The Courtyard Cinema Film Guide: August 2023

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Barbie and Oppenheimer go head-to-head in our August film programme with Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling bringing the laughs, and Christopher Nolan bringing the intensity. We can’t wait to see both! Meanwhile Take That fans can enjoy The Greatest Days, a new up-beat musical comedy based on the Brit-pop icons music.

We’ve also been hard at work on My First Film Festival, a two week event created to inspire a new generation’s interest in film, check it out on page 7!

“When they hired me it was on the condition they allowed me to screen a Jaws film... the time has finally come!” - Ethan, Film Programming Assistant

Film Prices

Tickets £8/£7.50 Concession

Under 16’s £6 Front 2 rows minus £1

Member Prices

Courtyard Club & Card £3 Friends & Patrons 10% off courtyard.org.uk/membership

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Audio Description Available

Check at Box Office or online for the latest available Audio Described films.

Subtitles

Films which have either a HOH captioned screening or are in a foreign language with English subtitles.

July

Fri 28 11am, Sat 29 11.15am, Mon 31 7pm,

August Tue 1 4.30pm, Wed 2 7pm, Thu 3 11am

La Syndicaliste (15)

France, 2hr 2min

Director: Jean-Paul Salomé

Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Grégory Gadebois

The true story of Maureen Kearney, the head union representative of a multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistleblower, denouncing top-secret deals that shook the French nuclear sector. Foreign language with English subtitles.

Good News!

We’ve removed the £1.50 transaction fee from our cinema events.

Breakfast Movies

11am films Monday to Friday include a pre-film pastry & tea or coffee. Tickets £8.

Relaxed Screening

Screenings with raised lighting, lowered volume and a relaxed area.

Film Fanatics

Book for 2 films with this symbol and get 20% off, book for 3 or more to get 30% off.

July Fri 28 5.30pm, Sat 29 2.30pm (Subs)

Medusa

Deluxe (15)

UK, 1hr 41min

August Tue 1 2.30pm, Wed 2 11am, Thu 3 7pm

Director: Thomas Hardiman

Stars: Clare Perkins, Kayla Meikle

A murder mystery set in a competitive hairdressing contest. Extravagance and excess collide as the death of a contestant sows seeds of division in an obsessive community.

August

July Fri 28 7.30pm, Sat 29 7.30pm, Mon 31 2pm,

Mission

Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One (12A)

UK, 2hr 39min

Director: Christopher McQuarrie (Top Gun: Maverick)

Stars: Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg

Ethan Hunt and the IMF team must track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity if it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, a deadly race around the globe begins.

Fri 4 5pm, Mon 7 11.15am, Tue 8 11.15am, Wed 9 11.15am, Thu 10 2.30pm (Subs), Fri 11 4.30pm, Sat 12 11am

Elemental (PG)

USA, 1hr 49min

Director: Peter Sohn

Stars: Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie

From Pixar, the producers of Toy Story and Finding Nemo, comes the tale of an unlikely pair, Ember and Wade, in a city where fire, water, land and air residents live together. The fiery young woman and the go-with-the-flow guy are about to discover how much they have in common.

August Thu 10 5.30pm, Fri 11 11am, Sat 12 5.30pm

Reality (12A)

USA, 1hr 22min

Director: Tina Satter

Stars: Sydney Sweeney, Josh Hamilton, Marchánt Davis

This thrilling drama profiles the arrest of Reality Winner, an Air Force linguist and NSA contractor, for leaking classified information pertaining to Russian interference in the 2016 US Presidential election. Adapted from the 2019 stage play, with dialogue pulled directly from Reality Winner’s FBI interview. Starring The White Lotus and Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney.

Barbie (12A)

USA, 1hr 54min

Director: Greta Gerwig (Little Women, Lady Bird, Frances Ha)

Stars: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Helen Mirren (Narrator), Michael Cera, Emma Mackey, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Will Ferrell, John Cena, Simu Liu, America Ferrera, Dua Lipa

She’s everything. He’s just Ken. The most talked about film of the year is finally here! While it’s not her first big screen appearance, this time around Barbie suffers a crisis that leads her to question her world and her existence. From the acclaimed director of Little Women and Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig. Plus, an all-star cast of Barbie’s and Ken’s to carry you through this explosively pink comedy adventure!

If you feel like getting in the spirit of all things Barbie, come along to our Big Pink screening in your most vibrant Barbie or Ken looks!

Oppenheimer (15) USA/UK, 3hr

Director: Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk, Interstellar, Inception, The Dark Knight, Tenet)

Stars: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Gary Oldman, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, Josh Hartnett

Legendary British filmmaker Christopher Nolan returns with the story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

Adapted for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Tragedy and Triumph of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. Oppenheimer is an epic that chronicles “the father of the atom bomb” throughout the development of the bomb and the trials which followed its detonation. A cast of Nolan regulars return alongside Academy Award nominees Florence Pugh (Little Women), Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody) and many more!

"Now I am Become Death, the destroyer of worlds"

- Robert J. Oppenheimer

Greatest Days (12A)

UK, 1hr 52min

Director: Coky Giedroyc

Stars: Aisling Bea, Alice Lowe, Matthew McNulty

Greatest Days is the feel-good story of love and friendship featuring the hit songs of Take That, adapted by the writer of Calendar Girls. Follow five best friends who have the night of their lives seeing their favourite boy band in concert. Twenty-five years later their lives have changed in many ways as they reunite for one more epic show by their beloved band.

August Fri 18 5.30pm, Mon 21 11am

Squaring the Circle

(The story of hipgnosis) (15)

UK, 1hr 41min

Director: Anton Corbijn

The story of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell, the creative geniuses behind the iconic album art design studio, Hipgnosis, responsible for some of the most recognizable album covers of all time. They never played a note, but they changed music. The film features brand new interviews with Pink Floyd, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin,

August Tue 22 5pm, Wed 23 11am

Baato (12A)

USA/China, 1hr 22min

Director: Lucas Millard, Kate Stryker

Every winter Mikma and her family travel by foot from their village deep in the Himalaya of Nepal to visit urban markets. This year, construction of a new highway to China has begun in their roadless valley, and things are never going to be the same. This documentary film is a deep dive into a way of life that is in the midst of a slow and chaotic, yet inexorable transition.

Foreign language with English subtitles.

Saturday 19 - Thursday 31 August

With amazing films screening plus workshops and performances, we’ve got plenty to excite a new generation about cinema! All films are Relaxed Screenings so it won’t be as dark, the sound will be lower, subtitles will be shown when possible and there’ll be a ‘chill out room’ nearby. If you have any special requirements, need to check if a screening is subtitled, or have any questions, please chat with our Box Office Team!

Matilda (1996, PG)

Sat 19 Aug, 11am

Pre activity from 10.30am

The

Sat 19 Aug, 2.30pm Free Screening!

Cinderella (1950, u) Mon 21 Aug, 11.15am

Plus a special musical intro!

Chicken Run (2000, U)

Tue 22 Aug, 11.15am

Frozen (2013, PG) Wed 23 Aug, 11.15am

All tickets are just £3!

August

Hugo (2011, U)

Thu 24 Aug, 12.30pm

Plus an introduction to filmmaking workshop with a local filmmaker!

Fri 25 11.15am, Sat 26 11am, Tue 29 2.30pm, Wed 30 2.30pm, Thu 31 11.15am

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Cert TBC)

USA, 1hr 49min

Director: Jeff Rowe, Kyler Spears

Stars: Ayo Edebiri, Rose Byrne, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd

Everybody’s favourite turtle brothers are back in a brand new, all-out animated feature! The group train and work to earn the love of New York City whilst facing down an army of mutants. Oh, and there’s obviously pizza!

Speaking of pizza, why not sign up for our Pizza Making Workshop before our Wed 30 2.30pm screening!

Super Mario Bros Movie (PG)

August

Haunted Mansion (12A)

USA, 2hr 2min

Stars: LaKieth Stanfield, Jamie Lee Curtis, Winona Ryder

A remake of Disney’s 2003 horror-comedy is coming with an all new cast. A single mother and her son move into a mansion, only to find it’s haunted. To combat the spirits, they hire a former paranormal investigator, a priest, a psychic and a college history professor. Together, they must unravel the mysteries of the mansion and lay the spirits to rest.

August

Tue 29 11am, Wed 30 7.45pm, Thu 31 2.30pm

Paris Memories [revoir paris] (15)

France, 1hr 45min

Director: Alice Winocour

Stars: Virginie Efira, Benoît Magimel, Grégoire Colin

Three months after surviving a terrorist attack in a bistro, Mia is still traumatized and unable to recall the events of that night. To move forward, she investigates her memories and retraces her steps.

Foreign language with English Subtitles.

August

Tue 29 7.45pm, Wed 30 11am, Thu 31 5.15pm

Name Me Lawand (PG)

UK, 1hr 31min

Director: Edward Lovelace

Void of any language, communication or true sense of self, Lawand struggles to piece together his surroundings in his new home in Derbyshire, England after a traumatic and turbulent year of seeking asylum through Europe. All screenings of this documentary will be subtitled.

“The film is carefully, considerately crafted, mediating between subject and viewer through a language of elegant impressionism and collaborative expression”

- British Film Institute

Shark Twooth Shark Twooth

We’re gonna need a bigger boat... As the years go by the sharks get bigger and bigger and with the release of The Meg 2, we thought we’d celebrate the genre’s sequels with a fun double bill! Missed Jaws and The Meg? Don’t worry, let’s just say there was a shark and some people got eaten... you’re all caught up! Book onto both films for £10!

September

Fri 1 5.45pm

Jaws 2 (1978, PG)

USA, 1hr 51min

Director: Jeannot Szwarc

Cast: Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton

Four years after the traumatic episodes at Amity Island that was terrorized by a 25-foot-long great white shark devouring beachgoers until it was destroyed, Amity Island is at peace and opened a hotel at the Holiday Inn. Days after the opening, beachgoers start to disappear, along with a beached, half-eaten killer whale. Chief Brody becomes concerned about these incidents and fears that another Great White Shark is on the loose.

Did you Know?

The average Great White shark weighs roughly 22,222 hot dogs! Thankfully ours are just £5...

Popcorn, soft drink and a hotdog for just £5

Book alongside your film tickets (vegetarian hotdogs are available)

The Meg 2: The Trench (CERT TBC)

September Fri 1 8pm USA, 1hr 56min

Director: Ben Wheatley (Free Fire)

Cast: Jason Statham, Wu Jing, Sienna Guillory

Dive into uncharted waters with a daring research team on an exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean. Their voyage spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a battle for survival. Pitted against

Coming Soon

White Bird

Helen Mirren and Gillian Anderson star as a grandmother recounts her youth in Nazi occupied France, and the boy whose family sheltered her.

Theater Camp

A comedy about a theatre group... it couldn’t be a better fit for us! Eccentric staff members of a theatre camp must band together when their founder falls ill.

Live Screenings

August Sat 26 2.30pm

August Family Saturdays!

All with a free pre-activity from 10.30am

André

Rieu's 2023 Maastricht Concert: Love is All Around

The King of the Waltz invites you to his all-new cinema concert “Love is All Around”, from his beautiful hometown of Maastricht!

André Rieu will again stage his glorious annual summer event in the iconic Vrijthof Square this year. The concert will be a musical feast with heart-warming pieces lovingly chosen by André, covering classics, popular sing-alongs, and delightful waltzes that make you want to dance. Share a concert experience filled with music, dance, love and happiness... only in cinemas! Tickets £15

Elemental (PG)

Sat 12 August, 11am

Matilda (PG)

Sat 19 August, 11am

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Cert TBC)

Sat 26 August, 11am