May - June Film Guide 2014

MaY - JUne 2014

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10am to 8pm Monday to Saturday, 11am to 2.30pm - Sunday Tickets £6.80 Children Under 16 £4.80 Concessions £5.80 Courtyard Card (14-25) £3 Matinee Screenings £4.80* Breakfast Movie (including a hot drink and pastry) £6.80* * Applies weekdays and term times only. No concessions available. All information contained in this guide is correct at the time of going to print, but may be subject to change.

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dave’s faves Film of the Month as recommended by our film programmer David Gillam

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MaY/JUne Sunday 11 May 5.30, ThurSday 15 May 2.30 Sunday 15 June 2.00

aPril friday 11 7.30, TueS 15 2.00, WedS 16 2.00, ThurS 17 11aM, 2.30

the railWaY Man (15) Director: Jonathan teplitzky starring: colin Firth, nicole Kidman,

stellan skarsgård Usa/UK, 2013, 1 hour 56 minutes Tue 29 & Wed 30 11aM

BlUe JasMine (12A) Director: Woody allen starring: cate Blanchett, sally hawkins,

Peter sarsgaard Usa, 2013, 1 hour 38 minutes

12 Years a slave (15) Director: steve McQueen starring: chiwetel ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Michael K. Williams, Benedict cumberbatch

Usa/UK, 2013, 2 hours 14 minutes Thu 24 april 7pM, £12.50 VikingS liVe! - The BriTiSh MuSeuM Wed 14 May 7pM, £14 henry iV parT i - rSC WedS 18 & 25 June 7pM, £14 henry iV parT ii - rSC Mon 9 June 7pM, £15 der roSenkaValier - glyndeBourne pluS SCreeningS froM nTliVe, The royal opera houSe, MeT opera

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MaY

WedneSday 7 6.00, ThurSday 8 8.30

the sQUare (15) Director: Jehane noujaim starring: Khalid abdalla, Dina

abdullah, Dina amer, Magdy ashour

nominated for Best documentary oscar 2014

egypt, 2013, 1 hour 48 minutes, subtitles friday 2 11aM, Sunday 4 2.00, TueSday 6 2.00, WedneSday 7 11aM, ThurSday 8 2.30

the BooK thieF (12A) Director: Brian Percival

A riveting firsthand account of the Egyptian revolution presented with immediacy, this memorable documentary shows what happens when people come together for a just cause.

starring: sophie nélisse, geoffrey rush,

SaTurday 10 11aM, Sunday 11 2.00

emily Watson Usa/germany, 2014, 2 hours 11minutes

Based on the bestselling novel, this tells the story of Liesel, a young girl in 1930s Germany who finds her first book by her brother’s graveside. Sent to foster parents, she continues to discover the world of literature. But with the Nazis burning books that challenge their political message, the safety of her precious new home is threatened.

escaPe FroM Planet earth (U) Director: cal Brunker With the voices oF: Brendan Fraser, rob corddry,

ricky gervais, sarah Jessica Parker Usa, 2013, 1 hour 29 minutes

A master of daring rescues, astronaut Scorch Supernova is a national hero who pulls off astonishing feats with the quiet aid of his nerdy brother, Gary. But when Scorch responds to an SOS from a notoriously dangerous alien planet he finds himself caught in a fiendish trap. As the interplanetary stakes rise, scrawny, risk-adverse Gary is left to save his brother, his planet, his beloved wife Kira and their adventure hungry son Kip.

WedneSday 7 2.30, 8.15, ThurSday 8 6.00

SaTurday 10 2.30, Monday 12 6.00

onlY lovers leFt alive (15)

the White Balloon (U)

Director: Jim Jarmusch starring: tilda swinton, tom hiddleston,

Director: Jafar Panahi

John hurt, Mia Wasikowska UK/germany/France/cyprus/Usa, 2013, 2 hours 3 minutes

starring: aida Mohammadkhani,

Joyful Eve (Swinton) is reunited with her reclusive rock star husband and fellow vampire Adam after a stint hanging out with undead but ailing Christopher Marlowe (Hurt) in Tangier. But the arrival of Eve’s irresponsible sister threatens to shatter their twilight world.

“The best reason to see this film is Swinton and Hiddleston's achingly sexy double-act . . .” daily Telegraph

Mohsen Kalifi, Feresh sadr orfani iran, 1995, 1 hour 22 minutes, subtitles

Winner Caméra d'or Cannes film festival 1995

Gap-toothed sweetie Razieh has set her heart on getting a ‘chubby’ goldfish for New Year so she sets off alone into the fierce bustle of the market-lined streets of Tehran. Along the way, she encounters a hitherto 'forbidden' world of snake charmers, irate shopkeepers, and a young Afghan boy with a white balloon. part of 'The Cinema of Childhood' season.

MaY SaTurday 17 11aM, 2.30, Sunday 18 2.00

the lego Movie (U) Director: Phil lord,

chris Miller, chris McKay starring: chris Pratt, Morgan Freeman,

Will Ferrell, elizabeth Banks Usa, 2014, 1 hour 40 minutes Sunday 11 8.15, Monday 12 8.00, WedneSday 14 6.00, ThurSday 15 8.00

the Zero theoreM (15) Director: terry gilliam starring: christoph Waltz, David thewlis,

A humble LEGO mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil LEGO tyrant. Can he help them stop the mad, bad man from gluing the universe together?

Matt Damon, tilda swinton Usa, 2013, 1 hour 46 minutes

Reclusive computer genius Qohen Book for Leth (Waltz) works for the gilliam’s eno Orwellian Corporation ManCom opera Benvenuto and lives in an ancient derelict Cellini and get church awaiting a phone call that half price tickets to this film will give meaning to his life. Quirky, inventive and colourful, this is a future-tech farce in which the internet, surveillance and ‘the company’ all conspire to reduce our humanity. “a kind of visual, aural and intellectual trove of Gilliamiana.” little White lies

Monday 12 2.30, WedneSday 14 2.30, 8.15, ThurSday 15 6.00

tWentY Feet FroM starDoM (12A) Director: Morgan neville starring: Darlene love, lisa Fischer, Merry

SaTurday 17 6.00, Sunday 18 8.30, Monday 19 6.00, TueSday 20 11aM, WedneSday 21 2.30

clayton, Mick Jagger, Bruce springsteen, sting

Yves saint laUrent (15)

Usa, 2013, 1 hour 29 minutes

Director: Jalil lespert starring: Pierre niney, guillaume gallienne,

This is a wonderfully exuberant tribute to the fabulous backing singers who worked on classic albums through the 60s & 70s.

Millions loved their voices but no one even knew their names, while the guys they worked with made millions.

“The message is that singing is a higher calling than chart success - a point this history makes with intelligence, grace and killer music.”

The Scotsman

charlotte le Bon France, 2013,1 hour 46 minutes, subtitles

Paris, 1957. At 21 Yves Saint Laurent is catapulted to international stardom as the successor to Christian Dior. Against the backdrop of Sixties' liberation he tries to democratise fashion, creating the first-ever 'ready to wear' collection that shocks the fashion world.

MaY

Monday 19 8.15, TueSday 20 6.00

locKe (15) Director: steven Knight starring: tom hardy, ruth Wilson,

olivia colman UK, 2013, 1 hour 25 minutes

A taut, spare story of one man's life as it unravels in a gripping race against time. The model of cool professionalism, Ivan Locke has the perfect family and his dream job. One phone call forces him to put it all on the line. screenings supported by

TueSday 20 8.00, WedneSday 21 6.00

starreD UP (18) Director: David Mackenzie starring: rupert Friend,

Jack o'connell, Ben Mendelsohn UK, 2013, 1hour 46 minutes

Jack O'Connell gives a star-making performance as Eric, a fearsome, uncontrollable, young psycho set on a collision course with the ‘lifers’ who run the prison. friday 23 11aM, 8.15, TueSday 27 8.00, WedneSday 28 8.15, ThurSday 29 6.00

tracKs (12A) Director: John curran starring: Mia Wasikowska, adam Driver

australia/UK, 2014, 1 hour 50 minutes

SaTurday 17 8.15, Sunday 18 6.00, Monday 19 7.30, TueSday 20 2.30 ST , WedneSday 21 11aM, 8.15

noah (12A) Director: Darren aronofsky starring: russell crowe, anthony hopkins,

Jennifer connelly, emma Watson Usa, 2013, 2 hours 5 minutes tbc

Haunted by visions of an apocalyptic deluge, Noah builds an ark to protect his family from the waters that he is sure will destroy the world. This is an epic story of courage, sacrifice and hope, with a powerful, resonant message for our times.

With only her camels and faithful dog for company, cash-strapped Robyn begrudgingly agrees to have the journey documented and so becomes a global phenomenon thanks to National Geographic. A story of extraordinary determination and endlessly changing desert landscapes, like Lawrence of Arabia this is the sort of film that simply has to be seen on a big screen.

MaY

TueSday 27 6.00, ThurSday 29 8.15

the King oF MasKs (12A) Director: tiang Ming Wu

friday 23 2.30, SaTurday 24 11aM, Sunday 25 2.30, TueSday 27 2.30, WedneSday 28 11aM ST , 2.30, ThurSday 29 2.30

rio 2 (U) Director: carlos saldanha starring: anne hathaway, Jamies Foxx,

Jesse eisenberg, leslie Mann Usa, 2014, 1 hour 28 minutes tbc

All your favorite Rio characters are back in another comical, dazzlingly colourful, beautifully animated film that’s ideal for families this Easter.

It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids, after they're hurtled from the magical city of Rio to the wilds of the Amazon.

Bright and chirpy as a roomful of parrots!

starring: Zhou renying, Zhigang Zhang,

Zhigang Zhou china/hong Kong, 1996, 1 hour 35 minutes, subtitles

Suitable for everyone over seven, this fabulously beautiful, gripping story is full of surprises. In 1930s China, the ‘King of Masks’, an aging street performer and master of mask making has no apprentice. So, one day, he literally buys a small boy from a market, and begins to teach him his craft. He finds a new joy in life, until he discovers that the boy is not all he seems… part of 'The Cinema of Childhood' season.

friday 23 6.00, Sunday 25 11aM, TueSday 27 11aM, WedneSday 28 6.00, ThurSday 29 11aM

MUPPets Most WanteD (U) Director: James Bobin starring: tom hiddleston, christoph Waltz,

ricky gervais Usa, 2014, 1 hour 53 minutes

The Muppets return in this comedy action adventure in which they find themselves caught up in a criminal plot masterminded by a Kermit the Frog lookalike. For grown-up fans, this is the Muppets as you fondly remember them funny, smart and gleefully insane. For kids who have never heard of them there’s plenty of laughs as Miss Piggy and all the crew get up to their usual tricks.

friday 30 2.30, 6.00, SaTurday 31 8.30, Sunday 1 June 2.15, Monday 2 11aM, 2.30, TueSday 3 8.30

the love PUnch (12A TBC) Director: Joel hopkins starring: emma thompson, Pierce Brosnan,

timothy spall, celia imrie Usa, 2014, 1 hour 35 minutes

The biting banter between ex-husband and wife, Richard and Kate, suggests that the flames of their relationship still smoulder.

When their retirement fund is stolen the divorced duo decide to get even by stealing a $10million diamond from the unscrupulous French financier who ripped them off.

MaY

JUne Sunday 8 7.30

the Big leBoWsKi (18) Director: Joel coen

friday 30 8.00, SaTurday 31 6.00, Monday 2 June 8.15, TueSday 3 6.00

starring: Jeff Bridges, John goodman,

transcenDence

Usa, 1998, 1 hour 54 minutes

(12A TBC)

Comedy The Dude is back in one of the most festival entertaining comedies of all time. This surreal, comic update of the world of Raymond Chandler charts the unwitting involvement of laidback dopehead Jeff 'the Dude' Lebowski in a kidnapping case involving the wife of his millionaire namesake. Immensely inventive and full of the Coens' typically pithy dialogue, it looks and sounds wonderful.

Director: Wally Pfister starring: Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman,

cillian Murphy, Kate Mara Usa/UK, 2014, 1 hour 58 minutes tbc

This cutting edge sci-fi thriller asks some tough questions about the future of science. Top Artificial Intelligence designer, Dr. Will Caster creates a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. For his wife Evelyn and best friend Max their worst fears are realized as Will's thirst for knowledge becomes an endless quest for power. But there are those determined to stop him.

SaTurday 31 11aM, 2.30, Sunday 1 June 2.00

FroZen (U) sing-a-long Director: chris Buck, Jennifer lee With the voices oF: Kristen Bell,

Jonathan groff, Josh gad Usa, 2013, 1 hour 42 minutes

The coolest comedy-adventure ever to hit the big screen now has a sing-along music track added so you can come and join in with all your favourite characters. There’ll be lyrics at the bottom of the screen and a bouncing snowflake to follow along the songs. When a prophecy traps a kingdom in eternal winter, the fearlessly optimistic Anna sets off on an epic journey to find her sister Elsa.

Winner academy award for Best animation & Best original Song 2014

Julianne Moore, steve Buscemi

part of the #Courtlaughing

“Stylish and wickedly funny black comedy” film 4 TueSday 10 6.00, WedneSday 11 8.00, friday 13 6.00

calvarY (15) Director: John Michael McDonagh starring: chris o'Dowd, Brendan gleeson,

Dylan Moran ireland, 2014, 1 hour 53 minutes

The wonderful Brendan Gleeson returns in a career best, heart-and-soul performance as Father James, a good priest whose life is threatened in the confession box by an unidentified culprit. There is some brilliant comedy from a lineup of village oddballs but which one is intent on murder?

JUne

TueSday 10 8.30, WedneSday 11 6.00

Sunday 22 2.15, TueSday 24 2.00, ThurSday 26 6.00 ST , friday 27 8.15

aMerican interior

the other WoMan

(12A TBC) Director: Dylan coch

(12A TBC)

starring: gruff rhys, John evans

Wales, 2014, 1 hour 30 minutes

Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals’ combines a concert tour of freshly written material with a journey across America. He follows the footsteps of John Evans who set off in 1792 in search of the lost tribe of Welsh-speaking Native Americans. friday 13 8.30, Sunday 15 2.15 Monday 16 8.30 TueSday 17 6.00

the DoUBle (15) Director: richard ayoade starring: Jesse eisenberg,

Mia Wasikowska, sally hawkins UK, 2013, 1 hour 33 minutes

Timid, isolated Simon is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams. A new co-worker, James is both Simon's exact physical double and his opposite and he slowly starts taking over his life.

Director: nick cassavetes starring: cameron Diaz, leslie Mann,

Don Johnson Usa, 2014, 1 hour 50 minutes tbc

Cameron Diaz stars in this likeable comedy as a woman who discovers that the man she's been dating is married. But when she accidentally meets Kate, the wife he’s been cheating on (Mann), she realises they have much in common, and her sworn enemy becomes her greatest friend. When they discover yet another affair, all three women team up to plot revenge.

WedneSday 25 2.00, ThurSday 26 11aM, 8.00, friday 27 6.00, 8.00

the lUnchBox (PG) Director: ritesh Batra

Monday 16 6.00, TueSday 17 8.30

starring: irrfan Khan,

UnDer the sKin (15)

nimrat Kaur, nawazuddin siddiqui

Director: Jonathan glazer starring: scarlett Johansson,

antonia campbell-hughes, Paul Brannigan UK, 2014, 1 hour 48 minutes

A woman of unknown origin combs the highway in search of isolated or forsaken men, luring a succession of lost souls into an otherworldly lair.

Sunday 22 2.00

liVe SCreening

BenvenUto cellini

india, 2013, 1 hour 44 minutes, subtitles

Lonely young wife Ila is dissatisfied with her daily lot. Every day she prepares lunch for her neglectful husband to be delivered by the legendary Mumbai Lunchbox wallahs who deliver a million similar lunches to desks all over the city. Grouchy widowed accountant Sajaan is unsure what his imminent retirement will bring. But when Ila’s lunchbox goes astray, they build a gentle rapport via the notes they exchange.

Director: terry gilliam starring: Michael spyres,

corinne Winters, Willard White UK, 2013, 3 hours 10 minutes

Buy a ticket for Unseen in London for many years, and never Benvenuto Cellini and get a halfpreviously at the English National Opera, price ticket to see Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini is forged anew at gilliam’s latest the London Coliseum by director Terry Gilliam flick The Zero Theorem and Music Director Edward Gardner. Two

entwined plots provide the framework for some of Berlioz’s most vibrant, swashbuckling and tender music. Find out more about our live screenings at www.courtyard.org.uk