Courtyard Film Guide Jan-Feb 2015

January - FeBruary 2015 LIVE EVENTS LIVE SCREENINGS FILM CAFé BAR ExHIBITIONS EDUCATION BUSINESS MEMBERSHIP PARTICIPATION

susPense season Look inside for some spooky suspense themed film events.

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10am to 8pm Monday to Saturday, 11am to 2.30pm - Sunday Tickets £6.80 Friends & Patrons £6.12 Courtyard Card (14-25) £3 Courtyard Club (13s and under) £3 Children Under 16 £4.80 Matinee Screenings £4.80* Concessions £5.80 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.

If you’re aged between 14-25 get cheap film tickets, discounts on selected shows and at the Cafe Bar. courtyard.org.uk/courtyardcard Friends & Patrons get 10% off films courtyard.org.uk/friends

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subtitles The Courtyard will be providing subtitles for selected film screenings. Check online for details.

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Film Fanatics discount If you love the silver screen and can’t get enough of film, then buy in bulk and get a better deal. Book for 2 films out of our Film Fanatics programme (denoted by the Film Fanatics symbol) and we’ll give you 20% off your tickets, book for 3 of the programme and we’ll give you 30% off.

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

audio description For up to date information on which films will include Audio Description, please call the Box Office or check The Courtyard website.

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Breakfast Movies

Family Films

Back By popular demand January Friday 9 2.30, Monday 12 11.00 , Thursday 15 11.00

The imiTaTion game (12A) direcTor: morten Tyldum STarring: Benedict cumberbatch,

keira knightley, charles dance uk/uSa, 2014, 1 hour 53 minutes

Tuesday 6 11.00 , Wed 7 11.00 , Thursday 8 11.00

mr Turner (12A)

saTurday 17 11.00, 2.30, sunday 18 2.00

paddingTon (PG)

direcTor: mike leigh

direcTor: paul king

STarring: Timothy Spall,

STarring: Ben Whishaw (voice), nicole kidman, hugh Bonneville, Jim Broadbent

marion Bailey, paul Jesson uk, 2014, 2 hours 30 minutes

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uk/France/canada, 2014, 1 hour 38 minutes tbc

January Friday 2 11.00, saTurday 3 11.00, 2.30, 7.30, , 2.30, 7.30, sunday 4 2.00, Monday 5 11.00 Tuesday 6 2.30, 7.30, Wednesday 7 2.30, 7.30, Thursday 8 2.30, 7.30

The hoBBiT: The BaTTle oF The Five armieS (12A) direcTor: peter Jackson STarring: martin Freeman, orlando Bloom, andy Serkis,

elijah Wood, ian mckellen, cate Blanchett uSa, 2014, 2 hours 44 minutes tbc

Friday 9 6.00, saTurday 10 6.00, Monday 12 8.15, Tuesday 13 11.00, Wednesday 14 2.30

Serena (15) direcTor: Susanne Bier STarring: Jennifer lawrence, Bradley cooper,

rhys ifans, Toby Jones uSa, 2014, 1 hour 50 minutes

This is an intriguing tale about smug timber baron, George, and his ruthless wife Serena. Set in depression-era Carolina, the glamorous stars look dreamy and are totally compelling. Passion, ambition, misery, murder and madness fuel this film in which obsessive love feeds ruthless ambition and greed.

This is the final Hobbit movie which will bring Bilbo Baggins’ adventures to an epic conclusion. The enraged Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless people of Lake-town. Thorin, obsessed with his reclaimed treasure, sacrifices friendship and honour to hoard it, leaving Bilbo with a desperate and dangerous choice.

Friday 9 11.00, saTurday 10 5.30, Monday 12 6.00, Wednesday 14 11.00

ciTiZenFour (15) direcTorS: laura poitras STarring: edward Snowden,

William Binney, glenn greenwald uSa, 2014, 1 hour 53 minutes

Bold, unblinking filmmaking, this real life thriller shows stoic whistleblower, Edward Snowden as he reveals a global scandal that affects us all. This is the definitive 21st century documentary: a global conspiracy with an aftershock that absorbs the filmmaker into a story that will run and run.

“Alarming and essential – anyone with a phone should see it.” empire

Friday 9 6.15, saTurday 10 11.00, 2.30, sunday 11 2.00, Wednesday 14 6.15

The Book oF liFe (U) direcTor: Jorge r. gutierrez WiTh The voiceS oF: diego luna, Zoe Saldana,

channing Tatum, ron perlman mexico, 2014, 1 hour 35 minutes

Childhood pals Manolo and Joaquin both fall for the same girl. But when forces from the great beyond intervene, Manolo sets off on an epic quest through magical, mythical and wondrous worlds to rescue his one true love..

“It’s refreshingly sparky fare, boasting eye-catching design, musical weirdness and proper laugh-out-loud jokes for young and old alike.”

Mark Kermode, observer

Friday 16 2.30, Tuesday 20 11.00

la vie en roSe (12A)

For more of edith Piaf’s music come to ‘Piaf the songs’ on Friday 6 February

direcTor: olivier dahan STarring: marion cotillard,

gerard depardieu, Sylvie Testud France-czech republic-uk, 2007, 2 hours 20 minutes, subtitles Friday 9 8.15, saTurday 10 8.00, Tuesday 13 2.30

norThern Soul (15) direcTor: elaine constantine STarring: Steve coogan, elliot James langridge,

Winner of Best actress oscar 2008

A street singer raised in a brothel, accused of murder, temporarily blinded, battling with drink, drugs and men, Edith Piaf had an extraordinary, tragic life and out of it came the most extraordinarily beautiful music and a determination to sing at all costs.

Josh Whitehouse uk, 2014, 1 hour 42 minutes

This feisty, frequently amusing chronicle of one young man’s journey through the dancehalls of Lancashire nails its time and place. Scoring with its soundtrack, its characters, its performances and its affectionate portrayal of a small-town ‘70s Lancashire where Wigan looks like the big time. Escaping his humdrum life, teenage outcast Elliot finds a home among the speedfreaks, show boaters and vinyl fetishists of the Northern Soul scene.

Friday 16 6.00, saTurday 17 8.30, sunday 18 2.15, Monday 19 6.00 Tuesday 20 2.30, Wednesday 21 6.00, Thursday 22 6.00

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annie (U) direcTor: Will gluck

Friday 9 8.30, saTurday 10 8.30, Monday 12 2.30, Wednesday 14 8.15

gone girl (18) direcTor: david Fincher STarring: Ben affleck,

rosamund pike, neil patrick harris uSa, 2014, 2 hours 29 minutes

Based on the bestselling book by Gillian Flynn, this is a ‘thriller’ of an adaptation in which husband Nick goes in search of his missing wife Amy and turns up a lot more than he bargained for. Flitting between the origins of their relationship and the subsequent murder investigation, Nick’s portrait of a blissful marriage begins to crumble under the media spotlight.

STarring: Jamie Foxx,

Quvenzhané Wallis, rose Byrne, cameron diaz uSa, 2014, 1 hour 58 minutes

Spirited music and performances lift this Broadway classic that has delighted audiences for generations about how perky orphan Annie (Wallis) wins the heart of a millionaire. Annie is now a happy kid fostered with a mean mom, Miss Hannigan.

But everything changes when hard-nosed tycoon Will Stacks takes her in.

January

Tuesday 20 7.30, Wednesday 21 2.30

Friday 16 8.30, saTurday 17 2.15, Tuesday 20 8.15, Wednesday 21 11.00, Thursday 22 2.30, 8.30

2001: a Space odySSey (U)

geT on up (12A)

direcTor: Stanley kubrick

direcTor: Tate Taylor

William Sylvester

STarring: chadwick Boseman, nelsan ellis, dan aykroyd

uSa, 2014, 2 hours 19 minutes

Lively, stylized, and genuinely surprising, James Brown’s incredible life story thrives on a thrilling soundtrack and a truly outstanding performance. A film about the transformative power of performance this conducts the crackling electricity of Brown’s music with all the heat, swagger and verve required to make you feel gooood! Funk-tastic!

STarring: keir dullea, gary lockwood,

uSa, 1968, 2 hours 21 minutes

Now re-released in a magnificent digital version, this spectacular, transcendent epic has been the touchstone for all sci-fi ever since its original release. At the dawn of man, a mysterious monolith triggers an evolutionary leap in primates.

“Boseman tears into the role like a man possessed.

You can’t take your eyes off him.” rolling stone

Monday 19 8.30, Tuesday 20 6.00, Wednesday 21 8.30

nighTcraWler (15) direcTor: dan gilroy STarring: Jake gyllenhaal,

rene russo, Bill paxton uSa, 2014, 1 hour 57 minutes

Lou Bloom stumbles into the seedy, nocturnal world of LA crime journalism.

Armed with a camera and driven by the motto that ‘if it bleeds, it leads’, he develops an increasingly perverse taste for car wrecks and shoot-outs.

“A modern masterpiece” Twitchfilm.com

Friday 23 2.30, sunday 25 5.30, Wednesday 28 2.30, 8.30

hockney (15) direcTor: randall Wright STarring: david hockney

uSa, 2014, 2 hours 2 minutes

Given unprecedented access to Hockney’s personal film archive, this astute, absorbing documentary reveals a charismatic man with an intense passion for art and a wry sense of humour. Hockney’s own home-movie footage gives a candid insight into his relationship with his Bradford roots and the father he credits with a foundational credo – to never care what the neighbours think.

“Hockney is on sparkling form . . . his sheer charm, zest for art and engagingly withering sense of humour shines though.” screen international

January / FeBruary saTurday 24 6.00, sunday 25 2.00, Wednesday 28 6.00, Thursday 29 11.00

kon Tiki (15) direcTorS: espen Sandberg, Joachim ronning STarring: pal Sverre hagen, anders christiansen,

Tobias Santelmann norway/uk/denmark/germany/Sweden, 2013, 1 hour 54 minutes

In 1947 Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsa wood raft to prove that South Americans could have settled on the Polynesian islands.

Friday 30 January 6.00, Thursday 5 FeBruary 11.00

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animal Farm (U) direcTor: John halas, Joy Batchelor WiTh The voiceS oF: maurice denham, gordon heath

uk, 1954, 1 hour 12 minutes

What would happen if the animals took over the farm? With the farmer gone the pigs take control. All animals are equal, but are some more equal than others. George Orwell’s famous political allegory only works as such because it is also an engaging story. Sixty years young, this sticks close to Orwell’s ‘memorable fable’ and so is still the most abiding adaptation of this powerful, cautionary tale.

Friday 30 January 2.30, 7.45, sunday 1 FeBruary 2.00, Thursday 5 2.30, 7.45

leviaThan (15) direcTorS: andrey Zvyagintsev STarring: alexey Serebryakov, elena lyadova,

vladimir vdovitchenkov russia, 2014, 2 hours 21 minutes, subtitles

saTurday 24 8.30, sunday 25 8.00, Wednesday 28 11.00 , 8.00, Thursday 29 2.30

The homeSman (15) direcTor: Tommy lee Jones STarring: hilary Swank, Tommy lee Jones,

grace gummer, meryl Streep uSa, 2014, 2 hours 2 minutes

This follows the testy, unlikely friendship between determined, bolshy spinster (Swank) and army deserter (Jones) as they escort three disturbed women across the sprawling Western landscape to shelter. Through its evocative, beautiful images this paints a poignant picture of an era that crushed the spirit of those who tried to tame the wild and brutal west.

Winner of London Film Festival Best Film award 2014

When fiery Kolya attempts to resist the compulsory purchase of his house by the local mayor he sets in train a tragic conflict. Set against the breathtaking scenery of the far Northern coast, in a fading backwater where rotting fishing boats lie scattered against vast empty landscapes, this unblinking look at the abuse of power has much in common with classic Russian literature.

saTurday 7 6.00, Monday 9 2.30, 8.15, Tuesday 10 11.00 , 6.00, Wednesday 11 2.30

Big eyeS (12ATBC) direcTor: Tim Burton STarring: amy adams, christoph Waltz,

krysten ritter

FeBruary Friday 6 2.30, saTurday 7 8.15, Monday 9 6.00, Tuesday 10 2.30, 8.15, Wednesday 11 11.00

ST vincenT (12A)

uSa, 2014, 1 hour 52 minutes

Oscar nominee Amy Adams plays the phenomenally successful artist Margaret Keane whose husband took the credit for her kitschy paintings of big-eyed girls in the 1960s. When the couple divorced the judge set up two easels in the courtroom and settled the case with a paint-off! The story itself sounds fascinating.

direcTor: Theodore melfi STarring: Bill murray, melissa mccarthy, naomi Watts

uSa, 2014, 1 hour 43 minutes

A young boy whose parents have just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the slobby, bawdy, hedonistic Vietnam vet who lives next door. From grumpy after-class babysitting to surrogate father-son bonding, the film comes to gruff life whenever Murray growls out a terse one-liner through Vincent’s alcoholic haze.

saTurday 14 6.00, sunday 15 11.15, Monday 16 2.30, 6.00, Tuesday 17 2.30, 6.00, Wednesday 18 11.00, Thursday 19 2.30, 6.00

Big hero 6 (U) direcTorS: don hall, chris Williams WiTh The voiceS oF: Josh hutcherson,

Freddie highmore, Samuel l. Jackson uSa, 2014, 1 hour 48 minutes

saTurday 7 2.30

FroZen (U) Sing-a-long direcTorS: chris Buck, Jennifer lee WiTh The voiceS oF: kristen Bell, Jonathan groff, Josh gad

uSa, 2013, 1 hour 42 minutes

When a prophecy traps a kingdom in eternal winter, the fearlessly optimistic Anna sets off on an epic journey to find her sister Elsa. Together with rugged mountain man Kristoff and his loyal reindeer Sven, Anna encounters mystical trolls, and Olaf, a hilarious snowman, as they battle the blizzards in a race to save the kingdom. There’ll be lyrics at the bottom of the screen and a bouncing snowflake to follow along the songs.

Action-packed comedy-adventure in which robotics prodigy, Hiro Hamada turns to his favorite creation, inflatable robot Baymax, and his close friends for help when a criminal gang threatens their city, San Fransokyo. Adrenaline junkie Go Go Tomago, neatnik Wasabi, chemistry whiz Honey Lemon and fanboy Fred make up an offbeat team of wannabe superheroes in this vibrant mash-up.

FeBruary

saTurday 14 8.15, sunday 15 7.00, Monday 16 8.15, Tuesday 17 11.00, 8.15, Wednesday 18 7.15, Thursday 19 11.00, 8.15

The Theory oF everyThing (12A) direcTor: James marsh STarring: eddie redmayne, Felicity Jones,

david Thewlis, emily Watson uSa, 2014, 2 hours 3 minutes

Based on Jane Hawking’s memoir, this is the sweet, love-filled story of her life with the extraordinary Stephen Hawking. Together they defy impossible odds and achieve more than they could ever have dreamed. A healthy, active young man, at 21, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis.

With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of - time.

Friday 20 8.30, saTurday 21 8.30, Monday 23 6.00, Tuesday 24 11.00 Wednesday 25 2.30, 8.30

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The Women in Black: angel oF deaTh (15) direcTor: Tom harper STarring: helen mccrory, Jeremy irvine,

adrian rawlins uk, 2015, 1 hour 38 minutes

In this latest version set 40 years after the first haunting, a group of evacuee children arrive at spooky Eel Marsh House, awakening its darkest inhabitant. Like the house itself, which the locals regard with superstitious suspicion, this is oldfashioned, occasionally creaky, and possesses a few enjoyably nasty surprises.

BorderlineS Film FeSTival

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Friday 27 FeBruary - sunday 15 MarCh

Friday 20 11.00 , 2.30, 6.00 saTurday 21 6.00, sunday 22 2.00, Monday 23 2.30, 8.15, Tuesday 24 2.30 , Wednesday 25 11.00 , 6.00

inTo The WoodS (PG) direcTor: rob marshall STarring: meryl Streep, Johnny depp, emily Blunt,

James corden, anna kendrick, uSa, 2014, 1 hour 58 minutes

Stephen Sondheim’s modern musical twist on the Brothers Grimm follows the classic tales of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel. It’s all tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife, their wish to begin a family and a witch who has put a curse on them to teach them a lesson.

Films and previews to get your teeth into; cinema from Argentina to Australia, Norfolk to Herefordshire, Turkey to Timbuktu; variety, passion, polemics, humour, drama and sheer entertainment; festival awardwinners including Winter Sleep (Cannes Palme D’Or).