November - December 2015 Film Guide

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

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HamLet Starring BeneDict cumBerBatcH Thursday 22 ocTober 7pM Friday 23 ocTober 7pM saTurday 24 ocTober 7pM TicKeTs £14

tHe nutcracKer Wednesday 16 deceMber 7.15pM sunday 27 deceMber 2.30pM

TicKeTs £18, concessions £15

oF mice anD men Starring JameS Franco anD cHriS o’DoWD sunday 29 noveMber 7pM

TicKeTs £14

Jane eYre Tuesday 8 deceMber 7pM

tHe magic FLute sunday 13 deceMber 2pM

TicKeTs £14

sunday 20 deceMber 2.30pM TicKeTs £18, concessions £15

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Monday 2 6.00, Thursday 5 8.00

noVemBer Monday 2 8.30, Tuesday 3 2.30, 6.00

tHe WoLFPacK (15) Director: crystal moselle Starring: Bhagavan, govinda,

Jagadisa, Krsna, mukunda and narayana angulo

tHe Dance oF reaLitY (18) Director: alejandro Jodorowsky Starring: Jeremias Herskovits, Brontis Jodorowsky,

Winner best documentary at sundance and edinburgh Film Festivals

uSa, 2015, 1 hour 30 minutes

This documentary follows six articulate, engagingly enthusiastic brothers who spent their lives confined by their father to a small New York apartment. We first meet the boys suited and booted as the cast of Reservoir Dogs. Their greatest pleasure was to dress up and re-enact their favourite films from The Godfather to Pulp Fiction. This is a quietly moving story of how ‘movie love’ can help people not simply survive but even thrive despite such a bizarre upbringing.

Pamela Flores chile/France, 2015, 2 hours 13 minutes

This arresting spectacle is a mischievous exercise in imaginary autobiography. All the characters, places and events are real. But only on the surface is it about a girlish, sensitive kid growing up in 1930s Chile under the watchful eye of his severe Communist father and a bosomy mountain of a mom.

Wednesday 4 8.00, Thursday 5 2.30, 6.00 Wednesday 4 2.30, 6.00, Thursday 5 11.00

PaLio (12A)

moDern timeS (U)

Director: cosima Spender

Director: charlie chaplin

Starring: gigi Bruschelli, giovanni atzeni

Starring: charlie chaplin, Paulette godard, Henry Bergman

uK, 2015, 1 hour 31 minutes

uSa, 1936, 1 hour 17 minutes

The oldest horse race in the world is an utterly gripping spectacle that takes over the streets of Siena. horses are allocated by lot four days prior to the race. This is when the madness truly begins as strategy, bribery and corruption play as much a part as the skill of the riders.

In this his last ‘silent’ film (which has sound effects), Charlie turns against the infernal machine age and its impact on the ‘little guy’.

Subjected to the infernal production rate of the factory a model worker can’t keep up and is sent to the mental hospital. From hospital, to prison, to unemployment, the Little Tramp gets caught up in the sprockets and cogs of modern life. That is until he helps a beautiful orphaned girl escape from the police.

noVemBer Tuesday 3 8.30

SiLent Horror 2 (15)

Monday 9 8.15, Tuesday 10 6.00

Ticket price £10

un Homme De têteS Georges Méliès, France, 1898, 1 minute une excurSion incoHérente Segundo de Chomón, France, 1909, 9 minutes PreLuDe Castleton Knight, UK, 1927, 8 minutes tHe tHieVing HanD J. Stuart Blackton, USA, 1908, 6 minutes tHe HaunteD HouSe Buster Keaton, USA, 1921, 21 minutes

This year’s Early horror Shorts from the Abertoir horror Festival feature the lighter side of cinema’s first adventures into the realms of the macabre and the other worldly. Five films which delightfully embrace both the sinister and the just slightly bananas are set side-byside with one of the truly classic dark films of silent horror. All the films are silent and will be accompanied on the piano.

reD armY (15) Director: gabe Polsky Starring: Viacheslav Fetisov, Scotty Bowman, anatoli Karpov uSa, 2015, 1 hour 24 minutes, subtitles

Ostensibly a documentary about the famous Russian ice hockey team this reveals so much more about Soviet life during the Cold War. Via bizarre footage and masculine choral music, Polsky does an energising, often hilarious job of foregrounding the symbolism of these clean-cut, shining examples of Soviet superiority.

Friday 13 5.45, 8.15, saTurday 14 5.45, 8.15, sunday 15 11.00, 2.00, 5.00, Monday 16 5.45, 8.15, Tuesday 17 5.45, 8.15, Wednesday 18 5.45, 8.15, Thursday 19 5.45, 8.15

SPectre (15 TBC) Director: Sam mendes Starring: Daniel craig, ralph Fiennes,

naomie Harris, christoph Waltz Friday 6 11.00, sunday 8 2.00, 7.15, Monday 9 6.00, Tuesday 10 2.30, 8.00

a WaLK in tHe WooDS (15) Director: Ken Kwapis Starring: robert redford, emma thompson, nick nolte

uSa, 2015, 1 hour 44 minutes

Based on Bill Bryson’s comic memoir in which the celebrated travel writer hikes the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends. his singularly unsuitable travelling companion is Steven who sees the trip as a way to sneak out of paying some long overdue debts. The trouble is the two cranky old geezers have a completely different definition of the word, “adventure”.

uK, 2015, 2 hours 14 minutes tbc

James Bond is back! This latest adventure picks up where Skyfall left off. M is dead and Bond is still wrestling with encroaching middle age and rampaging anger-management issues.

Expect angst and action in roughly equal measure as Bond takes on his old nemeses, shadowy international terror organisation, SPECTRE.

noVemBer Friday 20 6.00, saTurday 21 8.30, Monday 23 6.00, Wednesday 25 2.30, 8.30, Thursday 26 11.00, 2.30

SuFFragette (12A) Director: Sarah gavron Starring: carey mulligan, meryl Streep,

Helena Bonham carter, Brendan gleeson uK, 2015, 1 hour 46 minutes

pre-show talk from 'discover history' on Monday 23 november at 5.15pm about the life of a suffragette. book your place with your film ticket

Mothers, daughters, rebels, the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. These women were not primarily from the genteel educated classes but were working women who had seen peaceful protest achieve nothing.

Wednesday 25 6.00, Thursday 26 8.30

tHe LoBSter (15) Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Starring: colin Farrell,

rachel Weisz, olivia colman, Lea Seydoux ireland/uK/greece/France/ netherlands, 2015, 1 hour 58 minutes

A wickedly funny, unexpectedly moving satire that reflects on how odd our own couple-fixated society really is. In a dystopian near future single people are taken to The hotel where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts of their choosing and sent off into The Woods.

Friday 27 11.00, 2.30, 6.00, saTurday 28 11.00, 2.30, sunday 29 2.30, Monday 30 11.00, 2.30, 8.00, Tuesday 1 deceMber 11.00, 8.00, Wednesday 2 6.00, Thursday 3 8.00

tHe LaDY in tHe Van (12A) Director: nicolas Hytner Starring: maggie Smith, Dominic cooper,

James corden, Jim Broadbent uK, 2015, 1 hour 44 minutes

Friday 20 8.15, saTurday 21 6.00, Monday 23 8.15 Thursday 26 6.00

The true story of how Alan Bennett formed an unexpected bond with the singular Miss Shepherd. An irascible, eccentric bag lady of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.

LegenD (18) Director: Brian Helgeland Starring: tom Hardy, emily Browning,

David thewlis, tara egerton uK/France, 2015, 1 hour 34 minutes tbc

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Dipping into the dark underbelly of London in the swinging ‘60s, this tells the story of how the Kray twins, Reggie and Ronnie became two of the most notorious criminals in British history.

Sharp-suited gangsters fighting for control of the East End by day, while rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous by night. For those close to them these larger than life characters are both ‘heroes’ and monsters.

Monday 30 6.00, Tuesday 1 deceMber 2.30

7 SongS For a Long LiFe (PG TBC) Director: amy Hardie uK, 2015, 1 hour 20 minutes

A look at the lives of those with terminal diagnoses who have turned to music and singing to express the joy they still find through living. Revealed through tender, vulnerable and funny moments, six patients and the staff at a Scottish hospice face death with humour and a passion for music.

DecemBer

sunday 13 7.15, Monday 14 6.00, Tuesday 15 8.15, Thursday 17 6.00

tHe DreSSmaKer (12A TBC) Director: Jocelyn moorhouse Starring: Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth,

Hugo Weaving, Judy Davis australia, 2015, 1 hour 58 minutes tbc

Friday 27 noveMber 8.15, Tuesday 1 6.00, Wednesday 2 8.15, Thursday 3 6.00

irrationaL man (12A)

After years away in Europe the glamorous Tilly Dunnage returns to her small hometown in the Outback to take care of her ailing, mentally unstable mother Molly. As a child she was forced to flee the suspicion, malice and prejudice of small town life after being accused of murder.

Director: Woody allen Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, emma Stone, Parker Posey

uSa, 2015, 1 hour 35 minutes

Drunk, depressed and impotent, tormented philosophy professor Abe has reached an emotional and spiritual crisis in his life, but feels rejuvenated when he starts to plan the perfect murder. This tongue-in-cheek, darkly funny comedy grows to a kicking climax.

saTurday 5 6.00, Monday 7 6.00, Wednesday 9 8.00

miSS You aLreaDY (12A) Director: catherine Hardwicke Starring: Drew Barrymore, toni collette,

Dominic cooper uK, 2015, 1 hour 52 minutes

They say opposites attract. Milly and Jess have been best friends forever. They’ve shared everything since they were kids - secrets, clothes, laughs, substances, boyfriends . . . now they are trying to be grown-ups, but nothing prepares them for the day Milly is hit with life-altering news.

Monday 14 8.30, Tuesday 15 6.00, Thursday 17 8.30

La FamiLLe BeLier (12A) Director: eric Lartigou Starring: Karin Viard, Francois Damiens, Louane emera

France, 2014, 1 hour 43 minutes, subtitles

For the Béliers their sixteen-year-old daughter Paula is a vital member of their eccentric clan. As the only non-deaf member of the family she acts as their ears and mouth.

Family life is thrown into disarray, however, when Paula discovers an untapped gift for singing and finds herself facing a painful dilemma.

FrencH FiLm FeStiVaL uK This is The 23rd ediTion oF The French FilM FesTival uK, an annual shoWcase oF The besT oF Francophone cineMa Which TaKes place in leadinG cineMas around The uK, includinG This year For The FirsT TiMe aT The courTyard.

Monday 7 deceMber 8.15

mY goLDen DaYS (troiS SouVenirS De ma JeuneSSe) (12A TBC) Director: arnaud Desplechin Starring: Quentin Dolmaire, Lou roy-Lecollinet,

mathieu amalric France, 2015, 2 hours 4 minutes, subtitles

saTurday 5 deceMber FroM 7pM Free wine and cheese tasting with nothing but the Grape when booking tickets for the film

saTurday 5 deceMber 8.15

FamiLY to rent (une FamiLLe a Louer) (12A TBC) Director: Jean-Pierre améris Starring: Benoît Poelvoorde, Virginie efira,

François morel France/Belgium, 2014, 1 hour 37 minutes, subtitles

Wednesday 9 deceMber 6.00

aLL aBout tHem (À trioS on Y Va) (15) Director: Jérôme Bonnell Starring: anais Demoustier, Felix moati,

Sophie Verbeeck France, 2015, 1 hours 26 minutes, subtitles

sunday 6 deceMber 7.15

WiLD LiFe (Vie SauVage) (15) Director: cedric Kahn Starring: mathieu Kassovitz, celine Sallette

France, 2014, 1 hour 42 minutes, subtitles

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buy tickets for all four French films and pay only £20

DecemBer sunday 20 6.00, Monday 21 6.00, Tuesday 22 6.00, Wednesday 23 6.00

HoteL tranSYLVania 2 (U) Director: genndy tartakovsky WitH tHe VoiceS oF: adam Sandler, andy Samberg, Selena gomez, Steve Buscemi uSa, 2015, 1 hour 34 minutes tbc

These days, Dracula is a happy grandfather who delights in spending time with grandson Dennis.

Trouble is, Dennis is showing few signs of developing into a vampire, and in fact might be more human than anyone suspects. So when Drac volunteers to care for Dennis he is intent on making a monster out of the lad.

saTurday 26 6.00, sunday 27 6.00, Monday 28 8.00, Tuesday 29 6.00, Wednesday 30 6.00

Pan (12A TBC) Director: Joe Wright Starring: Hugh Jackman, garrett Hedlund,

Jack Huston, rooney mara uSa, 2015, 1 hour 48 minutes tbc

Joe Wright brings his own bold, colourful style to the spectacular story of an orphan who is spirited away to the magical Neverland. There, he finds both fun and dangers, and ultimately discovers his destiny to become the hero who will be forever known as Peter Pan.

sunday 20 8.00, Monday 21 8.00, Tuesday 22 8.00, Wednesday 23 8.00

crimSon PeaK (15) Director: guillermo del toro Starring: mia Wasikowska,

Jessica chastain, tom Hiddleston uSa, 2015, 1 hour 44 minutes tbc

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, aspiring author Edith Cushing is torn between her childhood friend, Dr. Alan McMichael, and the temptation of a mysterious stranger, Sir Thomas Sharpe. She marries Thomas and is swept away to a gothic house of horrors filled with spirits that bleed, breathe, and remember . . .

Atop a mountain of bloodred clay this place filled with secrets will haunt her forever.

saTurday 26 8.15, sunday 27 8.15, Monday 28 6.00, Tuesday 29 8.15, Wednesday 30 8.15

Victor FranKenStein (15 TBC) Director: Paul mcguigan Starring: Daniel radcliffe, James

mcavoy, Jessica Brown Findlay uSa, 2015, 1 hour 34 minutes tbc

Told from the perspective of Frankenstein’s sidekick Igor initially a big supporter of the not-always-sogood-doctor’s experiments. We see the troubled young assistant’s dark origins and how he witnesses the emergence of Frankenstein as the man - and the legend - we know today.