of such halcyon days, perfectly capturing the tension between the untainted ideas and visions we have at that age and the very different realities and compromises of adult life.

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Looper

Cert: 15 Duration: 118 minutes In the 2070s, anyone displeasing the Mafia - yes, they are still around and still nasty - is sent back to the 2040s, where an assassin known as a Looper is hired to dispose of them as their younger selves, with suitably minimal consequences. Joseph Simmons is one such hitman, but when his next target turns out to be his older self, who then escapes his murderous intent, he is soon fearing for his own life, and that makes two of them fleeing a very angry Mob.

On The Road Cert: 15 Duration: 124 minutes

Director Walter Salles and screenwriter Jose Rivera bring Jack Kerouac’s Beat Generation bible to the big screen. With the appropriately charismatic Sam Riley playing Kerouac’s alter ego Sal Paradise, and Garrett Hedlund playing his friend Dean Moriarty - based on the real-life Neal Cassady – On The Road burns with the same energy as Kerouac’s original groundbreaking text. Jointly and separately the pair crisscross America pursuing an elusive freedom. Along the way they meet a cast of quirky characters, many based on Kerouac’s literary contemporaries, including Viggo Mortensen as a thinly disguised William Burroughs and Tom Sturridge evoking the young Allen Ginsburg. Beautifully photographed by Eric Gautier, On The Road is a road movie with a noble heart as well as a throbbing pulse.

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Private Peaceful

Cert: 12A Duration: 102 minutes Following Steven Spielberg’s hugely successful War Horse comes another big-screen adaptation of a Michael Morpurgo novel, again set in the early 20th century. Private Peaceful chronicles the relationship between brothers Tommo and Charlie Peaceful from their rural childhood to the horrors of the First World War trenches. As the young adult Peacefuls, George MacKay and Jack O’Connell brilliantly convey the fears and hopes of army volunteers, their loyalties divided between family and country; Alexandra Roach plays their equally conflicted shared love-interest, alongside Maxine Peake as their mother. The sterling cast also includes Richard Griffiths as the mean-spirited patrician who provides a precarious living for the Peacefuls, and Frances de la Tour as his conniving mistress.

Sinister

Cert: 15 Duration: 110 minutes True-crime writer Ellison Oswald has made a career out of exposing police mistakes, and now he is investigating a shocking small-town death first-hand by moving into the house where the killing took place.

But strange occurrences start and Ellison becomes convinced the figure he sees lurking in some old home movies he discovers is the ancient occult ‘eater of children’ demon. The scares are intense and non-stop in this compelling horror yarn. Impressive in its restraint during quieter moments, and powerfully disturbing at its nastiest, Sinister is a very creepy, darkly entertaining terror tale. And Ethan Hawke shines as the agonised writer whose deteriorating state of mind shatters everything he holds dear.

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Skyfall

Cert: 12A Duration: 145 minutes Although director Sam Mendes is fresh to the franchise, several key players are back on board for the latest in post-Fleming Bondmanship. Daniel Craig again reprises the spy’s taut, if dignified, ruthlessness, apparently returning from the dead to face a new and satisfyingly evil villain: Raoul Silva, played by Javier Bardem.

Silva’s murky connections with M prompt lashings of spectacular mayhem that will delight 007 die-hards. But alongside seasoned Bond screenwriters Robert Wade and Neal Purvis, newcomer John Logan and director Mendes have added depth to both characterisation and plot well beyond the usual wham-bam licence, lethal or otherwise.

Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part II Cert: 12A Duration: 115 minutes

It all ends here. In the final, breathtaking fifth instalment in the record-breaking Twilight franchise, the now vamped Bella and Edward Cullen must face the malign Volturi council, who threaten the well-being of their newborn child. Moving towards a colossal final showdown between werewolf and vampire clans, this truly epic conclusion to one of the most successful film series of our time is among the most anticipated films of the year.

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The Hunt

Cert: 15 Duration: 115 minutes Subtitled The rich seam of contemporary Scandinavian drama is sustained with this story of a teacher falsely accused of sexual abusing his best friend’s daughter, five-yearold Klara. Mikkelsen won Best Actor at Cannes 2012 for his performance as the initially incredulous but ultimately enraged Lucas, a newly divorced supply teacher. Despite Klara’s retraction, the community continues to punish him and his loyal but conflicted son Marcus (Lasse Fogelstrøm), with violent consequences – and a masterful final twist.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower Cert: 12A Duration: 103 minutes

Based on the novel written by Stephen Chbosky, this is about 15-year-old Charlie (Logan Lerman), an endearing and naive outsider, coping with first love (Emma Watson), the suicide of his best friend, and his own mental illness while struggling to find a group of people with whom he belongs. The introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors, Sam and Patrick, who welcome him to the real world.

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The Shining

Untouchable

Struggling author Jack is installed as winter caretaker in an empty, snowbound hotel in the company of his wife Wendy and psychically gifted son Danny. But the hotel has a grim history, and as its dark soul begins to possess Jack, Danny too becomes enmeshed in its terrors. Based on the novel by Stephen King, Kubrick’s superb essay on fluorescent-lit horror, with its combination of bleak comedy, creepy atmosphere and sumptuously horrible visuals, was an instant genre classic. A few weeks after the film’s original US release in 1980, the director cut several minutes from the ending, and then cut a further half-hour from the film for its European release. This screening is a rare opportunity to see the complete 144-minute version of the film on the big screen, including a number of deleted scenes and an unexpected coda.

The charming smash-hit comedy that took France by storm last year finally hits UK screens. Confined to a wheelchair after a paragliding accident, depressed millionaire Philippe takes on the free-spirited Driss to be his minder, little knowing that the brash outsider will give him a new lease of life and teach him to love living once more. Bittersweet, moving and with a wicked sense of humour, this life-affirming film, based on a true story, is set to be the feel-good foreign-language hit of the autumn.

(original US release) Cert: 15 Duration: 144 minutes

Cert: 15 Duration: 112 minutes French, with English subtitles

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Searching for Sugar Man Cert: 12A Duration: 86 minutes

From the Oscar-winning producer of Man on a Wire, this documentary delves into the intriguing story of the little-known musician Rodriguez, the greatest ‘70s American rock icon that never was. It tells of how two fans dedicated their lives to finding out what happened to this elusive songsmith. In attempting to strip away the myth surrounding Rodriguez, from his enigmatic life as a lost voice of the Motor City scene to his graphic apparent onstage suicide, the pair inadvertently embark on a journey so extraordinary it simply could not belong to fiction. A huge hit at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award and Special Jury Prize, Searching for Sugar Man is a documentary that will fascinate and astound in equal measure. A truly incredible and heartwarming story whose appeal will stretch far beyond music aficionados, it is a film about hope, inspiration and the resonating power of poetry and music.

Barbara

Cert: 12A Duration: 105 minutes Subtitled Starring one of his favourite actresses, Nina Hoss, in the title role, multi-award-winning writer/director Christian Petzold’s film reflects on how the human spirit can survive under a paranoid, overarching Communist regime. Exiled to a rural hospital for unspecified misconduct in 1980s East Germany, Barbara finds that her loyalties as a doctor and her resolve to defy the authorities are both tested and subtly eroded.

The catalyst is her immediate superior, André, played with fearful reserve by Ronald Zehrfeld, who although charged with snooping on her, finds himself emotionally conflicted. Meanwhile, under the twitching noses of the secret police, Barbara is planning her escape to the West, a plan increasingly compromised by growing loyalties to her desperate patients and, of course, to André